Monday, February 25, 2008

[Reel Pizza] two week update

hey everyone.

The Oscar Night Gala was great fun; we had a nice turnout in support of the Beth Wright Cancer Center, the food was so, so yummy, and everyone had a good time.  Even me, who has only seen precious few of the nominated films; maybe I will do better for next year! 

The Independent Spirit Awards were also held this past weekend, and we have some winners of both awards coming in the next few weeks.  Winner of the original screenplay Oscar plus Independent Spirit Awards for Best Feature, Lead Actress and First Screenplay, Juno continues through Thursday night at 6:00 and 8:00. There Will Be Blood starts Friday, whose star Daniel Day-Lewis won the acting Oscar.  Independent Spirit Awards went to the director (Julian Schnabel) and cinematographer (Janusz Kaminski) of The Diving Bell and The Butterfly coming the following week, also to the lead actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and screenwriter (Tamara Jenkins) of The Savages which will be here in mid-March. 

Here is the schedule of events at Reel Pizza for the next two weeks. 

Emerson 8th Grade Benefit  Sunday March 2nd  12:30pm
Come watch a family (PG) comedy we haven't previously screened, about a self-absorbed man coming to terms with a daughter he didn't know he had and support the Emerson School Eighth Grade as they raise money for their graduation.  You can also play bingo, and participate in the silent auction and raffle (find an 8th grader for the raffle tickets).  There will be door prizes for those who come in costume.  The doors open at 12:30 and the film starts at 1pm; the kitchen will be open.

Thursday's Senior Matinee (2/28) will be JUNO at 1:30.
The Senior Matinee on 3/6 will be 27 DRESSES, again at 1:30.
The Senior Matinee on 3/13 will be THE BUCKET LIST.

See you soon!
-Lisa

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Fri Feb 29 - Thurs Mar 6
THERE WILL BE BLOOD (R)  158min  5:30 and 8:30
Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York) and Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine) are electrifying as like-minded adversaries in visionary director Paul Thomas Anderson�s (Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love) majestic epic depicting the California oil boom a century ago.  Day-Lewis won the acting Oscar for his mesmerizing and eccentric performance as oilman Daniel Plainview who cons unsuspecting folks into granting him drilling rights to their property.  One of those persuaded to sell is the family of evangelical preacher Eli Sunday (Dano) who intends that Plainview�s spoils will build him a church.  This gripping film, loosely based on Upton Sinclair�s 1927 novel OIL is a compelling portrait of capitalism run amok, and has received 8 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Director, Cinematography, and Actor. 

Fri Feb 29 - Mon Mar 3
27 DRESSES (PG-13)  107min  6:00 and 8:15
Selfless and idealistically romantic, Jane (Katherine Heigl, Knocked Up) has helped plan and been bridesmaid to countless friend�s weddings, and she has a closet full of gowns to prove it.  Secretly she pines for her boss (Ed Burns) but then her sister steals his heart and wants Jane to plan their wedding.  James Marsden (Enchanted, Hairspray) is a wedding writer who wants to do a feature article about Jane under the guise of getting to know her better, but she is not impressed.  Containing nothing heavy, this bubbly romantic comedy is infectiously fun entertainment. 
 
Tues Mar 4 - Thurs Mar 6
THE WILLOW TREE (NR)  96min  6:00 and 8:15
Another masterpiece, full of exquisite details and splendorous beauty from Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi (Baran, Children of Heaven, Color of Paradise) thoughtfully explores the themes of gratitude and transformation.  Youssef, a middle aged professor of literature who was blinded in a childhood accident, lives a peaceful life both at the university and a home with his loving wife and daughter, although he harbors an inner anger at God for his condition.  When a tumor is discovered on his eye, he vows to dedicate his life to God in exchange for a miracle.  An uncle sends him to Paris where the tumor is removed and corneal transplants successfully restore his sight.  But he is not prepared for the differences in his imagined world and its reality.  And his promise is forgotten. 
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Fri Mar 7 - Thurs Mar 13
THE BUCKET LIST (PG-13)  97min   6:00 and 8:15
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman have great chemistry working together for the first time in their careers in this satisfying and funny end-of-life comedy drama from director Rob Reiner.  When two opposites, corporate billionaire Edward and working class mechanic Carter Chambers end up sharing a hospital room, both diagnosed with terminal cancer, they discover they have two things in common:  a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do before the end and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are.  Checking themselves out, they embark on the road trip of a lifetime together, becoming friends along the way and learning toe live life to the fullest with insight and humor.

Fri Mar 7 - Mon 10
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (PG-13)  112min  [in French with subtitles]   5:30 and 8:00
At age 43, world-renowned French fashion editor Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric, Munich) suffered a catastrophic stroke rendering him unable to move except to blink his left eye-lid, but left whole his mind and senses, and sense of humor.  By blinking his one working eyelid with the help of a team of beautiful assistants, he composed his memoir.  From a screenplay by Ronald Harwood (The Pianist) and cinematography by Januzs Kaminski (Saving Private Ryan), director Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls)  has created a visual marvel, a sensitive, imaginative and entirely unsentimental portrait of a complex, real character who, confined by his body, celebrates life through his imagination.  This film earned 4 Oscar nominations, for direction, cinematography, adapted screenplay, and film editing.
 
Tues Mar 11 - Thurs Mar 13
PETE SEEGER:  THE POWER OF SONG  (PG)  93min   5:30 and 7:45
This stirring portrait of amazing American treasure and institution Pete Seeger by documentary filmmaker Jim Brown is full of remarkable archival footage and personal films from the family�s collection, extended musical segments and recent interviews with Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Nathalie Maines, Peter Paul and Mary, his wife Toshi, his children Michael and Peggy, and the 88 year-young man himself.  A revered singer and banjo player, blacklisted anti-war patriot, early ecologist and environmentalist, and outspoken advocate for social justice and civil rights, Pete Seeger has spent his long life using music to communicate ideas and unite people to make the world a better place.  His joy is most apparent when he unites a group in song, for he believes �participation will save the human race.�  Come appreciate him in this wonderful, joyous and inspirational film. 
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Friday, February 22, 2008

[Reel Pizza] schedule

Here is the schedule that covers us from Fri Feb 29th through Thurs March 20.  See you soon!
-Lisa

Special Events:
Our Oscar Night Gala is Sunday starting at 6:30, and we hope to see you dressed to kill in support of the Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center.  Remember, Sunday we are showing 2pm matinees only. 
also
Emerson 8th Grade Benefit  Sunday March 2nd  12:30pm
Come watch a family comedy we haven't previously screened, about a self-absorbed man coming to terms with a daughter he didn't know he had, play bingo, and participate in the silent auction and raffle, and support the Emerson School Eighth Grade as they raise money for their graduation.  The doors open at 12:30 and the show starts at 1pm; the kitchen will be open.

Next Thursday's Senior Matinee (2/28) will be JUNO at 1:30.

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Fri Feb 29 - Thurs Mar 6
THERE WILL BE BLOOD (R)  158min  5:30 and 8:30
Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York) and Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine) are electrifying as like-minded adversaries in visionary director Paul Thomas Anderson's (Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love) majestic epic depicting the California oil boom a century ago.  Day-Lewis is front-runner for the acting Oscar for his mesmerizing and eccentric performance as oilman Daniel Plainview who cons unsuspecting folks into granting him drilling rights to their property.  One of those persuaded to sell is the family of evangelical preacher Eli Sunday (Dano) who intends that Plainview's spoils will build him a church.  This gripping film, loosely based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel OIL is a compelling portrait of capitalism run amok, and has received 8 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Director, Cinematography, and Actor. 

Fri Feb 29 - Mon Mar 3
27 DRESSES (PG-13)  107min  6:00 and 8:15
Selfless and idealistically romantic, Jane (Katherine Heigl, Knocked Up) has helped plan and been bridesmaid to countless friend's weddings, and she has a closet full of gowns to prove it.  Secretly she pines for her boss (Ed Burns) but then her sister steals his heart and wants Jane to plan their wedding.  James Marsden (Enchanted, Hairspray) is a wedding writer who wants to do a feature article about Jane under the guise of getting to know her better, but she is not impressed.  Containing nothing heavy, this bubbly romantic comedy is infectiously fun entertainment. 
 
Tues Mar 4 - Thurs Mar 6
THE WILLOW TREE (NR)  96min  6:00 and 8:15
Another masterpiece, full of exquisite details and splendorous beauty from Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi (Baran, Children of Heaven, Color of Paradise) thoughtfully explores the themes of gratitude and transformation.  Youssef, a middle aged professor of literature who was blinded in a childhood accident, lives a peaceful life both at the university and a home with his loving wife and daughter, although he harbors an inner anger at God for his condition.  When a tumor is discovered on his eye, he vows to dedicate his life to God in exchange for a miracle.  An uncle sends him to Paris where the tumor is removed and corneal transplants successfully restore his sight.  But he is not prepared for the differences in his imagined world and its reality.  And his promise is forgotten. 
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Fri Mar 7 - Mon 10
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (PG-13)  112min  [in French with subtitles]
At age 43, world-renowned French fashion editor Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric, Munich) suffered a catastrophic stroke rendering him unable to move except to blink his left eye-lid, but left whole his mind and senses, and sense of humor.  By blinking his one working eyelid with the help of a team of beautiful assistants, he composed his memoir.  From a screenplay by Ronald Harwood (The Pianist) and cinematography by Januzs Kaminski (Saving Private Ryan), director Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls)  has created a visual marvel, a sensitive, imaginative and entirely unsentimental portrait of a complex, real character who, confined by his body, celebrates life through his imagination.  This film earned 4 Oscar nominations, for direction, cinematography, adapted screenplay, and film editing.
 
Tues Mar 11 - Thurs Mar 13
PETE SEEGER:  THE POWER OF SONG  (PG)  93min
This stirring portrait of amazing American treasure and institution Pete Seeger by documentary filmmaker Jim Brown is full of remarkable archival footage and personal films from the family's collection, extended musical segments and recent interviews with Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Nathalie Maines, Peter Paul and Mary, his wife Toshi, his children Michael and Peggy, and the 88 year-young man himself.  A revered singer and banjo player, blacklisted anti-war patriot, early ecologist and environmentalist, and outspoken advocate for social justice and civil rights, Pete Seeger has spent his long life using music to communicate ideas and unite people to make the world a better place.  His joy is most apparent when he unites a group in song, for he believes "participation will save the human race."  Come appreciate him in this wonderful, joyous and inspirational film. 
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Fri Mar 14 - Mon Mar 17
THE SAVAGES  (R)  113min
As not-that-close, self-absorbed, never-married siblings dealing with the increasing dementia of their estranged father (Philip Bosco) after the death of his partner, Laura Linney (Kinsey, Breach) earned an Oscar-nomination for her performance, while co-star Philip Seymour Hoffman's equally impressive work took a back seat to his Oscar-nominated performance in Charlie Wilson's War.  Writer –director Tamara Jenkins, whose last film was semi-autobiographical The Slums of Beverly Hills a decade ago, earned herself an Academy nomination for her original screenplay, a wry, sad, funny and honestly forthright story that follows this fumbling brother and sister during a winter of coming to terms with a lifetime of disappointments as they work together to make their ailing dad comfortable, despite that he never cared for them. 
 
Tues Mar 18 - Thurs Mar 20
WAR/DANCE  (PG-13)  105min
This Oscar-nominated documentary by husband and wife team Sean and Andrea Nix Fine juxtaposes the cathartic healing abilities of music, song and dance with the horrors experienced by three young teens, members of the Acholi tribe, displaced by an ongoing 20 year rebellion in Northern Uganda where the rebels abduct children, boys to serve in their army and girls to service their adult soldiers.  With power, compassion and beauty, the filmmakers interweave the stories of the broken lives of these orphaned children who now live in the squalor that is the Patango Refugee Camp with the spiritual recharge gained by qualifying for, preparing for and finally participating in the National Music Competition in Kampala with students from all over their country.  These students, whose childhoods have been stolen, sing and dance with heartfelt joy the stories of their ancestors, of their homeland, of their future.

COMING SOON ON THE SECOND SCREEN?
THE BUCKET LIST (PG-13)  97min
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman have great chemistry working together for the first time in their careers in this satisfying and funny end-of-life comedy drama from director Rob Reiner.  When two opposites, corporate billionaire Edward and working class mechanic Carter Chambers end up sharing a hospital room, both diagnosed with terminal cancer, they discover they have two things in common:  a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do before the end and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are.  Checking themselves out, they embark on the road trip of a lifetime together, becoming friends along the way and learning toe live life to the fullest with insight and humor.
 
PERSEPOLIS (PG-13)  95min  [in French with subtitles]
The pages of Marjane Satrapi's bestselling graphic novel wondrously, poetically come to life in her own Oscar-nominated, hand-drawn animated film. At times comic, at others painfully heartbreaking, her autobiographical coming-of-age story is both appealingly universal and specifically personal, telling the riveting story of the shifting fortunes of her affluent Iranian family in a tumultuous time.  The daughter of intelligent and pro-Western parents, Marjane is spirited and rebellious like her grandma.  Growing up in Tehran late in the despised Shah's dictatorship, she loves her modern lifestyle, values, and freedom, until suddenly, one day, there is a revolution and all these things are forbidden.  Featuring the voices of legendary Danielle Darrieux as the grandmother, world-renowned Catherine Deneuve as the mother, and her daughter Chiara Mastroianni as Marjane, this is an extraordinary, enthralling masterpiece.
 
DEFINITELY MAYBE (PG-13)  112/105
This delightful romantic comedy stars Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) as a schoolgirl full of questions about her divorced dad's (Ryan Reynolds) courtship of her mother after her first sex education class at school started her thinking.  With intelligence, charm and actual intrigue, Dad spins a bedtime tale of his three loves, charging his daughter with the task of figuring out which woman he finally married and who became her mom.  Set in New York City, dad begins that he had just left his college sweetheart (Elizabeth Banks) behind in Wisconsin while he went off to work on the first presidential campaign of Gov. Bill Clinton.  He meets an ambitious journalist who is also dating her thesis advisor, and a quirky office worker helping but uncommitted to the campaign.  This engaging film is unpredictable, witty and honestly real.
 
THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES  (PG)  97min
Peculiar things start to happen the moment mom, twins Simon and Jared (both Freddie Highmore, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and sister Mallory (Sarah Bolger) Grace leave New York and move into the secluded old house owned by their great-great uncle Arthur Spiderwick (David Strathairn).  The family blames the strange disappearances and accidents on Jared's mischief, but the children's investigations reveal that there is a fantastic truth behind the Spiderwick estate.  Director Mark Waters (Mean Girls, Freaky Friday) has made the popular series into an adventurous and thrilling spectacle with top-notch special effects that is enchanting, imaginative and fun.

Coming Next Schedule?
HONEYDRIPPER
CASSANDRA'S DREAM
BE KIND, REWIND
CHARLIE BARTLETT
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL
KING CORN
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

[Reel Pizza] update

hey there everyone

the next schedule (which takes us to the first day of SPRING!) will be in your mailboxes soon.

NOTES:
There are still tickets available for the Oscar Night Gala to benefit the Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center.  And the grand prize for picking the most correct Academy Awards is two round trip plane tickets to Florida! from Bangor!  (I could use that about now...how about you?)  Plus there are other great prizes for best costumed and best attired attendees.  Tickets are available at the Reel Pizza box office every afternoon and evening, and might be available at the door, also.  ($45 couple; $25 adults; $15 srs/student) Come have fun with us on Sunday night.  There will be divine hors d'oeuvres, complimentary champagne and Jon Stewart and all the stars on the big screen.  The festivities start earlier this year too, at 6:30. 

The senior movie this Thursday is THE KITE RUNNER, show starts at 1:30

Since we won't be showing films on Sunday night, because of the Oscar benefit, we will have matinees this Sunday 2/24 as well.  THE GREAT DEBATERS and JUNO will both be screened at 2pm this Sunday.  Next week's (2/28) senior matinee will also be JUNO.  (Hint:  if you want to see The Great Debaters, choose it Sunday, and wait till next Thurs to see Juno). 

-Lisa

now through Thurs Feb 28th
JUNO  (PG-13)  91min   6:00 and 8:00   (except Sunday 2/24)
*no eve shows Sun 2/24 - 2pm matinee only on Oscar Night
This extraordinary, quirky comedy about a spunky teen (a sensational Ellen Page) confronting an unplanned pregnancy with her friend and classmate Bleeker (Michael Cera, Superbad) is an uncommonly smart, funny and charming film directed by Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking).  Its refreshingly unique voice is the screenwriting debut of cult blogger Diablo Cody.  With the help of her best friend Leah, Juno tries to decide what to do about her situation, maybe an abortion, maybe finding her unborn child a perfect set of parents, like an affluent suburban couple longing to adopt (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner) who took out an ad in the local pennysaver flyer. But nothing is that easy in this full-of-life portrait.  This film has earned 4 Oscar nominations, including best picture, best director, best original screenplay and best actress.

Fri 2/22 - Mon 2/25
THE GREAT DEBATERS  (PG-13)  127min  5:30 and 8:15  (except Sunday 2/24)
*no eve shows Sun 2/24 - 2pm matinees only on Oscar Night
Inspirational and intelligent, this powerful, heart-felt film recreates the victory of a debate team at a small black college in east Texas over the white, Ivy League national champions in a time (mid-1930�s) ruled by segregating Jim Crow laws and the New Deal.  In Denzel Washington�s second, directing effort (Antwone Fisher), he stars as the debate team coach Melvin Tolson who was also a renowned poet and moonlighted as an organizing activist.  Forest Whitaker (Last King of Scotland) plays the college�s president, a local preacher who is father to one of the team.  The young actors portraying the debate team members all give charismatic, believable performances.
 
Tues 2/26 - Thurs 2/28
FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO (NR)  97min   5:30 and 7:45
David Karslake�s deftly made and inspiring documentary is a powerful, compassionate and positive examination of the conflict between religion and homosexuality.  Religious leaders, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and biblical scholars discuss Bible literalism, a bias that seemingly ignores the cultural and historical context of the passages quoted when interpreting that scripture rejects homosexuality.  He also includes the stories of five evangelical families who have struggled to come to grips with the homosexuality of a child, including the family of recently elected and controversial Episcopal bishop Rt Rev V. Gene Robinson, and the family of Chrissy Gephardt, whose father Richard was a candidate for President and represented Missouri in Congress for many years.

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Monday, February 11, 2008

[Reel Pizza] 2 week update

Hey everyone

So...in my hurry last Friday to correct the immediate error, I didn't notice that I also had the times wrong in the paper (Islander and American) for INTO THE WILD.  It will be screening Tuesday 2/12 - Thurs 2/14 at 5:15 and 8:15.  Pass the word around, if you would.  my bad.  And the following has been all proofed and is correct, promise!

here is a revised description of the LOBBY ART
PAPERED PAST … Bar Harbor history collector and framer Raymond Strout will be exhibiting items from his extensive archives at Reel Pizza in Bar Harbor beginning on Feb. 8 through the end of March. Among the historical items on display will be old photographs, broadside posters, and other ephemera.

It seems the Hollywood writer's strike is finally resolving, so we fully expect that on Sunday Feb. 24th, the Academy Awards Ceremony hosted by Jon Stewart will go on in all its glory, as will our annual Oscar Night Gala Benefit for the Beth C. Wright Cancer Center.  Get your tickets now at our box office, which is open at 4:30 every evening.  This is always a fun time!

Senior movie this Thursday 2/14 is ATONEMENT  at 1:30.

Here is the schedule for the next two weeks:

Starting Fri Feb 15 - Thurs Feb 28 (not a typo, we have this for two weeks...)

JUNO  (PG-13)  91min   6:00 and 8:00   (except Sunday 2/24)
*no eve shows Sun 2/24 - 2pm matinee only on Oscar Night
This extraordinary, quirky comedy about a spunky teen (a sensational Ellen Page) confronting an unplanned pregnancy with her friend and classmate Bleeker (Michael Cera, Superbad) is an uncommonly smart, funny and charming film directed by Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking).  Its refreshingly unique voice is the screenwriting debut of cult blogger Diablo Cody.  With the help of her best friend Leah, Juno tries to decide what to do about her situation, maybe an abortion, maybe finding her unborn child a perfect set of parents, like an affluent suburban couple longing to adopt (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner) who took out an ad in the local pennysaver flyer. But nothing is that easy in this full-of-life portrait.  This film has earned 4 Oscar nominations, including best picture, best director, best original screenplay and best actress.

also
Fri Feb 15 - Mon Feb 18
THE KITE RUNNER  (PG-13)  128min [partly in Dari with subtitles]   5:30 and 8:15
The acclaimed novel by Afghan-American Khaled Husseini has been turned into a touching, memorable film full of terrific performances by director Marc Forster (Finding Neverland).  Set in Kabul shortly before the Russian invasion, two young friends fly kites together, timid Amir, the son of a privileged Sunni Pashtun, and selfless, loyal Hassan, son of the family's Shi'ite Hazari servant.  Hassan protects Amir while Amir reads to his illiterate friend.  Then a childhood act of betrayal after a tragic event separates these two, and Amir's guilt and shame follow him as he grows up to be a writer, exiled in California.  In the end he is given a chance to return to Afghanistan to make amends, but it could mean risking his life.

and

Tues 2/19 - Thurs 2/21
THE RED BALLOON/WHITE MANE  (G)  81min [a little French with subtitles]    5:30 and 7:30
The 1956 short film The Red Balloon by Albert Lamourisse remains one of classics in the history of cinema.  It was winner of both the Palme d'Or at Cannes and the Oscar for best original screenplay, the only short film to receive this honor, although surprising, as the film is nearly wordless.  The newly restored print of this pre-CGI film follows a boy, played by the director's son, who bonds with a vibrant red balloon while wandering the streets of his Paris neighborhood.  Paired with this is another short film by the same director, which has never before been released in the US.  An impressionistic fairytale set in the rugged marshlands of the Rhône River delta in the south of France it follows a wild horse and the young fisherman who earns the animal's trust.  These two films feature accessible, visual storytelling and celebrate the magic of childhood and the power of fantasy.

then the following week with the second week of Juno

Fri 2/22 - Mon 2/25
THE GREAT DEBATERS  (PG-13)  127min  5:30 and 8:15  (except Sunday 2/24)
*no eve shows Sun 2/24 - 2pm matinees only on Oscar Night
Inspirational and intelligent, this powerful, heart-felt film recreates the victory of a debate team at a small black college in east Texas over the white, Ivy League national champions in a time (mid-1930's) ruled by segregating Jim Crow laws and the New Deal.  In Denzel Washington's second, directing effort (Antwone Fisher), he stars as the debate team coach Melvin Tolson who was also a renowned poet and moonlighted as an organizing activist.  Forest Whitaker (Last King of Scotland) plays the college's president, a local preacher who is father to one of the team.  The young actors portraying the debate team members all give charismatic, believable performances.
 
Tues 2/26 - Thurs 2/28
FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO (NR)  97min   5:30 and 7:45
David Karslake's deftly made and inspiring documentary is a powerful, compassionate and positive examination of the conflict between religion and homosexuality.  Religious leaders, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and biblical scholars discuss Bible literalism, a bias that seemingly ignores the cultural and historical context of the passages quoted when interpreting that scripture rejects homosexuality.  He also includes the stories of five evangelical families who have struggled to come to grips with the homosexuality of a child, including the family of recently elected and controversial Episcopal bishop Rt Rev V. Gene Robinson, and the family of Chrissy Gephardt, whose father Richard was a candidate for President and represented Missouri in Congress for many years.
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Friday, February 8, 2008

[Reel Pizza] important correction

BIG TIME OOPS!!

I just want to confirm to everyone, as I sent ads with different information to the two papers, that
ATONEMENT screens at 5:30 and 8:00 all week (Friday through Thursday),
and
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD screens at 6:00 and 8:30 (Friday thru Monday)

Please feel free to correct anyone who has the times switched (people who read the Islander and Ellsw American); It is all my fault and I do apologize, and hope everyone gets the correct information and doesn't come late to ATONEMENT.

thanks to the lady who called first thing this morning and pointed out my poor editing...and I'm really sorry,
-Lisa

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

[Reel Pizza] update

good day everyone

First, before I forget, the senior film on Thursday 2/7 at 1:30 is SWEENEY TODD.

And, I neglected to mention previously that the wonderful Cate Blanchette received one of her two(!) Oscar nominations for her uncanny performance in I'M NOT THERE, which screens tonight through Thursday at 5:30 and 8:15.

One last thing that might make today's (this week's?) weather seem not so depressing.  The BAR HARBOR GREEN MARKET, the Farmer's Market that graced our parking lot last summer will be back again on Wednesdays this summer.  They plan to begin selling their veggies, meat, dairy, flowers, and other great farm products starting Wednesday May 21.  Mark your calendars!  Close your eyes and think green, and red and yellow and orange and purple and blue. 

TICKETS ON SALE NOW at Reel Pizza
SUNDAY Feb 24th OSCAR NIGHT GALA to benefit the Beth C. Wright Cancer Center
co-sponsored by Poor Boy�s Gourmet & The First
Exquisite hors d'oeuvres  ~  Complementary glass of Champagne  ~  Come in Costume to win Great Prizes  ~ Grand Prize for most correct winners  ~  TERRIFIC FUN l GREAT CAUSE  ~  6:30 pm till...
Tickets:  $45 couple; $25 adults; $15 srs/student
*no eve shows Sun 2/24 - 2pm matinees only
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Fri 2/8 - Thurs 2/14
ATONEMENT (R) 123min  5:30 and 8:00
Based on Ian McEwans�s best-seller, this seven-time Oscar-nominated film, including for best picture, best supporting actress (for Saoirse Ronan), best adapted screenplay, best cinematography, best score, best art direction and best costume design is a beautiful, elegant, faithful adaptation.  Director Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice) brilliantly mixes classic romance and tragedy in this epic story of how a misunderstanding, which becomes a lie told on a sultry summer afternoon, devastates the lives of the characters for decades.  Budding young writer Briony (played by Saoirse Ronan, Ramola Garai, and Vanessa Redgrave over her life) and her older sister (Keira Knightly) live grandly on their parent�s estate.  James McAvoy is a groundskeeper and dear family friend who has been accepted to medical school.

Fri 2/8 - Mon 2/11
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU�RE DEAD  (R)  117min   6:00 and 8:30
Master filmmaker Sidney Lumet (Serpico, Network, The Verdict) directs this taut, absorbing suspense thriller about a dysfunctional family in crisis.  In another of his three memorable roles this year, Philip Seymour Hoffman plays an overbearing and overextended broker who lures his weak-willed, younger brother (Ethan Hawke) into a desperately misguided, larcenous scheme whose rewards should solve all their financial problems.  When the seemingly perfect crime goes awry, the damage lands right at their feet.  Albert Finney is the family patriarch, and Marisa Tomei, Amy Ryan and Rosemary Harris are the women in these three men�s lives.  This classy, classic heist-gone-wrong drama features invigorating, innovative storytelling, unforgettable acting and expert direction.
 
Tues 2/12 - Thurs 2/14
INTO THE WILD  (R)  147 min   5:15 and 8:15
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Based on a true story and the best-selling book by Jon Krakauer, writer/director Sean Penn has made an exuberant and moving character study.  In 1990, after college graduation, idealist Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch, Lords of Dogtown) rejects his family, abandons his possessions, gives his savings to charity, and hitchhikes around the west, eventually heading to Alaska to get as far away from humanity as possible.  He meets grain elevator operator (Vince Vaughn), an aging hippie couple (Catherine Keener and Brian Dierker), and an aging widower (Oscar-nominated Hal Holbrook). Director of photography Eric Gautier (Motorcycle Diaries) has beautifully filmed his journey, from the South Dakota prairie to the canyons and deserts of the Southwest, to the Sea of Cortez, to the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest, to the remote Alaskan wilderness north of Mt Denali. 
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