[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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