[Reel Pizza] two week update

good morning everyone.

Here are the dates and times for the next two weeks at Reel Pizza (April 11 - 24).  It is in brief at the top, and with full data following.  We expect to have HORTON HEARS A WHO! beginning on April 25, but it is not yet confirmed. I will tell you once it is set.  We look forward to seeing you soon. 
-Lisa
 
Sat April 12  SING-ALONG SOUND OF MUSIC BENEFIT for The Women's Health Center in Bar Harbor. 
doors open at 11am, film begins at noon.  prizes for costumes; silent auction in adjacent theater. 

4/11 - 4/17  MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY (PG-13) 92min  6:00 and 8:00
4/11 - 4/14  IN BRUGES  (R)  107min 5:30 and 7:45
4/15 - 4/17  CARAMEL  (PG)  96min  [in Arabic and French with subtitles]   5:30 and 7:45

4/18 - 4/24  BE KIND REWIND  (PG-13)  101min    6:00 and 8:15
4/18 - 4/21  CJ7  (PG)  86min  [in Cantonese with subtitles]   5:30 and 7:45
4/22 - 4/24  SHARKWATER (PG)  89min  5:30 and 7:45

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Fri Apr 11 - Thurs Apr 17
MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY (PG-13) 92min  6:00 and 8:00
Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances Mc Dormand, Fargo), a proper middle-aged governess unemployed again and laid off from her employment agency, boldly intercepts a job assignment outside of her qualifications.  She finds herself hired as a social secretary for American singer Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams, Junebug, Enchanted) whose pre-WW2 life is a glamorous social whirl complete with three competing beaus and high hopes for a leading lady role in a new production.  While she sorts out her new employer's complicated life with her old-fashioned common sense, Miss Pettigrew blossoms and is noticed by a gallant clothes designer.  This charming and fun romantic fantasy is an adaptation of Winifred Watson's 1938 novel by David Magee (Finding Neverland) and Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty) directed by Bharat Nalluri. 

Fri Apr 11 - Mon Apr 14
IN BRUGES  (R)  107min 5:30 and 7:45
Belgium's best preserved medieval city is the destination for two hitmen, paternal Ken (Brendan Gleeson, The General) and impulsive Ray (Colin Farrell, Phone Booth) sent to cool off for a few weeks after their last job went somewhat awry.  As they wait for a call from their boss (Ralph Feinnes) Ken enjoys his time being a tourist, but Ray is going stir crazy.   The longer they stay, though, the more surreal their experiences become, as they have weird encounters with beautiful drug dealers, Dutch prostitutes, and a dwarf film director.  Tony-nominated playwright Martin McDonagh (2006 Oscar winner for best live action short) makes his feature debut as writer and director.  With sharp, entertaining dialogue, he has made an impressive, surprising, darkly funny and at times, touching, gangster film.
 
Tues Apr 15 - Thurs Apr 17
CARAMEL  (PG)  96min  [in Arabic and French with subtitles]   5:30 and 7:45
A Beirut, Lebanon beauty salon is a colorful, sensual microcosm of the city, where five women, a cross-section of generations, religions, and attitudes, come together talking and confiding in one another.  This charming ensemble comedy-drama is the feature film debut of music video director Nadine Labaki who weaves together the stories of the romantic lives of this group.  She also stars as the salon's Christian owner, stuck in an unhappy affair with a married man.  Her closest employee, a Muslim about to be married, is worried about the reaction of her fundamentalist fiancé when he discovers she is not still a virgin.  The seamstress next door is attracted to a nice man, but she is torn between her own happiness and her responsibility taking care of her ailing, older sister.
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Fri Apr 18 - Thurs Apr 24
BE KIND REWIND  (PG-13)  101min    6:00 and 8:15
Mos Def is a clerk in a small failing corner video-rental store in a run-down part of Passaic NJ.  One day his buddy (Jack Black), who is on a rampage against the local power plant, gets inadvertently magnetized and when he comes into the store, he erases all the rental cassettes.  But when their one loyal customer, a ditzy, elderly lady (Mia Farrow) comes in wanting to rent Ghostbusters, these two friends decide to recreate a 20 minute, home-made version on the blank tape.  As they continue through the collection- Rush Hour, Men in Black, Driving Miss Daisy, 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Lion King, Back to the Future, their "sweded" versions (because they say they have to be imported from Sweden) become the hottest rentals around.  Michael Gondry (Science of Sleep, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) has made a sweetly wacky, laid-back film that celebrates the creative process, the support of social change through art, and building community to fight homogenized gentrification.

Fri Apr 18 - Mon Apr 21
CJ7  (PG)  86min  [in Cantonese with subtitles]   5:30 and 7:45
One of our family's favorite directors is Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung-Fu Hustle).  His latest film, full of his trademark visual, slapstick humor, is a goofy, offbeat and imaginative homage to E.T.  Chow stars as a poor widower who works long hours on a construction crew so that he can send his son (played with excellence by new actress Xu Jiao) to elite private school.  But without the current, cool toys, the boy is ostracized.  Then one day at the junkyard, dad finds a mysterious fluorescent green orb, that morphs into an alien pet with extraordinary powers.  Hoping to impress his classmates, he brings it to school, but chaos ensues.  This is a unique, memorable and entertaining fantasy-comedy for the whole family.  A good bit of the film is visual gags which require no reading for full understanding.
 
Tues Apr 22 - Thur Apr 24   
SHARKWATER (PG)  89min  5:30 and 7:45
Driven by a life-long passion for sharks, filmmaker Rob Stewart debunks historical stereotypes of sharks as blood-thirsty monsters, revealing the reality that these ancient creatures are pillars of the ocean habitat.  He also exposes the most dire threat to these fascinating creatures, the insatiable Asian appetite for shark fin soup.  The global trade in shark parts, and the illegal industry supported by organized crime has caused a 90% decline in the shark population worldwide, threatening these resilient animals with extinction and consequently unbalancing the ocean's ecosystem with far-reaching consequences.   Joining rogue conservationist Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society who is tracking poachers in Costa Rica, the filmmaker hopes that his passionate and awe-inspiring film with its gorgeous underwater footage will inspire people to advocate protection for this vital piece of our world's ocean habitat.

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