greetings everyone
Here is the next schedule, which runs
May 23 - June 12. Remember that the summer season is about upon us, and you might want to consider arriving a few minutes earlier than you might normally the rest of the year to be sure of getting seats together. Also, the (Wednesday) Green Farmer's Market revs up day after tomorrow for the summer, 9am - 1pm. Hope you all can make some time for local food and flowers to put on your table and in your bellies.
A message of note to start is followed by this coming week in brief, which is followed by the schedule's text in full.
See you soon!
-Lisa
HELPCHRIS.NET
As some of you might have heard, while we were closed last December our Chris suffered an unfortunate accident with a woodsplitter that shattered bones in his right hand. Over this winter, some friends and customers have organized a weekend of events to help raise money to help us with the mountain of medical bills. Over the weekend of June 6 – 8, many local businesses, including Reel Pizza, will be participating in a dine-around benefit. All day on Saturday, a series of events are planned at the Masonic Hall on High Street, including a bake sale and silent auction with live music, culminating with an evening contra-dance. There is also a cruise on the Margaret Todd on Sat June 14. There are too many generous businesses and participants to list here, but for more information check out the website helpchris.net. We are truly humbled by this overwhelming outpouring of support. THANK YOU. –Chris, Lisa, Pierce and Chloe.
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Fri 5/23 - Thurs 5/29
CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN (PG) 144min
5:30 and
8:30
(** please note that through Thurs 5/23, showtimes are 5:15 and 8:15)
Fri 5/23 - Mon 5/26
SMART PEOPLE (R) 93min
6:00 and
8:00
Tue 5/27 - Thur 5/29
THE BAND'S VISIT (PG-13) 89min
6:00 and
8:00 (back again, if you missed this wonderful film)
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Friday May 16 - Thursday May 29
CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN (NR) 144min
Reuniting the original cast, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie are magically returned to the world of Narnia in another age, for another adventure that will test their courage. With the help of a mouse, a badger and a dwarf, the four children must rescue Narnia from evil conquerors and restore the rightful heir, Prince Caspian, to the throne. This brand new film again uses the creative team and director from the wonderful The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
Friday May 23 - Monday May 26
SMART PEOPLE (R) 93min
This character-driven relationship comedy-drama features an terrific cast who bring all their skill to their rolls. Dennis Quaid (The Rookie) is a widowed, cranky and brilliant English Lit professor who hasn't gotten over the death of his wife years before. Ellen Page (Juno) is his teenaged daughter who is following in her father's footsteps. These two are fumbling their way through their respective life-crises (mid-life and adolescence) with the help of Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City) who plays a former lit major who turned to pre-med when the collegiate crush on her professor was shattered by a bad grade on a paper. Thomas Haden Church (Sideways) plays the professor's loser brother, always looking for a handout, who bonds with his niece. This wryly funny and poignant look at a dysfunctional family is the debut film of commercials director Noam Murro.
Tuesday May 27 - Thursday May 29
THE BAND'S VISIT (PG-13) 89min [in English and Arabic and Hebrew with subtitles]
This wonderful film was disqualified from the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for being too much in English, the default language used by the Arabs and Israelis to communicate with each other. The members of the Alexandria (Egypt) Ceremonial Police Orchestra, striking in their powder blue uniforms, are scheduled to play in Israel at the opening of an Arab cultural center. Stranded at the airport without a ride, they decide to take public transportation, but communication difficulties cause them to take the wrong bus and they are deposited in a remote desert town where they end up spending the night at the invitation of the local café owner. First-time Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin's refreshing and winning gem of a film is full of unforced warmth and observant humor, as the locals and the visitors make acquaintance.
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Friday May 30 - Monday June 2
HAROLD AND KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO (R) 102min
Hilarious slackers Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn, The Namesake) get a little political, but no less politically correct in their second silly stoner comedy. Headed to Amsterdam, they sneak pot onto their flight and their smoking instrument is mistaken for a bomb. The boys are promptly redirected to Guantanamo by Homeland Security, but they escape, still in their orange jumpsuits, and take a roadtrip across the southern US as they run from the law and try to prove their innocence.
Tuesday June 3 - Thursday June 5
UNDER THE SAME MOON (PG-13) 109min [in English and in Spanish with subtitles]
Surprisingly light, this heartwarming film is about an illegal Mexican mom (Kate del Castillo) working in Los Angeles, and her young son (Adrian Alonso, Legend of Zorro) who undertakes an arduous, harrowing journey to join her, when his guardian and grandma in Mexico dies. The debut film from director Patricia Riggen honestly earns its emotional pull while touching on timely issues of immigration and discrimination. America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) is a college student turned smuggler, raising money to pay her tuition. This film earned a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Friday June 6 - Thurs June 12
INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (PG-13) ??min
Harrison Ford dons his fedora one more time, with Steven Spielberg directing and George Lucas writing another caper for our favorite archeologist. It is 1957 now and Indy is causing trouble with the Soviets and they have pressured the government to dismiss him from his teaching position. On his way out of town, he meets a rebellious young kid (Shia La Beouf, Holes) who offers knowledge about the legendary crystal skull of Akator, but only if he helps with a personal mission. When these two get to the remote corner of Peru, they realize they are not alone in their search.
Friday June 6 - Monday June 9
THE COUNTERFEITERS (R) 98min [in German with subtitles]
Winning this year's Oscar for best foreign language film, Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky's Holocaust-era drama deftly looks at the moral dilemma of a Jewish criminal, a professional counterfeiter, whose life in the concentration camp is vastly improved when he is chosen to help with a Nazi scheme to counterfeit British and American currency to destabilize the enemy's economies. He conflicts with another chosen prisoner bent on sabotaging the operation (the man upon whose memoir this film is based). It is a deeply impressive work that addresses a topic not often explored in cinema.
Tuesday June 10 - Thursday June 12
BLINDSIGHT (PG) 104min [in Tibetan with subtitles]
Tibetan culture believes that blindness is a karmic punishment for sins committed in a past life, or is a result of being possessed by a demon. Documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker (Devil's Playground) follows the gripping adventure of six blind Tibetan teens who, with their innovative, blind teacher, who founded Tibet's only school for the blind Braille without Borders, set out to climb the 23,000 ft peak on the north side of Mt. Everest, under the guidance and encouragement of famed, blind American climber Eric Weihenmayer. The resulting remarkable journey juxtaposes the competitiveness of the American guides to reach the summit, with the shared sensory experience favored by the Asians. This powerful, inspirational film was exquisitely photographed by cinematographer Petr Cikart (Into the Void).
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COMING ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?
BABY MAMA (PG-13) 96min
Tina Fey (Mean Girls) and her Saturday Night Live costar Amy Poehler join comic forces to tell the story of two women, one apartment and the nine months together that will change their lives. Older, single business woman Katie Holbrook (Fey) is finally determined to have a child of her own, but can't conceive. South Philly working girl Angie (Poehler) becomes her unlikely surrogate. Then this well-organized strategy is shaken when the surrogate loses her home and comes to live with Katie. These two opposites struggle their way through the preparations for the baby's arrival.
THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM (PG-13) 113min
Knocked unconscious in a brawl, a Boston teen awakens in a mythical kingdom where he must return, with the help of a drunk kung-fu master (Jackie Chan), a magical staff to the Monkey King, enslaved by the evil Jade Warlord. But soon the staff is stolen by a silent monk (Jet Li). The sequences pairing Chan's Drunken Master style with Li's classical method is great fun, the action choreography by Wo Ping Yuen (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) and cinematography by Peter Pau (also, CTHD). Rob Minkoff (Stuart Little, The Lion King) directs this family friendly homage to and spoof of the kung fu epics of old. It's great fun.
COMING NEXT SCHEDULE?
Sex and the City
Kung Fu Panda
Get Smart
Wall-E
Son of Rambow
Priceless
The Visitor
Young @ Heart
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