Here are the films at Reel Pizza for the week of Oct 17 - 23.
Friday Oct 17 - Thursday Oct 23
FLASH OF GENIUS (PG-13) 119min 5:30 and 8:00
How timely. This crowd-pleasing movie is about the big corporation (here it is Ford Motor Company) ripping off the little guy (here it is small time inventor and engineering professor Robert Kearns). Back in the 1960's Mr. Kearns (Greg Kinnear) in his basement invented the intermittent windshield wiper. With his buddy (Dermot Mulroney) they set up a manufacturing plant, and sell Ford the devise that Ford's people have been working on for years without success. Soon after getting a prototype, Ford withdraws from the deal and Kearns is astonished to find his invention on the next year's models. He sues with the help of a crusading lawyer (Alan Alda) but his principled stand destroys his family, and his lawyer resigns when he realizes that Kearns is not interested in financial gain, but in an admission of guilt from the big guys. It even takes his sanity yet he will not waiver. This is the directing debut from producer Marc Abrahams (The Commitments, Air Force One).
Friday Oct 17 - Monday Oct 20
ELEGY (R) 108min 6:00 and 8:15
Celebrated NPR culture critic and part-time college professor David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) abandoned any desire for commitment years ago when he left his wife and young son for the sexual freedom of a string of casual encounters with former students. This year he has his eye on a beautiful Latina grad student (Penélope Cruz), a tryst which to his surprise, turns into a passionate, long-term relationship. But, overwhelmed with her beauty and his much greater age, he becomes a jealous lover, and remains distant, believing they have no future together. The fine supporting cast includes Patricia Clarkson as a long-time occasional lover, Dennis Hopper as his Pulitzer-prize winning best friend and Peter Sarsgaard as his now grown son. Spanish director Isabel Croixet has made an intelligent, affecting and unforgettable adaptation of Philip Roth's short novel The Dying Animal.
Tuesday Oct 21 - Thursday Oct 23
THE POOL (NR) 98min [partly in Hindi with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:15
The impressive range of the creative gifts of documentarian Chris Smith (The Yes Men, American Movie) are proven in his dramatic feature debut. Using a story by Randy Russell, set in Iowa but transplanted to Panjin, a city in India's western state of Goa, he focuses again on the gulf between rich and poor, sharing insights, observations and universal truths with a deceptively simple narrative. Young Venkatesh is a poor room boy at a hotel with dreams of becoming a successful business man. He has found the personification of those dreams in a shimmering swimming pool in a luxuriant walled garden of a seemingly empty house that he can see from up in a nearby tree. Thinking that if he could just swim in that pool, all his troubles would be washed away, he offers his services to the gruff owner. This incisive portrait shows how Venkatesh's curiosity of the world around him changes the shape of his future.
ALSO here is our schedule for Fri Oct 24 - 30 (I will remind you again next week).
Fri Oct 24 - Thurs Oct 30
Fri Oct 24 - Mon Oct 27
Tues Oct 28 - Thurs Oct 30
see you soon
-Lisa
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