Monday, October 27, 2008

[Reel Pizza] update

hey all
here is the Reel Pizza schedule for 10/31 - 11/1.  Sorry to everyone who was disappointed by our lack of power last night. Bangor Hydro has us back to normal now. 
Happy Halloween!
-Lisa

Fri 10/31 - Thurs 11/6
APPALOOSA  (R)  114min  6:00 and 8:30
In his second directing effort, following his Oscar-winning Pollock, actor Ed Harris brings a strong cast of familiar faces to tell the suspenseful story, based on the novel by Robert B. Parker, of two gunfighters attempting to bring peace to a small mining town in the Wild West of 1882's New Mexico territory.  Viggo Mortensen and Harris (both in A History of Violence) play two marshals hired to bring to justice a murderous vigilante rancher (Jeremy Irons) who has run roughshod over the town.  Matters are complicated with the arrival of a provocative, mysterious widower (Renée Zellweger) who flounces into town and woos all three men; her unconventional manner threatens to undermine their progress and destroy the lawman's partnership.

Fri 10/31 - Mon 11/3
I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND (R) [in Czech and German with subtitles]    5:30 and 8:00
With slapstick comedy and homage to silent films and vaudeville, peerless Czech director Jirí Menzel (Oscar winner for Closely Watched Trains, and nominee for My Sweet Little Village) fancifully and playfully adapts Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal's 1974 story about a short and clownish waiter who dreams of being a millionaire, and was lucky until he wasn't.  Told in flashback by the elder Jan who has just been released from years in prison, this hilariously entertaining story follows young Jan (Bulgarian clown Ivan Barnev) as he recklessly works his way from hotdog stand vendor to head waiter at a luxury hotel, all the while seducing the ever increasingly beautiful ladies and poking fun at the rich.  Even as he plans to open his own luxury hotel, first the Nazis and then the communists take over his country, and his choices have serious consequences.

Tues 11/4 - Thurs 11/6
TROUBLE THE WATER (NR)  5:30 and 7:45
Winner of the Grand Jury prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival, this astonishingly powerful and unforgettable documentary and redemptive tale is both horrifying and exhilarating.  Directed and produced by producers Tia Lesson and Carl Deal (Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine), they use astonishing and never before seen footage of New Orleans residents Kimberly Rivers Roberts, a young charismatic rap artist, and her husband Scott who use her new video camera to film Hurricane Katrina beginning the day before the storm ravaged their Ninth Ward home, and continuing even as their world becomes increasingly harrowing as the storm bears down on them and their neighbors.  The film then documents the couple's return to the devastation that was their home, and follows the appalling repeated failures of the government in the aftermath.   This essential, extraordinary film is one of the most acclaimed documentaries of the past year, for good reason.

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