hi everyone
What a weekend! The brave souls who turned their nose at Sunday evening's weather all seemed to have a grand time at our annual "Academy Night" which this year benefited both the Beth C. Wright Cancer Center and the Maine Sea Coast Mission The food was divine, the gowns and tuxes and costumes were terrific and the decorations made Reel Pizza look ab-fab. There were loads of door prizes, although I do not know who won the grand prize for the correctly choosing the most winners. And the actual Oscar ceremony was fun too. Maybe we will see you here when we do it again next year.
This Thursday's (2/26) senior matinee will be GRAN TORINO at 1:30. Next week (3/5) it will be THE READER for which Kate Winslet won the best actress award at Sunday night's event.
A correction. I have now twice said about FROST/NIXON that the man playing the David Frost character is Martin Sheen, when in fact it is MICHAEL SHEEN. Yes, I do know the difference,. but I had the same problem last spring confusing Colin Farrell and Colin Firth. I apologize for my aging, addled brain.
Anyhow, here again are this coming week's films, Happy Mardi Gras, and let's all think SPRING!
-Lisa
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Friday Feb 27 - Thursday Mar 5
THE READER (R) 123min 6:00 and 8:30
This accomplished Oscar-nominee, including for Best Picture, directed by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot) using a screenplay by David Hare, his collaborator on THE HOURS, is a complex film set in post-WW2 Germany based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Bernhard Schlink. Oscar-WINNER Kate Winslet is haunting as Hanna, an older woman with more than one secret who has a brief, passionate affair with a teenaged boy Michael (David Kross) that includes both sex and literary read-alouds, until one day she is just gone. Fast-forward ten years, and Michael comes across Hanna again. He is a law student observing war-crimes trials and discovers to his horror one of Hanna's secrets, and has figured out another. Ralph Feinnes plays the older adult Michael who years later still has not resolved his conflicting emotions about this woman.
Friday Feb 27 - Monday Mar 2
FROST/NIXON (R) 122min 5:30 and 8:00
Entertaining and riveting, this insightful and visually energetic film from Oscar-nominated director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) is a fascinating dual character study of two men whose careers were in the gutter, Richard Nixon (played by Tony award-winning and Oscar-nominated Frank Langella) three years after he had resigned the presidency after Watergate but had yet to confess or apologize for anything, and David Frost (played by Michael Sheen, The Queen), a fading British talk-show host who had been exiled to Australia. Frost wants to reignite his career, and using his own money, boldly persuades Richard Nixon, who needs to reshape his legacy, to sit for four televised interviews. Screenwriter Peter Morgan (The Queen, Last King of Scotland) adapted his fictionalized Broadway play and Langella and Sheen deftly reprise their powerful stage roles. A strong supporting cast includes Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell, Oliver Platt, Matthew Macfadyen and Rebecca Hall.
Tuesday Mar 3 - Thursday Mar 5
OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) 132min 5:30 and 8:15
The Academy Award nominated short films in the live-action and animated categories come from a world-wide group. Many have already seen Pixar's PRESTO, which preceded WALL-E last summer. Also in the animated group are OKTAPODI, a cute French octopus love story, Britain's THIS WAY UP about two undertakers trying desperately to transport a coffin to the graveyard after their hearse is destroyed, the impressionistic Japanese HOUSE OF SMALL CARDS (Oscar winner) where a man who is losing his house to a rising tide explores his memories, and the Russian LAVATORY LOVESTORY, a simple line drawn story about the romantic dreams of a public bathroom attendant. The live-action offering include Germany's Holocaust story TOYLAND (Oscar winner), Ireland's immigrant story NEW BOY, Denmark's THE PIG, about an elderly man who bonds with the art on his hospital room wall, France's MANON ON THE ASPHALT, as the life of a bicyclist hit by a car flashes before her eyes, and ON THE LINE, a Swiss-German lovestory between a security guard and a bookshop employee.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
[Reel Pizza] schedule
Hi all
Here is the schedule of films booked at Reel Pizza from February 27 through March 19. The first week is complete with all three films (and they are all Oscar-nominees!) ~times are included. I promise we will eventually get to all the Oscar-nominated films; we thank you for your patience.
First, a special programming note. On Sunday March 15th we will host a benefit for the EMERSON SCHOOL 8th GRADE. The students will be screening an as-yet-to-be-determined family friendly film, plus they will have a silent auction and Bingo going on in the other auditorium. Its a lot of fun and all proceeds go towards funding their graduation, a grand accomplishment. More info (like film title and times) coming soon. Stay tuned!
-Lisa
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Friday Feb 27 - Thursday Mar 5
THE READER (R) 123min 6:00 and 8:30
This accomplished Oscar-nominee, including for Best Picture, directed by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot) using a screenplay by David Hare, his collaborator on THE HOURS, is a complex film set in post-WW2 Germany based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Bernhard Schlink. Oscar-nominated Kate Winslet is haunting as Hanna, an older woman with more than one secret who has a brief, passionate affair with a teenaged boy Michael (David Kross) that includes both sex and literary read-alouds, until one day she is just gone. Fast-forward ten years, and Michael comes across Hanna again. He is a law student observing war-crimes trials and discovers to his horror one of Hanna's secrets, and has figured out another. Ralph Feinnes plays the older adult Michael who years later still has not resolved his conflicting emotions about this woman.
Friday Feb 27 - Monday Mar 2
FROST/NIXON (R) 122min 5:30 and 8:00
Entertaining and riveting, this insightful and visually energetic film from Oscar-nominated director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) is a fascinating dual character study of two men whose careers were in the gutter, Richard Nixon (played by Tony award-winning and Oscar-nominated Frank Langella) three years after he had resigned the presidency after Watergate but had yet to confess or apologize for anything, and David Frost (played by Martin Sheen, The Queen), a fading British talk-show host who had been exiled to Australia. Frost wants to reignite his career, and using his own money, boldly persuades Richard Nixon, who needs to reshape his legacy, to sit for four televised interviews. Screenwriter Peter Morgan (The Queen, Last King of Scotland) adapted his fictionalized Broadway play and Langella and Sheen deftly reprise their powerful stage roles. A strong supporting cast includes Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell, Oliver Platt, Matthew Macfadyen and Rebecca Hall.
Tuesday Mar 3 - Thursday Mar 5
OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) 132min 5:30 and 8:15
The Academy Award nominated short films in the live-action and animated categories come from a world-wide group. Many have already seen Pixar's PRESTO, which preceded WALL-E last summer. Also in the animated group are OKTAPODI, a cute French octopus love story, Britain's THIS WAY UP about two undertakers trying desperately to transport a coffin to the graveyard after their hearse is destroyed, the impressionistic Japanese HOUSE OF SMALL CARDS where a man who is losing his house to a rising tide explores his memories, and the Russian LAVATORY LOVESTORY, a simple line drawn story about the romantic dreams of a public bathroom attendant. The live-action offering include Germany's Holocaust story TOYLAND, Ireland's immigrant story NEW BOY, Denmark's THE PIG, about an elderly man who bonds with the art on his hospital room wall, France's MANON ON THE ASPHALT, as the life of a bicyclist hit by a car flashes before her eyes, and ON THE LINE, a Swiss-German lovestory between a security guard and a bookshop employee.
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Friday Mar 6 - Monday Mar 9
LAST CHANCE HARVEY (PG-13) 99min
This charming romantic comedy unites stars Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson as two down-and-out, older singles who find each other after particularly bad days. He has come to London to attend his daughter's wedding, only to discover after he has arrived that she wants her step-father to walk her down the aisle. Then he leaves the wedding early to return to New York, misses his flight and loses his job. She has a dead-end job surveying tourists at Heathrow Airport, an overbearing, deluded mother, and just endured an awful blind date where she was deserted. These lonely people tentatively become friends and their relationship strengthens both of them.
Tuesday Mar 10 - Thursday Mar 12
I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (PG-13) 117min [in French, with subtitles]
In his first film, novelist and screenwriter turned director Philippe Claudel expertly explores the reunion of two estranged sisters. Kristen Scott Thomas (Tell No One, The English Patient) gives an amazing performance as Juliette who is taken in by her younger sister Lea (Elsa Zylberstein) after a 15 year prison sentence, and must learn to have a life and relationships again. Lea's husband, their two adopted daughters, his elderly father, a family friend Michel, and Juliette's parole officer all help her open up to the world once more while they deal with her secret crime and the mystery surrounding her actions.
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Friday Mar 13 - Monday Mar 16
DEFIANCE (R) 137min
Based on a true story, director Edward Zwick (Glory, Blood Diamond) tells the stirring and remarkable story of Jewish resistors who formed secret encampments in the woods of Belarus during WW2, rescuing and protecting more than 1200 Jews who might otherwise have perished. Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, and Jamie Bell are the Bielski brothers, who retreated into the neighboring forest and formed an underground community, complete with hospital and synagogue, where these farmers and peasants fought against the Nazis even as the brother leaders argued over strategy, survival or revenge. Full of breathtaking suspense, this powerful thriller is both an incredible historical drama and an absorbing family saga.
Tuesday Mar 17 - Thursday Mar 19
MOSCOW, BELGIUM (NR) 106min [in Flemish with subtitles]
A relationship between an older woman and a younger man begins when they have a fender-bender in the supermarket parking lot which devolves into a yelling match in this delightful and authentic romantic comedy. Matty (Barbara Sarafian) is a harried single mom of three teenagers whose husband (Johan Heldenbergh) left her months ago for one of his much younger students, but hasn't quite gotten around to filing for divorce yet. Johnny (Jurgen Delnaet) is single trucker whose route takes him often to Italy whose heart was broken by his last girlfriend. He tries to make amends for their argument by coming to Matty's and fixing her broken trunk, and also asks her out. But the last thing she needs in her life is a relationship, especially with such a younger man; nevertheless she goes out with him. This feature film debut from Belgian director Christophe Van Rompaey is a smart, entertaining and wryly funny film.
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COMING ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (R) 121min
Nominated for ten Academy Awards, including best picture and director, this colorful, Dickensian, and Bollywood inspired film is from stylish British director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Millions, 28 Days Later). The story, based on the novel "Q&A" by Vikas Swarup adapted by Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty) follows Jamal (Dev Patel) a street-smart Mumbai slum orphan turned call center tea server who has become a contestant on a popular TV game show, and is on the verge of winning the big prize. Suspected of cheating, he is forced to justify to a police interrogator (Irfan Khan, A Mighty Heart) how he knew all the answers to the questions. His responses follow in flashback the highs and lows of his life as he has survived terrible poverty and unforgettable brutality with his older brother Salim and his soulmate Latika. In all it is a passionate, joyous and winning film.
CORALINE (PG) 100min
Director Harry Selick (Nightmare Before Christmas) has made another spectacular stop-motion animated adventure, this based on Neil Gaiman's internationally best-selling story. Dakota Fanning voices Coraline, bored with her parents and in her new home until she finds a secret door and discovers an alternate version of her life on the other side. This parallel universe seems to be quite similar to her real life, only better. Then she discovers that it might actually be much more dangerous and she must summons all her resourcefulness and bravery to escape this increasingly perilous world and return home to save her family.
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (R) 119min
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio star as husband and wife in this powerful story of 1950's suburban dysfunction, directed by her husband Sam Mendes (American Beauty). Based on the celebrated 1961 novel by Richard Yates, this young urban couple meets at a party, fall in love, get married, move to Connecticut and start a family. On the outside, they seem to have the perfect house, family and marriage, and their realtor (Kathy Bates) introduces them to her mentally unstable son (Michael Shannon) as an example of normalcy. But underneath, he hates his meaningless desk job and she feels trapped as a mother and housewife. Then she comes up with a plan to give it all up and move the family to Paris. This is a riveting film with remarkable performances whose meaning still has resonance today.
HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU (PG-13) 129min
This funny, loveable ensemble comedy tells the stories of a group of interconnected Baltimore-based 20- and 30-somethings as they navigate their various relationships from the shallow end of the dating pool through the deep murky waters of married life, trying to read, or misreading the signs of the opposite sex. Based on the wildly popular best-seller from Sex and the City screenwriters Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo and directed by Ken Kwapis (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants), this film's all-star cast includes Jennifer Anniston, Ben Affleck, Scarlett Johansson, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Kris Kristofferson. Thoughtful, honest and original, this romantic comedy makes for a perfectly enjoyable night out at the movies.
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Coming Next Schedule?
The Tournees French Film Festival
Che
Waltz with Bashir
Secret of the Grain
Wendy and Lucy
The Wrestler
The Class
Two Lovers
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Here is the schedule of films booked at Reel Pizza from February 27 through March 19. The first week is complete with all three films (and they are all Oscar-nominees!) ~times are included. I promise we will eventually get to all the Oscar-nominated films; we thank you for your patience.
First, a special programming note. On Sunday March 15th we will host a benefit for the EMERSON SCHOOL 8th GRADE. The students will be screening an as-yet-to-be-determined family friendly film, plus they will have a silent auction and Bingo going on in the other auditorium. Its a lot of fun and all proceeds go towards funding their graduation, a grand accomplishment. More info (like film title and times) coming soon. Stay tuned!
-Lisa
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Friday Feb 27 - Thursday Mar 5
THE READER (R) 123min 6:00 and 8:30
This accomplished Oscar-nominee, including for Best Picture, directed by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot) using a screenplay by David Hare, his collaborator on THE HOURS, is a complex film set in post-WW2 Germany based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Bernhard Schlink. Oscar-nominated Kate Winslet is haunting as Hanna, an older woman with more than one secret who has a brief, passionate affair with a teenaged boy Michael (David Kross) that includes both sex and literary read-alouds, until one day she is just gone. Fast-forward ten years, and Michael comes across Hanna again. He is a law student observing war-crimes trials and discovers to his horror one of Hanna's secrets, and has figured out another. Ralph Feinnes plays the older adult Michael who years later still has not resolved his conflicting emotions about this woman.
Friday Feb 27 - Monday Mar 2
FROST/NIXON (R) 122min 5:30 and 8:00
Entertaining and riveting, this insightful and visually energetic film from Oscar-nominated director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) is a fascinating dual character study of two men whose careers were in the gutter, Richard Nixon (played by Tony award-winning and Oscar-nominated Frank Langella) three years after he had resigned the presidency after Watergate but had yet to confess or apologize for anything, and David Frost (played by Martin Sheen, The Queen), a fading British talk-show host who had been exiled to Australia. Frost wants to reignite his career, and using his own money, boldly persuades Richard Nixon, who needs to reshape his legacy, to sit for four televised interviews. Screenwriter Peter Morgan (The Queen, Last King of Scotland) adapted his fictionalized Broadway play and Langella and Sheen deftly reprise their powerful stage roles. A strong supporting cast includes Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell, Oliver Platt, Matthew Macfadyen and Rebecca Hall.
Tuesday Mar 3 - Thursday Mar 5
OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) 132min 5:30 and 8:15
The Academy Award nominated short films in the live-action and animated categories come from a world-wide group. Many have already seen Pixar's PRESTO, which preceded WALL-E last summer. Also in the animated group are OKTAPODI, a cute French octopus love story, Britain's THIS WAY UP about two undertakers trying desperately to transport a coffin to the graveyard after their hearse is destroyed, the impressionistic Japanese HOUSE OF SMALL CARDS where a man who is losing his house to a rising tide explores his memories, and the Russian LAVATORY LOVESTORY, a simple line drawn story about the romantic dreams of a public bathroom attendant. The live-action offering include Germany's Holocaust story TOYLAND, Ireland's immigrant story NEW BOY, Denmark's THE PIG, about an elderly man who bonds with the art on his hospital room wall, France's MANON ON THE ASPHALT, as the life of a bicyclist hit by a car flashes before her eyes, and ON THE LINE, a Swiss-German lovestory between a security guard and a bookshop employee.
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Friday Mar 6 - Monday Mar 9
LAST CHANCE HARVEY (PG-13) 99min
This charming romantic comedy unites stars Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson as two down-and-out, older singles who find each other after particularly bad days. He has come to London to attend his daughter's wedding, only to discover after he has arrived that she wants her step-father to walk her down the aisle. Then he leaves the wedding early to return to New York, misses his flight and loses his job. She has a dead-end job surveying tourists at Heathrow Airport, an overbearing, deluded mother, and just endured an awful blind date where she was deserted. These lonely people tentatively become friends and their relationship strengthens both of them.
Tuesday Mar 10 - Thursday Mar 12
I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (PG-13) 117min [in French, with subtitles]
In his first film, novelist and screenwriter turned director Philippe Claudel expertly explores the reunion of two estranged sisters. Kristen Scott Thomas (Tell No One, The English Patient) gives an amazing performance as Juliette who is taken in by her younger sister Lea (Elsa Zylberstein) after a 15 year prison sentence, and must learn to have a life and relationships again. Lea's husband, their two adopted daughters, his elderly father, a family friend Michel, and Juliette's parole officer all help her open up to the world once more while they deal with her secret crime and the mystery surrounding her actions.
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Friday Mar 13 - Monday Mar 16
DEFIANCE (R) 137min
Based on a true story, director Edward Zwick (Glory, Blood Diamond) tells the stirring and remarkable story of Jewish resistors who formed secret encampments in the woods of Belarus during WW2, rescuing and protecting more than 1200 Jews who might otherwise have perished. Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, and Jamie Bell are the Bielski brothers, who retreated into the neighboring forest and formed an underground community, complete with hospital and synagogue, where these farmers and peasants fought against the Nazis even as the brother leaders argued over strategy, survival or revenge. Full of breathtaking suspense, this powerful thriller is both an incredible historical drama and an absorbing family saga.
Tuesday Mar 17 - Thursday Mar 19
MOSCOW, BELGIUM (NR) 106min [in Flemish with subtitles]
A relationship between an older woman and a younger man begins when they have a fender-bender in the supermarket parking lot which devolves into a yelling match in this delightful and authentic romantic comedy. Matty (Barbara Sarafian) is a harried single mom of three teenagers whose husband (Johan Heldenbergh) left her months ago for one of his much younger students, but hasn't quite gotten around to filing for divorce yet. Johnny (Jurgen Delnaet) is single trucker whose route takes him often to Italy whose heart was broken by his last girlfriend. He tries to make amends for their argument by coming to Matty's and fixing her broken trunk, and also asks her out. But the last thing she needs in her life is a relationship, especially with such a younger man; nevertheless she goes out with him. This feature film debut from Belgian director Christophe Van Rompaey is a smart, entertaining and wryly funny film.
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COMING ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (R) 121min
Nominated for ten Academy Awards, including best picture and director, this colorful, Dickensian, and Bollywood inspired film is from stylish British director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Millions, 28 Days Later). The story, based on the novel "Q&A" by Vikas Swarup adapted by Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty) follows Jamal (Dev Patel) a street-smart Mumbai slum orphan turned call center tea server who has become a contestant on a popular TV game show, and is on the verge of winning the big prize. Suspected of cheating, he is forced to justify to a police interrogator (Irfan Khan, A Mighty Heart) how he knew all the answers to the questions. His responses follow in flashback the highs and lows of his life as he has survived terrible poverty and unforgettable brutality with his older brother Salim and his soulmate Latika. In all it is a passionate, joyous and winning film.
CORALINE (PG) 100min
Director Harry Selick (Nightmare Before Christmas) has made another spectacular stop-motion animated adventure, this based on Neil Gaiman's internationally best-selling story. Dakota Fanning voices Coraline, bored with her parents and in her new home until she finds a secret door and discovers an alternate version of her life on the other side. This parallel universe seems to be quite similar to her real life, only better. Then she discovers that it might actually be much more dangerous and she must summons all her resourcefulness and bravery to escape this increasingly perilous world and return home to save her family.
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (R) 119min
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio star as husband and wife in this powerful story of 1950's suburban dysfunction, directed by her husband Sam Mendes (American Beauty). Based on the celebrated 1961 novel by Richard Yates, this young urban couple meets at a party, fall in love, get married, move to Connecticut and start a family. On the outside, they seem to have the perfect house, family and marriage, and their realtor (Kathy Bates) introduces them to her mentally unstable son (Michael Shannon) as an example of normalcy. But underneath, he hates his meaningless desk job and she feels trapped as a mother and housewife. Then she comes up with a plan to give it all up and move the family to Paris. This is a riveting film with remarkable performances whose meaning still has resonance today.
HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU (PG-13) 129min
This funny, loveable ensemble comedy tells the stories of a group of interconnected Baltimore-based 20- and 30-somethings as they navigate their various relationships from the shallow end of the dating pool through the deep murky waters of married life, trying to read, or misreading the signs of the opposite sex. Based on the wildly popular best-seller from Sex and the City screenwriters Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo and directed by Ken Kwapis (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants), this film's all-star cast includes Jennifer Anniston, Ben Affleck, Scarlett Johansson, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Kris Kristofferson. Thoughtful, honest and original, this romantic comedy makes for a perfectly enjoyable night out at the movies.
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Coming Next Schedule?
The Tournees French Film Festival
Che
Waltz with Bashir
Secret of the Grain
Wendy and Lucy
The Wrestler
The Class
Two Lovers
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[Reel Pizza] update
hi everyone
Here is this week's update, and shortly (as long as it takes me to type it in) the next schedule will arrive.
This Thursday's senior matinee will be VALKYRIE, at 1:30. Chris will be here to show the film to anyone who dares to venture out into the forecasted weather. Maybe by the afternoon it will be all rain! Next week (2/26) the Thursday matinee will be GRAN TORINO, and the following week (3/5) THE READER.
Also, this Sunday night is OSCAR NIGHT hosted by Hugh Jackman and we will be hosting our annual ACADEMY NIGHT GALA, this year to benefit both the BETH C. WRIGHT CANCER CENTER and the MAINE SEA COAST MISSION co-sponsored by Poor Boy�s Gourmet, The First, Coastline Homes & Holiday Inn. As in past years, there will be door prizes, and prizes for best costumes in a variety of categories, and a grand prize for choosing the most correct winners. And of course there will be delicious pread of hors d'ouevres from our local chefs and complimentary champagne and sparkling cider. The proceedings will begin at 6:30 and the inestimable LENNY DEMURO will again be the master of ceremonies. Tickets are available at our box office as well as at the door the night of the show. Hope to see you here...it is always a fun night!
Because of the Oscar broadcast, we will not be showing any evening films on Sunday. However, we will instead have 2pm matinee of both shows (RACHEL GETTING MARRIED and GRAN TORINO).
And here is the schedule for this coming week. Stay healthy! See you soon!
-LIsa
Fri 2/20 - Thurs 2/26
GRAN TORINO (R) 117min 6:00 and 8:30
Grizzled, retired, and newly widowed autoworker Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) thinks his children and grandchildren are greedy and self-absorbed, and he only has vicious racial slurs to direct at the Hmong newcomers to his lower-middleclass neighborhood in Detroit, as they remind him of Koreans he fought in the war. When his teenaged next-door neighbor tries to steal his beloved car as part of a gang initiation, he is forced to deal with them, and eventually becomes a reluctant father figure and friend to the boy and his older sister. Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Changeling) in his second directing effort this year, considers the limits of violence, racial acceptance, and the power of compassion.
Fri Feb 20 - Mon Feb 23
RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (R) 116min 5:30 and 8:00
It is Kym (Oscar-nominated Anne Hathaway, The Devil Wears Prada), the sister of the bride Rachel (Rosemary Dewitt) who is the focus of this film. On a weekend furlough from rehab where she has been clean for many months, but a junkie for many years, she also wants to be the center of attention at this family gathering. But longtime issues have made her overly emotional, self-absorbed, and resentful, and her inappropriate behavior embarrasses and infuriates her entire family. But as her dad and new brother-in-law are both in the music industry, the party is a multi-cultural riot of eclectic styles, including musicians Robyn Hitchcock, and Sister Carol. Veteran indie director Jonathan Demme (Philadelphia, Heart of Gold) has balanced, with heart and hilarity, an intense, authentic family dynamic with a lively celebration.
Tues Feb 24 - Thurs Feb 26 5:30 and 7:45
THE GROCER�S SON (NR) 96min [in French with subtitles]
This picturesque and rewarding journey of self-discovery follows the trials of Antoine, a surly 30 year old man who thought he had forever left his family home in Provence a decade ago. But when his father has a heart attack, he reluctantly returns to drive the family�s travelling grocery van to the remote villages in the countryside to serve the elderly customers who continued to rely on this service. His apartment neighbor Claire, an optimistic free-spirit, joins him and provides a counterpoint to the confrontational Antoine. With a wealth of details, this enchanting, quirky gem from director Eric Guirado is sure to enchant.
Here is this week's update, and shortly (as long as it takes me to type it in) the next schedule will arrive.
This Thursday's senior matinee will be VALKYRIE, at 1:30. Chris will be here to show the film to anyone who dares to venture out into the forecasted weather. Maybe by the afternoon it will be all rain! Next week (2/26) the Thursday matinee will be GRAN TORINO, and the following week (3/5) THE READER.
Also, this Sunday night is OSCAR NIGHT hosted by Hugh Jackman and we will be hosting our annual ACADEMY NIGHT GALA, this year to benefit both the BETH C. WRIGHT CANCER CENTER and the MAINE SEA COAST MISSION co-sponsored by Poor Boy�s Gourmet, The First, Coastline Homes & Holiday Inn. As in past years, there will be door prizes, and prizes for best costumes in a variety of categories, and a grand prize for choosing the most correct winners. And of course there will be delicious pread of hors d'ouevres from our local chefs and complimentary champagne and sparkling cider. The proceedings will begin at 6:30 and the inestimable LENNY DEMURO will again be the master of ceremonies. Tickets are available at our box office as well as at the door the night of the show. Hope to see you here...it is always a fun night!
Because of the Oscar broadcast, we will not be showing any evening films on Sunday. However, we will instead have 2pm matinee of both shows (RACHEL GETTING MARRIED and GRAN TORINO).
And here is the schedule for this coming week. Stay healthy! See you soon!
-LIsa
Fri 2/20 - Thurs 2/26
GRAN TORINO (R) 117min 6:00 and 8:30
Grizzled, retired, and newly widowed autoworker Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) thinks his children and grandchildren are greedy and self-absorbed, and he only has vicious racial slurs to direct at the Hmong newcomers to his lower-middleclass neighborhood in Detroit, as they remind him of Koreans he fought in the war. When his teenaged next-door neighbor tries to steal his beloved car as part of a gang initiation, he is forced to deal with them, and eventually becomes a reluctant father figure and friend to the boy and his older sister. Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Changeling) in his second directing effort this year, considers the limits of violence, racial acceptance, and the power of compassion.
Fri Feb 20 - Mon Feb 23
RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (R) 116min 5:30 and 8:00
It is Kym (Oscar-nominated Anne Hathaway, The Devil Wears Prada), the sister of the bride Rachel (Rosemary Dewitt) who is the focus of this film. On a weekend furlough from rehab where she has been clean for many months, but a junkie for many years, she also wants to be the center of attention at this family gathering. But longtime issues have made her overly emotional, self-absorbed, and resentful, and her inappropriate behavior embarrasses and infuriates her entire family. But as her dad and new brother-in-law are both in the music industry, the party is a multi-cultural riot of eclectic styles, including musicians Robyn Hitchcock, and Sister Carol. Veteran indie director Jonathan Demme (Philadelphia, Heart of Gold) has balanced, with heart and hilarity, an intense, authentic family dynamic with a lively celebration.
Tues Feb 24 - Thurs Feb 26 5:30 and 7:45
THE GROCER�S SON (NR) 96min [in French with subtitles]
This picturesque and rewarding journey of self-discovery follows the trials of Antoine, a surly 30 year old man who thought he had forever left his family home in Provence a decade ago. But when his father has a heart attack, he reluctantly returns to drive the family�s travelling grocery van to the remote villages in the countryside to serve the elderly customers who continued to rely on this service. His apartment neighbor Claire, an optimistic free-spirit, joins him and provides a counterpoint to the confrontational Antoine. With a wealth of details, this enchanting, quirky gem from director Eric Guirado is sure to enchant.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
[Reel Pizza] update and news
hi everyone
This week's Senior Matinee is DOUBT, which will be screened at 1:30.
Below are two press releases with upcoming news that wasn't finalized in time to make it into the printed schedule.
VACATION WEEK SCHEDULE For all you parents out there, like us, it should not be news that this Friday begins the annual winter school vacation. And if your children are not of the age, or do not have the interest in or the level of coordination for participating in interscholastic basketball, the options of what to do to fill this time may be slim. Hopefully Mother Nature will cooperate to provide some sledding or skating for daytime activities. To help fill the darker hours Reel Pizza in Bar Harbor is somewhat modifying its schedule and has booked some family-friendly films, two rated PG and two rated PG-13, and has adjusted the showtimes earlier. The film schedule from Friday February 13 through Thursday Feb 19 includes four films which are of different genres to suit all tastes. On Tuesday February 17, both films will change. The full schedule for the ending weekend of vacation is still not finalized. (The schedule is below, as usual).
COA GARDEN FUNDRAISER COA's Sunken Garden, in front of the historic Turrets building in the center of campus, has been degrading for many years. This spring, COA seniors Dakota Strassner and Tim Brubaker will be restoring much of the garden - rebuilding walls and a drainage system as well as replanting native species and weeding out invasive ones. To help raise money, Reel Pizza is hosting a Valentine's Day screening of the movie IMAGINE ME AND YOU at 10:00 PM on Saturday, February 14th. Donation $6. This 2006 British comedy about a woman who, on the day of her wedding to a man, meets and begins to fall in love with a female florist, is being co-presented by Spectrum, COA's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender support and activism group. Major goals of the garden renovation plan are to restore the garden's beauty and make it more accessible to the public, while maintaining the feel of the garden as a somewhat wild relic from the past. Please join us for an entertaining, inclusive evening and help support the preservation of part of our island's rich heritage. For more information, please contact Reel Pizza at lisa@reelpizza.net, Dakota Strassner at dstrassner@coa.edu, or Dan Mahler (president of Spectrum) at dmahler@coa.edu.
And here are the coming week's films
Friday February 13 - Monday February 16
VALKYRIE (PG-13) 120min 5:30 and 8:00
Intelligent and engrossing, this historical drama recreates the real-life WW2 conspiracy about a plot within the highest ranks of Hitler's military command to assassinate their leader and restore Germany's good name. Led by Col. Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise), a man who lost seven fingers and an eye fighting in North Africa, this group of co-conspirators, played by Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy, Terence Stamp, Eddie Izzard and Thomas Kretschmann, all have differing motives for wanting Hitler dead, and their allegiances shift even as they must keep their plan secret. Director Bryan Singer (X-Men 1 & 2, Superman) reuniting with his The Usual Suspects screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie, has made a suspenseful and old-fashioned action adventure, presenting a complex scheme with clarity.
and
HOTEL FOR DOGS (PG) 100min 5:00 and 7:15
This adaptation of Lois Duncan's children's book is a smart, funny comedy adventure that shows how far love and imagination can take you. When their new foster parents forbid 16-year old Andi (Emma Roberts) and her younger brother, Bruce (Jake Austin) to have a pet, these orphans have to use their quick wit to help find a new home for their dog, Friday. The resourceful kids stumble upon an abandoned hotel and using Bruce's talents as a mechanical genius, transform it into a magical dog-paradise for their pooch – and eventually for all his friends. When barking dogs make the neighbors suspicious, Andi and Bruce use every invention they have to avoid anyone discovering "who let the dogs in."
then both change, to
Tues Feb 17 - Thurs Feb 19
THE BLACK BALLOON (PG-13) 97min 5:30 and 7:45
This comic Australian coming of age drama, the autobiographical first feature from Elissa Down, is a hilarious heartwarming and honest account of growing up with an autistic brother. Shy 15 year old Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) has just moved and must start at a new school. He just wants to fit in and become friends with his goofy but gorgeous classmate Jackie. But when his pregnant mother (Toni Collette) is ordered to bedrest, he must take care of his older autistic brother, whose unusual antics send Thomas on an emotional journey. It is a funny and unsentimental but sympathetic and real story about fitting in and accepting your family.
and
INKHEART (PG) 106min 5:00 and 7:15
Cornelia Funke's best-selling novel which celebrates the power of literature comes to life in this whimsical fantasy adventure film. A young girl's father (Brendon Fraser) has discovered that he is a Silvertongue, with the power to bring characters from books to life by reading those books aloud, but he belatedly learns that when a character leaves the book, someone from this world must enter the book to take that character's place. When a power-hungry villain (Andy Serkis), escaped from a rare children's fable, kidnaps the man, his daughter bands with a group of friends both real and imagined to set things right. Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirrin and Paul Bettany costar.
This week's Senior Matinee is DOUBT, which will be screened at 1:30.
Below are two press releases with upcoming news that wasn't finalized in time to make it into the printed schedule.
VACATION WEEK SCHEDULE For all you parents out there, like us, it should not be news that this Friday begins the annual winter school vacation. And if your children are not of the age, or do not have the interest in or the level of coordination for participating in interscholastic basketball, the options of what to do to fill this time may be slim. Hopefully Mother Nature will cooperate to provide some sledding or skating for daytime activities. To help fill the darker hours Reel Pizza in Bar Harbor is somewhat modifying its schedule and has booked some family-friendly films, two rated PG and two rated PG-13, and has adjusted the showtimes earlier. The film schedule from Friday February 13 through Thursday Feb 19 includes four films which are of different genres to suit all tastes. On Tuesday February 17, both films will change. The full schedule for the ending weekend of vacation is still not finalized. (The schedule is below, as usual).
COA GARDEN FUNDRAISER COA's Sunken Garden, in front of the historic Turrets building in the center of campus, has been degrading for many years. This spring, COA seniors Dakota Strassner and Tim Brubaker will be restoring much of the garden - rebuilding walls and a drainage system as well as replanting native species and weeding out invasive ones. To help raise money, Reel Pizza is hosting a Valentine's Day screening of the movie IMAGINE ME AND YOU at 10:00 PM on Saturday, February 14th. Donation $6. This 2006 British comedy about a woman who, on the day of her wedding to a man, meets and begins to fall in love with a female florist, is being co-presented by Spectrum, COA's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender support and activism group. Major goals of the garden renovation plan are to restore the garden's beauty and make it more accessible to the public, while maintaining the feel of the garden as a somewhat wild relic from the past. Please join us for an entertaining, inclusive evening and help support the preservation of part of our island's rich heritage. For more information, please contact Reel Pizza at lisa@reelpizza.net, Dakota Strassner at dstrassner@coa.edu, or Dan Mahler (president of Spectrum) at dmahler@coa.edu.
And here are the coming week's films
Friday February 13 - Monday February 16
VALKYRIE (PG-13) 120min 5:30 and 8:00
Intelligent and engrossing, this historical drama recreates the real-life WW2 conspiracy about a plot within the highest ranks of Hitler's military command to assassinate their leader and restore Germany's good name. Led by Col. Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise), a man who lost seven fingers and an eye fighting in North Africa, this group of co-conspirators, played by Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy, Terence Stamp, Eddie Izzard and Thomas Kretschmann, all have differing motives for wanting Hitler dead, and their allegiances shift even as they must keep their plan secret. Director Bryan Singer (X-Men 1 & 2, Superman) reuniting with his The Usual Suspects screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie, has made a suspenseful and old-fashioned action adventure, presenting a complex scheme with clarity.
and
HOTEL FOR DOGS (PG) 100min 5:00 and 7:15
This adaptation of Lois Duncan's children's book is a smart, funny comedy adventure that shows how far love and imagination can take you. When their new foster parents forbid 16-year old Andi (Emma Roberts) and her younger brother, Bruce (Jake Austin) to have a pet, these orphans have to use their quick wit to help find a new home for their dog, Friday. The resourceful kids stumble upon an abandoned hotel and using Bruce's talents as a mechanical genius, transform it into a magical dog-paradise for their pooch – and eventually for all his friends. When barking dogs make the neighbors suspicious, Andi and Bruce use every invention they have to avoid anyone discovering "who let the dogs in."
then both change, to
Tues Feb 17 - Thurs Feb 19
THE BLACK BALLOON (PG-13) 97min 5:30 and 7:45
This comic Australian coming of age drama, the autobiographical first feature from Elissa Down, is a hilarious heartwarming and honest account of growing up with an autistic brother. Shy 15 year old Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) has just moved and must start at a new school. He just wants to fit in and become friends with his goofy but gorgeous classmate Jackie. But when his pregnant mother (Toni Collette) is ordered to bedrest, he must take care of his older autistic brother, whose unusual antics send Thomas on an emotional journey. It is a funny and unsentimental but sympathetic and real story about fitting in and accepting your family.
and
INKHEART (PG) 106min 5:00 and 7:15
Cornelia Funke's best-selling novel which celebrates the power of literature comes to life in this whimsical fantasy adventure film. A young girl's father (Brendon Fraser) has discovered that he is a Silvertongue, with the power to bring characters from books to life by reading those books aloud, but he belatedly learns that when a character leaves the book, someone from this world must enter the book to take that character's place. When a power-hungry villain (Andy Serkis), escaped from a rare children's fable, kidnaps the man, his daughter bands with a group of friends both real and imagined to set things right. Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirrin and Paul Bettany costar.
Monday, February 2, 2009
[Reel Pizza] reel pizza update
hi everyone
This is what we will have playing at Reel Pizza from Friday February 6 - Thursday Feb 12.
The Senior matinee on Feb 5th is MILK at 1:30.
See you soon.....Lisa
Friday Feb 6 - Thurs Feb 12
DOUBT (PG-13) 104min 6:00 and 8:15
In a Catholic school in 1964 Bronx, Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep), the principal, does not trust the new priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman). He is progressive and charismatic; she is strict, disciplined and old-fashioned. When she hears from meek, innocent Sister James (Amy Adams) that she saw the school�s new and only black student go into his office alone, she decides, without a doubt but without any evidence either, that something is seriously amiss and the Father must go. Viola Davis (Antwone Fisher) gives a brief but indelible performance as the boy�s mother. John Patrick Shanley (Oscar-winning screenwriter for Moonstruck) adapts and directs his Tony-winning play, expanding it with 4 Oscar-nominated performances to fill the big screen in this transfixing and relevant film.
Fri Feb 6 - Mon Feb 9
YES MAN (PG-13) 104min 5:30 and 7:45
Zooey Deschanel and Jim Carrey have a goofy, wonderful chemistry together in this fun and sweet romantic comedy. He is a self-pitying loan officer who is still in a funk after his divorce years earlier. His buddy (Bradley Cooper) pressures him into attending a self-help seminar led by a New-age guru (Terence Stamp), where he is taught to say YES to everything asked of him. Naturally, initially, this leads to disaster, but also puts him in the path of free-spirited Allison who is attracted to his spontaneity. As he continues to practice his new skill, he reaps the rewards but eventually must learn to deal with the complications. It is a light-weight, but funny and delightful crowd-pleaser.
Tues Feb 10 - Thurs Feb 12
PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL (NR) 72min 5:30 and 7:30
This extraordinary documentary from Oscar-winning director Gini Reticker and producer Abigail Disney chronicles the remarkable story of courageous Liberian women, ordinary mothers, sisters, wives, aunts, and grandmothers, both Christian and Muslim, who came together to pray for peace, staged a silent protest, and were critical in ending the bloody civil war that had shattered their country. The non-violent and unorthodox methods of these women forced dictator Charles Taylor into exile which resulted in the election of Africa�s first female head of state. It is an inspiring, uplifting and motivating story of sacrifice, unity and transcendence.
This is what we will have playing at Reel Pizza from Friday February 6 - Thursday Feb 12.
The Senior matinee on Feb 5th is MILK at 1:30.
See you soon.....Lisa
Friday Feb 6 - Thurs Feb 12
DOUBT (PG-13) 104min 6:00 and 8:15
In a Catholic school in 1964 Bronx, Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep), the principal, does not trust the new priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman). He is progressive and charismatic; she is strict, disciplined and old-fashioned. When she hears from meek, innocent Sister James (Amy Adams) that she saw the school�s new and only black student go into his office alone, she decides, without a doubt but without any evidence either, that something is seriously amiss and the Father must go. Viola Davis (Antwone Fisher) gives a brief but indelible performance as the boy�s mother. John Patrick Shanley (Oscar-winning screenwriter for Moonstruck) adapts and directs his Tony-winning play, expanding it with 4 Oscar-nominated performances to fill the big screen in this transfixing and relevant film.
Fri Feb 6 - Mon Feb 9
YES MAN (PG-13) 104min 5:30 and 7:45
Zooey Deschanel and Jim Carrey have a goofy, wonderful chemistry together in this fun and sweet romantic comedy. He is a self-pitying loan officer who is still in a funk after his divorce years earlier. His buddy (Bradley Cooper) pressures him into attending a self-help seminar led by a New-age guru (Terence Stamp), where he is taught to say YES to everything asked of him. Naturally, initially, this leads to disaster, but also puts him in the path of free-spirited Allison who is attracted to his spontaneity. As he continues to practice his new skill, he reaps the rewards but eventually must learn to deal with the complications. It is a light-weight, but funny and delightful crowd-pleaser.
Tues Feb 10 - Thurs Feb 12
PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL (NR) 72min 5:30 and 7:30
This extraordinary documentary from Oscar-winning director Gini Reticker and producer Abigail Disney chronicles the remarkable story of courageous Liberian women, ordinary mothers, sisters, wives, aunts, and grandmothers, both Christian and Muslim, who came together to pray for peace, staged a silent protest, and were critical in ending the bloody civil war that had shattered their country. The non-violent and unorthodox methods of these women forced dictator Charles Taylor into exile which resulted in the election of Africa�s first female head of state. It is an inspiring, uplifting and motivating story of sacrifice, unity and transcendence.
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