We had quite a busy weekend despite the glorious weather, with our successful Acadia Fire Soccer Club benefit screening on Saturday (which I was unable to attend) and our Oscar Night Gala benefiting the Bar Harbor Food Pantry on Sunday.
We had a great time Sunday. The food, both savory and sweet, was divine, and those who came in costume made the whole event a lot of fun. CORALINE, UP, JULIE AND JULIA, and THE ROAD were represented in the character costumes (there may be some pictures in this week's MDIslander), and the glamorous fashions on the red carpet were also quite sensational. Doug McMinimy and Frank Bachman were terrific MC's, even better than Steve and Alec in Hollywood! After drawing one name from a hat after a three way tie, our grand prize winner was English Jen Galliart with 17 correct answers. We can fully attest that she does see many, many movies. And best of all we raised over $1000 for the Food Pantry. Well Done!
Next weekend, on Saturday March 20th, we will be hosting a 1:30pm benefit screening of UNDER OUR SKIN. I hope many of you all will plan come out for that, learn about Lyme's disease, and help out Emily Bracale.
The Senior Matinee on Thursday 3/11 will be VALENTINE'S DAY at 1:30.
Films starting Friday are:
3/12 - 3/18
3/12 - 3/15
3/16 - 3/18
See you soon!
-Lisa and Chris
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Fri March 12 - Thurs March 18
CRAZY HEART (R) 111min 6:00 and 8:30
Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski) gives the performance of his career as the richly comic, semi-tragic, romantic anti-hero Bad Blake, a broken down, hard-living country singer-songwriter who is shamed by becoming second fiddle to his one time protégé, now a superstar (Colin Farrell). Blake reaches for salvation through his relationship with an aspiring journalist and single mom (Maggie Gyllenhaal) who discovers the real man behind the boozed out musician, but he might not be strong enough. First time writer-director Scott Cooper delivers a simple but authentic gem, based on the novel by Thomas Cobb and featuring terrific music mostly by T-Bone Burnett and the late Stephen Bruton. *THREE OSCAR NOMS: Best Lead Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Music-Original Song.
Fri March 12 - Mon March 15
THE LOVELY BONES (PG-13) 135min 5:30 and 8:15
Based on Alice Sebold's critically acclaimed and best-selling novel, filmmaker Peter Jackson (LOTR) has made a fantastically beautiful, intelligently complex and memorably suspenseful film. Saoirse Ronan (Atonement) stars as a teenaged girl in 1973 suburban Philadelphia, murdered by her unsuspected neighbor (Stanley Tucci), who remains in purgatory to watch over her family and try to help them heal their grief from the afterlife, even as her disappearance goes unsolved and her spirit guides advise her to let go. *ONE OSCAR NOM: Best Supporting Actor.
Tues March 16 - Thurs March 18
THE MESSENGER (R) 105min 5:30 and 8:00
Screenwriter Oren Moverman (I'm Not There, Married Life) moves into the director's chair in his powerful and tender story about a war hero making his first tentative steps toward a normal life. Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma) stars as a wounded young veteran whose final three months of duty find him assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification Office, his job to personally notify the next of kin of a loved one's death. Paired with career officer Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) who is trying to stay on the wagon, Will is challenged by his girlfriend's pending marriage to another, and by the emotion of his work, especially when he is drawn to a war widow (Samantha Morton) whose subdued reaction to the news of her husband's death surprises and fascinates him. This film is fully textured with humor, anguish and hope. *TWO OSCAR NOMS: Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay.
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