As promised, here is the next schedule for Reel Pizza. ....Friday isn't over yet!
Coming right up is our annual TOURNEE FESTIVAL of French Film over the March 4th weekend. We will showcase five worthy French language films that we have not already screened. Each title screens twice (one, three times). We hope you will check out one or more of these interesting films from a wide range of filmmakers, from 82 year old Jacques Rivette, to two French women directors, Jewish filmmaker Karin Albou with her second film, and Anne Fontaine, and two Belgian teams, the Dardenne Brothers and animators Stephane Aubier and Vincent Patar. We are selling a pass for one admission to all five films, non-transferrable, for $25; otherwise, individual films are $6 like usual.
Please note that during the first week of this schedule, we are showing two "weekend" films (one being the Tournee collection) and two "midweek" films --no week-long film. Lots of great film on this schedule! Come see a movie or two while we wait patiently for spring to arrive. Happy Reading and see you soon!
-Lisa
Friday March 4 - Monday March 7
GNOMEO & JULIET (G) 84min 5:30 and 7:45
Shakespeare's revered tragedy gets an inventive and playful makeover to become a comedy-fairy tale. Set in adjacent backyards, our star-crossed garden gnomes (voiced by James McAvoy and Emily Blunt) discover many obstacles to overcome when they become caught in a neighborhood feud between their parents (voiced by Maggie Smith and Michael Caine). Director Kelly Asbury (Spirit of Cimmaron, Shrek 2) adds a Cuban pink flamingo, a ceramic frog and deer and a soundtrack full of both old and new Elton John songs, making a genuinely sweet film.
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TOURNEE FESTIVAL OF FRENCH FILM
TOURNÉE: AROUND A SMALL MOUNTAIN (NR) 84min Fri 5:00; Sat 7:15
Master filmmaker Jacques Rivette, now 82, returns to one of his favorite themeslife versus performancein this elegant work, which begins with a chance encounter on a mountain road. This is a buoyant film about secret histories and buried truths, filled with a sense of hope and wonder, set in a circus "where everything is possible."
TOURNÉE: COCO BEFORE CHANEL (PG-13) 105min Sat 9:00; Sun 5:00
This thoughtful exploration of the pre-fame life of the world's greatest fashion designer focuses on Coco Chanel during the Belle Epoque. Audrey Tautou (Amélie) expertly conveys Chanel's struggle against the formidable limitations that an ambitious, non-wealthy woman at the time facedparticularly one who refused to marry. Chanel remained fiercely independent, becoming a great visionary.
TOURNÉE: LORNA'S SILENCE (R) 105min Sat 5:00; Mon 8:00
Lorna, an Albanian immigrant living in Belgium, shares an apartment with a heroin addict. They have a sham marriage that allows her to legally live in the country, where she dreams of opening up a café with her boyfriend. Though profoundly critical of the punishing, frequently inhumane forces of late capitalism, this latest work from Belgium's Dardenne Brothers is not a simplistic political screedLorna is a multifaceted character who must make (and live with) her own decisions.
TOURNÉE: A TOWN CALLED PANIC (NR) 75min Fri 7:00, Sun 7:15; Mon 6:00
A marvelous fantasia, made using meticulously detailed stop-motion animation and a cast of 1,500 plastic-toy figures, never lets up for a second. After a gaffe involving an order of 50 million bricks mistakenly placed online, three friends travel to the center of the Earth, the frozen tundra (where they must battle an evil giant-robot penguin), and a mysterious underwater universe. Inspired by the manic energy of the Marx brothers and old Warner Bros. cartoons, this playful anarchy will appeal to children and adults alike.
TOURNÉE: THE WEDDING SONG (NR) 100 min Fri 8:30; Sun 8:45
Set in Nazi-occupied Tunis in 1942, this film focuses on the friendship between teenagers Nour, a devout Muslim celebrating her engagement, and her neighbor Myriam, a secular Jew living with her widowed mother. Though their lives are certainly circumscribed, Nour and Myriam are committed to taking control, exercising their own formidable will whenever they can.
Tuesday March 8 - Thursday March 10
127 HOURS (R) 94min 6:00 and 8:15
The new film from last year's Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) is beautiful and life-affirming even as it tells a harrowing, true story. Aron Ralston (James Franco, Howl, Milk) is a care-free rock climber who enjoys the escape of being alone in the brilliant wilderness of Utah's Canyonlands National Park. That is, until the one day when his cockiness and luck fails him and he finds himself stuck, having fallen down a crevasse with a boulder he is unable to move pinning his arm. Over the next five days he contemplates his current position, his life up to then, and his future, finally deciding he does have the courage to do whatever is necessary to choose life.
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MADE IN DAGENHAM (R) 113min
This crowd-pleasing, fictionalized account of real events is an uplifting labor drama set in 1968 suburban London. Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) stars as a Ford Motors seamstress who becomes the voice of her co-workers when they realize their male equals make significantly more pay. Bob Hopkins is the woman's union organizer who is stunned when these outraged women courageously push the boundaries of their grievances, forcing change to an entrenched old-boys system. Director Nigel Cole (Saving Grace, Calendar Girls) uses humor to tell this remarkable underdog story.
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Friday March 11 - Monday March 14
BLACK SWAN (R) 110min
Set in the world of performance ballet, this multi-Oscar-nominee (including for best director, picture and actress) from visionary director Darren Aronofsky (Pi, The Wrestler) features an amazing performance by Natalie Portman. She plays a young, dedicated but sheltered dancer who is chosen for the lead in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. But though she is technically capable, is she emotionally? As she prepares for the part of the Black Swan, she tries to explore her dark side, even as she receives conflicting messages from the women in her life; her zealous, jealous mother (Barbara Hershey), the ballerina she dethroned (Winona Ryder), and her understudy (Mila Kunis). In her confusion, she descends into mental chaos.
Tuesday March 15 - Thursday March 17
BIUTIFUL (R) 147min [in Spanish with subtitles]
Mexico's Oscar-nominated Foreign Language film is from director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros, Babel). Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Eat Pray Love) earns another Best Actor Oscar nomination for his powerful and brave performance as Uxmel, a single father with his estranged, bipolar ex to his two young children. He works as a middle man between two groups of illegal immigrants – the Chinese who make counterfeit luxury goods in a sweatshop and the Senegalese who sell them on the streets – and the crooked Barcelona cops who let it all happen, for a price. When fate hands him a terminal diagnosis, he tries to put his house in order to provide for his children.
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Friday March 18 - Monday March 21
THE ILLUSIONIST (PG) 82min [nearly dialog-free]
Inspired animator Sylvan Chomet (Triplets of Belleville) makes a second exquisite masterpiece, working from an early, unpublished autobiographical script by French director and comic Jacques Tati. Paying homage to Tati's onscreen persona, Monsieur Hulot, Chomet's virtually dialog-free tale (because, like Triplets, it is so easy to understand) follows an aging magician from Paris to Scotland where, looking for work, he meets a young orphaned woman who believes in his magic and becomes his traveling companion. This enchanting, very unique, and often quiet and sad film about the passing of an era (this is not a cartoon, although it is filled with delicious sight-gags) is one of three animated films nominated for an Oscar.
Tuesday March 22 - Thursday March 24
RABBIT HOLE (PG-13) 92min
Eight months after the accidental death of their young son, Becca and Howie Corbett (Oscar-nominated Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart) are still dealing with their grief, but each is working toward healing, forgiving and resuming life, although in seemingly opposite directions. Maverick director John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) shows restraint and uses humor in this sad but ultimately hopeful story of life beginning again, adapted by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire from his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
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COMING ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?
THE COMPANY MEN (R) 113min
Engrossing and nuanced, this keenly observed drama from executive producer turned writer-director John Wells (ER, West Wing) presents the disconnect between those with resumes and those with a skill set. Featuring strong performances by Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner, Craig T. Nelson, Maria Bello and Rosemarie DeWitt, three American Dream winners, each having given his all to their company, are forced to redefine their lives as men, husbands, and fathers, with varying levels of success, when they face corporate downsizing.
ANOTHER YEAR (PG-13) 129min
Master filmmaker Mike Leigh (Topsy Turvey, Vera Drake) again uses his unorthodox, collaborative style of script development to create a rich, involving and understated drama (Oscar-nominated for original screenplay) about happiness and growing old. Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen play a long-time happily married couple with a grown son. Over a year they share their home with friends, colleagues, and family whose lives have not turned out the way they'd hoped.
THE WAY BACK (PG-13) 132min
This epic and old-fashioned adventure story of survival, solidarity and indomitable human will is the latest film from director Peter Weir, whose last picture was 2003's Master and Commander, while his other films include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, The Truman Show, Witness, The Dead Poets Society…all classics. This remarkable and beautifully photographed film, inspired by true events, follows a ragtag group of prisoners of a Soviet gulag during WW2 who would rather face suicide by Mother Nature than imprisonment, and so escape, crossing Siberia, the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas over the course of a year on their way to freedom. Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe) as a Polish soldier, Ed Harris (Pollock) as an American engineer, Colin Farrell (In Bruges) as a Russian with a knife, star, with Saoirse Ryan co-starring as a young Polish refugee who joins the group along the way.
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COMING NEXT SCHEDULE?
Blue Valentine
Rango
The Adjustment Bureau
Barney's Version
Cold Weather
Tiny Furniture
Cedar Rapids
Outside the Law
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Friday, February 25, 2011
[Reel Pizza] update Feb 25 - Mar 3
Oh My its late...what did my mother always say? " the hurrier I go, the behinder I get!"
That's me this week!
Here is the (rather busy) schedule of events for this weekend, starting TODAY.
First, don't forget we have two special events happening this weekend.
Saturday (tomorrow 2/26) we are hosting EQUALITY MAINE's free 2pm screening of the movie SAVING MARRIAGE about the battle in Massachusetts to gain the legal right of same-sex marriage there a few years ago. After the film (rated PG-13, 90min) there will be time for discussion, led by people from this non-profit organization.
Sunday 2/27 is OSCAH DAY, deahs. We will be hosting our annual GALA BENEFIT in the evening, starting at 6:30pm, running until the award for Best Picture is announced (hopefully not TOO late!). There will be hors d'oeuvres donated by local restaurants, complimentary champagne and sparkling cider, prizes awarded for best dressed (male and female) and best costumed (also male and female). And of course a grand prize for most correct ballot. All the admission proceeds (reasonably priced at $10 per person) go to supporting the good work of the Bar Harbor Food Pantry. We hope you can come out and celebrate both the movies and the food pantry with us on Sunday.
With our evening booked with the Academy Awards ceremony, we will be screening both our regular evening films earlier in the day only, at 2pm matinees. Doors open at 1:30.
I want to mention that this coming midweek's film, FOUR LIONS, was recently awarded the British film award (BAFTA) for outstanding debut by a British filmmaker.
And the next schedule will be in your inbox by the end of today!
See you soon!
-Lisa
2/25 - 3/3 THE KING'S SPEECH (R)*for some brief language 111min 5:30 and 8:00 (Sunday at 2pm ONLY)
2/25 - 2/28 FAIR GAME (PG-13) 104min 6:00 and 8:15 (Sunday at 2pm ONLY)
3/1 - 3/3 FOUR LIONS (R) 102min 6:00 and 8:15
Fri 2/25 - Thurs 3/3 (held over a second week)
THE KING'S SPEECH (R)*for some brief language 111min 5:30 and 8:00 (Sunday at 2pm ONLY)
Prince Albert (Colin Firth) has suffered a serious speech impediment all his life. When his father King George V dies, and soon afterwards his older brother Edward abdicates the throne, Albert is suddenly thrust into the highest position of the monarchy, but he can't give a speech. With the country on the verge of war, his wife (Helena Bonham Carter) arranges for one more therapy, with eccentric Australian Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). This masterful and rousing period drama follows his unorthodox and eccentric treatment and the growing friendship between these two different men as the world marches toward World War 2 and Albert prepares to inspire his people to go to battle. Directed by Tom Hooper (The Damned United, TV's John Adams) from a screenplay by veteran David Seidler (Tucker) is a shoe-in for a slew of Oscar nominations.
Fri 2/25 - Mon 2/28
FAIR GAME (PG-13) 104min 6:00 and 8:15 (Sunday at 2pm ONLY)
When former Nigerian ambassador Joe Wilson (Sean Penn) contradicted in a NYTimes Op-Ed piece the US government's position about sales of uranium from Niger to Iraq (which was used as the reason for the US to go to war), the Bush White House responded by secretly outing his wife, Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) to the press as a CIA operative. This leak destroyed her career, endangered her life as well as the lives of many others, and nearly destroyed her marriage. Based on memoirs by both Wilson and Plame and directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity), this riveting espionage drama, suspenseful even though the outcome is known, is also a realistic political and human drama about the price of truth-telling in a time of fear.
Tues 3/1 - Thurs 3/3
FOUR LIONS (R) 102min 6:00 and 8:15
Razor-sharp and pitch dark, this edgy and very funny satire is the debut film from British comic Chris Morris, working with screenwriters Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong (In the Loop). Reveling in the ridiculous, like the Three Stooges or Monty Python, they skewer fundamentalism, following the exploits of a fervent but inept cell of suburban wannabe jihadists, also mostly sweet, if perhaps somewhat dim, regular guys. They don�t all really understand their cause, but know there is one, and it leads to heaven. They are eager to destroy something, and start out training crows to be suicide bombers, and think perhaps to bomb the local mosque, in order to radicalize the moderates. But first they travel to a Pakistani training camp with comically disastrous results before returning to England for something big, an attack on the London Marathon dressed as clowns.
That's me this week!
Here is the (rather busy) schedule of events for this weekend, starting TODAY.
First, don't forget we have two special events happening this weekend.
Saturday (tomorrow 2/26) we are hosting EQUALITY MAINE's free 2pm screening of the movie SAVING MARRIAGE about the battle in Massachusetts to gain the legal right of same-sex marriage there a few years ago. After the film (rated PG-13, 90min) there will be time for discussion, led by people from this non-profit organization.
Sunday 2/27 is OSCAH DAY, deahs. We will be hosting our annual GALA BENEFIT in the evening, starting at 6:30pm, running until the award for Best Picture is announced (hopefully not TOO late!). There will be hors d'oeuvres donated by local restaurants, complimentary champagne and sparkling cider, prizes awarded for best dressed (male and female) and best costumed (also male and female). And of course a grand prize for most correct ballot. All the admission proceeds (reasonably priced at $10 per person) go to supporting the good work of the Bar Harbor Food Pantry. We hope you can come out and celebrate both the movies and the food pantry with us on Sunday.
With our evening booked with the Academy Awards ceremony, we will be screening both our regular evening films earlier in the day only, at 2pm matinees. Doors open at 1:30.
I want to mention that this coming midweek's film, FOUR LIONS, was recently awarded the British film award (BAFTA) for outstanding debut by a British filmmaker.
And the next schedule will be in your inbox by the end of today!
See you soon!
-Lisa
2/25 - 3/3
2/25 - 2/28
3/1 - 3/3
Fri 2/25 - Thurs 3/3 (held over a second week)
THE KING'S SPEECH (R)*for some brief language 111min 5:30 and 8:00 (Sunday at 2pm ONLY)
Prince Albert (Colin Firth) has suffered a serious speech impediment all his life. When his father King George V dies, and soon afterwards his older brother Edward abdicates the throne, Albert is suddenly thrust into the highest position of the monarchy, but he can't give a speech. With the country on the verge of war, his wife (Helena Bonham Carter) arranges for one more therapy, with eccentric Australian Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). This masterful and rousing period drama follows his unorthodox and eccentric treatment and the growing friendship between these two different men as the world marches toward World War 2 and Albert prepares to inspire his people to go to battle. Directed by Tom Hooper (The Damned United, TV's John Adams) from a screenplay by veteran David Seidler (Tucker) is a shoe-in for a slew of Oscar nominations.
Fri 2/25 - Mon 2/28
FAIR GAME (PG-13) 104min 6:00 and 8:15 (Sunday at 2pm ONLY)
When former Nigerian ambassador Joe Wilson (Sean Penn) contradicted in a NYTimes Op-Ed piece the US government's position about sales of uranium from Niger to Iraq (which was used as the reason for the US to go to war), the Bush White House responded by secretly outing his wife, Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) to the press as a CIA operative. This leak destroyed her career, endangered her life as well as the lives of many others, and nearly destroyed her marriage. Based on memoirs by both Wilson and Plame and directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity), this riveting espionage drama, suspenseful even though the outcome is known, is also a realistic political and human drama about the price of truth-telling in a time of fear.
Tues 3/1 - Thurs 3/3
FOUR LIONS (R) 102min 6:00 and 8:15
Razor-sharp and pitch dark, this edgy and very funny satire is the debut film from British comic Chris Morris, working with screenwriters Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong (In the Loop). Reveling in the ridiculous, like the Three Stooges or Monty Python, they skewer fundamentalism, following the exploits of a fervent but inept cell of suburban wannabe jihadists, also mostly sweet, if perhaps somewhat dim, regular guys. They don�t all really understand their cause, but know there is one, and it leads to heaven. They are eager to destroy something, and start out training crows to be suicide bombers, and think perhaps to bomb the local mosque, in order to radicalize the moderates. But first they travel to a Pakistani training camp with comically disastrous results before returning to England for something big, an attack on the London Marathon dressed as clowns.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
[Reel Pizza] update Feb 17 - 24
hi everyone!
If you listen to any of the Cumulus Radio stations (92.9, 95.7, 106.5, or 107.3) you might hear me on the air talking about the Oscar Night Gala fundraiser for the Bar Harbor Food Pantry. Hope I sounded vaguely intelligent! Tickets for this always fun event are available now at the Reel Pizza Box Office, just $10. Hope you can come and support a worthy cause and celebrate the movies with us.
Happy beginning of Winter Vacation!
This is what's happening at Reel Pizza this week.
Thurs 2/17 Senior Matinee will be the Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films at 1:30.
Fri 2/18 - Thurs 3/3 THE KING'S SPEECH (R) 5:30 and 8:00 (rated R for some brief language only)
Fri 2/18 - Mon 2/21 THE GREEN HORNET (PG-13) 6:00 and 8:15
Tues 2/22 - Thurs 2/24 MY DOG TULIP (NR) 6:00 and 8:15
Fri 2/18 - Thurs 3/3 (two weeks)
THE KING'S SPEECH (R)*for some brief language 111min 5:30 and 8:00
Prince Albert (Colin Firth) has suffered a serious speech impediment all his life. When his father King George V dies, and soon afterwards his older brother Edward abdicates the throne, Albert is suddenly thrust into the highest position of the monarchy, but he can't give a speech. With the country on the verge of war, his wife (Helena Bonham Carter) arranges for one more therapy, with eccentric Australian Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). This masterful and rousing period drama follows his unorthodox and eccentric treatment and the growing friendship between these two different men as the world marches toward World War 2 and Albert prepares to inspire his people to go to battle. Directed by Tom Hooper (The Damned United, TV's John Adams) from a screenplay by veteran David Seidler (Tucker) is a shoe-in for a slew of Oscar nominations.
Fri 2/18 - Mon 2/21
THE GREEN HORNET (PG-13) 108min [in 2-D] 6:00 and 8:15
Off-beat director Michel Gondry (Be Kind Rewind, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and co-screenwriter Set Rogan (Superbad) team up, making this action comedy update of the 1930�s radio serial/1970�s TV show. Togan stars as partyboy-son of a media magnate who discovers a new direction in life after his dad�s sudden death. Joining forces with dad�s mechanic Kato (Taiwan pop star Jay Chou) they become a vigilante crime fighting team. Using Kato�s advanced retro-weaponry, they make a name for themselves. Then they decide LA�s top crime lord (Christop Waltz) is their next target.
Tues 2/22 - Thurs 2/24
MY DOG TULIP (NR) 81min 6:00 and 8:15
The 1956 memoir of distinguished British author JR Ackerley, the basis of this sublime animated film, is a bittersweet account of the author�s 14 year relationship with a young, rescued German Shepherd, Tulip. Full of gentle wit, this faithful adaptation and sophisticated love story, narrated by Christopher Plummer, with voicework by late Lynn Redgrave (her final film performance) and Isabelle Rossellini, examines a transformative relationship between a curmudgeonly man and a dog that turns out to be the love of his life.
If you listen to any of the Cumulus Radio stations (92.9, 95.7, 106.5, or 107.3) you might hear me on the air talking about the Oscar Night Gala fundraiser for the Bar Harbor Food Pantry. Hope I sounded vaguely intelligent! Tickets for this always fun event are available now at the Reel Pizza Box Office, just $10. Hope you can come and support a worthy cause and celebrate the movies with us.
Happy beginning of Winter Vacation!
This is what's happening at Reel Pizza this week.
Thurs 2/17 Senior Matinee will be the Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films at 1:30.
Fri 2/18 - Thurs 3/3
Fri 2/18 - Mon 2/21
Tues 2/22 - Thurs 2/24
Fri 2/18 - Thurs 3/3 (two weeks)
THE KING'S SPEECH (R)*for some brief language 111min 5:30 and 8:00
Prince Albert (Colin Firth) has suffered a serious speech impediment all his life. When his father King George V dies, and soon afterwards his older brother Edward abdicates the throne, Albert is suddenly thrust into the highest position of the monarchy, but he can't give a speech. With the country on the verge of war, his wife (Helena Bonham Carter) arranges for one more therapy, with eccentric Australian Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). This masterful and rousing period drama follows his unorthodox and eccentric treatment and the growing friendship between these two different men as the world marches toward World War 2 and Albert prepares to inspire his people to go to battle. Directed by Tom Hooper (The Damned United, TV's John Adams) from a screenplay by veteran David Seidler (Tucker) is a shoe-in for a slew of Oscar nominations.
Fri 2/18 - Mon 2/21
THE GREEN HORNET (PG-13) 108min [in 2-D] 6:00 and 8:15
Off-beat director Michel Gondry (Be Kind Rewind, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and co-screenwriter Set Rogan (Superbad) team up, making this action comedy update of the 1930�s radio serial/1970�s TV show. Togan stars as partyboy-son of a media magnate who discovers a new direction in life after his dad�s sudden death. Joining forces with dad�s mechanic Kato (Taiwan pop star Jay Chou) they become a vigilante crime fighting team. Using Kato�s advanced retro-weaponry, they make a name for themselves. Then they decide LA�s top crime lord (Christop Waltz) is their next target.
Tues 2/22 - Thurs 2/24
MY DOG TULIP (NR) 81min 6:00 and 8:15
The 1956 memoir of distinguished British author JR Ackerley, the basis of this sublime animated film, is a bittersweet account of the author�s 14 year relationship with a young, rescued German Shepherd, Tulip. Full of gentle wit, this faithful adaptation and sophisticated love story, narrated by Christopher Plummer, with voicework by late Lynn Redgrave (her final film performance) and Isabelle Rossellini, examines a transformative relationship between a curmudgeonly man and a dog that turns out to be the love of his life.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
[Reel Pizza] oops
sorry about the change of address email that I accidently forwarded
to all of you that I meant only to go to my own email....
my mistake. please delete and carry on as if nothing of import happened!
-Lisa
to all of you that I meant only to go to my own email....
my mistake. please delete and carry on as if nothing of import happened!
-Lisa
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Monday, February 7, 2011
[Reel Pizza] Schedule Feb 11 - March 3
Hi everyone
Lots going on during this schedule! Hope you can make time to participate somehow.
Special events first, and in chronological order:
Sunday Feb 13th from 2pm - 4pm we will be hosting the Emerson School 8th grade fundraiser for their class trip. They have a silent auction planned for one auditorium, a screening of GET SMART (PG-13) in the other ($5 sug. donation), and a raffle for two (separate) 32g I-PADS which they will draw the winners of at the end of the film around 4pm. Come out and support our Eighth Graders!
Saturday Feb 26th at 2pm we will host a free film and discussion. We are screening SAVING MARRIAGE, presented by EQUALITYMAINE. This engrossing, powerful documentary, three years in the making, is on the scene as one state (Massachusetts) grapples with a simple question: Should gay and lesbian couples have the right to marry? Included in this sharply edited film are the personal stories of people that are shaping history, career politicians who stand up to their constituents and follow their hearts, seasoned lobbyists who see the holy grail of the gay rights movement suddenly within reach, and regular people thrust suddenly into the world of politics by an issue that could change their lives. A discussion led by EqualityMaine will follow the film.
Sunday Feb 27th at 6:30pm its our OSCAH' NIGHT GALA. This year we support the Bar Harbor Food Pantry. Its always a fun time, with exquisite hors d'oeuvres donated by local restaurants, complimentary glass of champagne or sparkling cider, prizes for best dressed and best costumed, and of course, a grand prize for the most correct ballot! Affordable, Terrific Fun and a GREAT CAUSE. Tickets are available now ($10 for everyone) at the Reel Pizza box office or from a Food Pantry board member. Its the last day of vacation...stay up late and party with us! **Remember, no regular evening shows, but both films will screen at 2pm matinees 2/27.
And of course we have our regular Film Program....
I waited so long between going to the printer and getting this email out (I blame the snow and new postal regulations on my mailing list!) that now I have all the films booked for the entire schedule. So I will give you dates and times on every film. First in Brief and then in detail.
**Remember that on Oscar Sunday, we will have 2pm matinees of BOTH the films playing that weekend. I'll remind you again when its closer to the actual day.
If I've forgotten anything, I will tell you next time. See you soon.
-Lisa
Fri 2/11 - Thurs 2/17 NO STRINGS ATTACHED (R) 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 2/11 - Mon 2/14 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2011: Animated (NR) 6:00 only (appropriate for all ages)
Fri 2/11 - Mon 2.14 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2011: Live Action (NR) 7:45 only
Tues 2/15 - Thurs 2/17 WASTE LAND (R) 6:00 and 8:15
Fri 2/18 - Thurs 3/3 THE KING'S SPEECH (R) 5:30 and 8:00 (rated R for some brief language only)
Fri 2/18 - Mon 2/21 THE GREEN HORNET (PG-13) 6:00 and 8:15
Tues 2/22 - Thurs 2/24 MY DOG TULIP (NR) 6:00 and 8:15
Fri 2/25 - Thurs 3/3 THE KING'S SPEECH (R) 5:30 and 8:00 (rated R for some brief language only) HOLDS FOR A SECOND WEEK
** Sunday 2/27 2pm matinees of both films only, due to OSCARS in the evening.
Fri 2/25 - Mon 2/28 FAIR GAME (PG-13) 6:00 and 8:15
Tues 3/1 - Thurs 3/3 FOUR LIONS (R) 6:00 and 8:15
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Fri 2/11 - Thurs 2/14
NO STRINGS ATTACHED (R) 110min 5:30 and 8:00
Actress and Oscar-frontrunner Natalie Portman (Black Swan) stars with Ashton Kutcher as long-time friends who decide to become non-committal lovers in this honest and genuine romantic comedy. She is a busy medical doctor doing her residency, he is a TV show assistant and aspiring writer; they have known each other off and on since they were kids. But she is most definitely not interested in commitment, in fact doesn't even believe in it, and he agrees, …until he falls in love with her. Director Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters), using a snappy screenplay from new writer Elizabeth Meriwether, has made a terrifically sweet and fun film.
Fri 2/11 - Mon 2/14
OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2011 (NR) 85min animated at 6:00 only; 106min live-action at 7:45 only
This year's crop of short films are all from not-previously nominated filmmakers, although one from Pixar was on the front of Toy Story 3. The other animated films (all appropriate for all ages) cover a range of stories, from a parody of 1950s educational science films to a Euro traveler's trying to come to terms with Madagascar's culture, to a mysterious creature a boy finds on the beach, to a mouse who must outwit a fox, an owl and a snake. The live action films follow a young boy going to his first confession, an 8 year old boy's infatuation with his teacher, the unexpected wish of a terminally ill boy, a bus attack during the Rwandan genocide, and a love triangle that takes a surprising turn with the discovery of magic darts.
Best animated short film nominees: Appropriate for ALL AGES
"Day & Night" Teddy Newton
"The Gruffalo", Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
"Let's Pollute", Geefwee Boedoe
"The Lost Thing", Ouat Media, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
"Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)", Bastien Dubois
also special mentions
"Urs", Moritz Mayerhofer
"The Cow That Wanted to Be a Hamburger", Bill Plympton
Best live action short film nominees:
"The Confession" Tanel Toom
"The Crush" Michael Creagh
"God of Love", Luke Matheny
"Na Wewe" Ivan Goldschmidt
"Wish 143", Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite
Tues 2/15 - Thurs 2/17
WASTE LAND (NR) 98min [partly in Portuguese with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:15
In this Oscar-nominated and award-winning documentary, renowned Brooklyn-based artist Vik Muniz traveled to his native Brazil and collaborated with local catadores, people who work in the world's largest dump outside of Rio de Janeiro picking out recyclable materials. Together they created large-scale photographic images of themselves using the garbage that surrounded them. Through this beautiful, moving film by documentarian Lucy Walker (Blindsight, Countdown to Zero) we discover both the despair and dignity of these inspiring people and witness the transformative power of art.
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Fri 2/18 - Thurs 3/3 (two weeks)
THE KING'S SPEECH (R)*for some brief language 111min 5:30 and 8:00
Prince Albert (Colin Firth) has suffered a serious speech impediment all his life. When his father King George V dies, and soon afterwards his older brother Edward abdicates the throne, Albert is suddenly thrust into the highest position of the monarchy, but he can't give a speech. With the country on the verge of war, his wife (Helena Bonham Carter) arranges for one more therapy, with eccentric Australian Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). This masterful and rousing period drama follows his unorthodox and eccentric treatment and the growing friendship between these two different men as the world marches toward World War 2 and Albert prepares to inspire his people to go to battle. Directed by Tom Hooper (The Damned United, TV's John Adams) from a screenplay by veteran David Seidler (Tucker) is a shoe-in for a slew of Oscar nominations.
Fri 2/18 - Mon 2/21
THE GREEN HORNET (PG-13) 108min [in 2-D] 6:00 and 8:15
Off-beat director Michel Gondry (Be Kind Rewind, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and co-screenwriter Set Rogan (Superbad) team up, making this action comedy update of the 1930's radio serial/1970's TV show. Togan stars as partyboy-son of a media magnate who discovers a new direction in life after his dad's sudden death. Joining forces with dad's mechanic Kato (Taiwan pop star Jay Chou) they become a vigilante crime fighting team. Using Kato's advanced retro-weaponry, they make a name for themselves. Then they decide LA's top crime lord (Christop Waltz) is their next target.
Tues 2/22 - Thurs 2/24
MY DOG TULIP (NR) 81min 6:00 and 8:15
The 1956 memoir of distinguished British author JR Ackerley, the basis of this sublime animated film, is a bittersweet account of the author's 14 year relationship with a young, rescued German Shepherd, Tulip. Full of gentle wit, this faithful adaptation and sophisticated love story, narrated by Christopher Plummer, with voicework by late Lynn Redgrave (her final film performance) and Isabelle Rossellini, examines a transformative relationship between a curmudgeonly man and a dog that turns out to be the love of his life.
**********************
Fri 2/18 - Thurs 3/3 (two weeks)
THE KING'S SPEECH (R)*for some brief language 111min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 2/25 - Mon 2/28
FAIR GAME (PG-13) 104min 6:00 and 8:15
When former Nigerian ambassador Joe Wilson (Sean Penn) contradicted in a NYTimes Op-Ed piece the US government's position about sales of uranium from Niger to Iraq (which was used as the reason for the US to go to war), the Bush White House responded by secretly outing his wife, Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) to the press as a CIA operative. This leak destroyed her career, endangered her life as well as the lives of many others, and nearly destroyed her marriage. Based on memoirs by both Wilson and Plame and directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity), this riveting espionage drama, suspenseful even though the outcome is known, is also a realistic political and human drama about the price of truth-telling in a time of fear.
Tues 3/1 - Thurs 3/3
FOUR LIONS (R) 102min 6:00 and 8:15
Razor-sharp and pitch dark, this edgy and very funny satire is the debut film from British comic Chris Morris, working with screenwriters Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong (In the Loop). Reveling in the ridiculous, like the Three Stooges or Monty Python, they skewer fundamentalism, following the exploits of a fervent but inept cell of suburban wannabe jihadists, also mostly sweet, if perhaps somewhat dim, regular guys. They don't all really understand their cause, but know there is one, and it leads to heaven. They are eager to destroy something, and start out training crows to be suicide bombers, and think perhaps to bomb the local mosque, in order to radicalize the moderates. But first they travel to a Pakistani training camp with comically disastrous results before returning to England for something big, an attack on the London Marathon dressed as clowns.
**********************
COMING SOON?
127 HOURS (R) 94min
The new film from last year's Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) is beautiful and life-affirming even as it tells a harrowing, true story. Aron Ralston (James Franco, Howl, Milk) is a care-free rock climber who enjoys the escape of being alone in the brilliant wilderness of Utah's Canyonland National Park. That is, until the one day when his cockiness and luck fails him and he finds himself stuck, having fallen down a crevasse with a boulder he is unable to move pinning his arm. Over the next five days he contemplates his current position, his life up to then, and his future, finally deciding he does have the courage to do whatever is necessary to choose life.
**********************
Coming Next Schedule?
Gnomeo and Juliet
Made in Dagenheim
The Illusionist
Black Swan
Another Year
The Way Back
Blue Valentine
The Company Men
**********************
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Lots going on during this schedule! Hope you can make time to participate somehow.
Special events first, and in chronological order:
Sunday Feb 13th from 2pm - 4pm we will be hosting the Emerson School 8th grade fundraiser for their class trip. They have a silent auction planned for one auditorium, a screening of GET SMART (PG-13) in the other ($5 sug. donation), and a raffle for two (separate) 32g I-PADS which they will draw the winners of at the end of the film around 4pm. Come out and support our Eighth Graders!
Saturday Feb 26th at 2pm we will host a free film and discussion. We are screening SAVING MARRIAGE, presented by EQUALITYMAINE. This engrossing, powerful documentary, three years in the making, is on the scene as one state (Massachusetts) grapples with a simple question: Should gay and lesbian couples have the right to marry? Included in this sharply edited film are the personal stories of people that are shaping history, career politicians who stand up to their constituents and follow their hearts, seasoned lobbyists who see the holy grail of the gay rights movement suddenly within reach, and regular people thrust suddenly into the world of politics by an issue that could change their lives. A discussion led by EqualityMaine will follow the film.
Sunday Feb 27th at 6:30pm its our OSCAH' NIGHT GALA. This year we support the Bar Harbor Food Pantry. Its always a fun time, with exquisite hors d'oeuvres donated by local restaurants, complimentary glass of champagne or sparkling cider, prizes for best dressed and best costumed, and of course, a grand prize for the most correct ballot! Affordable, Terrific Fun and a GREAT CAUSE. Tickets are available now ($10 for everyone) at the Reel Pizza box office or from a Food Pantry board member. Its the last day of vacation...stay up late and party with us! **Remember, no regular evening shows, but both films will screen at 2pm matinees 2/27.
And of course we have our regular Film Program....
I waited so long between going to the printer and getting this email out (I blame the snow and new postal regulations on my mailing list!) that now I have all the films booked for the entire schedule. So I will give you dates and times on every film. First in Brief and then in detail.
**Remember that on Oscar Sunday, we will have 2pm matinees of BOTH the films playing that weekend. I'll remind you again when its closer to the actual day.
If I've forgotten anything, I will tell you next time. See you soon.
-Lisa
Fri 2/11 - Thurs 2/17
Fri 2/11 - Mon 2/14
Fri 2/11 - Mon 2.14
Tues 2/15 - Thurs 2/17
Fri 2/18 - Thurs 3/3
Fri 2/18 - Mon 2/21
Tues 2/22 - Thurs 2/24
Fri 2/25 - Thurs 3/3
** Sunday 2/27 2pm matinees of both films only, due to OSCARS in the evening.
Fri 2/25 - Mon 2/28
Tues 3/1 - Thurs 3/3
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Fri 2/11 - Thurs 2/14
NO STRINGS ATTACHED (R) 110min 5:30 and 8:00
Actress and Oscar-frontrunner Natalie Portman (Black Swan) stars with Ashton Kutcher as long-time friends who decide to become non-committal lovers in this honest and genuine romantic comedy. She is a busy medical doctor doing her residency, he is a TV show assistant and aspiring writer; they have known each other off and on since they were kids. But she is most definitely not interested in commitment, in fact doesn't even believe in it, and he agrees, …until he falls in love with her. Director Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters), using a snappy screenplay from new writer Elizabeth Meriwether, has made a terrifically sweet and fun film.
Fri 2/11 - Mon 2/14
OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2011 (NR) 85min animated at 6:00 only; 106min live-action at 7:45 only
This year's crop of short films are all from not-previously nominated filmmakers, although one from Pixar was on the front of Toy Story 3. The other animated films (all appropriate for all ages) cover a range of stories, from a parody of 1950s educational science films to a Euro traveler's trying to come to terms with Madagascar's culture, to a mysterious creature a boy finds on the beach, to a mouse who must outwit a fox, an owl and a snake. The live action films follow a young boy going to his first confession, an 8 year old boy's infatuation with his teacher, the unexpected wish of a terminally ill boy, a bus attack during the Rwandan genocide, and a love triangle that takes a surprising turn with the discovery of magic darts.
Best animated short film nominees: Appropriate for ALL AGES
"Day & Night" Teddy Newton
"The Gruffalo", Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
"Let's Pollute", Geefwee Boedoe
"The Lost Thing", Ouat Media, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
"Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)", Bastien Dubois
also special mentions
"Urs", Moritz Mayerhofer
"The Cow That Wanted to Be a Hamburger", Bill Plympton
Best live action short film nominees:
"The Confession" Tanel Toom
"The Crush" Michael Creagh
"God of Love", Luke Matheny
"Na Wewe" Ivan Goldschmidt
"Wish 143", Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite
Tues 2/15 - Thurs 2/17
WASTE LAND (NR) 98min [partly in Portuguese with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:15
In this Oscar-nominated and award-winning documentary, renowned Brooklyn-based artist Vik Muniz traveled to his native Brazil and collaborated with local catadores, people who work in the world's largest dump outside of Rio de Janeiro picking out recyclable materials. Together they created large-scale photographic images of themselves using the garbage that surrounded them. Through this beautiful, moving film by documentarian Lucy Walker (Blindsight, Countdown to Zero) we discover both the despair and dignity of these inspiring people and witness the transformative power of art.
**********************
Fri 2/18 - Thurs 3/3 (two weeks)
THE KING'S SPEECH (R)*for some brief language 111min 5:30 and 8:00
Prince Albert (Colin Firth) has suffered a serious speech impediment all his life. When his father King George V dies, and soon afterwards his older brother Edward abdicates the throne, Albert is suddenly thrust into the highest position of the monarchy, but he can't give a speech. With the country on the verge of war, his wife (Helena Bonham Carter) arranges for one more therapy, with eccentric Australian Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). This masterful and rousing period drama follows his unorthodox and eccentric treatment and the growing friendship between these two different men as the world marches toward World War 2 and Albert prepares to inspire his people to go to battle. Directed by Tom Hooper (The Damned United, TV's John Adams) from a screenplay by veteran David Seidler (Tucker) is a shoe-in for a slew of Oscar nominations.
Fri 2/18 - Mon 2/21
THE GREEN HORNET (PG-13) 108min [in 2-D] 6:00 and 8:15
Off-beat director Michel Gondry (Be Kind Rewind, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and co-screenwriter Set Rogan (Superbad) team up, making this action comedy update of the 1930's radio serial/1970's TV show. Togan stars as partyboy-son of a media magnate who discovers a new direction in life after his dad's sudden death. Joining forces with dad's mechanic Kato (Taiwan pop star Jay Chou) they become a vigilante crime fighting team. Using Kato's advanced retro-weaponry, they make a name for themselves. Then they decide LA's top crime lord (Christop Waltz) is their next target.
Tues 2/22 - Thurs 2/24
MY DOG TULIP (NR) 81min 6:00 and 8:15
The 1956 memoir of distinguished British author JR Ackerley, the basis of this sublime animated film, is a bittersweet account of the author's 14 year relationship with a young, rescued German Shepherd, Tulip. Full of gentle wit, this faithful adaptation and sophisticated love story, narrated by Christopher Plummer, with voicework by late Lynn Redgrave (her final film performance) and Isabelle Rossellini, examines a transformative relationship between a curmudgeonly man and a dog that turns out to be the love of his life.
**********************
Fri 2/18 - Thurs 3/3 (two weeks)
THE KING'S SPEECH (R)*for some brief language 111min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 2/25 - Mon 2/28
FAIR GAME (PG-13) 104min 6:00 and 8:15
When former Nigerian ambassador Joe Wilson (Sean Penn) contradicted in a NYTimes Op-Ed piece the US government's position about sales of uranium from Niger to Iraq (which was used as the reason for the US to go to war), the Bush White House responded by secretly outing his wife, Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) to the press as a CIA operative. This leak destroyed her career, endangered her life as well as the lives of many others, and nearly destroyed her marriage. Based on memoirs by both Wilson and Plame and directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity), this riveting espionage drama, suspenseful even though the outcome is known, is also a realistic political and human drama about the price of truth-telling in a time of fear.
Tues 3/1 - Thurs 3/3
FOUR LIONS (R) 102min 6:00 and 8:15
Razor-sharp and pitch dark, this edgy and very funny satire is the debut film from British comic Chris Morris, working with screenwriters Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong (In the Loop). Reveling in the ridiculous, like the Three Stooges or Monty Python, they skewer fundamentalism, following the exploits of a fervent but inept cell of suburban wannabe jihadists, also mostly sweet, if perhaps somewhat dim, regular guys. They don't all really understand their cause, but know there is one, and it leads to heaven. They are eager to destroy something, and start out training crows to be suicide bombers, and think perhaps to bomb the local mosque, in order to radicalize the moderates. But first they travel to a Pakistani training camp with comically disastrous results before returning to England for something big, an attack on the London Marathon dressed as clowns.
**********************
COMING SOON?
127 HOURS (R) 94min
The new film from last year's Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) is beautiful and life-affirming even as it tells a harrowing, true story. Aron Ralston (James Franco, Howl, Milk) is a care-free rock climber who enjoys the escape of being alone in the brilliant wilderness of Utah's Canyonland National Park. That is, until the one day when his cockiness and luck fails him and he finds himself stuck, having fallen down a crevasse with a boulder he is unable to move pinning his arm. Over the next five days he contemplates his current position, his life up to then, and his future, finally deciding he does have the courage to do whatever is necessary to choose life.
**********************
Coming Next Schedule?
Gnomeo and Juliet
Made in Dagenheim
The Illusionist
Black Swan
Another Year
The Way Back
Blue Valentine
The Company Men
**********************
**********************
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
[Reel Pizza] update Feb 3 - 10
snowy greetings!
First let me announce there has been a change of plan with the Senior Matinee for this week. Due to scheduling considerations, we are going to show THE TOURIST on Thursday Feb 3 at 1:30. On Thurs Feb 10, we will screen TRUE GRIT (as we are holding it for another week). Hopefully all those who are hoping to see TRUE GRIT will be more able to come out next week (If the weather ever improves), and the hardy folks can enjoy THE TOURIST (which we won't have next week....)
OK...so now you know we are holding TRUE GRIT, as it has been wildly popular, and we were unable to get a booking on anything else we were looking for.
And with this weather, don't feel you have to come out to see it until it is safe to drive!
As I don't believe I will be in tomorrow (anticipating a snow day...) I expect I will send out the upcoming new schedule to you on Thursday.
In addition to the GINGERED SWEET POTATO SOUP, Erika has also made a
-Lisa
Here is the schedule for the next week:
Fri 2/4 - Thurs 2/10 TRUE GRIT (PG-13) 110min 5:30 and 8:00 Ten Oscar Nominations!
Fri 2/4 - Mon 2/7 I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS (R) 98min 6:00 and 8:15
Tues 2/8 - Thurs 2/10 INSIDE JOB (PG-13) 108min 6:00 and 8:15 Oscar nominated!
Feb 4 - 10 (Fri - Thurs)
TRUE GRIT (PG-13) 110min 5:30 and 8:00 TEN OSCAR NOMINATIONS
The Coen brothers' entertaining new western is an adaptation of the Charles Portis novel that also served as a basis for the 1969 film that earned John Wayne an Oscar. Young Hailee Steinfeld is Mattie, a strong-willed, pig-tailed girl who seeks revenge on the man who, in cold blood, killed her father. As he has escaped into the Indian Territory, she needs a Federal Marshal to arrest, which she finds in drunk and ornery Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges). Also seeking this killer for other crimes is a goofy Texas Ranger (Matt Damon), but she insists on catching him first. Magnificent western vistas filmed by longtime cinematographer Roger Deakins, are combined with an atmospheric score by Carter Burwell and the Coen brothers' trademark dark humor, making a striking film.
Feb 4 - 7 (Fri - Mon)
I LOVE YOU, PHILLIP MORRIS (R) 98min
From the writer-director team of BAD SANTA, this improbable but true story is very funny and heartfelt, telling the spectacularly charismatic journey of a con man, a successful small town businessman turned white collar criminal, who escapes prison four times, all in the name of love (he is currently incarcerated at a Texas prison serving a 144 year sentence in solitary confinement.) Jim Carrey stars as Steve Russell, living an average life as a cop with a wife and two kids, who realizes after a severe car accident that he is gay and must live his life to the fullest, even if it means breaking the law. In jail he meets the man of his dreams (Ewan McGregor), and springs them both from prison so they can live together happily and luxuriously ever after, financed by one (often, but not always successful) con after another, even as his beloved believes in a trusting relationship.
Feb 8 - 10 (Tues - Thurs)
INSIDE JOB (PG-13) 108min OSCAR NOMINATED
You might have noticed that recently the stock market has begun to recover, while the rest of the economy has not. Filmmaker Charles Fergueson (No End In Sight) knows why. He has made another alarmingly incisive expose that lays out plainly, fairly, and meticulously how the rich keep getting richer and the rest of us fall further and further behind, examining the history of the recent recession with a coherent synthesis of why the current solutions are inadequate. Beginning back in the Reagan era, he tracks the fallacy of financial deregulation from the 1980s, through the Clinton and both Bush administrations, to the meltdown and subsequent collapse of Wall Street and its star players beginning in late 2008, and finally into Barack Obama's term as president, as his administration features the same players complicit in the creation of this mess in charge of its cleanup (Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Larry Summers declined to be interviewed). Narrated by Matt Damon, this comprehensive analysis is an important and sobering look at our economic situation; it also should be required viewing.
First let me announce there has been a change of plan with the Senior Matinee for this week. Due to scheduling considerations, we are going to show THE TOURIST on Thursday Feb 3 at 1:30. On Thurs Feb 10, we will screen TRUE GRIT (as we are holding it for another week). Hopefully all those who are hoping to see TRUE GRIT will be more able to come out next week (If the weather ever improves), and the hardy folks can enjoy THE TOURIST (which we won't have next week....)
OK...so now you know we are holding TRUE GRIT, as it has been wildly popular, and we were unable to get a booking on anything else we were looking for.
And with this weather, don't feel you have to come out to see it until it is safe to drive!
As I don't believe I will be in tomorrow (anticipating a snow day...) I expect I will send out the upcoming new schedule to you on Thursday.
In addition to the GINGERED SWEET POTATO SOUP, Erika has also made a
classic and colorful soup SOPA DE LIMA with citrus, fresh tomato, onion, garlic and hot sausage garnished with cilantro and served with tortilla chips. Send yourself to the sunny Yucatan where it is NOT snowing!
See you soon!-Lisa
Here is the schedule for the next week:
Fri 2/4 - Thurs 2/10
Fri 2/4 - Mon 2/7
Tues 2/8 - Thurs 2/10
Feb 4 - 10 (Fri - Thurs)
TRUE GRIT (PG-13) 110min 5:30 and 8:00 TEN OSCAR NOMINATIONS
The Coen brothers' entertaining new western is an adaptation of the Charles Portis novel that also served as a basis for the 1969 film that earned John Wayne an Oscar. Young Hailee Steinfeld is Mattie, a strong-willed, pig-tailed girl who seeks revenge on the man who, in cold blood, killed her father. As he has escaped into the Indian Territory, she needs a Federal Marshal to arrest, which she finds in drunk and ornery Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges). Also seeking this killer for other crimes is a goofy Texas Ranger (Matt Damon), but she insists on catching him first. Magnificent western vistas filmed by longtime cinematographer Roger Deakins, are combined with an atmospheric score by Carter Burwell and the Coen brothers' trademark dark humor, making a striking film.
Feb 4 - 7 (Fri - Mon)
I LOVE YOU, PHILLIP MORRIS (R) 98min
From the writer-director team of BAD SANTA, this improbable but true story is very funny and heartfelt, telling the spectacularly charismatic journey of a con man, a successful small town businessman turned white collar criminal, who escapes prison four times, all in the name of love (he is currently incarcerated at a Texas prison serving a 144 year sentence in solitary confinement.) Jim Carrey stars as Steve Russell, living an average life as a cop with a wife and two kids, who realizes after a severe car accident that he is gay and must live his life to the fullest, even if it means breaking the law. In jail he meets the man of his dreams (Ewan McGregor), and springs them both from prison so they can live together happily and luxuriously ever after, financed by one (often, but not always successful) con after another, even as his beloved believes in a trusting relationship.
Feb 8 - 10 (Tues - Thurs)
INSIDE JOB (PG-13) 108min OSCAR NOMINATED
You might have noticed that recently the stock market has begun to recover, while the rest of the economy has not. Filmmaker Charles Fergueson (No End In Sight) knows why. He has made another alarmingly incisive expose that lays out plainly, fairly, and meticulously how the rich keep getting richer and the rest of us fall further and further behind, examining the history of the recent recession with a coherent synthesis of why the current solutions are inadequate. Beginning back in the Reagan era, he tracks the fallacy of financial deregulation from the 1980s, through the Clinton and both Bush administrations, to the meltdown and subsequent collapse of Wall Street and its star players beginning in late 2008, and finally into Barack Obama's term as president, as his administration features the same players complicit in the creation of this mess in charge of its cleanup (Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Larry Summers declined to be interviewed). Narrated by Matt Damon, this comprehensive analysis is an important and sobering look at our economic situation; it also should be required viewing.
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