[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.