few weeks in my world...Happy September!
AND, as there is also A LOT going on during the next three weeks, I am
going to separate it into two parts. This part will deal with the regular
film schedule and special events. The next part will deal specifically
with the 3rd MIFF By-the-Sea Film Festival that is scheduled for Sept 16 -
19. See you soon!
-Lisa
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On Sunday September 11th from 1:30pm to 3pm, we will host an open
community forum to address questions and reflections about 9/11 and the
challenges ahead. A panel of speakers, including Rep. Elsie Flemings,
will also present their thoughts, and the program will be moderated by Ron
Beard. For more information, please contact deacon Jenny Reese at
revdrjmr@gmail.com.
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FILM SCHEDULE:
Fri Sept 9 – Thurs Sept 15
THE HELP (PG-13) 137min 5:30 and 8:15
Based on Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel, this new film explores the
plight of black maids in Civil Rights Era Jackson, Mississippi with both
gravity and affecting humor, raised by excellent performances. Skeeter
(Emma Stone) is just graduated from Ol'Miss and returned to her childhood
home and friends. She has taken a job with the local paper writing a
housekeeping column, and hopes to get assistance from the maids, including
Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, of her friends (whom she is finding
increasingly racist). Soon she decides what she would really like to do
is write a story of the maids' experiences working for these women. But
getting these women to talk to her is a challenge, especially with the
racial unrest.
Fri Sept 9 – Mon Sept 12
ANOTHER EARTH (PG-13) 92min 6:00 and 8:00
This Sundance-winning film is the feature debut of director Mike Cahill,
co-written with star Brit Marling. She stars as Rhoda, a young
astrophysics student at MIT who aspires to explore the cosmos. Her path
crosses that of modern composer and Yale professor John Burroughs (William
Mapother) at the dawn of the discovery of a parallel Earth within viewing
distance of our own planet. Tragedy strikes and the lives of these two
become irrevocably intertwined. This intriguing, independent drama with
strong acting is imaginative and suspenseful.
Tues Sept 13 - Thurs Sept 15
UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (NR) 114min [in THAI with
subtitles] 6:00 and 8:30
Winner of last year's Grand Prize at the Cannes Film festival, this
hauntingly beautiful and unconventional fable from acclaimed director
Apichatpong Weerasethakul explores the connection between this life and
the spirit world. A Buddhist farmer suffering from kidney failure spends
his final days in his forest jungle home with his sister-in-law, and a
Laotian assistant, discussing his various incarnation during his past
lives, and the karmic consequences of his youthful participation in
military conflicts against the Communists, and the bugs he has eradicated
on his farm over the years. He also is visited by ghosts, including his
long-dead wife and long-lost son as he prepares for his next journey.
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Fri Sept 16 - Mon Sept 19
MIFF by-the-Sea
We are delighted for a third time to bring to Bar Harbor a
"best-of-the-fest" selection from this summer's 13th Maine International
Film Festival. Please look at the separately mailed flyer for the
schedule of films that we will show, from early afternoon to late at
night. Things kick off on Friday at 4pm with a catered opening
celebration ($15). Over the weekend several filmmakers and subjects have
graciously offered to attend to talk about their work. Film descriptions
are available on the website, or if you don't have access, please ask at
the theatre and we will have a printed sheet to give out. Full Program
booklets will be available at Reel Pizza soon. Tickets are now available
for $8.00, in advance at the box office or over the phone with a credit
card (add 50c service); for the festival, no Big Tickets will be honored.
We hope you will join us during this special weekend.
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Tues Sept 20 – Thurs Sept 22
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG-13) 94min 5:30 and 7:30
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND The City of Lights in three separate eras is the
setting for Woody Allen's latest literate gem, a charming and engaging
romantic comedy that muses on nostalgia. Owen Wilson stars as Gil, a hack
screenwriter who is working on but unsatisfied with his first novel. He
and his irritable fiancée (Rachel McAdams) have travelled to Paris with
her parents for a vacation. While he revels in the artistic history
surrounding them (he yearns to have lived in the Jazz Age of the 1920s),
she has plans to shop. One night out for a walk alone, he is invited by a
costumed American couple in a stylish old car to a party and the magic
begins.
Tues Sept 20 – Thurs Sept 22
NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT (NR) 90min [in Spanish with subtitles] 6:00
and 8:00
Master Chilean filmmaker and political documentarian Patricio Guzmán
travels to 10,000 feet above sea level to the Atacama Desert where
astronomers gather from all over the world because the clear, dry air
allows them to see to the edges of the galaxy. This clear, dry air also
preserves human remains, from pre-Columbian mummies and 19th century
explorers to the victims of political persecution in the 1970s after the
US supported military coup of the democratically elected President ushered
in the reign of dictator Augusto Pinochet. Today, while the scientists
examine the boundaries of the universe, women relatives of the more
recently missing still search for the remains of their loved ones. In
this haunting, mesmerizing and gorgeous film, the director posits that
astronomy and archaeology are both variations on a quest for life, one
searching the sky, the other the earth.
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Fri Sept 23 - Mon Sept 26
TERRI (R) 105min
This unpredictable and honestly complex coming-of-age comedy stars John C.
Reilly as a slightly outrageous and hapless vice-principal who guides a
group of high-school misfits, including Terri (Jacob Wysocki), an awkward,
gentle and overweight teen who wears pajamas to school because they are
comfortable, Heather, the unattainable, beautiful blonde girl of his
dreams, and Chad, an edgy, odd outcast. Directed by Azazel Jacobs
(Momma's Man) from a series of short stories by screenwriter Patrick
DeWitt, this rich and carefully made film is quite funny. Roger Ebert
mentions (again) that the R rating is absurd.
Tues Sept 27 - Thurs Sept 29
POINT BLANK (R) 84min [in French with subtitles]
An act of kindness by Samuel, a hospital nurse's aide, toward one of his
patient results first in his being honored as a hero, then in his pregnant
wife being kidnapped by vicious gangsters. In this breakneck-paced,
thrilling chase film that explores all sides of Paris from French director
Fred Cavayé, Samuel becomes a fugitive and must find his wife before she
is killed while evading both the notorious criminals that want his patient
dead, as well as dueling police commanders on his tail.
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COMING ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?
MONEYBALL (not yet rated) 90min
This new film, directed by Bennett Miller (Capote) is based on a
best-selling true story by Michael Lewis. Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane,
the general manager of the Oakland A's baseball team in the late 1990's
and the guy who assembles the team. He is forced to reinvent his team on
a tight budget and forms an unlikely partnership with Ivy League grad
Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), creating a specialized analytical computer
program to choose bargain players that the scouts call flawed, but all of
whom have an ability to get on base, score runs, and hopefully will win
games. It is a revolution that challenges old school traditions and puts
Beane in the crosshairs of those who say he is tearing out the heart and
soul of the game. Also starring are Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin
Wright.
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COMING NEXT SCHEDULE?
THE GUARD
OUR IDIOT BROTHER
MOZART'S SISTER
THE DEBT
SARAH'S KEY
THE FUTURE
MEEK'S CUTOFF
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