[Reel Pizza] update Jan 27 - Feb 2

hi everyone

This week is flying by!  Tomorrow's Senior matinee will be MY WEEK WITH MARILYN at 1:30.  Next week, its MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL at 1:00 (note time change for longer show).

This weekend we have a special event.  On Sunday afternoon Jan 29th, between 1pm and 4pm, the Emerson School 8th graders are holding a movie/Silent Auction event to raise funds for their class trip and graduation celebration.   We are the parents of two children in this class (hard to believe!), so I send an extra special invitation to all of you to come out and help us reach our financial goal.  We will be screening an animated, PG-rated, family friendly superhero movie about an incredible family with astonishing powers (can you guess?) at 1:30 in one auditorium.  The Silent Auction, on the other side, will be full of great donations from local families and businesses.  Perhaps you will find a Valentine's gift for your sweetie?  You won't be disappointed!

The Oscar nominations were announced earlier this week, and we will, as always, try to get to as many of the nominated films as we can before the big night.  This year we are delighted that our Oscah' Night Gala will be benefiting SFOA (Summer Festival of the Arts).  We are starting to plan and are looking forward to Sunday Feb 26th for this sure-to-be-fun event.

Here is the schedule of movies for this week.  See you soon!

-Lisa

Fri


Friday Jan 27 - Thursday Feb 2
MI:4 GHOST PROTOCOL (PG-13) 133min 5:30 and 8:00
Oscar-winning Pixar director Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) moves from animation to live-action with this fourth installment in the high-flying, stunt-filled adventure. Tom Cruise is joined by Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead), Paula Patton (Precious) and Jeremy Renner (Hurt Locker) as agents for the IMF (Impossible Mission Force). This terrific, exhilarating thriller unflaggingly sustains amazing visual and dramatic energy as this team, disenfranchised by the government, works to stop the Russian bad guy (Michael Nyqvist, original Girl with a Dragon Tattoo) from blowing up a nuclear bomb on the US and bringing on the apocalypse, because he can.

Friday Jan 27 - Mon Jan 30
THE SKIN I LIVE IN (R) 117min [in Spanish with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:30
Provocative Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s darkly hypnotic new film is bizarre, colorful and unsettling. Based on Thierry Jonquet’s French novel Mygale, it stars Antonio Banderas, in his first film with his breakout director since 1990’s Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, as Dr. Ledgardan unethical plastic surgeon who, after his beloved wife was fatally burned in a car crash, has developed an extra-resilient, fire-resistant artificial skin. Vera (Elena Anaya) is a beautiful woman mysteriously imprisoned in his house and Marilia (Marisa Paredes) is his lifelong housekeeper who keeps his secrets too.

Tuesday Jan 31 - Thursday Feb 2
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (R) 101min 6:00 and 8:15
This powerful, gripping psychological thriller is the feature writing and directing debut of Sean Durkin, who won the 2011 Sundance prize for direction. Elizabeth Olsen gives a transfixing performance as Martha, who has just run away from a controlling cult in rural NY State and its charismatic leader. She seeks help from her older sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) and her husband (Hugh Dancy). Not knowing where she’d been the past two years, they somewhat reluctantly invite her to stay at their Connecticut lakeshore house. As Martha tries to reconnect to the normal world that is totally uncomfortable to her, she fights a paranoia about being returned to the commune.

[Reel Pizza] oops!

I made a mistake in typing about THE BIG READ. Thanks to Pat for pointing
it out...

correctly it is: islandreadersandwriters.org (not .com)

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[Reel Pizza] update Jan 20 - 26

Good morning everyone~

The Senior Matinee on Thurs Jan 19 will be SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF
SHADOWS at 1:30 pm.

We had a real nice turnout for the BIG READ - Mark Twain event. There are
lots of events happening all this month and into February if you are
interested in participating. www.islandreadersandwriters.com

Here is a reminder of this coming week's films. At Sunday's Golden Globe
Awards, Michelle Williams won the lead actress honors for her performance
in MY WEEK WITH MARILYN. Hope to see you soon!

-Lisa

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Friday Jan 20 - 26
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (R) 99min 5:30 and 7:45

Friday Jan 20 - Mon Jan 23
LIKE CRAZY (PG-13) 89min 6:00 and 8:00

Tues Jan 24 - Thurs Jan 26
SILENT SOULS (NR) 75min [in Russian with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:00

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Friday Jan 20 - 26
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (R) 99min 5:30 and 7:45
In an Oscar-worthy performance, Michelle Williams (Meek's Cutoff) is
extraordinary, enchantingly embodying the role of iconic film superstar
Marilyn Monroe in her heyday. Set during the 1956 filming of The Prince
and the Showgirl which famously united her with Sir Laurence Olivier
(Kenneth Branaugh) soon after her marriage to Arthur Miller, the story is
told from the perspective of a young assistant director, Colin Clark,
whose job was as liaison between director/star Olivier and heartthrob
Monroe. His memoirs of his time with these celebrities are the basis for
this feature film debut of London stage director Simon Curtis.

Friday Jan 20 - Mon Jan 23
LIKE CRAZY (PG-13) 89min 6:00 and 8:00
A British visiting student (Felicity Jones) falls for her American
classmate (Anton Yelchin). Becoming inseparable, they embark on a
passionate and life-changing journey, until she violates the terms of her
visa and is returned to England. Immigration issues keep them apart and
they need resilience in carrying out a very long distance relationship
where jealousy and betrayal loom, yet a true connection exists. This
semi-improvised Sundance Grand Jury prize-winner from director Drake
Doremus is a sweet, honest, inventive and irresistible romantic drama.

Tues Jan 24 - Thurs Jan 26
SILENT SOULS (NR) 75min [in Russian with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:00
The Volga region of West-Central Russia is a land where there are only two
gods: love and water. When Miron's beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks
his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according to the
rituals of the Merja culture, whose myths and traditions live on in their
descendants' modern life. The two men, along with two small birds in a
cage, set out on a road trip thousands of miles across the boundless
lands. But as they reach the banks of the sacred lake where they will
forever part with the body, Miron realizes he wasn't the only one in love
with Tanya… This was the most popular film in last fall's MIFF By-the-Sea
Film Festival.

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[Reel Pizza] HUGO time change

Sorry to be filling your inbox today...you can tell it IS Friday the 13th,
though!

HUGO will actually screen at 5:30 and 8:00 (not 7:45 as previously
advertised)

My apologies.

-Lisa

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[Reel Pizza] HUGO tonight

It has been a little touch and go with this lovely weather, but we wanted
everyone to know that our print of HUGO is finally here and our screenings
are confirmed for 5:30 and 7:45.
-L

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[Reel Pizza] replacing pdf that was blank

after several aborted attempts to send this to you, I think I might have
learned the problem and corrected it. Let's try this again. Here is the
pdf of the printed schedule for Jan 20 - Feb 9.
-Lisa

[Reel Pizza] Schedule Jan 20 - Feb 9

Hi again everyone

Here is the plan of films for the next few weeks. We have another special
event coming on Jan 29th that I hope you will be able to attend; see the
details below.

Also, we are working on several events in February that we want to let you
know about now. We are making plans for a special winter episode or two
of IMPROVISION, which I will let you know about as soon as we have all the
details ironed out. All you "early to beds" will be glad to know it won't
be at 11pm this time of year! We are also getting ready for OSCAH' NIGHT
2012 which is Sunday Feb 26th. Almost time to dust off those ol' jewels!
The nominations will be announced in the morning of Jan 24th. We will do
our best to screen as many of the nominees as we can before the big night.
Finally our annual collaboration with College of the Atlantic, the
TOURNEE FESTIVAL OF FRENCH FILMS, will be coming up Feb 21 - 23. Save the
dates!

Sunday January 29th EMERSON SCHOOL 8TH GRADE BENEFIT 1:00 – 4:00 Emerson
School Eighth Graders (of which we are the parents of TWO!) are raising
money to be able to take a class trip and have a graduation party in the
spring. Reel Pizza will be hosting a Sunday afternoon matinee featuring
the best animated action adventure ever with an incredible family who
sport classy red suits in one auditorium for the kids (PG 111min starts at
1:30). On the other side, adults please come for some bingo and a silent
auction of gifts and services from local businesses. It is sure to be a
fun time for a good cause!

This is a complete schedule. We have bookings on all films on both
screens, so it has all the showtimes included. I have also included a pdf
of the printed schedule that you can print out. See you soon!

-Lisa

++++++++++++++++++

Friday Jan 20 - 26
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (R) 99min 5:30 and 7:45
In an Oscar-worthy performance, Michelle Williams (Meek's Cutoff) is
extraordinary, enchantingly embodying the role of iconic film superstar
Marilyn Monroe in her heyday. Set during the 1956 filming of The Prince
and the Showgirl which famously united her with Sir Laurence Olivier
(Kenneth Branaugh) soon after her marriage to Arthur Miller, the story is
told from the perspective of a young assistant director, Colin Clark,
whose job was as liaison between director/star Olivier and heartthrob
Monroe. His memoirs of his time with these celebrities are the basis for
this feature film debut of London stage director Simon Curtis.
Friday Jan 20 - Mon Jan 23
LIKE CRAZY (PG-13) 89min 6:00 and 8:00
A British visiting student (Felicity Jones) falls for her American
classmate (Anton Yelchin). Becoming inseparable, they embark on a
passionate and life-changing journey, until she violates the terms of her
visa and is returned to England. Immigration issues keep them apart and
they need resilience in carrying out a very long distance relationship
where jealousy and betrayal loom, yet a true connection exists. This
semi-improvised Sundance Grand Jury prize-winner from director Drake
Doremus is a sweet, honest, inventive and irresistible romantic drama.

Tues Jan 24 - Thurs Jan 26
SILENT SOULS (NR) 75min [in Russian with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:00 The
Volga region of West-Central Russia is a land where there are only two
gods: love and water. When Miron's beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks
his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according to the
rituals of the Merja culture, whose myths and traditions live on in their
descendants' modern life. The two men, along with two small birds in a
cage, set out on a road trip thousands of miles across the boundless
lands. But as they reach the banks of the sacred lake where they will
forever part with the body, Miron realizes he wasn't the only one in love
with Tanya… This was the most popular film in last fall's MIFF By-the-Sea
Film Festival.

++++++++++++++++++

Friday Jan 27 - Thursday Feb 2
MI:4 GHOST PROTOCOL (PG-13) 133min 5:30 and 8:00
Oscar-winning Pixar director Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille)
moves from animation to live-action with this fourth installment in the
high-flying, stunt-filled adventure. Tom Cruise is joined by Simon Pegg
(Shaun of the Dead), Paula Patton (Precious) and Jeremy Renner (Hurt
Locker) as agents for the IMF (Impossible Mission Force). This terrific,
exhilarating thriller unflaggingly sustains amazing visual and dramatic
energy as this team, disenfranchised by the government, works to stop the
Russian bad guy (Michael Nyqvist, original Girl with a Dragon Tattoo) from
blowing up a nuclear bomb on the US and bringing on the apocalypse,
because he can.

Friday Jan 27 - Mon Jan 30
THE SKIN I LIVE IN (R) 117min [in Spanish with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:30
Provocative Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's darkly hypnotic new film is
bizarre, colorful and unsettling. Based on Thierry Jonquet's French novel
Mygale, it stars Antonio Banderas, in his first film with his breakout
director since 1990's Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, as Dr. Ledgardan unethical
plastic surgeon who, after his beloved wife was fatally burned in a car
crash, has developed an extra-resilient, fire-resistant artificial skin.
Vera (Elena Anaya) is a beautiful woman mysteriously imprisoned in his
house and Marilia (Marisa Paredes) is his lifelong housekeeper who keeps
his secrets too.

Tuesday Jan 31 - Thursday Feb 2
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (R) 101min
This powerful, gripping psychological thriller is the feature writing and
directing debut of Sean Durkin, who won the 2011 Sundance prize for
direction. Elizabeth Olsen gives a transfixing performance as Martha, who
has just run away from a controlling cult in rural NY State and its
charismatic leader. She seeks help from her older sister Lucy (Sarah
Paulson) and her husband (Hugh Dancy). Not knowing where she'd been the
past two years, they somewhat reluctantly invite her to stay at their
Connecticut lakeshore house. As Martha tries to reconnect to the normal
world that is totally uncomfortable to her, she fights a paranoia about
being returned to the commune.

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Friday Feb 3 - Thurs Feb 9
GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (R) 158min 5:00 and 8:00
A disgraced journalist (Daniel Craig) joins forces with a punk, pierced
computer hacker (Rooney Mara) to solve the mystery surrounding the
disappearance of the teenaged niece of a wealthy industrialist
(Christopher Plummer) at his rural island compound many decades earlier,
and finding lots of unsavory behavior. Director David Fincher (Social
Network, Se7en) with screenwriter Steve Zaillian (Moneyball) have
stylishly and faithfully adapted the first volume in Stieg Larsson's
international sensation crime thriller. It would be hard to top the
Swedish language original, but this English language version holds its own
in every way.

Friday Feb 3 - Mon Feb 6
THE WAY (PG-13) 115min [partly in Spanish with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:15
Father and son team up on this thoughtful and offbeat story. Emilio
Estevez directs his father Martin Sheen in this story of travel and
transformation, an adaptation of Jack Hitt's story Off the Road. Sheen
plays an irascible Southern California doctor dad who is called to France
to collect the remains of his estranged son, who died while hiking the 500
mile Camino de Santiago that traverses the Pyrenees and across northern
Spain. Instead of returning home straight away, he impulsively decides
to continue the pilgrimage, honoring his son's desire to complete the
journey, and meets several other dysfunctional pilgrims who all have
reasons for making the trek. It is a moving, beautiful and fun small
film.

Tues Feb 7 - Thurs Feb 9
THE HEDGEHOG (PG-13) 100min [in French with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:!5
Precocious eleven year old Paloma is bent on ending it all on her next
birthday. Before then, she needs to complete her latest project, using
her father's old cam-corder to chronicle the hypocrisy she sees in her
family. Meanwhile, she forges new friendships with Renee, the gruff, but
secretly, surprisingly sweet building concierge, and the taciturn yet
dapper new neighbor Mr. Ozu, which gain her a new look on life. This
debut feature of director Mona Achache is irreverent, witty and magical.

++++++++++++++++++

COMING SOON:
OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS
THE ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN
WAR HORSE
THE DESCENDANTS
YOUNG ADULT
LE HAVRE
THE ARTIST
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

[Reel Pizza] update Jan 13 - 19

hi everyone

First a reminder that we have begun our weekly Senior Matinees. They will
run through March or so, on Thursdays, with the film usually starting at
1:30 (although if the film is too long, we will have to shift to a 1:00
start). The film for Thursday Jan 12 is THE IDES OF MARCH at 1:30.

And we have a special program this weekend. On Sunday afternoon (Jan
15th) starting at 1:30pm, as part of THE BIG READ, a program of Island
Readers and Writers, we will be hosting a free screening of Ken Burn's
documentary on Mark Twain. Jan Coates, the program director told me
yesterday that over 1100 copies of THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER have been
distributed across the county for this group read. In addition to Reel
Pizza's participation, there are many other events happening over the next
several weeks. check islandreadersandwriters.org for more info.

We will be screening SHERLOCK HOLMES: GAME OF SHADOWS this week, along
with HUGO and SUMMER PASTURE. We weren't able to get a preview trailer
for SUMMER PASTURE, but I added a link to one on the film's page on our
website that you can check out. Looks wonderful.

Here is the week's schedule. Barring complications, I will be sending out
the next "full" schedule shortly.

-Lisa

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Friday Jan 13 - Thursday Jan 19
SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG-13) 128 min 6:00 and 8:30

Friday Jan 13 - Monday Jan 16
HUGO (in 2D) (PG) 98min 5:40 and 7:45

Tuesday Jan 17 - Thursday Jan 19
SUMMER PASTURE (NR) 85min [in Tibetan with subtitles] 5:30 and 7:30

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Fri Jan 13 - Thurs Jan 19
SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG-13) 128min 6:00 and 8:30
Director Guy Richie and stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law reteam for
another similarly inventive and entertaining foray into Victorian
intrigue. Holmes is in a tizzy because his partner Watson is about to be
married (he cannot imagine why!) Then the Crown Prince of Austria is
found dead; suicide is suspected, but Holmes thinks otherwise, and deduces
that the mastermind is his arch-enemy, the nefarious Professor Moriarty
(Jared Harris). Watson is hijacked from his honeymoon and bedlam ensues.

Fri Jan 13 - Mon Jan 16
HUGO (PG) 98min 5:30 and 7:45
Martin Scorsese brings his unique vision and winning talents to his first
family film, based on Brian Selznick's Caldecott-winning "The Invention of
Hugo Cabret," sharing with this story a love of and appreciation of the
magic of films at the dawn of moviemaking. Wiley orphan Hugo (Asa
Butterfield) lives in the rafters of a 1930s Paris Metro station, winding
the clocks daily while trying to discover the secrets of a broken machine
left to him by his father. But when he is caught stealing needed parts
from a local toy seller (Ben Kingsley), his quest might be over. Sasha
Baron Cohen, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Lee, and Emily Mortimer co-star.

Tues Jan 17 - Thurs Jan 19
SUMMER PASTURE (NR) 85min [in Tibetan with subtitles] 5:30 and 7:30
In the poorest and most remote area of China's Sichuan Province lives a
charming and resilient nomadic family of eastern Tibetan yak herders.
Documentary filmmakers Lynn True, Nelson Walker, and Tsering Perlo have
crafted an accessible and intimate portrait of hardworking Yama, her
illiterate but charming husband Locho, and, following Tibetan Buddhist
tradition, their yet unnamed baby daughter. They continue their
hardscrabble lifestyle while many of their peers have relocated to the
city. This exquisite film chronicles a summer spent in the Zachukha
grasslands while the pressures of modernization create challenges that
threaten to reshape their existence.

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