[Reel Pizza] update Feb 24 - March 1

good morning everyone

The Tournee Festival of French Films continues tonight and Thursday.  Today, Wednesday, we have NENETTE (@5:30) and HADEWIJCH (@7:30), tomorrow, Thursday QUEEN TO PLAY (@5:30) and WHITE MATERIAL (@7:30).  WAR HORSE continues at 5:00 and 8:00 thru Thursday.

This week's Senior Matinee on Thursday will be WAR HORSE (PG-13) at 1:00 (early start this week).  Next Thursday March 1st, our regular Senior Matinee will be IRON LADY, at 1:30.
Also, on Sunday, as it is Oscar Day, please note we will only be screening afternoon matinees of our films; no evening shows on Sunday. I know several of our seniors have been interested in a HUGO matinee which will be screened at 2pm.  Also we will be screening IRON LADY at 2pm.

And YES it is Oscar weekend (!) and we will be hosting our annual Gala Celebration of movies on Sunday evening, starting at 6pm until its over, to benefit the programs at Summer Festival of the Arts.  Some new additions to the festivities include the display of student art, the screening of student films and live music from SFOA attendees for a portion of the pre-show.  As in past years, there will be prizes for best costume for men and women, both in the formal wear categories and the film character categories.  And of course a prize for the attendee whose ballot is most correct.  Delicious appetizers and desserts, donated by local restaurants and chefs, and complimentary bubbly will be served.  Tickets at $15 adults and $10 thru high school are available at our box office during regular hours; if that doesn't work, call me 288-3828 or SFOA 244-3855 to arrange. 

Here is the schedule for this coming week, Fri Feb 24 - Thurs March 1

Fri  Sat & Mon
HUGO (PG) 5:15 and 8:00  back by popular demand!
THE IRON LADY (PG-13)  5:30 and 7:45

Sun
HUGO (PG) 2:00
THE IRON LADY (PG-13) 2:00
GALA OSCAR CELEBRATION benefiting SFOA 6:00

Tues - Thurs
A DANGEROUS METHOD (R) 6:00 and 8:00
THE IRON LADY (PG-13)  5:30 and 7:45 (and 2pm on Thurs)

See you soon, and back tomorrow with the new schedule for MARCH!
-Lisa

Fri Feb 24 - Thurs Mar 1
THE IRON LADY (PG-13) 105min

Meryl Streep earns another Oscar nomination for her remarkable and pitch-perfect portrayal of the long-serving and influential British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.  This intimate portrait in the form of a moving memory poem begins in her later years as the once formidable woman putters around her home holding conversation with her beloved husband Denis (and excellent Jim Broadbent) who has been dead for many years.  Using reenactment of her memories, director Philida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!) presents highly personal interludes of transformative parts of her life, a green grocer’s daughter who startles her Conservative Party by running for office and wins, eventually rising to become the head of the government.

Fri Feb 24 - Mon Feb 27

HUGO (PG)  126min  [in 2D] 
Back by Popular Demand!  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 Feb 28 - Thurs Mar 1

A DANGEROUS METHOD (R)  93min

In director David Cronenberg’s engaging film, meticulous and driven Swiss therapist Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) adopts the radical healing technique of his mentor, Viennese doctor Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortenson).  He uses “the talking cure” on his newest patient, young and beautiful but unbalanced Russian Jew Sabrina Spielrein (Keira Knightly); both men fall under her spell.  This story, based on John Kerr’s book A Most Dangerous Method and screenwriter Christopher Hampton’s subsequent play, tells of two men whose collaboration would shape modern thought, yet their temperaments drove them apart.

[Reel Pizza] update Feb 17 - 23

hi Everyone
Happy Valentine's Day...we love you all!

Don't forget that tonight is the special V-Day Improvision with Jen and Larrance of ImprovAcadia and some of their brave, bold, local students who dare to accept the challenge of Improvision.  It will be in the romantic comedy genre, but beyond that is anyone's guess!  And this winter edition has a more appropriate start time...8pm, which in February is kindof like 11pm in July!  This will pre-empt our 8pm screening of Descendants for tonight.

This coming week is packed with films; we are looking forward to the Tournee Festival of French Film co sponsored with College of the Atlantic.  If you want to see all the films (each is to be shown once) ask at the box office for a discount pass.  Hope you can make time to see one!   (I apologize for the crazy font size and spacing....I am not sure why sometimes it comes up wierd....or how to make it be like the rest again without retyping ...get out your magnifying glass, I guess!)

xo
-Lisa

Fri Feb 17 - Thurs Feb 23
WAR HORSE (PG-13)  146min  5:00 and 8:00
This remarkable, heartfelt story of a young man and his horse, a Best Picture Oscar nominee, is an old-fashioned odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure.  Steven Spielberg directs this emotional adaptation of the 1987 young adult novel turned award-winning stage play with bold and sweeping strokes.  In rural England as WW1 is about to begin, young Albert (Jeremy Irvine) acquires his beloved horse when his drunken father foolishly outbids their evil landlord for it at auction.  Later she must be sold for rent money and is taken to the battlegrounds of France, but Albert vows to see her again, and as soon as he is old enough, enlists to find his friend.

Fri Feb 17 - Mon Feb 20
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN  (PG)  104min  5:30 and 7:45
Using two of Belgian comic Hergé’s tomes Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham’s Treasure, director Steven Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson have created a classic epic adventure on land and sea and air that is loads of fun.  Utilizing a much improved motion capture technique, the film follows Tintin (Jamie Bell) a young reporter who is always accompanied by his trusty terrier Snowy, perpetually intoxicated Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), and bumbling investigators Thomson and Thompson (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost), as his relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into the clutches of the nefarious Sakharine (Daniel Craig).

Tues Feb 21 - Thurs Feb 23
TOURNÉES FESTIVAL OF FRENCH FILM   A three day festival of French film co-sponsored by College of the Atlantic, with a grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture.   Each film screens one time.  A pass for all six films is available for $30 at the boxoffice.

Tuesday Feb 21
MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON (NR)  101min  [in French with subtitles]  5:30
A rugged and burly homebuilder who takes pride in his work, and devoted family man, becomes romantically attracted to his young son’s lithe and intellectual teacher. Director Stéphane Brisé with Florence Vignon won the César for best adapted screenplay.

INSPECTOR BELLAMY (NR) 110min  [in French with subtitles]  7:30
This last film of French New Wave director Claude Chabrol stars Gérard Depardieu as an inspector nearing retirement who is still haunted by a childhood incident with his obnoxious brother and determined to find the answers.

Wednesday Feb 22
NÉNETTE (NR) 70min  [in French with subtitles]   5:30
Documentary filmmaker Nicolas Philibert (To Be and To Have) has made a captivating study of this enigmatic orangutan and our relationship to her. Born in the jungles of Borneo, she has spent her life as the oldest and most beloved resident of the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes in Paris.

HADEWIJCH (NR)  105min [in French with subtitles]   7:30
Hadewijch, a novice nun, is expelled from her order for being too ardent. She returns to the secular world as Céline, the daughter of a Parisian diplomat; through meeting some rebellious teens, she is invited to join a Koran discussion group and becomes fascinated by the leader’s intense theological debates and his support of jihad. Bruno Dumont’s powerful film explores the relentless pursuit of faith in both Christianity and Islam.

Thursday Feb 23
QUEEN TO PLAY (NR) 96min  [in French with subtitles]    5:30
Sandrine Bonnaire and Kevin Kline star in the debut feature of director Caroline Bottaro.  She plays a dutiful wife and maid at an exclusive resort who learns to play chess. When her husband will not play with her, she beseeches the reclusive American resident where she cleans to be her partner; their games become increasingly erotically charged.

WHITE MATERIAL (NR) 102min  [in French with subtitles]  7:30
Two titans of French cinema, director Claire Denis and star Isabelle Huppert, collaborate in this haunting, enigmatic look at the horrors of colonialism’s legacy.  Set In an unnamed African country in the throes of a volatile regime change, Huppert plays a coffee plantation owner blindly determined to continue her business as civil war rages around her.

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[Reel Pizza] movie schedule Feb 10 - Mar 1

Here is the schedule for Feb 10 through March 1. We have something special happening every week, so read thoroughly.  There's a special Valentine's Day edition of IMPROVISION, a three day Festival of French Film co-sponsored with College of the Atlantic, and our annual Oscah' Night Gala.  Several of this schedule's confirmed films have been honored with Oscar Nominations, including the SHORT FILMS Compilations, HUGO, THE DESCENDANTS, and WAR HORSE and perhaps THE ARTIST or THE IRON LADY in that last week-long slot.   And when you aren't at the movies, maybe we will see you skating...it looks incredible! 

A Bientot (we just returned from a weekend in Quebec City--lots of fun, plus there was snow!!)
-Lisa and Chris


Tuesday February 14

IMPROVISION: THE VALENTINE’S EDITION  8:00pm (replaces the 8:00 movie)

Last fall, Jen Shepard was chatting with us and pitched the idea of a student group doing ImproVision.  We all thought it was a great idea but then Jen had to find a group of students bold enough, brave enough and weird enough to tackle the show.  She found that in Edwin, Kathleen, Rose, Dennis, and Zoe.  They've all studied improvisation for the last several years and wanted to challenge themselves.  The group has been rehearsing since early January and will take the microphone on Feb. 14th!  Show them the love!

Sunday February 26
OSCAH’ NIGHT    6:00pm till…..its over! $15 (adults)/$10 (through High school)  (our regular films will be screened at 2pm matinees; no evening films)

Our Annual Gala Event is presented to you by and supports SFOA (Summer Festival of the Arts).  We will have delicious appetizers and desserts, champagne and sparkling cider, prizes for best costumed and the most correct ballot and (natch) the Oscar Telecast on our big screens.  Also, NEW This Year, student (current and former) presentations of film, art, and music before the show!  Don’t miss out – A Great Cause and Bigtime FUN!  Tickets available now at the boxoffice.

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Friday Feb 10 - Thurs Feb 16
THE DESCENDANTS (R)  110min   5:30 and 8:00* (no later show on Tuesday 2/14)

Ten times Oscar-nominee and a front-runner for best picture tells the sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, but perfectly balanced journey of Matt King.  The self-proclaimed “back-up parent”, he is a Hawaii real estate lawyer who is forced to reexamine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a serious boating accident.  He must try to reconnect with his two young daughters while simultaneously wrestling with a decision to sell his family’s pristine tract of forest, inherited through his royal Hawaiian ancestors, to developers.  This fifth, yet again excellent, film from filmmaker Alexander Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt) is based on a short story by Kaui Hart Hemmings.

 

Fri Feb 10 - Mon Feb 13
OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR)  animated 79min @ 6:00; live-action 107min @ 7:45

We present two collections that encompass the animated and live-action selections of short films that have been honored with Oscar nominations.  The animated group includes: a silent story of a man and a chicken who pass each other on a morning stroll; a hybrid use of techniques that is a poignant, humorous allegory of the curative powers of “story;” a look at Sunday, every time the same routine!; a (Pixar) fable of a young boy coming of age under peculiar circumstances; and a comparison of an Englishman who moves to but is unsuited for life on the Canadian frontier to a comet.  The live action group includes: a dilemma faced by an altar boy who must choose between the church and his love of football; a neurotic inventor whose time machine leaves him stuck in yesterday; a story of the emotions faced by couples wishing to adopt; six days before he dies, Oskar is ready to forgive his brother for a long-ago disagreement, but will he find him?; and the reconciliation between two long ago best friends that leads to hilarious confusion.

Tues Feb 14 - Thurs Feb 16

YOUNG ADULT  (R)  93min  6:00 and 8:15
Screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman (Up In the Air) reunite after their success with Juno with this dark and bruisingly funny comedy.  Charlize Theron is Mavis, pushing 40 with her life in disarray.  She was her highschool’s prom queen, moved away to the city and became a published author, but she was also the meanest girl in school, her current life isn’t much, and the tween series she ghost-writes has been cancelled.  After she receives a birth announcement of her highschool sweetheart’s first child, she fantasizes he is “the one” who got away and returns home to claim him.   She did not expect to encounter another former schoolmate (Patton Oswald, from BIG FAN) a geek who remembers her with both lust and disgust and becomes her confidante and drinking buddy.

 
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Fri Feb 17 - Thurs Feb 23
WAR HORSE (PG-13)  146min  5:00 and 8:00

This remarkable, heartfelt story of a young man and his horse, a Best Picture Oscar nominee, is an old-fashioned odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure.  Steven Spielberg directs this emotional adaptation of the 1987 young adult novel turned award-winning stage play with bold and sweeping strokes.  In rural England as WW1 is about to begin, young Albert (Jeremy Irvine) acquires his beloved horse when his drunken father foolishly outbids their evil landlord for it at auction.  Later she must be sold for rent money and is taken to the battlegrounds of France, but Albert vows to see her again, and as soon as he is old enough, enlists to find his friend.

Fri Feb 17 - Mon Feb 20

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN  (PG)  104min  5:30 and 7:45
Using two of Belgian comic Hergé’s tomes Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham’s Treasure, director Steven Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson have created a classic epic adventure on land and sea and air that is loads of fun.  Utilizing a much improved motion capture technique, the film follows Tintin (Jamie Bell) a young reporter who is always accompanied by his trusty terrier Snowy, perpetually intoxicated Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), and bumbling investigators Thomson and Thompson (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost), as his relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into the clutches of the nefarious Sakharine (Daniel Craig).

Tues Feb 21 - Thurs Feb 23

TOURNÉES FESTIVAL OF FRENCH FILM   A three day festival of French film co-sponsored by College of the Atlantic, with a grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture.   Each film screens one time.  A pass for all six films is available for $30 at the boxoffice.
Tuesday Feb 21

MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON (NR)  101min  [in French with subtitles]  5:30

A rugged and burly homebuilder who takes pride in his work, and devoted family man, becomes romantically attracted to his young son’s lithe and intellectual teacher. Director Stéphane Brisé with Florence Vignon won the César for best adapted screenplay.

INSPECTOR BELLAMY (NR) 110min  [in French with subtitles]  7:30

This last film of French New Wave director Claude Chabrol stars Gérard Depardieu as an inspector nearing retirement who is still haunted by a childhood incident with his obnoxious brother and determined to find the answers.

Wednesday Feb 22
NÉNETTE (NR) 70min  [in French with subtitles]   5:30

Documentary filmmaker Nicolas Philibert (To Be and To Have) has made a captivating study of this enigmatic orangutan and our relationship to her. Born in the jungles of Borneo, she has spent her life as the oldest and most beloved resident of the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes in Paris.

HADEWIJCH (NR)  105min [in French with subtitles]   7:30

Hadewijch, a novice nun, is expelled from her order for being too ardent. She returns to the secular world as Céline, the daughter of a Parisian diplomat; through meeting some rebellious teens, she is invited to join a Koran discussion group and becomes fascinated by the leader’s intense theological debates and his support of jihad. Bruno Dumont’s powerful film explores the relentless pursuit of faith in both Christianity and Islam.
Thursday Feb 23

QUEEN TO PLAY (NR) 96min  [in French with subtitles]    5:30

Sandrine Bonnaire and Kevin Kline star in the debut feature of director Caroline Bottaro.  She plays a dutiful wife and maid at an exclusive resort who learns to play chess. When her husband will not play with her, she beseeches the reclusive American resident where she cleans to be her partner; their games become increasingly erotically charged.

WHITE MATERIAL (NR) 102min  [in French with subtitles]  7:30

Two titans of French cinema, director Claire Denis and star Isabelle Huppert, collaborate in this haunting, enigmatic look at the horrors of colonialism’s legacy.  Set In an unnamed African country in the throes of a volatile regime change, Huppert plays a coffee plantation owner blindly determined to continue her business as civil war rages around her.

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Fri Feb 24 - Mon Feb 27

HUGO (PG)  126min  [in 2D] 
Back by Popular Demand!  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 Feb 28 - Thurs Mar 1

A DANGEROUS METHOD (R)  93min

In director David Cronenberg’s engaging film, meticulous and driven Swiss therapist Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) adopts the radical healing technique of his mentor, Viennese doctor Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortenson).  He uses “the talking cure” on his newest patient, young and beautiful but unbalanced Russian Jew Sabrina Spielrein (Keira Knightly); both men fall under her spell.  This story, based on John Kerr’s book A Most Dangerous Method and screenwriter Christopher Hampton’s subsequent play, tells of two men whose collaboration would shape modern thought, yet their temperaments drove them apart.

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COMING ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?

THE ARTIST (PG-13)  100min  [silent with intertitles]
This underdog front-runner for Best Picture Oscar is unlikely because it is a black and white silent film, but not at all surprising as it is a charming and delightfully witty film with a charismatic and international cast.  French director Michael Hazanavicius works with his OSS 117 spy spoofs’ leading man Jean Dujardin, Argentinian Bérénice Bejo, and Americans John Goodman, James Cromwell and Penelope Ann Miller, making an homage to an earlier era, and a crowd-pleasing romance.  It tells the tale of the intertwined destinies of a dashing matinee idol whose celebrity star is falling just as the fortunes of a peppy starlet to whom he is attracted is rising. 

THE IRON LADY (PG-13) 105min

Meryl Streep earns another Oscar nomination for her remarkable and pitch-perfect portrayal of the long-serving and influential British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.  This intimate portrait in the form of a moving memory poem begins in her later years as the once formidable woman putters around her home holding conversation with her beloved husband Denis (and excellent Jim Broadbent) who has been dead for many years.  Using reenactment of her memories, director Philida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!) presents highly personal interludes of transformative parts of her life, a green grocer’s daughter who startles her Conservative Party by running for office and wins, eventually rising to become the head of the government. 

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COMING NEXT SCHEDULE?
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE
LE HAVRE
ALBERT NOBBS
A SEPARATION
PARIAH
CARNAGE

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