Tonight we are doing something completely different with the wacky presentation of DOGGIE WOGGIEZ! POOCHIE WOOCHIEZ! from the EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE! video collective. We will have Commodore Gilgamesh of EIT! in attendance with the main presentation starting at 6:00 (I think there is some kind of "pre-show" so you might want to come a little early). Please note this isn't meant to be a kid-friendly program. There will be an 8:15 screening of WOMAN IN BLACK and LORAX will play at 5:30 and 7:30 on the other screen.
The Senior Matinee this Thursday is the last of the season and we will screen the classic, fun WAKING NED DEVINE that many of the regulars had never seen.
This Saturday at 1:30 (doors open at 1pm) we are hosting a free FILM & DISCUSSION on Windpower (how appropriate for today!) The group "Friends of Maine's Mountains" is sponsoring a screening of the award-winning and new film WINDFALL about large scale windpower development and its effects on rural communities. I look forward to a lively discussion about wind power both for and against.
Here is the film schedule for this coming week. Stay warm (I saw snow this morning) and don't get blown away!
-Lisa
Fri Mar30 - Thurs April 5
JOHN CARTER (PG-13) 132min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri Mar 30 - Mon April 2
ALBERT NOBBS (R) 113min 6:00 and 8:30
Tues April 3 - Thurs April 5
PINA (PG) 106min 6:00 and 8:15
Sat Mar 31
WINDFALL (NR) 83min 1:30
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Fri - Thurs Mar 30 - Apr 5
JOHN CARTER (PG-13) 118min
Oscar-winning Pixar Animation director Andrew Stanton (Wall-E, Finding Nemo) makes his live action debut with this fun and captivating adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic, highly imaginative novel that has been the inspiration for the past century’s entire genre of space adventure films, from Flash Gordon thru Star Trek and Star Wars to Avatar. A war-weary Civil War captain, Carter (Taylor Kitsch) is mysteriously transported from desolate Arizona Territory to equally desolate Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the planet’s inhabitants and discovers that the planet’s survival and its people rest in his hands.
ALBERT NOBBS (R) 113min
Reliable yet oddly reserved Albert (Oscar nominee Glenn Close, who also co-wrote the screenplay) works as the butler in a genteel 19th century Dublin hotel, saving his earnings to someday open his own shop. His days are spent in terror of a deception he has made, borne of poverty and desperation, being discovered by his co-workers and clients, for in fact, Albert is a woman. Janet McTeer also earned an Oscar nomination for her role as someone who changes Albert’s outlook on the rest of his life. Also co-starring are Brendan Gleeson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Mia Wasikowska. This sensitive film, from director Rodrigo Garcia (Mother and Child) is based on an adaptation of a short story by George Moore.
PINA (PG) 106min [partly in a variety of languages with subtitles]
in 2D German filmmaker Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club, Wings of Desire) planned to make a film with uniquely dramatic dance choreographer Pina Bausch for years, but just as filming was to start, she died. So with the encouragement of her dance troupe, this film became a transfixing tribute to this celebrated artist. Her talented dancers at Tanztheater Wuppertal, where she worked for 35 years, recreate four of her signature works, both on stage and as they take the movement out onto the streets of the city and surrounding countryside. This was an Oscar nominee for best Documentary this past year.
WINDFALL (NR) 1:30pm A free film presented by Friends of Maine's Mountains This award-winning documentary is an account of a rural community, Meredith, in upstate New York, that was torn apart over the development of an industrial wind facility in the town. Like many Maine rural communities, the industrial wind developers came to town with promises of tax relief, financial payments to landowners and sustainable energy. Yet the reality was very different and the proposal divided Meredith’s residents as they fought over the future of their community. Attracted at first to the financial incentives that would seemingly boost their dying economy, a group of townspeople grow increasingly alarmed as they discovered the impacts that the 400 foot high windmills slated for Meredith could bring to their community as well as the potential for financial scams.
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