dear friends~
We are quickly approaching the final weekend for this "season." But between now and then, we have some terrific films to show you.
Now playing are THE MASTER (R) at 5:30 and 8:15 which is all but guaranteed Oscar-nominations come January, starring Joachin Phoenix, Amy Adams and Philip Seymour Hoffman, from director Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood).....AND.....TOYS IN THE ATTIC (PG) at 6:00 and 7:45 a Czech-made (English-language), macabre mystery animation about which the LATimes said it had "non-stop, deliriously-bent action...a testament to the limitlessness of imagination."
Thursday night at the ABBE MUSEUM is the next entry in the Native American Film Series that we sponsor....BEFORE TOMORROW plays at 7pm at the Abbe on Mount Desert Street.
Playing Friday thru SUN (please note the closing date) we have ROBOT AND FRANK (PG-13) at 6:00 and 8:00 starring Frank Langella as a cantankerous, elderly burglar who receives a robot from his family to monitor his health with hilarious consequences, and SAMSARA (PG-13) at 5:30 and 7:30, a breathtakingly beautiful and thoughtful visual journey from the team who made BARAKA.
Next Monday evening we will be showing silly films, playing video games, finishing off the food in the kitchen and celebrating another successful year.....starting around 6pm until Chris and Colin get tired (or everyone else leaves!), if you would like to stop by, we would love to see you.
Please VOTE ON TUESDAY.
We are looking forward to completing our truncated trip from last fall and returning in December rested and exercised and ready to tackle whatever 2013 has to offer. We will be reopening in late December, soon after Christmas depending on what film will be available, and when. We will be selling gift certificates and passes for the holiday (as we do every other day of the year!); Colin will be holding down the fort while we are away. Call 288-3828, email info@reelpizza.net, or send a check with your order to POBox 625 Bar Harbor ME 04609 and one of us will get back to you asap.
Have a safe and filling Thanksgiving holiday. THANK YOU ALL for continuing with us as we wrap up Reel Pizza calendar year 17! We look forward to being back with everyone in December.
-Lisa, Chris and the crew:
Pierce, Chloe, Colin, Justine, Hazel, Raven, Mary, Holly, Don, Brendan, Danny, and Eric
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
[Reel Pizza] update Oct 26 - Nov 1
please excuse my tardiness...my brain has already left the building!
Starting TODAY Friday - next Thurs (Nov 1) we have a movie that has received critical raves and is likely to receive extensive Oscar attention this winter, THE MASTER. For the weekend, the taut, acclaimed END OF WATCH from the writer of TRAINING DAY, and over the Halloween mid-week, an imaginative and eerie Czech animation (dubbed into English with excellent voice-cast) TOYS IN THE ATTIC....so if Sandy comes calling and trick-or-treat is rained out, we have an indoor option...
See you soon!
-L
Fri 10/26 - Thurs 11/1 THE MASTER (R) 138min 5:30 and 8:15
Fri 10/26 - Mon 10/29 END OF WATCH (R) 109min
Tues 10/30 - Thurs 11/1 TOYS IN THE ATTIC (PG) 74min
Fri Oct 26 - Thurs Nov 1
THE MASTER (R) 138min 5:30 and 8:15
Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman shared the acting prize at the Venice Film Festival for their intense, extraordinary portrayals in this latest work from visionary director Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights). Phoenix is Quell, an alcoholic WW2 veteran struggling to figure out his future. Hoffman is Dodd, the charming and charismatic leader of “The Cause,” a nascent, pseudo-religious cult that aims to help its disciples purge past trauma from their former lives to reach salvation, who takes Quell under his wing as an acolyte. Quell becomes his fiercest defender. Amy Adams is Dodd’s wife and truest believer. This enigmatic, transfixing film is one of the highest praised of the fall.
Fri 10/26 - Mon 10/29
END OF WATCH (R) 109min
This visceral, riveting and unexpectedly moving film has a good bit of humor in the squad car banter as two Los Angeles cops travel their beat. Michael Peña and Jake Gyllenhaal, who have great chemistry together and both give excellent performances, play long-time partners and best friends Taylor and Zavala newly assigned to patrolling the darkest corners of LA’s South Central neighborhood. Taylor has a new girlfriend that might be serious (Anna Kendrick) and Zavala’s wife (Natalie Martinez) is soon to give birth. One day they stumble upon a situation that puts both their lives at risk. Written and directed by David Ayer (who wrote Training Day) this is a slice of life story where the cops are the good guys and never know what is going to turn up beyond the next corner.
Tues 10/30 - Thurs 11/1
TOYS IN THE ATTIC (PG) 74min
Macabre and creepy, this story of good versus evil in a magical attic is a stop-motion animation from Czech filmmaker Jirí Barta. Actress Vivian Schilling, producing, directing and writing the English translation, has assembled an excellent voice cast, including herself, Forest Whitaker, Joan Cusack and Carey Elwes. They are teddy bear, mechanical mouse and marionette puppet, the loyal friends of Buttercup and all residents of the Western Land of Happy Toys in one corner of the attic; Buttercup has been kidnapped by the despotic Head of State who rules over the Eastern lands of Evil, with a band of sinister minions, insects and rotting vegetables. This isn’t slick and polished like Pixar, but is vividly imaginative and slightly disturbing as a Halloween movie should be.
Starting TODAY Friday - next Thurs (Nov 1) we have a movie that has received critical raves and is likely to receive extensive Oscar attention this winter, THE MASTER. For the weekend, the taut, acclaimed END OF WATCH from the writer of TRAINING DAY, and over the Halloween mid-week, an imaginative and eerie Czech animation (dubbed into English with excellent voice-cast) TOYS IN THE ATTIC....so if Sandy comes calling and trick-or-treat is rained out, we have an indoor option...
See you soon!
-L
Fri 10/26 - Thurs 11/1 THE MASTER (R) 138min 5:30 and 8:15
Fri 10/26 - Mon 10/29 END OF WATCH (R) 109min
Tues 10/30 - Thurs 11/1 TOYS IN THE ATTIC (PG) 74min
Fri Oct 26 - Thurs Nov 1
THE MASTER (R) 138min 5:30 and 8:15
Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman shared the acting prize at the Venice Film Festival for their intense, extraordinary portrayals in this latest work from visionary director Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights). Phoenix is Quell, an alcoholic WW2 veteran struggling to figure out his future. Hoffman is Dodd, the charming and charismatic leader of “The Cause,” a nascent, pseudo-religious cult that aims to help its disciples purge past trauma from their former lives to reach salvation, who takes Quell under his wing as an acolyte. Quell becomes his fiercest defender. Amy Adams is Dodd’s wife and truest believer. This enigmatic, transfixing film is one of the highest praised of the fall.
Fri 10/26 - Mon 10/29
END OF WATCH (R) 109min
This visceral, riveting and unexpectedly moving film has a good bit of humor in the squad car banter as two Los Angeles cops travel their beat. Michael Peña and Jake Gyllenhaal, who have great chemistry together and both give excellent performances, play long-time partners and best friends Taylor and Zavala newly assigned to patrolling the darkest corners of LA’s South Central neighborhood. Taylor has a new girlfriend that might be serious (Anna Kendrick) and Zavala’s wife (Natalie Martinez) is soon to give birth. One day they stumble upon a situation that puts both their lives at risk. Written and directed by David Ayer (who wrote Training Day) this is a slice of life story where the cops are the good guys and never know what is going to turn up beyond the next corner.
Tues 10/30 - Thurs 11/1
TOYS IN THE ATTIC (PG) 74min
Macabre and creepy, this story of good versus evil in a magical attic is a stop-motion animation from Czech filmmaker Jirí Barta. Actress Vivian Schilling, producing, directing and writing the English translation, has assembled an excellent voice cast, including herself, Forest Whitaker, Joan Cusack and Carey Elwes. They are teddy bear, mechanical mouse and marionette puppet, the loyal friends of Buttercup and all residents of the Western Land of Happy Toys in one corner of the attic; Buttercup has been kidnapped by the despotic Head of State who rules over the Eastern lands of Evil, with a band of sinister minions, insects and rotting vegetables. This isn’t slick and polished like Pixar, but is vividly imaginative and slightly disturbing as a Halloween movie should be.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
[Reel Pizza] schedule Oct 19 - Nov 4
hi everyone
Here is the schedule I know many of you wish we would never send....it is the last one before we fly away to regroup; we are going to finish the trip that was cut short last year with Chris's dad's passing. Chris and I thank you for your understanding and for being such a stellar audience. We do enjoy showing you movies and providing a community center.
We still don't know what will be playing over the week starting 10/26, so stay tuned for that; the likely choices are listed below. Also be aware that our last weekend runs just through Sunday night (because we want to be partying on Monday, not Tuesday night that week).
Of course, we are glad to offer Reel Pizza gift certificates and passes for Holiday giving. Colin will be here thru Nov and we will be back in Dec to fill your requests, so be in touch (email, phone or USSmail) when you are ready to think about those things.
See you soon!
-Lisa
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Fri 10/19 - Thurs 10/25 FRANKENWEENIE (PG) 87min 5:30 and 7:30
Fri 10/19 - Mon 10/22 TO ROME WITH LOVE (R) 112min [partly in Italian with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:15
Tues 10/23 - Thus 10/25 CHICKEN WITH PLUMS (PG-13) 90min [in French with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:00
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Fri 10/19 - Thurs 10/25
Coming on our Second Screen?
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Coming when we reopen in December:
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
ARGO
SKYFALL
LINCOLN
BREAKING DAWN PT2
LIFE OF PI
PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
LOOPER
and MORE!!
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Here is the schedule I know many of you wish we would never send....it is the last one before we fly away to regroup; we are going to finish the trip that was cut short last year with Chris's dad's passing. Chris and I thank you for your understanding and for being such a stellar audience. We do enjoy showing you movies and providing a community center.
We still don't know what will be playing over the week starting 10/26, so stay tuned for that; the likely choices are listed below. Also be aware that our last weekend runs just through Sunday night (because we want to be partying on Monday, not Tuesday night that week).
Of course, we are glad to offer Reel Pizza gift certificates and passes for Holiday giving. Colin will be here thru Nov and we will be back in Dec to fill your requests, so be in touch (email, phone or USSmail) when you are ready to think about those things.
See you soon!
-Lisa
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Fri 10/19 - Thurs 10/25 FRANKENWEENIE (PG) 87min 5:30 and 7:30
Fri 10/19 - Mon 10/22 TO ROME WITH LOVE (R) 112min [partly in Italian with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:15
Tues 10/23 - Thus 10/25 CHICKEN WITH PLUMS (PG-13) 90min [in French with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:00
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Fri 10/19 - Thurs 10/25
FRANKENWEENIE (PG) 87min 5:30 and 7:30
It was a dark and stormy night…..Director Tim Burton returns to stop-motion animation (Corpse Bride, Nightmare before Christmas) for his latest, a retro, black and white, brilliant, funny, weird, sweet and creepy story that pays homage to the monster movies of old. Young Victor and his beloved pet bull terrier Sparky share a fierce bond. After Sparky is hit by a car, Victor uses what he learned in a science lesson to resurrect his pooch, with only a few missing parts. He tries to keep the new and improved Sparky a secret, but the truth gets out. When it is time for the school science fair, all the kids want to make a frankenweenie!
Fri 10/19 - Mon 10/22
TO ROME WITH LOVE (R) 112min [partly in Italian with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:15
Back by popular demand! Woody Allen moves from the City of Lights to the Eternal City in his follow-up to last year’s Midnight in Paris. He intercuts four clever and funny stories set in the Italian capital that show his love for a beautiful city. An older architect revisits the places of his youth; a middle class man becomes wildly famous for no reason at all; a newlywed couple gets separated and they each have different romantic encounters; the first meeting of a girl’s parents and her soon-to-be in-laws doesn’t go as planned. Alec Baldwin, Ellen Page, Jesse Eisenbaum, Greta Gerwig, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis and director Allen himself are among the actors.
Tues 10/23 - Thus 10/25
CHICKEN WITH PLUMS (PG-13) 90min [in French with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:00
Oscar-nominated filmmakers Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud (Persepolis) adapt another of Ms Satrapi’s graphic novels, this one into a creative and beautiful live-action film about an imagined great uncle (written about a photo of a man she never met) and the loves of his life. One day, Nasser-Ali Khan (Matthieu Amalric, The Diving Bell and Butterfly), a renowned musician and selfish grouch, comes home, gets into bed and decides to await death. This is the result of his beloved violin being broken, for now there is no reason to live. Over the next eight days he relives his past, and dreams of the future.
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Fri 10/26 - Mon 10/29
END OF WATCH (R) 109min
This visceral, riveting and unexpectedly moving film has a good bit of humor in the squad car banter as two Los Angeles cops travel their beat. Michael Peña and Jake Gyllenhaal, who have great chemistry together and both give excellent performances, play long-time partners and best friends Taylor and Zavala newly assigned to patrolling the darkest corners of LA’s South Central neighborhood. Taylor has a new girlfriend that might be serious (Anna Kendrick) and Zavala’s wife (Natalie Martinez) is soon to give birth. One day they stumble upon a situation that puts both their lives at risk. Written and directed by David Ayer (who wrote Training Day) this is a slice of life story where the cops are the good guys and never know what is going to turn up beyond the next corner.
Tues 10/30 - Thurs 11/1
TOYS IN THE ATTIC (PG) 74min
Macabre and creepy, this story of good versus evil in a magical attic is a stop-motion animation from Czech filmmaker Jirí Barta. Actress Vivian Schilling, producing, directing and writing the English translation, has assembled an excellent voice cast, including herself, Forest Whitaker, Joan Cusack and Carey Elwes. They are teddy bear, mechanical mouse and marionette puppet, the loyal friends of Buttercup and all residents of the Western Land of Happy Toys in one corner of the attic; Buttercup has been kidnapped by the despotic Head of State who rules over the Eastern lands of Evil, with a band of sinister minions, insects and rotting vegetables. This isn’t slick and polished like Pixar, but is vividly imaginative and slightly disturbing as a Halloween movie should be.
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Fri 11/2 - Sun 11/4
ROBOT & FRANK (PG-13) 90min 6:00 and 8:00
Set in the near future, cantankerous cat-burgler Frank (Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon) has two grown kids (James Marsden and Liv Tyler) who are concerned he should no longer live alone. They are tempted to place him in a nursing home but his son chooses a different option: against the old man's wishes, he buys Frank a walking, talking humanoid robot (voice of Peter Sarsgaard) programmed to improve his physical and mental health. What follows is an often hilarious and somewhat heartbreaking story about finding friends and family in the most unexpected places.
SAMSARA (PG-13) 102min 5:30 and 7:30
Combining exquisite images filmed over five years in twenty-five countries, and an evocative musical score comprised of many different types of devotional music by Michael Stern, Lisa Gerrard and Marcello de Francisci, this new movie from the producer and director of the similar Baraka and Cosmos (Mike Magidson and Ron Fricke, who was also a cinematographer on Koyaanisqatsi) demands to be seen on the big screen. The title is a Sanskrit word meaning “the ever-turning wheel of life” and the visual collage juxtaposes the modern and ancient, the rich and poor, the natural and man-made, encouraging an examination of the interconnectedness of the world and the circle of life.
Coming on our Second Screen?
TAKEN 2 (PG-13) 91min
This sequel to the movie that made Liam Neeson into an action star finds Bryan Mills, the retired, divorced CIA agent trying to stay relevant in his daughter’s life, in trouble again. The relatives of his daughter’s kidnappers, which he killed in the last movie, now seek revenge; they kidnap Mills and his ex-wife while in Istanbul and threaten murder. Their daughter, who wasn’t with them, now must follow her dad’s instructions to eliminate the kidnappers one by one and rescue them. Produced and written by Luc Besson with Robert Mark Komen, who also wrote the first outing, this is as exciting and well-made as the first.
THE MASTER (R) 138min
Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman shared the acting prize at the Venice Film Festival for their intense, extraordinary portrayals in this latest work from visionary director Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights). Phoenix is Quell, an alcoholic WW2 veteran struggling to figure out his future. Hoffman is Dodd, the charming and charismatic leader of “The Cause,” a nascent, pseudo-religious cult that aims to help its disciples purge past trauma from their former lives to reach salvation, who takes Quell under his wing as an acolyte. Quell becomes his fiercest defender. Amy Adams is Dodd’s wife and truest believer. This enigmatic, transfixing film is one of the highest praised of the fall.
ARBITRAGE (R) 100min
Richard Gere gives an excellent performance as a hedge-fund manager at a precipice in this taut thriller from first-time writer/director Nicholas Jarecki (brother to directors Eugene and Andrew). Gere’s powerful and über-wealthy Robert Miller is trying to sell his business quickly, as it secretly contains a $400 million hole from a deal gone bad, unbeknownst to his CFO and daughter (Brit Marling), while balancing obligations to his wife (Susan Sarandon) and his increasingly needy mistress. Unexpected tragedy brings an unwelcome investigation by a cynical detective (Tim Roth) and could put everything in jeopardy.
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Coming when we reopen in December:
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
ARGO
SKYFALL
LINCOLN
BREAKING DAWN PT2
LIFE OF PI
PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
LOOPER
and MORE!!
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
[Reel Pizza] update Oct 12 - 18
We have a busy weekend ahead of us!
Friday night is the final IMPROVISION for this year. Thank you Jen and Larrence and the entire ImprovAcadia crew for another fab season!
Saturday afternoon we host filmmaker Cecily Pingree at a screening of her film BETTING THE FARM, about Maine's Own Organic (MOO) milk; we will also welcome one of the downeast farmer families who are involved in this venture and also perhaps the CEO of the company; there will be time for discussion after the screening.
And Sunday afternoon, we have our last installment of the Sierra Club's Free Summer Environmental Film Series, screening the beautiful A THIRSTY WORLD; please come celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act and the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. The Executive director of the Maine Chapter Glen Brand and COA faculty member in Environmental Law, Ken Cline, will introduce the film and take questions after. There will be some doorprizes, I hear!
And we also have our regular schedule of films. This week we have departed the text, so to speak, and will be playing TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE. For those of you keeping track, the two films previously listed as coming on our 2nd screen that we haven't gotten to yet (TO ROME WITH LOVE and ROBOT AND FRANK) are booked for the next schedule -- I am working on that now. This new Clint Eastwood-Amy Adams-Justin Timberlake film, set in the world of baseball is offered opposite quirky, charming romantic comedy CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER and a fascinating portrait of the Chinese activist-artist in AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY.
We wish you success and congratulations if you are running the Marathon, and hope for a cool sunny day (for me too....I want to clean up my garden!)
See you soon!
-Lisa
SPECIALS:
Fri 10/12 11pm IMPROVISION
Sat 10/13 2pm BETTING THE FARM $5
Sun 10/14 2pm A THIRSTY WORLD Free
Fri 10/12 - Thurs 10/18 TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG-13) 111min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 10/12 - Mon 10/15 CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER (R) 89min
Tues 10/16 - Thurs 10/18 AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY (R) 91min [partly in MANDARIN with subtitles]
Fri Oct 12 - Thurs Oct 18
TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG-13) 111min 5:30 and 8:00
Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams are an estranged father and daughter who come together at a pivotal time in each of their lives. He is an aging, old-school professional baseball scout, one of the best in the business, who is secretly battling macular degeneration but isn’t ready to give up his job to the computer savvy new scouts. She is a prominent lawyer at a large firm that is considering her for a partnership, and has a really important case coming up. When she is asked by her dad’s old friend (John Goodman) to help him on an important scouting trip to North Carolina, she begrudgingly complies, even though it could jeopardize her own career. This is a genuinely fun, winning and well-acted film, the directing debut of Eastwood’s longtime producer Robert Lorenz, from new screenwriter Randy Brown.
Fri Oct 12 - Mon Oct 15
CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER (R) 89min
This quirky, shrewd, and charming romantic comedy co-written by star Rashida Jones (TVs Parks and Recreation) and directed by young director Lee Kreiger doesn’t shy away from emotional complications. Celeste (Jones), a driven, successful business owner, has been happily married to Jesse (Andy Samberg, SNL), a slacker artist, since highschool. But she is headed up, he is going nowhere, so she decides divorce – while still remaining good friends – is the best option. Jesse reluctantly accepts this transition to friendship, even though he is still in love with her. But her decision, which initially seemed mature and progressive, looks increasingly impulsive and selfish.
Tues Oct 16 - Thurs Oct 18
AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY (R) 91min [partly in MANDARIN with subtitles]
A fascinating portrait of Ai Weiwei, provocative, mischievous, and inspiring Chinese activist-artist, began with the unprecedented access granted to Beijing-based TV and radio journalist Alison Klayman in 2008. After studying for a decade in NYC, Ai came to prominence as one of the designers of the showpiece “bird’s nest” Olympic Stadium; soon afterward he earned the wrath of his government as he sought to collect and publish the names of the thousands of school children, ignored by the government, who died in the Sichuan earthquake due to shoddy schoolhouse construction. Her engaging and detailed film follows this relentlessly funny man for three years, intimately in his home life, artistically as he prepares major museum installations, and publicly, through last year’s 81 day imprisonment for crimes against the state.
Fri Oct 12 IMPROVISION 11:00pm
Discover our occasional, wacky collaboration with the talented ImprovAcadia crew! With the sound turned off, this ever-changing group of up and coming comedians improvise the dialogue, music tracks and sound effects to a cheesy, grade B movie, THAT THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE! Their talents make the pictures on the screen way funnier than they were ever anticipated. It's a totally new show every time. Don't miss out on all the fun. Last one of 2012~
Sat Oct 13 BETTING THE FARM (NR) 85min $5 2:00pm
Betting The Farm is the story of a group of Maine dairy farmers who--dropped by their national milk company--are suddenly confronted with the real possibility of losing their farms. Banding together, the farmers launch their own milk company, Maine’s Own Organic Milk. Farmers Vaughn Chase, Richard Lary, and Aaron Bell--along with their families—struggle to make ends meet as they get the company off the ground. But faced with slow sales and mounting bills, can the farmers hang together long enough for the gamble to pay off? Or will they be left worse off than before? This verité documentary follows three farmers and their families through the tumultuous first two years of MOO MILK. With intimate access to their triumphs and disappointments, the film gives audiences a rare glimpse at the real lives of American farmers at a crossroads. Director Cecily Pingree, farmers Aaron Bell and Carly DelSignore of Tide Mill Farm, and MOO MILK CEO Bill Eldridge will attend and take questions after the show. $5
Sun Oct 14 A THIRSTY WORLD (NR) 90min free 2:00pm
This stunningly beautiful movie brings together Yann Arthus-Bertrand's trademark aerial view of the world with the harsh, everyday reality of all those people who are deprived of water and may even die for lack of it, the people engaged in the daily struggle to find water, purify it or bring it to those who need it. Filmed in some 20 countries, this film reveals the mysterious and fascinating world of fresh water through spectacular aerial images shot in regions that are difficult to reach and rarely filmed, like Southern Sudan or Northern Congo and helps us discover the most beautiful landscapes on our planet. Glen Brand, Executive Director Maine Sierra Club and Ken Cline, COA Environmental Law professor will speak, as the Sierra Club celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act and the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring.
Friday night is the final IMPROVISION for this year. Thank you Jen and Larrence and the entire ImprovAcadia crew for another fab season!
Saturday afternoon we host filmmaker Cecily Pingree at a screening of her film BETTING THE FARM, about Maine's Own Organic (MOO) milk; we will also welcome one of the downeast farmer families who are involved in this venture and also perhaps the CEO of the company; there will be time for discussion after the screening.
And Sunday afternoon, we have our last installment of the Sierra Club's Free Summer Environmental Film Series, screening the beautiful A THIRSTY WORLD; please come celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act and the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. The Executive director of the Maine Chapter Glen Brand and COA faculty member in Environmental Law, Ken Cline, will introduce the film and take questions after. There will be some doorprizes, I hear!
And we also have our regular schedule of films. This week we have departed the text, so to speak, and will be playing TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE. For those of you keeping track, the two films previously listed as coming on our 2nd screen that we haven't gotten to yet (TO ROME WITH LOVE and ROBOT AND FRANK) are booked for the next schedule -- I am working on that now. This new Clint Eastwood-Amy Adams-Justin Timberlake film, set in the world of baseball is offered opposite quirky, charming romantic comedy CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER and a fascinating portrait of the Chinese activist-artist in AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY.
We wish you success and congratulations if you are running the Marathon, and hope for a cool sunny day (for me too....I want to clean up my garden!)
See you soon!
-Lisa
SPECIALS:
Fri 10/12 11pm IMPROVISION
Sat 10/13 2pm BETTING THE FARM $5
Sun 10/14 2pm A THIRSTY WORLD Free
Fri 10/12 - Thurs 10/18 TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG-13) 111min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 10/12 - Mon 10/15 CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER (R) 89min
Tues 10/16 - Thurs 10/18 AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY (R) 91min [partly in MANDARIN with subtitles]
Fri Oct 12 - Thurs Oct 18
TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG-13) 111min 5:30 and 8:00
Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams are an estranged father and daughter who come together at a pivotal time in each of their lives. He is an aging, old-school professional baseball scout, one of the best in the business, who is secretly battling macular degeneration but isn’t ready to give up his job to the computer savvy new scouts. She is a prominent lawyer at a large firm that is considering her for a partnership, and has a really important case coming up. When she is asked by her dad’s old friend (John Goodman) to help him on an important scouting trip to North Carolina, she begrudgingly complies, even though it could jeopardize her own career. This is a genuinely fun, winning and well-acted film, the directing debut of Eastwood’s longtime producer Robert Lorenz, from new screenwriter Randy Brown.
This quirky, shrewd, and charming romantic comedy co-written by star Rashida Jones (TVs Parks and Recreation) and directed by young director Lee Kreiger doesn’t shy away from emotional complications. Celeste (Jones), a driven, successful business owner, has been happily married to Jesse (Andy Samberg, SNL), a slacker artist, since highschool. But she is headed up, he is going nowhere, so she decides divorce – while still remaining good friends – is the best option. Jesse reluctantly accepts this transition to friendship, even though he is still in love with her. But her decision, which initially seemed mature and progressive, looks increasingly impulsive and selfish.
Tues Oct 16 - Thurs Oct 18
A fascinating portrait of Ai Weiwei, provocative, mischievous, and inspiring Chinese activist-artist, began with the unprecedented access granted to Beijing-based TV and radio journalist Alison Klayman in 2008. After studying for a decade in NYC, Ai came to prominence as one of the designers of the showpiece “bird’s nest” Olympic Stadium; soon afterward he earned the wrath of his government as he sought to collect and publish the names of the thousands of school children, ignored by the government, who died in the Sichuan earthquake due to shoddy schoolhouse construction. Her engaging and detailed film follows this relentlessly funny man for three years, intimately in his home life, artistically as he prepares major museum installations, and publicly, through last year’s 81 day imprisonment for crimes against the state.
Fri Oct 12 IMPROVISION 11:00pm
Discover our occasional, wacky collaboration with the talented ImprovAcadia crew! With the sound turned off, this ever-changing group of up and coming comedians improvise the dialogue, music tracks and sound effects to a cheesy, grade B movie, THAT THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE! Their talents make the pictures on the screen way funnier than they were ever anticipated. It's a totally new show every time. Don't miss out on all the fun. Last one of 2012~
Sat Oct 13 BETTING THE FARM (NR) 85min $5 2:00pm
Betting The Farm is the story of a group of Maine dairy farmers who--dropped by their national milk company--are suddenly confronted with the real possibility of losing their farms. Banding together, the farmers launch their own milk company, Maine’s Own Organic Milk. Farmers Vaughn Chase, Richard Lary, and Aaron Bell--along with their families—struggle to make ends meet as they get the company off the ground. But faced with slow sales and mounting bills, can the farmers hang together long enough for the gamble to pay off? Or will they be left worse off than before? This verité documentary follows three farmers and their families through the tumultuous first two years of MOO MILK. With intimate access to their triumphs and disappointments, the film gives audiences a rare glimpse at the real lives of American farmers at a crossroads. Director Cecily Pingree, farmers Aaron Bell and Carly DelSignore of Tide Mill Farm, and MOO MILK CEO Bill Eldridge will attend and take questions after the show. $5
Sun Oct 14 A THIRSTY WORLD (NR) 90min free 2:00pm
This stunningly beautiful movie brings together Yann Arthus-Bertrand's trademark aerial view of the world with the harsh, everyday reality of all those people who are deprived of water and may even die for lack of it, the people engaged in the daily struggle to find water, purify it or bring it to those who need it. Filmed in some 20 countries, this film reveals the mysterious and fascinating world of fresh water through spectacular aerial images shot in regions that are difficult to reach and rarely filmed, like Southern Sudan or Northern Congo and helps us discover the most beautiful landscapes on our planet. Glen Brand, Executive Director Maine Sierra Club and Ken Cline, COA Environmental Law professor will speak, as the Sierra Club celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act and the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring.
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