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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