same initials, different men.....sorry to both.
-L
Next week (2/7) it is LINCOLN at 1:00.
There will also be a special matinee of LINCOLN over the weekend sponsored by Acadia Senior College on Sat 2/2 at 1:00 and will include discussion led by Lincoln enthusiast Nat Fenton. Regular prices apply to this weekend screening.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
[Reel Pizza] update thru Feb 7
Hi Everyone
Oops, just realized that I missed last week's update...between the two silent film events we were involved with (both fabulous, by the way!), and Monday holiday and Friday no school and our first bout of final exams, we were distracted! Looking at our ticket records, it seems that many have been aware of our weekend events and films! We continue LIFE OF PI this week; also thru Thursday we will be screening the amazing, beautiful and sobering documentary about our earth's melting glaciers CHASING ICE (PG-13 rated for language...) at 6:00 and 7:45....SORRY for any inconvenience my lack of attendance caused.
The Senior Matinee this week (1/31) is LIFE OF PI at 1:30.
Next week (2/7) it is LINCOLN at 1:00.
There will also be a special matinee of LINCOLN over the weekend sponsored by Acadia Senior College on Sat 2/2 at 1:00 and will include discussion led by Lincoln enthusiast Ned Ferm. Regular prices apply to this weekend screening.
Also on Saturday 2/2 starting at 2pm in the adjacent auditorium, we will be screening DOWNEAST, a documentary from Maine=based filmmakers Ashley Sabin and David Redmon (Girl Model, a recent MIFF film) about the transition at the Stinson Cannery in Prospect Harbor from a sardine packing facility to a lobster processor.
Our weekend film is the OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS collections, and is one of the strongest programs in terms of quality in years. We will be showing the animated group at 5:30. Please note that this year this animated program is entirely family friendly, and will contain the five nominated films and several honorable mentions. The live action program will start at 7:30. And the mid-week selection is HOLY MOTORS, a mesmerizing, critically acclaimed and visually splendid cinematic experience that cineastes will not want to miss.
We look forward to seeing you here, and out on the ice, since we can finally skate and ice fish...HURRAY!
-Lisa
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thru 1/31
LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min 5:30 and 8:00
CHASING ICE (PG-13) 74min 6:00 and 7:45
Sat 2/2 Special Matinees
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min 1:00 in association with Acadia Senior College
DOWNEAST (NR) 77min 2:00
2/1 - 2/7 LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min 5:00 and 8:00
2/1 - 2/4 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) animated 88min 5:30; live-action 114min 7:30
2/5 - 2/7 HOLY MOTORS (NR) 115min [partly in FRENCH with subtitles]
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Fri Jan 25 - Thurs Jan 31
LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min 5:30 and 8:00
This spellbinding, epic survival tale from director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) begins with a middle-aged Canadian man (Irrfan Khan) telling his immigration story to a writer. As a youth in Pondicherry, India, Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma), a spiritual boy who lives with his secular family and their small zoo of exotic animals. Moving to Canada with his family and their animals, the ship goes down; Pi survives, with only a Royal Bengal tiger as his companion in a lifeboat. The visually splendid, emotionally satisfying, altogether amazing adventure story, based on the novel by Yann Martel, tells of his 227 days spent with a carnivorous tiger at sea. Eleven Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Score and Best Song.
CHASING ICE (PG-13) 74min 6:00 and 7:45
Spurred by an assignment for National Geographic to visually depict climate change, acclaimed photographer James Balog, a global warming skeptic, set out to photograph melting glaciers, and in the process became a believer. First-time filmmaker Jeff Orlowski documents the challenges and successes of Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey of glaciers in Alaska, Greenland, Iceland and Montana. Using time lapse photography, Balog has captured a multi-year record of the eye-opening changes in these massive sheets of ice with harrowing, exquisitely beautiful and remarkably sobering images. Oscar nominated for Best Song.
Fri Feb 1 - Thurs Feb 7, also special matinee w. Acadia Senior College Sat Feb 2, 1:00pm
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min
Taking its inspiration from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals director Stephen Spielberg, screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Angels in America), and actor Daniel Day-Lewis collaborate on this dramatic and powerful historical drama. Set during the final four months of the Civil War, of Lincoln’s presidency and his life, it brings to life the president’s determination at the tumultuous beginning of his second term to pass the thirteenth amendment (abolishing slavery) before the end of the war, so as to make this change permanent in the country. Tommy Lee Jones gives a memorable performance as abolitionist and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. Twelve Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Director, Actor (2) for Day-Lewis and Jones, Actress for Sally Field, Adapted Screenplay, Costumes, Cinematography and Score.
Fri Feb 1 - Mon Feb 4
OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) animated 88min 5:30; live-action 114min 7:30
After qualifying, based on festival honors and commercial runs, the Academy has narrowed the field to five each in both the live-action category and the animated category. The animation choices, including a Maggie Simpson short and a couple of honorable mentions to round out the program, are all completely family friendly and considered one of the best programs in years. In the Live Action category, strong stories from Afghanistan, Somalia, France, US and Canada, are about aging, babysitting, choosing a career, winning a polo match and cheating Death. We will show the animated collection early and the live-action after. Two separate admissions. Obviously all Oscar-nominated....
Tues Feb 5 - Thurs Feb 7
HOLY MOTORS (NR) 115min [partly in FRENCH with subtitles]
Stretch yourself by experiencing this wondrous, beautiful cinematic adventure from French director Leos Carax. This inventive, episodic ride, a tribute to the power of cinema, is a mesmerizing and unforgettable visual feast. Transformative actor Denis Lavant (Lovers on the Bridge) plays many different roles over the course of this film. He begins as Monsieur Oscar, a well-dressed business man who is picked up at his house by a limousine driven by a slender blonde chauffeur (Edith Scob). Each time he enters the limo as it drives around Paris, he is given a new assignment and emerges a different character: a tycoon, a gypsy beggar, a ninja warrior, a sewer troll. Eva Mendes and Australian pop star Kylie Minogue “costar.”
Saturday Feb 2
DOWNEAST (NR) 77min 2:00pm
An experiential story that unfolds over the course of two years in nearby Prospect Harbor, this intimate film from directors Ashley Sabin and David Redmon (Girl Model) observes the closing of the last remaining sardine cannery in the US and after, when Boston-based entrepreneur Antonio Bussone purchases the plant, hoping to re-build a lobster processing facility and rehire the laid-off, older sardine workers. His troubles begin day one as local politicians oppose his vision of rebuilding the factory. Undeterred, Antonio moves forward.
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***********
Oops, just realized that I missed last week's update...between the two silent film events we were involved with (both fabulous, by the way!), and Monday holiday and Friday no school and our first bout of final exams, we were distracted! Looking at our ticket records, it seems that many have been aware of our weekend events and films! We continue LIFE OF PI this week; also thru Thursday we will be screening the amazing, beautiful and sobering documentary about our earth's melting glaciers CHASING ICE (PG-13 rated for language...) at 6:00 and 7:45....SORRY for any inconvenience my lack of attendance caused.
The Senior Matinee this week (1/31) is LIFE OF PI at 1:30.
Next week (2/7) it is LINCOLN at 1:00.
There will also be a special matinee of LINCOLN over the weekend sponsored by Acadia Senior College on Sat 2/2 at 1:00 and will include discussion led by Lincoln enthusiast Ned Ferm. Regular prices apply to this weekend screening.
Also on Saturday 2/2 starting at 2pm in the adjacent auditorium, we will be screening DOWNEAST, a documentary from Maine=based filmmakers Ashley Sabin and David Redmon (Girl Model, a recent MIFF film) about the transition at the Stinson Cannery in Prospect Harbor from a sardine packing facility to a lobster processor.
Our weekend film is the OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS collections, and is one of the strongest programs in terms of quality in years. We will be showing the animated group at 5:30. Please note that this year this animated program is entirely family friendly, and will contain the five nominated films and several honorable mentions. The live action program will start at 7:30. And the mid-week selection is HOLY MOTORS, a mesmerizing, critically acclaimed and visually splendid cinematic experience that cineastes will not want to miss.
We look forward to seeing you here, and out on the ice, since we can finally skate and ice fish...HURRAY!
-Lisa
***********
thru 1/31
LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min 5:30 and 8:00
CHASING ICE (PG-13) 74min 6:00 and 7:45
Sat 2/2 Special Matinees
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min 1:00 in association with Acadia Senior College
DOWNEAST (NR) 77min 2:00
2/1 - 2/7 LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min 5:00 and 8:00
2/1 - 2/4 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) animated 88min 5:30; live-action 114min 7:30
2/5 - 2/7 HOLY MOTORS (NR) 115min [partly in FRENCH with subtitles]
***********
LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min 5:30 and 8:00
This spellbinding, epic survival tale from director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) begins with a middle-aged Canadian man (Irrfan Khan) telling his immigration story to a writer. As a youth in Pondicherry, India, Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma), a spiritual boy who lives with his secular family and their small zoo of exotic animals. Moving to Canada with his family and their animals, the ship goes down; Pi survives, with only a Royal Bengal tiger as his companion in a lifeboat. The visually splendid, emotionally satisfying, altogether amazing adventure story, based on the novel by Yann Martel, tells of his 227 days spent with a carnivorous tiger at sea. Eleven Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Score and Best Song.
CHASING ICE (PG-13) 74min 6:00 and 7:45
Spurred by an assignment for National Geographic to visually depict climate change, acclaimed photographer James Balog, a global warming skeptic, set out to photograph melting glaciers, and in the process became a believer. First-time filmmaker Jeff Orlowski documents the challenges and successes of Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey of glaciers in Alaska, Greenland, Iceland and Montana. Using time lapse photography, Balog has captured a multi-year record of the eye-opening changes in these massive sheets of ice with harrowing, exquisitely beautiful and remarkably sobering images. Oscar nominated for Best Song.
Fri Feb 1 - Thurs Feb 7, also special matinee w. Acadia Senior College Sat Feb 2, 1:00pm
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min
Taking its inspiration from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals director Stephen Spielberg, screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Angels in America), and actor Daniel Day-Lewis collaborate on this dramatic and powerful historical drama. Set during the final four months of the Civil War, of Lincoln’s presidency and his life, it brings to life the president’s determination at the tumultuous beginning of his second term to pass the thirteenth amendment (abolishing slavery) before the end of the war, so as to make this change permanent in the country. Tommy Lee Jones gives a memorable performance as abolitionist and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. Twelve Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Director, Actor (2) for Day-Lewis and Jones, Actress for Sally Field, Adapted Screenplay, Costumes, Cinematography and Score.
Fri Feb 1 - Mon Feb 4
OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) animated 88min 5:30; live-action 114min 7:30
After qualifying, based on festival honors and commercial runs, the Academy has narrowed the field to five each in both the live-action category and the animated category. The animation choices, including a Maggie Simpson short and a couple of honorable mentions to round out the program, are all completely family friendly and considered one of the best programs in years. In the Live Action category, strong stories from Afghanistan, Somalia, France, US and Canada, are about aging, babysitting, choosing a career, winning a polo match and cheating Death. We will show the animated collection early and the live-action after. Two separate admissions. Obviously all Oscar-nominated....
Stretch yourself by experiencing this wondrous, beautiful cinematic adventure from French director Leos Carax. This inventive, episodic ride, a tribute to the power of cinema, is a mesmerizing and unforgettable visual feast. Transformative actor Denis Lavant (Lovers on the Bridge) plays many different roles over the course of this film. He begins as Monsieur Oscar, a well-dressed business man who is picked up at his house by a limousine driven by a slender blonde chauffeur (Edith Scob). Each time he enters the limo as it drives around Paris, he is given a new assignment and emerges a different character: a tycoon, a gypsy beggar, a ninja warrior, a sewer troll. Eva Mendes and Australian pop star Kylie Minogue “costar.”
DOWNEAST (NR) 77min 2:00pm
An experiential story that unfolds over the course of two years in nearby Prospect Harbor, this intimate film from directors Ashley Sabin and David Redmon (Girl Model) observes the closing of the last remaining sardine cannery in the US and after, when Boston-based entrepreneur Antonio Bussone purchases the plant, hoping to re-build a lobster processing facility and rehire the laid-off, older sardine workers. His troubles begin day one as local politicians oppose his vision of rebuilding the factory. Undeterred, Antonio moves forward.
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
[Reel Pizza] ARGO IS HERE
Our replacement print of ARGO has arrived and so the shows for
tonight,and the rest of the week,
are a go at their scheduled times.
See you there,
-Chris
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tonight,and the rest of the week,
are a go at their scheduled times.
See you there,
-Chris
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Friday, January 18, 2013
[Reel Pizza] Friday ARGO Cancelled
Friends,
The print we received of ARGO is in terrible shape and we cannot show
it. So we are cancelling tonight's screenings of ARGO. (WRECK IT RALPH
is still on.) The studio is sending us another print (hopefully in
better condition) and we expect it early Saturday afternoon in time for
tomorrow's scheduled shows. We apologize for all inconvenience.
-Lisa and Chris
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The print we received of ARGO is in terrible shape and we cannot show
it. So we are cancelling tonight's screenings of ARGO. (WRECK IT RALPH
is still on.) The studio is sending us another print (hopefully in
better condition) and we expect it early Saturday afternoon in time for
tomorrow's scheduled shows. We apologize for all inconvenience.
-Lisa and Chris
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
[Reel Pizza] update Jan 18 - 24
g'morning everyone
I shared a link on the facebook page and thought you might like it too. Last night there was an interesting interview by Terry Gross on Fresh Air of Ben Affleck about making ARGO. If you would like to listen, you will find it here
Don't forget that tickets are available now at the Abbe Museum for our screening of NANOOK OF THE NORTH accompanied by the SUMNER McKANE GROUP next Saturday evening 288-3519. AND at the Grand for the Friday screening of Charlie Chaplin's THE GOLD RUSH accompanied by TEMPO Youth Orchestra 667-9500. Two classic Silent Films with live accompaniment in one weekend!
Have a good week and see you soon~
-Lisa
Here is the Thursday Senior Matinee schedule for the next several weeks, if you want to plan:
This week's (1/17) show is THE HOBBIT at 12:45 (early start due to long running time!)
Next week (1/24) it will be ARGO at 1:30.
The following week (1/31) its LIFE OF PI at 1:30
And the week after that (2/7) we will show LINCOLN at 1:00. There is also a Sat (2/2) matinee of LINCOLN sponsored by the Acadia Senior College with regular admission prices that also begins at 1:00.
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Here is the schedule for this coming week:
Fri 1/18 - Thurs 1/24 ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
Fri 1/18 - Mon 1/21 WRECK IT RALPH (PG) 93min 5:30 and 7:30
Tues 1/22 - Thurs 1/24 SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (R) 109min 5:30 and 8:00
Friday Jan 18 - Thursday Jan 24
ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
With a story you’d think they’d only come up with in the movies, actor-director Ben Affleck’s third time directing is a solid, unexpectedly suspenseful and fully entertaining film. It is also based on true events, long kept secret but declassified by President Clinton in 1997. Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA specialist in “exfiltration” who was instrumental in concocting and implementing a far-fetched, in fact preposterous, scheme to rescue six Americans who managed to escape unnoticed when Iranians stormed the American Embassy in 1979 taking 52 hostages. These six found hiding in the home of the Canadian ambassador, but were trapped there, threatening themselves, the other hostages, and the Canadians. Seven Oscar nominations including Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin and Best Picture.
Friday Jan 18 - Monday Jan 21
Poor Ralph (John C. Reilly) has spent the last 30 or so years in the 1980s era arcade game Fix It Felix, crushing buildings that his cheerful nemesis rebuilds with remarkable aplomb and speed, to the delight of the residents of Niceland. Although he knows it is his job, he grows tired of being the bad guy, as he really is nice, and sets off on a quest to earn a medal that he hopes will make him a hero in his colleagues’ eyes. He ends up first in war game Hero’s Duty, then in another game, Sugar Rush, where he meets a character with pixelating issues (Sarah Silverman) who is ostracized by her co-characters. He has also unwittingly caused chaos in his home game. This imaginative, smartly witty and colorful new Disney film that celebrates gaming while encouraging interaction in the real world, directed by Rich Moore (The Simpsons) and executive produced by Pixar guru John Lasseter, does for arcade games what Toy Story did for the nursery toy box. Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.
Tuesday Jan 22 - Thursday Jan 24
Billy (Sam Rockwell) is a part-time actor who makes ends meet as a dog-napper with his partner-in-crime Hans (Christopher Walken). Most recently they have stolen the beloved pooch of a wacko, psychotic gangster (Woody Harrelson). Billy also really wants to help his best friend (Colin Farrell) an alcoholic, struggling writer overdue with his next screenplay. He’s got a title (the movie’s) but not much else. This bloody, funny mesh of these two stories is the heart of this most entertaining comedy from Irish director Martin McDonaugh (Oscar-nominated for the screenplay of his debut film In Bruges). It is Tarantino x Charlie Kaufman x Coen Brothers with an excellent cast, sharp dialogue and gleefully brutal violence that is side-splittingly funny.
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I shared a link on the facebook page and thought you might like it too. Last night there was an interesting interview by Terry Gross on Fresh Air of Ben Affleck about making ARGO. If you would like to listen, you will find it here
Don't forget that tickets are available now at the Abbe Museum for our screening of NANOOK OF THE NORTH accompanied by the SUMNER McKANE GROUP next Saturday evening 288-3519. AND at the Grand for the Friday screening of Charlie Chaplin's THE GOLD RUSH accompanied by TEMPO Youth Orchestra 667-9500. Two classic Silent Films with live accompaniment in one weekend!
Have a good week and see you soon~
-Lisa
Here is the Thursday Senior Matinee schedule for the next several weeks, if you want to plan:
This week's (1/17) show is THE HOBBIT at 12:45 (early start due to long running time!)
Next week (1/24) it will be ARGO at 1:30.
The following week (1/31) its LIFE OF PI at 1:30
And the week after that (2/7) we will show LINCOLN at 1:00. There is also a Sat (2/2) matinee of LINCOLN sponsored by the Acadia Senior College with regular admission prices that also begins at 1:00.
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Here is the schedule for this coming week:
Fri 1/18 - Thurs 1/24 ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
Fri 1/18 - Mon 1/21 WRECK IT RALPH (PG) 93min 5:30 and 7:30
Tues 1/22 - Thurs 1/24 SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (R) 109min 5:30 and 8:00
Friday Jan 18 - Thursday Jan 24
ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
With a story you’d think they’d only come up with in the movies, actor-director Ben Affleck’s third time directing is a solid, unexpectedly suspenseful and fully entertaining film. It is also based on true events, long kept secret but declassified by President Clinton in 1997. Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA specialist in “exfiltration” who was instrumental in concocting and implementing a far-fetched, in fact preposterous, scheme to rescue six Americans who managed to escape unnoticed when Iranians stormed the American Embassy in 1979 taking 52 hostages. These six found hiding in the home of the Canadian ambassador, but were trapped there, threatening themselves, the other hostages, and the Canadians. Seven Oscar nominations including Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin and Best Picture.
Friday Jan 18 - Monday Jan 21
Poor Ralph (John C. Reilly) has spent the last 30 or so years in the 1980s era arcade game Fix It Felix, crushing buildings that his cheerful nemesis rebuilds with remarkable aplomb and speed, to the delight of the residents of Niceland. Although he knows it is his job, he grows tired of being the bad guy, as he really is nice, and sets off on a quest to earn a medal that he hopes will make him a hero in his colleagues’ eyes. He ends up first in war game Hero’s Duty, then in another game, Sugar Rush, where he meets a character with pixelating issues (Sarah Silverman) who is ostracized by her co-characters. He has also unwittingly caused chaos in his home game. This imaginative, smartly witty and colorful new Disney film that celebrates gaming while encouraging interaction in the real world, directed by Rich Moore (The Simpsons) and executive produced by Pixar guru John Lasseter, does for arcade games what Toy Story did for the nursery toy box. Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.
Tuesday Jan 22 - Thursday Jan 24
Billy (Sam Rockwell) is a part-time actor who makes ends meet as a dog-napper with his partner-in-crime Hans (Christopher Walken). Most recently they have stolen the beloved pooch of a wacko, psychotic gangster (Woody Harrelson). Billy also really wants to help his best friend (Colin Farrell) an alcoholic, struggling writer overdue with his next screenplay. He’s got a title (the movie’s) but not much else. This bloody, funny mesh of these two stories is the heart of this most entertaining comedy from Irish director Martin McDonaugh (Oscar-nominated for the screenplay of his debut film In Bruges). It is Tarantino x Charlie Kaufman x Coen Brothers with an excellent cast, sharp dialogue and gleefully brutal violence that is side-splittingly funny.
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
[Reel Pizza] schedule Jan 18 - Feb 7
Its a busy winter at Reel Pizza!
Many Oscar nominees on both what remains of our current program and on this upcoming schedule!
Tonight is the last night of FLIGHT, which received nominations for original screenplay and Best Actor for Denzel Washington, and SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN (really wonderful - I watched it last night) (front-runner for Best Documentary.) Starting tomorrow, in THE SESSIONS, Helen Hunt was nominated for Supporting Actress, and THE HOBBIT earned nominations for visual effects, production design and makeup; Denmark's A ROYAL AFFAIR, which starts Tuesday, is a nominee for Foreign Language film.
We also have scheduled some special programming. There are three special events coming in the next few weeks. On Saturday 1/26 we will re-jigger our schedule slightly so that we can present the finale to the Abbe Museum's Native America Film series (that Reel Pizza underwrites) -- the classic silent film NANOOK, with live accompaniment composed and performed by the Sumner McKane Group. We will move the Sat evening show of HITCHCOCK to 4:30 only, and the silent film will start at 7pm (we will seat when Hitchcock gets out). Tickets are available through the Abbe, 288-3519.
If you are interested in silent film, the night before the Abbe event, Fri 1/25, there is another silent film event happening, this one at the Grand, Charlie Chaplin's THE GOLD RUSH, also with live accompaniment, here by TEMPO, Eastern Maine's Youth Orchestra playing a score especially composed for this performance by conductor Rebecca Edmundson. Tickets are available at the Grand 667-9500.
On Saturday Feb 2, we have two events happening simultaneously. We will be hosting a special matinee screening of LINCOLN in association with the Acadia Senior College at 1pm. Lifelong Lincoln enthusiast Nat Fenton will speak and lead discussion after the screening. On the other side, we present DOWNEAST at 2pm, a film about the closing of the Stinson sardine cannery in Prospect Harbor and its afterlife. We hope to have a guest to make remarks at the screening, but haven't been able to nail anyone down yet. Regular prices for both of these two screenings.
And finally our regular schedule is below. It is a complete schedule on both screens, but I don't have times for the last week because we still don't know the running times of the Oscar-nominated short film programs. Stay Tuned! And see you soon!
-Lisa
Fri 1/18 - Thurs 1/24 ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
Fri 1/18 - Mon 1/21 WRECK IT RALPH (PG) 93min 5:30 and 7:30
Tues 1/22 - Thurs 1/24 SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (R) 109min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 1/25 - Thurs 1/31 LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 1/25 - Mon 1/28 HITCHCOCK (PG-13) 98min 6:00 and 8:15 except Sat 4:30 only
Tues 1/29 - Thurs 1/31 CHASING ICE (PG-13) 74min 6:00 and 7:45
Fri 2/1 - Thurs 2/7 LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min
Fri 2/1 - Mon 2/4 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) ??min animated earlier, live-action later
Tues 2/5 - Thurs 2/7 HOLY MOTORS (NR) 115min [partly in FRENCH with subtitles]
Saturday Jan 26
NANOOK (NR) 70min [silent with live accompaniment] 7:00pm
In association with the Abbe Museum, and as a grand culmination of their annual Native American Film Series (which Reel Pizza sponsors) we present this seminal documentary silent film with accompaniment composed specifically for this film and performed live by the Sumner McKane Group, a modern instrumental music trio, including guitarist Sumner McKane, bassist Josh Robbins, and drummer Todd the Rocket Richard, based in southern Maine. Filmed in 1922, this film was one of the first to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry and is considered the first anthropological documentary film ever made. Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty spent a year following the lives of an Inuit family, led by Nanook, through their travels and travails enduring an Arctic winter. Tickets are available at the Abbe: 288-3519.
Saturday Feb 2
DOWNEAST (NR) 77min 2:00pm
An experiential story that unfolds over the course of two years in nearby Prospect Harbor, this intimate film from directors Ashley Sabin and David Redmon (Girl Model) observes the closing of the last remaining sardine cannery in the US and after, when Boston-based entrepreneur Antonio Bussone purchases the plant, hoping to re-build a lobster processing facility and rehire the laid-off, older sardine workers. His troubles begin day one as local politicians oppose his vision of rebuilding the factory. Undeterred, Antonio moves forward.
also Saturday Feb 2
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min 1:00pm
A special matinee screening of LINCOLN in association with the Acadia Senior College at 1pm. Lifelong Lincoln enthusiast Nat Fenton will speak and lead discussion after the screening. Taking its inspiration from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals director Stephen Spielberg, screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Angels in America), and actor Daniel Day-Lewis collaborate on this dramatic and powerful historical drama. Set during the final four months of the Civil War, of Lincoln’s presidency and his life, it brings to life the president’s determination at the tumultuous beginning of his second term to pass the thirteenth amendment (abolishing slavery) before the end of the war, so as to make this change permanent in the country. Tommy Lee Jones gives a memorable performance as abolitionist and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens.
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Friday Jan 18 - Thursday Jan 24
ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
With a story you’d think they’d only come up with in the movies, actor-director Ben Affleck’s third time directing is a solid, unexpectedly suspenseful and fully entertaining film. It is also based on true events, long kept secret but declassified by President Clinton in 1997. Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA specialist in “exfiltration” who was instrumental in concocting and implementing a far-fetched, in fact preposterous, scheme to rescue six Americans who managed to escape unnoticed when Iranians stormed the American Embassy in 1979 taking 52 hostages. These six found hiding in the home of the Canadian ambassador, but were trapped there, threatening themselves, the other hostages, and the Canadians. Seven Oscar nominations including Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin and Best Picture.
Friday Jan 18 - Monday Jan 21
Poor Ralph (John C. Reilly) has spent the last 30 or so years in the 1980s era arcade game Fix It Felix, crushing buildings that his cheerful nemesis rebuilds with remarkable aplomb and speed, to the delight of the residents of Niceland. Although he knows it is his job, he grows tired of being the bad guy, as he really is nice, and sets off on a quest to earn a medal that he hopes will make him a hero in his colleagues’ eyes. He ends up first in war game Hero’s Duty, then in another game, Sugar Rush, where he meets a character with pixelating issues (Sarah Silverman) who is ostracized by her co-characters. He has also unwittingly caused chaos in his home game. This imaginative, smartly witty and colorful new Disney film that celebrates gaming while encouraging interaction in the real world, directed by Rich Moore (The Simpsons) and executive produced by Pixar guru John Lasseter, does for arcade games what Toy Story did for the nursery toy box. Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.
Tuesday Jan 22 - Thursday Jan 24
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (R) 109min 5:30 and 8:00
Billy (Sam Rockwell) is a part-time actor who makes ends meet as a dog-napper with his partner-in-crime Hans (Christopher Walken). Most recently they have stolen the beloved pooch of a wacko, psychotic gangster (Woody Harrelson). Billy also really wants to help his best friend (Colin Farrell) an alcoholic, struggling writer overdue with his next screenplay. He’s got a title (the movie’s) but not much else. This bloody, funny mesh of these two stories is the heart of this most entertaining comedy from Irish director Martin McDonaugh (Oscar-nominated for the screenplay of his debut film In Bruges). It is Tarantino x Charlie Kaufman x Coen Brothers with an excellent cast, sharp dialogue and gleefully brutal violence that is side-splittingly funny.
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Fri Jan 25 - Thurs Jan 31
LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min 5:30 and 8:00
This spellbinding, epic survival tale from director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) begins with a middle-aged Canadian man (Irrfan Khan) telling his immigration story to a writer. As a youth in Pondicherry, India, Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma), a spiritual boy who lives with his secular family and their small zoo of exotic animals. Moving to Canada with his family and their animals, the ship goes down; Pi survives, with only a Royal Bengal tiger as his companion in a lifeboat. The visually splendid, emotionally satisfying, altogether amazing adventure story, based on the novel by Yann Martel, tells of his 227 days spent with a carnivorous tiger at sea. Eleven Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Score and Best Song.
Fri Jan 25 - Mon Jan 28
HITCHCOCK (PG-13) 98min 6:00 and 8:15 except Sat 4:30 only
When a reporter asked influential director Alfred Hitchcock at the premiere of his latest, North by Northwest, if he wasn’t too old to continue making movies suggesting that he perhaps should retire while he was ahead, his response was to make the precedent-shattering horror film Psycho, a fresh, different story (for 1960) about a serial killer that the studios wouldn’t finance, even for a director of his stature. In this evocative, fully entertaining love story from director Sacha Gervasi (Anvil!) from Stephen Rebello’s exhaustively researched biography adapted by John McLaughlin (Black Swan), Anthony Hopkins stars as the obsessive director and Helen Mirren plays his wife and creative partner Alma as they negotiate their faltering relationship, the film production and other obstacles. Scarlett Johanssen costars as actress Janet Leigh, and James D’Arcy as actor Anthony Perkins, Psycho’s stars. Oscar nominated for Makeup and Hairstyling.
Tues Jan 29 - Thurs Jan 31
CHASING ICE (PG-13) 74min 6:00 and 7:45
Spurred by an assignment for National Geographic to visually depict climate change, acclaimed photographer James Balog, a global warming skeptic, set out to photograph melting glaciers, and in the process became a believer. First-time filmmaker Jeff Orlowski documents the challenges and successes of Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey of glaciers in Alaska, Greenland, Iceland and Montana. Using time lapse photography, Balog has captured a multi-year record of the eye-opening changes in these massive sheets of ice with harrowing, exquisitely beautiful and remarkably sobering images. Oscar nominated for Best Song.
Fri Feb 1 - Thurs Feb 7
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min
Taking its inspiration from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals director Stephen Spielberg, screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Angels in America), and actor Daniel Day-Lewis collaborate on this dramatic and powerful historical drama. Set during the final four months of the Civil War, of Lincoln’s presidency and his life, it brings to life the president’s determination at the tumultuous beginning of his second term to pass the thirteenth amendment (abolishing slavery) before the end of the war, so as to make this change permanent in the country. Tommy Lee Jones gives a memorable performance as abolitionist and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. Twelve Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Director, Actor (2) for Day-Lewis and Jones, Actress for Sally Field, Adapted Screenplay, Costumes, Cinematography and Score.
Fri Feb 1 - Mon Feb 4
OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) ??min animated earlier; live-action later
The Oscar Nominations won’t be announced until after this copy goes to the printer, so we don’t yet know the lineup of short films that will be honored by the Academy. After qualifying based on festival honors and commercial runs, the Academy has narrowed the field to eleven in the live-action category, and ten in the animated category, which will be further winnowed to between three and five in each category as announced on the morning of Thursday Jan. 10. We will show the animated collection early and the live-action after. Two separate admissions. Obviously all Oscar-nominated....
Tues Feb 5 - Thurs Feb 7
HOLY MOTORS (NR) 115min [partly in FRENCH with subtitles]
Stretch yourself by experiencing this wondrous, beautiful cinematic adventure from French director Leos Carax. This inventive, episodic ride, a tribute to the power of cinema, is a mesmerizing and unforgettable visual feast. Transformative actor Denis Lavant (Lovers on the Bridge) plays many different roles over the course of this film. He begins as Monsieur Oscar, a well-dressed business man who is picked up at his house by a limousine driven by a slender blonde chauffeur (Edith Scob). Each time he enters the limo as it drives around Paris, he is given a new assignment and emerges a different character: a tycoon, a gypsy beggar, a ninja warrior, a sewer troll. Eva Mendes and Australian pop star Kylie Minogue “costar.”
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COMING SOON on the next schedule:
A LATE QUARTET
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
ANNA KARENINA
LES MISERABLES
HYDE PARK ON HUDSON
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
THIS IS 40
OSCAH' NIGHT!
Many Oscar nominees on both what remains of our current program and on this upcoming schedule!
Tonight is the last night of FLIGHT, which received nominations for original screenplay and Best Actor for Denzel Washington, and SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN (really wonderful - I watched it last night) (front-runner for Best Documentary.) Starting tomorrow, in THE SESSIONS, Helen Hunt was nominated for Supporting Actress, and THE HOBBIT earned nominations for visual effects, production design and makeup; Denmark's A ROYAL AFFAIR, which starts Tuesday, is a nominee for Foreign Language film.
We also have scheduled some special programming. There are three special events coming in the next few weeks. On Saturday 1/26 we will re-jigger our schedule slightly so that we can present the finale to the Abbe Museum's Native America Film series (that Reel Pizza underwrites) -- the classic silent film NANOOK, with live accompaniment composed and performed by the Sumner McKane Group. We will move the Sat evening show of HITCHCOCK to 4:30 only, and the silent film will start at 7pm (we will seat when Hitchcock gets out). Tickets are available through the Abbe, 288-3519.
If you are interested in silent film, the night before the Abbe event, Fri 1/25, there is another silent film event happening, this one at the Grand, Charlie Chaplin's THE GOLD RUSH, also with live accompaniment, here by TEMPO, Eastern Maine's Youth Orchestra playing a score especially composed for this performance by conductor Rebecca Edmundson. Tickets are available at the Grand 667-9500.
On Saturday Feb 2, we have two events happening simultaneously. We will be hosting a special matinee screening of LINCOLN in association with the Acadia Senior College at 1pm. Lifelong Lincoln enthusiast Nat Fenton will speak and lead discussion after the screening. On the other side, we present DOWNEAST at 2pm, a film about the closing of the Stinson sardine cannery in Prospect Harbor and its afterlife. We hope to have a guest to make remarks at the screening, but haven't been able to nail anyone down yet. Regular prices for both of these two screenings.
And finally our regular schedule is below. It is a complete schedule on both screens, but I don't have times for the last week because we still don't know the running times of the Oscar-nominated short film programs. Stay Tuned! And see you soon!
-Lisa
Fri 1/18 - Thurs 1/24 ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
Fri 1/18 - Mon 1/21 WRECK IT RALPH (PG) 93min 5:30 and 7:30
Tues 1/22 - Thurs 1/24 SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (R) 109min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 1/25 - Thurs 1/31 LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 1/25 - Mon 1/28 HITCHCOCK (PG-13) 98min 6:00 and 8:15 except Sat 4:30 only
Tues 1/29 - Thurs 1/31 CHASING ICE (PG-13) 74min 6:00 and 7:45
Fri 2/1 - Thurs 2/7 LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min
Fri 2/1 - Mon 2/4 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) ??min animated earlier, live-action later
Tues 2/5 - Thurs 2/7 HOLY MOTORS (NR) 115min [partly in FRENCH with subtitles]
NANOOK (NR) 70min [silent with live accompaniment] 7:00pm
In association with the Abbe Museum, and as a grand culmination of their annual Native American Film Series (which Reel Pizza sponsors) we present this seminal documentary silent film with accompaniment composed specifically for this film and performed live by the Sumner McKane Group, a modern instrumental music trio, including guitarist Sumner McKane, bassist Josh Robbins, and drummer Todd the Rocket Richard, based in southern Maine. Filmed in 1922, this film was one of the first to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry and is considered the first anthropological documentary film ever made. Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty spent a year following the lives of an Inuit family, led by Nanook, through their travels and travails enduring an Arctic winter. Tickets are available at the Abbe: 288-3519.
Saturday Feb 2
DOWNEAST (NR) 77min 2:00pm
An experiential story that unfolds over the course of two years in nearby Prospect Harbor, this intimate film from directors Ashley Sabin and David Redmon (Girl Model) observes the closing of the last remaining sardine cannery in the US and after, when Boston-based entrepreneur Antonio Bussone purchases the plant, hoping to re-build a lobster processing facility and rehire the laid-off, older sardine workers. His troubles begin day one as local politicians oppose his vision of rebuilding the factory. Undeterred, Antonio moves forward.
also Saturday Feb 2
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min 1:00pm
A special matinee screening of LINCOLN in association with the Acadia Senior College at 1pm. Lifelong Lincoln enthusiast Nat Fenton will speak and lead discussion after the screening. Taking its inspiration from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals director Stephen Spielberg, screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Angels in America), and actor Daniel Day-Lewis collaborate on this dramatic and powerful historical drama. Set during the final four months of the Civil War, of Lincoln’s presidency and his life, it brings to life the president’s determination at the tumultuous beginning of his second term to pass the thirteenth amendment (abolishing slavery) before the end of the war, so as to make this change permanent in the country. Tommy Lee Jones gives a memorable performance as abolitionist and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens.
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Friday Jan 18 - Thursday Jan 24
ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
With a story you’d think they’d only come up with in the movies, actor-director Ben Affleck’s third time directing is a solid, unexpectedly suspenseful and fully entertaining film. It is also based on true events, long kept secret but declassified by President Clinton in 1997. Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA specialist in “exfiltration” who was instrumental in concocting and implementing a far-fetched, in fact preposterous, scheme to rescue six Americans who managed to escape unnoticed when Iranians stormed the American Embassy in 1979 taking 52 hostages. These six found hiding in the home of the Canadian ambassador, but were trapped there, threatening themselves, the other hostages, and the Canadians. Seven Oscar nominations including Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin and Best Picture.
Friday Jan 18 - Monday Jan 21
Poor Ralph (John C. Reilly) has spent the last 30 or so years in the 1980s era arcade game Fix It Felix, crushing buildings that his cheerful nemesis rebuilds with remarkable aplomb and speed, to the delight of the residents of Niceland. Although he knows it is his job, he grows tired of being the bad guy, as he really is nice, and sets off on a quest to earn a medal that he hopes will make him a hero in his colleagues’ eyes. He ends up first in war game Hero’s Duty, then in another game, Sugar Rush, where he meets a character with pixelating issues (Sarah Silverman) who is ostracized by her co-characters. He has also unwittingly caused chaos in his home game. This imaginative, smartly witty and colorful new Disney film that celebrates gaming while encouraging interaction in the real world, directed by Rich Moore (The Simpsons) and executive produced by Pixar guru John Lasseter, does for arcade games what Toy Story did for the nursery toy box. Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.
Tuesday Jan 22 - Thursday Jan 24
Billy (Sam Rockwell) is a part-time actor who makes ends meet as a dog-napper with his partner-in-crime Hans (Christopher Walken). Most recently they have stolen the beloved pooch of a wacko, psychotic gangster (Woody Harrelson). Billy also really wants to help his best friend (Colin Farrell) an alcoholic, struggling writer overdue with his next screenplay. He’s got a title (the movie’s) but not much else. This bloody, funny mesh of these two stories is the heart of this most entertaining comedy from Irish director Martin McDonaugh (Oscar-nominated for the screenplay of his debut film In Bruges). It is Tarantino x Charlie Kaufman x Coen Brothers with an excellent cast, sharp dialogue and gleefully brutal violence that is side-splittingly funny.
LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min 5:30 and 8:00
This spellbinding, epic survival tale from director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) begins with a middle-aged Canadian man (Irrfan Khan) telling his immigration story to a writer. As a youth in Pondicherry, India, Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma), a spiritual boy who lives with his secular family and their small zoo of exotic animals. Moving to Canada with his family and their animals, the ship goes down; Pi survives, with only a Royal Bengal tiger as his companion in a lifeboat. The visually splendid, emotionally satisfying, altogether amazing adventure story, based on the novel by Yann Martel, tells of his 227 days spent with a carnivorous tiger at sea. Eleven Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Score and Best Song.
Fri Jan 25 - Mon Jan 28
HITCHCOCK (PG-13) 98min 6:00 and 8:15 except Sat 4:30 only
When a reporter asked influential director Alfred Hitchcock at the premiere of his latest, North by Northwest, if he wasn’t too old to continue making movies suggesting that he perhaps should retire while he was ahead, his response was to make the precedent-shattering horror film Psycho, a fresh, different story (for 1960) about a serial killer that the studios wouldn’t finance, even for a director of his stature. In this evocative, fully entertaining love story from director Sacha Gervasi (Anvil!) from Stephen Rebello’s exhaustively researched biography adapted by John McLaughlin (Black Swan), Anthony Hopkins stars as the obsessive director and Helen Mirren plays his wife and creative partner Alma as they negotiate their faltering relationship, the film production and other obstacles. Scarlett Johanssen costars as actress Janet Leigh, and James D’Arcy as actor Anthony Perkins, Psycho’s stars. Oscar nominated for Makeup and Hairstyling.
CHASING ICE (PG-13) 74min 6:00 and 7:45
Spurred by an assignment for National Geographic to visually depict climate change, acclaimed photographer James Balog, a global warming skeptic, set out to photograph melting glaciers, and in the process became a believer. First-time filmmaker Jeff Orlowski documents the challenges and successes of Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey of glaciers in Alaska, Greenland, Iceland and Montana. Using time lapse photography, Balog has captured a multi-year record of the eye-opening changes in these massive sheets of ice with harrowing, exquisitely beautiful and remarkably sobering images. Oscar nominated for Best Song.
Fri Feb 1 - Thurs Feb 7
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min
Taking its inspiration from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals director Stephen Spielberg, screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Angels in America), and actor Daniel Day-Lewis collaborate on this dramatic and powerful historical drama. Set during the final four months of the Civil War, of Lincoln’s presidency and his life, it brings to life the president’s determination at the tumultuous beginning of his second term to pass the thirteenth amendment (abolishing slavery) before the end of the war, so as to make this change permanent in the country. Tommy Lee Jones gives a memorable performance as abolitionist and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. Twelve Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Director, Actor (2) for Day-Lewis and Jones, Actress for Sally Field, Adapted Screenplay, Costumes, Cinematography and Score.
Fri Feb 1 - Mon Feb 4
OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) ??min animated earlier; live-action later
The Oscar Nominations won’t be announced until after this copy goes to the printer, so we don’t yet know the lineup of short films that will be honored by the Academy. After qualifying based on festival honors and commercial runs, the Academy has narrowed the field to eleven in the live-action category, and ten in the animated category, which will be further winnowed to between three and five in each category as announced on the morning of Thursday Jan. 10. We will show the animated collection early and the live-action after. Two separate admissions. Obviously all Oscar-nominated....
Stretch yourself by experiencing this wondrous, beautiful cinematic adventure from French director Leos Carax. This inventive, episodic ride, a tribute to the power of cinema, is a mesmerizing and unforgettable visual feast. Transformative actor Denis Lavant (Lovers on the Bridge) plays many different roles over the course of this film. He begins as Monsieur Oscar, a well-dressed business man who is picked up at his house by a limousine driven by a slender blonde chauffeur (Edith Scob). Each time he enters the limo as it drives around Paris, he is given a new assignment and emerges a different character: a tycoon, a gypsy beggar, a ninja warrior, a sewer troll. Eva Mendes and Australian pop star Kylie Minogue “costar.”
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COMING SOON on the next schedule:
A LATE QUARTET
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
ANNA KARENINA
LES MISERABLES
HYDE PARK ON HUDSON
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
THIS IS 40
OSCAH' NIGHT!
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
[Reel Pizza] update Jan 11 - 17
hi everyone
Here are the titles and times for this next week at Reel Pizza.
The Senior Matinee for Thurs 1/10 is FLIGHT at 1:00pm... be sure to say "Happy Birthday" to your projectionist!
Starting Friday we will be showing THE HOBBIT and THE SESSIONS and A ROYAL AFFAIR.
The next full schedule will be headed your way shortly.
See you soon!
-Lisa
Fri - Thurs 1/11 - 1/17 THE HOBBIT (PG-13) 168min 5:00 and 8:30
Fri - Mon 1/11 - 14 THE SESSIONS (R) 98min
Tues - Thurs 1/15 - 1/17 A ROYAL AFFAIR (R) 137min [in Danish with subtitles]
Fri Jan 11 - Thurs Jan 17
THE HOBBIT (PG-13) 169min
Director Peter Jackson returns to Middle Earth, adapting JRR Tolkien’s prequel to the Lord of the Rings, and making the first remarkable and entrancing part of what will become a trilogy of films. Here we are introduced to a young Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) a sedentary hobbit with no sense of adventure who is cajoled by wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen reprising his LOTR role) and thirteen dwarves to leave his comfortable hobbit hole and participate in a burgling of a vicious dragon who long ago took over the elves’ mountain home and its treasure. On the journey fraught with peril he wins a certain ring from a curious creature he meets, Gollum (Andy Serkis, also reprising).
Fri Jan 11 - Mon Jan 14
THE SESSIONS (R) 98min
Journalist and poet Mark O’Brien (in a remarkable performance by versatile actor John Hawkes in a totally different role from either his previous Winter’s Bone or Martha Marcy May Marlene), suffers from polio and has spent his life since he was six confined to an iron lung. Still a virgin at aged 38 he is determined (before he passes his sell-by date) to discover an inherently human experience, consensual sex. After receiving the (quite funny) blessing of his priest (William H Macy), he engages the services of a professional and forthright sex therapist (Helen Hunt) who has dealt with disabled people before, but none like Mark. Based on a published article by the real Mr. O’Brien in 1990, writer-director and polio sufferer Ben Lewin has made an honest, uplifting and unforgettable film.
Tues Jan 15 - Thurs Jan 17
A ROYAL AFFAIR (R) 137min [in Danish with subtitles]
This sumptuous historical costume drama tells the fascinating true story of Denmark’s unlikely transition from a feudal state run by nobles clinging to their religion into an Enlightened country in the 18 th century. Writer-director Nikolaj Arcel, who wrote the Swedish Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, brings this story to vibrant, intelligent life. British Princess Caroline (Alicia Vikander, Anna Karenina) is married off to her cousin, King Christian of Denmark (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard) sight unseen; it doesn’t take long for her to realize he is juvenile and possibly insane. When the king brings German physician Johann Struensee into their lives, both their worlds change.
Here are the titles and times for this next week at Reel Pizza.
The Senior Matinee for Thurs 1/10 is FLIGHT at 1:00pm... be sure to say "Happy Birthday" to your projectionist!
Starting Friday we will be showing THE HOBBIT and THE SESSIONS and A ROYAL AFFAIR.
The next full schedule will be headed your way shortly.
See you soon!
-Lisa
Fri - Thurs 1/11 - 1/17 THE HOBBIT (PG-13) 168min 5:00 and 8:30
Fri - Mon 1/11 - 14 THE SESSIONS (R) 98min
Tues - Thurs 1/15 - 1/17 A ROYAL AFFAIR (R) 137min [in Danish with subtitles]
Fri Jan 11 - Thurs Jan 17
THE HOBBIT (PG-13) 169min
Director Peter Jackson returns to Middle Earth, adapting JRR Tolkien’s prequel to the Lord of the Rings, and making the first remarkable and entrancing part of what will become a trilogy of films. Here we are introduced to a young Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) a sedentary hobbit with no sense of adventure who is cajoled by wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen reprising his LOTR role) and thirteen dwarves to leave his comfortable hobbit hole and participate in a burgling of a vicious dragon who long ago took over the elves’ mountain home and its treasure. On the journey fraught with peril he wins a certain ring from a curious creature he meets, Gollum (Andy Serkis, also reprising).
Fri Jan 11 - Mon Jan 14
THE SESSIONS (R) 98min
Journalist and poet Mark O’Brien (in a remarkable performance by versatile actor John Hawkes in a totally different role from either his previous Winter’s Bone or Martha Marcy May Marlene), suffers from polio and has spent his life since he was six confined to an iron lung. Still a virgin at aged 38 he is determined (before he passes his sell-by date) to discover an inherently human experience, consensual sex. After receiving the (quite funny) blessing of his priest (William H Macy), he engages the services of a professional and forthright sex therapist (Helen Hunt) who has dealt with disabled people before, but none like Mark. Based on a published article by the real Mr. O’Brien in 1990, writer-director and polio sufferer Ben Lewin has made an honest, uplifting and unforgettable film.
Tues Jan 15 - Thurs Jan 17
A ROYAL AFFAIR (R) 137min [in Danish with subtitles]
This sumptuous historical costume drama tells the fascinating true story of Denmark’s unlikely transition from a feudal state run by nobles clinging to their religion into an Enlightened country in the 18 th century. Writer-director Nikolaj Arcel, who wrote the Swedish Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, brings this story to vibrant, intelligent life. British Princess Caroline (Alicia Vikander, Anna Karenina) is married off to her cousin, King Christian of Denmark (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard) sight unseen; it doesn’t take long for her to realize he is juvenile and possibly insane. When the king brings German physician Johann Struensee into their lives, both their worlds change.
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