Here is the next schedule for Reel Pizza that runs March 1 - 21. We have two special programs during this time:
On Saturday afternoon March 9, we will host a fundraising matinee for the Maine Association of Certified Professional Midwives with a screening of BIRTHSTORY: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives. This group is raising money to pay for the introduction of a bill to create licensing for their profession so that birthing center and homebirth can become a viable option for more families (both our kids were born at home). The film is a historical documentary about this unique sisterhood gains strength from its use of home movies made by the women involved. $10 admission.
The Conners Emerson 8th graders are fundraising to take their class on a graduation trip and provide the after-commencement celebration. They will have a Bingo/movie/Silent Auction afternoon on Sunday Mar 10 starting at 1:30. They have secured a fabulous and extensive collection of donations by local businesses so you might want to stop in for an Easter gift or getting a head start on next Christmas at a bargain. The movie is the third in a series featuring a trio of Pliocene-Quaternary glacial age friends (PG) at 2pm; $5 for the film. The last time we had Bingo for a fundraiser, it was lots of fun and there will be prizes! You can also buy a raffle ticket for a new IPad; the drawing will be at 3:30 at the close of the silent auction.
We hope you will be able to support these worthy causes.
And here is our film schedule; first in brief as the first two weeks are confirmed on both sides. The descriptions follow. Sorry no kid movies.....just aren't any out there right at the moment. Keep busy with Jazz Band and Show Choir and One Acts (good luck everyone!), and Enjoy the sun!
-Lisa
ps You emailers probably don't care, but please note the printed, snail mail schedules are coming....just a little later this time due to a scheduling issue at the printers. If you run into someone who is looking for it, please print them a copy of the pdf! Thanks!
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Fri Mar 1 - Thurs Mar 7 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (R) 120min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri Mar 1 - Mon Mar 4 PROMISED LAND (R) 110min 6:00 and 8:30
Tues Mar 5 - Thurs Mar 7 HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (NR) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
Fri Mar 8 - Thurs Mar 14 DJANGO UNCHAINED (R) 165min 5:00 and 8:30
Fri Mar 8 - Mon Mar 11 SMASHED (R) 85min 5:30 and 7:45
Tues Mar 12 - Thurs Mar 14 HAPPY PEOPLE (NR) 94min 5:30 and 7:45
Fri Mar 15 - Thurs Mar 21 ??
Fri Mar 15 - Mon Mar 18 WUTHERING HEIGHTS (R) 129min
Tues Mar 19 - Thurs Mar 21 RUST AND BONE (R) 122min
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Fri Mar 1 - Thurs Mar 7
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (R) 120min 5:30 and 8:00
David O. Russell (The Fighter, I Heart Huckabees) has assembled an all Oscar-nominated cast and adapted the debut novel of author Matthew Quick into a screwy, quirky and crowd-pleasing romantic comedy. Bradley Cooper (Hangover) is Pat, just released from some months in a mental institution after a domestic dispute gone awry, is now living at home with mom (Jackie Weaver, Animal Kingdom) and dad (Robert DeNiro) and hoping to get back together with his estranged wife. When he meets mysterious Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games) a girl with her own issues, things get complicated.
Fri Mar 1 - Mon Mar 4
PROMISED LAND (R) 110min 6:00 and 8:30
Involving and affecting, this contemporary drama from director Gus Van Sant (Milk) explores the dangers and temptations of fracking in rural Pennsylvania as small town America faces economic stresses and decline. Matt Damon and Frances McDormand are salespeople for a natural gas company sent to buy drilling rights from property owners. He fully believes he is doing right for these hard up folks; she is a single mom just interested in the paycheck that supports her child. Before they can close the deal, they are opposed by a respected retired teacher (Hal Holbrook) and a grassroots eco-warrior (John Krasinski). This is America at the crossroads.
Tues Mar 5 - Thurs Mar 7
HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (NR) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
This exceptional, Oscar-nominated portrait of grass-roots activism fed by rage, fear and determination, is the story of two coalitions whose innovative work turned AIDS from a death sentence in the early 1980s into a manageable condition with the development of combination therapies by the late 1990s. Beginning six years into the epidemic, when victims were still pariahs, award-winning journalist turned filmmaker David France uses broadcast news stories, and never-before-seen home movies (cam-corders were the era’s new technology) showing these groups using controversial actions to shame the pharmaceutical companies and policy makers to accelerate drug trials.
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Fri Mar 8 - Thurs Mar 14
Quentin Tarantino directs….you need more info? This time he has created a sprawling revenge thriller Western, set in the South just before the Civil War. Oscar winner Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) returns to play a bounty hunter/dentist who buys a certain slave Django (Jamie Foxx) who can help him identify three wanted men. In exchange he gives the black man his freedom. But Django won’t be free until he is reunited with his wife (Kerry Washington) who has been sold to a notorious plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio) whose house slave (Samuel L. Jackson) might be more vicious than he. It is violent, offensive, and completely over the top, and also funny and serious and totally entertaining.
Fri Mar 8 - Mon Mar 11
SMASHED (R) 85min 5:30 and 7:45
In this spirited, unsentimental and interesting dramady, Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim vs the World) stars as a young woman, an elementary school teacher, with a drinking problem. Happily married to a trust fund-supported husband she enjoys their nights out drinking, but he can afford to spend his days hungover. When her job is put in jeopardy, she makes a choice to try sobriety, and finds an understanding sponsor (Octavia Spencer, The Help). But as her husband isn’t willing to take this journey with her, being sober isn’t nearly as easy as she would like and it calls into question her relationships with her family. Young director and co-writer James Ponsoldt uses humor to temper this serious but not depressing, sharply written and interesting story.
Tues Mar 12 - Thurs Mar 14
HAPPY PEOPLE: A Year in the Taiga (NR) 94min [partly in Russian with subtitles] 5:30 and 7:45
Distinguished filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams) takes yet another unforgettable journey into a remote and extreme natural landscape. This visually stunning documentary explores the indigenous people living in the heart of the Taiga in Western Siberia, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries. Over four seasons, the film follows a trapper, telling the story of a culture virtually untouched by modernity. The director used footage from co-director Dmitry Vasyukov’s 4 hour Russian TV documentary, creating an insightful and exquisite look at the cultural traditions of a remote, indigenous people.
Fri Mar 15 - Thurs Mar 21
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (NR) 129min
This exciting and fresh take on Emily Brontë’s classic and only novel boldly revitalizes this epic love story of forbidden passion on the moors of rural Northern England. British director Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank) uses a cast of unknown actors, and gorgeously atmospheric naturalism and realism in her interpretation of the relationship between the orphaned boy Heathcliff, brought into the home of a benevolent Yorkshire farmer, and his daughter Catherine, as well as the quite different relationship between the boy and the man’s son Hindley. As these three grow into adulthood, they must confront the intense feelings and rivalries that have grown over the years.
Tues Mar 19 - Thurs Mar 21
RUST AND BONE (R) 122min [in French with subtitles]
This story of two disparate people who bring each other back to life features charismatic performances by Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts, and astute direction by Oscar-nominated director Jacques Audiard (Un Prophèt). Based on short stories by Canadian Craig Davidson, homeless Ali has custody of his young son who he hardly knows, and is trying to make ends meet, while getting his sister to take care of his kid. He gets a job as a bar bouncer, and one night he breaks up a fight started by radiant Marineland whale trainer Stephanie, and takes her home, leaving her his number. When a tragic accident occurs to Stephanie, she desperately calls Ali.
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SIDE EFFECTS (R) 106min
Director Stephen Soderberg (sex, lies and videotape, Magic Mike) claims he is retiring and this is his final film, which would be a shame. True or not, with this film he has made a clever elegant and provocative psychological thriller. Emily (Rooney Mara, Girl with a Dragon Tattoo) and Martin (Channing Tatum) are a well-to-do New York couple who are trying to cope after Martin serves time for insider trading. Emily’s increasing depression is being treated by her psychiatrist (Jude Law) but their worlds unravel after she is prescribed a new anti-anxiety drug that has unexpected results.
IDENTITY THIEF (R) 111min
Melissa McCarthy is a fearless and genius comedienne given her first starring role in this goofy, raunchy and funny comedy directed by Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses). Her portrayal of Diana, a shopaholic who uses other people’s identities and credit to finance her sprees is brazen, and the latest target of her con is hapless account rep named Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman). He finds his world turned upside down, and has to hunt down this woman and get her back to Denver to get his identity back.
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AMOUR
QUARTET
WARM BODIES
JACK THE GIANT SLAYER
OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL
THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE
SAFE HAVEN
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