Hard to believe this takes us past Labor Day! Enjoy these last weeks of full on Summer!!
We have the next installment of the Summer Sierra Club Free Sunday Matinee Series coming Sunday Aug 18 at 2pm. This month the film is the gorgeous PLANET OCEAN and will be introduced by staff from COA's Marine Mammal Research Group, Allied Whale. Scroll down for more information on this film.
Have you heard about the free family outdoor film series we are doing with the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce? For the next three Wednesday nights, Chris will be showing a family - friendly film on the Village Green. The preshow starts at 8pm, with the feature at 8:30. The film on Wed Aug 14 will be SECOND HAND LIONS.
We are getting together the films for our Fifth (!) year of MIFF-by-the-Sea, our "Best Of" selection of films that screened this past July at the Maine International Film Festival. This will take place the weekend of September 13th. Look for more information coming soon about this.
See you soon
-Lisa
Fri Aug 16 - Thurs Aug 22
PLANES (PG) 92min 5:30 and 7:30
This Brand New, action-packed Disney animated adventure-comedy is an expansion of the world created for Cars and Cars 2. Dusty (voice of Dane Cook) is a crop duster who dreams of competing in the exhilarating Wings of the Globe flight competition. However, he has a debilitating fear of heights that may squash that ambition. With help and encouragement from his friends Dottie (Teri Hatcher) a forklift, Chug (Brad Garrett) a fuel truck, and Skipper (Stacey Keach) a curmudgeonly old naval plane, he tries out and, unbelievably, qualifies for the race. He is joined in his eye-opening around the world travels with Quebec mail plane Rochelle (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), British racer Bulldog (John Cleese), and pretty reigning Pan-Asian champ Ishani (Priyanka Chopra) among others.
Fri Aug 16 - Mon Aug 19
THE HEAT (R) 117min 6:00 and 8:30
Funny women Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock join comedic forces using their goofy chemistry in this impressive buddy-cop comedy. In director Paul Feig’s follow-up to his hit Bridesmaids, these two women star as socially inept agents, one prim and proper, the other a battering ram, who are forced to work together to catch a ruthless drug lord. The jokes are brash, coarse, and very funny. Mayhem ensues.
20 FEET FROM STARDOM (PG-13) 89min 6:00 and 8:00
Moving and joyous, this marvelous documentary from filmmaker Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold story of some of the talented backup singers behind rock’s greatest stars, while exploring the benefits and drawbacks of their careers. Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Judith Hill, Claudia Linnear and Lisa Fischer are some of the gifted women who have sung behind the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and Sting, who also speak on camera about these women’s contributions to their success. Each has a uniquely fascinating and person story of their life spent in the shadow of superstardom.
Fri Aug 23 - Mon Aug 26
UNFINISHED SONG (PG-13) 93min
Both heartwarming and heartbreaking, this British comedy tells the inspiring story of crusty and curmudgeonly Arthur (Terence Stamp). He is quite happy with his dull daily routine until his beloved and ailing wife (Vanessa Redgrave) can no longer get herself to the spirited local singing group in which she participates, led by young, energetic choir director Elizabeth (Gemma Arterton) and though he is reluctant to attend with her, he must take her. Christopher Eccleston plays his estranged son.
Tues Aug 27 - Thurs Aug 29
I’M SO EXCITED (R) 95min [in Spanish with subtitles]
Flamboyant Spanish director Pedro Almadovar (Women on the Verge, Talk to Her) returns to his early roots with this campy, inspired, lunatic and occasionally uproarious farce. A technical failure has endangered flight 2459 and the control center is seeking a solution. The flight attendants, in the face of danger, devote themselves body and soul to the task of making the flight as enjoyable as possible for the passengers while they await the resolution.
THE WAY, WAY BACK (PG-13) 103min
This funny and poignant coming-of-age story is the directing debut of Oscar-winning screenwriters (for The Descendants) Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. Shy and awkward teen Duncan is about to spend his summer vacation with his overprotective, divorced mom (Toni Collette) at the beach house of her creepy and menacing boyfriend (Steve Carell) and his aloof daughter. Although the girl next door (AnnaSophia Robb) is friendly, Duncan feels totally out of place, but finds refuge at a nearby waterpark, run by affable slacker Owen (Sam Rockwell) and his assistant (Maya Rudolph). The family dynamics are authentic in this witty and delightful gem.
Tues Sept 30- Thurs Sept 5
MUSEUM HOURS (NR/PG-13) 106min [partly in German with subtitles]
This seductive and contemplative hybrid of drama and art-history essay on the power of art to both mirror and alter our lives is the new feature from director Jem Cohen. Johann (Bobby Sommer) is a museum guard who spends his days silently observing the visitors to Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Art Museum. Canadian Anne (Mary Margaret O’Hara) is suddenly called to Vienna from overseas to attend to a comatose relative. With little to do she wanders the streets; a chance meeting with Johann sparks a deepening connection that draws them through the halls of the museum as they linger over the masterworks and explore around the Austrian capital.
WOLVERINE (PG-13) 126min
Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables) returns to superhero form in this more intimate story of Wolverine having adventures fighting the yakusa in Japan. Years after he saved the life of a soldier during the Nagasaki bombings, he is called to the now old man’s deathbed to protect his granddaughter Mariko, and is helped by pixie street-wise warrior Yukio. This gripping story well-told with spectacular set pieces was written by proven screenwriters Scott Frank (Minority Report), Christopher MacQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) and Mark Bomback (Unstoppable) and directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line).
BLUE JASMINE (PG-13) 98min
Woody Allen’s latest feature (#43) returns him to the US from recent pictures made in Europe (Midnight in Paris, To Rome with Love) but to San Francisco, not New York with this inspired social satire, an homage to Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Cate Blanchett gives an amazing, complex performance finding the heart of a neurotic fragile woman who finds herself suddenly and utterly broke, after her husband is convicted of fraud. With nowhere else to go, she moves in with her estranged but gracious working class sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins) but remains in total denial about her entitlement to a certain social strata. When she meets Dwight (Peter Sarsgaard) she thinks she may have found her meal ticket back to her previous financial status.
RED 2 (PG-13) 116min
Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, and Helen Mirren reprise their roles as Retired, Extremely Dangerous CIA agents in this extremely silly, mindlessly fun and just plain enjoyable character-driven action comedy. A top-secret mission that went disastrously wrong decades ago might be about to be exposed and this motley, aging crew must track down a missing portable nuclear device that is also being searched for by relentless assassins, ruthless terrorists and power-crazed government officials, to save the world and their own lives too.
Sunday August 18
PLANET OCEAN (NR) 85min 2:00pm FREE
This documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the well-known French director and producer features astonishing aerial photography from locations the world over. This film aims to change the way people look at the ocean, focusing on “the greatest natural mystery of our planet” and also has the goal to help our children believe in a better and more sustainable worldview. A reminder of the bond between humans and nature and the duty that exists to protect our planet, this film highlights international researchers and takes the audience on a magnificent and unprecedented journey into the heart of the least known regions of our planet. Staff from Allied Whale, COA's marine mammal research group, will introduce the film.
COMING NEXT?
THE BLING RING
ELYSIUM
FRUITVALE STATION
WE'RE THE MILLERS
THE WORLD'S END
BLACKFISH
and more!
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