hi everyone~
here is the schedule of films that play this coming week. For those of you who attended the MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, I hope you enjoyed the program. I have tallied your votes (everyone on the ballot got more than one vote), and next week I will let you know how your Reel Pizza votes compared with the rest of the planet when I announce the world wide winners! If you have any comments about the program I would be interested. Thanks!
and See you soon.
-Lisa
Fri Oct 3 -Thurs Oct 9
MY OLD LADY (PG-13) 107min 5:30 & 8:00
Seventy-five year-old playwright Israel Horovitz has adapted his 2002 play into this affecting, delightful comedy and domestic drama starring Kevin Kline, Kirsten Scott Thomas and Maggie Smith. He plays a broke, thrice divorced, recovering alcoholic loser who just inherited a large apartment in a charming Paris neighborhood from his estranged father. When he arrives to sell the place for the cash, he discovers that a feisty old woman and her daughter live there, and, to his horror, also learns that due to an arcane and peculiar French real estate law, they are allowed to stay until the matron dies, and he must pay them a monthly fee. This situation leads all three to take a look at the choices they have made in their lives. trailer
Brendan Gleeson gives a brilliant performance as a good priest on the northwest coast of Ireland who ministers to a disparate town of flawed, wounded and spiritually bankrupt parishoners. The story starts with an anonymous death threat against the man by a long ago victim of clerical sexual child during his confession; the minister has a week to get his affairs in order. He spends that time comforting his distressed grown daughter (Kelly Reilly), and caring for his flock (including Chris O’Dowd and Domhnall Gleeson) whose various problems are scurrilous and comic. This is the second film from director John Michael McDonagh (The Guard). trailer
Tues Oct 7 - Thurs Oct 9
Their first journey through northern England was such a blast that it only seemed like a good idea to do it again. Rob Bryden and Steve Coogan set out traveling along the coast of Italy with director Michael Winterbottom. Their fictionalized selves follow in the footsteps of the great Romantic poets Shelley and Byron, travelling from Liguria thru Tuscany, Rome, and Amalfi, ending in Capri and, while dining on mouthwatering meals at high end restaurants, indulge in sparkling banter and hilarious conversation. The comic interludes weave with quiet moments of self-reflection on friendship, family and career. trailer
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