[Reel Pizza] update Jan 30 - Feb 5

Time to ski! Or snowshoe!  And think about all the calories you are burning as you shovel, and shovel, and shovel.....  And afterwards you can be a sloth and cozy up on the couch to watch a movie!   You gotta EARN that torpor.  :)

We have many choices this week, with this weekend's two different programs of Oscar nominated short films (get ready for the office pool or burnish your chances of winning the big prize on Oscah'Night, coming up 2/22 ).  The distributor tells us the Animated program which is our early show this coming weekend would be rated PG and the Live-Action program, the later show, would be PG-13. 

During the mid-week, FORCE MAJEURE, a hilarious Swedish psychological thriller, set in Switzerland, about how a split second decision has repercussions for a man and his family during a ski vacation.   

And many of you have been waiting for Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley in the multi-Oscar nominee, THE IMITATION GAME, which plays all week and will be the Senior Matinee next Thursday (2/5).  This Thursday (today 1/29) it is the concluding film of Peter Jackson's Middle Earth trilogy THE HOBBIT: Battle of Five Armies.  Senior matinees are at 1pm.

see you soon!
-L

Here is the line up with the times.

Fri 1/30 - Thurs 2/5    THE IMITATION GAME  (PG-13) 6:00 and 8:30
Fri 1/30 - Mon 2/2    OSCAR-NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORT FILMS (NR/PG) 5:30 only
Fri 1/30 - Mon 2/2    OSCAR-NOMINATED LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILMS (NR/PG-13) 7:30 only
Tues 2/3 - Thurs 2/5    FORCE MAJEURE (R)   5:30 and 8:00


Fri Jan 30 - Thurs Feb 5
THE IMITATION GAME  (PG-13)  114min
Benedict Cumberbatch (TVs Sherlock) gives an excellent performance, combining an air of superiority while remaining likable, portraying the socially inept mathematical genius and closeted homosexual Alan Turing, who with a team of game-playing geeks was responsible for inventing the machine that cracked the Nazi's seemingly uncrackable Enigma Code in WWII.   Keira Knightly plays the sole woman on the team who becomes Turing's friend and most trusted colleague.  Norwegian director Morten Tyldum (Headhunters) makes his English language debut with this fascinating, absorbing character study and wartime thriller.  Earned four Golden Globe Noms and eight Oscar Nominations.  trailer

Fri Jan 30 - Mon Feb 2
OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) animated 77min; live-action 117min
As we have for the past several years, this year we will be screening separate programs of the Oscar-nominated short films; the Animated collection will play at the early showtimes, and the Live-Action collection will be the later screening each day. Animated shorts hail from US, UK, Canada, and Netherlands, with 4 additional commended films in the program . Live Action collection includes films from Switzerland, UK, Israel, France and Tibet. Our annual Oscah' Night Gala celebration, this year on Sunday February 22nd, benefits and is presented by the Jesup Library.  trailer

Tues Feb 3 - Thurs Feb 5
FORCE MAJEURE (R)   120min [in SWEDISH with subtitles]
This Cannes Jury Prize winner is a haunting and often darkly hilarious psychological drama from Swedish director Ruben Östlund.  An upscale Swedish family on a skiing vacation in the Swiss Alps escapes a passing moment of peril; in the moment, the husband makes a cowardly decision which shakes his marriage to the core; his single action, unbeknownst to him, breaks open a crevasse in his relationship with his wife that may not be repaired.  It is a Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.  trailer

[Reel Pizza] Snow, What Snow?

Reel Pizza will be open tonight, for any of you hearty souls who dare
brave the elements!
Chris takes it as a badge of honor to not let the weather get the best
of him; he is in town, and will be happy to welcome any who come out.
Our walking-distance employees will be joining him.
Update for the upcoming week soon.
-L

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[Reel Pizza] update Jan 23 - 29

Hi everyone

Upcoming documentary CITIZENFOUR from filmmaker Laura Poitras about Edward Snowden and his NSA revelations recently was honored with an Oscar Nomination for Best Documentary Film.  

Senior movie this Thurs 1/22 is THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
NEXT Thurs 1/29 its THE HOBBIT: BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES
These Senior Matinees start at 1pm.

Update on Oscar Nominated Short Films program playing next week.  The Animated program runs 82min and includes films from US, UK, Canada, and Netherlands, with 4 additional commended films in the program . The Live Action collection runs 118min  and includes films from Switzerland, UK, Israel, France and Tibet. Showtimes will be figured and posted next week when we have determined the film on the other screen.   Trailer

Stay warm, enjoy the sunshine and the ever increasing light. 
-L

Fri 1/23 - Thurs 1/29    THE HOBBIT (PG-13)  5:30 & 8:15
Fri 1/23 - Mon 1/26    ROSEWATER (R)  6:00 & 8:30
Tues 1/27 - Thurs 1/29    CITIZEN FOUR (R)  6:00 & 8:30

Friday 1/23 - Thurs 1/29
THE HOBBIT: BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES  (PG-13)  144min  5:30 & 8:15
It is, indeed, the end of all things.  Director Peter Jackson delivers an inspired, dark and rousing end to the JRR Tolkien world that he has inhabited for the past decade and a half.  Smaug the dragon is on the loose and enraged, and dwarf lord Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to Bilbo and the company in his desire for power.  The armies of men, dwarves and elves assemble at the Lonely Mountain to argue over the hoards of treasure left by Smaug.  But when the orcs show up, they must either unite in battle against the dark forces of Sauron  or be destroyed, as the future of Middle Earth hangs in the balance.  trailer

Fri Jan 23 - Mon Jan 26
ROSEWATER (R)  103min  6:00 and 8:30
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart makes his screenwriting and directing debut with this powerful and intimate political drama.  Gael García Bernal (No, The Motorcycle Diaries) stars as Iranian-born, Canadian citizen Mazair Bahari, a journalist working for Newsweek covering Iran's 2009 seemingly fraudulent presidential elections which gave rise to the Green Revolution.  After Bahari sent video footage of the rioting in Tehran to the west, he was arrested, interrogated, charged as a spy, and tortured over four months, with a satirical interview he made on the Daily Show given as proof of his guilt.  Stewart seamlessly blends real and recreated footage to tell his story.  trailer
 
Tues Jan 27 - Thurs Jan 29
CITIZEN FOUR (R-language only) 114min  6:00 & 8:30
Several years into the making of a film on post-9/11 surveillance, Pulitzer-prize winning documentarian Laura Poitras (My Country, My Country and The Oath) began receiving encrypted emails from someone ready to blow the whistle on a massive covert surveillance program run out of the NSA.  With her camera, she and journalists Glen Greenwald (his book on this is No Place To Hide) and Ewen MacAskill of the Guardian newspaper arrange to meet this mystery person in Hong Kong who turns out to be Edward Snowden, and she records the events of the next 8 days.  This is a chilling, tense, and fascinating portrait of the June 2103 revelations that shook the world.  trailer

[Reel Pizza] update Fri Jan 16 - Thurs Jan 22

Hi everyone
Below is next week's schedule.  Eddie Redmayne won a Best Actor - Drama Golden Globe award last night for his performance as astrophysicist Stephen Hawking in THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, this week's week-long film. 

Also, I goofed; the running time listed for this week's midweek film, THE JUDGE, is (ever so slightly) off - it isn't 95min, it is actually, ummm, 142min...   Therefore, the later shows will start, not at 8:15 as advertised, but as soon as we can turn around the auditorium once the early show gets out, which will be around 8:30.  My apologies.

Enjoy your long weekend, if you are so blessed! 
-L&C

Fri Jan 16 - Thurs Jan 22
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (PG-13) 123min  6:00 & 8:30
In 1963, renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking was just a clumsy PhD student of theoretical physics who fell in love with Jane, a beautiful student of medieval poetry.  Soon his diagnosis of a progressive neurological disease gave him two years to live.  But Jane stuck by him; despite the deterioration of his body, they wed, had three children, and were married for 25 years while she put her own aspirations aside to be his full-time caregiver.  Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker James Marsh (Man on A Wire) has made an absorbing, inspiring and moving romantic drama, based on Jane's memoir.  Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones give flawless performances in this breathtaking portrait of a marriage.  Earned 4 Golden Globe noms.  trailer

Fri Jan 16 - Mon Jan 19
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: Secret of the Tomb (PG) 97min   5:30 & 7:45
Ben Stiller and many of the original cast members, including Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Dick VanDyke, Robin Williams and Mickey Rooney, reprise their roles in this sweet, crowd-pleasing second sequel in the family friendly series.  Larry the night guard (Stiller) at Manhattan's Museum of Natural History takes his enchanted museum characters to London's British Museum to discover why the magic in the ancient Egyptian tablet that brings the museum to life after hours is fading, and to try to reverse its demise.  trailer

Tues Jan 20 - Thurs Jan 22
DEAR WHITE PEOPLE  (R) 108 min  5:30 & 8:00
This intelligent, slyly provocative and unpredictable satire of race relation in the 21st century won a special Jury prize at last year's Sundance Film Fest for young director Justin Simien.  In his feature film debut, he creates a microcosm of the Obama era as a group of four African American students navigate campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white Ivy-League college.  With complex characters, sharp dialog, and humor he shows intolerance and hypocrisy on all sides.  trailer

[Reel Pizza] Update Jan 9 - 15

For all you patient HOBBIT-waiters out there, sorry to report it won't be this week either... Phooey!  But there are plenty of film options this time of year, and we will eventually convince the distributor to give us a print... Sometimes this business is so ridiculous... how do you make the eye-roll emoticon???  insert one here!!

Also, the winter Senior Matinee series starts this Thursday Jan 8th at 1:00pm.  BIRDMAN is the film.  We will announce next week's film at this week's screening.  We expect to continue weekly (Thursdays at 1:00pm) thru March and perhaps into April depending on films and interest.

Stay warm, remember we are a heated facility and have yummy warming soups as well as pizza and salads.

-Lisa

Fri 1/9 - Thurs 1/15  WILD (R) 115min  5:30 & 8:00
Fri 1/9 - Mon 1/12  ST VINCENT (PG-13) 103min  6:00 and 8:15
Tues 1/13 - Thurs 1/15  THE JUDGE (R) 142min   6:00 and 8:15

Fri Jan 9 - Thurs Jan 15
WILD (R) 115min   5:30 & 8:00
Reese Witherspoon gives an unglamorous performance as a young woman who, after the death of her mother (Laura Dern) from cancer at age 45, goes on a roll of personally destructive behavior. When her marriage ends she decides that walking solo over 1000 miles on the Pacific Crest Trail would be cathartic, despite having no hiking experience or a plan or a clue of what she is about to do. Director Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club) and screenwriter Nick Hornby (An Education) adapting Cheryl Strayed's bestselling memoir, have made a powerful and uplifting film of an intimate journey that helps us understand who Cheryl was as well as who she was becoming. Witherspoon is a Golden Globe nominee for Best Actress! trailer

Fri Jan 9 - Mon Jan 12
ST VINCENT (PG-13) 103min   6:00 and 8:15
Bill Murray plays Vincent, a curmudgeon and alcoholic down to his last dime, whose life is upended when new neighbors move in next door. Melissa McCarthy, playing it straight, is an overworked single mom with a precocious and nerdy pre-teen son; working long hours, she needs a sitter, and Vincent's finances could use a boost, so an arrangement is made. An odd friendship soon grows between this improbable pair, as Vincent takes Oliver on all the stops that make up his daily routine, the corner bar, the racetrack, the strip club. Vincent helps Oliver grow to become a man, while Oliver begins to see in Vincent something that no one else is able to - a misunderstood man with a good heart. This is director Ted Melfi's debut feature.  This film is a Golden Globe nominee for Best Picture!  trailer

Tues Jan 13 - Thurs Jan 15
THE JUDGE (R) 142min  6:00 and 8:15
Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall both give excellent performances in this court-room drama with a complex family dynamic. Big city lawyer Hank (Downey Jr.) returns home for the first time in years to attend his mother's funeral, but before he leaves to return home discovers his estranged dad, a respected small-town judge, is suspected of murder. Rich, thoughtful, funny and absorbing, this new film from director David Dobkin (The Wedding Crashers) also features Vincent D'Onofrio and Jeremy Strong as his two brothers who still live at home, Vera Farmiga as his high school sweetheart and Billy Bobb Thornton as the prosecuting attorney. Duvall is a Golden Globe nominee for Best Supporting Actor!  trailer

[Reel Pizza] PRIDE correction

Just a quick note to mention that I have the rating for PRIDE listed
incorrectly everywhere. It is really rated R, for language and brief
sexual content.
My apologies.
-L

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