[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