Monday, July 27, 2015

[Reel Pizza] update July 31 - Aug 6

Here is the plan starting on Friday for a week.

Next week's (that is August 5th) Outdoor Seaside Cinema is Terry Gilliam's 1981 adventure film TIME BANDITS.  Here is the trailer
Remember, these outdoor movies start progressively a little earlier each week, as we inch our way towards fall!

See you soon!!
-L

Fri July 31 - Thurs Aug 13
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION (PG-13)  130min   (2 weeks)   5:30 & 8:15

Fri July 31 - Mon Aug 3
LOVE & MERCY  (PG-13)  120min  6:00 & 8:30

Tues Aug 4 - Thurs Aug 6
CHARLIE'S COUNTRY  (NR)  108min  [partly in Yolngu with subtitles]   6:00 & 8:30

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Fri July 31 - Thurs Aug 13
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION (PG-13)  130min   (2 weeks)   5:30 & 8:15
BRAND NEW!  Frequent Tom Cruise collaborator and Oscar-winning screenwriter (of The Usual Suspects) Christopher McQuarrie directs this fifth installment of the exciting and thrilling M:I series. Co-starring Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Alec Baldwin and Ving Rhames, Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt, leader of the now disbanded Impossible Missions Force who regroup to take on an international rogue organization, The Syndicate, a network of highly skilled special agents dedicated to creating a new world order thru an escalating series of terrorist attacks.  Again, Cruise does all his crazy stuntwork.  trailer

Fri July 31 - Mon Aug 3
LOVE & MERCY  (PG-13)  120min  6:00 & 8:30
Two actors play brilliant, tortured Beach Boy leader, singer and songwriter Brian Wilson in this compassionate and moving but unconventional biographical drama.  Paul Dano fully inhabits the young visionary at his creative peak as he is putting together the "Pet Sounds" album during the 1960's.  John Cusack is equally impressive as the man in the 1980's, fragile, and under the control of his manipulative, dictatorial therapist Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti), until he meets Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks) the woman who became his second wife and set him free.  Acclaimed producer Bill Pohlad (12 Years a Slave, Brokeback Mountain) directs from a screenplay by Oren Moverman (I'm Not There, The Messenger) and Michael Alan Lerner.  trailer

Tues Aug 4 - Thurs Aug 6
CHARLIE'S COUNTRY  (NR)  108min  [partly in Yolngu with subtitles]   6:00 & 8:30
An aging Aboriginal warrior lives on a reservation in northern Australia but is not allowed by the government to keep his traditional lifestyle and becomes lost between the two cultures.  Finally fed up with the system that takes away his possessions, he retreats into the bush to live the old way, hoping to regain his dignity.  But he hasn't quite reckoned on how much things have changed in the intervening years.  David Gulpilil (Walkabout, Rabbit-Proof Fence) stars and collaborates with his most recent director Rolf de Heer (The Tracker, Ten Canoes) in this powerful and poignant story that won the veteran actor the best acting prize at last year's Cannes Festival.  trailer

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[Reel Pizza] update July 24 thru July 30

here's a little late on this current week's info!  Hope you are keeping up better than I am! 
Tonight is the last night for SPY, and we are coming to the end of the run for ANT-MAN on Thursday.

Wednesday is the outdoor movie at Agamont Park  that we co-sponsor with the Bar Harbor Chamber and Camden National Bank.  This week's film is SONG OF THE SEA, a lovely animated movie we played in February. Here's the trailer.  The film starts at dusk, around 8:30 or so.  It's a great place to watch a film under the stars on a blanket! 

The next update coming shortly!

thru Thurs July 30
ANT-MAN (PG-13) 115min  (second week)    6:00 & 8:30
and
thru Mon July 27 (tonight)
SPY  (R)  120min   5:30 & 8:00
then
Tues July 28 - Thurs July 30
TANGERINES (NR)  89min  [in Estonian and Russian with subtitles]   5:30 & 7:45


Fri July 24 - Thurs July 30
ANT-MAN (PG-13) 115min  (second week)    6:00 & 8:30
BRAND NEW!  This is the latest film in Marvel Comic's cinematic universe.  Just out of jail, con-artist and thief Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) wants to connect with his young daughter but his ex says she wants all the back child support she's owed first.  He takes part in a robbery to get the money he needs, but all he finds is this odd suit, which he soon discovers gives him the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength.  He must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor and suit creator, Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.   trailer
 
Fri July 24 - Mon July 27
SPY  (R)  120min   5:30 & 8:00
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!  Melissa McCarthy plays an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst who is the unsung hero behind the agency's most dangerous missions.  But when her partner (Jude Law) is felled and the identity of another top agent (Jason Statham) is compromised, she volunteers to go deep undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer (Rose Byrne), avenge her partner's death, and prevent global disaster.  Director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, The Heat) has made another outrageously funny, totally entertaining comedy.  trailer

Tues July 28 - Thurs July 30
TANGERINES (NR)  89min  [in Estonian and Russian with subtitles]   5:30 & 7:45
This first ever Oscar-nominated film from Estonia is a small and understated but poignant and poetic film from director Zaza Urushadze that explores the absurdities of war.  Neighbors and ethnic Estonian farmers living in disputed Georgian territory, Ivo and Margus have remained to harvest the tangerine crop despite the increasing hostilities.  When the battle comes to their doorstep, Ivo takes in two wounded fighters, a Muslim Chechen mercenary and a Christian Georgian who both declare their intention to kill the other as soon as they are able.   trailer

Friday, July 17, 2015

[Reel Pizza] schedule July 24 - Aug 13

Here is the schedule for this busiest time of year. 


Please come see the lovely paintings now hanging in our lobby by Mount Desert resident Kathleen Frank.  We will have one more big film opening for this summer (Mission:Impossible - Rogue Nation) but also some intriguing smaller films we'd love to have you check out, including TANGERINES, the last of this year's Oscar-nominated Foreign Language films (from Estonia) to be released.  Nearly a decade ago we showed you the Aboriginal-Australian film TEN CANOES to great acclaim; this schedule we have the director's latest and equally well-received film CHARLIE'S COUNTRY, starring the wonderful David Gulpilil, who we all met for the first time forty years ago in WALKABOUT.   We also have the highly commended film LOVE & MERCY about Beach Boy Brian Wilson at two different points in his life, and if you missed the inimitable Melissa McCarthy in SPY the first time we showed it, we are giving you a second chance to tickle your adult funnybone!  And finally we will have another wacky episode of ImproVision on August 9th. 


See you soon!
-Lisa, Chris and crew


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New Lobby Art: KATHLEEN FRANK, Mount Desert, ME

"Over the past ten years the subject matter of my paintings has changed from studio painting of the figure and still life to the landscape.  I currently draw inspiration for my present ideas from walks with my dog through the woods near my home.  There are wonderful opportunities even in the bottom of one's rock garden (you don't have to go far) and from my admiration for the works of Neil Welliver and Alan Bray.  Eight of my paintings from this period are in private collections on Mt. Desert Island.  During four years at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) I developed a taste for Surrealism.  De Chirico and Magritte among others were inspirational.  The techniques and subject matter of the printmaker M. C. Escher also worked their way into my themes at that time.  I have never given up on Surrealism and I am sure it will work its way into my landscapes.   I owe a great deal to my four years at SAIC and the people who surrounded me, both instructors and fellow students, and to the times.  It was an exciting and electric sort of place."



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Fri July 24 - Thurs July 30    ANT-MAN (PG-13) 115min  (second week)    6:00 & 8:30
Fri July 24 - Mon July 27   
SPY  (R)  120min   5:30 & 8:00
Tues July 28 - Thurs July 30   
TANGERINES (NR)  89min  [in Estonian and Russian with subtitles]   5:30 & 7:45


Fri July 31 - Thurs Aug 6   
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION (PG-13)  130min   (1st week)   5:30 & 8:15
Fri July 31 - Mon Aug 3   
LOVE & MERCY  (PG-13)  120min  6:00 & 8:30
Tues Aug 4 - Thurs Aug 6   
CHARLIE'S COUNTRY  (NR)  108min  [partly in Yolngu with subtitles]   6:00 & 8:30


Fri Aug 7 - Thurs Aug 13   
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION (PG-13)  130min   (2nd week)   5:30 & 8:15
Fri Aug 7 - Thurs Aug 13    TBA....


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Fri July 24 - Thurs July 30

ANT-MAN (PG-13) 115min  (second week)    6:00 & 8:30

BRAND NEW!  This is the latest film in Marvel Comic's cinematic universe.  Just out of jail, con-artist and thief Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) wants to connect with his young daughter but his ex says she wants all the back child support she's owed first.  He takes part in a robbery to get the money he needs, but all he finds is this odd suit, which he soon discovers gives him the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength.  He must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor and suit creator, Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.   trailer

 
Fri July 24 - Mon July 27

SPY  (R)  120min   5:30 & 8:00

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!  Melissa McCarthy plays an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst who is the unsung hero behind the agency's most dangerous missions.  But when her partner (Jude Law) is felled and the identity of another top agent (Jason Statham) is compromised, she volunteers to go deep undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer (Rose Byrne), avenge her partner's death, and prevent global disaster.  Director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, The Heat) has made another outrageously funny, totally entertaining comedy.  trailer


Tues July 28 - Thurs July 30

TANGERINES (NR)  89min  [in Estonian and Russian with subtitles]   5:30 & 7:45

This first ever Oscar-nominated film from Estonia is a small and understated but poignant and poetic film from director Zaza Urushadze that explores the absurdities of war.  Neighbors and ethnic Estonian farmers living in disputed Georgian territory, Ivo and Margus have remained to harvest the tangerine crop despite the increasing hostilities.  When the battle comes to their doorstep, Ivo takes in two wounded fighters, a Muslim Chechen mercenary and a Christian Georgian who both declare their intention to kill the other as soon as they are able.   trailer


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Fri July 31 - Thurs Aug 13

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION (PG-13)  130min   (2 weeks)   5:30 & 8:15

BRAND NEW!  Frequent Tom Cruise collaborator and Oscar-winning screenwriter (of The Usual Suspects) Christopher McQuarrie directs this fifth installment of the exciting and thrilling M:I series. Co-starring Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Alec Baldwin and Ving Rhames, Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt, leader of the now disbanded Impossible Missions Force who regroup to take on an international rogue organization, The Syndicate, a network of highly skilled special agents dedicated to creating a new world order thru an escalating series of terrorist attacks.  Again, Cruise does all his crazy stuntwork.  trailer


Fri July 31 - Mon Aug 3

LOVE & MERCY  (PG-13)  120min  6:00 & 8:30

Two actors play brilliant, tortured Beach Boy leader, singer and songwriter Brian Wilson in this compassionate and moving but unconventional biographical drama.  Paul Dano fully inhabits the young visionary at his creative peak as he is putting together the "Pet Sounds" album during the 1960's.  John Cusack is equally impressive as the man in the 1980's, fragile, and under the control of his manipulative, dictatorial therapist Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti), until he meets Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks) the woman who became his second wife and set him free.  Acclaimed producer Bill Pohlad (12 Years a Slave, Brokeback Mountain) directs from a screenplay by Oren Moverman (I'm Not There, The Messenger) and Michael Alan Lerner.  trailer

 
Tues Aug 4 - Thurs Aug 6

CHARLIE'S COUNTRY  (NR)  108min  [partly in Yolngu with subtitles]   6:00 & 8:30

An aging Aboriginal warrior lives on a reservation in northern Australia but is not allowed by the government to keep his traditional lifestyle and becomes lost between the two cultures.  Finally fed up with the system that takes away his possessions, he retreats into the bush to live the old way, hoping to regain his dignity.  But he hasn't quite reckoned on how much things have changed in the intervening years.  David Gulpilil (Walkabout, Rabbit-Proof Fence) stars and collaborates with his most recent director Rolf de Heer (The Tracker, Ten Canoes) in this powerful and poignant story that won the veteran actor the best acting prize at last year's Cannes Festival.  trailer


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Coming on our second screen starting Aug 7?

I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS  (R)  96min

Blythe Danner shines in this charming and thoughtful film about a long-time independent yet private widow whose life becomes upended when her beloved pet dies.  She is not interested in moving to the retirement home where her friends (played by Rhea Perlman, June Squibb and Mary Kay Place) live, but doesn't want to be totally alone either.  Friendships with the young pool maintenance man (Martin Starr) and a more age-appropriate widower (Sam Elliot) help her transition after disastrous flirtations with online dating.  This is a delightful and poignantly nuanced debut feature from writer-director Brett Haley.  trailer


TESTAMENT OF YOUTH (PG-13)  129min

This powerful story of love, war and remembrance is based on Vera Brittain's memoir of her time during WWI.  Starring Alicia Vickander (Ex Machina, Anna Karenina), Vera is a strong-willed feminist who would rather attend Oxford than get married, until she meets her brother's friend (Kit Harrington, Game of Thrones) and then she wants both.  But war with Germany breaks out and all the young men she knows enthusiastically go off to battle for what they think will be a short and sweet engagement; when the war drags on she decides she needs to be more useful than just studying, and becomes a nurse who goes to the front lines.  This feature debut of TV and documentary director James Kent is a beautifully filmed and emotionally resonant film about the consequences of war.


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IMPROVISION Sunday Aug 9  11pm

So Wrong for all the Right reasons.  Check out our occasional, wacky collaboration with the talented ImprovAcadia crew!  With the sound turned off, this ever-changing group of up and coming comedians improvise the dialogue, music tracks and sound effects to a cheesy, grade B movie, THAT THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE!  Their talents make the pictures on the screen way funnier than they were ever anticipated.  It's a totally new show every time.  Don't miss out on all the fun.

 

CHOW NOW

We are now able to receive orders for takeout (only) thru a new service.  You can link thru our  facebook webpage or the Reel Pizza website or download our complimentary Apps for your Android or Apple device! Options include ordering in advance, and ordering with friends but paying separately! Pickup will be quick and easy because the order is already paid for. And remember that it will always remain a choice to call us with your order or order directly at the counter, especially after 9pm when the app turns off. (And PLEASE let us know if you find any glitches so we can fix.)

 
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Coming Next Schedule?:

Me, Earl & the Dying Girl  starts Aug 14 !
Ricki and the Flash  
Mr. Holmes  
Pixels   
Magic Mike XXL  
Trainwreck  
Infinitely Polar Bear  
Yes Men are Revolting  
Amy  
When Marnie Was There  
Batkid Begins

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Thursday, July 16, 2015

[Reel Pizza] update July 17 - 23

Wowee, it is summer with a vengeance!  Hope you, or at least your company, are finding a bit of time to enjoy it.  And thanks to everyone for your patience with the busy-ness here this time of year.  We are delighted to have you all join us, and wish we could always accommodate everyone.  We do the best we can with the space and system we've got. 

Here is a reminder of our coming week's schedule.  We have two special programs this Sunday 7/19.  The afternoon Sierra Club Summer Matinee will feature a film, Gwich'in Women Speak, and talk/Q&A/discussion by/with award-winning filmmaker Miho Aida who will have just completed in Bar Harbor a 1000 mile bike trip up the east coast as she raises awareness about drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge and its effects on the native people.  This is a free event; the doors will open at 1:30, and the program starts at 2pm.  Then after our regular business, we have another wild and crazy episode of IMPROVISION, our occasional collaboration with the talented ImprovAcadia comics who breathe funny new life into one of Chris's collection of B (Z?) movies; it is a new show every time and always loads of fun.  ImproVision starts at 11pm. 

Rumor has it that Happytown Farm Basil will be coming in soon (maybe Friday?)  So look for our special - and delicious - Basil pie next time you come in!  And don't forget that for the next several Wednesday evenings Chris shows outdoor movies over at Agamont Park starting at dusk.  Bring your blanket, grab a complimentary popcorn (Thanks to Camden National Bank) and settle in for a great show.  On Wed July 22 the movie is DUMA (one of our family's favorites) from the director of Fly Away Home (here's a trailer)

Eat some blueberries, heard they are starting to ripen...  and See you soon!
-Lisa

Fri July 17 - Thurs July 30   brand new  ANT MAN (PG-13) 115min  (two weeks)   6:00 & 8:30
Fri July 17 - Thurs July 23   brand new  MINIONS  (PG)   104min  (week 2)  5:30 & 7:45

Sunday July 19 Special Events:
@2pm  Sierra Club Summer Matinee Series: Film and Filmmaker Talk
THE SACRED PLACE WHERE LIFE BEGINS: Gwich'in Women Speak (NR) 20min   2pm   Free
and
@11pm  IMPROVISION (NR)  with ImprovAcadia


Fri July 17 - Thurs July 23 (2nd week)
MINIONS  (PG)   104min   5:30 & 7:45
BRAND NEW!  The demented, adorable, gibberish-spouting yellow blobs that stole the DESPICABLE ME movies have gotten their own origins story, beginning before the dinosaurs as one-celled organisms.  Seeking to serve only the most evil masters, they run through the worst of history, including T-Rex, Dracula and Napoleon.  Terribly depressed after Waterloo, they hide in a cave for a century or so, until three, Kevin, Stuart and Bob decide to venture out into the world to find a new villain, which they find in swinging 1960's London, the first female to be boss, Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock). With infectious, very funny humor, inventive and smart sight-gags come fast and furious from beginning to end.  trailer

Fri July 17 - Thurs July 30  (two weeks)
ANT-MAN (PG-13) 115min   6:00 & 8:30
BRAND NEW!  This is the latest film in Marvel Comic's cinematic universe.  Just out of jail, con-artist and thief Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) wants to connect with his young daughter but his ex says she wants all the back child support she's owed first.  He takes part in a robbery to get the money he needs, but all he finds is this odd suit, which he soon discovers gives him the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength.  He must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor and suit creator, Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.   trailer

SIERRA CLUB FREE SUMMER MATINEE SERIES:  Film and Filmmaker Talk  
THE SACRED PLACE WHERE LIFE BEGINS: Gwich'in Women Speak (NR) 20min  2pm
The coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska is one of America's greatest wildernesses. This area is the birthing and nursing ground for the Porcupine Caribou Herd, on which the Gwich'in people who are native to this region have depended for millennia, but since 1986 has been threatened by oil and gas development.  In this award-winning short film, Gwich'in women speak out for their sacred land and inspire audiences around the world to action. The filmmaker, Miho Aida, originally from Tokyo, Japan and based in San Francisco, will speak at this screening as part of her 1,000 mile bicycle film tour from Washington DC to Bar Harbor to share her film and empower you to take action to urge our U.S. Congressional representatives to cosponsor the Arctic Wilderness Bill H.R. 239. This free screening is presented by the Maine Chapter of the Sierra Club to get people thinking about the environment.  trailer
 
IMPROVISION  (NR)  11pm
Our occasional, wacky collaboration with the talented ImprovAcadia crew! With the sound turned off, this ever-changing group of up and coming comedians improvise the dialogue, music tracks and sound effects to a cheesy,  grade B movie, THAT THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE! Their talents make the pictures on the screen way funnier than they were ever anticipated. It's a totally new show every time.  Don't miss out on all the fun!

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

[Reel Pizza] schedule July 3 - 23

Happy Summer Everyone !  


Here is our next three week schedule that takes us right into the thick of "it."  We have a busy Sunday July 19th planned, with a super-special Sierra Club Summer Matinee film with filmmaker attending to talk in the afternoon, our regular programming in the evening, and an ImproVision late night!  Whew! 


Plus the outdoor Seaside Cinema summer series on Bar Harbor's Agamont Park overlooking the Harbor starts on Wednesday July 15 at dusk, with PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE; these al fresco films continue Wednesday evenings thru August; free popcorn provided by Camden National Bank. Bring a blanket and join in the fun.  (July 22 - DUMA; July 29 - SONG OF THE SEA; Aug 5 - TIME BANDITS; Aug 12 - WE BOUGHT A ZOO;  Aug 19 - silent short films with live musical accompaniment by Fletcher's Landing Philharmonic Orchestra. Aug 26 is reserved in case any film screenings are rained out.)

We recognize our regular schedule is a little heavier than usual with Hollywood films this go-round, but 'tis the season, and also many of the independent films we want to show you are not yet available to us.  Come soothe your inner popcorn fanatic now, and know we will be more fully addressing your head and heart later this summer. 


Since we went to press we have an additional confirmation that fills this schedule on both screens.  Therefore, I will give you dates and times for the entire run.  Remember that on July 4th, we only show the early screenings of both our films in deference to the holiday fireworks display at 9:15 down at the pier.  Pray it doesn't rain!!


We have recently started using Happytown Farm greens in our salad again, and expect to have Fresh Basil back on the toppings list really soon.  The real meaning of summer!! mmmmmmmmmmmmm


See you soon
-Lisa and Chris
 
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Fri July 3 - Thurs July 9    INSIDE OUT  (PG)  102min  Held over by Popular Demand!  5:30 & 7:45*

Fri July 3 - Thurs July 9    JURASSIC WORLD  (PG-13)  123min   6:00 & 8:30*
*remember no later shows on Sat July 4th!


Fri July 10 - Thurs July 23  brand new MINIONS  (PG)   104min  (two weeks)  5:30 & 7:45
Fri July 10 - Mon July 13    FIVE FLIGHTS UP  (PG-13)  92min    6:00 & 8:00
Tues July 14 - Thurs July 16    THE 100-YEAR-OLD-MAN Who Went Out The Window And Disappeared (R)  114min [mostly in Swedish with subtitles]    6:00 & 8:30


Fri July 17 - Thurs July 30   brand new  ANT MAN (PG-13) 115min  (two weeks)   6:00 & 8:30
Fri July 17 - Thurs July 23   brand new  MINIONS  (PG)   104min  (week 2)  5:30 & 7:45


Sunday July 19 Special Events:
@2pm  Sierra Club Summer Matinee Series: Film and Filmmaker Talk
THE SACRED PLACE WHERE LIFE BEGINS: Gwich'in Women Speak
(NR) 20min   2pm   Free

@11pm  Improvision (NR)  with ImprovAcadia

 
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July 19th SPECIALS:

SIERRA CLUB SUMMER MATINEE SERIES:  Film and Filmmaker Talk  

THE SACRED PLACE WHERE LIFE BEGINS: Gwich'in Women Speak (NR) 20min  2pm
The coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska is one of America's greatest wildernesses. This area is the birthing and nursing ground for the Porcupine Caribou Herd, on which the Gwich'in people who are native to this region have depended for millennia, but since 1986 has been threatened by oil and gas development.  In this award-winning short film, Gwich'in women speak out for their sacred land and inspire audiences around the world to action. The filmmaker, Miho Aida, originally from Tokyo, Japan and based in San Francisco, will speak at this screening as part of her 1,000 mile bicycle film tour from Washington DC to Bar Harbor to share her film and empower you to take action to urge our U.S. Congressional representatives to cosponsor the Arctic Wilderness Bill H.R. 239. This free screening is presented by the Maine Chapter of the Sierra Club to get people thinking about the environment.  trailer

 

IMPROVISION  (NR)  11pm

Our occasional, wacky collaboration with the talented ImprovAcadia crew! With the sound turned off, this ever-changing group of up and coming comedians improvise the dialogue, music tracks and sound effects to a cheesy,  grade B movie, THAT THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE! Their talents make the pictures on the screen way funnier than they were ever anticipated. It's a totally new show every time.  Don't miss out on all the fun!


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REGULAR  PROGRAM FILMS:

Friday July 3 - Thurs July 9

INSIDE OUT  (PG)  102min   5:30 & 7:45

HELD OVER BY POPULAR DEMAND!  The most recent film from venerable Pixar Studios tackles the emotions of growing up.  Riley is a mess when she has to move with her family from her comfortable Midwest home to a new life in San Francisco.  And the emotions that guide and advise her – Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hadar), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling), and Sadness (Phyllis Smith), who all live in the control center of her mind - are also in turmoil, conflicting on how best to navigate a new town, home and school. Early word is this Pete Doctor-written and directed animation (Up) is one of Pixar's very best, inventive, magical, touching and very funny.   trailer


Fri July 3 - Thurs July 9

JURASSIC WORLD  (PG-13)  123min  6:00 & 8:30

The Jurassic World Theme park set on an island off Costa Rica has been in operation for over a decade, but now admissions are declining and the corporate overlords demand a new exhibit to spark interest.  However, it backfires horribly and has people running for their lives when a genetically engineered Indominus Rex goes on a rampage.  This action packed film is a worthy follow-up to Steven Spielberg's original Jurassic Park.  Stars include Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Omar Sy, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Judy Greer.  trailer


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Fri July 10 - Thurs July 23 (two weeks)

MINIONS  (PG)   104min   5:30 & 7:45

BRAND NEW!  The demented, adorable, gibberish-spouting yellow blobs that stole the DESPICABLE ME movies have gotten their own origins story, beginning before the dinosaurs as one-celled organisms.  Seeking to serve only the most evil masters, they run through the worst of history, including T-Rex, Dracula and Napoleon.  Terribly depressed after Waterloo, they hide in a cave for a century or so, until three, Kevin, Stuart and Bob decide to venture out into the world to find a new villain, which they find in swinging 1960's London, the first female to be boss, Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock). With infectious, very funny humor, inventive and smart sight-gags come fast and furious from beginning to end.  trailer


Fri July 10 - Mon July 13

FIVE FLIGHTS UP  (PG-13)  92min   6:00 & 8:00

And unbeatable Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman headline this charming and touching story about an aging couple, and artist and a retired teacher, who have lived with their beloved pet dog in the same 5th floor walk-up for decades.  When they bought it, it was rundown, but now their neighborhood has become trendy, and their investment has markedly increased in value.  Plus, now it is becoming harder to navigate all those stairs, and they are starting to wonder if they should find a new place with an elevator.  Her niece (Cynthia Nixon) is a real estate agent who agrees to help them, and over one crazy weekend, they list their property, host an open house, and also go hunting for a new place to call home.  Richard Loncraine (Richard III) directs.  trailer


Tues July 14 - Thurs July 16

THE 100-YEAR-OLD-MAN Who Went Out The Window And Disappeared (R)  114min [mostly in Swedish with subtitles]  6:00 & 8:30

Magical and goofy, this delightfully absurd film tells about the latest exploits of centenarian Allan Karlsson (played by popular Swedish comedian Robert Gustafsson), who has created chaos throughout his life and has a penchant for blowing things up.  His latest oopsy landed him in an old-folks home, where today they are about to celebrate his birthday.  But he's having none of that, and sneaks away to the bus station on a trip to anywhere. A chance meeting with a gruff biker's suitcase sets him off on another adventure.  trailer


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Fri July 17 - Thurs July 30  (two weeks)

ANT-MAN (PG-13) 115min   6:00 & 8:30

BRAND NEW!  This is the latest film in Marvel Comic's cinematic universe.  Just out of jail, con-artist and thief Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) wants to connect with his young daughter but his ex says she wants all the back child support she's owed first.  He takes part in a robbery to get the money he needs, but all he finds is this odd suit, which he soon discovers gives him the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength.  He must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor and suit creator, Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.   trailer


Fri July 17 - Thurs July 23 (second week)

MINIONS  (PG)   104min   5:30 & 7:45

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COMING SOON:

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH (PG-13)  129min

This powerful story of love, war and remembrance is based on Vera Brittain's memoir of her time during WWI.  Starring Alicia Vickander (Ex Machina, Anna Karenina), Vera is a strong-willed feminist who would rather attend Oxford than get married, until she meets her brother's friend (Kit Harrington, Game of Thrones) and then she wants both.  But war with Germany breaks out and all the young men she knows enthusiastically go off to battle for what they think will be a short and sweet engagement; when the war drags on she decides she needs to be more useful than just studying, and becomes a nurse who goes to the front lines.  This feature debut of TV and documentary director James Kent is a beautifully filmed and emotionally resonant film about the consequences of war.   trailer

 

LOVE & MERCY  (PG-13)  120min

Two actors play brilliant, tortured Beach Boy leader, singer and songwriter Brian Wilson in this compassionate and moving but unconventional biographical drama.  Paul Dano fully inhabits the young visionary at his creative peak as he is putting together the "Pet Sounds" album during the 1960's.  John Cusack is equally impressive as the man in the 1980's, fragile, and under the control of his manipulative, dictatorial therapist Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti), until he meets Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks) the woman who became his second wife and set him free.  Acclaimed producer Bill Pohlad (12 Years a Slave, Brokeback Mountain) directs from a screenplay by Oren Moverman (I'm Not There, The Messenger) and Michael Alan Lerner.  trailer

 
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I'll See You In My Dreams
Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl
When Marnie Was There
Tangerines
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Ted 2
Magic Mike XXL
Batkid Begins
 
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