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 - Mon July 27
Tues July 28 - Thurs July 30
Fri July 31 - Thurs Aug 6
Fri July 31 - Mon Aug 3
Tues Aug 4 - Thurs Aug 6
Fri Aug 7 - Thurs Aug 13
Fri Aug 7 - Thurs Aug 13 TBA....
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
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
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
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.
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.)
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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