[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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