We have another matinee in our Sierra Club Free Summer Series coming up on Sunday August 16th at 2pm; it's the excellent MERCHANTS OF DOUBT, that, if you missed when we showed it earlier this season, you should take advantage of this screening.
Put this date on your calendars: September 18 - 21! We are putting together the final touches on the programming for the 7th year of MIFF By-the-Sea, our specially curated film festival featuring the best films of the Maine International Film Festival that you, like we, missed running around crazy in the middle of July. Looks like an excellent line-up of films from close to home to far afield, including the first local public screenings of COA faculty Nancy Andrews' THE STRANGE EYES OF DR MYES!
We haven't booked the week-long films for this schedule, so no showtimes yet. I'll have more info early next week.
See you soon!
-Lisa
Fri Aug 14 - Mon Aug 17
MAGIC MIKE XXL (R) 130min
This upbeat, sweet and funny road trip sequel finds the Kings of Tampa back together for one last blow-out show The guys decide to reunite at the annual male entertainer convention in Myrtle Beach SC. On the way they make stops in Jacksonville and Savannah, meeting old friends and making new ones, learning some new moves and shaking off the past. Channing Tatum stars, with co-stars Jada Pinkett Smith, Andie MacDowell, Elizabeth Banks and Amber Heard. Longtime Steven Soderberg assistant director Gregory Jacobs directs, with the venerable director producing, doing the cinematography, and editing. trailer
Tues Aug 18 - Thurs Aug 20
INSIDE OUT (PG) 102min
BACK 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
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Fri Aug 21 - Mon Aug 24
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL (PG-13) 105min
Greg is an awkward HS senior who has one friend, Earl, though he would refer to him as a "co-worker" since all their time together is spent making odd small films with punny titles. When Greg's mom tells him about an ill classmate whom he hasn't spoken to in over a decade and insists that he go visit her he's certain she will think it's weird. But eventually they become friends, and decide to make a movie for her. This clever, truthful, very funny and delightful debut film of both director (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) and screenwriter (Jesse Andrews, adapting his novel) won both the 2015 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award and is not at all what you might expect. trailer
Tues Aug 25 - Thurs Aug 27
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
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Fri Aug 28 - Mon Aug 31
INFINITELY POLAR BEAR (R) 90min
The debut feature of director Maya Forbes is an authentic, eccentric semi-autobiographical film memoir about growing up in a bi-racial family with a bipolar dad. Mark Ruffalo (The Kids are All Right) stars in this episodic comedy drama as a man just recovered from a breakdown and in a halfway house who is trying to reconnect with his wife (Zoe Saldana) and two children. When she enrolls in graduate school in New York City, they decide he will move in and take care of the kids while she's away, leading to a series of quirky, funny and sometimes frightening experiences with his spirited, loving but also occasionally exasperated children. trailer
Tues Sept 1 - Thurs Sept 3
THE FAREWELL PARTY (NR) 95min [in HEBREW with subtitles]
A group of friends, an inventor and prankster, a veterinarian, and a retired policeman, at a Jerusalem retirement home decide to help a terminally ill friend pass on his own terms and come up with an ingenious plan that sets him free of his pain without them getting caught for helping. But word quickly spreads out about their assistance and the requests for help start flowing in, leading them to a dilemma of life and death proportions. This moving, bittersweet and wryly comic depiction of life in old age, written and directed by Israeli filmmaker Sharon Maymon, is not as bleak as Michael Haenke's L'Amour, nor as sugary as the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. trailer
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COMING SOON ON THE WEEK-LONG SCREEN:
TRAINWRECK (R) 122min
Promiscuous feminist comic Amy Schumer has written an incisive, raunchy and very funny modern romantic comedy in which she stars under the direction of Judd Apatow. Loosely autobiographical, it tells the story of an uninhibited magazine writer whose father taught her that monogamy isn't realistic, a creed that she still follows in her 30s, even though her sister is happily married. When she finds herself starting to fall for the subject of her latest article, a charming and successful sports doctor (Bill Hader) she starts wondering if other grown-ups aren't onto something. Colin Quinn, Brie Larson, Mike Birbiglia and basketball star LeBron James co-star. trailer
RICKI AND THE FLASH (PG-13) 102min
Marvelous again, Meryl Streep stars with her daughter Mamie Gummer as a hard-rocking singer-guitarist in LA who gave up everything for her career; now she has returned to Indiana due to a family emergency involving her daughter and is trying to reconnect with her family, without much success. Kevin Kline plays her gentle ex-husband and Audra McDonald his second wife. Rick Springfield plays a bandmate who'd rather be a boyfriend. Jonathan Demme (Stop Making Sense, Silence of the Lambs, Rachel Getting Married) directs a riveting story by screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno). trailer
SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE (PG) 85min
Aardman Animation does it again with a charming, smart and very silly spinoff from a Wallace and Gromit story (A Close Shave) and subsequent TV show. Full of personality even though there is no dialogue, this delightful film follows Shaun as he decides to take a day off from Mossy Bottom Farm and have some fun, but ends up getting a little more action than he bargained for. Ending up in the Big City, Shaun and his buddies must find their way back safely to the green grass of home. trailer
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (PG-13) 116min
At the height of the Cold War, a CIA agent (Henry Cavill, Man of Steel) and a KGB agent (Armie Hammer, The Social Network) must set aside their longstanding hostilities and team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious criminal organization bent on destabilizing the fragile balance of power by proliferating nuclear weapons. Their only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, the key to infiltrating the criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him to prevent worldwide catastrophe. Director Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes, Snatch) also wrote the screenplay based on the popular 1960s TV show. Also starring Alicia Vikander, Jared Harris, and Hugh Grant. trailer
MR. HOLMES (PG) 105min
Ian McKellen stars as the famous detective, now elderly and retired, living in a remote seaside farm with his housekeeper (Laura Linney) and her young son. He is trying to recall the unsolved case from decades ago that forced him into retirement, haunted that he got something wrong that needs to be corrected , but at his age, his mind isn't what it used to be. Based on the novel A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullins, and directed by Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Kinsey) this is a well-acted, intelligent, riveting and gentle drama. trailer
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Sunday Aug 16th SIERRA CLUB SUMMER MATINEE SERIES
MERCHANT OF DOUBT (PG-13) 96min free 2pm
Inspired by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway's acclaimed book, this satirically comedic, illuminating and thought-provoking documentary explores the deceptive tactics used by large corporations to undermine public policy and sway public opinion by discrediting peer-reviewed, scientific studies with pundits-for-hire who present themselves as experts but are really just obfuscators. Filmmaker Robert Kenner (Food, Inc.) starts with big tobacco which for 50 years manipulated prevented regulation on smoking, moving into toxic chemicals from big pharma, and now these spin-meisters work to fight against climate change. The DownEast Maine Chapter of the Sierra Club presents these free films to get people thinking about important issues. trailer
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COMING NEXT SCHEDULE?
MIFF By-the-Sea
Manhattan Short Film Festival
Meru
Irrational Man
The End of the Tour
The Look of Silence
Yes Men are Revolting
Amy
and more!
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