Several Special Events are happening during this three week period. The weekend of Sept 11 we will participate in several film events as part of the ACADIA NIGHT SKY FESTIVAL. On Friday evening, Chris will be showing the final outdoor movie at Agamont Park. ASTRONAUT FARMER (PG) will play at dusk. Bring your blankets and fleeces, and hope for warm air and clear skies! Saturday and Sunday we will have indoor matinees. Saturday we are showing the super funny GALAXY QUEST (PG) at 2pm. There is a $5 admission. Sunday is the final matinee of the SIERRA CLUB SUMMER MATINEE SERIES. We will be showing the excellent film about the importance of dark skies THE CITY DARK, which was (very) partly filmed on MDI. The Maine Chapter of the Sierra Club presents these free matinees to get people focused on environmental issues.
I will send out a separate mailing soon with the MIFF By-the-Sea film information, schedule and guest list which will be held on both screens over the weekend Fri Sept 18 - Mon Sept 21. For these shows, tickets will be on sale in advance at our box office, by the end of this week certainly. Discount passes will also be available for those who are interested in several films; the line-up for this year looks great!
On Wednesday Sept 23 we will present a single special screening of THE REFLEKTOR TAPES, a brand new concert film from the band Arcade Fire, two of whose members (Win and Will Butler) have roots on MDI. This screening will pre-empt the early show of AMY that night (AMY will play its regularly scheduled later show).
Everything here has showtimes and dates. See you soon!
-Lisa
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Friday Sept 4 - Thurs Sept 10 RICKI AND THE FLASH (PG-13) 102min 6:00 & 8:30
Tues Sept 8 - Thurs Sept 10 THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS T.S. SPIVET (PG) 105min 5:30 & 8:00
Fri Sept 11 - Mon Sept 14 THE END OF THE TOUR (R) 106min 6:00 & 8:15
Tues Sept 15 - Thurs Sept 17 MERU (R) 87min 6:00 & 8:15
Fri Sept 18 - Mon Sept 21 MAINE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL By-The-Sea both screens all weekend
Tues Sept 22 - Thurs Sept 24 IRRATIONAL MAN (R) 97min 5:30 & 7:45
Wednesday Sept 23 THE REFLEKTOR TAPES (NR) 91min 6:00 ONE SHOW ONLY (pre-empts the early AMY screening)
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Friday Sept 4 - Thurs Sept 10
RICKI AND THE FLASH (PG-13) 102min 6:00 & 8:30
HELD OVER! 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 5:30 & 7:45
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
Tues Sept 8 - Thurs Sept 10
THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS T.S. SPIVET (PG) 105min 5:30 & 8:00
Unconventional, idiosyncratic French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie, Micmacs) has made another whimsical and inventive film, this one entirely in English. Young T.S. Spivet, gifted in science, lives with his family on a remote Montana ranch. He invents a perpetual motion machine, tells the Smithsonian Institute about it and soon learns he is to be rewarded a prestigious prize. He leaves his family a note, and hops a train towards D.C. But no one there suspects the winner is a 10-year-old boy with a dark secret. Co-stars include Helena Bonham Carter and Jeunet regular Dominique Pinon. trailer
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THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (PG-13) 116min 5:30 & 8:00
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 screenplaybased on the popular 1960s TV show. Also starring Alicia Vikander, Jared Harris, and Hugh Grant. trailer
THE END OF THE TOUR (R) 106min 6:00 & 8:15
Featuring riveting performances, this is the story of a self-absorbed Rolling Stone writer and wannabe novelist David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) who is assigned to profile widely acclaimed but quirky novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segal). Both in awe of and jealous of his subject, Lipsky spends five days with Wallace towards the end of the book tour for his groundbreaking epic Infinite Jest. This insightful, smart and funny drama directed by James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now) is based on Lipsky's memoir Of Course You End Up Being Yourself written from the unused taped conversations that were never published until after Wallace's death, but it could have been about the interaction between any two creative people not on the same plane. trailer
Tues Sept 15 - Thurs Sept 17
MERU (R) 87min 6:00 & 8:15
The Shark's Fin is a 1500 foot vertical rock wall at the top of 21,000 foot Meru Peak in the Indian Himalayas. This is the story of three men, Jimmy Chin, Renan Ozturk, and Conrad Anker, who tried, twice, to reach this impossibly inaccessible summit. Sherpas will not go there, so they also carried all their own gear. Nerve-wracking footage, made by the climbers themselves, give this film a perspective and immediacy that an unrelated camera crew wouldn't have provided. This dramatic, extreme sports documentary is ultimately about risk assessment and pushing limits. trailer
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MAINE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL By-The-Sea
Four days of Maine-made and International films, both feature length and shorts, with talks by filmmakers, Special Edition of ImproVision, and more.
Tues Sept 22 - Thurs Sept 24
IRRATIONAL MAN (R) 97min 5:30 & 7:45
Veteran director Woody Allen's 50 th feature film is a comic drama. Joaquin Phoenix stars as a morose and alcoholic but also brilliant philosophy professor who is being chased by two women at his new school. Parker Posey plays another professor in an unhappy marriage and Emma Stone plays one of his much younger students with a serious infatuation. A misguided and ill-advised decision with the goal of making the world a better place changes his perspective on life for the better which helps him discover how he really can make a difference. trailer
AMY (R) 128min 6:00* & 8:30 (Wed 6pm screening pre-empted by THE REFLEKTOR TAPES)
This absorbing, restrained and honest film tells the story of Amy Winehouse, the gifted, talented British soul singer whose personal life was full of trouble. With the participation of many of the young woman's friends and family, and with access to a trove of home video clips, director Asif Kapadia (Senna) has made a fascinating and intimate music documentary about the relationship between art, celebrity and addiction through the story of one of the biggest singing stars in British history whose light burned out too fast. trailer
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Wednesday Sept 23 ONE SHOW ONLY 6:00pm (pre-empts the early AMY screening)
THE REFLEKTOR TAPES (NR) 91min 6:00
BRAND NEW! A fascinating insight into the making of Arcade Fire's international #1 album Reflektor, this film recontextualizes the album experience and the band's creative journey, transporting the viewer into a kaleidoscopic sonic and visual landscape. It includes, filmed only for cinema audiences, never before seen personal interviews and moments captured by the band, two members whose roots are on MDI. One Show Only! trailer
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Fri Sept 11
ASTRONAUT FARMER (PG) ~7pm (dusk) at Agamont Park outdoors
Part of Acadia Night Sky Festival. Charles Farmer (Billy Bob Thornton), a rancher who once trained to be an astronaut, decides to fulfill a lifelong dream: He builds a rocket in his barn and plans to pilot it into space. Though he faces foreclosure on his ranch, the disbelief of his neighbors and threats from the government, Charles remains determined to reach for the stars. Directed by Michael Polish and starring Billy Bob Thornton. trailer
Sat Sept 12
GALAXY QUEST (PG) 102min 2pm $5 admission
Part of Acadia Night Sky Festival. Decades after the success of the sci-fi series "Galaxy Quest" the show's washed up stars -- Jason Nesmith, Gwen DeMarco, and Alexander Dane -- are unwittingly recruited by actual aliens to pull off an intergalactic rescue mission. Starring Justin Long, Sam Rockwell, Tim Allen, Alan Rickman, Rainn Wilson, Sigourney Weaver, and Tony Shaloub. Great Fun! trailer
Sun Sept 13
THE CITY DARK (NR) 84min 2pm Free
Partly filmed on MDI, as well as Hawaii, Paris, Chicago, Florida, and Brooklyn, this definitive story of light pollution and the disappearing stars from director Ian Cheney features stunning astro-photography and a cast of eclectic scientists, historians, and lighting designers to make sense of it all. The Maine Chapter of the Sierra Club presents this film series for free to get people thinking about environmental issues. trailer
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