Good morning everyone!
I still haven't come down from all the excitement of yesterday. We had such an enthusiastic response to our Inaugural Luncheon, with standing room only in both theatres. It was really wonderful to share this phenomenal, cathartic event with so many of our friends and neighbors. And to top it all off, together we raised nearly $1300 for the Bar Harbor Food Pantry, plus I took over a load of food that filled the back of my station wagon. I know I have said it before but allow me to repeat myself: You all are amazing. Thank you to everyone for your generosity.
This week at Reel Pizza, our Thursday Senior matinee will be THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON which will start at 1:00pm.
Also first thing on Thursday morning, the Academy Award nominations will be announced, which means you can start thinking about our annual gala Oscar celebration, now called Academy Night, on Sunday February 22, which this year will benefit both the Beth C. Wright Cancer Center and the Maine Sea Coast Mission. Tickets are available at our box office. I'm sure no one will notice if you wear the same gown from the inaugural ball!
And we have films.
Fri Jan 23 - Thurs Jan 29
MARLEY AND ME (PG) 115min 5:30 and 8:00
Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston make a charming couple in this endearing story about a dog and the effects he has on their marriage. This is not just any dog, but �the world�s worst dog,� a golden lab with no boundaries who wreaks havoc wherever he goes for a good part of his life. Nevertheless, he is much loved by the whole family, which eventually includes three kids, and they all recognize that their life wouldn't be the same without him. Based on journalist John Grogan�s true memoir, directed by David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada) and co-starring Alan Arkin, Kathleen Turner and Eric Dane, this is a delightful, hilarious and fully entertaining film.
Fri Jan 23 - Mon Jan 26
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (R) 118min 6:00 and 8:30
Golden Globe nominated actress Sally Hawkins gives a spot-on, infectious performance as always enthusiastic, bordering on manic, school teacher Poppy. Always optimistic, she takes up driving lessons at age 30 when her bike is stolen. She maintains her hopefulness even as those around her, like her driving instructor (Eddie Marsan, The Illusionist) are perpetually angry and seem to have no hope or patience with life. This edgy, slice-of-life drama, a refreshingly upbeat character study from veteran improvisational director Mike Leigh (Vera Drake, Topsy Turvy) was created using his trademark organic method of story-writing.
Tues Jan 27 - Thurs Jan 29
ROCKNROLLA (R) 116min 6:00 and 8:30
Director Guy Richie (Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) returns to his roots with this Tarantino-inspired, stylish and outrageous Cockney crime caper, featuring a great ensemble cast. Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton) stars as a London crime boss and self-proclaimed real estate mogul. Gerard Butler (Phantom of the Opera) is a low level crook who gets in the way of a deal with a Russian mobster (Karel Rodin), tipped off by the Russian�s accountant (Thandie Newton). A lucky painting, a dead rock musician and his promoters (Jeremy Piven and Ludacris) are part of the mix. It is fast paced, quite humorous, and entertaining with a twisty ending that brings everything together.
Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile. See you soon
-Lisa
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
[Reel Pizza] update
hi everyone
here is Reel Pizza's schedule for the next week. Please note starting times closely as these films don't exactly fit in our normal windows.
The senior matinee this Thurs 1/15 is AUSTRALIA, at 1:00pm.
The senior matinee next Thurs 1/22 is BENJAMIN BUTTON, also at 1:00pm.
Tuesday Jan 20th we will host an INAUGURATION DAY LUNCH. At noon, our country will inaugurate its 44th president, and we will be watching on the big screens. Please join us, starting at 11am for the televised broadcast of this historic event. Doors will open at 10:45 and we will be accepting donations to the Bar Harbor Food Pantry in lieu of admissions. Our kitchen will be open for lunch while we celebrate President Barak Obama and Vice-President Joseph Biden as they begin their great journey to lead this country forward.
Fri Jan 16 - Thurs Jan 22
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (PG-13) 167min 5:00 and 8:15
From director David Fincher (Seven, Zodiac) and screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) based loosely on a F. Scott Fitzgerald story, this intriguing, magical and romantic tale follows the life of a unique man who was born looking an ancient eighty years old, and as he aged, he got progressively younger. Brad Pitt plays the man, and excellent digital technology has implanted his face on all the characters, even when acted by other people�s bodies. Elle Fanning and Cate Blanchette play the different ages of Daisy, the most important woman in his life. This haunting, poignant, and unique picture is one of the year�s best.
Fri Jan 16 - Mon Jan 19
THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX (G) 93min 5:30 and 7:30
Kate DiCamillo�s (Because of Winn-Dixie) Newbery Award-winning fairy tale of bravery, forgiveness, and redemption is brought wonderfully, enchantingly and beautifully to the screen in this charming and elegant animated adaptation by screenwriter Gary Ross (Seabiscuit) and directors Sam Fell (Flushed Away) and Rob Stevenhagen. A very small mouse with very big ears (Matthew Broderick) is banished from his world for not acting mouse-like enough. He meets a rat (Dustin Hoffman), a fellow outcast who frightened the queen to death from being in her soup. Emma Watson (Harry Potter films) voices the princess despondent at the untimely demise of her mother. Tracy Uhlman voices her servant girl who longs to be a princess herself.
Tues Jan 20 - Thurs Jan 22
CHANGELING (R) 140min 5:30 and 8:30
This first of two excellent films coming this year from director Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River) is the unforgettable true story of a woman wronged by the corrupt Los Angeles Police Department in 1928. Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart) is a single mother whose son disappears one day without a trace. Months later and with much fanfare, the LAPD announces they've found the missing child, but she protests that the boy returned to her is not her son. The police respond by incarcerating her in the psychiatric ward. John Malkovich plays an eccentric, outspoken radio preacher who takes her case to the airwaves when she is silenced. It is an intense, riveting story and film.
here is Reel Pizza's schedule for the next week. Please note starting times closely as these films don't exactly fit in our normal windows.
The senior matinee this Thurs 1/15 is AUSTRALIA, at 1:00pm.
The senior matinee next Thurs 1/22 is BENJAMIN BUTTON, also at 1:00pm.
Tuesday Jan 20th we will host an INAUGURATION DAY LUNCH. At noon, our country will inaugurate its 44th president, and we will be watching on the big screens. Please join us, starting at 11am for the televised broadcast of this historic event. Doors will open at 10:45 and we will be accepting donations to the Bar Harbor Food Pantry in lieu of admissions. Our kitchen will be open for lunch while we celebrate President Barak Obama and Vice-President Joseph Biden as they begin their great journey to lead this country forward.
Fri Jan 16 - Thurs Jan 22
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (PG-13) 167min 5:00 and 8:15
From director David Fincher (Seven, Zodiac) and screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) based loosely on a F. Scott Fitzgerald story, this intriguing, magical and romantic tale follows the life of a unique man who was born looking an ancient eighty years old, and as he aged, he got progressively younger. Brad Pitt plays the man, and excellent digital technology has implanted his face on all the characters, even when acted by other people�s bodies. Elle Fanning and Cate Blanchette play the different ages of Daisy, the most important woman in his life. This haunting, poignant, and unique picture is one of the year�s best.
Fri Jan 16 - Mon Jan 19
THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX (G) 93min 5:30 and 7:30
Kate DiCamillo�s (Because of Winn-Dixie) Newbery Award-winning fairy tale of bravery, forgiveness, and redemption is brought wonderfully, enchantingly and beautifully to the screen in this charming and elegant animated adaptation by screenwriter Gary Ross (Seabiscuit) and directors Sam Fell (Flushed Away) and Rob Stevenhagen. A very small mouse with very big ears (Matthew Broderick) is banished from his world for not acting mouse-like enough. He meets a rat (Dustin Hoffman), a fellow outcast who frightened the queen to death from being in her soup. Emma Watson (Harry Potter films) voices the princess despondent at the untimely demise of her mother. Tracy Uhlman voices her servant girl who longs to be a princess herself.
Tues Jan 20 - Thurs Jan 22
CHANGELING (R) 140min 5:30 and 8:30
This first of two excellent films coming this year from director Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River) is the unforgettable true story of a woman wronged by the corrupt Los Angeles Police Department in 1928. Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart) is a single mother whose son disappears one day without a trace. Months later and with much fanfare, the LAPD announces they've found the missing child, but she protests that the boy returned to her is not her son. The police respond by incarcerating her in the psychiatric ward. John Malkovich plays an eccentric, outspoken radio preacher who takes her case to the airwaves when she is silenced. It is an intense, riveting story and film.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
[Reel Pizza] schedule
Greetings all
As promised here is the new schedule for Reel Pizza that runs January 16 through February 5th.
We hope to see you soon.
-Lisa and Chris
Tuesday Jan 20th INAUGURATION DAY! 11 AM
On January 20 at noon, our country will inaugurate its 44th president, and we will be watching on the big screen. Please join us, starting at 11am, for the televised broadcast of this historic event. Our kitchen will be open for lunch, while we celebrate President Barak Obama and Vice-President Joseph Biden as they begin their great journey to lead this country forward. We will be accepting donations to the Bar Harbor Food Pantry in lieu of admissions.
Fri Jan 16 - Mon Jan 19
THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX (G) 93min
Kate DiCamillo's (Because of Winn-Dixie) Newbery Award-winning fairy tale of bravery, forgiveness, and redemption is brought wonderfully, enchantingly and beautifully to the screen in this charming and elegant animated adaptation by screenwriter Gary Ross (Seabiscuit) and directors Sam Fell (Flushed Away) and Rob Stevenhagen. A very small mouse with very big ears (Matthew Broderick) is banished from his world for not acting mouse-like enough. He meets a rat (Dustin Hoffman), a fellow outcast who frightened the queen to death from being in her soup. Emma Watson (Harry Potter films) voices the princess despondent at the untimely demise of her mother. Tracy Uhlman voices her servant girl who longs to be a princess herself.
Tues Jan 20 - Thurs Jan 22
CHANGELING (R) 140min
This first of two excellent films coming this year from director Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River) is the unforgettable true story of a woman wronged by the corrupt Los Angeles Police Department in 1928. Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart) is a single mother whose son disappears one day without a trace. Months later and with much fanfare, the LAPD announces they've found the missing child, but she protests that the boy returned to her is not her son. The police respond by incarcerating her in the psychiatric ward. John Malkovich plays an eccentric, outspoken radio preacher who takes her case to the airwaves when she is silenced. It is an intense, riveting story and film.
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Fri Jan 23 - Mon Jan 26
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (R) 118min
Golden Globe nominated actress Sally Hawkins gives a spot-on, infectious performance as always enthusiastic, bordering on manic, school teacher Poppy. Always optimistic, she takes up driving lessons at age 30 when her bike is stolen. She maintains her hopefulness even as those around her, like her driving instructor (Eddie Marsan, The Illusionist) are perpetually angry and seem to have no hope or patience with life. This edgy, slice-of-life drama, a refreshingly upbeat character study from veteran improvisational director Mike Leigh (Vera Drake, Topsy Turvy) was created using his trademark organic method of storywriting.
Tues Jan 27 - Thurs Jan 29
ROCKNROLLA (R) 116min
Director Guy Richie (Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) returns to his roots with this Tarantino-inspired, stylish and outrageous Cockney crime caper, featuring a great ensemble cast. Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton) stars as a London crime boss and self-proclaimed real estate mogul. Gerard Butler (Phantom of the Opera) is a low level crook who gets in the way of a deal with a Russian mobster (Karel Rodin), tipped off by the Russian's accountant (Thandie Newton). A lucky painting, a dead rock musician and his promoters (Jeremy Piven and Ludacris) are part of the mix. It is fast paced, quite humorous, and entertaining with a twisty ending that brings everything together.
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Fri Jan 30 - Mon Feb 2
CADILLAC RECORDS (R) 109min
This powerful chronicle with a phenomenal soundtrack of the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists tells the story of rhythm and the blues as they gave birth to rock 'n' roll on Chicago's south side from the late 1940's into the 1960's. It all began when Leonard Chess (Adrian Brody, The Pianist) a Polish-Jewish émigré and bar owner hired the blues combo of Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright) on guitar and Little Walter (Columbus Short) on harmonica to play his club. Soon he records them, and then is promoting their music across the country. The family grows to include Big Willie Dixon (Cedric the Entertainer), Howlin' Wolf (Eammonn Walker), Chuck Berry (Mos Def) and Etta James (Beyonce Knowles), all of whom struggle with success. Writer-director Darnell Martin brings the story of these blues legends to dramatic, vibrant life.
Tues Feb 3 - Thurs Feb 5
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS (PG-13)
This remarkable and moving Holocaust story, told with intelligence and grace, is based on the young adult novel by author John Boyne. Bruno is a young German boy whose soldier father (David Thewlis) is about to be transferred from Berlin to the countryside. His mother (Vera Farmiga) and sister (Amber Beattie) are proud of his promotion but don't understand its significance. Their new home is near to a "farm" that the boy is forbidden to visit where the workers wear striped clothing, but as loneliness creeps in, he sneaks away, where he meets Shmuel, a Jewish boy his age on the opposite side of the fence. Slowly Bruno begins to understand the dangerous hate, and wonders about his father's participation, as he vows to help his new friend.
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COMING SOON ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (PG-13) 167min
From director David Fincher (Seven, Zodiac) and screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) based loosely on a F. Scott Fitzgerald story, this intriguing, magical and romantic tale follows the life of a unique man who was born looking an ancient eighty years old, and as he aged, he got progressively younger. Brad Pitt plays the man, and excellent digital technology has implanted his face on all the characters, even when acted by other people's bodies. Elle Fanning and Cate Blanchette play the different ages of Daisy, the most important woman in his life. This haunting, poignant, and unique picture is one of the year's best.
MARLEY AND ME (PG) 115min
Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston make a charming couple in this endearing story about a dog and the effects he has on their marriage. This is not just any dog, but "the world's worst dog," a golden lab with no boundaries who wreaks havoc wherever he goes for a good part of his life. Nevertheless, he is much loved by the whole family, which eventually includes three kids, and they all recognize that their life wouldn't be the same without him. Based on journalist John Grogan's true memoir, directed by David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada) and co-starring Alan Arkin, Kathleen Turner and Eric Dane, this is a delightful, hilarious and fully entertaining film.
MILK (R) 128min
In 1977, Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man voted into public office in the US, when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. A year later he was murdered. Seamlessly blending newsreel footage with an original screenplay by Dustin Lance Black, director Gus Van Sant's satisfying, timely and engaging new film charts the last eight years of the life of this martyred pioneer. The ensemble cast features excellent performances, including Golden Globe nominated Sean Penn, who becomes the title character, a middle aged Jewish Republican insurance agent seeking change, James Franco (Pineapple Express) as his partner who moves with him from New York to the west coast, Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) as a young activist who works tirelessly with Milk's campaigns, and Josh Brolin (W) as a conflicted conservative city supervisor elected at the same time as Milk.
VALKYRIE (PG-13) 120min
Intelligent and engrossing, this historical drama recreates the real-life WW2 conspiracy about a plot within the highest ranks of Hitler's military command to assassinate their leader and restore Germany's good name. Led by Col. Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise), a man who lost seven fingers and an eye fighting in North Africa, this group of co-conspirators, played by Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy, Terence Stamp, Eddie Izzard and Thomas Kretschmann, all have differing motives for wanting Hitler dead, and their allegiances shift even as they must keep their plan secret. Director Bryan Singer (X-Men 1 & 2, Superman) reuniting with his The Usual Suspects screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie, has made a suspenseful and old-fashioned action adventure, presenting a complex scheme with clarity.
DOUBT (PG-13) 104min
In a Catholic school in 1964 Bronx, Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep), the principal, does not trust the new priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman). He is progressive and charismatic; she is strict, disciplined and old-fashioned. When she hears from meek, innocent Sister James (Amy Adams) that she saw the school's new and only black student go into his office alone, she decides, without a doubt but without any evidence either, that something is seriously amiss and the Father must go. Viola Davis (Antwone Fisher) gives a brief but indelible performance as the boy's mother. John Patrick Shanley (Oscar winning screenwriter for Moonstruck) adapts and directs his Tony-winning play, expanding it to fill the big screen with this transfixing and relevant film.
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Coming next?
Slumdog Millionaire
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Gran Torino
Frost/Nixon
Yes Man
Rachel Getting Married
I've Loved You For So Long
OSCAR NIGHT 2009
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As promised here is the new schedule for Reel Pizza that runs January 16 through February 5th.
We hope to see you soon.
-Lisa and Chris
Tuesday Jan 20th
On January 20 at noon, our country will inaugurate its 44th president, and we will be watching on the big screen. Please join us, starting at 11am, for the televised broadcast of this historic event. Our kitchen will be open for lunch, while we celebrate President Barak Obama and Vice-President Joseph Biden as they begin their great journey to lead this country forward. We will be accepting donations to the Bar Harbor Food Pantry in lieu of admissions.
Fri Jan 16 - Mon Jan 19
THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX (G) 93min
Kate DiCamillo's (Because of Winn-Dixie) Newbery Award-winning fairy tale of bravery, forgiveness, and redemption is brought wonderfully, enchantingly and beautifully to the screen in this charming and elegant animated adaptation by screenwriter Gary Ross (Seabiscuit) and directors Sam Fell (Flushed Away) and Rob Stevenhagen. A very small mouse with very big ears (Matthew Broderick) is banished from his world for not acting mouse-like enough. He meets a rat (Dustin Hoffman), a fellow outcast who frightened the queen to death from being in her soup. Emma Watson (Harry Potter films) voices the princess despondent at the untimely demise of her mother. Tracy Uhlman voices her servant girl who longs to be a princess herself.
Tues Jan 20 - Thurs Jan 22
CHANGELING (R) 140min
This first of two excellent films coming this year from director Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River) is the unforgettable true story of a woman wronged by the corrupt Los Angeles Police Department in 1928. Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart) is a single mother whose son disappears one day without a trace. Months later and with much fanfare, the LAPD announces they've found the missing child, but she protests that the boy returned to her is not her son. The police respond by incarcerating her in the psychiatric ward. John Malkovich plays an eccentric, outspoken radio preacher who takes her case to the airwaves when she is silenced. It is an intense, riveting story and film.
************************
Fri Jan 23 - Mon Jan 26
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (R) 118min
Golden Globe nominated actress Sally Hawkins gives a spot-on, infectious performance as always enthusiastic, bordering on manic, school teacher Poppy. Always optimistic, she takes up driving lessons at age 30 when her bike is stolen. She maintains her hopefulness even as those around her, like her driving instructor (Eddie Marsan, The Illusionist) are perpetually angry and seem to have no hope or patience with life. This edgy, slice-of-life drama, a refreshingly upbeat character study from veteran improvisational director Mike Leigh (Vera Drake, Topsy Turvy) was created using his trademark organic method of storywriting.
Tues Jan 27 - Thurs Jan 29
ROCKNROLLA (R) 116min
Director Guy Richie (Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) returns to his roots with this Tarantino-inspired, stylish and outrageous Cockney crime caper, featuring a great ensemble cast. Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton) stars as a London crime boss and self-proclaimed real estate mogul. Gerard Butler (Phantom of the Opera) is a low level crook who gets in the way of a deal with a Russian mobster (Karel Rodin), tipped off by the Russian's accountant (Thandie Newton). A lucky painting, a dead rock musician and his promoters (Jeremy Piven and Ludacris) are part of the mix. It is fast paced, quite humorous, and entertaining with a twisty ending that brings everything together.
**************************
Fri Jan 30 - Mon Feb 2
CADILLAC RECORDS (R) 109min
This powerful chronicle with a phenomenal soundtrack of the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists tells the story of rhythm and the blues as they gave birth to rock 'n' roll on Chicago's south side from the late 1940's into the 1960's. It all began when Leonard Chess (Adrian Brody, The Pianist) a Polish-Jewish émigré and bar owner hired the blues combo of Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright) on guitar and Little Walter (Columbus Short) on harmonica to play his club. Soon he records them, and then is promoting their music across the country. The family grows to include Big Willie Dixon (Cedric the Entertainer), Howlin' Wolf (Eammonn Walker), Chuck Berry (Mos Def) and Etta James (Beyonce Knowles), all of whom struggle with success. Writer-director Darnell Martin brings the story of these blues legends to dramatic, vibrant life.
Tues Feb 3 - Thurs Feb 5
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS (PG-13)
This remarkable and moving Holocaust story, told with intelligence and grace, is based on the young adult novel by author John Boyne. Bruno is a young German boy whose soldier father (David Thewlis) is about to be transferred from Berlin to the countryside. His mother (Vera Farmiga) and sister (Amber Beattie) are proud of his promotion but don't understand its significance. Their new home is near to a "farm" that the boy is forbidden to visit where the workers wear striped clothing, but as loneliness creeps in, he sneaks away, where he meets Shmuel, a Jewish boy his age on the opposite side of the fence. Slowly Bruno begins to understand the dangerous hate, and wonders about his father's participation, as he vows to help his new friend.
**************************
COMING SOON ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (PG-13) 167min
From director David Fincher (Seven, Zodiac) and screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) based loosely on a F. Scott Fitzgerald story, this intriguing, magical and romantic tale follows the life of a unique man who was born looking an ancient eighty years old, and as he aged, he got progressively younger. Brad Pitt plays the man, and excellent digital technology has implanted his face on all the characters, even when acted by other people's bodies. Elle Fanning and Cate Blanchette play the different ages of Daisy, the most important woman in his life. This haunting, poignant, and unique picture is one of the year's best.
MARLEY AND ME (PG) 115min
Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston make a charming couple in this endearing story about a dog and the effects he has on their marriage. This is not just any dog, but "the world's worst dog," a golden lab with no boundaries who wreaks havoc wherever he goes for a good part of his life. Nevertheless, he is much loved by the whole family, which eventually includes three kids, and they all recognize that their life wouldn't be the same without him. Based on journalist John Grogan's true memoir, directed by David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada) and co-starring Alan Arkin, Kathleen Turner and Eric Dane, this is a delightful, hilarious and fully entertaining film.
MILK (R) 128min
In 1977, Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man voted into public office in the US, when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. A year later he was murdered. Seamlessly blending newsreel footage with an original screenplay by Dustin Lance Black, director Gus Van Sant's satisfying, timely and engaging new film charts the last eight years of the life of this martyred pioneer. The ensemble cast features excellent performances, including Golden Globe nominated Sean Penn, who becomes the title character, a middle aged Jewish Republican insurance agent seeking change, James Franco (Pineapple Express) as his partner who moves with him from New York to the west coast, Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) as a young activist who works tirelessly with Milk's campaigns, and Josh Brolin (W) as a conflicted conservative city supervisor elected at the same time as Milk.
VALKYRIE (PG-13) 120min
Intelligent and engrossing, this historical drama recreates the real-life WW2 conspiracy about a plot within the highest ranks of Hitler's military command to assassinate their leader and restore Germany's good name. Led by Col. Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise), a man who lost seven fingers and an eye fighting in North Africa, this group of co-conspirators, played by Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy, Terence Stamp, Eddie Izzard and Thomas Kretschmann, all have differing motives for wanting Hitler dead, and their allegiances shift even as they must keep their plan secret. Director Bryan Singer (X-Men 1 & 2, Superman) reuniting with his The Usual Suspects screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie, has made a suspenseful and old-fashioned action adventure, presenting a complex scheme with clarity.
DOUBT (PG-13) 104min
In a Catholic school in 1964 Bronx, Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep), the principal, does not trust the new priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman). He is progressive and charismatic; she is strict, disciplined and old-fashioned. When she hears from meek, innocent Sister James (Amy Adams) that she saw the school's new and only black student go into his office alone, she decides, without a doubt but without any evidence either, that something is seriously amiss and the Father must go. Viola Davis (Antwone Fisher) gives a brief but indelible performance as the boy's mother. John Patrick Shanley (Oscar winning screenwriter for Moonstruck) adapts and directs his Tony-winning play, expanding it to fill the big screen with this transfixing and relevant film.
****************************
Coming next?
Slumdog Millionaire
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Gran Torino
Frost/Nixon
Yes Man
Rachel Getting Married
I've Loved You For So Long
OSCAR NIGHT 2009
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[Reel Pizza] update
hi everyone.
here is a brief update on the movies this week. The new schedule will be coming shortly.
We will have our first Senior Matinee tomorrow (1/8) at 1:30. The show will be QUANTUM OF SOLACE.
Next week (1/15), the film will be AUSTRALIA which will start at 1:00, because of its longer running time.
through Thurs 1/8 QUANTUM OF SOLACE (PG-13) 106min 6:00 and 8:15
and A CHRISTMAS TALE (NR) 152min [in French with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:30
Fri 1/9 - Thurs 1/15 AUSTRALIA (PG-13) 165min 5:00 and 8:15
Fri 1/9 - Mon 1/12 SECRET LIFE OF BEES (PG-13) 110min 5:30 and 8:00
Tue 1/13 - Thur 1/15 SYNECDOCHE, NY (R) 124min 5:30 and 8:00
see you soon
-LIsa
here is a brief update on the movies this week. The new schedule will be coming shortly.
We will have our first Senior Matinee tomorrow (1/8) at 1:30. The show will be QUANTUM OF SOLACE.
Next week (1/15), the film will be AUSTRALIA which will start at 1:00, because of its longer running time.
through Thurs 1/8
Fri 1/9 - Thurs 1/15
Fri 1/9 - Mon 1/12
Tue 1/13 - Thur 1/15
see you soon
-LIsa
Thursday, December 18, 2008
[Reel Pizza] my apologies
please disregard the previous email....
sorry the computer took control
it was only meant for one, not all.
sorry the computer took control
it was only meant for one, not all.
-L
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
[Reel Pizza] our new schedule
hi everyone
WE ARE BACK~
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
BRING BACK THE SUN!
Florida was very nice, but nothing beats being with our friends in Bar Harbor in the wintertime.
We are looking forward to our 14th season of film and community, including our Thursday matinees for the Seniors (starts 1/8), our annual Oscar Night Gala benefit, and other special events we are planning. See you soon.
-Chris, Lisa, Pierce & Chloe
Here is the schedule for Reel Pizza that runs Friday December 26, 2008, through Thursday January 15, 2009.
Friday Dec 26 - Thurs Jan 1
FOUR CHRISTMASES PG-13 89min 6:00 and 8:00
This season�s hit romantic comedy stars Vince Vaughn (Fred Claus) and Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) as a happily unmarried couple who usually flee to some exotic locale over the holidays. This year they find themselves unexpectedly and unavoidably stuck at home over Christmas. Unable to escape, they become obliged to attend, in one day, the holiday festivities at each of their divorced parent�s homes (Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenbergen, and Jon Voight). Secret childhood fears and adolescent wounds are reopened which nearly ruins their relationship. In his first fiction feature, documentary director Seth Gordon (King of Kong) has made a touching and funny, but biting and real film.
Friday Dec 26 - Monday Dec 29
BOLT PG 96min 5:30 and 7:45
This delightful animated action comedy is about a celebrity TV star dog (voiced by John Travolta) who spends his days cloistered on the set, never realizing that the superpowers he has on his weekly show aren�t real. Separated from his master and costar Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus) he finds himself alone in NYC and must somehow make his way back to Hollywood using only his natural courage and loyalty, even though he thinks he has amazing powers. His traveling companions are a scrappy stray cat and an excitable overweight hamster trapped in a plastic ball. This newest film from Disney animation, now headed by Pixar Studio�s John Lassater, shows the influence of the popular upstart on the venerable brand both in the film�s fabulous looks and its clever and well-told story.
Tuesday Dec 30 - Thurs Jan 1
MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA PG 89min 5:30 and 7:30
Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer) and Gloria the Hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) all reprise their roles in this irreverently humorous sequel. Attempting to travel home from Madagascar in a rickety airplane piloted by the Penguins and Meerkats, the foursome and their entourage find themselves crash-landing into an African game preserve. Here Alex meets his father, the local lion king (Bernie Mac) and Gloria, Melman and Marty meet others of their species at the local watering hole, with comic results. You�ve got to move it, move it.
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Friday Jan 2 - Thurs Jan 8
QUANTUM OF SOLACE PG-13 106min 6:00 and 8:15
The newest Bond film (#22 or #24 depending on how you count them) is the first true sequel in the series. Beginning just hours after the end of 2006�s Casino Royale, Daniel Craig�s excellent 007 has just lost the love of his life, and with the help of the only other woman he can trust, M (Dame Judi Dench), he is out for revenge. Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and Butterfly) is the villain, bent on reeking ecological havoc, aided by a mysterious Latina (Olga Kurylenko). Marc Forster (The Kite Runner, Monster�s Ball) ably directs this globe-trotting, explosively action-packed and completely entertaining Bond installment.
Friday Jan 2 - Monday Jan 5
TWILIGHT PG-13 120min 5:30 and 8:00
Masterful director of teen outsider films, Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown) brings the first of Stephanie Meyer's popular series to life in an entertaining and non-condescending way. Kirsten Stewart is Bella, a vulnerable, reserved girl who has just moved from warm sunny Phoenix to grey, rainy rural Washington state to live with her police chief dad. Robert Pattinson (Cedric Diggory from the Harry Potter movies) plays the mysterious and beautifully pale boy who catches her eye and steals her heart. Fortunately for Bella, he is a vegetarian vampire, but not all of them are.
Tues Jan 6 - Thurs Jan8
A CHRISTMAS TALE NR 152min [in French with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:30
This unpredictable, unsentimental and marvelously dark comedy by inventive French director Arnoud Desplechin (Kings and Queen) is a captivating portrait of a dysfunctional family reunited over the Christmas holiday. Catherine Deneuve is the matriarch, recently diagnosed with the same blood cancer that took her oldest son when he was a child. Her three grown children (Anne Cosigny from Diving Bell and Butterfly, Mathieu Amalric from Quantum of Solace, and Melvil Poupaud) and their spouses (Chiara Matroianni, Emmanuelle Devos and Hippolyte Girardot) come together for what will become a week of power struggles and shifting allegiances as secrets are revealed.
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Friday Jan 9 - Thurs Jan 15
AUSTRALIA PG-13 165min 5:00 and 8:15
Celebrating his homeland, director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge) has made a spectacular, visually stunning, sweepingly romantic epic set just before WW2. Nicole Kidman stars as a proper British lady who arrives at her husband�s cattle estate in Northern Australia to find him shot dead and their neighbor stealing their cattle. She joins forces with his cynical, itinerant ranch hand (Hugh Jackman) and an orphaned Aboriginal boy to drive their cattle to the port of Darwin to sell. Meanwhile the Japanese are threatening to attack.
Friday Jan 9 - Monday Jan 12
THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES PG-13 110min 5:30 and 8:00
Based on the best-selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd, this heartwarming and charming parable is set on the eve of the 1964 civil rights legislation in segregated South Carolina. Lily (Dakota Fanning), a white motherless teen, and her African American nanny (Jennifer Hudson) flee her strict father�s wrath, and find sanctuary at the home of the eccentric but nurturing beekeeper August (Queen Latifah), who lives in a bright pink house with her sisters May (Sophie Okenedo) and June (Alicia Keyes). Director Gina Prince Blythewood has made a moving and spiritually rich tale of sisterhood and community.
Tues Jan 13 - Thurs Jan 15
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK R 124min 5:30 and 8:00
Charlie Kaufman, the quirky and Oscar-winning screenwriter behind off-beat independent hits Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ambitiously turns to directing with this surreal exploration of life, love and death. Phillip Seymour Hoffman (coming in Doubt) proves once again that he is one of today�s most talented actors, with his portrayal of Caden Cotard, a 40 year old avant-garde, regional theatre director and hypochondriac whose marriage (to Catherine Keener) is falling apart. His therapist (Hope Davis) is no help. Then he wins a MacArthur �genius� grant and turns his entire world into an alternative reality, recreating his life in an enormous NYC warehouse for a decades-long production that seems to have no end. Other co-stars include Emily Watson, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
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COMING SOON (in no particular order):
Rachel Getting Married
Milk
The Tale of Desperaux
Cadillac Records
Happy Go Lucky
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marley and Me
Slumdog Millionaire
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Grand Torino
Changeling
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Yes Man
Seven Pounds
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WE ARE BACK~
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
BRING BACK THE SUN!
Florida was very nice, but nothing beats being with our friends in Bar Harbor in the wintertime.
We are looking forward to our 14th season of film and community, including our Thursday matinees for the Seniors (starts 1/8), our annual Oscar Night Gala benefit, and other special events we are planning. See you soon.
-Chris, Lisa, Pierce & Chloe
Here is the schedule for Reel Pizza that runs Friday December 26, 2008, through Thursday January 15, 2009.
Friday Dec 26 - Thurs Jan 1
FOUR CHRISTMASES PG-13 89min 6:00 and 8:00
This season�s hit romantic comedy stars Vince Vaughn (Fred Claus) and Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) as a happily unmarried couple who usually flee to some exotic locale over the holidays. This year they find themselves unexpectedly and unavoidably stuck at home over Christmas. Unable to escape, they become obliged to attend, in one day, the holiday festivities at each of their divorced parent�s homes (Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenbergen, and Jon Voight). Secret childhood fears and adolescent wounds are reopened which nearly ruins their relationship. In his first fiction feature, documentary director Seth Gordon (King of Kong) has made a touching and funny, but biting and real film.
Friday Dec 26 - Monday Dec 29
BOLT PG 96min 5:30 and 7:45
This delightful animated action comedy is about a celebrity TV star dog (voiced by John Travolta) who spends his days cloistered on the set, never realizing that the superpowers he has on his weekly show aren�t real. Separated from his master and costar Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus) he finds himself alone in NYC and must somehow make his way back to Hollywood using only his natural courage and loyalty, even though he thinks he has amazing powers. His traveling companions are a scrappy stray cat and an excitable overweight hamster trapped in a plastic ball. This newest film from Disney animation, now headed by Pixar Studio�s John Lassater, shows the influence of the popular upstart on the venerable brand both in the film�s fabulous looks and its clever and well-told story.
Tuesday Dec 30 - Thurs Jan 1
MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA PG 89min 5:30 and 7:30
Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer) and Gloria the Hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) all reprise their roles in this irreverently humorous sequel. Attempting to travel home from Madagascar in a rickety airplane piloted by the Penguins and Meerkats, the foursome and their entourage find themselves crash-landing into an African game preserve. Here Alex meets his father, the local lion king (Bernie Mac) and Gloria, Melman and Marty meet others of their species at the local watering hole, with comic results. You�ve got to move it, move it.
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Friday Jan 2 - Thurs Jan 8
QUANTUM OF SOLACE PG-13 106min 6:00 and 8:15
The newest Bond film (#22 or #24 depending on how you count them) is the first true sequel in the series. Beginning just hours after the end of 2006�s Casino Royale, Daniel Craig�s excellent 007 has just lost the love of his life, and with the help of the only other woman he can trust, M (Dame Judi Dench), he is out for revenge. Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and Butterfly) is the villain, bent on reeking ecological havoc, aided by a mysterious Latina (Olga Kurylenko). Marc Forster (The Kite Runner, Monster�s Ball) ably directs this globe-trotting, explosively action-packed and completely entertaining Bond installment.
Friday Jan 2 - Monday Jan 5
TWILIGHT PG-13 120min 5:30 and 8:00
Masterful director of teen outsider films, Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown) brings the first of Stephanie Meyer's popular series to life in an entertaining and non-condescending way. Kirsten Stewart is Bella, a vulnerable, reserved girl who has just moved from warm sunny Phoenix to grey, rainy rural Washington state to live with her police chief dad. Robert Pattinson (Cedric Diggory from the Harry Potter movies) plays the mysterious and beautifully pale boy who catches her eye and steals her heart. Fortunately for Bella, he is a vegetarian vampire, but not all of them are.
Tues Jan 6 - Thurs Jan8
A CHRISTMAS TALE NR 152min [in French with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:30
This unpredictable, unsentimental and marvelously dark comedy by inventive French director Arnoud Desplechin (Kings and Queen) is a captivating portrait of a dysfunctional family reunited over the Christmas holiday. Catherine Deneuve is the matriarch, recently diagnosed with the same blood cancer that took her oldest son when he was a child. Her three grown children (Anne Cosigny from Diving Bell and Butterfly, Mathieu Amalric from Quantum of Solace, and Melvil Poupaud) and their spouses (Chiara Matroianni, Emmanuelle Devos and Hippolyte Girardot) come together for what will become a week of power struggles and shifting allegiances as secrets are revealed.
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Friday Jan 9 - Thurs Jan 15
AUSTRALIA PG-13 165min 5:00 and 8:15
Celebrating his homeland, director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge) has made a spectacular, visually stunning, sweepingly romantic epic set just before WW2. Nicole Kidman stars as a proper British lady who arrives at her husband�s cattle estate in Northern Australia to find him shot dead and their neighbor stealing their cattle. She joins forces with his cynical, itinerant ranch hand (Hugh Jackman) and an orphaned Aboriginal boy to drive their cattle to the port of Darwin to sell. Meanwhile the Japanese are threatening to attack.
Friday Jan 9 - Monday Jan 12
THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES PG-13 110min 5:30 and 8:00
Based on the best-selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd, this heartwarming and charming parable is set on the eve of the 1964 civil rights legislation in segregated South Carolina. Lily (Dakota Fanning), a white motherless teen, and her African American nanny (Jennifer Hudson) flee her strict father�s wrath, and find sanctuary at the home of the eccentric but nurturing beekeeper August (Queen Latifah), who lives in a bright pink house with her sisters May (Sophie Okenedo) and June (Alicia Keyes). Director Gina Prince Blythewood has made a moving and spiritually rich tale of sisterhood and community.
Tues Jan 13 - Thurs Jan 15
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK R 124min 5:30 and 8:00
Charlie Kaufman, the quirky and Oscar-winning screenwriter behind off-beat independent hits Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ambitiously turns to directing with this surreal exploration of life, love and death. Phillip Seymour Hoffman (coming in Doubt) proves once again that he is one of today�s most talented actors, with his portrayal of Caden Cotard, a 40 year old avant-garde, regional theatre director and hypochondriac whose marriage (to Catherine Keener) is falling apart. His therapist (Hope Davis) is no help. Then he wins a MacArthur �genius� grant and turns his entire world into an alternative reality, recreating his life in an enormous NYC warehouse for a decades-long production that seems to have no end. Other co-stars include Emily Watson, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
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COMING SOON (in no particular order):
Rachel Getting Married
Milk
The Tale of Desperaux
Cadillac Records
Happy Go Lucky
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marley and Me
Slumdog Millionaire
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Grand Torino
Changeling
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Yes Man
Seven Pounds
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Monday, November 3, 2008
[Reel Pizza] update
hi everyone
Here is the last update from Reel Pizza until mid-December.
As you know, we are closing soon for our seasonal holiday break. Our last night is Mon Nov 10th. We will reopen Dec 26th.
Remember Reel Pizza gift certificates and Big Ticket Passes make great gifts for your friends and family. Get them at the box office before we close, or contact us by phone 288-3828, US mail PO Box 625 Bar Harbor ME 04609, or email (lisa@reelpizza.net) for prompt assistance. You can also stop by the theater (side door) mornings until 11/19 or after 12/10 and if my car is there, so will I be.
Thanks for a great year. Happy Holidays to all, and we will be back with you reel soon!
-Lisa and Chris, Pierce and Chloe (who are about to turn eleven!)
Here is what is coming to Reel Pizza Fri Nov 7 - Mon Nov 10; both shows run all days.
RELIGULOUS (R) 101min 6:00 and 8:15
Known for his astute analytical skills, irreverent wit and commitment to never pulling a punch, political humorist and author Bill Maher (TV's Real Time, and Politically Incorrect) brings his characteristic honesty to an unusual spiritual journey. Maher travels around the world speaking to religious leaders as well as regular folk on the street, discussing the existence of God, personal faith and doubt, and the importance of organized religion in the very funny documentary directed by Larry Charles (Borat, Curb Your Enthusiasm). Clips from Hollywood films about religion that punctuate Maher's points are interspersed with the interviews, often to hilarious effect. Making it clear from the start that he is not a fan of any religion and does not believe in God, Maher has fun skewering people who do. He uses humor--and lots of cynicism and sarcasm--to examine controversial theories and topics that people feel very strongly about, no matter what side of the fence they are on.
CITY OF EMBER (PG) 95min 5:30 and 7:45
Based on the very popular fantasy novel by Jeanne Duprau, this heart-pounding, edge-of-your-seat, family-friendly adventure boasts an impressive cast and crew. It stars Saoirse Ronan (Atonement), Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Mary Kay Place, Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets and Lies), and Harry Treadaway (Control). The screenplay was written by Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride) and the film was directed by Gil Kenan (Monster House). Set in an underground city that for generations has depended on a massive generator to power their lights, but now the generator is failing and the city is falling into darkness, the story follows two teens in their new jobs as messenger and pipeworker, armed with a mysterious box full of cryptic papers follow clues, maneuver around corrupt politicians and other unsavory characters and race the clock as they try to restore the light to their beloved city.
Here is the last update from Reel Pizza until mid-December.
As you know, we are closing soon for our seasonal holiday break. Our last night is Mon Nov 10th. We will reopen Dec 26th.
Remember Reel Pizza gift certificates and Big Ticket Passes make great gifts for your friends and family. Get them at the box office before we close, or contact us by phone 288-3828, US mail PO Box 625 Bar Harbor ME 04609, or email (lisa@reelpizza.net) for prompt assistance. You can also stop by the theater (side door) mornings until 11/19 or after 12/10 and if my car is there, so will I be.
Thanks for a great year. Happy Holidays to all, and we will be back with you reel soon!
-Lisa and Chris, Pierce and Chloe (who are about to turn eleven!)
Here is what is coming to Reel Pizza Fri Nov 7 - Mon Nov 10; both shows run all days.
RELIGULOUS (R) 101min 6:00 and 8:15
Known for his astute analytical skills, irreverent wit and commitment to never pulling a punch, political humorist and author Bill Maher (TV's Real Time, and Politically Incorrect) brings his characteristic honesty to an unusual spiritual journey. Maher travels around the world speaking to religious leaders as well as regular folk on the street, discussing the existence of God, personal faith and doubt, and the importance of organized religion in the very funny documentary directed by Larry Charles (Borat, Curb Your Enthusiasm). Clips from Hollywood films about religion that punctuate Maher's points are interspersed with the interviews, often to hilarious effect. Making it clear from the start that he is not a fan of any religion and does not believe in God, Maher has fun skewering people who do. He uses humor--and lots of cynicism and sarcasm--to examine controversial theories and topics that people feel very strongly about, no matter what side of the fence they are on.
CITY OF EMBER (PG) 95min 5:30 and 7:45
Based on the very popular fantasy novel by Jeanne Duprau, this heart-pounding, edge-of-your-seat, family-friendly adventure boasts an impressive cast and crew. It stars Saoirse Ronan (Atonement), Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Mary Kay Place, Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets and Lies), and Harry Treadaway (Control). The screenplay was written by Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride) and the film was directed by Gil Kenan (Monster House). Set in an underground city that for generations has depended on a massive generator to power their lights, but now the generator is failing and the city is falling into darkness, the story follows two teens in their new jobs as messenger and pipeworker, armed with a mysterious box full of cryptic papers follow clues, maneuver around corrupt politicians and other unsavory characters and race the clock as they try to restore the light to their beloved city.
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