[Reel Pizza] schedule Feb 6 - Feb 26

Well, ol' Mother Nature sure is making it difficult for people to get to the movies (or school or work for that matter!)  But Chris and our within-walking-distance employees are at the theater tonight if you care to join them for the final night of Oscar-Nominated Short Films (animated @ 5:30, live-action @ 7:30) or for Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game at 6:00 and 8:30.

Some corrections to the pdf as well as the printed schedule  (I was quite ill when I proofed it and obviously didn't look closely or well).  The date on the cover, to start, should be Feb 6 - Feb 26.  And Unbroken is not R-rated, but PG-13.  That's all I have caught so far...... there may be more.  School Germs, UGH!

We have two special programs on this schedule.  First up, on Sunday Feb 15th and presented in association with with College of the Atlantic, we welcome filmmaker Manfred Kirchheimer who will attend a special screening of two of his documentary films, including recently restored STATIONS OF THE ELEVATED.  This event is free and open to the public.  Please join us. 

Coming up Sunday Feb 22nd, it's Oscah'Night!  We will again have our annual Gala Event hosted by the amazing ladies of the Jesup Memorial Library.  This year, National host Neil Patrick Harris will be joined by our local hosts, the inimitable Jen Shepard and Amy Roeder of ImprovAcadia  (gulp, I spelled Jen's name wrong on the print copy, oops, sorry Jen!)  There will be prizes for best costume, men and woman, both formal and movie-themed.  So it's time to start lurking at Serendipity and the Goodwill or your local resale shop to find some great threads. Also a Library Scavenger Hunt and of course a Most Correct Ballot Prize.  Tickets are on sale now at both the library and at Reel Pizza.  Get yours now. 

Tomorrow I will send the update with the times for next week.  Stay warm.  See you soon. 
-L


Fri Feb 6 - Mon Feb 9
WHIPLASH (R) 106min
Both Miles Teller (The Spectacular Now) and JK Simmons (Juno) have received critical acclaim for their intense performances in this riveting film, both Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize winner at last year's Sundance Film Festival, and the second feature from young director Damien Chazelle. Teller plays a young jazz drummer at an elite conservatory who becomes obsessed by perfection, both inspired by and terrorized by his unorthodox teacher (Simmons) who is equally demanding and abusive.  trailer

Tues Feb 10 - Thurs Feb 12
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (PG-13) 95min [in French with subtitles]
Actress Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) headlines this taut, suspenseful thriller about a woman who is forced to argue with her community for her dignity. Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's latest film, which won them another Cannes Palme d'Or, follows Sandra, just released from the hospital after a nervous breakdown, who discovers her boss gave her co-workers a choice. Either give Sandra back her factory job, or get a substantial bonus; when she discovers they chose the bonus, a friend convinces management to hold a second vote, giving Sandra a weekend to try to convince her co-workers to let her keep her job. trailer



Fri Feb 13 - Mon Feb 16
PADDINGTON (PG) 95min
Michael Bond's beloved story about a talking bear with a yen for marmalade from darkest Peru is marvelously adapted with visually inventive charm, punny wit and calamitous antics. When his relations are no longer able to care for him, this rare bear travels to London to find a new home and finds himself taken in by the kindly Brown family, named for the subway station where they find him. All is well until a museum taxidermist learns of his existence. With a style reminiscent of Wes Anderson films (Moonrise Kingdom and Fantastic Mr. Fox) and the seamless blending of live action and CGI (like Ted), this lovely film features an excellent cast, including Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, Julie Walters, Nicole Kidman, and Jim Broadbent.  trailer

Tues Feb 17 - Thurs Feb 19
SONG OF THE SEA (PG) 93min
For a second time, Irish director Tomm Moore (The Secret of the Kells) has earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature with his charming new magical family adventure. Inspired by the Irish folktale about the ancient myth of the Selkie (human on land, seal in the water), this poetic and visually stunning, hand-drawn film follows a boy and his young sister on a voyage from their island home, to urban Dublin, and onto an enchanted spirit world where they discover the power of song.  trailer



Fri Feb 20 - Mon Feb 23
FOXCATCHER (R) 134min
After winning Cannes' best director award last spring, Director Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) earned another Oscar nomination for himself, screenwriter Dan Futterman, and two of his actors (Carell and Tatum) in this mesmerizing, based-on-true-events crime drama about two lonely men and the bizarre relationship between them. Steve Carrell gives an intense performance as eccentric, unstable heir to his family's chemical company fortune, John DuPont, who loves wrestling and decides to create a team to compete in the 1988 Olympics. He recruits 1984 Gold medalists, down-trodden Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) and his more successful and charismatic brother Dave (Mark Ruffalo); Dave declines, and Mark is lured into a dangerous world with a self-destructive spiral.  trailer

Tues Feb 24 - Thurs Feb 26
BEYOND THE LIGHTS (PG-13) 116min
This warm-hearted, crowd-pleasing romantic drama stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle) in a tremendous performance as a young, rising star R&B singer whose life is on the edge from the pressures of fame. Her unlikely romance with earnest, handsome cop and aspiring politician Kaz (Nate Parker) upends the aspirations of both their parents (her mom, Minnie Driver, his dad, Danny Glover) who each urge them to put their careers ahead of their love. Gina Prince-Blythewood (Secret Life of Bees) directs this entertaining drama that earned an Oscar Nomination for Best Song, Grateful, by Diane Warren.  trailer


COMING ON OUR SECOND SCREEN:

UNBROKEN (PG-13) 137min
Director Angelina Jolie's old-fashioned epic drama about the trials of one man (Jack O'Connell) over the years, from the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, thru surviving 47 days in a liferaft with two buddies after his B-24 bomber crashed into the Pacific during WWII, only to be rescued by the Japanese and put into a POW camp with a notorious, sadistic commander, is poignant, beautiful and exhilarating. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's novel (Seabiscuit) it tells Louis Zamperini's unbelievable and inspiring true story about resiliency powered by the human spirit.  trailer

INTO THE WOODS (PG) 125min
Stephen Sondheim's 1987 mash-up of Grimm's fairy-tales has been terrifically adapted by Broadway librettist James Lapine to this new film from director Rob Marshall (Chicago). Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, and Little Red Riding Hood stories are joined by a new story of a Baker and his wife who are trying to start a family without success, when they learn they have been cursed by a witch, played by Meryl Streep, who received an Oscar nomination. This humorous and heartfelt musical has a strong cast including Chris Pine, Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp, Christine Baranski, Tracey Ullman, and James Cordon. Be careful what you wish for!  trailer

SELMA (PG-13) 127min
With brutality of white police against unarmed black men again prominent in today's news cycle, and with the Supreme Court's removal of many protections to minority enfranchisement two years ago, this powerful film of the civil rights movement couldn't be more timely or relevant. Covering the breathtaking parade of events during the three months before President Johnson's signing of the Voting Rights Act, a campaign of civil disobedience designed to speed its passage, the tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Council were calculated for maximum effectiveness by Martin Luther King Jr, a shrewd, dynamic figure who is humanized by his flaws and contradictions in this portrayal by actor David Oyelowo and director Ava DuVernay. This Oscar Best Picture nominee also earned a Best Song nomination for Glory by Common and John Legend.  trailer

AMERICAN SNIPER (R) 134min
Director Clint Eastwood returns to the theater of war with his latest film, the story of a soldier who served in Iraq over 1000 days during four tours of duty. Based on his memoir, Navy Seal Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook) holds the distinction of being the deadliest operative in US history. More a western style film than a war movie, this apolitical film shows the physical and emotional price paid by those who fight to protect American lives. Kyle, a true believer in his mission, finds his intensity follows him home to affect this relationship with his wife; he would feel more content in Fallujah, Ramada or Sadr City safekeeping his fellow soldiers, even as a price is put on his head by the enemy. This film earned six Oscar nominations, for Best Picture, Actor and Adapted Screenplay, plus three for craft.   trailer



Special Programming:

Sunday, February 15th
STATIONS OF THE ELEVATED (NR) 1pm Free and open to the public
We are delighted to join with COA to co-present filmmaker and NYCs School of Visual Arts faculty Manfred Kirchheimer who is bringing two works to screen, one older and one newer. Originally premiering at the 1981 New York Film Festival, and recently restored, STATIONS is a lyrical documentary that follows elevated subway trains that are illicitly painted by slum youths and was one of the earliest works of non-graffiti to consider graffiti as an art form. Its 45 minutes are a gentle, meditation on the way New York City used to look and feel, with brightly painted train cars rolling back and forth across the screen to the music of Charles Mingus and Aretha Franklin. The newer work is related!  trailer

Sunday February 22
Oscah'Night Gala  6:00pm till.....
a benefit for the The Jesup Memorial Library with Complimentary hors d'oeuvres & Champagne.  Hosts will be the inimitable ImprovAcadia's Jen Shepard & Amy Roeder.  Pre-show activities include a Scavenger Hunt & Costume Contest (Formal or Movie-themed) to win Prizes.  A Grand Prize for most correct Ballot.  It is  TERRIFIC FUN for a GREAT CAUSE.  Tickets: $15 for everyone available at Box office or Library NOW!

COMING NEXT SCHEDULE?
Top Five
Mr. Turner
Big Eyes
Tracks
Still Alice
Inherent Vice
Leviathan
And MORE! 

[Reel Pizza] update Jan 30 - Feb 5

Time to ski! Or snowshoe!  And think about all the calories you are burning as you shovel, and shovel, and shovel.....  And afterwards you can be a sloth and cozy up on the couch to watch a movie!   You gotta EARN that torpor.  :)

We have many choices this week, with this weekend's two different programs of Oscar nominated short films (get ready for the office pool or burnish your chances of winning the big prize on Oscah'Night, coming up 2/22 ).  The distributor tells us the Animated program which is our early show this coming weekend would be rated PG and the Live-Action program, the later show, would be PG-13. 

During the mid-week, FORCE MAJEURE, a hilarious Swedish psychological thriller, set in Switzerland, about how a split second decision has repercussions for a man and his family during a ski vacation.   

And many of you have been waiting for Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley in the multi-Oscar nominee, THE IMITATION GAME, which plays all week and will be the Senior Matinee next Thursday (2/5).  This Thursday (today 1/29) it is the concluding film of Peter Jackson's Middle Earth trilogy THE HOBBIT: Battle of Five Armies.  Senior matinees are at 1pm.

see you soon!
-L

Here is the line up with the times.

Fri 1/30 - Thurs 2/5    THE IMITATION GAME  (PG-13) 6:00 and 8:30
Fri 1/30 - Mon 2/2    OSCAR-NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORT FILMS (NR/PG) 5:30 only
Fri 1/30 - Mon 2/2    OSCAR-NOMINATED LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILMS (NR/PG-13) 7:30 only
Tues 2/3 - Thurs 2/5    FORCE MAJEURE (R)   5:30 and 8:00


Fri Jan 30 - Thurs Feb 5
THE IMITATION GAME  (PG-13)  114min
Benedict Cumberbatch (TVs Sherlock) gives an excellent performance, combining an air of superiority while remaining likable, portraying the socially inept mathematical genius and closeted homosexual Alan Turing, who with a team of game-playing geeks was responsible for inventing the machine that cracked the Nazi's seemingly uncrackable Enigma Code in WWII.   Keira Knightly plays the sole woman on the team who becomes Turing's friend and most trusted colleague.  Norwegian director Morten Tyldum (Headhunters) makes his English language debut with this fascinating, absorbing character study and wartime thriller.  Earned four Golden Globe Noms and eight Oscar Nominations.  trailer

Fri Jan 30 - Mon Feb 2
OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) animated 77min; live-action 117min
As we have for the past several years, this year we will be screening separate programs of the Oscar-nominated short films; the Animated collection will play at the early showtimes, and the Live-Action collection will be the later screening each day. Animated shorts hail from US, UK, Canada, and Netherlands, with 4 additional commended films in the program . Live Action collection includes films from Switzerland, UK, Israel, France and Tibet. Our annual Oscah' Night Gala celebration, this year on Sunday February 22nd, benefits and is presented by the Jesup Library.  trailer

Tues Feb 3 - Thurs Feb 5
FORCE MAJEURE (R)   120min [in SWEDISH with subtitles]
This Cannes Jury Prize winner is a haunting and often darkly hilarious psychological drama from Swedish director Ruben Östlund.  An upscale Swedish family on a skiing vacation in the Swiss Alps escapes a passing moment of peril; in the moment, the husband makes a cowardly decision which shakes his marriage to the core; his single action, unbeknownst to him, breaks open a crevasse in his relationship with his wife that may not be repaired.  It is a Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.  trailer

[Reel Pizza] Snow, What Snow?

Reel Pizza will be open tonight, for any of you hearty souls who dare
brave the elements!
Chris takes it as a badge of honor to not let the weather get the best
of him; he is in town, and will be happy to welcome any who come out.
Our walking-distance employees will be joining him.
Update for the upcoming week soon.
-L

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[Reel Pizza] update Jan 23 - 29

Hi everyone

Upcoming documentary CITIZENFOUR from filmmaker Laura Poitras about Edward Snowden and his NSA revelations recently was honored with an Oscar Nomination for Best Documentary Film.  

Senior movie this Thurs 1/22 is THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
NEXT Thurs 1/29 its THE HOBBIT: BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES
These Senior Matinees start at 1pm.

Update on Oscar Nominated Short Films program playing next week.  The Animated program runs 82min and includes films from US, UK, Canada, and Netherlands, with 4 additional commended films in the program . The Live Action collection runs 118min  and includes films from Switzerland, UK, Israel, France and Tibet. Showtimes will be figured and posted next week when we have determined the film on the other screen.   Trailer

Stay warm, enjoy the sunshine and the ever increasing light. 
-L

Fri 1/23 - Thurs 1/29    THE HOBBIT (PG-13)  5:30 & 8:15
Fri 1/23 - Mon 1/26    ROSEWATER (R)  6:00 & 8:30
Tues 1/27 - Thurs 1/29    CITIZEN FOUR (R)  6:00 & 8:30

Friday 1/23 - Thurs 1/29
THE HOBBIT: BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES  (PG-13)  144min  5:30 & 8:15
It is, indeed, the end of all things.  Director Peter Jackson delivers an inspired, dark and rousing end to the JRR Tolkien world that he has inhabited for the past decade and a half.  Smaug the dragon is on the loose and enraged, and dwarf lord Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to Bilbo and the company in his desire for power.  The armies of men, dwarves and elves assemble at the Lonely Mountain to argue over the hoards of treasure left by Smaug.  But when the orcs show up, they must either unite in battle against the dark forces of Sauron  or be destroyed, as the future of Middle Earth hangs in the balance.  trailer

Fri Jan 23 - Mon Jan 26
ROSEWATER (R)  103min  6:00 and 8:30
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart makes his screenwriting and directing debut with this powerful and intimate political drama.  Gael García Bernal (No, The Motorcycle Diaries) stars as Iranian-born, Canadian citizen Mazair Bahari, a journalist working for Newsweek covering Iran's 2009 seemingly fraudulent presidential elections which gave rise to the Green Revolution.  After Bahari sent video footage of the rioting in Tehran to the west, he was arrested, interrogated, charged as a spy, and tortured over four months, with a satirical interview he made on the Daily Show given as proof of his guilt.  Stewart seamlessly blends real and recreated footage to tell his story.  trailer
 
Tues Jan 27 - Thurs Jan 29
CITIZEN FOUR (R-language only) 114min  6:00 & 8:30
Several years into the making of a film on post-9/11 surveillance, Pulitzer-prize winning documentarian Laura Poitras (My Country, My Country and The Oath) began receiving encrypted emails from someone ready to blow the whistle on a massive covert surveillance program run out of the NSA.  With her camera, she and journalists Glen Greenwald (his book on this is No Place To Hide) and Ewen MacAskill of the Guardian newspaper arrange to meet this mystery person in Hong Kong who turns out to be Edward Snowden, and she records the events of the next 8 days.  This is a chilling, tense, and fascinating portrait of the June 2103 revelations that shook the world.  trailer

[Reel Pizza] update Fri Jan 16 - Thurs Jan 22

Hi everyone
Below is next week's schedule.  Eddie Redmayne won a Best Actor - Drama Golden Globe award last night for his performance as astrophysicist Stephen Hawking in THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, this week's week-long film. 

Also, I goofed; the running time listed for this week's midweek film, THE JUDGE, is (ever so slightly) off - it isn't 95min, it is actually, ummm, 142min...   Therefore, the later shows will start, not at 8:15 as advertised, but as soon as we can turn around the auditorium once the early show gets out, which will be around 8:30.  My apologies.

Enjoy your long weekend, if you are so blessed! 
-L&C

Fri Jan 16 - Thurs Jan 22
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (PG-13) 123min  6:00 & 8:30
In 1963, renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking was just a clumsy PhD student of theoretical physics who fell in love with Jane, a beautiful student of medieval poetry.  Soon his diagnosis of a progressive neurological disease gave him two years to live.  But Jane stuck by him; despite the deterioration of his body, they wed, had three children, and were married for 25 years while she put her own aspirations aside to be his full-time caregiver.  Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker James Marsh (Man on A Wire) has made an absorbing, inspiring and moving romantic drama, based on Jane's memoir.  Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones give flawless performances in this breathtaking portrait of a marriage.  Earned 4 Golden Globe noms.  trailer

Fri Jan 16 - Mon Jan 19
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: Secret of the Tomb (PG) 97min   5:30 & 7:45
Ben Stiller and many of the original cast members, including Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Dick VanDyke, Robin Williams and Mickey Rooney, reprise their roles in this sweet, crowd-pleasing second sequel in the family friendly series.  Larry the night guard (Stiller) at Manhattan's Museum of Natural History takes his enchanted museum characters to London's British Museum to discover why the magic in the ancient Egyptian tablet that brings the museum to life after hours is fading, and to try to reverse its demise.  trailer

Tues Jan 20 - Thurs Jan 22
DEAR WHITE PEOPLE  (R) 108 min  5:30 & 8:00
This intelligent, slyly provocative and unpredictable satire of race relation in the 21st century won a special Jury prize at last year's Sundance Film Fest for young director Justin Simien.  In his feature film debut, he creates a microcosm of the Obama era as a group of four African American students navigate campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white Ivy-League college.  With complex characters, sharp dialog, and humor he shows intolerance and hypocrisy on all sides.  trailer

[Reel Pizza] Update Jan 9 - 15

For all you patient HOBBIT-waiters out there, sorry to report it won't be this week either... Phooey!  But there are plenty of film options this time of year, and we will eventually convince the distributor to give us a print... Sometimes this business is so ridiculous... how do you make the eye-roll emoticon???  insert one here!!

Also, the winter Senior Matinee series starts this Thursday Jan 8th at 1:00pm.  BIRDMAN is the film.  We will announce next week's film at this week's screening.  We expect to continue weekly (Thursdays at 1:00pm) thru March and perhaps into April depending on films and interest.

Stay warm, remember we are a heated facility and have yummy warming soups as well as pizza and salads.

-Lisa

Fri 1/9 - Thurs 1/15  WILD (R) 115min  5:30 & 8:00
Fri 1/9 - Mon 1/12  ST VINCENT (PG-13) 103min  6:00 and 8:15
Tues 1/13 - Thurs 1/15  THE JUDGE (R) 142min   6:00 and 8:15

Fri Jan 9 - Thurs Jan 15
WILD (R) 115min   5:30 & 8:00
Reese Witherspoon gives an unglamorous performance as a young woman who, after the death of her mother (Laura Dern) from cancer at age 45, goes on a roll of personally destructive behavior. When her marriage ends she decides that walking solo over 1000 miles on the Pacific Crest Trail would be cathartic, despite having no hiking experience or a plan or a clue of what she is about to do. Director Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club) and screenwriter Nick Hornby (An Education) adapting Cheryl Strayed's bestselling memoir, have made a powerful and uplifting film of an intimate journey that helps us understand who Cheryl was as well as who she was becoming. Witherspoon is a Golden Globe nominee for Best Actress! trailer

Fri Jan 9 - Mon Jan 12
ST VINCENT (PG-13) 103min   6:00 and 8:15
Bill Murray plays Vincent, a curmudgeon and alcoholic down to his last dime, whose life is upended when new neighbors move in next door. Melissa McCarthy, playing it straight, is an overworked single mom with a precocious and nerdy pre-teen son; working long hours, she needs a sitter, and Vincent's finances could use a boost, so an arrangement is made. An odd friendship soon grows between this improbable pair, as Vincent takes Oliver on all the stops that make up his daily routine, the corner bar, the racetrack, the strip club. Vincent helps Oliver grow to become a man, while Oliver begins to see in Vincent something that no one else is able to - a misunderstood man with a good heart. This is director Ted Melfi's debut feature.  This film is a Golden Globe nominee for Best Picture!  trailer

Tues Jan 13 - Thurs Jan 15
THE JUDGE (R) 142min  6:00 and 8:15
Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall both give excellent performances in this court-room drama with a complex family dynamic. Big city lawyer Hank (Downey Jr.) returns home for the first time in years to attend his mother's funeral, but before he leaves to return home discovers his estranged dad, a respected small-town judge, is suspected of murder. Rich, thoughtful, funny and absorbing, this new film from director David Dobkin (The Wedding Crashers) also features Vincent D'Onofrio and Jeremy Strong as his two brothers who still live at home, Vera Farmiga as his high school sweetheart and Billy Bobb Thornton as the prosecuting attorney. Duvall is a Golden Globe nominee for Best Supporting Actor!  trailer

[Reel Pizza] PRIDE correction

Just a quick note to mention that I have the rating for PRIDE listed
incorrectly everywhere. It is really rated R, for language and brief
sexual content.
My apologies.
-L

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