hi everyone
Here is the coming schedule of films with times for Friday Oct (!) 3rd through Thursday Oct 9th at Reel Pizza.
See you soon
-Lisa and Chris
Friday Oct 3 - Thursday Oct 9
GHOST TOWN (PG-13) 103min 6:00 and 8:15
Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), a fussy, curmudgeonly dentist, has a near death experience during a routine hospital visit. After he is miraculously revived, he discovers, with much annoyance, that he can see ghosts, especially since these pesky spirits all want something from him. Recently deceased Frank (Greg Kinnear) promises that he can get all the other ghosts off his back, if he will only just break up the impending marriage of his widow (Téa Leoni). This endearing, quirky new movie from screenwriter (of Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones 4) and director (of Secret Window) David Koepp is charming, smart and winning.
Friday Oct 3 - Monday Oct 6
TRAITOR (PG-13) 114min 5:30 and 8:00
This intelligent and effective thriller stars Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash) who gives a remarkable performance as an ambiguous character. He is Samir, Sudanese-born to an American mother, who devoutedly embraced his Muslim roots while serving as a US Army advisor in Afghanistan and now sells plastic explosives to terrorists free-lance. He is also linked to terrorist attacks in Yemen, Nice and London, and is being pursued by the FBI, led by a quiet southerner (Guy Pierce) and his hot-headed partner (Neal Mc Donough). Saïd Taghmaoui (The Kite Runner) is also excellent as a Swiss-educated cell leader who recruits Samir to his deadly group. In his directing debut, screenwriter Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Day After Tomorrow), with co-writer Steve Martin, has made a gripping and thoughtful film.
Tuesday Oct 7 - Thurs Oct 9
TUYA'S MARRIAGE (NR) 96min [in Mandarin with subtitles] 5:30 and 7:45
Winner of the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, this comic and heartbreaking film from young Chinese director Quanon Wang recalls the early movies of Zhang Yimou (The Story of Qui Ju, Red Sorghum). Set in the picturesque but harsh steppes of Inner Mongolia, the story, co-written by the director and Lu Wei (Farewell My Concubine) captures a disappearing traditional way of life in a caring community threatened by government pressure. Beautiful, charismatic actress Yu Nan (Speed Racer) stars as a hardworking woman who has supported her family for several years since her husband became disabled. When she gets hurt, they must divorce so she can marry someone to take care of the children, but she demands that her new husband will have to take in her beloved ex also.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
[Reel Pizza] update update
hi everyone
The faster I go, the behinder I get!~
Please note the correct times for ENCOUNTERS below...I typed the wrong info yesterday..
I apologize for any confusion.
-L
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (G) at 5:30 and 8:00;
(HAMLET 2 (R) runs through Thursday at 6:00 and 8:30.)
The faster I go, the behinder I get!~
Please note the correct times for ENCOUNTERS below...I typed the wrong info yesterday..
I apologize for any confusion.
-L
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (G) at 5:30 and 8:00;
(HAMLET 2 (R) runs through Thursday at 6:00 and 8:30.)
Monday, September 22, 2008
[Reel Pizza] update
hi everyone
Here is this coming week's program at Reel Pizza, from Friday Sept 26 - Thursday Oct 2.
Since you just received all the film descriptions, I didn't think you needed me to send them to you again.
Just a reminder, tonight is the last night of THE LAST MISTRESS (R) at 5:30 and 8:00 changing tomorrow to a return engagement of ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (G) at 5:30 and 7:45; HAMLET 2 (R) runs through Thursday at 6:00 and 8:30.
Have a good week. -L
Friday Sept 26 - Thurs Oct 2
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (PG-13) 97min
Friday Sept 26 - Monday Sept 29
TRANSSIBERIAN (R) 111min
Tues Sept 30 - Thurs Oct 2
ELSA AND FRED (PG) 108min [in Spanish with subtitles]
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Here is this coming week's program at Reel Pizza, from Friday Sept 26 - Thursday Oct 2.
Since you just received all the film descriptions, I didn't think you needed me to send them to you again.
Just a reminder, tonight is the last night of THE LAST MISTRESS (R) at 5:30 and 8:00 changing tomorrow to a return engagement of ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (G) at 5:30 and 7:45; HAMLET 2 (R) runs through Thursday at 6:00 and 8:30.
Have a good week. -L
Friday Sept 26 - Thurs Oct 2
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (PG-13) 97min
Friday Sept 26 - Monday Sept 29
TRANSSIBERIAN (R) 111min
Tues Sept 30 - Thurs Oct 2
ELSA AND FRED (PG) 108min [in Spanish with subtitles]
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[Reel Pizza] schedule
Autumn Greeting!
So much for getting you this listing last Wednesday...Sorry.
Here now is the Reel Pizza schedule that runs from Friday Sept 26 through Thursday October 16th. There are many fine films coming that you may not have heard of, but should give a chance.
I don't know what is coming Friday, yet, but will send out a brief email later today when we are booked.
Hope to see you soon.
-Lisa & Chris
Friday Sept 26 - Monday Sept 29
TRANSSIBERIAN (R) 111min
Emily Mortimer (Lars and the Real Girl) and Woody Harrelson star as a missionary couple returning from a few weeks in Beijing and travelling by train to Moscow on their way home. An attractive backpacking couple is sharing their train compartment, but slowly Jessie comes to believe they are not all they seem. Then her husband, who misses re-embarking at a stop, shows up at the next station having befriended a Russian narcotics detective (Ben Kingsley). And the web has been spun in this clever, suspenseful and atmospheric thriller from co-writer and director Brad Anderson (Next Stop Wonderland, The Machinist). He superbly builds the tension while developing the characters fully.
Tues Sept 30 - Thurs Oct 2
ELSA AND FRED (PG) 108min [in Spanish with subtitles]
This sweet, magical romantic comedy is about the irresistible power of love as two people discover it is never too late to dream. Elsa's (China Zorilla) dream for the last sixty years is the Fontana di Trevi scene in Fellini's La Dolce Vita, but she has had no true love to take the Marcello Mastroiani role. Then she meets Alfredo (Manuel Alexandre), recently widowed and pushed around by his daughter and son-in-law. He is meticulous, lonely and confused, but everything changes when he meets the whirlwind Elsa, who insists he should enjoy every minute left of his future. Their awkward romance reveals universal truths about life and love.
Friday Oct 3 - Monday Oct 6
TRAITOR (PG-13) 114min
This intelligent and effective thriller stars Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash) who gives a remarkable performance as an ambiguous character. He is Samir, Sudanese-born to an American mother, who devoutedly embraced his Muslim roots while serving as a US Army advisor in Afghanistan and now sells plastic explosives to terrorists free-lance. He is also linked to terrorist attacks in Yemen, Nice and London, and is being pursued by the FBI, led by a quiet southerner (Guy Pierce) and his hot-headed partner (Neal Mc Donough). Saïd Taghmaoui (The Kite Runner) is also excellent as a Swiss-educated cell leader who recruits Samir to his deadly group. In his directing debut, screenwriter Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Day After Tomorrow), with co-writer Steve Martin, has made a gripping and thoughtful film.
Tuesday Oct 7 - Thurs Oct 9
TUYA'S MARRIAGE (NR) 96min [in Mandarin with subtitles]
Winner of the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, this comic and heartbreaking film from young Chinese director Quanon Wang recalls the early movies of Zhang Yimou (The Story of Qui Ju, Red Sorghum). Set in the picturesque but harsh steppes of Inner Mongolia, the story, co-written by the director and Lu Wei (Farewell My Concubine) captures a disappearing traditional way of life in a caring community threatened by government pressure. Beautiful, charismatic actress Yu Nan (Speed Racer) stars as a hardworking woman who has supported her family for several years since her husband became disabled. When she gets hurt, they must divorce so she can marry someone to take care of the children, but she demands that her new husband will have to take in her beloved ex also.
Friday Oct 10 - Monday Oct 13
MAN ON WIRE (PG-13) 94min
At 7:15 AM on August 7, 1974, a young French street performer named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire, illegally rigged between the tops of the New York's brand new twin towers 1350 feet above Manhattan. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken in for psychological evaluation, and charged with disturbing the peace, before finally being released. Using rare footage and flawless reenactments, James Marsh's extraordinary documentary, constructed like a thriller as it details the preparations, brings Petit's daring adventure to life through the testimony of Philippe himself, as well as with some of the co-conspirators who helped him over seven years to create this unique and magnificent spectacle.
Tuesday Oct 14 - Thurs Oct 16
TELL NO ONE (NR) 125min [in French with subtitles]
Eight years after his childhood sweetheart wife (Marie-Josée Croze, Diving Bell and Butterfly) was murdered, new evidence surfaces incriminating a still devastated but kindly pediatrician (François Cluzet). Simultaneously he also received an anonymous email, with video showing his beloved wife apparently still alive, containing the ominous message "tell no one". Kirsten Scott Thomas plays his best friend and confident, who is also his sister's lover. Based on the mystery thriller by Harlan Coben, this intricate and absorbing puzzle, the second film of French actor and director Guillaume Canet, was nominated for nine French Oscars, winning four.
COMING ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (PG-13) 97min
In this exhilarating, captivating comedy spiced with tragedy, filmmaker Woody Allen takes us on summer vacation to Barcelona Spain with two best friends. Straight-laced Vicky (Rebecca Hall) is engaged to be married at the end of summer, while recklessly free-spirited Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) is sexually adventurous. At a restaurant, they meet celebrated carefree artist Juan Antonia (Javier Bardem) who invites both girls to join him in Oviedo for a weekend get-away. Soon they meet his unstable and insanely jealous ex-wife (Penélope Cruz). The provocative and fluid sexual entanglements and yearnings of these characters change their lives forever.
BURN AFTER READING (R) 96min
Rebellious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen about-face from their Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men into sheer silliness with a wildly comic thriller/sex-farce. Full of wacky characters and terrific one-liners, and starring Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, and Richard Jenkins, the story follows two fitness center employees who find a file of the memoirs of a just fired CIA analyst, and try to turn it into cash to pay for some cosmetic surgery, attempting first to blackmail the analyst, with a backup plan of selling it to the Russians. It is darkly funny and total nonsense.
GHOST TOWN (PG-13) 103min
Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), a fussy, curmudgeonly dentist, has a near death experience during a routine hospital visit. After he is miraculously revived, he discovers, with much annoyance, that he can see ghosts, especially since these pesky spirits all want something from him. Recently deceased Frank (Greg Kinnear) promises that he can get all the other ghosts off his back, if he will only just break up the impending marriage of his widow (Téa Leoni). This endearing, quirky new movie from screenwriter (of Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones 4) and director (of Secret Window) David Koepp is charming, smart and winning.
FROZEN RIVER (R) 97min
Involving and gripping, this Sundance winner follows two ordinary women, both single-moms driven by severe economic hardship and a desperate love of their young children, who form an unlikely partnership to make ends meet. These women, one white, one Native American, uneasily join forces to smuggle illegal immigrants across the frozen St. Lawrence River from Canada into the Mohawk Reservation in upstate New York. Melissa Leo (21 Grams) and Misty Upham both give powerful performances in the debut feature film by Courtney Hunt. This dramatic, entertaining film is a complex portrait of family bonds and struggling women facing ethical choices in an authentically unforgiving world.
ELEGY (R) 108min
Celebrated NPR culture critic and part-time college professor David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) abandoned any desire for commitment years ago when he left his wife and young son for the sexual freedom of a string of casual encounters with former students. This year he has his eye on a beautiful Latina grad student (Penélope Cruz), a tryst which to his surprise, turns into a passionate, long-term relationship. But, overwhelmed with her beauty and his much greater age, he becomes a jealous lover, and remains distant, believing they have no future together. The fine supporting cast includes Patricia Clarkson as a long-time occasional lover, Dennis Hopper as his Pulitzer-prize winning best friend and Peter Sarsgaard as his now grown son. Spanish director Isabel Croixet has made an intelligent, affecting and unforgettable adaptation of Philip Roth's short novel The Dying Animal.
COMING NEXT SCHEDULE?
Towelhead
The Pool
Nights in Rodanthe
The Duchess
Appaloosa
City of Embers
Rachel Getting Married
So much for getting you this listing last Wednesday...Sorry.
Here now is the Reel Pizza schedule that runs from Friday Sept 26 through Thursday October 16th. There are many fine films coming that you may not have heard of, but should give a chance.
I don't know what is coming Friday, yet, but will send out a brief email later today when we are booked.
Hope to see you soon.
-Lisa & Chris
Friday Sept 26 - Monday Sept 29
TRANSSIBERIAN (R) 111min
Emily Mortimer (Lars and the Real Girl) and Woody Harrelson star as a missionary couple returning from a few weeks in Beijing and travelling by train to Moscow on their way home. An attractive backpacking couple is sharing their train compartment, but slowly Jessie comes to believe they are not all they seem. Then her husband, who misses re-embarking at a stop, shows up at the next station having befriended a Russian narcotics detective (Ben Kingsley). And the web has been spun in this clever, suspenseful and atmospheric thriller from co-writer and director Brad Anderson (Next Stop Wonderland, The Machinist). He superbly builds the tension while developing the characters fully.
Tues Sept 30 - Thurs Oct 2
ELSA AND FRED (PG) 108min [in Spanish with subtitles]
This sweet, magical romantic comedy is about the irresistible power of love as two people discover it is never too late to dream. Elsa's (China Zorilla) dream for the last sixty years is the Fontana di Trevi scene in Fellini's La Dolce Vita, but she has had no true love to take the Marcello Mastroiani role. Then she meets Alfredo (Manuel Alexandre), recently widowed and pushed around by his daughter and son-in-law. He is meticulous, lonely and confused, but everything changes when he meets the whirlwind Elsa, who insists he should enjoy every minute left of his future. Their awkward romance reveals universal truths about life and love.
Friday Oct 3 - Monday Oct 6
TRAITOR (PG-13) 114min
This intelligent and effective thriller stars Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash) who gives a remarkable performance as an ambiguous character. He is Samir, Sudanese-born to an American mother, who devoutedly embraced his Muslim roots while serving as a US Army advisor in Afghanistan and now sells plastic explosives to terrorists free-lance. He is also linked to terrorist attacks in Yemen, Nice and London, and is being pursued by the FBI, led by a quiet southerner (Guy Pierce) and his hot-headed partner (Neal Mc Donough). Saïd Taghmaoui (The Kite Runner) is also excellent as a Swiss-educated cell leader who recruits Samir to his deadly group. In his directing debut, screenwriter Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Day After Tomorrow), with co-writer Steve Martin, has made a gripping and thoughtful film.
Tuesday Oct 7 - Thurs Oct 9
TUYA'S MARRIAGE (NR) 96min [in Mandarin with subtitles]
Winner of the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, this comic and heartbreaking film from young Chinese director Quanon Wang recalls the early movies of Zhang Yimou (The Story of Qui Ju, Red Sorghum). Set in the picturesque but harsh steppes of Inner Mongolia, the story, co-written by the director and Lu Wei (Farewell My Concubine) captures a disappearing traditional way of life in a caring community threatened by government pressure. Beautiful, charismatic actress Yu Nan (Speed Racer) stars as a hardworking woman who has supported her family for several years since her husband became disabled. When she gets hurt, they must divorce so she can marry someone to take care of the children, but she demands that her new husband will have to take in her beloved ex also.
Friday Oct 10 - Monday Oct 13
MAN ON WIRE (PG-13) 94min
At 7:15 AM on August 7, 1974, a young French street performer named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire, illegally rigged between the tops of the New York's brand new twin towers 1350 feet above Manhattan. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken in for psychological evaluation, and charged with disturbing the peace, before finally being released. Using rare footage and flawless reenactments, James Marsh's extraordinary documentary, constructed like a thriller as it details the preparations, brings Petit's daring adventure to life through the testimony of Philippe himself, as well as with some of the co-conspirators who helped him over seven years to create this unique and magnificent spectacle.
Tuesday Oct 14 - Thurs Oct 16
TELL NO ONE (NR) 125min [in French with subtitles]
Eight years after his childhood sweetheart wife (Marie-Josée Croze, Diving Bell and Butterfly) was murdered, new evidence surfaces incriminating a still devastated but kindly pediatrician (François Cluzet). Simultaneously he also received an anonymous email, with video showing his beloved wife apparently still alive, containing the ominous message "tell no one". Kirsten Scott Thomas plays his best friend and confident, who is also his sister's lover. Based on the mystery thriller by Harlan Coben, this intricate and absorbing puzzle, the second film of French actor and director Guillaume Canet, was nominated for nine French Oscars, winning four.
COMING ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (PG-13) 97min
In this exhilarating, captivating comedy spiced with tragedy, filmmaker Woody Allen takes us on summer vacation to Barcelona Spain with two best friends. Straight-laced Vicky (Rebecca Hall) is engaged to be married at the end of summer, while recklessly free-spirited Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) is sexually adventurous. At a restaurant, they meet celebrated carefree artist Juan Antonia (Javier Bardem) who invites both girls to join him in Oviedo for a weekend get-away. Soon they meet his unstable and insanely jealous ex-wife (Penélope Cruz). The provocative and fluid sexual entanglements and yearnings of these characters change their lives forever.
BURN AFTER READING (R) 96min
Rebellious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen about-face from their Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men into sheer silliness with a wildly comic thriller/sex-farce. Full of wacky characters and terrific one-liners, and starring Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, and Richard Jenkins, the story follows two fitness center employees who find a file of the memoirs of a just fired CIA analyst, and try to turn it into cash to pay for some cosmetic surgery, attempting first to blackmail the analyst, with a backup plan of selling it to the Russians. It is darkly funny and total nonsense.
GHOST TOWN (PG-13) 103min
Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), a fussy, curmudgeonly dentist, has a near death experience during a routine hospital visit. After he is miraculously revived, he discovers, with much annoyance, that he can see ghosts, especially since these pesky spirits all want something from him. Recently deceased Frank (Greg Kinnear) promises that he can get all the other ghosts off his back, if he will only just break up the impending marriage of his widow (Téa Leoni). This endearing, quirky new movie from screenwriter (of Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones 4) and director (of Secret Window) David Koepp is charming, smart and winning.
FROZEN RIVER (R) 97min
Involving and gripping, this Sundance winner follows two ordinary women, both single-moms driven by severe economic hardship and a desperate love of their young children, who form an unlikely partnership to make ends meet. These women, one white, one Native American, uneasily join forces to smuggle illegal immigrants across the frozen St. Lawrence River from Canada into the Mohawk Reservation in upstate New York. Melissa Leo (21 Grams) and Misty Upham both give powerful performances in the debut feature film by Courtney Hunt. This dramatic, entertaining film is a complex portrait of family bonds and struggling women facing ethical choices in an authentically unforgiving world.
ELEGY (R) 108min
Celebrated NPR culture critic and part-time college professor David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) abandoned any desire for commitment years ago when he left his wife and young son for the sexual freedom of a string of casual encounters with former students. This year he has his eye on a beautiful Latina grad student (Penélope Cruz), a tryst which to his surprise, turns into a passionate, long-term relationship. But, overwhelmed with her beauty and his much greater age, he becomes a jealous lover, and remains distant, believing they have no future together. The fine supporting cast includes Patricia Clarkson as a long-time occasional lover, Dennis Hopper as his Pulitzer-prize winning best friend and Peter Sarsgaard as his now grown son. Spanish director Isabel Croixet has made an intelligent, affecting and unforgettable adaptation of Philip Roth's short novel The Dying Animal.
COMING NEXT SCHEDULE?
Towelhead
The Pool
Nights in Rodanthe
The Duchess
Appaloosa
City of Embers
Rachel Getting Married
Monday, September 15, 2008
[Reel Pizza] update
greetings to everyone~
Here is the schedule of films and times for this coming week (Sept 19 - 25) at Reel Pizza. I will have the next 3 week schedule to you shortly (either tomorrow or Wednesday). See you soon!
-Lisa and Chris
Friday Sept 19 - Thurs Sept 25
HAMLET 2 (R) 92min 6:00 and 8:15
This irreverent and infectiously entertaining comedy and Sundance hit stars Steve Coogan (24 Hour Party People) as a failed (due to lack of talent) actor turned still ambitious and passionate drama teacher who launches an overzealous quest to mount a high school musical. His initial attempts unsuccessful and his department headed for downsizing, he conceives an extravagant sequel to Hamlet that is both politically incorrect and dramatically incredible. But he will not be denied his freedom of expression, and with the backing of an ACLU lawyer (Amy Poehler) and his favorite actress (Elizabeth Shue, playing herself) he optimistically tarries forth with his opus. Catherine Keener plays his long-suffering wife and David Arquette is their free-loading boarder.
Friday Sept 19 - Mon Sept 22
THE LAST MISTRESS (NR) 114min [in French with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:00
A notorious and penniless aristocrat (Fu�ad Ait Aattou) with a tempestuous Spanish mistress (Asia Argento) has found true love, or at least financial stability, as he is engaged to marry a rich young noblewoman (Roxane Mesquida). When the girl�s protective grandmother decides he no longer needs the services of his alluring, exotic mistress, he dismisses her, but she will not go away easily. This passionate, lush and elegant costume drama from French writer-director Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl) is based on a scandalous story by controversial 19th century writer Jules Barbey d�Aurevilly about the different choices allowed to men versus women in the hypocritical French courts and bedrooms.
Tues Sept 23 - Thurs Sept 25 back by popular demand
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (G) 99min 5:30 and 8:00
Eccentric people in extreme settings characterize most of master director Werner Herzog�s fiction and non-fiction films (Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn). He promises his provocative, hypnotic new documentary about Antarctica is not another �fluffy penguin� movie, and he almost keeps his promise, profiling with his dry wit some of the loners and visionaries who live and work at McMurdo Station during the austral summer, exploring the natural beauty and fascinating nature found at the bottom of the world both above and below the ice, and contemplating the world's destruction by man's hand. His film is a visually stunning, unsentimental journey that examines human nature and Mother Nature, juxtaposing breathtaking locations with the profound, surreal and sometimes absurd experiences of this renegade community.
Here is the schedule of films and times for this coming week (Sept 19 - 25) at Reel Pizza. I will have the next 3 week schedule to you shortly (either tomorrow or Wednesday). See you soon!
-Lisa and Chris
Friday Sept 19 - Thurs Sept 25
HAMLET 2 (R) 92min 6:00 and 8:15
This irreverent and infectiously entertaining comedy and Sundance hit stars Steve Coogan (24 Hour Party People) as a failed (due to lack of talent) actor turned still ambitious and passionate drama teacher who launches an overzealous quest to mount a high school musical. His initial attempts unsuccessful and his department headed for downsizing, he conceives an extravagant sequel to Hamlet that is both politically incorrect and dramatically incredible. But he will not be denied his freedom of expression, and with the backing of an ACLU lawyer (Amy Poehler) and his favorite actress (Elizabeth Shue, playing herself) he optimistically tarries forth with his opus. Catherine Keener plays his long-suffering wife and David Arquette is their free-loading boarder.
Friday Sept 19 - Mon Sept 22
THE LAST MISTRESS (NR) 114min [in French with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:00
A notorious and penniless aristocrat (Fu�ad Ait Aattou) with a tempestuous Spanish mistress (Asia Argento) has found true love, or at least financial stability, as he is engaged to marry a rich young noblewoman (Roxane Mesquida). When the girl�s protective grandmother decides he no longer needs the services of his alluring, exotic mistress, he dismisses her, but she will not go away easily. This passionate, lush and elegant costume drama from French writer-director Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl) is based on a scandalous story by controversial 19th century writer Jules Barbey d�Aurevilly about the different choices allowed to men versus women in the hypocritical French courts and bedrooms.
Tues Sept 23 - Thurs Sept 25 back by popular demand
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (G) 99min 5:30 and 8:00
Eccentric people in extreme settings characterize most of master director Werner Herzog�s fiction and non-fiction films (Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn). He promises his provocative, hypnotic new documentary about Antarctica is not another �fluffy penguin� movie, and he almost keeps his promise, profiling with his dry wit some of the loners and visionaries who live and work at McMurdo Station during the austral summer, exploring the natural beauty and fascinating nature found at the bottom of the world both above and below the ice, and contemplating the world's destruction by man's hand. His film is a visually stunning, unsentimental journey that examines human nature and Mother Nature, juxtaposing breathtaking locations with the profound, surreal and sometimes absurd experiences of this renegade community.
Friday, September 5, 2008
[Reel Pizza] update
Hi everyone.
Here, briefly, are the next two weeks of films at Reel Pizza, starting today. I included this week's times in the most recent "schedule" email, but apparently some of you didn't see it, based on your questions,
Please keep in mind that next Saturday 9/13, we will be screening the documentary ORGASMIC BIRTH, sponsored by the Maine Association of Independent Doulas. CORRECTION: the time of the show is 1:00 pm (not 2pm); the doors will open at 12:30.
See you soon
-Lisa
this week:
Friday Sept 5 - Thurs Sept 11
TROPIC THUNDER (R) 107min 6:00 and 8:30
and
Fri Sept 5 - Mon Sept 8
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (PG-13) 133min 5:30 and 8:15
then
Tues Sept 9 - Thurs Sept 11
KENNY (PG-13) 99min 5:30 and 8:00
and the next week:
Friday Sept 12 - Thurs Sept 18
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS (R) 111min 6:00 and 8:30
and
Fri Sept 12 - Mon Sept 15
MAMMA MIA! (PG-13) 103min 5:30 and 8:00
then
Tues Sept 16 - Thurs Sept 18
ALEXANDRA (NR) 92min [in Russian and Chechen with subtitles] 5:30 and 7:45
Here, briefly, are the next two weeks of films at Reel Pizza, starting today. I included this week's times in the most recent "schedule" email, but apparently some of you didn't see it, based on your questions,
Please keep in mind that next Saturday 9/13, we will be screening the documentary ORGASMIC BIRTH, sponsored by the Maine Association of Independent Doulas. CORRECTION: the time of the show is 1:00 pm (not 2pm); the doors will open at 12:30.
See you soon
-Lisa
this week:
Friday Sept 5 - Thurs Sept 11
TROPIC THUNDER (R) 107min 6:00 and 8:30
and
Fri Sept 5 - Mon Sept 8
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (PG-13) 133min 5:30 and 8:15
then
Tues Sept 9 - Thurs Sept 11
KENNY (PG-13) 99min 5:30 and 8:00
and the next week:
Friday Sept 12 - Thurs Sept 18
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS (R) 111min 6:00 and 8:30
and
Fri Sept 12 - Mon Sept 15
MAMMA MIA! (PG-13) 103min 5:30 and 8:00
then
Tues Sept 16 - Thurs Sept 18
ALEXANDRA (NR) 92min [in Russian and Chechen with subtitles] 5:30 and 7:45
Thursday, August 28, 2008
[Reel Pizza] schedule
Hi Everyone
And welcome to Labor Day weekend! OMG! I am definitely having a hard time believing September is practically here, and that our routine changes so dramatically in just a few short days...in fact our entire family is in total denial, which I expect to continue well into next week sometime, if not longer.
Anyhow, here is our new schedule that runs most of the way through September (5th - 25th to be more specific.)
We are returning super popular MAMMA MIA, for those of you who missed it in August and those of you who can't wait to see it one more time. We are also bringing back the wonderful ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, whose screenings were so seriously reduced by our technical difficulties last weekend (for which we fully apologize). We have also booked next week's week-long film, so I have included times for the first week, too.
Have a GREAT last weekend of summer freedom, we hope to see you soon, and thank you all for such a great summer (mother nature included).
-Lisa and Chris
Our last presently scheduled FRIDAY LATE NIGHTS is tomorrow 8/29 at 11pm; it will be a PROGRAM-O-RAMA show. Among some of the films we will be screening are three short films: NEW PIONEERS OF THE ATLANTIC RAINFOREST, about tree planters in Brazil by Karen Lanier, THUNDER BAY, telling the story of local fisherman Timmy Leveque out in Frenchman's Bay on his boat, made by COA student Margaret Longley (who did second unit camera work on the Academy Award-nominated film IRAG IN FRAGMENTS), and WORKING WITH MONKEYS a cutout animation which is a parody of television show production, by COA alum David Camlin.
We also have some SPECIAL PROGRAMMING, a film is presented by Independent Childbirth supporting the Maine Association of Independent Doulas on Sat Sept 13th.
ORGASMIC BIRTH (NR) 87min 2:00 pm
With commentary by a dozen preeminent health professionals and eleven women and their partners who share their birthing journeys, this powerful, passionate and thought-provoking documentary presents the theory that birth today is too often mechanized, hospitalized and removed from women's control. It dismantles untruths about labor and birth that women have been told for generations by showing the powerful role birth plays in women's lives when they are permitted to experience it fully. Pioneering first-time filmmaker Debra Pascali-Bonaro reveals that birth is something a woman can enjoy, rather than endure, and challenges common preconceptions while inviting viewers to witness the safest, easiest, most pleasurable way to give birth. In the hospital, birth center, and home, these laboring women share their personal moments of birth.
Friday Sept 5 - Thurs Sept 11
TROPIC THUNDER (R) 107min 6:00 and 8:30
Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr., lead an excellent ensemble cast in Stiller's new action comedy about a group of self-absorbed actors all looking for improvements in their careers. They sign on to a crazed British director's war film to end all war films, but sky-rocketing costs force the studio to end the production almost as it starts. The frustrated director (Steve Coogan) refuses to quit, and leads his cast deeper into the jungles of Southeast Asia to film guerilla-style for heightened realism. Then these actors, armed with only blanks and wearing period military costumes, are intercepted by Burmese druglords. This farce mocks everything in its path with audacity and hilarity.
Fri Sept 5 - Mon Sept 8
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (PG-13) 133min 5:30 and 8:15
Clever writing, strong performances, and exquisite production design inform this opulent adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1945 literary classic, adapted by director Julian Jarrold (Kinky Boots, Becoming Jane). Matthew Goode (Match Point) is troubled, atheistic painter Charles Ryder who falls in love with both indulgent Sebastian (Ben Whishaw) and his sister Julia (Hayley Atwell), as well as with the aristocratic lifestyle at their family's ancestral estate, Brideshead Castle. Michael Gambon is the wayward Lord, in exile in Venice with his mistress (Greta Sacchi); Emma Thompson is excellent as the rigidly devout Catholic matriarch whose meddling rules her children's happiness.
Tues Sept 9 - Thurs Sept 11
KENNY (PG-13) 99min 5:30 and 8:00
This charming, hilarious hit Australian comedy, directed by Clayton Jacobson, stars his brother comic Shane Jacobson as the title character, a jovial, loveable, and hard-working plumber. He actually works at a porta-potty rental business but he always optimistically looks on the bright side. He also employs his genuine good nature while suffering his viciously domineering ex-wife, and his unappreciative and cranky father. This entertaining and clever slice-of-life follows this regular guy as he philosophically and with dignity meets the challenges of his work, including his first-ever plane trip to a convention of peers in Nashville, while also trying to be a better dad to his young son.
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Fri Sept 12 - Mon Sept 15
MAMMA MIA! (PG-13) 103min
Meryl Streep stars as Donna who has spent the past 20 years running a picturesquely decaying hotel. Now she's preparing for the marriage of her daughter, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) to her fiancé, Sky (Dominic Cooper, The History Boys). But there is something Donna hasn't been told. Sophie has invited three of her mother's ex-boyfriends (Stellan Skarsgard, Pierce Brosnan, and Colin Firth) to the wedding in the hope that one of them will turn out to be the father she's never known. The same team behind the hit stage show, including director Phyllida Lloyd, writer Catherine Johnson and producer Judy Cramer, has brought this infectiously sunny musical, featuring ABBA tunes, to the big screen.
Tues Sept 16 - Thurs Sept 18
ALEXANDRA (NR) 92min [in Russian and Chechen with subtitles]
In only his third feature, visionary filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) has made a poetically simple, completely original and hauntingly memorable drama about war, generational relationships and the human condition. Renowned Russian opera star Galina Vichnevshaya is both confident and commanding as an elderly widow who travels to an army camp near the front lines to visit her Army captain grandson. She tours the camp, and ventures to the nearby town, a bombed-out front-line city, to buy cigarettes for the soldiers where she meets and converses with a friendly local woman, a peer with whom she bonds. This story is set in a Muslim area occupied by Caucasian forces, and was filmed in Grosney, Chechnya.
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Friday Sept 19 - Mon Sept 22
THE LAST MISTRESS (NR) 114min [in French with subtitles]
A notorious and penniless aristocrat (Fu'ad Ait Aattou) with a tempestuous Spanish mistress (Asia Argento) has found true love, or at least financial stability, engaged to marry a rich young noblewoman (Roxane Mesquida). When the girl's protective grandmother decides he no longer needs the services of his alluring, exotic mistress, he dismisses her, but she will not go away easily. This passionate, lush and elegant costume drama from French writer-director Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl) is based on a scandalous story by controversial 19 th century writer Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly about the different choices allowed to men versus women in the hypocritical French courts and bedrooms.
Tues Sept 23 - Thurs Sept 25
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (G) 99min
Eccentric people in extreme settings characterize most of master director Werner Herzog's fiction and non-fiction films (Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn). He promises his provocative, hypnotic new documentary about Antarctica is not another "fluffy penguin" movie, and he almost keeps his promise, profiling with his dry wit some of the loners and visionaries who live and work at McMurdo Station during the austral summer, exploring the natural beauty and fascinating nature found at the bottom of the world both above and below the ice, and contemplating the world's destruction by man's hand. His film is a visually stunning, unsentimental journey that examines human nature and Mother Nature, juxtaposing breathtaking locations with the profound, surreal and sometimes absurd experiences of this renegade community.
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COMING SOON ON OUR SECOND SCREEN:
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS (R) 111min
The hot combination of producer Judd Apatow and screenwriter/star Seth Rogan (Superbad) have made another ground-breaking buddy comedy with independent director David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls). Rogan plays a stoner who, with his trusted dealer (James Franco), gets caught up in a drug-fueled murder; at the crime scene after witnessing a druglord shooting a rival dealer, he leaves a tell-tale joint that points to his dealer. Their middleman (Danny McBride) gives them away and these two, in way over their toasted heads, have to hit the road in an action packed escape attempt that is frequently undermined by their sampling.
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (PG-13) 97min
In this exhilarating, captivating comedy spiced with tragedy, filmmaker Woody Allen takes us on summer vacation to Barcelona Spain with two best friends. Straight-laced Vicky (Rebecca Hall) is engaged to be married at the end of summer, while recklessly free-spirited Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) is sexually adventurous. At a restaurant, they meet celebrated carefree artist Juan Antonia (Javier Bardem) who invites both girls to join him in Oviedo for a weekend get-away. Soon they meet his unstable and insanely jealous ex-wife (Penélope Cruz). The provocative and fluid sexual entanglements and yearnings of these characters change their lives forever.
HAMLET 2 (R) 92min
This irreverent and infectiously entertaining comedy and Sundance hit stars Steve Coogan (24 Hour Party People) as a failed (due to lack of talent) actor turned still ambitious and passionate drama teacher who launches an overzealous quest to mount a high school musical. His initial attempts unsuccessful and his department headed for downsizing, he conceives an extravagant sequel to Hamlet that is both politically incorrect and dramatically incredible. But he will not be denied his freedom of expression, and with the backing of an ACLU lawyer (Amy Poehler) and his favorite actress (Elizabeth Shue, playing herself) he optimistically tarries forth with his opus. Catherine Keener plays his long-suffering wife and David Arquette is their free-loading boarder.
COMING ON NEXT SCHEDULE?
BURN AFTER READING
TOWELHEAD
THE ROCKER
TELL NO ONE
REPRISE
MAN ON WIRE
FROZEN RIVER
TRANSSIBERIAN
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
And welcome to Labor Day weekend! OMG! I am definitely having a hard time believing September is practically here, and that our routine changes so dramatically in just a few short days...in fact our entire family is in total denial, which I expect to continue well into next week sometime, if not longer.
Anyhow, here is our new schedule that runs most of the way through September (5th - 25th to be more specific.)
We are returning super popular MAMMA MIA, for those of you who missed it in August and those of you who can't wait to see it one more time. We are also bringing back the wonderful ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, whose screenings were so seriously reduced by our technical difficulties last weekend (for which we fully apologize). We have also booked next week's week-long film, so I have included times for the first week, too.
Have a GREAT last weekend of summer freedom, we hope to see you soon, and thank you all for such a great summer (mother nature included).
-Lisa and Chris
Our last presently scheduled FRIDAY LATE NIGHTS is tomorrow 8/29 at 11pm; it will be a PROGRAM-O-RAMA show. Among some of the films we will be screening are three short films: NEW PIONEERS OF THE ATLANTIC RAINFOREST, about tree planters in Brazil by Karen Lanier, THUNDER BAY, telling the story of local fisherman Timmy Leveque out in Frenchman's Bay on his boat, made by COA student Margaret Longley (who did second unit camera work on the Academy Award-nominated film IRAG IN FRAGMENTS), and WORKING WITH MONKEYS a cutout animation which is a parody of television show production, by COA alum David Camlin.
We also have some SPECIAL PROGRAMMING, a film is presented by Independent Childbirth supporting the Maine Association of Independent Doulas on Sat Sept 13th.
ORGASMIC BIRTH (NR) 87min 2:00 pm
With commentary by a dozen preeminent health professionals and eleven women and their partners who share their birthing journeys, this powerful, passionate and thought-provoking documentary presents the theory that birth today is too often mechanized, hospitalized and removed from women's control. It dismantles untruths about labor and birth that women have been told for generations by showing the powerful role birth plays in women's lives when they are permitted to experience it fully. Pioneering first-time filmmaker Debra Pascali-Bonaro reveals that birth is something a woman can enjoy, rather than endure, and challenges common preconceptions while inviting viewers to witness the safest, easiest, most pleasurable way to give birth. In the hospital, birth center, and home, these laboring women share their personal moments of birth.
Friday Sept 5 - Thurs Sept 11
TROPIC THUNDER (R) 107min 6:00 and 8:30
Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr., lead an excellent ensemble cast in Stiller's new action comedy about a group of self-absorbed actors all looking for improvements in their careers. They sign on to a crazed British director's war film to end all war films, but sky-rocketing costs force the studio to end the production almost as it starts. The frustrated director (Steve Coogan) refuses to quit, and leads his cast deeper into the jungles of Southeast Asia to film guerilla-style for heightened realism. Then these actors, armed with only blanks and wearing period military costumes, are intercepted by Burmese druglords. This farce mocks everything in its path with audacity and hilarity.
Fri Sept 5 - Mon Sept 8
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (PG-13) 133min 5:30 and 8:15
Clever writing, strong performances, and exquisite production design inform this opulent adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1945 literary classic, adapted by director Julian Jarrold (Kinky Boots, Becoming Jane). Matthew Goode (Match Point) is troubled, atheistic painter Charles Ryder who falls in love with both indulgent Sebastian (Ben Whishaw) and his sister Julia (Hayley Atwell), as well as with the aristocratic lifestyle at their family's ancestral estate, Brideshead Castle. Michael Gambon is the wayward Lord, in exile in Venice with his mistress (Greta Sacchi); Emma Thompson is excellent as the rigidly devout Catholic matriarch whose meddling rules her children's happiness.
Tues Sept 9 - Thurs Sept 11
KENNY (PG-13) 99min 5:30 and 8:00
This charming, hilarious hit Australian comedy, directed by Clayton Jacobson, stars his brother comic Shane Jacobson as the title character, a jovial, loveable, and hard-working plumber. He actually works at a porta-potty rental business but he always optimistically looks on the bright side. He also employs his genuine good nature while suffering his viciously domineering ex-wife, and his unappreciative and cranky father. This entertaining and clever slice-of-life follows this regular guy as he philosophically and with dignity meets the challenges of his work, including his first-ever plane trip to a convention of peers in Nashville, while also trying to be a better dad to his young son.
================================================
Fri Sept 12 - Mon Sept 15
MAMMA MIA! (PG-13) 103min
Meryl Streep stars as Donna who has spent the past 20 years running a picturesquely decaying hotel. Now she's preparing for the marriage of her daughter, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) to her fiancé, Sky (Dominic Cooper, The History Boys). But there is something Donna hasn't been told. Sophie has invited three of her mother's ex-boyfriends (Stellan Skarsgard, Pierce Brosnan, and Colin Firth) to the wedding in the hope that one of them will turn out to be the father she's never known. The same team behind the hit stage show, including director Phyllida Lloyd, writer Catherine Johnson and producer Judy Cramer, has brought this infectiously sunny musical, featuring ABBA tunes, to the big screen.
Tues Sept 16 - Thurs Sept 18
ALEXANDRA (NR) 92min [in Russian and Chechen with subtitles]
In only his third feature, visionary filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) has made a poetically simple, completely original and hauntingly memorable drama about war, generational relationships and the human condition. Renowned Russian opera star Galina Vichnevshaya is both confident and commanding as an elderly widow who travels to an army camp near the front lines to visit her Army captain grandson. She tours the camp, and ventures to the nearby town, a bombed-out front-line city, to buy cigarettes for the soldiers where she meets and converses with a friendly local woman, a peer with whom she bonds. This story is set in a Muslim area occupied by Caucasian forces, and was filmed in Grosney, Chechnya.
=======================================
Friday Sept 19 - Mon Sept 22
THE LAST MISTRESS (NR) 114min [in French with subtitles]
A notorious and penniless aristocrat (Fu'ad Ait Aattou) with a tempestuous Spanish mistress (Asia Argento) has found true love, or at least financial stability, engaged to marry a rich young noblewoman (Roxane Mesquida). When the girl's protective grandmother decides he no longer needs the services of his alluring, exotic mistress, he dismisses her, but she will not go away easily. This passionate, lush and elegant costume drama from French writer-director Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl) is based on a scandalous story by controversial 19 th century writer Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly about the different choices allowed to men versus women in the hypocritical French courts and bedrooms.
Tues Sept 23 - Thurs Sept 25
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (G) 99min
Eccentric people in extreme settings characterize most of master director Werner Herzog's fiction and non-fiction films (Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn). He promises his provocative, hypnotic new documentary about Antarctica is not another "fluffy penguin" movie, and he almost keeps his promise, profiling with his dry wit some of the loners and visionaries who live and work at McMurdo Station during the austral summer, exploring the natural beauty and fascinating nature found at the bottom of the world both above and below the ice, and contemplating the world's destruction by man's hand. His film is a visually stunning, unsentimental journey that examines human nature and Mother Nature, juxtaposing breathtaking locations with the profound, surreal and sometimes absurd experiences of this renegade community.
======================
COMING SOON ON OUR SECOND SCREEN:
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS (R) 111min
The hot combination of producer Judd Apatow and screenwriter/star Seth Rogan (Superbad) have made another ground-breaking buddy comedy with independent director David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls). Rogan plays a stoner who, with his trusted dealer (James Franco), gets caught up in a drug-fueled murder; at the crime scene after witnessing a druglord shooting a rival dealer, he leaves a tell-tale joint that points to his dealer. Their middleman (Danny McBride) gives them away and these two, in way over their toasted heads, have to hit the road in an action packed escape attempt that is frequently undermined by their sampling.
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (PG-13) 97min
In this exhilarating, captivating comedy spiced with tragedy, filmmaker Woody Allen takes us on summer vacation to Barcelona Spain with two best friends. Straight-laced Vicky (Rebecca Hall) is engaged to be married at the end of summer, while recklessly free-spirited Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) is sexually adventurous. At a restaurant, they meet celebrated carefree artist Juan Antonia (Javier Bardem) who invites both girls to join him in Oviedo for a weekend get-away. Soon they meet his unstable and insanely jealous ex-wife (Penélope Cruz). The provocative and fluid sexual entanglements and yearnings of these characters change their lives forever.
HAMLET 2 (R) 92min
This irreverent and infectiously entertaining comedy and Sundance hit stars Steve Coogan (24 Hour Party People) as a failed (due to lack of talent) actor turned still ambitious and passionate drama teacher who launches an overzealous quest to mount a high school musical. His initial attempts unsuccessful and his department headed for downsizing, he conceives an extravagant sequel to Hamlet that is both politically incorrect and dramatically incredible. But he will not be denied his freedom of expression, and with the backing of an ACLU lawyer (Amy Poehler) and his favorite actress (Elizabeth Shue, playing herself) he optimistically tarries forth with his opus. Catherine Keener plays his long-suffering wife and David Arquette is their free-loading boarder.
COMING ON NEXT SCHEDULE?
BURN AFTER READING
TOWELHEAD
THE ROCKER
TELL NO ONE
REPRISE
MAN ON WIRE
FROZEN RIVER
TRANSSIBERIAN
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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