[Reel Pizza] update Oct 31 - Nov 2

Hi Everyone

Well, the time has come.  We have (nearly) reached our closing weekend.  We thank each and every one of you for all your support and patronage over this past year and patience with our digital upgrade's learning curve.  When we return in December we will have accumulated a backlog of excellent films that are presently only in limited release, or have not yet opened, to show to you all winter long. 

Of course we encourage you to give Reel Pizza to your loved ones this holiday season.  Gift Certificates are available in any whole dollar amount, Big Tickets remain at $55, and OneShot individual tickets are $6.  Mail us a check with your order (PO Box 625 Bar Harbor 04609) and we will mail it back to you or on to another destination of your choice, OR catch us on the phone (or leave a message and we'll call you back 207-288-3828), OR of course, we'd be glad to answer any questions via email (info@reelpizza.net or reply to this.)  Once Chris and I are back in town in early December there will also be office hours, if you want to stop by in person.   

This last weekend we are departing the text somewhat.  We have booked a movie not previously promoted as a possibility.  Below is the description and trailer link.  Hope you can make it in for one more show, otherwise we will see you starting December 26th when we reopen "for the season".   Tho' these are the dark days, the light will return!

BTW we are headed to San Francisco driving north along the coast in a vintage VW Westphalia van.... hope to hike in the Redwoods, and get to Crater Lake if the weather allows.  And for those of you with us since the beginning, the kids turn 17 early next month... Hard to believe...

xoxo-Lisa and Chris

Friday October 31 - Sunday November 2
THE BOXTROLLS (PG)  100min   5:30 and 7:45
From animation studio Laika (Oscar-nominated Coraline, Paranorman) comes their newest film, equally silly and sinister, about a quirky community of mischievous, underground-dwelling, nocturnal recyclers living a steampunk life beneath the town of Cheesebridge.  They have lovingly raised a human orphan, Egg, but above, the people think the boxtrolls should be exterminated.  When Egg’s friends start disappearing, he ventures into the light, where he meets feisty Winifred and tries to save his family. Based on British author-illustrator Alan Snow’s Here Be Monsters, this gloriously detailed, edgy and funny (in a Monty Pythoneque way, and including a hilarious song by Eric Idle) film features voice work by Ben Kingsley, Elle Fanning, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Tracy Morgan, and Toni Collette.  trailer

and

THE GOOD LIE  (PG-13)  112min  [partly in Nuer and Dinka with subtitles]  6:00 and 8:30

Moving and engaging, this fictionalized story is about a group of Sudanese refugees set against a real backdrop (as seen in documentary GOD GREW TIRED OF US) who, after escaping civil war and a decade in a Kenyan refugee camp, end up in Kansas City, Missouri.  Starring a group of Sudanese actors, many of whom are children of war, director Philippe Falardeau (Oscar-nominated MONSIEUR LAZHAR) brings a simple authenticity to this uplifting story of survival, triumph and culture shock as a group of young men, with the help of a spirited employment counselor (Reese Witherspoon) and her boss (Corey Stall), try to navigate the American way and reunite their family.  trailer

[Reel Pizza] update Oct 24 - 30

hi all
Here is the schedule for this coming week, our last full week before our break.  We will be warm and cozy inside despite the weather outside.  Come join us for a film and camaraderie! 
-Lisa

now playing - Thurs 10/23   
THE SKELETON TWINS  (R)  93min  6:00 and 8:15
and 
FRANK  (R)  95min  5:30 and 7:45

Fri - Thurs    GONE GIRL  (R)  149min  5:00 and 8:00
Fri - Mon       MAZE RUNNER  (PG-13)  114min   5:30 and 8:15
Tues - Thurs    LOVE IS STRANGE  (R)  98min   5:30 and 7:45


Friday Oct 17 - Thursday Oct 23
THE SKELETON TWINS  (R)  93min  6:00 and 8:15
SNL alumni Kirsten Wiig and Bill Hadar star as twins, estranged for a decade, who reunite unexpectedly and fumble to reconnect as they confront the reasons why their lives went so astray.  He is an unsuccessful gay actor, and she is not in love with her doting husband (Luke Wilson).  This absorbing, poignant and intimate character study blends funny and sad in equal measure.  Only the second feature from director Craig Johnson this film was co-written with Mark Heyman (The Black Swan) and won the US Dramatic Screenwriting prize at Sundance.  trailer

Tuesday Oct 21 - Thursday Oct 23
FRANK  (R)  95min  5:30 and 7:45
Based on a real person, Chris Sievey aka Frank Sidebottom, this original and eccentric rock and roll fable stars Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave) as the mysterious and enigmatic leader of an avant-garde pop band.  He wears a large papier-mâché mask on his head at all times, and is assisted by his terrifying theramin player (Maggie Gyllenhaal).  For a gig, they recruit a young wanna-be musician (Domhnall Gleeson) who is out of his league with this group, but sticks with them while they record an album and works the web to get them noticed. When they get offered a gig at SXSW, will they be able to cope?   trailer

Friday Oct 24 - Thursday Oct 30
GONE GIRL  (R)  149min  5:00 and 8:00
Director David Fincher’s new film, an intelligent, dark, stylish and twisty thriller, is based on the global best-seller written and adapted by Gillian Flynn.  Nick(Ben Affleck), a journalist, was recently downsized from his job and moved himself and his beautiful, socialite wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) back home to Missouri where he opens a bar with his twin sister and she feels totally out of place.  On their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick reports his wife missing, and it appears she disappeared amidst a bloody struggle.  Under pressure from police and a growing media frenzy, his portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble and his increasingly strange behavior has everyone asking: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?  Both actors give fabulous performances along with Tyler Perry as Nick's shark lawyer and Neil Patrick Harris as a former beau of Amy’s.   trailer

Friday Oct 24 - Monday Oct 27
MAZE RUNNER  (PG-13)  114min   5:30 and 8:15
Adapted from the first of James Dashner's four bestselling YA novels, first time director Wes Ball - a visual effects artist - has made an engaging and intense action adventure fantasy film.  A teen (Dylan O'Brien, TVs Teen Wolf) awakens in a freight elevator going up.  He doesn't know his name or history and when he arrives, he finds himself in a lovely glade with a group of other boys surrounded by a high wall with only one opening, into a mysterious maze whose walls change every night.  From fragments of his strange dreams he and the others begin to piece together a way to escape.  trailer

 Tuesday Oct 28 - Thursday Oct 30
LOVE IS STRANGE  (R)  98min   5:30 and 7:45
John Lithgow and Alfred Molina give masterful, understated performances as a long-time gay couple who finally are able to legally marry and do so, only to have their lives swept out from underneath them when George is fired from his decades-long job teaching music in a Catholic school once their wedding is announced.  This calamity causes them to lose their insurance and their apartment, sending them on a search for more affordable housing. In the meantime, they are forced to live apart because none of their friends or family can fit them both.  While struggling with the pain of separation, they are further challenged by intergenerational tensions in their new living arrangements.  This gentle, empathetic and moving story from director Ira Sachs features a soundtrack of Chopin piano works.  trailer

[Reel Pizza] update Oct 10 - 16

hi everyone
Here is the plan for tonight thru next Thursday.  Enjoy this beautiful fall weather.  I will be sending out the next full schedule shortly.
-Lisa

Fri Oct 10 - Thurs Oct 16
A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES  (R)  114min 6:00 and 8:30
Liam Neeson stars in this thrilling adaptation of Lawrence Block’s bestselling series of mystery novels.  He plays a ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private eye operating just outside the law.  When he reluctantly agrees to help a heroin trafficker (Dan Stevens) hunt down the men who kidnapped and murdered his wife, the PI learns that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of twisted crime… nor will it be the last.  He races to track the deviants through the backstreets of New York City before they kill again.  Screenwriter Scott Frank (The Wolverine, Minority Report, Out of Sight) directs.   trailer

Fri Oct 10 - Mon Oct 13
WHAT IF  (PG-13)  102min   5:30 and 8:00
Released around the world as The F Word (as in “friend”) this fresh and funny romantic comedy looks at the perils of platonic friendship.  Daniel Radcliffe stars as med-school dropout Wallace whose love life is on hold while his that of his roommate (Adam Driver, TV’s Girls) is roaring.  Then he meets Chantry (Zoe Kazan, Ruby Sparks), but even while there’s an instant an obvious attraction, she is happy in a long-time relationship with Ben (Rafe Spall, Prometheus).  Based on the play Toothpaste and Cigars, this believable and irresistible film is directed by Canadian Michael Dowse.  trailer

Tues Oct 14 - Thurs Oct 16
MAY IN THE SUMMER  (R)  99min  [partly in Arabic with subtitles]  5:30 and 8:00
May is a successful NYC-based author of American and Jordanian heritage engaged to an expat Palestinian scholar teaching at Columbia.  When she returns to Amman to prepare for her wedding, the cracks in her perfect-seeming life begin to show.  Her headstrong, born-again Christian mother (Hiam Abbass) disapproves of her daughter’s fiancé, and when her estranged father (Bill Pullman) attempts to make amends, her two younger sisters start acting like rebellious teens.  She begins to question the path she is choosing.  This fresh, exotic look at a woman caught between tradition and choice stars and is directed and was written by Cherien Dabis (Amreeka).   trailer

 

[Reel Pizza] Projector is working

we expect no difficulties with tonight's screening of CALVARY.
and
SORRY to all who came out last night and were disappointed.
-L


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[Reel Pizza] update Oct 3 - 9

hi everyone~
here is the schedule of films that play this coming week.  For those of you who attended the MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, I hope you enjoyed the program.  I have tallied your votes (everyone on the ballot got more than one vote), and next week I will let you know how your Reel Pizza votes compared with the rest of the planet when I announce the world wide winners!  If you have any comments about the program I would be interested.  Thanks!
and See you soon.
-Lisa

Fri Oct 3 -Thurs Oct 9
MY OLD LADY  (PG-13)  107min  5:30 & 8:00
Seventy-five year-old playwright Israel Horovitz has adapted his 2002 play into this affecting, delightful comedy and domestic drama starring Kevin Kline, Kirsten Scott Thomas and Maggie Smith.  He plays a broke, thrice divorced, recovering alcoholic loser who just inherited a large apartment in a charming Paris neighborhood from his estranged father.  When he arrives to sell the place for the cash, he discovers that a feisty old woman and her daughter live there, and, to his horror, also learns that due to an arcane and peculiar French real estate law, they are allowed to stay until the matron dies, and he must pay them a monthly fee.  This situation leads all three to take a look at the choices they have made in their lives.   trailer

Fri Oct 3 - Mon Oct 6
CALVARY (R)  100min  6:00 & 8:30
Brendan Gleeson gives a brilliant performance as a good priest on the northwest coast of Ireland who ministers to a disparate town of flawed, wounded and spiritually bankrupt parishoners.  The story starts with an anonymous death threat against the man by a long ago victim of clerical sexual child during his confession; the minister has a week to get his affairs in order.  He spends that time comforting his distressed grown daughter (Kelly Reilly), and caring for his flock (including Chris O’Dowd and Domhnall Gleeson) whose various problems are scurrilous and comic.  This is the second film from director John Michael McDonagh (The Guard).   trailer
 
Tues Oct 7 - Thurs Oct 9
THE TRIP TO ITALY  (NR)  108min  6:00 & 8:30
Their first journey through northern England was such a blast that it only seemed like a good idea to do it again.  Rob Bryden and Steve Coogan set out traveling along the coast of Italy with director Michael Winterbottom.  Their fictionalized selves follow in the footsteps of the great Romantic poets Shelley and Byron, travelling from Liguria thru Tuscany, Rome, and Amalfi, ending in Capri and, while dining on mouthwatering meals at high end restaurants, indulge in sparkling banter and hilarious conversation.  The comic interludes weave with quiet moments of self-reflection on friendship, family and career.  trailer

 

[Reel Pizza] Mailing List Blues

Do you receive our snail mail schedule and have an "RR" or " HC" in your
(old, pre-911) address? Especially in Penobscot, Bernard, West Tremont,
Hancock, Eastbrook, Sedgwick, Bass Harbor, and one individual each from
Lubec, Machias, Seal Cove, Stonington, Stockholm, Tremont and
Brooksville. Our mailing program will no longer mail in bulk prices to
these addresses. I would LOVE to update them! We are totally glad to
mail you the schedule, but prefer to pay the reduced rate. Please reply
to me with your name and correct street address. I will mail them out
this time, (they will come with a first class stamp on them) but there
are MANY of you and it's cost prohibitive to have to send them first
class. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP!
-Lisa

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[Reel Pizza] update Sept 19 - 25

hi everyone

Thank you everyone who participated for making MIFF By-the-Sea #6 a fabulous weekend.  We had a blast, and look forward to #7 next year!

This weekend (Sunday 9/21 at 2pm, free admission) is the final film (Ocean Frontiers: A New Era in Ocean Stewardship) in this year's Summer Environmental Film Series, a program of environmental films with speakers that we have presented with the Maine Chapter of the Sierra Club over the last six years.  Recently, Chris and I were selected us to receive their Environmental Business Award at their recent annual dinner for our work with them on this ongoing series. We are delighted to be partners with the Maine Chapter of the Sierra Club and thank them for this honor.  The free environmental film matinees will return next spring!

Below is how our upcoming week's schedule looks.  Happy Equinox and cover your gardens tonight! 

-L

Tues 9/16 - Mon 9/22
BOYHOOD (R)  164min  5:00 and 8:15 

Fri 9/19 - Thurs 9/25
THE HUNDRED FOOT JOURNEY  (PG)  122min  6:00 and 8:30

Tues 9/23 - Thurs 9/25
FINDING FELA  (NR)  119min   5:30 and 8:00

Tues Sept 16 - Mon Sept 22 
BOYHOOD (R)  164min  5:00 & 8:15
STARTS Tues Sept 16.  Director Richard Linklater’s latest film is a piece of ground-breaking cinema.  Filmed several days a year over twelve years from 2001 - 2013, it seamlessly tells the fictional story of a boy growing up, from age 6 to 18, using the same actors who grow and age over the course of the story.  Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette play divorced parents, she the single mom, he the slacker but always fun dad, of Mason (Ellar Coltrane) and his older sister Samantha (the director’s daughter Lorelei Linklater) who we follow through moves and new schools, bullies and girlfriends, vacations and birthdays, right up to Mason’s highschool graduation.  It is beautiful, dramatic, audacious, wonderful storytelling.  Earned 3rd place in MIFF Audience Award vote.   trailer

Fri Sept 19 - Thurs Sept 25
THE HUNDRED FOOT JOURNEY  (PG)  122min  6:00 & 8:30
The Kadam family, displaced from their native India, relocate to a quaint village in the south of France, the perfect place to open an Indian restaurant where son Hassan, a culinary ingénue can showcase his talents.  When Mme. Mallory (Helen Mirren) the chilly proprietress of a Michelin-starred classical French restaurant just across the street hears about this, her protests escalate to all-out war.  But Hassan has a passion for both French haute cuisine and the competition’s enchanting sous-chef Marguerite which he uses to magically fuse the two cultures’ cuisines that Mme. Mallory cannot ignore.  A stimulating triumph over exile, blossoming with passion and heart, it is a portrayal of two worlds colliding and one boy’s drive to find the comfort of home, wherever he may be.   trailer

Tues Sept 26 - Thurs Sept 28
FINDING FELA  (NR)  119min   5:30 & 8:00
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side) has made a thought-provoking portrait of the life of Nigerian radical activist Fela Kuti, who courageously worked against the dictatorship and for democracy in his homeland, and a pioneering musician who, in the 1970s, fathered the Afro-Beat style, a fusion of Jazz, traditional West African beats, Funk, Highlife and psychedelic rock.  Scenes from the wildly popular and Tony award-winning Broadway show directed by Bill T. Jones, and a trove of rare archival footage and interviews with family and colleagues bring out the story of this hedonistic yet inspirational man who fought for the rights of the oppressed and whose legacy is in his music.  trailer

Sun Sept 21
SIERRA CLUB SUMMER SERIES FREE MATINEE
OCEAN FRONTIERS: A New Era in Ocean Stewardship  (NR) 80min   2pm  Free
This beautiful and inspiring film travels on a voyage to seaports and watersheds across United States where unlikely allies, including wildlife biologists, farmers, wetland ecologists, sport and commercial fishermen, port operators, snorkelers, and citizens all embark on a new course of cooperation in ocean management and stewardship to sustain the sea and our ocean economies. Featured speaker is Gretchen Noyes Hull of the Gulf Aquarium and Marine Station Cooperative.  The Sierra Club offers this series for no charge to get people focused on the environment.   trailer