[Reel Pizza] schedule

Here is the schedule that covers us from Fri Feb 29th through Thurs March 20.  See you soon!
-Lisa

Special Events:
Our Oscar Night Gala is Sunday starting at 6:30, and we hope to see you dressed to kill in support of the Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center.  Remember, Sunday we are showing 2pm matinees only. 
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Emerson 8th Grade Benefit  Sunday March 2nd  12:30pm
Come watch a family comedy we haven't previously screened, about a self-absorbed man coming to terms with a daughter he didn't know he had, play bingo, and participate in the silent auction and raffle, and support the Emerson School Eighth Grade as they raise money for their graduation.  The doors open at 12:30 and the show starts at 1pm; the kitchen will be open.

Next Thursday's Senior Matinee (2/28) will be JUNO at 1:30.

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Fri Feb 29 - Thurs Mar 6
THERE WILL BE BLOOD (R)  158min  5:30 and 8:30
Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York) and Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine) are electrifying as like-minded adversaries in visionary director Paul Thomas Anderson's (Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love) majestic epic depicting the California oil boom a century ago.  Day-Lewis is front-runner for the acting Oscar for his mesmerizing and eccentric performance as oilman Daniel Plainview who cons unsuspecting folks into granting him drilling rights to their property.  One of those persuaded to sell is the family of evangelical preacher Eli Sunday (Dano) who intends that Plainview's spoils will build him a church.  This gripping film, loosely based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel OIL is a compelling portrait of capitalism run amok, and has received 8 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Director, Cinematography, and Actor. 

Fri Feb 29 - Mon Mar 3
27 DRESSES (PG-13)  107min  6:00 and 8:15
Selfless and idealistically romantic, Jane (Katherine Heigl, Knocked Up) has helped plan and been bridesmaid to countless friend's weddings, and she has a closet full of gowns to prove it.  Secretly she pines for her boss (Ed Burns) but then her sister steals his heart and wants Jane to plan their wedding.  James Marsden (Enchanted, Hairspray) is a wedding writer who wants to do a feature article about Jane under the guise of getting to know her better, but she is not impressed.  Containing nothing heavy, this bubbly romantic comedy is infectiously fun entertainment. 
 
Tues Mar 4 - Thurs Mar 6
THE WILLOW TREE (NR)  96min  6:00 and 8:15
Another masterpiece, full of exquisite details and splendorous beauty from Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi (Baran, Children of Heaven, Color of Paradise) thoughtfully explores the themes of gratitude and transformation.  Youssef, a middle aged professor of literature who was blinded in a childhood accident, lives a peaceful life both at the university and a home with his loving wife and daughter, although he harbors an inner anger at God for his condition.  When a tumor is discovered on his eye, he vows to dedicate his life to God in exchange for a miracle.  An uncle sends him to Paris where the tumor is removed and corneal transplants successfully restore his sight.  But he is not prepared for the differences in his imagined world and its reality.  And his promise is forgotten. 
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Fri Mar 7 - Mon 10
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (PG-13)  112min  [in French with subtitles]
At age 43, world-renowned French fashion editor Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric, Munich) suffered a catastrophic stroke rendering him unable to move except to blink his left eye-lid, but left whole his mind and senses, and sense of humor.  By blinking his one working eyelid with the help of a team of beautiful assistants, he composed his memoir.  From a screenplay by Ronald Harwood (The Pianist) and cinematography by Januzs Kaminski (Saving Private Ryan), director Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls)  has created a visual marvel, a sensitive, imaginative and entirely unsentimental portrait of a complex, real character who, confined by his body, celebrates life through his imagination.  This film earned 4 Oscar nominations, for direction, cinematography, adapted screenplay, and film editing.
 
Tues Mar 11 - Thurs Mar 13
PETE SEEGER:  THE POWER OF SONG  (PG)  93min
This stirring portrait of amazing American treasure and institution Pete Seeger by documentary filmmaker Jim Brown is full of remarkable archival footage and personal films from the family's collection, extended musical segments and recent interviews with Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Nathalie Maines, Peter Paul and Mary, his wife Toshi, his children Michael and Peggy, and the 88 year-young man himself.  A revered singer and banjo player, blacklisted anti-war patriot, early ecologist and environmentalist, and outspoken advocate for social justice and civil rights, Pete Seeger has spent his long life using music to communicate ideas and unite people to make the world a better place.  His joy is most apparent when he unites a group in song, for he believes "participation will save the human race."  Come appreciate him in this wonderful, joyous and inspirational film. 
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Fri Mar 14 - Mon Mar 17
THE SAVAGES  (R)  113min
As not-that-close, self-absorbed, never-married siblings dealing with the increasing dementia of their estranged father (Philip Bosco) after the death of his partner, Laura Linney (Kinsey, Breach) earned an Oscar-nomination for her performance, while co-star Philip Seymour Hoffman's equally impressive work took a back seat to his Oscar-nominated performance in Charlie Wilson's War.  Writer –director Tamara Jenkins, whose last film was semi-autobiographical The Slums of Beverly Hills a decade ago, earned herself an Academy nomination for her original screenplay, a wry, sad, funny and honestly forthright story that follows this fumbling brother and sister during a winter of coming to terms with a lifetime of disappointments as they work together to make their ailing dad comfortable, despite that he never cared for them. 
 
Tues Mar 18 - Thurs Mar 20
WAR/DANCE  (PG-13)  105min
This Oscar-nominated documentary by husband and wife team Sean and Andrea Nix Fine juxtaposes the cathartic healing abilities of music, song and dance with the horrors experienced by three young teens, members of the Acholi tribe, displaced by an ongoing 20 year rebellion in Northern Uganda where the rebels abduct children, boys to serve in their army and girls to service their adult soldiers.  With power, compassion and beauty, the filmmakers interweave the stories of the broken lives of these orphaned children who now live in the squalor that is the Patango Refugee Camp with the spiritual recharge gained by qualifying for, preparing for and finally participating in the National Music Competition in Kampala with students from all over their country.  These students, whose childhoods have been stolen, sing and dance with heartfelt joy the stories of their ancestors, of their homeland, of their future.

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THE BUCKET LIST (PG-13)  97min
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman have great chemistry working together for the first time in their careers in this satisfying and funny end-of-life comedy drama from director Rob Reiner.  When two opposites, corporate billionaire Edward and working class mechanic Carter Chambers end up sharing a hospital room, both diagnosed with terminal cancer, they discover they have two things in common:  a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do before the end and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are.  Checking themselves out, they embark on the road trip of a lifetime together, becoming friends along the way and learning toe live life to the fullest with insight and humor.
 
PERSEPOLIS (PG-13)  95min  [in French with subtitles]
The pages of Marjane Satrapi's bestselling graphic novel wondrously, poetically come to life in her own Oscar-nominated, hand-drawn animated film. At times comic, at others painfully heartbreaking, her autobiographical coming-of-age story is both appealingly universal and specifically personal, telling the riveting story of the shifting fortunes of her affluent Iranian family in a tumultuous time.  The daughter of intelligent and pro-Western parents, Marjane is spirited and rebellious like her grandma.  Growing up in Tehran late in the despised Shah's dictatorship, she loves her modern lifestyle, values, and freedom, until suddenly, one day, there is a revolution and all these things are forbidden.  Featuring the voices of legendary Danielle Darrieux as the grandmother, world-renowned Catherine Deneuve as the mother, and her daughter Chiara Mastroianni as Marjane, this is an extraordinary, enthralling masterpiece.
 
DEFINITELY MAYBE (PG-13)  112/105
This delightful romantic comedy stars Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) as a schoolgirl full of questions about her divorced dad's (Ryan Reynolds) courtship of her mother after her first sex education class at school started her thinking.  With intelligence, charm and actual intrigue, Dad spins a bedtime tale of his three loves, charging his daughter with the task of figuring out which woman he finally married and who became her mom.  Set in New York City, dad begins that he had just left his college sweetheart (Elizabeth Banks) behind in Wisconsin while he went off to work on the first presidential campaign of Gov. Bill Clinton.  He meets an ambitious journalist who is also dating her thesis advisor, and a quirky office worker helping but uncommitted to the campaign.  This engaging film is unpredictable, witty and honestly real.
 
THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES  (PG)  97min
Peculiar things start to happen the moment mom, twins Simon and Jared (both Freddie Highmore, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and sister Mallory (Sarah Bolger) Grace leave New York and move into the secluded old house owned by their great-great uncle Arthur Spiderwick (David Strathairn).  The family blames the strange disappearances and accidents on Jared's mischief, but the children's investigations reveal that there is a fantastic truth behind the Spiderwick estate.  Director Mark Waters (Mean Girls, Freaky Friday) has made the popular series into an adventurous and thrilling spectacle with top-notch special effects that is enchanting, imaginative and fun.

Coming Next Schedule?
HONEYDRIPPER
CASSANDRA'S DREAM
BE KIND, REWIND
CHARLIE BARTLETT
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL
KING CORN
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