[Reel Pizza] update

good day everyone

First, before I forget, the senior film on Thursday 2/7 at 1:30 is SWEENEY TODD.

And, I neglected to mention previously that the wonderful Cate Blanchette received one of her two(!) Oscar nominations for her uncanny performance in I'M NOT THERE, which screens tonight through Thursday at 5:30 and 8:15.

One last thing that might make today's (this week's?) weather seem not so depressing.  The BAR HARBOR GREEN MARKET, the Farmer's Market that graced our parking lot last summer will be back again on Wednesdays this summer.  They plan to begin selling their veggies, meat, dairy, flowers, and other great farm products starting Wednesday May 21.  Mark your calendars!  Close your eyes and think green, and red and yellow and orange and purple and blue. 

TICKETS ON SALE NOW at Reel Pizza
SUNDAY Feb 24th OSCAR NIGHT GALA to benefit the Beth C. Wright Cancer Center
co-sponsored by Poor Boy�s Gourmet & The First
Exquisite hors d'oeuvres  ~  Complementary glass of Champagne  ~  Come in Costume to win Great Prizes  ~ Grand Prize for most correct winners  ~  TERRIFIC FUN l GREAT CAUSE  ~  6:30 pm till...
Tickets:  $45 couple; $25 adults; $15 srs/student
*no eve shows Sun 2/24 - 2pm matinees only
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Fri 2/8 - Thurs 2/14
ATONEMENT (R) 123min  5:30 and 8:00
Based on Ian McEwans�s best-seller, this seven-time Oscar-nominated film, including for best picture, best supporting actress (for Saoirse Ronan), best adapted screenplay, best cinematography, best score, best art direction and best costume design is a beautiful, elegant, faithful adaptation.  Director Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice) brilliantly mixes classic romance and tragedy in this epic story of how a misunderstanding, which becomes a lie told on a sultry summer afternoon, devastates the lives of the characters for decades.  Budding young writer Briony (played by Saoirse Ronan, Ramola Garai, and Vanessa Redgrave over her life) and her older sister (Keira Knightly) live grandly on their parent�s estate.  James McAvoy is a groundskeeper and dear family friend who has been accepted to medical school.

Fri 2/8 - Mon 2/11
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU�RE DEAD  (R)  117min   6:00 and 8:30
Master filmmaker Sidney Lumet (Serpico, Network, The Verdict) directs this taut, absorbing suspense thriller about a dysfunctional family in crisis.  In another of his three memorable roles this year, Philip Seymour Hoffman plays an overbearing and overextended broker who lures his weak-willed, younger brother (Ethan Hawke) into a desperately misguided, larcenous scheme whose rewards should solve all their financial problems.  When the seemingly perfect crime goes awry, the damage lands right at their feet.  Albert Finney is the family patriarch, and Marisa Tomei, Amy Ryan and Rosemary Harris are the women in these three men�s lives.  This classy, classic heist-gone-wrong drama features invigorating, innovative storytelling, unforgettable acting and expert direction.
 
Tues 2/12 - Thurs 2/14
INTO THE WILD  (R)  147 min   5:15 and 8:15
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Based on a true story and the best-selling book by Jon Krakauer, writer/director Sean Penn has made an exuberant and moving character study.  In 1990, after college graduation, idealist Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch, Lords of Dogtown) rejects his family, abandons his possessions, gives his savings to charity, and hitchhikes around the west, eventually heading to Alaska to get as far away from humanity as possible.  He meets grain elevator operator (Vince Vaughn), an aging hippie couple (Catherine Keener and Brian Dierker), and an aging widower (Oscar-nominated Hal Holbrook). Director of photography Eric Gautier (Motorcycle Diaries) has beautifully filmed his journey, from the South Dakota prairie to the canyons and deserts of the Southwest, to the Sea of Cortez, to the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest, to the remote Alaskan wilderness north of Mt Denali. 
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