[Reel Pizza] update

hi everyone

We received a nice spotlight, as a "Special Family Treat", in this month's (March/April) YANKEE magazine in an article on family adventure travel in New England (pg 46). 

The Emerson 8th Grade Benefit last Sunday was a great success.  A big Thank You to everyone who came out and participated, and to the stellar parents who made the event a reality.

The Senior Matinee on Thursday 3/6 is 27 DRESSES at 1:30.
The Senior Matinee on Thursday 3/13 is THE BUCKET LIST at 1:30.

Films for the week March 7 - 13 (in brief):

3/7 - 3/13   THE BUCKET LIST  (PG-13)  97min   6:00 and 8:15
3/7 - 3/10   THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY  (PG-13)  112min  [in French with subtitles]   5:30 and 8:00
3/11 - 3/13  PETE SEEGER:  THE POWER OF SONG   (PG)  93min   5:30 and 7:45

See you soon!
-Lisa

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(and in detail, in case you have forgotten)
Fri Mar 7 - Thurs Mar 13
THE BUCKET LIST (PG-13)  97min   6:00 and 8:15
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 to live life to the fullest with insight and humor.

Fri Mar 7 - Mon 10
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (PG-13)  112min  [in French with subtitles]   5:30 and 8:00
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   5:30 and 7:45
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.