[Reel Pizza] update

greetings everyone

It has definitely been a little busy lately, what with all the rain, so we will be giving you some additional opportunities to see some of the popular shows of this summer.   But first, a few reminders about some special shows coming up.

This Friday night 8/8 at 11pm is the final opportunity this year to see the hilarity of IMPROVISION, when our intrepid friends from ImprovAcadia blindly make up the dialogue, soundtrack and special effects to the camp classic (about which they know nothing) ROBOT MONSTER, the cheesiest monster movie ever made (according to Chris).  Who knows what directions the plot might take?  Coming soon on Friday Late Nights will be more Rock&Reel both with Romulus Rex and also with The Shakes, and more Program-o-rama.

We have special programming this coming Sunday afternoon August 10th.  At 2pm, we, in association with St Saviour's Episcopal Church, will present this powerful film about the New England slave trade and its implications for today. Film participant Dain Perry and his wife Constance will introduce the film and there will be time for discussion afterwards. 
TRACES OF THE TRADE  (NR)   Sunday 8/10  2:00 pm
Released in 2008 on the occasion of the Bicentennial of the U.S. Abolition of the Slave Trade (January 1, 1808), this documentary film examines one of the most shameful legacies of America's past. Director Katrina Browne and nine relatives trace their roots as the largest slave trading family in American history, offering powerful new perspectives on the black/white divide.  Following the screening, a member of this family, Dain Perry, who participated in the film, and his wife Constance Perry, will share the difficult and creative effort that produced this film, consider its impact on their lives and invite all to reflect on our own experience.  www.tracesofthetrade.org

Also, *NEWS FLASH*, we will be hosting another special program the following Sunday 8/17 at 2pm of the new film WILD COMBINATION: The Arthur Russell Story, a portrait of the life of the ground-breaking, avant-garde cellist, which will be presented by his sister, local resident Kate Henry, and Arthur's partner, Tom Lee.  More details will be in the next schedule coming soon.

See you soon
-Lisa


*HELD-OVER BY POPULAR DEMAND!  (at a new and improved time)
Friday Aug 8 - Thurs Aug 14
MAMMA MIA!   (PG-13)  104min  6:00 and 8:30
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.

*BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
Friday Aug 8 - Monday Aug 11
WALL-E   (G)  97 min      5:30 and 8:00
In this most wonderful Pixar film, director Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo) moves into space: the final frontier.  On an Earth abandoned by humans centuries ago, where trash has taken over, Wall-E is a lonely robot who spends his days collecting trinkets and compacting the garbage, one cube at a time.  Eve is a sleek robot probe on a mission who realizes Wall-E has inadvertently discovered something important about the planet's future and takes off into space to return to her base and report her discovery.  Wall-E, smitten with his new friend, follows her across the universe, and his fantastic journey is an exciting, hilariously comic adventure.

Tues Aug 12 - Thurs Aug 14
CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI  (R)*  125min    5:30 and 8:00
Based on true events and real people, this gripping, engaging and beautiful melodrama centers on a young English journalist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Match Point), a straight-forward American nurse (Radha Mitchell, Melinda and Melinda) and a Chinese communist guerilla (Chow Yun Fat) who meet in desperate and unexpected circumstances during the Japanese invasion of China in 1938.  Together they rescue sixty orphaned children, leading them on an extraordinary journey through snow-covered mountains and unforgiving desert to refuge far from the soldier's brutality; along the way they discover the true meaning of love, responsibility and courage. 
"The R rating is earned by some very mild, non-explicit lovemaking, some violence and some drug content...Nothing so strong it would bother a teenager." –Roger Ebert