[Reel Pizza] our new schedule

hi everyone

WE ARE BACK~
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!  
BRING BACK THE SUN!

Florida was very nice, but nothing beats being with our friends in Bar Harbor in the wintertime.
We are looking forward to our 14th season of film and community, including our Thursday matinees for the Seniors (starts 1/8), our annual Oscar Night Gala benefit, and other special events we are planning.  See you soon.

-Chris, Lisa, Pierce & Chloe

Here is the schedule for Reel Pizza that runs Friday December 26, 2008, through Thursday January 15, 2009.

Friday Dec 26 - Thurs Jan 1 
FOUR CHRISTMASES  PG-13  89min     6:00 and 8:00
This season�s hit romantic comedy stars Vince Vaughn (Fred Claus) and Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) as a happily unmarried couple who usually flee to some exotic locale over the holidays.  This year they find themselves unexpectedly and unavoidably stuck at home over Christmas.  Unable to escape, they become obliged to attend, in one day, the holiday festivities at each of their divorced parent�s homes (Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenbergen, and Jon Voight).  Secret childhood fears and adolescent wounds are reopened which nearly ruins their relationship.   In his first fiction feature, documentary director Seth Gordon (King of Kong) has made a touching and funny, but biting and real film.

Friday Dec 26 - Monday Dec 29
BOLT  PG 96min     5:30 and 7:45
This delightful animated action comedy is about a celebrity TV star dog (voiced by John Travolta) who spends his days cloistered on the set, never realizing that the superpowers he has on his weekly show aren�t real.  Separated from his master and costar Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus) he finds himself alone in NYC and must somehow make his way back to Hollywood using only his natural courage and loyalty, even though he thinks he has amazing powers.  His traveling companions are a scrappy stray cat and an excitable overweight hamster trapped in a plastic ball.  This newest film from Disney animation, now headed by Pixar Studio�s John Lassater, shows the influence of the popular upstart on the venerable brand both in the film�s fabulous looks and its clever and well-told story.

Tuesday Dec 30 - Thurs Jan 1
MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA  PG  89min    5:30 and 7:30
Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer) and Gloria the Hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) all reprise their roles in this irreverently humorous sequel.  Attempting to travel home from Madagascar in a rickety airplane piloted by the Penguins and Meerkats, the foursome and their entourage find themselves crash-landing into an African game preserve.  Here Alex meets his father, the local lion king (Bernie Mac) and Gloria, Melman and Marty meet others of their species at the local watering hole, with comic results.  You�ve got to move it, move it.

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Friday Jan 2 - Thurs Jan 8
QUANTUM OF SOLACE  PG-13  106min    6:00 and 8:15
The newest Bond film (#22 or #24 depending on how you count them) is the first true sequel in the series.  Beginning just hours after the end of 2006�s Casino Royale, Daniel Craig�s excellent 007 has just lost the love of his life, and with the help of the only other woman he can trust, M (Dame Judi Dench), he is out for revenge.  Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and Butterfly) is the villain, bent on reeking ecological havoc, aided by a mysterious Latina (Olga Kurylenko).  Marc Forster (The Kite Runner, Monster�s Ball) ably directs this globe-trotting, explosively action-packed and completely entertaining Bond installment.

Friday Jan 2 - Monday Jan 5
TWILIGHT PG-13  120min     5:30 and 8:00
Masterful director of teen outsider films, Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown) brings the first of Stephanie Meyer's popular series to life in an entertaining and non-condescending way.  Kirsten Stewart is Bella, a vulnerable, reserved girl who has just moved from warm sunny Phoenix to grey, rainy rural Washington state to live with her police chief dad.  Robert Pattinson (Cedric Diggory from the Harry Potter movies) plays the mysterious and beautifully pale boy who catches her eye and steals her heart.  Fortunately for Bella, he is a vegetarian vampire, but not all of them are.
 
Tues Jan 6 - Thurs Jan8
A CHRISTMAS TALE  NR  152min [in French with subtitles]    5:30 and 8:30
This unpredictable, unsentimental and marvelously dark comedy by inventive French director Arnoud Desplechin (Kings and Queen) is a captivating portrait of a dysfunctional family reunited over the Christmas holiday.  Catherine Deneuve is the matriarch, recently diagnosed with the same blood cancer that took her oldest son when he was a child.   Her three grown children (Anne Cosigny from Diving Bell and Butterfly, Mathieu Amalric from Quantum of Solace, and Melvil Poupaud) and their spouses (Chiara Matroianni, Emmanuelle Devos and Hippolyte Girardot) come together for what will become a week of power struggles and shifting allegiances as secrets are revealed.

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Friday Jan 9 - Thurs Jan 15
AUSTRALIA  PG-13  165min     5:00 and 8:15
Celebrating his homeland, director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge) has made a spectacular, visually stunning, sweepingly romantic epic set just before WW2.  Nicole Kidman stars as a proper British lady who arrives at her husband�s cattle estate in Northern Australia to find him shot dead and their neighbor stealing their cattle.  She joins forces with his cynical, itinerant ranch hand (Hugh Jackman) and an orphaned Aboriginal boy to drive their cattle to the port of Darwin to sell.  Meanwhile the Japanese are threatening to attack.

Friday Jan 9 - Monday Jan 12
THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES PG-13  110min     5:30 and 8:00
Based on the best-selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd, this heartwarming and charming parable is set on the eve of the 1964 civil rights legislation in segregated South Carolina.  Lily (Dakota Fanning), a white motherless teen, and her African American nanny (Jennifer Hudson) flee her strict father�s wrath, and find sanctuary at the home of the eccentric but nurturing beekeeper August (Queen Latifah), who lives in a bright pink house with her sisters May (Sophie Okenedo) and June (Alicia Keyes).  Director Gina Prince Blythewood has made a moving and spiritually rich tale of sisterhood and community.
 
Tues Jan 13 - Thurs Jan 15
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK R  124min     5:30 and 8:00
Charlie Kaufman, the quirky and Oscar-winning screenwriter behind off-beat independent hits Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ambitiously turns to directing with this surreal exploration of life, love and death.  Phillip Seymour Hoffman (coming in Doubt) proves once again that he is one of today�s most talented actors, with his portrayal of Caden Cotard, a 40 year old avant-garde, regional theatre director and hypochondriac whose marriage (to Catherine Keener) is falling apart.  His therapist (Hope Davis) is no help.  Then he wins a MacArthur �genius� grant and turns his entire world into an alternative reality, recreating his life in an enormous NYC warehouse for a decades-long production that seems to have no end.  Other co-stars include Emily Watson, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

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COMING SOON (in no particular order):
Rachel Getting Married
Milk
The Tale of Desperaux
Cadillac Records
Happy Go Lucky
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marley and Me
Slumdog Millionaire
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Grand Torino
Changeling
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Yes Man
Seven Pounds

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