As promised here is the new schedule for Reel Pizza that runs January 16 through February 5th.
We hope to see you soon.
-Lisa and Chris
Tuesday Jan 20th
On January 20 at noon, our country will inaugurate its 44th president, and we will be watching on the big screen. Please join us, starting at 11am, for the televised broadcast of this historic event. Our kitchen will be open for lunch, while we celebrate President Barak Obama and Vice-President Joseph Biden as they begin their great journey to lead this country forward. We will be accepting donations to the Bar Harbor Food Pantry in lieu of admissions.
Fri Jan 16 - Mon Jan 19
THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX (G) 93min
Kate DiCamillo's (Because of Winn-Dixie) Newbery Award-winning fairy tale of bravery, forgiveness, and redemption is brought wonderfully, enchantingly and beautifully to the screen in this charming and elegant animated adaptation by screenwriter Gary Ross (Seabiscuit) and directors Sam Fell (Flushed Away) and Rob Stevenhagen. A very small mouse with very big ears (Matthew Broderick) is banished from his world for not acting mouse-like enough. He meets a rat (Dustin Hoffman), a fellow outcast who frightened the queen to death from being in her soup. Emma Watson (Harry Potter films) voices the princess despondent at the untimely demise of her mother. Tracy Uhlman voices her servant girl who longs to be a princess herself.
Tues Jan 20 - Thurs Jan 22
CHANGELING (R) 140min
This first of two excellent films coming this year from director Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River) is the unforgettable true story of a woman wronged by the corrupt Los Angeles Police Department in 1928. Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart) is a single mother whose son disappears one day without a trace. Months later and with much fanfare, the LAPD announces they've found the missing child, but she protests that the boy returned to her is not her son. The police respond by incarcerating her in the psychiatric ward. John Malkovich plays an eccentric, outspoken radio preacher who takes her case to the airwaves when she is silenced. It is an intense, riveting story and film.
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Fri Jan 23 - Mon Jan 26
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (R) 118min
Golden Globe nominated actress Sally Hawkins gives a spot-on, infectious performance as always enthusiastic, bordering on manic, school teacher Poppy. Always optimistic, she takes up driving lessons at age 30 when her bike is stolen. She maintains her hopefulness even as those around her, like her driving instructor (Eddie Marsan, The Illusionist) are perpetually angry and seem to have no hope or patience with life. This edgy, slice-of-life drama, a refreshingly upbeat character study from veteran improvisational director Mike Leigh (Vera Drake, Topsy Turvy) was created using his trademark organic method of storywriting.
Tues Jan 27 - Thurs Jan 29
ROCKNROLLA (R) 116min
Director Guy Richie (Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) returns to his roots with this Tarantino-inspired, stylish and outrageous Cockney crime caper, featuring a great ensemble cast. Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton) stars as a London crime boss and self-proclaimed real estate mogul. Gerard Butler (Phantom of the Opera) is a low level crook who gets in the way of a deal with a Russian mobster (Karel Rodin), tipped off by the Russian's accountant (Thandie Newton). A lucky painting, a dead rock musician and his promoters (Jeremy Piven and Ludacris) are part of the mix. It is fast paced, quite humorous, and entertaining with a twisty ending that brings everything together.
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Fri Jan 30 - Mon Feb 2
CADILLAC RECORDS (R) 109min
This powerful chronicle with a phenomenal soundtrack of the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists tells the story of rhythm and the blues as they gave birth to rock 'n' roll on Chicago's south side from the late 1940's into the 1960's. It all began when Leonard Chess (Adrian Brody, The Pianist) a Polish-Jewish émigré and bar owner hired the blues combo of Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright) on guitar and Little Walter (Columbus Short) on harmonica to play his club. Soon he records them, and then is promoting their music across the country. The family grows to include Big Willie Dixon (Cedric the Entertainer), Howlin' Wolf (Eammonn Walker), Chuck Berry (Mos Def) and Etta James (Beyonce Knowles), all of whom struggle with success. Writer-director Darnell Martin brings the story of these blues legends to dramatic, vibrant life.
Tues Feb 3 - Thurs Feb 5
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS (PG-13)
This remarkable and moving Holocaust story, told with intelligence and grace, is based on the young adult novel by author John Boyne. Bruno is a young German boy whose soldier father (David Thewlis) is about to be transferred from Berlin to the countryside. His mother (Vera Farmiga) and sister (Amber Beattie) are proud of his promotion but don't understand its significance. Their new home is near to a "farm" that the boy is forbidden to visit where the workers wear striped clothing, but as loneliness creeps in, he sneaks away, where he meets Shmuel, a Jewish boy his age on the opposite side of the fence. Slowly Bruno begins to understand the dangerous hate, and wonders about his father's participation, as he vows to help his new friend.
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COMING SOON ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (PG-13) 167min
From director David Fincher (Seven, Zodiac) and screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) based loosely on a F. Scott Fitzgerald story, this intriguing, magical and romantic tale follows the life of a unique man who was born looking an ancient eighty years old, and as he aged, he got progressively younger. Brad Pitt plays the man, and excellent digital technology has implanted his face on all the characters, even when acted by other people's bodies. Elle Fanning and Cate Blanchette play the different ages of Daisy, the most important woman in his life. This haunting, poignant, and unique picture is one of the year's best.
MARLEY AND ME (PG) 115min
Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston make a charming couple in this endearing story about a dog and the effects he has on their marriage. This is not just any dog, but "the world's worst dog," a golden lab with no boundaries who wreaks havoc wherever he goes for a good part of his life. Nevertheless, he is much loved by the whole family, which eventually includes three kids, and they all recognize that their life wouldn't be the same without him. Based on journalist John Grogan's true memoir, directed by David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada) and co-starring Alan Arkin, Kathleen Turner and Eric Dane, this is a delightful, hilarious and fully entertaining film.
MILK (R) 128min
In 1977, Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man voted into public office in the US, when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. A year later he was murdered. Seamlessly blending newsreel footage with an original screenplay by Dustin Lance Black, director Gus Van Sant's satisfying, timely and engaging new film charts the last eight years of the life of this martyred pioneer. The ensemble cast features excellent performances, including Golden Globe nominated Sean Penn, who becomes the title character, a middle aged Jewish Republican insurance agent seeking change, James Franco (Pineapple Express) as his partner who moves with him from New York to the west coast, Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) as a young activist who works tirelessly with Milk's campaigns, and Josh Brolin (W) as a conflicted conservative city supervisor elected at the same time as Milk.
VALKYRIE (PG-13) 120min
Intelligent and engrossing, this historical drama recreates the real-life WW2 conspiracy about a plot within the highest ranks of Hitler's military command to assassinate their leader and restore Germany's good name. Led by Col. Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise), a man who lost seven fingers and an eye fighting in North Africa, this group of co-conspirators, played by Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy, Terence Stamp, Eddie Izzard and Thomas Kretschmann, all have differing motives for wanting Hitler dead, and their allegiances shift even as they must keep their plan secret. Director Bryan Singer (X-Men 1 & 2, Superman) reuniting with his The Usual Suspects screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie, has made a suspenseful and old-fashioned action adventure, presenting a complex scheme with clarity.
DOUBT (PG-13) 104min
In a Catholic school in 1964 Bronx, Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep), the principal, does not trust the new priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman). He is progressive and charismatic; she is strict, disciplined and old-fashioned. When she hears from meek, innocent Sister James (Amy Adams) that she saw the school's new and only black student go into his office alone, she decides, without a doubt but without any evidence either, that something is seriously amiss and the Father must go. Viola Davis (Antwone Fisher) gives a brief but indelible performance as the boy's mother. John Patrick Shanley (Oscar winning screenwriter for Moonstruck) adapts and directs his Tony-winning play, expanding it to fill the big screen with this transfixing and relevant film.
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Coming next?
Slumdog Millionaire
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Gran Torino
Frost/Nixon
Yes Man
Rachel Getting Married
I've Loved You For So Long
OSCAR NIGHT 2009
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