These are the films that Reel Pizza will be showing this coming week.
I will be sending out the next schedule shortly; stay tuned! There is
LOTS going on, and more to come!
See you soon
-Lisa and Chris
Friday 5/15 - Thursday 5/21
THE SOLOIST (PG-13) 109min 6:00 and 8:15
This thoughtful and moving film directed by Joe Wright (Atonement) from a
screenplay by Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich) tells the true story of a
tenuous, unlikely friendship between a newspaper journalist and a
schizophrenic, homeless, street musician. One day, LA Times columnist
Steve Lopez (Robert Downey, jr. Iron Man) discovers Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie
Foxx, Ray) under a statue of Beethoven magnificently playing an old fiddle
with only two strings. When Lopez discovers that this bizarre man was
once a gifted cello student at Julliard whose promising career was
derailed by the voices he hears, he has his story, but their relationship
isn't over. Lopez unsuccessfully tries to set Ayers up in a better living
situation so he can concentrate on music, but Ayers fights this help,
feeling more comfortable on the street.
Friday 5/15 - Monday 5/18
CHE (R) [partly in Spanish with subtitles]
part 1 5:30; part 2 8:30
Steven Soderbergh's absorbing, epic biography stars Benico Del Toro as the
iconic grass-roots, guerrilla revolutionary. Part one, adapted by Peter
Buchman from Che's "Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War," follows
the asthmatic leader and his compatriots including Fidel and Ramon Castro
as they travel to Cuba and successfully overthrow the US-supported Batista
regime. Part two, distilled from Che's Bolivian diaries by Buchman and
Benjamin vander Veen, runs from 1966 to his death in 1967 as Che tries to
repeat his Cuban success in Bolivia but doesn't receive the same reception
from the local people. Separate tickets sold for each part; both parts
will be shown once each evening divided by a ~30min "intermission". You
do not have to watch both parts the same night.
Tuesday 5/19 - Thursday 5/21
EVERLASTING MOMENTS (NR) 131min [in Swedish with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:00
This rich, episodic film set a century ago follows the life of a woman
(Maria Heiskanen) who as a young woman wins a camera in a lottery, decides
to keep it, and that decision alters the course of her life. She marries
a dockworker whose alcoholism keeps them poor and makes her life as a
mother to their house full of children difficult. One day she decides to
sell the camera for food money, is persuaded to reconsider by the camera
shop owner, and discovers an artistic outlet she never realized she needed
and a financial independence she never expected. Directed by renowned
Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell (The Emigrant), and based on the life story
of his wife's great aunt, this inspiring film is an extraordinary portrait
of an accidental artist.
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