Before I get to the films, I just want to reiterate that Reel Pizza
DEFINITELY WILL screen JULIE JULIA *as soon as* we can get a print from
Sony. We ask every week, and hope that soon we will be successful. They
didn't make very many prints, certainly not enough to cover demand, and
lots of theatres are scrambling to play it while few are giving up their
copy. Waiting so long to show a movie is certainly not our choice or our
decision, and we appreciate your patience and your understanding.
Meanwhile we have an wonderful, typical selection of interesting films on
our other screen to entertain you, and other fine choices of week-long
films until and after we play JJ.
See you soon~
-Lisa and Chris
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Fri Sept 25 - Mon Sept 28
IN THE LOOP (NR) 106min
This brilliantly funny, fast-paced, and razor sharp political satire from
director Armando Iannucci is an expansion of his hit British television
comedy "The Thick of It." Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) is the
foul-mouthed chief spokesperson for the British government, and he has his
hands full with Simon Foster (Tom Hollander), the ineffectual minister of
international development who has a knack for saying the wrong thing. As
the British and US governments gear up to invade an unspecified Middle
Eastern country, the minister's on-air comment that war is 'unforeseeable'
causes repercussions on both sides of the Atlantic, at 10 Downing Street,
the UN and the White House as both hawks and doves scramble to advance
their positions and their careers.
Tues Sept 29 - Thurs Oct 1
THE SONG OF SPARROWS (PG) 96min [in Farsi with subtitles]
This beautiful, simple fable is a deeply humanist story set among the
underprivileged. Veteran Iranian director Majid Majidi (Children of
Heaven, Baran) explores how materialism corrupts and transforms a generous
and honest man so that he loses the essential connection to family,
friends and nature. Karim is an ostrich wrangler and leads a simple life,
but when a bird escapes, he is fired. In the city he quickly finds work
as a motorbike messenger, and in his rounds he collects many used items
that augment his meager rural home, but these things and his new attitudes
dismay his wife and daughters. It is up to those closest to him to help
restore the values that he once cherished.
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Fri Oct 2 - Mon Oct 5
COLD SOULS (PG-13) 101min
Perfectly cast, Paul Giamatti stars as a neurotic actor (named Paul
Giamatti) who is having difficulty with his latest role as Chekhov's Uncle
Vanya. His agent tells him about a local soul storage facility (run by
David Strathairn), which can temporarily extract and store souls, leaving
one trouble free. Which is what happened, for a while, but when he
decides he needs his soul back, he discovers that it has been sold on the
Russian black market to a soap opera actress hoping to improve her career
(and thinking it was the soul of Al Pacino,) and Giamatti must travel to
St. Petersburg to try and get his soul back. New director Sophie Barthes
has made a clever, surreal and funny comedy.
Tues Oct 6 - Thurs Oct 8
THE COVE (PG-13) 92min
Beautiful fishing village Taiji, Japan has a nasty secret that the town
fathers are loathe to make public. Every fall, they herd dolphins and
other small cetaceans into a pen and, after selecting the best bottlenose
dolphins to sell to aquariums, they slaughter the rest for food, despite
the meat being toxically high in mercury. Director and celebrated 18-year
National Geographic veteran photographer Louis Psihoyos works
clandestinely with internationally recognized dolphin expert Ric O'Barry
(who once trained animals for the TV show, Flipper), free-diving champion
Mandy Rae Cruickshank, and others to uncover the covert operations that
occur in a secluded cove guarded by fishermen and barbed wire. This
astounding piece of investigative journalism that unfolds like an action
thriller follows the filmmakers as they covertly discover the truth about
the dolphin capture trade. Widely acclaimed as a front-runner for the
Oscar-documentary prize, this important, compelling film has put
international pressure on the Japanese to stop their brutal business.
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Fri Oct 9 - Mon Oct 12
ADAM (PG-13) 99min
In this heartfelt romantic comedy, Hugh Dancy (The Jane Austen Book Club)
stars as an odd, sheltered 20-something, afflicted with Asperger's
syndrome, whose life is falling apart after the death of his father. Then
he meets Beth (Rose Byrne, Knowing), a new neighbor in the upstairs
apartment, a beautiful, cosmopolitan elementary schoolteacher who is just
coming off a painful relationship. She pulls him into the outside world
with funny, touching and totally unexpected results. Their enigmatic
friendship reveals just how far two people from different realities can
stretch in search of an extraordinary connection.
Tues Oct 13 - Thurs Oct 15
$9.99 (R) 78min
This marvelously detailed, inventive and enchanting stop-motion animated
feature from Israeli director Tatia Rosenthal, based on the irreverent
short stories from Etgar Keret (who directed Jellyfish), weaves together
several stories that examine the post-modern meaning of hope. Unemployed
and still living at home, David mail-orders a book that promises the
answers to the meaning of life for $9.99, and its arrival alters his life.
His path crosses with his neighbors, an old man with a disgruntled
guardian angel, a magician in debt, a bewitching model, a brokenhearted
man with a group of friends two inches tall, and a young boy determined to
set his piggy bank free. Voices include Anthony LaPaglia and Geoffrey
Rush, who described the film as "a Claymation of Robert Altman's Short
Cuts."
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COMING ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?
9 (PG-13) 79min
Based on his Oscar-nominated animated short film, Shane Ackers'
distinctively original and thrilling tale follows the soft-bodied robot 9
(Elijah Wood) and his comrades (1, Christopher Plummer; 2, Martin Landau;
5, John C. Reilly; 7, Jennifer Connelly; and 6, Crispin Glover.) Set in a
post-apocalyptic world, this group lives in fear of extinction by evil
machines that roam and rule the Earth, and they disagree on whether to
fight (9's position) or hide (1's position) to survive, and decide to
learn why the machines want to destroy them in the first place. This
visually spectacular and dark film, produced by Tim Burton and Timur
Bekmambetov (Wanted) with script help from Pamela Pettler (Corpse Bride,
Monster House) is remarkably, delightfully imaginative, detailed and
engaging.
TAKING WOODSTOCK (PG-13) 120min
Elliot Tiber, a young gay man whose parents (Imelda Staunton and Harry
Goodman) own a rundown hotel in upstate Bethel New York is the inadvertent
lynchpin that allows the Woodstock Music Festival to go on. He has a
permit for a music festival desperately needed by the event's promoters
when they are denied in nearby Wallkill, and hopes to earn enough money to
pay off the mortgage. Based on his memoirs, Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)
has made a colorful, gentle and charming comedy set on the periphery of
the actual festival. Eugene Levy plays Farmer Max Yasgur, Emile Hirsch
plays Elliot's school friend who is suffering from his Vietnam service,
and Liev Schreiber is an ex-Marine drag queen who provides security for
the hotel over that weekend in August, 40 years ago.
EXTRACT (R) 92min
Mike Judge's latest (he is the mastermind behind Beavis and Butt-head, and
the cult classic Office Space) is a smart and funny ensemble comedy
starring Jason Bateman, Kirsten Wiig, Ben Affleck, JK Simmons and others.
Bateman (Juno, Hancock) is Joel, a small business owner of a flavoring
company with the usual complications, but his love life with his wife
(Wiig) is non-existent since he can't get home before her bedtime of 8pm.
Then there is an accident at the factory and a beautiful woman signs on as
a temporary worker; Joel thinks he would like to have an affair with her,
and takes the wacky advice of his stoner bartender (Affleck) on how to
make it happen without guilt. He takes his eye off his business, and
things start going haywire.
DISTRICT 9 (R) 113min
Written and directed by visual effects artist Neill Blomkamp and produced
by Peter Jackson, this imaginative, bold film is a humans-vs-aliens
science fiction where the aliens are the good guys. Action-packed, this
ambitious, satisfying popcorn flick features special effects that support
a poignant, smart story instead of being the story. Three decades ago, a
huge spaceship broke down over Johannesburg where it still hovers. The
crustacean-like inhabitants, derogatorily called prawns by the humans,
were relocated to a refugee camp where they remain crammed in ghetto
conditions. Wimpy but racist bureaucrat Wikus van der Merwe (new actor
Sharlto Copley) head of security charged with removing the aliens to an
even more remote camp and discovering the secret of their weapons, becomes
infected by an alien virus, and discovers he has become a wanted man.
JULIE & JULIA (PG-13) 123min
Based on a true story, New Yorker Julie Powell (Amy Adams), a government
secretary, spices up her life when she decides to master the art of French
cooking just as her idol, Julia Child (Meryl Streep), did 40 years
earlier. Though she has no expertise, Powell challenges herself to cook
every single recipe in Child legendary bible of French cuisine. With her
great love of food and the guiding words of the world renowned chef to
inspire her, Powell tackles all 524 recipes in just 365 days, chronicling
her experiences as she takes on each new culinary challenge. As she takes
Child's lessons to heart and hearth, Powell uses her immersion in the
world of traditional French cooking as a catalyst to transform her own
life.
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COMING NEXT SCHEDULE?
Paper Heart
Lorna's Silence
Capitalism: A Love Story
The Invention of Lying
The Informant!
Where the Wild Things Are
Astro Boy
A Serious Man
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
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