[Reel Pizza] update

Hi Everyone

The Oscar Nominations were announced this morning, and we have a few nominees coming up in the next few weeks.  I will make sure they are obviously noted, so you don't miss any.   We will be having our annual Gala Event celebrating the Academy Awards coming on March 7th.  Stay tuned for more details!  The new schedule will be coming your way tomorrow.  I am done for today...
Stay warm!
-Lisa

This Thursday our Senior Matinee will be ITS COMPLICATED at 1:30 (no oscar noms here...but lots of fun just the same!)

Starting Friday we have two multi-Oscar Nominated films!

Fri - Thurs 2/5 - 2/11
UP IN THE AIR  (R)  109min  5:30 and 8:00
One of the most well-received movies of this year is the third film from young, Oscar-nominated director Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You for Smoking).  George Clooney, in top form, stars as a carefree, loner businessman, a career transition counselor­i.e. hatchet man­whose company has just hired a cost-effective new trainee (Anna Kendrick, Twilight) to learn his job so she can fire people via video-conferencing.  Besides not being able to reach his nearly-attained elitist goal of ten million frequent flyer miles if he is grounded, he will see much less of another frequent traveler (Vera Farmiga) who has caught his eye.  This loose adaptation of Walter Kirn's clever novel is surprising, smart, timeless and original.  *SIX OSCAR NOMS: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Lead Actor , Best Supporting Actress (both Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick), Best Adapted Screenplay.

Fri - Mon 2/5 - 2/8
AN EDUCATION  (PG-13)  100min 6:00 and 8:15
Young Carey Mulligan gives an Oscar-worthy performance as a sixteen year old girl in 1961 suburban London who hopes to attend college at Oxford, but yearns to be intellectual and sophisticated long before her classmates.  Then one day she meets David (Peter Sarsgaard) a charming, older man who takes an interest in her (platonic, he promises her parents), opening a door to a glamorous world she desires, with plays and concerts, chic restaurants, jazz clubs and worldly discussions with him and his friends.  This involving and entertaining film with a screenplay by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy) based on British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir, is directed with delicate restraint by Lone Scherfig (Italian for Beginners, Wilbur).  *THREE OSCAR NOMS: Best Picture, Best Lead Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay.
 
Tues - Thurs 2/9 - 2/11
SKIN  (PG-13)  107min   6:00 and 8:15
In 1950's South Africa, young Sandra Laing (Ella Ramangwane) is a black child, classified as white because she was born to white Afrikaner parents (Sam Neill and Alice Krige).  Unaware of their mixed race ancestry and in denial of their daughter's obvious traits, they are outraged when their beloved daughter is expelled from the all-white school her brother attends, and Sandra is reclassified as mixed-race.  Their appeal to the Supreme Court is successful and she is again officially white, to her father's extreme satisfaction.  But, by now Sandra (here played by Sophie Okoneda, Hotel Rwanda) knows that she will never be accepted by the white community.  When she falls in love with a nice, black vegetable seller, her truly racist father disowns her and she must now live as a black woman in oppressive Apartheid South Africa.  Based on a true story, this fascinating and affecting drama of betrayal and triumph is told with grace and simplicity by director Anthony Fabian.