Hi everyone
Here is the new Reel Pizza schedule, which runs from Friday April 16 - Thursday May 6. We have a special event (this coming weekend) in honor of Earth Day, as well as a regular film that celebrates the natural world, and some family-friendly films for vacation week (which is coming right up), also two Oscar-nominated foreign language films, plus a brand new film, that isn't yet released, with some fun buzz. Read on for more information! As always, we look forward to seeing you soon...
-Lisa and Chris
SPECIAL EVENT Sunday April 18th FREE Film and Discussion sponsored by the Maine Chapter of the Sierra Club
NORTHRUNNER (NR) 50min 2:00pm
The Allagash Wilderness Waterway has been a highway to the Native Americans, a vital corridor to Maine's lumber business, and a world-class canoe trip. While its uses have been as varied as its twists and turns, its mystical hold on visitors is unlike that of no other place in Maine. Discover the history of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway--from its creation in 1966 to the present--with those who live and work there. This amazing portrait explores the history of this gem of a park in the middle of a working forest and shows why this place is so revered and engenders so much passion. "Northrunner" is a tribute to a wild river that will leave you wanting to head for the north woods. After the film, Karen Woodsum, Director of Sierra Club's Maine Woods Campaign, will give an update on the status of the Allagash and the 100 Mile Wilderness and will talk about new opportunities to protect forests.
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Friday April 16 - Thiurs April 22
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (PG) 98min 5:30 and 7:45
The directing team behind Lilo and Stitch, and Mulan, Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, has created this spectacularly animated and winning film based on the kids series by Cressida Cowell. Hiccup is a scrawny teenaged Viking, the chief's son, living on a remote northern island whose population has been terrorized by and fighting dragons for centuries. Desperate to prove himself, he wounds a dragon, but then is unable to kill it. Instead he nurses it back to health, befriends it, and instead proves something entirely unexpected to his family and neighbors. Voices include Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Gerald Butler and Craig Ferguson.
Fri April 16 - Mon April 19
THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF (PG-13) 102min 6:00 and 8:15
This love story is about three strangers of two generations who embark on a road trip through post-Katrina Louisiana. Along the way, relationships are forged and changed in a myriad of ways, leading to the possibility of second chances at life and love. Martine (Kristen Stewart) is a troubled teen runaway who has just gotten a ride heading toward New Orleans with an eccentric, Native American drifter Gordy (Eddie Redmanyne) in his big old convertible when they meet up with older Brett (William Hurt) who is in the midst of dealing with a painful past and deciding if he should return to his ex-wife (Maria Bello). Directed by Udayan Prasad (My Son the Fanatic) this deeply humanistic film is a wonderfully moving character-driven drama.
Tues April 20 - Thurs April 22
SWEETGRASS (NR) 101min 6:00 and 8:15
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, this awe-inspiring and endearing observational documentary follows the last modern-day cowboy sheepherders to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. Filmed over three years by husband and wife anthropologists Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash, the permits for the ranch to graze on this land were not renewed; this is the record of the final drive. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, climate and landscape, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
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Fri April 23 - Mon April 26
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID (PG) 94min
Based on the first book in Jeff Kinney's wildly popular illustrated series, this clever and delightful film directed by Thor Freudenthal (Hotel for Dogs) chronicles the landmines of middle school, the dumbest idea ever invented, according to short but savvy pre-teen Greg Heffley. He devises many can't miss schemes to become cool in the eyes of his classmates, which of course all go remarkably awry, and leave him looking more pathetic than ever. It's a charming, funny and thoroughly enjoyable adaptation.
Tues April 27 - Thurs April 29
THE WHITE RIBBON (R) 145min [in GERMAN with subtitles]
With stunning black and white cinematography, director Michael Haneke (Caché) has made a haunting, mesmerizing story of corruption as security that was the winner of Palme d'Or at Cannes. In a small northern German village populated by devout Protestants in the days leading up to WW1 a number of unexplained accidents befall both adults and children. Although they first appear coincidental, these events soon seem to be not accidents at all. The mild-mannered schoolteacher is determined to discover the truth, while also courting a beautiful local girl, but he does not know what goes on within the houses of his village when the doors are closed.
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Fri April 30 - Thurs May 6
KICK ASS (R) 117min
This film was booked after the schedule went to press, stay tuned for more details about this exciting, funny new action-comedy about a highschool student who decides to become a super-hero, based on Mark Millar's comic book series and directed by Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, Stardust).
Fri April 30 - Mon May 3
THE GHOST WRITER (PG-13) 128min
Ewan McGregor stars as The Ghost, a writer hired for big money to anonymously improve an autobiography, this time for a former British Prime Minister (Pierce Brosnan) with a tight turnaround time; the previous ghost drowned under mysterious circumstanceswas is accidental? Suicide? Murder? He travels to a vacation home of the PM on Martha's Vineyard, and begins his work. The original memoir is dull, but then our Ghost discovers some other hidden research that leads to a more nefarious view of his subject, and may put his life at the same risk as the previous writer. Master filmmaker Roman Polanski's (The Pianist) spellbinding, stylish and darkly witty political thriller, adapted from Robert Harris' novel, is greatly entertaining and well-made.
Tues May 4 - Thurs May 6
AJAMI (NR) 120min [in ARABIC and HEBREW with subtitles]
This unconventional and relevant Oscar-nominated foreign language film, co-written and co-directed by an Israeli (Yaron Shani) and a Palestinian (Scandar Copti), layers several stories into a dramatic collision of different worlds bearing the tragic consequences of enemies living as neighbors. A powerful crime drama set in a multi-ethnic suburban Tel Aviv neighborhood interweaves conflict not only between Jews and Arabs, but also Christians and Muslims, rich and poor, urban and rural, young and old. Revenge, death, drugs and star-crossed love combine in the confusion started by a bungled revenge drive-by shooting. A young Israeli fights a criminal vendetta against his family; a Palestinian refugee works illegally to finance a life-saving surgery, a Jewish police detective obsesses with finding his missing brother, and an affluent Palestinian dreams of a future with his Jewish girlfriend.
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COMING SOON ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (R) 93min
The title says it all! John Cusack, Craig Robinson and Rob Corddry star in this raunchily funny homage to so-bad-they-are-classic 1980's movies. They play 40-something buddies who are each having trouble with life. After a particularly bad episode with one of them, they, with one of their grown nephews in tow, decide to recapture the magic of a glorious day they spent 25 years ago at a now decrepit ski resort. After many drinks, a mysterious incident sets off a chain of events with the hot tub of the title, and these four are sent back to 1986 and must actually relive the day, which is before the nephew is born. It's politically incorrect, but spot-on hilarious, quite clever and a whole lot of fun.
GREENBERG (R) 107min
Filmmaker Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) directs Ben Stiller (Tropic Thunder) in his latest intelligent, incisively observed character examination/ romantic comedy. Perpetually dissatisfied, Roger Greenberg fled LA years ago to NYC and became a carpenter. After a recent breakdown, he is back on the west coast to recover, staying at his affluent brother's home while they are on vacation. He's not doing much, although he promised to build a doghouse, and he does try to make a connection with an old friend and bandmate (Rhys Ifans), as well as his old girlfriend (Jennifer Jason Leigh). But most of his time is spent with his brother's aimlessyoung house assistant (Greta Gerwig) who he alternately is attracted to and repelled by. As they get to know each other, they find they know themselves a little better too.
THE RUNAWAYS (R) 105min
Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart nail their roles as Cherie Currie and Joan Jett, two of the founding members of the seventies band The Runaways. Discovered by their manager Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon) who manipulates their image with drill sergeant precision, he turns these rock-obsessed highschool misfits into successful stars by exploiting their youth and sexuality. Based on Currie's memoir Neon Angel and the feature debut of music video director Floria Sigismondi, this gritty, spirited story of the rise and fall of these teenaged rock-n-roll rebels, and the unlikely friendship that developed between the two main bandmates is authentic with rich, period details.
DATE NIGHT (PG-13) 88min
In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns a bored married couple's attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into something more thrilling and dangerous. Claire and Phil Foster (Tina Fey and Steve Carell) are a typical suburban couple whose lives – including their weekly date nights of dinner and a movie – have become routine. To reignite the marital spark, they visit a trendy Manhattan bistro where a case of mistaken identity turns their evening into the ultimate date night-gone-awry. But as Claire and Phil take their unexpected walk on the wild side, they begin to remember what made them so special together. The early word (from Variety) on this new action romantic comedy from director Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) is that it is "uncommonly engaging" and "hits a home run."
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Coming Next Schedule?
The Secret of Kells
The Prophet
Iron Man 2
Clash of the Titans
Oceans
Kick Ass {opens 4/30}
Death at a Funeral
Mid-August Lunch
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