[Reel Pizza] update 5/27 - 6/3

hi everyone

Just a quick note to remind everyone of our unusual schedule. 

Tonight (Thurs) we have three films showing.  It is the final night for both IRON MAN 2 at 6:00, and VINCERE at 5:30 and 8:00. 
We will begin our run of SEX IN THE CITY 2, with a show at 8:30.

Tomorrow (Fri 5/28) we are back to two films.
SEX AND THE CITY 2 (R)  at 5:30 and 8:30 which plays through next Thurs 6/3
and
OCEANS (G) at 5:45 and 7:45 which screens through Monday 5/31.

On Tues 6/1 we change to
GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (NR) at 5:15 and 8:15 which runs through Thurs 6/3.

SEX AND THE CITY 2 continues

Hope everyone has a glorious holiday weekend.  See you soon!

-Lisa

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Fri May 21 - Thurs May 27
IRON MAN 2  (PG-13)  125min    6:00 and 8:30*  *no later show Thurs 5/27
The highly anticipated sequel to director Jon Favreau's superhero blockbuster starring Robert Downey , Jr. (Sherlock Holmes) is sure to be fun and action-packed.  As the world knows that billionaire Tony Stark leads a dual life, he is under pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his inventions with the military; but Tony is unwilling to divulge his secrets for fear the information will end up in the wrong hands.   With Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) and James Rhodes (now Don Cheadle) at his side, Tony forges new alliances and confronts powerful new enemies.  Samuel Jackson re-turns as Nick Fury.

Tues May 25 - Thurs May 27
VINCERE  (NR)  128min  [in ITALIAN with subtitles]    5:30 and 8:00
This amazing and gorgeous historical biography tells the tragic and unknown story of Ida Dasler (Giovanna Mezzogiorno).  She falls madly, irrationally in love with a young handsome Socialist Benito Mussolini (Filippo Tami), continuing her affections through his transformation to his new Fascist ideology and selling all her belongings to bankroll his newspaper; they are married and have a child.  After the start of WWI, he goes to war and she loses track of him.  When she finds him, she discovers that he has married another and rejects both her and their son.  She continues to seek him out, to demand he recognize his child, but in his rise to power, he has all the documentation of their relationship destroyed, eventually ordering her institutionalized, with the boy going to a Catholic boarding school.  But Ida will not give up without a fight.  Master Italian director Marco Bellocchio (Fists in the Pocket) blends newsreel and other archival footage with reenactments, making an epic treatise with emotional power.

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Fri May 28 - Thurs June 3  
ALSO Thurs 5/27 at 8:30pm
SEX AND THE CITY 2  (R)   147min     5:30 and 8:30
Sometimes you just have to get away with the girls.  Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) carry on with their busy lives and loves with fun, fashion, and friendship.  After marriage, life is everything the ladies ever wished it to be, but it still holds a few more surprises...this time in the form of a glamorous, sun-drenched adventure that whisks the women away from New York to one of the most luxurious, exotic and vivid places on earth, where the party never ends and there's something mysterious around every corner. It's an escape that comes exactly at the right moment for the four friends, who are finding themselves in--and fighting against--the traditional roles of marriage, motherhood and more.

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Fri 5/27 - Mon 5/31
OCEANS (G)  74min    5:45 and 7:45
With few words (minimal narration is by actor Pierce Brosnan), symphonic music, and exquisite cinematography using cutting edge underwater photography, filmmakers Jacques Perrin (Winged Migration, Microcosmos) and Jacques Cluzaud present both the bizarre, otherworldly species and common critters that inhabit various niches of the Earth's ocean's ecosystems for our viewing pleasure.  From the Great Barrier Reef to the Arctic Ocean, to the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas, discover a part of the life of a blanket octopus, mobula ray, marine iguana, sea nettle, stonefish, blue whale, walrus, garden eel, spinner dolphin, sea lion, baby sea turtle, penguin, sea urchin larva, horseshoe crab, and much more, all of whose mysterious existences combine to keep life in the balance in the watery realm beneath the waves.  Also included are the unfortunate effects that humans continue to make on this forgiving but fragile habitat.
 
Tues 6/1 - Thur 6/3
GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (NR)  154min  [in SWEDISH with subtitles]     5:15 and 8:15
Forty years ago, teenaged Harriet Vanger disappeared from her powerful family's island during a reunion; her bereft, aging uncle still believes she was murdered, and by a relative, and he hopes to solve the mystery before he dies.  He hires a middle-aged, disgraced journalist (Michael Nyqvist) and a tattooed, troubled but genius young computer hacker (an unforgettable Nooni Rapace).  These two begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history.  Based on the first of Stieg Larsson's posthumously published and popular worldwide Millennium trilogy, this grippingly suspenseful and grittily intense film from Danish director Niels Arden Oplev is faithful to its source material.

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