Here are the titles, descriptions and times for films playing at Reel Pizza this coming week, Oct 1 - 7. We have a special Benefit screening on Saturday 10/2 at 2pm for Maine Farmland Trust. Come learn about and support this organization's efforts to connect young, just starting farmers with older farmers ready to retire. We hope to see you soon.
-Lisa
Fri 10/1 - Thurs 10/7
Fri 10/1 - Mon 10/4
Tues 10/5 - Thurs 10/7
Benefit Film and Discussion.
MEET YOUR FARMER Sat Oct 2 2pm
Maine Farmland Trust (MFT), a statewide non-profit which works to preserve farmland and keep Maine's farms farming, is hosting a benefit screening of 8 short documentaries by Maine filmmakers Cecily Pingree and Jason Mann, which tell the diverse stories of eight Maine farms: from Aroostook to York, from potatoes to dairy, from large commercial operations to small farms that sell directly to local people. Don't miss this opportunity to see what has farmers, chefs, food connoisseurs and farmland conservation supporters talking about "an unmistakable momentum in Maine." Representatives of Maine Farmland Trust and local farmers will be providing additional commentary to the films and discuss the work of this organization. Admission $10.
Fri Oct 1 - Thurs Oct 7
THE AMERICAN (R) 105min 6:00 and 8:15
This taut, haunting and stylish thriller stars George Clooney as a hired assassin who is taking a breather, hiding out in a small medieval Italian town after a job in Sweden goes badly. His new work is to build a custom weapon for another, mysterious client; no killing involved. He becomes friendly with the local priest who may have an unsavory past, and falls for a sweet, part-time prostitute. He wants out of his line of work, but will accommodate this one last job, even as he fully believes he is being stalked. This finely-crafted, restrained, and gorgeously photographed film, a study of loneliness, is the second from Dutch director Anton Corbijn (Control), a music video director and professional photographer, based on the Martin Booth novel A Very Private Gentleman.
Fri Oct 1 - Mon Oct 4
CAIRO TIME (PG) 89min 5:30 and 7:45
Juliette (Patricia Clarkson, The Station Agent) has arrived in Cairo to enjoy a rare vacation with her UN employed husband. However, events in Gaza delay him and he asks his long-time security guard Tareq (Alexander Siddig, Syriana), now retired and running a coffee shop, to meet his wife and get her to her hotel where he expects to meet her soon. Lonely Juliette decides to accept Tareq's offer of a tour of his city, as her husband's delay lengthens. Their acquaintance becomes a deeper friendship as their attraction grows. Syrian-Canadian writer-director Ruba Nadda has made a restrained love story and a delightful portrait of both the gritty and picturesque parts of this ancient city.
Tues Oct 5 - Thurs Oct 7
WELCOME (NR) 110min [in FRENCH and KURDISH with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:00
This prize-winning and multi-César-nominated film from director Philippe Loiret dramatizes a true situation. Young people, often refugees, from war-torn regions of the world believe their salvation is in England, and they often only get as far as northwest France, where they are abruptly stopped by the authorities, and are unable to cross the English Channel. Bilal is a Kurdish teen who has spent three months reaching as far as Calais enroute to Britain where his girlfriend's family has emigrated. He decides to swim across and finds a sympathetic instructor in Simon, once an Olympian, now facing divorce. These two discover they have much in common, and a strong bond forms between them, but Simon doesn't realize that, like Bilal, he must risk everything for true happiness.
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