Lots going on during this schedule! Hope you can make time to participate somehow.
Special events first, and in chronological order:
Sunday Feb 13th from 2pm - 4pm we will be hosting the Emerson School 8th grade fundraiser for their class trip. They have a silent auction planned for one auditorium, a screening of GET SMART (PG-13) in the other ($5 sug. donation), and a raffle for two (separate) 32g I-PADS which they will draw the winners of at the end of the film around 4pm. Come out and support our Eighth Graders!
Saturday Feb 26th at 2pm we will host a free film and discussion. We are screening SAVING MARRIAGE, presented by EQUALITYMAINE. This engrossing, powerful documentary, three years in the making, is on the scene as one state (Massachusetts) grapples with a simple question: Should gay and lesbian couples have the right to marry? Included in this sharply edited film are the personal stories of people that are shaping history, career politicians who stand up to their constituents and follow their hearts, seasoned lobbyists who see the holy grail of the gay rights movement suddenly within reach, and regular people thrust suddenly into the world of politics by an issue that could change their lives. A discussion led by EqualityMaine will follow the film.
Sunday Feb 27th at 6:30pm its our OSCAH' NIGHT GALA. This year we support the Bar Harbor Food Pantry. Its always a fun time, with exquisite hors d'oeuvres donated by local restaurants, complimentary glass of champagne or sparkling cider, prizes for best dressed and best costumed, and of course, a grand prize for the most correct ballot! Affordable, Terrific Fun and a GREAT CAUSE. Tickets are available now ($10 for everyone) at the Reel Pizza box office or from a Food Pantry board member. Its the last day of vacation...stay up late and party with us! **Remember, no regular evening shows, but both films will screen at 2pm matinees 2/27.
And of course we have our regular Film Program....
I waited so long between going to the printer and getting this email out (I blame the snow and new postal regulations on my mailing list!) that now I have all the films booked for the entire schedule. So I will give you dates and times on every film. First in Brief and then in detail.
**Remember that on Oscar Sunday, we will have 2pm matinees of BOTH the films playing that weekend. I'll remind you again when its closer to the actual day.
If I've forgotten anything, I will tell you next time. See you soon.
-Lisa
Fri 2/11 - Thurs 2/17
Fri 2/11 - Mon 2/14
Fri 2/11 - Mon 2.14
Tues 2/15 - Thurs 2/17
Fri 2/18 - Thurs 3/3
Fri 2/18 - Mon 2/21
Tues 2/22 - Thurs 2/24
Fri 2/25 - Thurs 3/3
** Sunday 2/27 2pm matinees of both films only, due to OSCARS in the evening.
Fri 2/25 - Mon 2/28
Tues 3/1 - Thurs 3/3
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Fri 2/11 - Thurs 2/14
NO STRINGS ATTACHED (R) 110min 5:30 and 8:00
Actress and Oscar-frontrunner Natalie Portman (Black Swan) stars with Ashton Kutcher as long-time friends who decide to become non-committal lovers in this honest and genuine romantic comedy. She is a busy medical doctor doing her residency, he is a TV show assistant and aspiring writer; they have known each other off and on since they were kids. But she is most definitely not interested in commitment, in fact doesn't even believe in it, and he agrees, …until he falls in love with her. Director Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters), using a snappy screenplay from new writer Elizabeth Meriwether, has made a terrifically sweet and fun film.
Fri 2/11 - Mon 2/14
OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2011 (NR) 85min animated at 6:00 only; 106min live-action at 7:45 only
This year's crop of short films are all from not-previously nominated filmmakers, although one from Pixar was on the front of Toy Story 3. The other animated films (all appropriate for all ages) cover a range of stories, from a parody of 1950s educational science films to a Euro traveler's trying to come to terms with Madagascar's culture, to a mysterious creature a boy finds on the beach, to a mouse who must outwit a fox, an owl and a snake. The live action films follow a young boy going to his first confession, an 8 year old boy's infatuation with his teacher, the unexpected wish of a terminally ill boy, a bus attack during the Rwandan genocide, and a love triangle that takes a surprising turn with the discovery of magic darts.
Best animated short film nominees: Appropriate for ALL AGES
"Day & Night" Teddy Newton
"The Gruffalo", Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
"Let's Pollute", Geefwee Boedoe
"The Lost Thing", Ouat Media, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
"Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)", Bastien Dubois
also special mentions
"Urs", Moritz Mayerhofer
"The Cow That Wanted to Be a Hamburger", Bill Plympton
Best live action short film nominees:
"The Confession" Tanel Toom
"The Crush" Michael Creagh
"God of Love", Luke Matheny
"Na Wewe" Ivan Goldschmidt
"Wish 143", Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite
Tues 2/15 - Thurs 2/17
WASTE LAND (NR) 98min [partly in Portuguese with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:15
In this Oscar-nominated and award-winning documentary, renowned Brooklyn-based artist Vik Muniz traveled to his native Brazil and collaborated with local catadores, people who work in the world's largest dump outside of Rio de Janeiro picking out recyclable materials. Together they created large-scale photographic images of themselves using the garbage that surrounded them. Through this beautiful, moving film by documentarian Lucy Walker (Blindsight, Countdown to Zero) we discover both the despair and dignity of these inspiring people and witness the transformative power of art.
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Fri 2/18 - Thurs 3/3 (two weeks)
THE KING'S SPEECH (R)*for some brief language 111min 5:30 and 8:00
Prince Albert (Colin Firth) has suffered a serious speech impediment all his life. When his father King George V dies, and soon afterwards his older brother Edward abdicates the throne, Albert is suddenly thrust into the highest position of the monarchy, but he can't give a speech. With the country on the verge of war, his wife (Helena Bonham Carter) arranges for one more therapy, with eccentric Australian Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). This masterful and rousing period drama follows his unorthodox and eccentric treatment and the growing friendship between these two different men as the world marches toward World War 2 and Albert prepares to inspire his people to go to battle. Directed by Tom Hooper (The Damned United, TV's John Adams) from a screenplay by veteran David Seidler (Tucker) is a shoe-in for a slew of Oscar nominations.
Fri 2/18 - Mon 2/21
THE GREEN HORNET (PG-13) 108min [in 2-D] 6:00 and 8:15
Off-beat director Michel Gondry (Be Kind Rewind, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and co-screenwriter Set Rogan (Superbad) team up, making this action comedy update of the 1930's radio serial/1970's TV show. Togan stars as partyboy-son of a media magnate who discovers a new direction in life after his dad's sudden death. Joining forces with dad's mechanic Kato (Taiwan pop star Jay Chou) they become a vigilante crime fighting team. Using Kato's advanced retro-weaponry, they make a name for themselves. Then they decide LA's top crime lord (Christop Waltz) is their next target.
Tues 2/22 - Thurs 2/24
MY DOG TULIP (NR) 81min 6:00 and 8:15
The 1956 memoir of distinguished British author JR Ackerley, the basis of this sublime animated film, is a bittersweet account of the author's 14 year relationship with a young, rescued German Shepherd, Tulip. Full of gentle wit, this faithful adaptation and sophisticated love story, narrated by Christopher Plummer, with voicework by late Lynn Redgrave (her final film performance) and Isabelle Rossellini, examines a transformative relationship between a curmudgeonly man and a dog that turns out to be the love of his life.
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Fri 2/18 - Thurs 3/3 (two weeks)
THE KING'S SPEECH (R)*for some brief language 111min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 2/25 - Mon 2/28
FAIR GAME (PG-13) 104min 6:00 and 8:15
When former Nigerian ambassador Joe Wilson (Sean Penn) contradicted in a NYTimes Op-Ed piece the US government's position about sales of uranium from Niger to Iraq (which was used as the reason for the US to go to war), the Bush White House responded by secretly outing his wife, Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) to the press as a CIA operative. This leak destroyed her career, endangered her life as well as the lives of many others, and nearly destroyed her marriage. Based on memoirs by both Wilson and Plame and directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity), this riveting espionage drama, suspenseful even though the outcome is known, is also a realistic political and human drama about the price of truth-telling in a time of fear.
Tues 3/1 - Thurs 3/3
FOUR LIONS (R) 102min 6:00 and 8:15
Razor-sharp and pitch dark, this edgy and very funny satire is the debut film from British comic Chris Morris, working with screenwriters Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong (In the Loop). Reveling in the ridiculous, like the Three Stooges or Monty Python, they skewer fundamentalism, following the exploits of a fervent but inept cell of suburban wannabe jihadists, also mostly sweet, if perhaps somewhat dim, regular guys. They don't all really understand their cause, but know there is one, and it leads to heaven. They are eager to destroy something, and start out training crows to be suicide bombers, and think perhaps to bomb the local mosque, in order to radicalize the moderates. But first they travel to a Pakistani training camp with comically disastrous results before returning to England for something big, an attack on the London Marathon dressed as clowns.
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COMING SOON?
127 HOURS (R) 94min
The new film from last year's Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) is beautiful and life-affirming even as it tells a harrowing, true story. Aron Ralston (James Franco, Howl, Milk) is a care-free rock climber who enjoys the escape of being alone in the brilliant wilderness of Utah's Canyonland National Park. That is, until the one day when his cockiness and luck fails him and he finds himself stuck, having fallen down a crevasse with a boulder he is unable to move pinning his arm. Over the next five days he contemplates his current position, his life up to then, and his future, finally deciding he does have the courage to do whatever is necessary to choose life.
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Coming Next Schedule?
Gnomeo and Juliet
Made in Dagenheim
The Illusionist
Black Swan
Another Year
The Way Back
Blue Valentine
The Company Men
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