[Reel Pizza] schedule Mar 25 - Apr 14

Hi Everyone

Here is the schedule that runs March 25 - April 14. 

For the first two weeks, we have all three films booked, so I have included times.

Some regular reminders:
*       Don't forget we have infra-red transmitters in both our screening rooms.  If you would like to use a headset so you can better hear the film, please just ask at the concession counter. They are free of charge and always available.

*       If you have a cell phone, by sending a blank text message to times@reelpizza.net you will get a message back with the titles and showtimes for that evening's two films .

*       Don't forget we are now on FACEBOOK, where I post odd bits, like any kitchen specials or soups, the Senior Matinee, and  other items that I think might be of interest.  And then you can "like" them if you choose.  Feel free to join us.

Make Syrup.  Plant Peas.  Happy Equinox.

-Lisa

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Fri March 25 - Thurs March 31
THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG-13)  99min   6:00 and 8:30
Do we have free-will over our actions or do the unseen Fates manipulate us to keep things going according to a master plan?  In his directing debut, screenwriter George Nolfi (Ocean's Twelve, Bourne Ultimatum) adapts a Philip K. Dick short story making an entertaining science-fiction action thriller with a believable and refreshing romantic energy.  Matt Damon and Emily Blunt share great chemistry as an ambitious but recently knocked-down US Representative, and the woman he unexpectedly meets and feels is his soul mate.  He soon discovers a mysterious group of Men in Hats (fedoras) whose job is to keep them apart, so that predestined events can unfold. 

Fri March 25 - Mon March 28
BARNEY'S VERSION (R)  132min  5:30 and 8:15
Paul Giamatti (American Splendor, Sideways) won the Golden Globe for his standout performance of four decades in the life of Barney Panofsky.  This fun and engaging comedy-drama follows the loves and life of this hard-living, Montreal-based soap opera producer, three times married, who is accused of murder late in life.  Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by late Canadian author Mordecai Richler, this debut feature from TV director Richard J. Lewis highlights outstanding supporting work by Rosamund Pike (Made in Dagenham) as the love of his life, and Dustin Hoffman as his rapscallion father.

Tues March 29 - Thurs March 31
OUTSIDE THE LAW  (NR)  137 min  [in FRENCH with subtitles]   5:30 and 8:15
Algeria's Oscar-nominated film for Best Foreign Language film, from previously nominated director Rachid Bouchareb (2002's Days of Glory) is a decades-spanning historical action epic set against the backdrop of the Algerian war of independence from France after WW2.  The personal career paths of three brothers are intertwined as they work towards freedom for themselves and their people, their losses beginning when their family is evicted by the French from their ancestral land when they are children.  One brother joins the French military as a soldier fighting in Indochina, another becomes a wealthy but shady boxing promoter in Paris, and the third is a revolutionary helping organize the resistance.

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Fri April 1 - Thurs April 7
ANOTHER YEAR (PG-13)  129min   5:45 and 8:30
Master filmmaker Mike Leigh (Topsy Turvey, Vera Drake) again uses his unorthodox, collaborative style of script development to create a rich, involving and understated drama (Oscar-nominated for original screenplay) about happiness and growing old.   Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen play a long-time happily married couple with a grown son.  Over a year they share their home with friends, colleagues, and family whose lives have not turned out the way they'd hoped. 

Fri April 1 - Mon April 4
RANGO (PG)  107min   5:30  and 7:45
This new animated picture, the first from Industrial Light and Magic, and director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) is not the traditional fart-joke cartoon.  It is a gorgeous, weird, exciting and totally original ride through the Wild West.  Rango (Johnny Depp) is a sheltered pet chameleon with aspirations to be an actor who is jostled out of the back of his people's car on a trip through the Mojave Desert.  He ends up in the lawless, gun-slinging town of Dirt where at that moment they are looking for someone to become the new sheriff (the last one lasted less than a week).  Although he's always blended in, all of a sudden he is asked to be the hero.  This is one fun film for both kids and adults.

Tues April 5 - Thurs April 7
COLD WEATHER  (NR)  97min   5:30 and 7:45
Doug (Cris Lankenau) has just dropped out of college where he was studying forensic science, and moved in with his older sister (Trieste Kelly) in Portland.  He gets a dead-end job in an ice-packing factory and befriends co-worker Carlos (Raúl Castillo).  When Carlos's new girl friend goes missing, these three join forces, with a ramshackle, Sherlock Holmes-style, to solve the mystery of her whereabouts.  With deadpan humor and natural performances, independent filmmaker Aaron Katz has created a comfortable, lived-in world for his charming offbeat detective story that also shows a brother and sister becoming friends.

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Fri April 8 - Mon April 11
BLUE VALENTINE (R)  114min
This commanding film is a hard-hitting love story about a marriage slowly yet undeniably falling apart.  Oscar-nominee Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain, Wendy and Lucy) and Ryan Gosling (Lars and the Real Girl, Half Nelson) bury themselves in their roles both as the current weary, working couple with a young daughter – he's content, with no ambition beyond free-lance house painting while she feels held back – as well as their characters at the beginning of their relationship when their love was sweet and happy.  Co-writer (with improvisational input from his leads) and young Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker Derek Cianfrance fills the intimate story with telling details that make what happens feel absolutely real.

Tues April 12 - Thurs April 14
POETRY  (NR)  149min  [in KOREAN with subtitles]
This exceptional film, for which the great Korean actress Yun Jung-hee came out of retirement, explores the emotional setbacks of an older woman and the direction these challenges take her.  Winner of the best screenplay prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival for writer-director Lee Chang-dong (Secret Sunshine, Oasis), the story is of a seemingly unremarkable, aging pensioner raising her sullen teenaged grandson, implicated in the death of a schoolmate, who finds strength and purpose through a poetry class she takes at the local cultural center. 

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COMING SOON ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?

THE LINCOLN LAWYER (R)  119min
Matthew McConaughey stars as a scrappy and charismatic LA criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his sedan.  After a career defending petty criminals, he unexpectedly lands the job that will solve his financial woes, defending a rich kid (Ryan Phillippe) accused of rape and attempted murder, but what initially appears to be a straightforward case develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation.  This gripping new thriller based on the popular best-seller by Michael Connely, is directed by Brad Furman.
 
CEDAR RAPIDS  (R)   87min
Insurance agent Tim Lippe (Ed Helms, The Hangover) is beyond naïve.  Though he does have a girlfriend, his former 7th grade teacher (Sigourney Weaver), he has never been out of his sleepy Wisconsin hometown.  Yet now he's been chosen to represent his company at the regional convention in the big city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  New experiences, like a plane ride, car rental, a hotel stay, and meeting a black person, are only part of his future.  His initiation by three convention veterans (Isaiah Whitlock Jr., John C. Reilley, and Anna Heche) finds him in an urban jungle he's only ever seen on DVD.  This consistently funny, sweet and charming film with an excellent ensemble cast is from director Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl).
 
THE LAST LIONS (PG)  88min
Over the past 50 years, the world's lion population has fallen from 450,000 to approximately 20,000, the decline led by human encroachment of their habitat.  Stunning footage, shot over six years by longtime lion researchers Derek and Beverly Joubert of a family group of lions in Botswana's Okavanga Delta anchors this riveting tale of survival.  A small family of lions is evicted from their home after a ferocious fight that kills the male.  The now single mother with three cubs to raise must relocate as the winning, larger pride will kill the cubs if given the chance, but she is seriously limited in where she can go.  Her tale of survival is gripping; the increasing plight of the king of the beasts is disturbing.  Jeremy Irons narrates.

COMING SOON NEXT SCHEDULE?

UNKNOWN
RIO
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS
JANE EYRE
PAUL
OF GODS AND MEN
WIN WIN
THE CONSPIRATOR

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