[Reel Pizza] update Feb 24 - March 1

good morning everyone

The Tournee Festival of French Films continues tonight and Thursday.  Today, Wednesday, we have NENETTE (@5:30) and HADEWIJCH (@7:30), tomorrow, Thursday QUEEN TO PLAY (@5:30) and WHITE MATERIAL (@7:30).  WAR HORSE continues at 5:00 and 8:00 thru Thursday.

This week's Senior Matinee on Thursday will be WAR HORSE (PG-13) at 1:00 (early start this week).  Next Thursday March 1st, our regular Senior Matinee will be IRON LADY, at 1:30.
Also, on Sunday, as it is Oscar Day, please note we will only be screening afternoon matinees of our films; no evening shows on Sunday. I know several of our seniors have been interested in a HUGO matinee which will be screened at 2pm.  Also we will be screening IRON LADY at 2pm.

And YES it is Oscar weekend (!) and we will be hosting our annual Gala Celebration of movies on Sunday evening, starting at 6pm until its over, to benefit the programs at Summer Festival of the Arts.  Some new additions to the festivities include the display of student art, the screening of student films and live music from SFOA attendees for a portion of the pre-show.  As in past years, there will be prizes for best costume for men and women, both in the formal wear categories and the film character categories.  And of course a prize for the attendee whose ballot is most correct.  Delicious appetizers and desserts, donated by local restaurants and chefs, and complimentary bubbly will be served.  Tickets at $15 adults and $10 thru high school are available at our box office during regular hours; if that doesn't work, call me 288-3828 or SFOA 244-3855 to arrange. 

Here is the schedule for this coming week, Fri Feb 24 - Thurs March 1

Fri  Sat & Mon
HUGO (PG) 5:15 and 8:00  back by popular demand!
THE IRON LADY (PG-13)  5:30 and 7:45

Sun
HUGO (PG) 2:00
THE IRON LADY (PG-13) 2:00
GALA OSCAR CELEBRATION benefiting SFOA 6:00

Tues - Thurs
A DANGEROUS METHOD (R) 6:00 and 8:00
THE IRON LADY (PG-13)  5:30 and 7:45 (and 2pm on Thurs)

See you soon, and back tomorrow with the new schedule for MARCH!
-Lisa

Fri Feb 24 - Thurs Mar 1
THE IRON LADY (PG-13) 105min

Meryl Streep earns another Oscar nomination for her remarkable and pitch-perfect portrayal of the long-serving and influential British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.  This intimate portrait in the form of a moving memory poem begins in her later years as the once formidable woman putters around her home holding conversation with her beloved husband Denis (and excellent Jim Broadbent) who has been dead for many years.  Using reenactment of her memories, director Philida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!) presents highly personal interludes of transformative parts of her life, a green grocer’s daughter who startles her Conservative Party by running for office and wins, eventually rising to become the head of the government.

Fri Feb 24 - Mon Feb 27

HUGO (PG)  126min  [in 2D] 
Back by Popular Demand!  Martin Scorsese brings his unique vision and winning talents to his first family film, based on Brian Selznick’s Caldecott-winning “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” sharing with this story a love of and appreciation of the magic of films at the dawn of moviemaking.  Wiley orphan Hugo (Asa Butterfield) lives in the rafters of a 1930s Paris Metro station, winding the clocks daily while trying to discover the secrets of a broken machine left to him by his father.   But when he is caught stealing needed parts from a local toy seller (Ben Kingsley), his quest might be over.  Sasha Baron Cohen, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Lee, and Emily Mortimer co-star. 

Tues Feb 28 - Thurs Mar 1

A DANGEROUS METHOD (R)  93min

In director David Cronenberg’s engaging film, meticulous and driven Swiss therapist Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) adopts the radical healing technique of his mentor, Viennese doctor Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortenson).  He uses “the talking cure” on his newest patient, young and beautiful but unbalanced Russian Jew Sabrina Spielrein (Keira Knightly); both men fall under her spell.  This story, based on John Kerr’s book A Most Dangerous Method and screenwriter Christopher Hampton’s subsequent play, tells of two men whose collaboration would shape modern thought, yet their temperaments drove them apart.