Here is what is playing, starting today thru next Thursday. I have been working on the next schedule, and it will be arriving in your inbox by Monday. Some special events are coming up, and you will learn all about them soon. Hope this finds you well as we move into the summer season!
Fri Apr 27 - Thurs May 3 FRIENDS WITH KIDS (R) 107min 6:00 and 8:30 This romantic comedy is a mini BRIDESMAIDS reunion
Fri Apr 27 - Mon Apr 30 SAFE HOUSE (R) 115min 5:30 and 8:00 Denzel Washington stars as a rogue agent in this CIA conspiracy thriller
Tues May 1 - Thurs May 3 IN DARKNESS (R) 145min [in Polish, German & Ukranian w/subtitles] 5:15 and 8:15 Oscar-nominated film based on a true story from the director of EUROPA EUROPA
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Fri Apr 27 - Thurs May 3 FRIENDS WITH KIDS(R)107min Jennifer Westfeldt (star and writer of Kissing Jessica Stein) now also directs.She plays Julie, a single gal with all her friends (a Bridesmaid mini-reunion with costars Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, John Hamm, and Chris O’Dowd) recently married, and had kids.The resulting stress seems to have ruined their previously fun, adult friendships.So she and her best (platonic) friend (Adam Scott) decide they can do it better -- have a child, share custody and the responsibilities, and keep dating others.Which seems to work fine, until they both get into serious relationships.This intelligent, fresh and funny romantic comedy will keep you involved and entertained.
Fri Apr 27 - Mon Apr 30 SAFE HOUSE(R)115min Denzel Washington stars as a rogue CIA agent who turns himself in after a decade on the lam, then escapes an attack on the secret interrogation facility where he is taken in Cape Town with a rookie operative (Ryan Reynolds), setting these two opposites on a run for their lives.Swedish director Daniel Espinosa (Easy Money), screenwriter David Guggenheim, and cinematographer Oliver Wood (the BOURNE trilogy) have made a bracing and energetic tale of corruption and conspiracy with excellent performances from both stars as well as from a supporting cast that includes Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson, and Sam Shephard.
Tues May 1 - Thurs May 3 IN DARKNESS(R)145min[in Polish, German, Ukrainian, and Yiddish with subtitles] Based in truth, this foreign language Oscar nominee tells a powerful story of Leopold Socha, a petty thief and Polish sewer inspector who, for 14 months until WW2 ended, hid from the authorities a group of Jews in the damp and dark underground pipes…for a significant price; he intends to turn them in to the Nazis once their money runs out.But when that time does come, he finds he can’t do it and risks the lives of himself and of his family.Three-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa, Angry Harvest) has made a simultaneously astonishing, harrowing, and inspiring film.
remember, April Showers bring May Flowers.....see you soon!
Here are the movies and one special event during this next week. Hope you are having a great spring break (kindof hard not to with this weather!). See you soon and HAPPY EARTH DAY on Sunday! -Lisa
Sat Apr 21 Free Film and Discussion: YOU WANTED TO BE A FARMER (NR)1:30pm
Fri Apr 20 - Thurs Apr 26 THE HUNGER GAMES (PG-13) 5:30 and 8:15
Fri Apr 20 - Mon Apr 23 BOY (NR) 6:00 and 8:00
Tues Apr 24 - Thurs Apr 26 CHICO AND RITA (NR) [in Spanish with subtitles] 6:00 and 8:00 Fri Apr 20 - Thurs Apr 26 THE HUNGER GAMES(PG-13)142min This engaging, exhilarating and satisfying action fantasy is faithful to its source material, the first book in Suzanne Collin’s uberpopular dystopian trilogy.She and director Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, Pleasantville) have adapted her story of two teens Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson, The Kids are Alright) who are chosen from a remote, rural district in the future to participate in a fight to the death with kids from other districts, an annual punishment meted out by the government since an unsuccessful rebellion 74 years ago.These two are joined by drunken mentor Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), chirpy chaperone Effie (Elizabeth Banks) and fashion stylist Cinna (Lenny Kravitz)
Fri Apr 20 - Mon Apr 23 BOY(NR)87min A kid’s relationship with his long-absent dad is at the center of this hilarious and nonchalant coming-of-age tale.Boy, a teen who imagines his dad as a fantastic hero, lives with his brother Rocky and assorted cousins at his grandmother’s in a poor rural Maori village.While she is out of town for a funeral, the dad (played by the director), who has actually been in jail for many years, shows up, not to visit necessarily but to recover some buried treasure which takes longer than he expected. This sunny, quirky and heartfelt film from New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi (Eagle vs Shark) honors heroes, magic and Michael Jackson.
Tues Apr 24 - Thurs Apr 26 CHICO AND RITA(NR)94min[in Spanish with subtitles] Working with designer Javier Mariscal and animator Tono Errando, Oscar-winning director (for Belle Époque) Fernando Trueba (Calle 54) has created an evocative, adult-oriented animated film embracing the fusion of Cuban music and American Jazz in the 1940s and 1950s.Chico is a talented but unknown bebop piano player in pre-Castro Havana who is besotted with a beautiful, sultry singer he hears one night.He and Rita strike up a romance and working partnership, but their trajectories are not always in sync.This beautiful, Oscar-nominated film follows their oft-interrupted romance over the decades and includes a soundtrack that features the era’s music – Cole Porter, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Cuban legends of the day, and locales from Hollywood and Las Vegas to New York and Paris. Jazz piano is by Bebo Valdés, vocals by Idania Valdés.
Sat April 21 at 1:30pm free film and discussion:"YOU WANTED TO BE A FARMER" (emphasis on the "you") is a presentation of Food for Maine's Future, and tells the story of Dan and Judy Brown of Gravelwood Farm over in Blue Hill (ME) who have been served with a lawsuit by the Maine Dept of Agriculture. The topics range from the control of food policy by corporate-influenced governmental regulatory agencies, to the benefits of raising food locally. The issues in this movie affect not just farmers, but everyone who eats! There will be speakers from the local farming community and a question and answer period after the screening.
Here is our schedule for the next three weeks. For those who are waiting, we will be playing HUNGER GAMES as soon a there is a print for us. Maybe next week? we are hopeful!
We have some new art in the lobby courtesy of Ms Helen Douglas of Hulls Cove. Stop by and see some of her new works (she has nothing more to say about herself, other than her name and her phone number which is posted on our lobby wall!) I will add that her website is shadesdart.com.
We also have a free film and discussion on Sat April 21 at 1:30pm. "YOU WANTED TO BE A FARMER" (emphasis on the "you") is a presentation of Food for Maine's Future, and tells the story of Dan and Judy Brown of Gravelwood Farm over in Blue Hill who have been served with a lawsuit by the Maine Dept of Agriculture. The topics range from the control of food policy by corporate-influenced governmental regulatory agencies, to the benefits of raising food locally. The issues in this movie affect not just farmers, but everyone who eats! There will be speakers from the local farming community and a question and answer period after the screening.
Since we only have one screen booked, there are no times included. Stay tuned...
See you soon, at the movies, -Lisa and Chris
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Fri Apr 13 - Mon Apr 16 THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY(G)94min
This captivating and stylish fable, like others from Oscar-winning Japanese animator Hiyao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) feature children discovering hidden, fantastical worlds; here it is the miniature gleaners of Mary Norton’s celebrated novel The Borrowers.Arrietty, a tiny teenager who lives with her parents under the floorboards of a country cottage, is befriended by a human boy, putting her entire family at risk.Produced and co-written by Miyazaki, it was directed by his protégé Hiromasa Yonebayashi, and has been painstakingly dubbed into English with exceptional voicework by Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, Carol Burnett, David Henrie and Bridgit Mendler.
Tues Apr 17 - Thurs Apr 19 THE FAIRY(NR) 93min[in French with subtitles]
Co-writing, directing and starring team of Australian-Canadian Fiona Gordon, Belgian Dominique Abel, and Frenchman Bruno Remy have made yet another (after The Iceberg and Rumba) inspired and colorfully comic romp.Set in Le Havre, a simple hotel clerk is gifted with three wishes from a disheveled woman who shows up declaring that she is a fairy.But he can only come up with two wishes at the time and she disappears before he can think of a third.So he goes in search of her.Filled with old-fashioned physical comedy, visual gags and sheer silliness, it’s a nearly silent, very funny amusement.
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Fri Apr 20 - Mon Apr 23 BOY(NR)87min
A kid’s relationship with his long-absent dad is at the center of this hilarious and nonchalant coming-of-age tale.Boy, a teen who imagines his dad as a fantastic hero, lives with his brother Rocky and assorted cousins at his grandmother’s in a poor rural Maori village.While she is out of town for a funeral, the dad (played by the director), who has actually been in jail for many years, shows up, not to visit necessarily but to recover some buried treasure which takes longer than he expected. This sunny, quirky and heartfelt film from New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi (Eagle vs Shark) honors heroes, magic and Michael Jackson.
Tues Apr 24 - Thurs Apr 26 CHICO AND RITA(NR)94min[in Spanish with subtitles]
Working with designer Javier Mariscal and animator Tono Errando, Oscar-winning director (for Belle Époque) Fernando Trueba (Calle 54) has created an evocative, adult-oriented animated film embracing the fusion of Cuban music and American Jazz in the 1940s and 1950s.Chico is a talented but unknown bebop piano player in pre-Castro Havana who is besotted with a beautiful, sultry singer he hears one night.He and Rita strike up a romance and working partnership, but their trajectories are not always in sync.This beautiful, Oscar-nominated film follows their oft-interrupted romance over the decades and includes a soundtrack that features the era’s music – Cole Porter, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Cuban legends of the day, and locales from Hollywood and Las Vegas to New York and Paris. Jazz piano is by Bebo Valdés, vocals by Idania Valdés.
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Fri Apr 27 - Mon Apr 30 SAFE HOUSE(R)115min
Denzel Washington stars as a rogue CIA agent who turns himself in after a decade on the lam, then escapes an attack on the secret interrogation facility where he is taken in Cape Town with a rookie operative (Ryan Reynolds), setting these two opposites on a run for their lives.Swedish director Daniel Espinosa (Easy Money), screenwriter David Guggenheim, and cinematographer Oliver Wood (the BOURNE trilogy) have made a bracing and energetic tale of corruption and conspiracy with excellent performances from both stars as well as from a supporting cast that includes Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson, and Sam Shephard.
Tues May 1 - Thurs May 3 IN DARKNESS(R)145min[in Polish, German, Ukrainian, and Yiddish with subtitles]
Based in truth, this foreign language Oscar nominee tells a powerful story of Leopold Socha, a petty thief and Polish sewer inspector who, for 14 months until WW2 ended, hid from the authorities a group of Jews in the damp and dark underground pipes…for a significant price; he intends to turn them in to the Nazis once their money runs out.But when that time does come, he finds he can’t do it and risks the lives of himself and of his family.Three-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa, Angry Harvest) has made a simultaneously astonishing, harrowing, and inspiring film.
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COMING SOON ON OUR SECOND SCREEN?
THE HUNGER GAMES(PG-13)142min
This engaging, exhilarating and satisfying action fantasy is faithful to its source material, the first book in Suzanne Collin’s uberpopular dystopian trilogy.She and director Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, Pleasantville) have adapted her story of two teens Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson, The Kids are Alright) who are chosen from a remote, rural district in the future to participate in a fight to the death with kids from other districts, an annual punishment meted out by the government since an unsuccessful rebellion 74 years ago.These two are joined by drunken mentor Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), chirpy chaperone Effie (Elizabeth Banks) and fashion stylist Cinna (Lenny Kravitz)
21 JUMP STREET(R)109min
At opposite end of the social spectrum when in high school, brand new cops Schmidt, the geeky nerd (Jonah Hill) and Jenko, the pretty boy/bully (Channing Tatum) have been assigned to an undercover job to infiltrate a violent and dangerous drug ring.But they discover high school is nothing like how they remember it and they must also confront issues and anxieties they thought they’d left behind years ago.This cheeky, subversive and consistently funny interpretation of the 1980’s TV show is directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) from a script by Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall (Scott Pilgrim vs the World).
FRIENDS WITH KIDS(R)107min
Jennifer Westfeldt (star and writer of Kissing Jessica Stein) now also directs.She plays Julie, a single gal with all her friends (a Bridesmaid mini-reunion with costars Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, John Hamm, and Chris O’Dowd) recently married, and had kids.The resulting stress seems to have ruined their previously fun, adult friendships.So she and her best (platonic) friend (Adam Scott) decide they can do it better -- have a child, share custody and the responsibilities, and keep dating others.Which seems to work fine, until they both get into serious relationships.This intelligent, fresh and funny romantic comedy will keep you involved and entertained.
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COMING NEXT SCHEDULE? CORIOLANUS JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI UNDEFEATED DARK SHADOWS BULLY PIRATES! THE LUCKY ONE THE THREE STOOGES THE AVENGERS
Please join me in welcoming a new business to our neighborhood. SERENDIPITY RESALE SHOP, a project of the Bar Harbor Food Pantry is on the verge of opening in their new spot just across the street from us! I believe they are going to be open starting on this Friday. Hurrah!
Fri - Thurs Apr 6- 12 WANDERLUST(R)98min Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd headline this laugh-out-loud comedy.They are an overextended couple in Manhattan who lose their jobs and thus their micro-loft apartment; their only choice is to relocate to Atlanta to live with his awful brother and family.En route, they stop at what they think is a B&B but actually is an alternative hippie commune populated by eccentric characters that have a different way of looking at things.Is this better than living with his obnoxious brother and alcoholic wife?Director David Wain (Role Models) keeps things light with a terrific supporting cast including Lauren Ambrose, Alan Alda, Linda Lavin and Justin Theroux.
Fri - Mon Apr 6 - 9 A SEPARATION(PG-13)[in Farsi with subtitles]123min This complex, excellent story of ethics in modern day Iran recently won director Asghar Farhadi the Oscar for best Foreign Language film and a nomination for best original screenplay.A universal picture of a family conflict, Simin, a doctor, wants to emigrate to a western country with her husband Nader to provide a better life for their pre-teen daughter; after he agreed to get the visas, he changes his mind, so as not to leave behind his Alzheimer’s afflicted father.Simin is unable to take her daughter without her husband’s permission, so attempts a divorce, which isn’t granted, and she moves back in with her parents.When Nader hires a young devout woman to care for his father while he is at work, he hopes his world will return to normal.
Tues - Thurs Apr 10 - 12 PARIAH(R)86min This promising debut film from writer-director Dee Rees is an impressive, honest and optimistic feature length adaptation of her prize-winning short film with a fabulous performance from her star Adepero Oduye.She plays Alike, a middle-class teen from Brooklyn with a religious, conservative mom and a distant cop dad.She hasn’t come out yet, but is quietly and firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian.Her parents don’t like the influence of her life-long best friend, and her mom encourages her to socialize instead with a colleague’s daughter.Although not always successful, Alike strives to survive adolescence with grace and humor.
