[Reel Pizza] update Apr 20 - 26

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.