BUSY weekend ahead here at Reel Pizza. The League of Underwater Superheroes, led by Diver Ed and Captain Evil invade Reel Pizza on Sunday afternoon for a few hours to share their recent experience in Fiji, diving and befriending the locals. Photos, video and stories will be swapped while they raise some funds to help the locals improve their tent schoolhouse. (Bring Mom!) On Monday night we welcome filmmaker Chris Sullivan who will present his new (just premiered at Tribeca Film Fest) and well-reviewed adult animation, Consuming Spirits, and take questions after. Bar Harbor's own Nancy Andrews voices one of the characters. And we have another film opening, this week we join the rest of the country with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's DARK SHADOWS, a macabre comedy. Plus more. Read on! See you Soon
-Lisa
Sunday May 13 1:00
Presentation and Benefit for Fiji School Children Free, with donations gratefully accepted. This past winter Diver Ed, Captain Evil and 18 other Underwater Superheroes from MDI went on a mission to explore the Astrolabe Reef, off the island of Kadavu, Fiji. They enjoyed amazing diving, but they really fell in love with the place and the people. While visiting the local school, the group wanted to raise money to help them replace their UNICEF tent with a schoolroom. There will be photos, videos and discussion. Most of all it will be a BLAST!
Visiting Filmmaker Presentation: CONSUMING SPIRITS (NR) 130min
Nearly 15 years in the making, Chris Sullivan's new film is a meticulously constructed tour de force of experimental animation. Shooting frame by frame in 16mm, he seamlessly blends together a range of techniques—cutout animation, pencil drawing, collage, and stop-motion animation—into a distinct, signature visual style. In the process, he constructs a hypnotic, layered narrative, a suspenseful gothic tale that tracks the intertwined lives of three kindred spirits working at a local newspaper in a Midwestern rust belt town. This film officially premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last week. Presented by COA. (Free to the COA Community, bring ID)
Fri - Mon* SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN (PG-13) 5:30 and 8:00 (*no later show on Monday because of special program)
Tues - Thurs SOUND OF NOISE (R) [in Swedish with subtitles] 5:30 and 7:45
DARK SHADOWS (PG-13) 113min
Director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp reteam for another sure-to-be wacky film (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland). Depp stars as Barnabas Collins, arrived in America in 1752 with his parents and settling in Collinsport, Maine. But this rich, powerful playboy makes the grave mistake of breaking the heard of Angelique Bouchard, a witch, who turns him into a vampire and buries him alive. He is inadvertently freed from his tomb two centuries later and finds his once grand estate in disrepair and the remnants of his family dysfunctional and harboring secrets of their own. Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller and Chloe Moretz co-star.
Whimsical and offbeat, this smart romantic comedy from director Lasse Hallström (Cider House Rules, Chocolat) tells the story, adopted from Paul Torday’s debut novel by Simon Beaufoy (127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire), of a wealthy sheik (Amr Waked) from Yemen who loves to fly fish in Scotland who directs his investment consultant to create an opportunity for people to participate in this activity in his home country. Ewan McGregor plays the skeptical fisheries biologist drafted to make it happen, after the prime minister’s Press Secretary (Kirstin Scott Thomas) decides this would make a wonderful diversion to all the war news.
Part police procedural, part romance, part musical, this absurdist Swedish comedy follows a team of guerrilla percussionists, using unconventional implements as instruments (think Blue Men Group or Triplets of Belleville soundtrack) who commit illegal acts in order to make music. This ragtag group is investigated by an uptight police officer who, despite being born into a family of famous musicians, is tone deaf, and they don’t let him forget it. This makes him cranky, as does having to investigate and track down these anarchists. A work in four movements from co-directors Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, this is silly, crowd-pleasing fun.
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