[Reel Pizza] update Sept 21 - 27

here is what is playing this coming week at Reel Pizza, Fri Sept 21 thru Thurs Sept 27.

Since many of you are asking, we are still planning on playing HOPE SPRINGS; there just were very few (as in 100 total for the country) 35mm film prints of this movie made (many more were digital prints that we are unable to use) so we are patiently waiting until another theater gives up their 35mm copy and Sony makes it available to us.

-Lisa

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Fri Sept 21 - Thurs Sept 27
RUBY SPARKS (R)  103min  6:00 and  8:15

Fri Sept 21 - Mon Sept 24
THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN (PG)  100min  5:30 and 7:45

Tues Sept 25 - Thurs Sept 27
5 BROKEN CAMERAS  (NR)  90min [in ARABIC and HEBREW with subtitles]  5:30 and 7:30

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THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN  (PG)  100min
This timeless, magical fairy tale comes from screenwriter (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and About a Boy) and director (Dan in Real Life, Pieces of April) Peter Hedges from a story by Ahmet (son of Frank) Zappa.  Joey Edgerton and Jennifer Garner star as a happily married couple in the small town of Stanleyville, but frustrated by their inability to have a child.  One night they put down all their wishes for a child on a sheet of paper and bury it in the backyard.  After a wild storm, an unexpected knock on their door is ten year old Timothy, who says he belongs to them.  Their lives and those of their community are upended.
 
5 BROKEN CAMERAS  (NR)  90min  [in HEBREW and ARABIC with subtitles]
This Sundance winner is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later given to Israeli co-director Guy Davidi to edit.   Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Burnat's cameras, the filmmakers' collaboration follows one family's evolution over five years of village turmoil. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify, and lives are lost.
 
RUBY SPARKS  (R)  103min
Zoe Kazan has written and stars in this delightfully original and mesmerizing story about a young writer (Paul Dano) who hasn’t been able to come up with a second novel after his first phenomenal success as a teen a decade ago.  His shrink (Elliot Gould) gives him a homework assignment and he writes some pages about the girl of his dreams.  When he wakes up one morning to find her in the flesh and blood in his kitchen he wonders if he is hallucinating.  His brother can see her too, so she must be real.  Directed by the husband and wife team of Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton (Little Miss Sunshine) this is an engaging movie with an intriguing, surprising premise.