Friday night is the final IMPROVISION for this year. Thank you Jen and Larrence and the entire ImprovAcadia crew for another fab season!
Saturday afternoon we host filmmaker Cecily Pingree at a screening of her film BETTING THE FARM, about Maine's Own Organic (MOO) milk; we will also welcome one of the downeast farmer families who are involved in this venture and also perhaps the CEO of the company; there will be time for discussion after the screening.
And Sunday afternoon, we have our last installment of the Sierra Club's Free Summer Environmental Film Series, screening the beautiful A THIRSTY WORLD; please come celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act and the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. The Executive director of the Maine Chapter Glen Brand and COA faculty member in Environmental Law, Ken Cline, will introduce the film and take questions after. There will be some doorprizes, I hear!
And we also have our regular schedule of films. This week we have departed the text, so to speak, and will be playing TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE. For those of you keeping track, the two films previously listed as coming on our 2nd screen that we haven't gotten to yet (TO ROME WITH LOVE and ROBOT AND FRANK) are booked for the next schedule -- I am working on that now. This new Clint Eastwood-Amy Adams-Justin Timberlake film, set in the world of baseball is offered opposite quirky, charming romantic comedy CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER and a fascinating portrait of the Chinese activist-artist in AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY.
We wish you success and congratulations if you are running the Marathon, and hope for a cool sunny day (for me too....I want to clean up my garden!)
See you soon!
-Lisa
SPECIALS:
Fri 10/12 11pm IMPROVISION
Sat 10/13 2pm BETTING THE FARM $5
Sun 10/14 2pm A THIRSTY WORLD Free
Fri 10/12 - Thurs 10/18 TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG-13) 111min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 10/12 - Mon 10/15 CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER (R) 89min
Tues 10/16 - Thurs 10/18 AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY (R) 91min [partly in MANDARIN with subtitles]
Fri Oct 12 - Thurs Oct 18
TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG-13) 111min 5:30 and 8:00
Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams are an estranged father and daughter who come together at a pivotal time in each of their lives. He is an aging, old-school professional baseball scout, one of the best in the business, who is secretly battling macular degeneration but isn’t ready to give up his job to the computer savvy new scouts. She is a prominent lawyer at a large firm that is considering her for a partnership, and has a really important case coming up. When she is asked by her dad’s old friend (John Goodman) to help him on an important scouting trip to North Carolina, she begrudgingly complies, even though it could jeopardize her own career. This is a genuinely fun, winning and well-acted film, the directing debut of Eastwood’s longtime producer Robert Lorenz, from new screenwriter Randy Brown.
This quirky, shrewd, and charming romantic comedy co-written by star Rashida Jones (TVs Parks and Recreation) and directed by young director Lee Kreiger doesn’t shy away from emotional complications. Celeste (Jones), a driven, successful business owner, has been happily married to Jesse (Andy Samberg, SNL), a slacker artist, since highschool. But she is headed up, he is going nowhere, so she decides divorce – while still remaining good friends – is the best option. Jesse reluctantly accepts this transition to friendship, even though he is still in love with her. But her decision, which initially seemed mature and progressive, looks increasingly impulsive and selfish.
Tues Oct 16 - Thurs Oct 18
A fascinating portrait of Ai Weiwei, provocative, mischievous, and inspiring Chinese activist-artist, began with the unprecedented access granted to Beijing-based TV and radio journalist Alison Klayman in 2008. After studying for a decade in NYC, Ai came to prominence as one of the designers of the showpiece “bird’s nest” Olympic Stadium; soon afterward he earned the wrath of his government as he sought to collect and publish the names of the thousands of school children, ignored by the government, who died in the Sichuan earthquake due to shoddy schoolhouse construction. Her engaging and detailed film follows this relentlessly funny man for three years, intimately in his home life, artistically as he prepares major museum installations, and publicly, through last year’s 81 day imprisonment for crimes against the state.
Fri Oct 12 IMPROVISION 11:00pm
Discover our occasional, wacky collaboration with the talented ImprovAcadia crew! With the sound turned off, this ever-changing group of up and coming comedians improvise the dialogue, music tracks and sound effects to a cheesy, grade B movie, THAT THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE! Their talents make the pictures on the screen way funnier than they were ever anticipated. It's a totally new show every time. Don't miss out on all the fun. Last one of 2012~
Sat Oct 13 BETTING THE FARM (NR) 85min $5 2:00pm
Betting The Farm is the story of a group of Maine dairy farmers who--dropped by their national milk company--are suddenly confronted with the real possibility of losing their farms. Banding together, the farmers launch their own milk company, Maine’s Own Organic Milk. Farmers Vaughn Chase, Richard Lary, and Aaron Bell--along with their families—struggle to make ends meet as they get the company off the ground. But faced with slow sales and mounting bills, can the farmers hang together long enough for the gamble to pay off? Or will they be left worse off than before? This verité documentary follows three farmers and their families through the tumultuous first two years of MOO MILK. With intimate access to their triumphs and disappointments, the film gives audiences a rare glimpse at the real lives of American farmers at a crossroads. Director Cecily Pingree, farmers Aaron Bell and Carly DelSignore of Tide Mill Farm, and MOO MILK CEO Bill Eldridge will attend and take questions after the show. $5
Sun Oct 14 A THIRSTY WORLD (NR) 90min free 2:00pm
This stunningly beautiful movie brings together Yann Arthus-Bertrand's trademark aerial view of the world with the harsh, everyday reality of all those people who are deprived of water and may even die for lack of it, the people engaged in the daily struggle to find water, purify it or bring it to those who need it. Filmed in some 20 countries, this film reveals the mysterious and fascinating world of fresh water through spectacular aerial images shot in regions that are difficult to reach and rarely filmed, like Southern Sudan or Northern Congo and helps us discover the most beautiful landscapes on our planet. Glen Brand, Executive Director Maine Sierra Club and Ken Cline, COA Environmental Law professor will speak, as the Sierra Club celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act and the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring.
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