Many Oscar nominees on both what remains of our current program and on this upcoming schedule!
Tonight is the last night of FLIGHT, which received nominations for original screenplay and Best Actor for Denzel Washington, and SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN (really wonderful - I watched it last night) (front-runner for Best Documentary.) Starting tomorrow, in THE SESSIONS, Helen Hunt was nominated for Supporting Actress, and THE HOBBIT earned nominations for visual effects, production design and makeup; Denmark's A ROYAL AFFAIR, which starts Tuesday, is a nominee for Foreign Language film.
We also have scheduled some special programming. There are three special events coming in the next few weeks. On Saturday 1/26 we will re-jigger our schedule slightly so that we can present the finale to the Abbe Museum's Native America Film series (that Reel Pizza underwrites) -- the classic silent film NANOOK, with live accompaniment composed and performed by the Sumner McKane Group. We will move the Sat evening show of HITCHCOCK to 4:30 only, and the silent film will start at 7pm (we will seat when Hitchcock gets out). Tickets are available through the Abbe, 288-3519.
If you are interested in silent film, the night before the Abbe event, Fri 1/25, there is another silent film event happening, this one at the Grand, Charlie Chaplin's THE GOLD RUSH, also with live accompaniment, here by TEMPO, Eastern Maine's Youth Orchestra playing a score especially composed for this performance by conductor Rebecca Edmundson. Tickets are available at the Grand 667-9500.
On Saturday Feb 2, we have two events happening simultaneously. We will be hosting a special matinee screening of LINCOLN in association with the Acadia Senior College at 1pm. Lifelong Lincoln enthusiast Nat Fenton will speak and lead discussion after the screening. On the other side, we present DOWNEAST at 2pm, a film about the closing of the Stinson sardine cannery in Prospect Harbor and its afterlife. We hope to have a guest to make remarks at the screening, but haven't been able to nail anyone down yet. Regular prices for both of these two screenings.
And finally our regular schedule is below. It is a complete schedule on both screens, but I don't have times for the last week because we still don't know the running times of the Oscar-nominated short film programs. Stay Tuned! And see you soon!
-Lisa
Fri 1/18 - Thurs 1/24 ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
Fri 1/18 - Mon 1/21 WRECK IT RALPH (PG) 93min 5:30 and 7:30
Tues 1/22 - Thurs 1/24 SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (R) 109min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 1/25 - Thurs 1/31 LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 1/25 - Mon 1/28 HITCHCOCK (PG-13) 98min 6:00 and 8:15 except Sat 4:30 only
Tues 1/29 - Thurs 1/31 CHASING ICE (PG-13) 74min 6:00 and 7:45
Fri 2/1 - Thurs 2/7 LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min
Fri 2/1 - Mon 2/4 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) ??min animated earlier, live-action later
Tues 2/5 - Thurs 2/7 HOLY MOTORS (NR) 115min [partly in FRENCH with subtitles]
NANOOK (NR) 70min [silent with live accompaniment] 7:00pm
In association with the Abbe Museum, and as a grand culmination of their annual Native American Film Series (which Reel Pizza sponsors) we present this seminal documentary silent film with accompaniment composed specifically for this film and performed live by the Sumner McKane Group, a modern instrumental music trio, including guitarist Sumner McKane, bassist Josh Robbins, and drummer Todd the Rocket Richard, based in southern Maine. Filmed in 1922, this film was one of the first to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry and is considered the first anthropological documentary film ever made. Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty spent a year following the lives of an Inuit family, led by Nanook, through their travels and travails enduring an Arctic winter. Tickets are available at the Abbe: 288-3519.
Saturday Feb 2
DOWNEAST (NR) 77min 2:00pm
An experiential story that unfolds over the course of two years in nearby Prospect Harbor, this intimate film from directors Ashley Sabin and David Redmon (Girl Model) observes the closing of the last remaining sardine cannery in the US and after, when Boston-based entrepreneur Antonio Bussone purchases the plant, hoping to re-build a lobster processing facility and rehire the laid-off, older sardine workers. His troubles begin day one as local politicians oppose his vision of rebuilding the factory. Undeterred, Antonio moves forward.
also Saturday Feb 2
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min 1:00pm
A special matinee screening of LINCOLN in association with the Acadia Senior College at 1pm. Lifelong Lincoln enthusiast Nat Fenton will speak and lead discussion after the screening. Taking its inspiration from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals director Stephen Spielberg, screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Angels in America), and actor Daniel Day-Lewis collaborate on this dramatic and powerful historical drama. Set during the final four months of the Civil War, of Lincoln’s presidency and his life, it brings to life the president’s determination at the tumultuous beginning of his second term to pass the thirteenth amendment (abolishing slavery) before the end of the war, so as to make this change permanent in the country. Tommy Lee Jones gives a memorable performance as abolitionist and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens.
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Friday Jan 18 - Thursday Jan 24
ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
With a story you’d think they’d only come up with in the movies, actor-director Ben Affleck’s third time directing is a solid, unexpectedly suspenseful and fully entertaining film. It is also based on true events, long kept secret but declassified by President Clinton in 1997. Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA specialist in “exfiltration” who was instrumental in concocting and implementing a far-fetched, in fact preposterous, scheme to rescue six Americans who managed to escape unnoticed when Iranians stormed the American Embassy in 1979 taking 52 hostages. These six found hiding in the home of the Canadian ambassador, but were trapped there, threatening themselves, the other hostages, and the Canadians. Seven Oscar nominations including Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin and Best Picture.
Friday Jan 18 - Monday Jan 21
Poor Ralph (John C. Reilly) has spent the last 30 or so years in the 1980s era arcade game Fix It Felix, crushing buildings that his cheerful nemesis rebuilds with remarkable aplomb and speed, to the delight of the residents of Niceland. Although he knows it is his job, he grows tired of being the bad guy, as he really is nice, and sets off on a quest to earn a medal that he hopes will make him a hero in his colleagues’ eyes. He ends up first in war game Hero’s Duty, then in another game, Sugar Rush, where he meets a character with pixelating issues (Sarah Silverman) who is ostracized by her co-characters. He has also unwittingly caused chaos in his home game. This imaginative, smartly witty and colorful new Disney film that celebrates gaming while encouraging interaction in the real world, directed by Rich Moore (The Simpsons) and executive produced by Pixar guru John Lasseter, does for arcade games what Toy Story did for the nursery toy box. Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.
Tuesday Jan 22 - Thursday Jan 24
Billy (Sam Rockwell) is a part-time actor who makes ends meet as a dog-napper with his partner-in-crime Hans (Christopher Walken). Most recently they have stolen the beloved pooch of a wacko, psychotic gangster (Woody Harrelson). Billy also really wants to help his best friend (Colin Farrell) an alcoholic, struggling writer overdue with his next screenplay. He’s got a title (the movie’s) but not much else. This bloody, funny mesh of these two stories is the heart of this most entertaining comedy from Irish director Martin McDonaugh (Oscar-nominated for the screenplay of his debut film In Bruges). It is Tarantino x Charlie Kaufman x Coen Brothers with an excellent cast, sharp dialogue and gleefully brutal violence that is side-splittingly funny.
LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min 5:30 and 8:00
This spellbinding, epic survival tale from director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) begins with a middle-aged Canadian man (Irrfan Khan) telling his immigration story to a writer. As a youth in Pondicherry, India, Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma), a spiritual boy who lives with his secular family and their small zoo of exotic animals. Moving to Canada with his family and their animals, the ship goes down; Pi survives, with only a Royal Bengal tiger as his companion in a lifeboat. The visually splendid, emotionally satisfying, altogether amazing adventure story, based on the novel by Yann Martel, tells of his 227 days spent with a carnivorous tiger at sea. Eleven Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Score and Best Song.
Fri Jan 25 - Mon Jan 28
HITCHCOCK (PG-13) 98min 6:00 and 8:15 except Sat 4:30 only
When a reporter asked influential director Alfred Hitchcock at the premiere of his latest, North by Northwest, if he wasn’t too old to continue making movies suggesting that he perhaps should retire while he was ahead, his response was to make the precedent-shattering horror film Psycho, a fresh, different story (for 1960) about a serial killer that the studios wouldn’t finance, even for a director of his stature. In this evocative, fully entertaining love story from director Sacha Gervasi (Anvil!) from Stephen Rebello’s exhaustively researched biography adapted by John McLaughlin (Black Swan), Anthony Hopkins stars as the obsessive director and Helen Mirren plays his wife and creative partner Alma as they negotiate their faltering relationship, the film production and other obstacles. Scarlett Johanssen costars as actress Janet Leigh, and James D’Arcy as actor Anthony Perkins, Psycho’s stars. Oscar nominated for Makeup and Hairstyling.
CHASING ICE (PG-13) 74min 6:00 and 7:45
Spurred by an assignment for National Geographic to visually depict climate change, acclaimed photographer James Balog, a global warming skeptic, set out to photograph melting glaciers, and in the process became a believer. First-time filmmaker Jeff Orlowski documents the challenges and successes of Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey of glaciers in Alaska, Greenland, Iceland and Montana. Using time lapse photography, Balog has captured a multi-year record of the eye-opening changes in these massive sheets of ice with harrowing, exquisitely beautiful and remarkably sobering images. Oscar nominated for Best Song.
Fri Feb 1 - Thurs Feb 7
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min
Taking its inspiration from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals director Stephen Spielberg, screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Angels in America), and actor Daniel Day-Lewis collaborate on this dramatic and powerful historical drama. Set during the final four months of the Civil War, of Lincoln’s presidency and his life, it brings to life the president’s determination at the tumultuous beginning of his second term to pass the thirteenth amendment (abolishing slavery) before the end of the war, so as to make this change permanent in the country. Tommy Lee Jones gives a memorable performance as abolitionist and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. Twelve Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Director, Actor (2) for Day-Lewis and Jones, Actress for Sally Field, Adapted Screenplay, Costumes, Cinematography and Score.
Fri Feb 1 - Mon Feb 4
OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) ??min animated earlier; live-action later
The Oscar Nominations won’t be announced until after this copy goes to the printer, so we don’t yet know the lineup of short films that will be honored by the Academy. After qualifying based on festival honors and commercial runs, the Academy has narrowed the field to eleven in the live-action category, and ten in the animated category, which will be further winnowed to between three and five in each category as announced on the morning of Thursday Jan. 10. We will show the animated collection early and the live-action after. Two separate admissions. Obviously all Oscar-nominated....
Stretch yourself by experiencing this wondrous, beautiful cinematic adventure from French director Leos Carax. This inventive, episodic ride, a tribute to the power of cinema, is a mesmerizing and unforgettable visual feast. Transformative actor Denis Lavant (Lovers on the Bridge) plays many different roles over the course of this film. He begins as Monsieur Oscar, a well-dressed business man who is picked up at his house by a limousine driven by a slender blonde chauffeur (Edith Scob). Each time he enters the limo as it drives around Paris, he is given a new assignment and emerges a different character: a tycoon, a gypsy beggar, a ninja warrior, a sewer troll. Eva Mendes and Australian pop star Kylie Minogue “costar.”
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COMING SOON on the next schedule:
A LATE QUARTET
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
ANNA KARENINA
LES MISERABLES
HYDE PARK ON HUDSON
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
THIS IS 40
OSCAH' NIGHT!
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