Oops, just realized that I missed last week's update...between the two silent film events we were involved with (both fabulous, by the way!), and Monday holiday and Friday no school and our first bout of final exams, we were distracted! Looking at our ticket records, it seems that many have been aware of our weekend events and films! We continue LIFE OF PI this week; also thru Thursday we will be screening the amazing, beautiful and sobering documentary about our earth's melting glaciers CHASING ICE (PG-13 rated for language...) at 6:00 and 7:45....SORRY for any inconvenience my lack of attendance caused.
The Senior Matinee this week (1/31) is LIFE OF PI at 1:30.
Next week (2/7) it is LINCOLN at 1:00.
There will also be a special matinee of LINCOLN over the weekend sponsored by Acadia Senior College on Sat 2/2 at 1:00 and will include discussion led by Lincoln enthusiast Ned Ferm. Regular prices apply to this weekend screening.
Also on Saturday 2/2 starting at 2pm in the adjacent auditorium, we will be screening DOWNEAST, a documentary from Maine=based filmmakers Ashley Sabin and David Redmon (Girl Model, a recent MIFF film) about the transition at the Stinson Cannery in Prospect Harbor from a sardine packing facility to a lobster processor.
Our weekend film is the OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS collections, and is one of the strongest programs in terms of quality in years. We will be showing the animated group at 5:30. Please note that this year this animated program is entirely family friendly, and will contain the five nominated films and several honorable mentions. The live action program will start at 7:30. And the mid-week selection is HOLY MOTORS, a mesmerizing, critically acclaimed and visually splendid cinematic experience that cineastes will not want to miss.
We look forward to seeing you here, and out on the ice, since we can finally skate and ice fish...HURRAY!
-Lisa
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thru 1/31
LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min 5:30 and 8:00
CHASING ICE (PG-13) 74min 6:00 and 7:45
Sat 2/2 Special Matinees
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min 1:00 in association with Acadia Senior College
DOWNEAST (NR) 77min 2:00
2/1 - 2/7 LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min 5:00 and 8:00
2/1 - 2/4 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) animated 88min 5:30; live-action 114min 7:30
2/5 - 2/7 HOLY MOTORS (NR) 115min [partly in FRENCH with subtitles]
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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.
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, also special matinee w. Acadia Senior College Sat Feb 2, 1:00pm
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) animated 88min 5:30; live-action 114min 7:30
After qualifying, based on festival honors and commercial runs, the Academy has narrowed the field to five each in both the live-action category and the animated category. The animation choices, including a Maggie Simpson short and a couple of honorable mentions to round out the program, are all completely family friendly and considered one of the best programs in years. In the Live Action category, strong stories from Afghanistan, Somalia, France, US and Canada, are about aging, babysitting, choosing a career, winning a polo match and cheating Death. 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.”
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.
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