Here is the next schedule for Reel Pizza that takes us thru February. Spring can't be too far behind! We have two special programs for you this month, a film about the relationship between the Inuit, Eider Ducks and hydroelectric dams, and our annual OSCAH'NIGHT GALA that benefits local arts camp Summer Festival of the Arts, PLUS, as always, a selection of terrific films. There are times included for the first two weeks. Remember on Oscar Sunday we will not have evening film screenings, but both scheduled films will be shown as afternoon matinees; I will remind you again when we get closer to the day and we know both films playing. Hope to see you soon.
-L & C
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2/8 - 2/14 THE IMPOSSIBLE (PG-13) 114min 6:00 and 8:30
2/8 - 2/11 ANNA KARENINA (R) 130min 5:30 and 8:15
2/12 - 2/14 A LATE QUARTET (R) 105min 5:30 and 8:00
2/15 - 2/21 LES MISÉRABLES (PG-13) 158min 5:00 and 8:30
2/15 - 2/18 THIS IS 40 (R) 134min 5:30 and 8:15
2/19 - 2/21 A CAT IN PARIS (PG) 65min 5:30 and 7:00 and 8:30
2/22 - 2/28 ?
2/22 - 2/25 HYDE PARK ON HUDSON (R) 95min
2/26 - 2/28 THE OTHER SON (PG-13) 105min [in French, Arabic and Hebrew with subtitles]
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Sun Feb 17
PEOPLE OF A FEATHER (NR) 90min [partly in Inuktitut with subtitles] 2:00 matinee
Featuring groundbreaking footage from seven winters in the Arctic, biologist and filmmaker Joel Heath’s beautiful and award-winning documentary travels through time into the world of Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. The indigenous population’s unique cultural relationship with the eider duck has been transformed by disruptions due to Canada’s massive hydroelectric dams that power eastern North America. Eider down, the warmest feather in the world, allows both Inuit and bird to survive harsh Arctic winters. Re-creations of the traditional life of one of the continent’s oldest civilizations are juxtaposed with modern life in Sanikiluaq, as both people and eiders face the challenges posed by changing sea ice, ocean currents and migration patterns. The eyes of a remote subsistence culture are in a fight for their survival and challenge the world to find energy solutions that work with the seasons of earth’s hydrological cycle. John Anderson, COA's W.H. Drury Professor of Ecology/Natural History, will introduce and take questions after.
Sun Feb 24
OSCAH'NIGHT GALA (NR) 6:00pm until the final award
Dust off your finery and come on in to benefit SFOA and have a fabulous soiree out on the town. Enjoy displays and performances by SFOA students, delectable appetizers and dessert from local restaurants, complimentary glass of champagne, and the Academy Awards broadcast on the big screen. This year's national host is sure-to-be-funny comedian and filmmaker Seth McFarlane and the awards race is wide open. Come in costume for a chance to win some great prizes, and don't forget to fill out your Oscar Ballot -- the Grand Prize is two tickets to Boston on Cape Air...perfect for a March get-away! You don't have to stay till the end to support SFOA.
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Fri Feb 8 - Thurs Feb 14
THE IMPOSSIBLE (PG-13) 114min 6:00 and 8:30
Naomi Watts earned an Oscar nomination for her affecting portrayal of a woman caught with her family in the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Based on a true story, Maria, her husband (Ewan McGregor) and their three sons are at a Thai beach resort enjoying the Christmas holiday when one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history strikes without warning. Spanish director JA Bayona, in only his second film, vividly recreates the ferocity of the waves and their destruction in this intense and life-affirming tale of heroic endurance. We will donate a portion of ticket sales from this film to the Rebecca Clark ’96 Memorial Scholarship in Marine Studies, honoring a COA friend researching sea turtles in the Indian Ocean that day who wasn’t as lucky.
Fri Feb 8 - Mon Feb 11
ANNA KARENINA (R) 130min 5:30 and 8:15
This fresh and bold theatrical re-imagining of Tolstoy’s timeless classic reunites director Joe Wright and actress Kiera Knightly (Pride and Prejudice, Atonement). Adapted by Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love), this sumptuous and sweepingly romantic tragedy powerfully explores the capacity for love. Temperamental Anna is married, unhappily, to virtuous government official Karenin (Jude Law) and has a young son she loves. Her philandering brother (Matthew Macfayden) is married to Dotty (Kelly MacDonald); her younger sister Kitty (Alicia Vikander) is adored by her husband’s best friend Lewin (Domhnall Gleeson) but she is besotted with caddish Count Vronksy (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) who has, in turn, only eyes for Anna.
Tues Feb 12 - Thurs Feb 14
A LATE QUARTET (R) 105min 5:30 and 8:00
Four superb actors each give extraordinary performances in the feature debut of director Yaron Zilberman. At the start of rehearsals for their 25 th anniversary concert, longtime and tightly knit members of a famed string quartet are upended when the eldest musician and leader (Christopher Walken) announces he must retire for health reasons. This leaves a power struggle between first violinist (Mark Ivanir) and second violinist (Philip Seymour Hoffman) that is exacerbated when the violist (Catherine Keener) chooses the side of the first violist over her husband. After years of collaboration and friendship, will this be the end? Beethoven’s challenging late work, Quartet in C-sharp minor (Op. 131) performed by the Brentano String Quartet, is the integral musical piece to this film.
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LES MISÉRABLES (PG-13) 158min 5:00 and 8:30
A grand cast fills this epic, visually splendid musical based on the long-running play by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer based on Victor Hugo’s massive saga of broken dreams, unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption. Director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) allowed his actors to actually sing their parts (no lip-synching), which brings a reality to their acting that adds immeasurably to the film. Set in 19 th century France Hugh Jackman is Jean Valjean, convict turned respectable business man who helps a dying Fantine (favored Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway) by promising to care for her child Cosette (Isabelle Allen then Amanda Seyfried) after she loses everything, even as he is constantly tormented by Russell Crowe’s jailer Javert. It is an enthralling spectacle with fabulous performances.
Fri Feb 15 - Mon Feb 18
THIS IS 40 (R) 134min 5:30 and 8:15
Spinning off characters from his hit Knocked Up, director Judd Apatow (40 Year Old Virgin) explores hitting this significant milestone through the eyes of Pete and Debbie (Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann). This perceptive, original and very funny comedy follows the trials, tribulations and mid-life crises of this family, including two daughters (played by Apatow’s two girls) and two grandfathers (Albert Brooks and John Lithgow). Troubles in marriage, parenting, and finances due to his nearly bankrupt record label and a mysterious cash problem at her clothing boutique threaten their world. Co-stars include Melissa McCarthy, Megan Fox, Lena Dunham, Chris O’Dowd, and Jason Segal; and be sure to stay through the hilarious closing credits.
Tues Feb 19 - Thurs Feb 21
A CAT IN PARIS (PG) 65min 5:30 and 7:00 and 8:30
One of last year’s unexpected Oscar nominees for Animated feature, this gorgeous, stylish and charming French escapade has been updated with English language dialog featuring voice-work by Marcia Gay Harden, Angelica Huston and Matthew Modine. Dino is an elegant black cat who leads a double life. By day, he curls up with young Zoe, a girl still traumatized by the death of her father; her mother is a police detective still searching for her husband’s killer. By night, Dino travels with a small-time burglar across the Paris roof-tops, and often brings home a lizard to his young friend. One night he returns with a diamond-studded necklace, quite a change from the usual; Zoe becomes curious of his nighttime activities and follows her feline friend but gets tangled up with a mean gangster and his band of bumbling thieves. A thrilling acrobatic finale takes place on the peaks of Notre Dame
Fri Feb 22 - Mon Feb 25
HYDE PARK ON HUDSON (R) 95min
Bill Murray as FDR brings to life our 32nd president, a man who used his considerable charm to get his way in matters both personal and presidential. This delightfully witty and intimate character study showcases the complicated domestic arrangements in the Roosevelt household over a pivotal weekend in summer 1939. Narrated by his spinster distant cousin (Laura Linney), she relates how she was summonsed to “help him forget the weight of the world,” as the family, including his mother, wife Eleanor and personal secretary, prepares for the arrival of King George VI and his Queen to their home. On their first visit to America, the British royals are seeking support for their impending war against Hitler. Roger Michell (Persuasion) directs a screenplay by Richard Nelson based on the diaries left by cousin Dorothy after her death in 1991.
Tues Feb 26 - Thurs Feb 28
THE OTHER SON (PG-13) 105min [in French, Arabic and Hebrew with subtitles]
Moving and provocative, this tale of two young men who discover at age 18 that they were switched at birth is complicated by the fact that one is Palestinian and the other Israeli and their families are separated by a wall of barbed wire and generations of enmity. Director Lorraine Levy navigates with enlightened reason the paths taken by these two men and their families as they deal with the repercussions of this news. A strong cast, including Emmanuelle Devos (Read My Lips), Khalifa Natour (The Band’s Visit), Areen Omari (Laila’s Birthday), and Jules Sitruk (Son of Rambow) gives this touching film grace and decency.
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DJANGO UNCHAINED (R) 165min
Quentin Tarantino directs….you need more info? This time he has created a sprawling revenge thriller Western, set in the South just before the Civil War. Oscar winner Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) returns to play a bounty hunter/dentist who buys a certain slave Django (Jamie Foxx) who can help him identify three wanted men. In exchange he gives the black man his freedom. But Django won’t be free until he is reunited with his wife (Kerry Washington) who has been sold to a notorious plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio) whose house slave (Samuel L. Jackson) might be more vicious than he. It is violent, offensive, and completely over the top, and also funny and serious and totally entertaining.
ZERO DARK THIRTY (R) 157min
Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal follow up their Oscar winner The Hurt Locker with this taut retelling of the decade-long search for Osama Bin Laden in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. This riveting portrait follows CIA analyst Maya (Oscar-nominee Jennifer Chastain, The Help), a single-minded loner in a sea of dismissive colleagues, who persists in following a thin thread replete with dead-ends for many years even as the focus of the agency turns to other areas, to find the target. In making this non-partisan and intense police procedural based on first-hand accounts the filmmakers take the viewer through a complicated mission with realistic, gripping and sobering force.
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