[Reel Pizza] update Feb 22 - 28

hi
Its been a movie schedule week, and thus I am late in getting this out....are you used to this yet??  ...sorry....  The new schedule will be on its way to you soon.

Anyhow, big weekend ahead!  On this Sunday evening we will celebrate Oscah' Night with SFOA.  This year, comedian and filmmaker (and Oscar-nominated songwriter) Seth McFarlane is the TV host.  Festivities start at 6pm, wearing a costume put you in the running for some fabulous prizes (best dressed and best character), as does selecting the most winners on  your ballot.  Delicious hors d'oeuvres and complimentary champagne to tempt your palate (the RP Kitchen will be open as well)  It is always great fun.  Hope to see you here!

Please note that on Oscah' Sunday, our regular films will only be shown at 1pm matinees, with doors opening at 12:30pm. 

Also, the printed schedule says HYDE PARK plays thru Feb 24, which is wrong, it will play thru Monday Feb 25. 

And finally, the Senior matinee on Feb 28 will be ZERO DARK THIRTY at 1pm.

See you soon,
-Lisa

Here is the week's schedule:

Fri Feb 22 - Thurs Feb 28  ZERO DARK THIRTY  (R)  157min    5:00 and 8:30; Sun 1pm only
Fri Feb 22 - Mon Feb 25  HYDE PARK ON HUDSON  (R)  95min  5:30 and 7:45; Sun 1pm only
Tues Feb 26 - Thurs Feb 28  THE OTHER SON  (PG-13)  105min  [in French, Arabic and Hebrew with subtitles]  5:30 and 8:00

Fri Feb 22 - Thurs Feb 28 
ZERO DARK THIRTY  (R)  157min  5:00 and 8:30; Sun 1pm only
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.

Fri Feb 22 - Mon Feb 25
HYDE PARK ON HUDSON  (R)  95min  5:30 and 7:45; Sun 1pm only
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]  5:30 and 8:00
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.