Sending out good wishes to all those tweens and teens involved in Jazz Band states (this weekend), One Act plays states (next weekend) and Show Choir states (early next month). Thank you for gracing us with your hard work and talents, making our communities that much more beautiful.
Below is the schedule; the first week is all booked so times are included there. Hope to see you soon!
-Lisa and Chris
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NAN ULETTE Town Hill
Nan is a well-known artist from the Bar Harbor area. Many of her “found art” fish can be found on local walls, as well as in 26 states and five countries. More recently Nan has been playing around with glass and resin. You have to come see and then imagine these pieces hanging in front of a sunny window! Nan has a shop in Town Hill, Sea Change, where she also has seaglass jewelry and other art. Though not open in the winter, you can call any time (288-8278) and commission work is also welcome.
Sat March 30
JUDY GARLAND: MOMENTS OF MAGIC
In association with Acadia Senior College, music producer and critic Lawrence Schulman will examine Judy Garland’s life and career in a talk whose purpose will be to answer the question: “If I had just one hour to convince you of Judy Garland’s place in classic American popular music, what film and television performances would I choose?” Garland was more than a mere entertainer, she was important to American cultural history, and the tabloid tumult of her short life should not overshadow an artistry of exceptional value. The talk will be followed by the projection of the 1944 film MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS.
MEET ME IN ST LOUIS 1944 (NR) 113min 2pm FREE
In association with Acadia Senior College and the talk by Lawrence Schulman about Judy Garland.
A year in the life of the Smith family at the time of the 1904 Saint Louis world’s fair. Starring Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main, Leon Ames, Harry Davenport, June Lockhart, Henry H. Daniels Jr., Joan Carroll, Hugh Marlowe, Robert Sully, Chill Wills. Words and music by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane. Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Nominated for four Academy Awards. Songs include: “The Boy Next Door,” “The Trolley Song,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”
Fri Mar 22 - Thurs Mar 28
QUARTET (PG-13) 97min 6:00 and 8:15
Dustin Hoffman makes his directing debut in this funny, sweet and charming film about a group of senior citizens living in a home for retired musicians who are about to welcome a new addition to their community. Three of the residents (Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins) were part of a singing quartet years ago (their specialty was the quartet in Verdi’s opera Rigoletto) which ended badly when the soprano (Maggie Smith) quit them for a solo career, destroying the friendship. When they discover that she is the new resident, hostilities rise, and come to a boil when the home’s eccentric director (Michael Gambon) proposes to reunite the quartet for the upcoming fundraising gala event.
Fri Mar 22 - Mon Mar 25
AMOUR (PG-13) 127min [in French with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:00
Here is the Foreign Language Film Oscar winner, as well as the French César award winner for actress, actor, screenplay, and film recently. Austrian director Michael Haneke (Caché, The White Ribbon) has made a simple, haunting and touching portrait of the final months of a marriage that ends in death do us part. Legendary icons of the French New Wave, stars Jean Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva play a long-married couple, both retired music teachers, whose bond of love is tested when she suffers a small stroke. Isabelle Huppert plays the couple’s grown daughter who disagrees with her father’s care decisions.
Tues Mar 26 - Thurs Mar 28
LORE (R) 108min [in German with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:00
A harrowing coming of age story, based on The Dark Room novel by Rachel Seiffert and written and directed by Australian Cate Shortland (Somersault) explores what happened to the children of the Third Reich after the fall of their parent’s government and subsequent surrender to the Allied forces at the end of World War II. Striking new actress Saskia Rosendahl plays 14 year old Lore, fully indoctrinated to the Nazi platform, who is charged with the responsibility of her four younger siblings by her parents as they go off to meet their fate. Traveling from Bavaria in southern Germany to Hamburg in the North across a devastated country, she and a young, charismatic Jewish man who joins them on their journey and helps them survive, form a twisted bond.
Fri Mar 29 - Mon April 1
WARM BODIES (R) 98min
This Zom-Rom-Com, set in a post-apocalyptic world, is an original, comic horror romance. A poignant tale about the power of human connection, adapted by Isaac Marion from his novel and directed by Jonathan Levine (50/50), follows human Julie (Teresa Palmer), the daughter of the president (John Malkovich) of a walled in US that shelters the remaining humans after a zombie epidemic. Zombie R (Nicholas Hoult, About a Boy) rescues Julie from an attack (after he eats her boyfriend). As these two form a special relationship in their struggle for survival, R is stirred back to life, becoming increasingly more human.
Tues Apr 2 - Thurs Apr 4
LEVIATHAN (NR) 87min
From filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Sweetgrass) and Verena Paravel (Foreign Parts), this thrilling, immersive and ground-breaking documentary explores the dangerous world of commercial fishing in the North Atlantic. Set aboard a large groundfish trawler on a weeks-long expedition out of New Bedford, MA, this mesmerizing, experiential film uses footage taken from twelve small digital cameras that pass freely from filmmaker to fisherman and from below the sea to bird’s eye view, showcasing the stark but beautiful chaos of this harsh and unforgiving world. It is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind’s oldest endeavors.
Fri April 5 - Mon April 8
SAFE HAVEN (PG-13) 115min
This Nicholas Sparks adaptation (Dear John, The Notebook), directed by Lasse Hallström (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) is an affirming and suspenseful romantic thriller about a young woman learning to love again. Julianna Hough (Rock of Ages) plays a mysterious woman who moves to a small North Carolina town and is reluctant to join in the community. Slowly she gains the courage to start a relationship with a young widower (Josh Duhamel, Transformers) who has two children. But dark secrets from her past intrude on her new life and she has to choose whether to move on or to risk staying.
Tues April 9 - Thurs April 11
THE GATEKEEPERS (PG-13) 97min [in Hebrew with subtitles]
Riveting and candid, this clear-eyed documentary features the six living former heads of Israel’s Shin Bet, the country’s domestic counterterrorism agency and secret police force. These men individually and as a group share their insights and reflect publicly on the actions and decisions, both successful and failures, of this force from 1980 – 2011, as well as their position on a two state solution and why there has been no peace with the Palestinians since the 1967 Six Day War. Director Dror Moreh was motivated after seeing Errol Morris’ The Fog of War featuring former Secretary of State Robert McNamara to make this film about the inhumanity of Israel’s recent history.
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IDENTITY THIEF (R) 111min
Melissa McCarthy is a fearless and genius comedienne given her first starring role in this goofy, raunchy and funny comedy directed by Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses). Her portrayal of Diana, a shopaholic who uses other people’s identities and credit to finance her sprees is brazen, and the latest target of her con is hapless account rep named Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman). He finds his world turned upside down, and has to hunt down this woman and get her back to Denver to get his identity back.
THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE (PG-13) 100min
Edgy and clever, this refreshingly funny comedy pits rival superstar magicians against each other as they wage a turf war on the Las Vegas Strip. Steve Carell is Burt, who has been raking in millions with his longtime partner Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi). His growing ego threatens their friendship, while cutthroat competition from a newcomer, guerilla illusionist Steve Gray (Jim Carrey), has outrageous stunts that make their act look stale. In supporting roles Alan Arkin plays a retired veteran magician and James Gandolfini is a casino owner. Don Scardino (30 Rock) directs from an original script by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (Horrible Bosses).
OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (PG) 130min
This enchanting and entertaining adventure imagines the beginnings of the beloved wizard character from L. Frank Baum’s series of novels. Director Sam Raimi (Spiderman 1, 2, & 3) remains respectful to the 1939 classic film while creating his own vivid, visually wonderful fantasy. James Franco is an ethically dubious magician Oscar Diggs, who travels (by tornado, naturally) over the rainbow to a magical land where he meets three witches (Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams) who draw him into helping solve the epic problems facing the Land of Oz.
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