[Reel Pizza] update

hi all

Below is this week's plan, starting today.  Tickets for the MIFF By-the-Sea film festival are on sale now at the box office after 4:30pm daily or by calling me at 288-3828 during the weekdays (after 7:30).  We have individual tickets for the films and the opening reception on Friday afternoon, and two options for bargain passes (either x6 or x10 which can be used by up to two people) and a full festival pass that is good for one.  There are now links on our website to the trailers (here) of all the feature films playing next weekend if you are interested in learning more. 

See you soon!
-Lisa

Fri 9/6 - Thurs 9/12
2 GUNS  (R) 109min  6:00 and 8:30
Denzel Washington (Unstoppable, Flight) and Mark Wahlberg (Ted) star as two criminals who, when their latest caper robbing the bank of a Mexican cartel drug lord’s account goes horribly awry, realize each is an undercover officer working for different government agencies.  Now they have run afoul of both sides of the law and will have to work together to save both their skins.   Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (101 Reykjavík) keeps the action briskly paced with his all-star cast, including Bill Paxton, Paula Patton and James Marsden, and a smart, taut and funny script.  trailer

Fri 9/6 - Mon 9/9
STILL MINE  (PG-13)  103min  5:30 and 8:00
This unforgettable love story without sentimentality or melodrama from director Michael McGowan (St. Ralph) is based on the true story of an elderly New Brunswick couple and their trials with an intractable government.  When Irene Morrison (Geneviève Bujold, The King of Hearts) can no longer navigate stairs, her husband of 61 years, Craig (James Cromwell, Babe, LA Confidential) starts to build a single story home on their rural farm, using wood milled on their land and a plan in his head.  When the local building inspector gets wind of their project, stop-work orders and fines accumulate and he threatens to bulldoze the unpermitted structure when Craig is unable and unwilling to comply with, to him, unnecessary bureaucracy, even with the assistance of his long-time lawyer (Campbell Scott, Big Night).  As Irene becomes increasingly ill, her devoted husband takes a final stand.   trailer

Tues 9/10 - Thurs 9/12
CRYSTAL FAIRY  (R)  100min  [partly in Spanish with subtitles]   5:30 and 8:00
Chilean director Sebastian Silva’s (The Maid) new film is a freewheeling and consistently funny road movie.  Michael Cera (Juno, Superbad) plays an obnoxious, self-absorbed American traveling through Chile searching with some local friends, played by the director’s three brothers, for a rare psychoactive cactus to consume and appreciate.  At a party he offhandedly invites a mysterious and free-spirited hippie (child actress Gabby Hoffman, Field of Dreams) to join them on their quest, but is surprised and disappointed when she actually shows up.  They journey to a rural beach community in the Atacama Desert where personalities clash, and perhaps lives are transformed.   trailer

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