Spring starts Thursday, but there is excellent Ice Skating out there now! Get it before it's gone!!
We have new ART IN THE LOBBY! Please take some time to look at the recent works of Liz Cutler of Bar Harbor. "My paintings are all inspired by some sort of spark. Something that wows me, often a moment of play between light and dark invites me to linger. It is that clash or encounter of values that I build around. Aren't we all innately attracted to a degree of contrast, be it awareness of an edge or distinction? While I avoid tension and conflict in life, I have learned that there is a delicious tension, an inherent beauty and balance to including both within my work. I love capturing and maintaining that spark, relating it to the balance of my painting and playing with how much more I need to give. At times painting is constructing the essentials after unraveling a puzzle of shapes, values, textures and edges. After the journey of decisions, these paintings are where I come to, where I am happy to linger. I invite you to do so as well."
Our new digital system will allow us to get back into running some first run films much easier than it had been (now that we've run through our backlogged course of Oscar-films); we will be opening the new film DIVERGENT this coming Friday; it will play for two weeks.
On April 25th, a week before it opens nationally and concurrently with several other Maine theatres, we will premiere the new film by Bar Harbor residents Gita Pullapilly and Aron Gaudet BENEATH THE HARVEST SKY, filmed in Aroostook county (their previous picture was THE WAY WE GET BY, the movie about the troop greeters at Bangor Airport). This directing duo were recently selected by Variety Magazine as one of "Top Ten Directors to Watch." Aron and Gita, as well as composer Dustin Hammon, will attend and speak at the Sunday screenings that week. Put it on your calendar now, so that we can show them a righteous, home-town welcome. trailer
Sunday March 23 we will be hosting a Fabulous fundraising event for the Conners-Emerson 8th grade to help fund their graduation activities. There will be a fabulous silent auction with gift certificates and items from local famous jewelers and restaurants and many other businesses, the fabulous raffle of an IPAD Mini and the drawing of a winner, PLUS a rare chance to check out MDI HS's fabulous and award-winning combo HYPER (they came in 2nd at the recent state festival!!), composed of three C-E alums and their fabulous music director Michael Remy, PLUS the fabulous, family-friendly movie about funny little yellow minions (the sequel) will screen ($5). The doors open and the auction and music start at 1pm, movie starts at 2pm. Auction ends and raffle drawing takes place at 4pm. Hope to see you all here Sunday afternoon!
See you soon!
-Lisa and Chris
3/21 - 3/27 DIVERGENT (PG-13) 143min 5:00 and 8:00
3/21 - 3/24 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG-13) 118min 5:30 and 8:15
3/25 - 3/27 LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (NR) 121min [in Japanese with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:15
3/28 - 4/3 DIVERGENT (week 2) (PG-13) 143min 5:00 and 8:00
3/28 - 3/31 THE WIND RISES (PG-13) 126min 5:30 and 8:15
4/1 - 4/3 GLORIA (R) 110min [in SPANISH with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:15
4/4 - 4/10 ?
4/4 - 4/7 NON-STOP (PG-13) 106min
4/8 - 4/10 TIM’S VERMEER (PG-13) 80min
Fri Mar 21 – Thurs Apr 3
DIVERGENT (PG-13) 143min 5:00 and 8:00
BRAND NEW! This thrilling action-adventure film is based on the best-selling book series by Veronica Roth. In a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on their human virtues, Tris (Shailene Woodley, The Descendents) is told she is Divergent and will never fit into any group. When she discovers a conspiracy plot to destroy all Divergents by a faction leader (Kate Winslet) she must learn to trust the mysterious Four (Theo James) and together try to find what makes the Divergents so dangerous. trailer
Fri Mar 21 – Mon Mar 24
THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG-13) 118min 5:30 and 8:15
George Clooney directs his fifth feature and stars with a cast of his peers in this old-fashioned and entertaining telling of the thrilling true story of a millennia’s worth of artwork stolen by the Nazi’s that Hitler planned on enjoying in his own museum, until he started losing the war and ordered the artwork destroyed rather than surrendered. A platoon of middle-aged men (Clooney, John Goodman, Bill Murray, Jean DuJardin, Bob Balaban, Matt Damon) with backgrounds in the arts, not the military, went behind enemy lines in the waning days of World War 2 to rescue these treasures. trailer
Tues Mar 25 – Thurs Mar 27
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (NR) 121min [in Japanese with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:15
In Hirokazu Kore-eda’s moving and emotionally complex new film (I Wish, Nobody Knows, After Life, Mabarosi) two very different families discover that their six year old sons were inadvertently switched at birth. Ryota is a successful hard-working architect who, in the traditional Japanese way, values his bloodline in his only son. Yudai is a relaxed and fun-loving shop owner with several children. These two fathers and their wives react differently to this unsettling news and how they propose to deal with the future. This is a restrained and thought-provoking story sensitively told and powerfully acted. trailer
Fri Mar 28 – Mon Mar 31
THE WIND RISES (PG-13) 126min 5:30 and 8:15
Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away) has said that his latest film, Oscar-nominated and intended for a more adult audience thematically, will be his last. In his spectacularly beautiful hand-drawn style, he tells the fictionalized biography of Jiro Horikoshi, a young nearsighted boy whose bad eyesight dashes his dreams of flying, so he studies to be an engineer, becoming one of the world’s most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. This is mesmerizing, visual poetry. trailer
Tues Apr 1 – Thurs Apr 3
GLORIA (R) 110min [in SPANISH with subtitles] 5:30 and 8:15
This delightful film, refreshing in its depiction of a life-like vulnerable middle-aged woman, tells the story of a lonely divorcee (Paulina Garcia, giving an outstanding, award-winning performance) who, in her 50s with grown children, isn’t ready to give up on life. She spends her evenings at a singles dance club, yet is surprised by her feelings when she meets Rodolfo, who brings an intense passion into her life, and more. This was Chile’s submission to the Foreign Language Oscar race, directed by Sebastián Lelio. trailer
Fri Mar 21 – Mon Mar 24
NON-STOP (PG-13) 106min
Liam Neeson presents both anguish and fury in his portrayal of a depressed, alcoholic US Air Marshall working a red-eye flight to Europe when he starts receiving threatening text messages on his secure account demanding ransom paid into an offshore account or someone on the plane dies every 20 minutes. He considers many of the passengers suspect while the other Air Marshall doesn’t believe him. Julianna Moore costars as his suspicious seatmate in this tense, suspenseful and entertaining popcorn thriller. Director Jaume Collet-Serra previously directed Neeson in Unknown. trailer
Tues Apr 8 – Thurs Apr 10
TIM’S VERMEER (PG-13) 80min
Magic duo Penn (narrator) and Teller (director) document the efforts of their friend, very wealthy Texas inventor Tim Jenison, a non-painter, to recreate the paintings by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (Girl with a Pearl Earring) who is revered for having a photographic command of light, more than a century before the invention of the photograph. How did he do that? This stimulating, fascinating and unique film, made over the course of five years, explores the intersection of art and technology. trailer
MUPPETS MOST WANTED (PG) 112min
BRAND NEW! In this sure to be fun caper musical comedy Kermit, Miss Piggy and the rest of the gang are on tour around Europe selling out grand theaters in some of Europe’s most exciting destinations, including Berlin, Madrid and London. But mayhem follows the Muppets overseas, as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper headed by Constantine—the World’s Number One Criminal and a dead ringer for Kermit—and his dastardly sidekick Dominic "Number Two" Badguy (portrayed by Ricky Gervais). trailer
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (R) 99min
This irresistibly charming and funny adventure caper is set in a fictional European alpine country between the two World Wars, and recounts the tale of a lowly lobby boy Zero (Tony Revolori) and his escapades with his trusted friend and mentor, legendary concierge Gustave H (Ralph Feinnes). These include the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune. With his trademark idiosyncratic style, inventive and whimsical director Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom, The Fantastic Mr. Fox) has made another original film full of humor and thoughtfulness. trailer
CAPTAIN AMERICA: The Winter Soldier (PG-13) 128min
BRAND NEW! Picking up where the first Captain America film left off, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) resides peacefully in Washington, D.C., struggling to adapt to contemporary society. However, after a S.H.I.E.L.D. compatriot is assailed, Rogers becomes entangled in a mystery that may endanger the globe. Together with Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson), Captain America attempts to uncover the growing machination while fending off hired hit men. After the entire scheme is discovered, Captain America and the Black Widow must recruit the aid of the Falcon because soon they encounter an unanticipated and powerful adversary — the Winter Soldier.
Coming Next?
Mr. Peabody and Sherman
Rio 2
The Lunchbox
Omar
Enemy
Bad Words
Premiere of Beneath the Harvest Sky
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