This takes us right up to high summer (we have to hope!) Once it gets hot enough, remember we are air-conditioned.
The entire three week schedule is booked, so I include times for every film. And consider this your weekly update also!
**I forgot to put this on the printed schedule (oops!), so please notice the next installment of our collaborative Free Summer Matinee film series curated by the Maine Sierra Club, now in its 5th year! On Sunday June 22 we will be screening the film FOREVER WILD at 2:00pm. There will be a speaker to lead discussion after the film.
Please take some time to enjoy our Art in the Lobby. Currently we have terrific photographs of our avian neighbors taken by naturalist and owner of Down East Nature Tours, Michael Good, which will hang until June 20th. After that we will be welcoming the beautiful woodcuts by former MDI resident now in Portland, Blue Butterfield.
Congratulations to all our local high school graduates who will be taking possession of their diplomas this coming weekend!
See you soon.
-Lisa
Fri 6/6 - Thurs 6/19 EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG-13) 113min 6:00 & 8:30
Fri 6/13 - Mon 6/16 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (R) 99min 5:30 & 8:00
Tues 6/17 - Thurs 6/19 FED UP (PG) 92min 5:30 & 8:00
Fri 6/20 - Thurs 6/26 CHEF (R) 115min 5:30 & 8:00
Fri 6/20 - Mon 6/23 NEIGHBORS (R) 96min 6:00 & 8:30
Tues 6/24 - Thurs 6/26 LOCKE (R) 85min 6:00 & 8:15
Sunday 6/22 FOREVER WILD (NR) 2pm FREE
Fri 6/27 - Thurs 7/3 MALEFICENT (PG) 97min 6:00 & 8:15
Fri 6/27 - Mon 6/30 GODZILLA (PG-13) 123min 5:30 & 8:00
Tues 7/1 - Thurs 7/3 ERNEST & CÉLESTINE (PG) 80min 5:30 & 7:30
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5th Annual Sierra Club Summer Film Series
Sunday June 22
FOREVER WILD (NR) 2pm FREE
This beautiful film celebrates America's commitment to wilderness and its preservation. Shot in high definition, the film captures the glory of undeveloped, wild places through visually stunning images. It also profiles America's modern wilderness heroes - individuals who have volunteered countless hours and immeasurable energy to ensure that these wild places remain forever wild. The Maine Chapter of the Sierra Club offers this film series at no charge to get people thinking about the environment. trailer
ART IN THE LOBBY Michael Good, Town Hill: Michael J. Good, MS. is a biologist/naturalist, and the founder and director of the Acadia Birding Festival, just concluding its 16th year, and President of Down East Nature Tours, a bird-watching and Nature Tour Company started in 1993. He is the co-founder of the Penobscot Watershed Eco-Center focused on river and stream restoration and the importance of sea-run fish for a healthy Gulf of Maine. He has over 30 years experience studying the birds of North America and brings a wealth of knowledge about Neotropical migrants and the avifauna of the Eastern United States. Michael is a regional business leader promoting sound ecologically practices in business, government and land development. As a Registered Maine Guide, Michael has been guiding professionally for many years Fields of expertise include wetland ecology, ornithology, environmental education and developmental and marine biology. In his spare time he maintains Three Pines Bird Sanctuary in Town Hill, Maine, studying micro-habitat of Neotropical migratory birds on MDI. Thru June 19
ART IN THE LOBBY Blue Butterfield, Portland: “I grew up on MDI taking for granted its magical appeal: a softball game at the Main St. Ball Fields under the spectacular mountainous backdrop or an exuberant leap from Echo Ledges after a sweaty afternoon hike. Cross country training runs in high school consisted of treks up Acadia Mountain and weekly ambles around Eagle Lake. I now find myself in awe of the beauty that surrounds my childhood memories. It's a yearly joy to bring my own family here to have those same timeless experiences. During my time at Bowdoin, I had the good fortune to cross paths with Tom Killion, a visiting professor and a renowned woodblock artist. It was immediately clear that I had found a medium that was responsive to me. The organic feel of the wood, the finality of each cut, the graphic nature of the prints was all appealing. Since my subject interests have always been how people interact with the natural world, the Island is the perfect location for this and the place I find myself drawn to again and again.” From June 20
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EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG-13) 113min 6:00 & 8:30
BRAND NEW! This fresh and engaging science fiction action film stars Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, is directed by Doug Liman (Swingers, Bourne Identity) from a screenplay by Christopher MacQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) based on Hiroshi Sakurazake’s lauded 2004 novel, All You Need is Kill. Alien intruders are overtaking the Earth, and Major Cage, who has never see a day of combat is unceremoniously dropped into the battle on a suicide mission. But after he is killed, he finds himself inexplicably thrown into a repeating time loop where he relives this same day, learning something every time, putting him increasingly closer to defeating the enemy. Trailer
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (R) 99min 5:30 & 8:00
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! 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
Tues. Jun 17 - Thurs. Jun 19
FED UP (PG) 92min 5:30 & 8:00
From director Stephanie Soechtig (Tapped) and producer Laurie David (An Inconvenient Truth) comes this alarming and compelling documentary, narrated by Katie Couric, that should make us reconsider everything we have been taught over the past quarter century about food and exercise, and perhaps incite us to change the way we eat from now on. Over the past thirty years, sugar consumption has doubled, obesity rates are rising at an unsustainable rate and adult-onset diabetes is now prevalent in adolescents. The filmmaker and her advocates convincingly equate our current problem with Big Sugar in processed food to our problem with Big Tobacco two generations ago, and believe the same reaction is needed. Trailer
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CHEF (R) 115min 5:30 & 8:00
When Jon Favreau (Elf, Iron Man) first started, he made small, hip films (Swingers, Made). He retreats from Hollywood with this delightful and entertaining gem about a creative, high-end Los Angeles chef who suddenly finds himself out of work and ends up in Miami taking possession of a food truck and heading out on the road with his son, through New Orleans and Austin en route back home, hoping to reignite his passion for the kitchen and his zest for love and life. It is a sweetly funny film with scrumptious food scenes. Trailer
NEIGHBORS (R) 96min 6:00 & 8:30
Raunchy funny, this new comedy from director Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) stars Seth Rogan and Rose Byrne as new parents who become conflicted when the vacant house next door is sold to a college fraternity. Young enough to still feel cool, they try to befriend the president (Zac Efron) and his vp (Dave Franco) and hang with the boys next door, only to do an about face when the party goes to the wee hours and the volume stays at eleven. When they call the cops, all bets are off as their feud and resultant revenge escalates. Trailer
Tues. Jun 24 - Thurs. Jun 26
LOCKE (R) 85min 6:00 & 8:15
Dramatic and suspenseful, this inventive film directed by screenwriter Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises, Amazing Grace) follows the real time emotional journey taken by hardworking, responsible man Ivan Locke, (Tom Hardy, The Dark Knight Rises, giving a powerful, mesmerizing performance). A contractor on the biggest job in the country, he walks away from the jobsite one evening to deal with a personal crisis. On the hour and a half drive from Birmingham to London, he is balancing three separate repercussions of his decision to try to do the right thing, with his boss, his wife and family, and his co-worker who must take his place on the job site. It is a taut and gripping one man show. Trailer
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MALEFICENT (PG) 97min 6:00 & 8:15
Disney fractures Charles Perrault’s Sleeping Beauty with this imaginative telling of the fairytale from the evil Queen’s point of view. Angelina Jolie gives an affecting portrayal as a icy fairy queen spurred to revenge after a young human stole her heart, then betrayed her, in order to become King. Maleficent places an irrevocable curse on the King’s new daughter that on her 16th birthday Aurora will prick her finger and fall into a deep sleep only reversible by her true love’s first kiss. Marvelous visual effects, a thoughtful story and a comic trio of fairy nannies make this a magical family film. Trailer
Fri. Jun 27 - Mon. Jun 30
GODZILLA (PG-13) 123min 5:30 & 8:00
Summer Popcorn Fun. The world’s most revered monster returns in this entertaining and suspenseful science fiction-fantasy. Honoring the legacy of the 1954 debut with some serious monster mayhem, director Gareth Edwards (Monsters) has made a dramatic story of human courage and reconciliation while Godzilla fights to restore the balance in nature after an attack on the Earth by MUTOs (or Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Objects). An all-star cast includes Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe, Juliette Binoche, Sally Hutchins, Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Trailer
ERNEST & CÉLESTINE (PG) 80min 5:30 & 7:30
This enchanting Oscar-nominated animated feature is based on the beloved story of a friendship between a plucky artistic mouse and a burly musical bear by Belgian children’s author and illustrator Gabrielle Vincent. These two misfits, after many adventures, become inseparable, as well as fugitives from their respective laws, as the bears and mice are not meant to be friends. Telling a charming story with brilliant comic timing, directors Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar (A Town Called Panic, highly recommended) have created richly detailed worlds for both mouse and bear in a film that look like a gorgeous watercolor painting come to life. Trailer
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Coming Next Schedule?
How to Train Your Dragon 2 starts July 4
The Railway Man
Chinese Puzzle
22 Jump Street
Fault in Our Stars
Ida
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes starts July 11
Jupiter Ascending
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