Yes we are still doing business. With the preparations for the film festival on the front burner (and the upheaval of school starting...), this email slipped by. Films listed here start TONIGHT!
Please notice the MIFF By-the-Sea film festival schedule in the separate email notice. We have lots going on next weekend, including
On Sun Sept 21, we have our final scheduled free Sierra Club Matinee of the season. Tonight I travel to the annual dinner of the Maine Sierra Club to receive their Environmental Business Award for our work with them on this film series. I think we have been doing this for 6 years! It's a nice honor.
I think that is all for now; Happy September!
-Lisa
9/5 - 9/11 A MOST WANTED MAN (R) 121min 6:00 & 8:30
9/5 - 9/8 GET ON UP (PG-13) 138min 5:30 & 8:15
9/9 - 9/11 CHINESE PUZZLE (R) 117min [partly in French with subtitles] 5:30 & 8:00
9/12 - 9/15 MIFF By-the-Sea #6
9/16 - 9/18 LAND HO! (R) 95min 6:00 & 8:00
9/16 - 9/22 BOYHOOD (R) 164min 5:00 & 8:15
9/19 - 9/25 THE HUNDRED FOOT JOURNEY (PG) 122min 6:00 & 8:30
9/23 - 9/25 FINDING FELA! (NR) 119min 5:30 & 8:00
9/21 OCEAN FRONTIERS: A New Era in Ocean Stewardship (NR) 80min 2:00 Free
A MOST WANTED MAN (R) 121min 6:00 & 8:30
In this smart, tense adaptation of a 2008 John LeCarré novel, directed by Anton Corbijn (The American) no one is who he or she seems. In his final leading role, actor Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a convincing and complex performance of a German spymaster, Gunther Bachmann whose post-9/11 job is to monitor a Muslim neighborhood in Hamburg where the trade center attacks were hatched. When a mysterious, tortured Chechen immigrant laying claim to a shady inheritance shows up in his territory, he finds himself dealing with several untrustworthy agents, played by Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright and Willem Dafoe to discern the man’s true identity and motives. trailer
Fri Sept 5 - Mon Sept 8
GET ON UP (PG-13) 138min 5:30 & 8:15
The Godfather of Soul, the hardest working man in showbusiness, James Brown, has his life story told in this free-form new biographical film from director Tate Taylor (The Help). An impoverished kid from South Carolina, abandoned by his mother (Viola Davis) and abused by his alcoholic father (Lennie James) until being taken in by his aunt (Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer) and with the help of his lifelong best friend (Nelson Ellis), Mr. Brown (with a powerful portrayal by Chadwick Boseman, 42) went on to become one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. The film, as well as the man and his music, is mesmerizing, dynamic and unforgettable. trailer
Tues Sept 9 - Thurs Sept 11
CHINESE PUZZLE (R) 117min [partly in French with subtitles] 5:30 & 8:00
The Gallic counterpart to Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy, director Cédric Klapisch’s third and final outing (after L’Auberge Espagnole and Russian Dolls) with Xavier (Romain Duris) and college friends, gay pal Isabelle (Cécile De France), ex-girlfriend Martine (Audry Tautou) and mother of his children Wendy (Kelly Reilly) finds Xavier following Wendy and kids to New York City after she leaves him for another man. Isabelle already lives there and Martine travels there on business, bringing the four international friends together again. Consistently funny, it is a seductive and light-hearted ode to the City and a charming end to the characters’ trilogy. trailer
Fri Sept 12 - Mon Sept 15
MIFF By-the-Sea #6
Over this weekend we are, for a sixth year, hosting a best-of selection of films and guest filmmakers from this summer's Maine International Film Festival in Waterville. The films -- both live action and animated, including documentaries, fiction features, and three collections of short films -- hail from MDI and around the world and will be screening at various times throughout the weekend; each film, save one, will screen twice. Please pick up the green MIFF By-the-Sea flyer for film descriptions, guest schedules and start times; individual tickets and discount passes are available now; ask us at the ticket booth!
Why should I attend a film festival? Good question! We think it is important to support small films lacking distribution. Some films on this year’s roster are made by or about your friends and neighbors. Others come from farther afield, part of the excellent program curated by the good folks at the Maine Film Center who present the ME Int’l Film Festival. We deliberately choose films without distribution for the fest. This year’s MIFF Audience Award went to Forgotten Kingdom (in fest); 2nd place was a tie, Take Me to the River (in fest) and Alive Inside playing Sept 2 - 4; and in 3rd - Boyhood, is coming on this schedule. See separate email for schedule and film descriptions.
Tues Sept 16 - Mon Sept 22
BOYHOOD (R) 164min 5:00 & 8:15
STARTS Tues Sept 16. Director Richard Linklater’s latest film is a piece of ground-breaking cinema. Filmed several days a year over twelve years from 2001 - 2013, it seamlessly tells the fictional story of a boy growing up, from age 6 to 18, using the same actors who grow and age over the course of the story. Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette play divorced parents, she the single mom, he the slacker but always fun dad, of Mason (Ellar Coltrane) and his older sister Samantha (the director’s daughter Lorelei Linklater) who we follow through moves and new schools, bullies and girlfriends, vacations and birthdays, right up to Mason’s highschool graduation. It is beautiful, dramatic, audacious, wonderful storytelling. Earned 3rd place in MIFF Audience Award vote. trailer
Tues Sept 16 - Thurs Sept 18
LAND HO! (R) 95min 6:00 & 8:00
This very funny, anecdotal comedy and observational character study tells a tale of an eccentric odd couple, two brothers-in-law, once married to sisters, who are now alone. Mitch is a retired surgeon and party animal, a mischievous character who buys two tickets to Iceland and shows up at refined and soft-spoken Colin’s house to take him on the journey. They set off on a picturesque road trip from trendy Reykjavik to the rugged, volcanic outback hoping to reclaim their youth. It is both a classic bawdy road comedy and a candid exploration of aging, loneliness and friendship. Co-directors are Aaron Katz (Cold Weather) and Martha Stephens (Passenger Pigeon). trailer
Fri Sept 19 - Thurs Sept 25
THE HUNDRED FOOT JOURNEY (PG) 122min 6:00 & 8:30
The Kadam family, displaced from their native India, relocate to a quaint village in the south of France, the perfect place to open an Indian restaurant where son Hassan, a culinary ingénue can showcase his talents. When Mme. Mallory (Helen Mirren) the chilly proprietress of a Michelin-starred classical French restaurant just across the street hears about this, her protests escalate to all-out war. But Hassan has a passion for both French haute cuisine and the competition’s enchanting sous-chef Marguerite which he uses to magically fuse the two cultures’ cuisines that Mme. Mallory cannot ignore. A stimulating triumph over exile, blossoming with passion and heart, it is a portrayal of two worlds colliding and one boy’s drive to find the comfort of home, wherever he may be. trailer
Tues Sept 26 - Thurs Sept 28
FINDING FELA! (NR) 119min 5:30 & 8:00
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side) has made a thought-provoking portrait of the life of Nigerian radical activist Fela Kuti, who courageously worked against the dictatorship and for democracy in his homeland, and a pioneering musician who, in the 1970s, fathered the Afro-Beat style, a fusion of Jazz, traditional West African beats, Funk, Highlife and psychedelic rock. Scenes from the wildly popular and Tony award-winning Broadway show directed by Bill T. Jones, and a trove of rare archival footage and interviews with family and colleagues bring out the story of this hedonistic yet inspirational man who fought for the rights of the oppressed and whose legacy is in his music. trailer
Sun Sept 21 OCEAN FRONTIERS: A New Era in Ocean Stewardship (NR) 80min 2pm Free
This beautiful and inspiring film travels on a voyage to seaports and watersheds across United States where unlikely allies, including wildlife biologists, farmers, wetland ecologists, sport and commercial fishermen, port operators, snorkelers, and citizens all embark on a new course of cooperation in ocean management and stewardship to sustain the sea and our ocean economies. Featured speaker is Gretchen Noyes Hull of the Gulf Aquarium and Marine Station Cooperative. The Sierra Club offers this series for no charge to get people focused on the environment. trailer
Coming Soon?
Magic in the Moonlight
Calvary
Night Moves
Gabrielle
Frank
The Trip to Italy
Love is Strange
Manhattan Short Film Fest
Le Chef
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