We are nearly at our MIFF By-the-Sea weekend. The films look fabulous this year, and we hope you have found something that piques your interest. Tickets for the festival are $8 (no big tickets, please) and are on sale now, plus we have discount passes for six and twelve admissions (2 per film screening). You can try calling me during the day to order, or get them thru the boxoffice during our regular hours; they also will be on sale at the door for every show (August is over!). Remember our parking lot will be limited this weekend as we will be setting up the tent, as usual, for the opening night reception to which we welcome you. We will be welcoming our honored guests with food by the inimitable Sassafrass Catering, beverages by our dear neighbors and friends Atlantic Brewing Company, and music provided this year by MDI HS's fabulous jazz men COMBO 12 featuring Breaux Higgins, Simon Robertson, Ethan Craigo, Kevin Elk and our own dear Pierce Vincenty. Tickets are $15 for this festive event. There is a way to see all the films; just go to the italicized titles in order below. A full festival pass, which includes the opening, is $90. Sadly we have had to cancel our special Rock-n-Reel screening of SEVEN CHANCES. And also sadly, our closing party has had to be relocated, due to circumstances beyond our control, so if you are feeling festive on Monday evening after the last screening is out (around 10pm), come to the cinema for some wacky short films that Chris and Colin have collated for your enjoyment.
NEWS FLASH - This just in! MIFF By-the-Sea honored guest and Academy Award winner Ernest Thompson will be shooting a new music video for a song he wrote with Maine’s own Justin Jaymes in Bar Harbor on Saturday, September 13. Anyone of any age — no experience or acting background required — interested in being in the video is invited to meet Ernest at noon on Saturday, September 13 out front of Reel Pizza Cinerama. Sounds like fun and they are looking for a crowd. Come by and Spread the word!
Tuesday we are back to normal with a three day run of LAND HO! and the start of a week-long run of BOYHOOD, a runner-up for this year's Audience Award at the big MIFF. (The first place winner for the Audience Award was FORGOTTEN KINGDOM - playing Sat 5:45 and Sun 4:15.)
I think that is it! Hope to see you this weekend.
-Lisa, Chris and Colin
ps I heard that one of the trailer links I sent was wrong in the previous email; here is the correct link to SUMMER OF FLYING FISH (I hope!)
(plan on seeing the titles in italics if you want to get to every show)
FRI 4:00 - 6:00 CATERED OPENING NIGHT CELEBRATION (tickets $15) 5:30 - 7:08 HEAVENLY ANGLE (guest) 6:00 - 7:35 TAKE ME TO THE RIVER 7:45 - 9:03 A CHAIR FIT FOR AN ANGEL 7:45 - 8:42 EXTENDING THE PLAY (guest) 9:15 - 10:52 BREATHING EARTH 9:30 - 10:44 KUMU HINA 11:00 - 12:25 IMPROVISION SAT 2:30 - 4:05 THE BETTER ANGELS 2:45 - 4:20 THE SUMMER OF FLYING FISH 4:15 - 5:13 EXTENDING THE PLAY (guest) 4:30 - 5:32 ME-MADE SHORTS (guests) 5:45 - 7:21 FORGOTTEN KINGDOM 6:15 - 7:33 SOUTHWEST HARBOR CONNECTION (guests) 7:30 - 9:08 HEAVENLY ANGLE (guest) 8:15 - 9:33 WORLD SHORT FILMS 10:00 - 11:42 A HARD DAY’S NIGHTTues 9/16 - Thurs 9/18 LAND HO! (R) 95min 6:00 & 8:0010:00 - 10:56 ROCK-N-REEL SEVEN CHANCEScancelled :( SUN 2:30 - 3:57 PAULETTE 2:45 - 4:12 A HARD DAY’S NIGHT 4:15 - 5:51 FORGOTTEN KINGDOM 4:30 - 5:48 WORLD SHORT FILMS 6:00 - 7:37 BREATHING EARTH 6:30 - 7:48 A CHAIR FIT FOR AN ANGEL 8:00 - 9:02 ME-MADE SHORTS (guests) 8:30 - 9:44 KUMU HINA MON 5:00 - 6:35 THE BETTER ANGELS 5:15 - 6:33 SOUTHWEST HARBOR CONNECTION (guests) 6:45 - 8:12 PAULETTE 7:15 - 8:50 THE SUMMER OF FLYING FISH 8:30 - 10:05 TAKE ME TO THE RIVER
Tues 9/16 - Mon 9/22 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
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
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