Thank you everyone who participated for making MIFF By-the-Sea #6 a fabulous weekend. We had a blast, and look forward to #7 next year!
This weekend (Sunday 9/21 at 2pm, free admission) is the final film (Ocean Frontiers: A New Era in Ocean Stewardship) in this year's Summer Environmental Film Series, a program of environmental films with speakers that we have presented with the Maine Chapter of the Sierra Club over the last six years. Recently, Chris and I were selected us to receive their Environmental Business Award at their recent annual dinner for our work with them on this ongoing series. We are delighted to be partners with the Maine Chapter of the Sierra Club and thank them for this honor. The free environmental film matinees will return next spring!
Below is how our upcoming week's schedule looks. Happy Equinox and cover your gardens tonight!
-L
Tues 9/16 - Mon 9/22
BOYHOOD (R) 164min 5:00 and 8:15
Fri 9/19 - Thurs 9/25
THE HUNDRED FOOT JOURNEY (PG) 122min 6:00 and 8:30
Tues 9/23 - Thurs 9/25
FINDING FELA (NR) 119min 5:30 and 8:00
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
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
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
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