[Reel Pizza] update Jan 30 - Feb 5

Time to ski! Or snowshoe!  And think about all the calories you are burning as you shovel, and shovel, and shovel.....  And afterwards you can be a sloth and cozy up on the couch to watch a movie!   You gotta EARN that torpor.  :)

We have many choices this week, with this weekend's two different programs of Oscar nominated short films (get ready for the office pool or burnish your chances of winning the big prize on Oscah'Night, coming up 2/22 ).  The distributor tells us the Animated program which is our early show this coming weekend would be rated PG and the Live-Action program, the later show, would be PG-13. 

During the mid-week, FORCE MAJEURE, a hilarious Swedish psychological thriller, set in Switzerland, about how a split second decision has repercussions for a man and his family during a ski vacation.   

And many of you have been waiting for Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley in the multi-Oscar nominee, THE IMITATION GAME, which plays all week and will be the Senior Matinee next Thursday (2/5).  This Thursday (today 1/29) it is the concluding film of Peter Jackson's Middle Earth trilogy THE HOBBIT: Battle of Five Armies.  Senior matinees are at 1pm.

see you soon!
-L

Here is the line up with the times.

Fri 1/30 - Thurs 2/5    THE IMITATION GAME  (PG-13) 6:00 and 8:30
Fri 1/30 - Mon 2/2    OSCAR-NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORT FILMS (NR/PG) 5:30 only
Fri 1/30 - Mon 2/2    OSCAR-NOMINATED LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILMS (NR/PG-13) 7:30 only
Tues 2/3 - Thurs 2/5    FORCE MAJEURE (R)   5:30 and 8:00


Fri Jan 30 - Thurs Feb 5
THE IMITATION GAME  (PG-13)  114min
Benedict Cumberbatch (TVs Sherlock) gives an excellent performance, combining an air of superiority while remaining likable, portraying the socially inept mathematical genius and closeted homosexual Alan Turing, who with a team of game-playing geeks was responsible for inventing the machine that cracked the Nazi's seemingly uncrackable Enigma Code in WWII.   Keira Knightly plays the sole woman on the team who becomes Turing's friend and most trusted colleague.  Norwegian director Morten Tyldum (Headhunters) makes his English language debut with this fascinating, absorbing character study and wartime thriller.  Earned four Golden Globe Noms and eight Oscar Nominations.  trailer

Fri Jan 30 - Mon Feb 2
OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) animated 77min; live-action 117min
As we have for the past several years, this year we will be screening separate programs of the Oscar-nominated short films; the Animated collection will play at the early showtimes, and the Live-Action collection will be the later screening each day. Animated shorts hail from US, UK, Canada, and Netherlands, with 4 additional commended films in the program . Live Action collection includes films from Switzerland, UK, Israel, France and Tibet. Our annual Oscah' Night Gala celebration, this year on Sunday February 22nd, benefits and is presented by the Jesup Library.  trailer

Tues Feb 3 - Thurs Feb 5
FORCE MAJEURE (R)   120min [in SWEDISH with subtitles]
This Cannes Jury Prize winner is a haunting and often darkly hilarious psychological drama from Swedish director Ruben Östlund.  An upscale Swedish family on a skiing vacation in the Swiss Alps escapes a passing moment of peril; in the moment, the husband makes a cowardly decision which shakes his marriage to the core; his single action, unbeknownst to him, breaks open a crevasse in his relationship with his wife that may not be repaired.  It is a Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.  trailer