[Reel Pizza] update Feb 13 - 19

hi all,
Hope everyone has had some time to go skiing or sledding or snowshoeing or will be able to make time during this coming long weekend and vacation week.  I will admit I am a bit tired of shoveling!  We will continue to show movies throughout the weather good or nasty.  Don has made yummy Miso soup and Chili to warm your bones. 

We have Special Programming at 1pm this Sunday afternoon (doors open at 12:30pm). Presented in association with with College of the Atlantic, we welcome filmmaker Manfred Kirchheimer who will attend this special screening of two of his documentary films, including recently restored STATIONS OF THE ELEVATED.  This event is free and open to the public.  Please join us. 

This Thursday's Senior Matinee (2/12) is UNBROKEN (PG-13) at 1pm.
Next Thursday's Senior Matinee (2/19) is INTO THE WOODS (PG-13) at 1pm.

Oscah'Night tickets for our annual Gala Celebration coming right up on Feb 22nd are available at the box office and at the Jesup Library, this year's presenter and beneficiary. Get yours now!  Sure to be Big Time Fun and supports a most excellent institution!  Local hosts Jen Shepard and Amy Roeder from ImprovAcadia join Neil Patrick Harris in Los Angeles to provide hours of entertainment! 

Need a special gift for that special Valentine?  Maybe some beautiful, colorful artwork by Bar Harbor artist Jeanne Perkins will do the trick.  Her show, which is for sale, will hang at in our lobby through the end of February. 

Oh, and one more correction to the printed schedule.... Next weekend's FOXCATCHER is really rated R, (not PG....)

Stay Warm and See you soon!
-Lisa

Fri - Thurs    INTO THE WOODS (PG) 125min  6:00 & 8:30
Fri - Mon    PADDINGTON (PG) 95min  5:30 & 7:45
Tues - Thurs    SONG OF THE SEA (PG) 93min  5:30 & 7:45
Sun     STATIONS OF THE ELEVATED (NR)  1:00   Free and open to the public

Sunday, February 15th
STATIONS OF THE ELEVATED (NR) 1:00pm Free and open to the public
We are delighted to join with COA to co-present filmmaker and NYCs School of Visual Arts faculty Manfred Kirchheimer who is bringing two works to screen, one older and one newer. Originally premiering at the 1981 New York Film Festival, and recently restored, STATIONS is a lyrical documentary that follows elevated subway trains that are illicitly painted by slum youths and was one of the earliest works of non-graffiti to consider graffiti as an art form. Its 45 minutes are a gentle, meditation on the way New York City used to look and feel, with brightly painted train cars rolling back and forth across the screen to the music of Charles Mingus and Aretha Franklin. The newer work is related!  trailer

Fri Feb 13 - Thurs Feb 19
INTO THE WOODS (PG) 125min  6:00 & 8:30
Stephen Sondheim's 1987 mash-up of Grimm's fairy-tales has been terrifically adapted by Broadway librettist James Lapine to this new film from director Rob Marshall (Chicago). Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, and Little Red Riding Hood stories are joined by a new story of a Baker and his wife who are trying to start a family without success, when they learn they have been cursed by a witch, played by Meryl Streep, who received an Oscar nomination. This humorous and heartfelt musical has a strong cast including Chris Pine, Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp, Christine Baranski, Tracey Ullman, and James Cordon. Be careful what you wish for!  trailer

Fri Feb 13 - Mon Feb 16
PADDINGTON (PG) 95min  5:30 & 7:45
Michael Bond's beloved story about a talking bear with a yen for marmalade from darkest Peru is marvelously adapted with visually inventive charm, punny wit and calamitous antics. When his relations are no longer able to care for him, this rare bear travels to London to find a new home and finds himself taken in by the kindly Brown family, named for the subway station where they find him. All is well until a museum taxidermist learns of his existence. With a style reminiscent of Wes Anderson films (Moonrise Kingdom and Fantastic Mr. Fox) and the seamless blending of live action and CGI (like Ted), this lovely film features an excellent cast, including Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, Julie Walters, Nicole Kidman, and Jim Broadbent.  trailer

Tues Feb 17 - Thurs Feb 19
SONG OF THE SEA (PG) 93min  5:30 & 7:45
For a second time, Irish director Tomm Moore (The Secret of the Kells) has earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature with his charming new magical family adventure. Inspired by the Irish folktale about the ancient myth of the Selkie (human on land, seal in the water), this poetic and visually stunning, hand-drawn film follows a boy and his young sister on a voyage from their island home, to urban Dublin, and onto an enchanted spirit world where they discover the power of song.  trailer