[Reel Pizza] update Feb 20 - 26

We are coming up on Oscah' Weekend!  Tickets are available at the Jesup during their open hours, and here at Reel Pizza during ours.  Cash or check only.  And they will most likely be available at the door on Sunday night.  The festivities get started at 6pm and go until the last Oscar statue is awarded.  Do you have your finery selected?  It is sure to be a fabulous evening!  Remember too that we will have 1pm matinees of both our films on Sunday, and no evening shows! 

And Saturday we are delighted that we were able to reschedule with filmmaker Manfred Kirchheimer, who was snowed out last weekend.  He will attend a Saturday afternoon screening of his film STATIONS OF THE ELEVATED and one other, starting at 1pm.  Doors, as always, open 1/2 hour before showtime.  This is a free show sponsored by COA and is open to the public.

The Senior Matinee on this Thursday 2/19 will be INTO THE WOODS; next Thursday it will be SELMA.  1pm start.

I will be sending out the next full schedule shortly, as I am going away for a few days :)  Have a great week.
-L

Here is this week's schedule with times. 

Fri - Thurs    SELMA  (PG-13)  5:30 and 8:00   *no eve show Sunday, 1pm matinee only
Fri - Mon    FOXCATCHER  (R)  6:00 and 8:15   *no eve show Sunday, 1pm matinee only
Tues - Thurs    BEYOND THE LIGHTS  (PG-13)  6:00 and 8:30

Fri Feb 20 - Thurs Feb 26
SELMA (PG-13) 127min
With brutality of white police against unarmed black men again prominent in today's news cycle, and with the Supreme Court's removal of many protections to minority enfranchisement two years ago, this powerful film of the civil rights movement couldn't be more timely or relevant. Covering the breathtaking parade of events during the three months before President Johnson's signing of the Voting Rights Act, a campaign of civil disobedience designed to speed its passage, the tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Council were calculated for maximum effectiveness by Martin Luther King Jr, a shrewd, dynamic figure who is humanized by his flaws and contradictions in this portrayal by actor David Oyelowo and director Ava DuVernay. This Oscar Best Picture nominee also earned a Best Song nomination for Glory by Common and John Legend.  trailer

Fri Feb 20 - Mon Feb 23
FOXCATCHER (R) 134min
After winning Cannes' best director award last spring, Director Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) earned another Oscar nomination for himself, screenwriter Dan Futterman, and two of his actors (Carell and Tatum) in this mesmerizing, based-on-true-events crime drama about two lonely men and the bizarre relationship between them. Steve Carrell gives an intense performance as eccentric, unstable heir to his family's chemical company fortune, John DuPont, who loves wrestling and decides to create a team to compete in the 1988 Olympics. He recruits 1984 Gold medalists, down-trodden Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) and his more successful and charismatic brother Dave (Mark Ruffalo); Dave declines, and Mark is lured into a dangerous world with a self-destructive spiral.  trailer

Tues Feb 24 - Thurs Feb 26
BEYOND THE LIGHTS (PG-13) 116min
This warm-hearted, crowd-pleasing romantic drama stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle) in a tremendous performance as a young, rising star R&B singer whose life is on the edge from the pressures of fame. Her unlikely romance with earnest, handsome cop and aspiring politician Kaz (Nate Parker) upends the aspirations of both their parents (her mom, Minnie Driver, his dad, Danny Glover) who each urge them to put their careers ahead of their love. Gina Prince-Blythewood (Secret Life of Bees) directs this entertaining drama that earned an Oscar Nomination for Best Song, Grateful, by Diane Warren.  trailer

RESCHEDULED!  Saturday Feb 21
STATIONS OF THE ELEVATED (NR) 1pm 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

Sunday February 22
Oscah'Night Gala  6:00pm till.....
a benefit for the The Jesup Memorial Library with Complimentary hors d'oeuvres & Champagne.  Hosts will be the inimitable ImprovAcadia's Jen Shepard & Amy Roeder.  Pre-show activities include a Scavenger Hunt & Costume Contest (Formal or Movie-themed) to win Prizes.  A Grand Prize for most correct Ballot.  It is  TERRIFIC FUN for a GREAT CAUSE.  Tickets: $15 for everyone available at Box office or Library NOW!