Our replacement print of ARGO has arrived and so the shows for
tonight,and the rest of the week,
are a go at their scheduled times.
See you there,
-Chris
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
[Reel Pizza] Friday ARGO Cancelled
Friends,
The print we received of ARGO is in terrible shape and we cannot show
it. So we are cancelling tonight's screenings of ARGO. (WRECK IT RALPH
is still on.) The studio is sending us another print (hopefully in
better condition) and we expect it early Saturday afternoon in time for
tomorrow's scheduled shows. We apologize for all inconvenience.
-Lisa and Chris
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The print we received of ARGO is in terrible shape and we cannot show
it. So we are cancelling tonight's screenings of ARGO. (WRECK IT RALPH
is still on.) The studio is sending us another print (hopefully in
better condition) and we expect it early Saturday afternoon in time for
tomorrow's scheduled shows. We apologize for all inconvenience.
-Lisa and Chris
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
[Reel Pizza] update Jan 18 - 24
g'morning everyone
I shared a link on the facebook page and thought you might like it too. Last night there was an interesting interview by Terry Gross on Fresh Air of Ben Affleck about making ARGO. If you would like to listen, you will find it here
Don't forget that tickets are available now at the Abbe Museum for our screening of NANOOK OF THE NORTH accompanied by the SUMNER McKANE GROUP next Saturday evening 288-3519. AND at the Grand for the Friday screening of Charlie Chaplin's THE GOLD RUSH accompanied by TEMPO Youth Orchestra 667-9500. Two classic Silent Films with live accompaniment in one weekend!
Have a good week and see you soon~
-Lisa
Here is the Thursday Senior Matinee schedule for the next several weeks, if you want to plan:
This week's (1/17) show is THE HOBBIT at 12:45 (early start due to long running time!)
Next week (1/24) it will be ARGO at 1:30.
The following week (1/31) its LIFE OF PI at 1:30
And the week after that (2/7) we will show LINCOLN at 1:00. There is also a Sat (2/2) matinee of LINCOLN sponsored by the Acadia Senior College with regular admission prices that also begins at 1:00.
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Here is the schedule for this coming week:
Fri 1/18 - Thurs 1/24 ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
Fri 1/18 - Mon 1/21 WRECK IT RALPH (PG) 93min 5:30 and 7:30
Tues 1/22 - Thurs 1/24 SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (R) 109min 5:30 and 8:00
Friday Jan 18 - Thursday Jan 24
ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
With a story you’d think they’d only come up with in the movies, actor-director Ben Affleck’s third time directing is a solid, unexpectedly suspenseful and fully entertaining film. It is also based on true events, long kept secret but declassified by President Clinton in 1997. Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA specialist in “exfiltration” who was instrumental in concocting and implementing a far-fetched, in fact preposterous, scheme to rescue six Americans who managed to escape unnoticed when Iranians stormed the American Embassy in 1979 taking 52 hostages. These six found hiding in the home of the Canadian ambassador, but were trapped there, threatening themselves, the other hostages, and the Canadians. Seven Oscar nominations including Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin and Best Picture.
Friday Jan 18 - Monday Jan 21
Poor Ralph (John C. Reilly) has spent the last 30 or so years in the 1980s era arcade game Fix It Felix, crushing buildings that his cheerful nemesis rebuilds with remarkable aplomb and speed, to the delight of the residents of Niceland. Although he knows it is his job, he grows tired of being the bad guy, as he really is nice, and sets off on a quest to earn a medal that he hopes will make him a hero in his colleagues’ eyes. He ends up first in war game Hero’s Duty, then in another game, Sugar Rush, where he meets a character with pixelating issues (Sarah Silverman) who is ostracized by her co-characters. He has also unwittingly caused chaos in his home game. This imaginative, smartly witty and colorful new Disney film that celebrates gaming while encouraging interaction in the real world, directed by Rich Moore (The Simpsons) and executive produced by Pixar guru John Lasseter, does for arcade games what Toy Story did for the nursery toy box. Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.
Tuesday Jan 22 - Thursday Jan 24
Billy (Sam Rockwell) is a part-time actor who makes ends meet as a dog-napper with his partner-in-crime Hans (Christopher Walken). Most recently they have stolen the beloved pooch of a wacko, psychotic gangster (Woody Harrelson). Billy also really wants to help his best friend (Colin Farrell) an alcoholic, struggling writer overdue with his next screenplay. He’s got a title (the movie’s) but not much else. This bloody, funny mesh of these two stories is the heart of this most entertaining comedy from Irish director Martin McDonaugh (Oscar-nominated for the screenplay of his debut film In Bruges). It is Tarantino x Charlie Kaufman x Coen Brothers with an excellent cast, sharp dialogue and gleefully brutal violence that is side-splittingly funny.
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I shared a link on the facebook page and thought you might like it too. Last night there was an interesting interview by Terry Gross on Fresh Air of Ben Affleck about making ARGO. If you would like to listen, you will find it here
Don't forget that tickets are available now at the Abbe Museum for our screening of NANOOK OF THE NORTH accompanied by the SUMNER McKANE GROUP next Saturday evening 288-3519. AND at the Grand for the Friday screening of Charlie Chaplin's THE GOLD RUSH accompanied by TEMPO Youth Orchestra 667-9500. Two classic Silent Films with live accompaniment in one weekend!
Have a good week and see you soon~
-Lisa
Here is the Thursday Senior Matinee schedule for the next several weeks, if you want to plan:
This week's (1/17) show is THE HOBBIT at 12:45 (early start due to long running time!)
Next week (1/24) it will be ARGO at 1:30.
The following week (1/31) its LIFE OF PI at 1:30
And the week after that (2/7) we will show LINCOLN at 1:00. There is also a Sat (2/2) matinee of LINCOLN sponsored by the Acadia Senior College with regular admission prices that also begins at 1:00.
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Here is the schedule for this coming week:
Fri 1/18 - Thurs 1/24 ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
Fri 1/18 - Mon 1/21 WRECK IT RALPH (PG) 93min 5:30 and 7:30
Tues 1/22 - Thurs 1/24 SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (R) 109min 5:30 and 8:00
Friday Jan 18 - Thursday Jan 24
ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
With a story you’d think they’d only come up with in the movies, actor-director Ben Affleck’s third time directing is a solid, unexpectedly suspenseful and fully entertaining film. It is also based on true events, long kept secret but declassified by President Clinton in 1997. Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA specialist in “exfiltration” who was instrumental in concocting and implementing a far-fetched, in fact preposterous, scheme to rescue six Americans who managed to escape unnoticed when Iranians stormed the American Embassy in 1979 taking 52 hostages. These six found hiding in the home of the Canadian ambassador, but were trapped there, threatening themselves, the other hostages, and the Canadians. Seven Oscar nominations including Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin and Best Picture.
Friday Jan 18 - Monday Jan 21
Poor Ralph (John C. Reilly) has spent the last 30 or so years in the 1980s era arcade game Fix It Felix, crushing buildings that his cheerful nemesis rebuilds with remarkable aplomb and speed, to the delight of the residents of Niceland. Although he knows it is his job, he grows tired of being the bad guy, as he really is nice, and sets off on a quest to earn a medal that he hopes will make him a hero in his colleagues’ eyes. He ends up first in war game Hero’s Duty, then in another game, Sugar Rush, where he meets a character with pixelating issues (Sarah Silverman) who is ostracized by her co-characters. He has also unwittingly caused chaos in his home game. This imaginative, smartly witty and colorful new Disney film that celebrates gaming while encouraging interaction in the real world, directed by Rich Moore (The Simpsons) and executive produced by Pixar guru John Lasseter, does for arcade games what Toy Story did for the nursery toy box. Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.
Tuesday Jan 22 - Thursday Jan 24
Billy (Sam Rockwell) is a part-time actor who makes ends meet as a dog-napper with his partner-in-crime Hans (Christopher Walken). Most recently they have stolen the beloved pooch of a wacko, psychotic gangster (Woody Harrelson). Billy also really wants to help his best friend (Colin Farrell) an alcoholic, struggling writer overdue with his next screenplay. He’s got a title (the movie’s) but not much else. This bloody, funny mesh of these two stories is the heart of this most entertaining comedy from Irish director Martin McDonaugh (Oscar-nominated for the screenplay of his debut film In Bruges). It is Tarantino x Charlie Kaufman x Coen Brothers with an excellent cast, sharp dialogue and gleefully brutal violence that is side-splittingly funny.
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
[Reel Pizza] schedule Jan 18 - Feb 7
Its a busy winter at Reel Pizza!
Many Oscar nominees on both what remains of our current program and on this upcoming schedule!
Tonight is the last night of FLIGHT, which received nominations for original screenplay and Best Actor for Denzel Washington, and SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN (really wonderful - I watched it last night) (front-runner for Best Documentary.) Starting tomorrow, in THE SESSIONS, Helen Hunt was nominated for Supporting Actress, and THE HOBBIT earned nominations for visual effects, production design and makeup; Denmark's A ROYAL AFFAIR, which starts Tuesday, is a nominee for Foreign Language film.
We also have scheduled some special programming. There are three special events coming in the next few weeks. On Saturday 1/26 we will re-jigger our schedule slightly so that we can present the finale to the Abbe Museum's Native America Film series (that Reel Pizza underwrites) -- the classic silent film NANOOK, with live accompaniment composed and performed by the Sumner McKane Group. We will move the Sat evening show of HITCHCOCK to 4:30 only, and the silent film will start at 7pm (we will seat when Hitchcock gets out). Tickets are available through the Abbe, 288-3519.
If you are interested in silent film, the night before the Abbe event, Fri 1/25, there is another silent film event happening, this one at the Grand, Charlie Chaplin's THE GOLD RUSH, also with live accompaniment, here by TEMPO, Eastern Maine's Youth Orchestra playing a score especially composed for this performance by conductor Rebecca Edmundson. Tickets are available at the Grand 667-9500.
On Saturday Feb 2, we have two events happening simultaneously. We will be hosting a special matinee screening of LINCOLN in association with the Acadia Senior College at 1pm. Lifelong Lincoln enthusiast Nat Fenton will speak and lead discussion after the screening. On the other side, we present DOWNEAST at 2pm, a film about the closing of the Stinson sardine cannery in Prospect Harbor and its afterlife. We hope to have a guest to make remarks at the screening, but haven't been able to nail anyone down yet. Regular prices for both of these two screenings.
And finally our regular schedule is below. It is a complete schedule on both screens, but I don't have times for the last week because we still don't know the running times of the Oscar-nominated short film programs. Stay Tuned! And see you soon!
-Lisa
Fri 1/18 - Thurs 1/24 ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
Fri 1/18 - Mon 1/21 WRECK IT RALPH (PG) 93min 5:30 and 7:30
Tues 1/22 - Thurs 1/24 SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (R) 109min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 1/25 - Thurs 1/31 LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 1/25 - Mon 1/28 HITCHCOCK (PG-13) 98min 6:00 and 8:15 except Sat 4:30 only
Tues 1/29 - Thurs 1/31 CHASING ICE (PG-13) 74min 6:00 and 7:45
Fri 2/1 - Thurs 2/7 LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min
Fri 2/1 - Mon 2/4 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) ??min animated earlier, live-action later
Tues 2/5 - Thurs 2/7 HOLY MOTORS (NR) 115min [partly in FRENCH with subtitles]
Saturday Jan 26
NANOOK (NR) 70min [silent with live accompaniment] 7:00pm
In association with the Abbe Museum, and as a grand culmination of their annual Native American Film Series (which Reel Pizza sponsors) we present this seminal documentary silent film with accompaniment composed specifically for this film and performed live by the Sumner McKane Group, a modern instrumental music trio, including guitarist Sumner McKane, bassist Josh Robbins, and drummer Todd the Rocket Richard, based in southern Maine. Filmed in 1922, this film was one of the first to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry and is considered the first anthropological documentary film ever made. Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty spent a year following the lives of an Inuit family, led by Nanook, through their travels and travails enduring an Arctic winter. Tickets are available at the Abbe: 288-3519.
Saturday Feb 2
DOWNEAST (NR) 77min 2:00pm
An experiential story that unfolds over the course of two years in nearby Prospect Harbor, this intimate film from directors Ashley Sabin and David Redmon (Girl Model) observes the closing of the last remaining sardine cannery in the US and after, when Boston-based entrepreneur Antonio Bussone purchases the plant, hoping to re-build a lobster processing facility and rehire the laid-off, older sardine workers. His troubles begin day one as local politicians oppose his vision of rebuilding the factory. Undeterred, Antonio moves forward.
also Saturday Feb 2
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min 1:00pm
A special matinee screening of LINCOLN in association with the Acadia Senior College at 1pm. Lifelong Lincoln enthusiast Nat Fenton will speak and lead discussion after the screening. Taking its inspiration from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals director Stephen Spielberg, screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Angels in America), and actor Daniel Day-Lewis collaborate on this dramatic and powerful historical drama. Set during the final four months of the Civil War, of Lincoln’s presidency and his life, it brings to life the president’s determination at the tumultuous beginning of his second term to pass the thirteenth amendment (abolishing slavery) before the end of the war, so as to make this change permanent in the country. Tommy Lee Jones gives a memorable performance as abolitionist and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens.
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Friday Jan 18 - Thursday Jan 24
ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
With a story you’d think they’d only come up with in the movies, actor-director Ben Affleck’s third time directing is a solid, unexpectedly suspenseful and fully entertaining film. It is also based on true events, long kept secret but declassified by President Clinton in 1997. Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA specialist in “exfiltration” who was instrumental in concocting and implementing a far-fetched, in fact preposterous, scheme to rescue six Americans who managed to escape unnoticed when Iranians stormed the American Embassy in 1979 taking 52 hostages. These six found hiding in the home of the Canadian ambassador, but were trapped there, threatening themselves, the other hostages, and the Canadians. Seven Oscar nominations including Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin and Best Picture.
Friday Jan 18 - Monday Jan 21
Poor Ralph (John C. Reilly) has spent the last 30 or so years in the 1980s era arcade game Fix It Felix, crushing buildings that his cheerful nemesis rebuilds with remarkable aplomb and speed, to the delight of the residents of Niceland. Although he knows it is his job, he grows tired of being the bad guy, as he really is nice, and sets off on a quest to earn a medal that he hopes will make him a hero in his colleagues’ eyes. He ends up first in war game Hero’s Duty, then in another game, Sugar Rush, where he meets a character with pixelating issues (Sarah Silverman) who is ostracized by her co-characters. He has also unwittingly caused chaos in his home game. This imaginative, smartly witty and colorful new Disney film that celebrates gaming while encouraging interaction in the real world, directed by Rich Moore (The Simpsons) and executive produced by Pixar guru John Lasseter, does for arcade games what Toy Story did for the nursery toy box. Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.
Tuesday Jan 22 - Thursday Jan 24
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (R) 109min 5:30 and 8:00
Billy (Sam Rockwell) is a part-time actor who makes ends meet as a dog-napper with his partner-in-crime Hans (Christopher Walken). Most recently they have stolen the beloved pooch of a wacko, psychotic gangster (Woody Harrelson). Billy also really wants to help his best friend (Colin Farrell) an alcoholic, struggling writer overdue with his next screenplay. He’s got a title (the movie’s) but not much else. This bloody, funny mesh of these two stories is the heart of this most entertaining comedy from Irish director Martin McDonaugh (Oscar-nominated for the screenplay of his debut film In Bruges). It is Tarantino x Charlie Kaufman x Coen Brothers with an excellent cast, sharp dialogue and gleefully brutal violence that is side-splittingly funny.
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Fri Jan 25 - Thurs Jan 31
LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min 5:30 and 8:00
This spellbinding, epic survival tale from director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) begins with a middle-aged Canadian man (Irrfan Khan) telling his immigration story to a writer. As a youth in Pondicherry, India, Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma), a spiritual boy who lives with his secular family and their small zoo of exotic animals. Moving to Canada with his family and their animals, the ship goes down; Pi survives, with only a Royal Bengal tiger as his companion in a lifeboat. The visually splendid, emotionally satisfying, altogether amazing adventure story, based on the novel by Yann Martel, tells of his 227 days spent with a carnivorous tiger at sea. Eleven Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Score and Best Song.
Fri Jan 25 - Mon Jan 28
HITCHCOCK (PG-13) 98min 6:00 and 8:15 except Sat 4:30 only
When a reporter asked influential director Alfred Hitchcock at the premiere of his latest, North by Northwest, if he wasn’t too old to continue making movies suggesting that he perhaps should retire while he was ahead, his response was to make the precedent-shattering horror film Psycho, a fresh, different story (for 1960) about a serial killer that the studios wouldn’t finance, even for a director of his stature. In this evocative, fully entertaining love story from director Sacha Gervasi (Anvil!) from Stephen Rebello’s exhaustively researched biography adapted by John McLaughlin (Black Swan), Anthony Hopkins stars as the obsessive director and Helen Mirren plays his wife and creative partner Alma as they negotiate their faltering relationship, the film production and other obstacles. Scarlett Johanssen costars as actress Janet Leigh, and James D’Arcy as actor Anthony Perkins, Psycho’s stars. Oscar nominated for Makeup and Hairstyling.
Tues Jan 29 - Thurs Jan 31
CHASING ICE (PG-13) 74min 6:00 and 7:45
Spurred by an assignment for National Geographic to visually depict climate change, acclaimed photographer James Balog, a global warming skeptic, set out to photograph melting glaciers, and in the process became a believer. First-time filmmaker Jeff Orlowski documents the challenges and successes of Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey of glaciers in Alaska, Greenland, Iceland and Montana. Using time lapse photography, Balog has captured a multi-year record of the eye-opening changes in these massive sheets of ice with harrowing, exquisitely beautiful and remarkably sobering images. Oscar nominated for Best Song.
Fri Feb 1 - Thurs Feb 7
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min
Taking its inspiration from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals director Stephen Spielberg, screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Angels in America), and actor Daniel Day-Lewis collaborate on this dramatic and powerful historical drama. Set during the final four months of the Civil War, of Lincoln’s presidency and his life, it brings to life the president’s determination at the tumultuous beginning of his second term to pass the thirteenth amendment (abolishing slavery) before the end of the war, so as to make this change permanent in the country. Tommy Lee Jones gives a memorable performance as abolitionist and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. Twelve Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Director, Actor (2) for Day-Lewis and Jones, Actress for Sally Field, Adapted Screenplay, Costumes, Cinematography and Score.
Fri Feb 1 - Mon Feb 4
OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) ??min animated earlier; live-action later
The Oscar Nominations won’t be announced until after this copy goes to the printer, so we don’t yet know the lineup of short films that will be honored by the Academy. After qualifying based on festival honors and commercial runs, the Academy has narrowed the field to eleven in the live-action category, and ten in the animated category, which will be further winnowed to between three and five in each category as announced on the morning of Thursday Jan. 10. We will show the animated collection early and the live-action after. Two separate admissions. Obviously all Oscar-nominated....
Tues Feb 5 - Thurs Feb 7
HOLY MOTORS (NR) 115min [partly in FRENCH with subtitles]
Stretch yourself by experiencing this wondrous, beautiful cinematic adventure from French director Leos Carax. This inventive, episodic ride, a tribute to the power of cinema, is a mesmerizing and unforgettable visual feast. Transformative actor Denis Lavant (Lovers on the Bridge) plays many different roles over the course of this film. He begins as Monsieur Oscar, a well-dressed business man who is picked up at his house by a limousine driven by a slender blonde chauffeur (Edith Scob). Each time he enters the limo as it drives around Paris, he is given a new assignment and emerges a different character: a tycoon, a gypsy beggar, a ninja warrior, a sewer troll. Eva Mendes and Australian pop star Kylie Minogue “costar.”
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COMING SOON on the next schedule:
A LATE QUARTET
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
ANNA KARENINA
LES MISERABLES
HYDE PARK ON HUDSON
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
THIS IS 40
OSCAH' NIGHT!
Many Oscar nominees on both what remains of our current program and on this upcoming schedule!
Tonight is the last night of FLIGHT, which received nominations for original screenplay and Best Actor for Denzel Washington, and SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN (really wonderful - I watched it last night) (front-runner for Best Documentary.) Starting tomorrow, in THE SESSIONS, Helen Hunt was nominated for Supporting Actress, and THE HOBBIT earned nominations for visual effects, production design and makeup; Denmark's A ROYAL AFFAIR, which starts Tuesday, is a nominee for Foreign Language film.
We also have scheduled some special programming. There are three special events coming in the next few weeks. On Saturday 1/26 we will re-jigger our schedule slightly so that we can present the finale to the Abbe Museum's Native America Film series (that Reel Pizza underwrites) -- the classic silent film NANOOK, with live accompaniment composed and performed by the Sumner McKane Group. We will move the Sat evening show of HITCHCOCK to 4:30 only, and the silent film will start at 7pm (we will seat when Hitchcock gets out). Tickets are available through the Abbe, 288-3519.
If you are interested in silent film, the night before the Abbe event, Fri 1/25, there is another silent film event happening, this one at the Grand, Charlie Chaplin's THE GOLD RUSH, also with live accompaniment, here by TEMPO, Eastern Maine's Youth Orchestra playing a score especially composed for this performance by conductor Rebecca Edmundson. Tickets are available at the Grand 667-9500.
On Saturday Feb 2, we have two events happening simultaneously. We will be hosting a special matinee screening of LINCOLN in association with the Acadia Senior College at 1pm. Lifelong Lincoln enthusiast Nat Fenton will speak and lead discussion after the screening. On the other side, we present DOWNEAST at 2pm, a film about the closing of the Stinson sardine cannery in Prospect Harbor and its afterlife. We hope to have a guest to make remarks at the screening, but haven't been able to nail anyone down yet. Regular prices for both of these two screenings.
And finally our regular schedule is below. It is a complete schedule on both screens, but I don't have times for the last week because we still don't know the running times of the Oscar-nominated short film programs. Stay Tuned! And see you soon!
-Lisa
Fri 1/18 - Thurs 1/24 ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
Fri 1/18 - Mon 1/21 WRECK IT RALPH (PG) 93min 5:30 and 7:30
Tues 1/22 - Thurs 1/24 SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (R) 109min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 1/25 - Thurs 1/31 LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min 5:30 and 8:00
Fri 1/25 - Mon 1/28 HITCHCOCK (PG-13) 98min 6:00 and 8:15 except Sat 4:30 only
Tues 1/29 - Thurs 1/31 CHASING ICE (PG-13) 74min 6:00 and 7:45
Fri 2/1 - Thurs 2/7 LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min
Fri 2/1 - Mon 2/4 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) ??min animated earlier, live-action later
Tues 2/5 - Thurs 2/7 HOLY MOTORS (NR) 115min [partly in FRENCH with subtitles]
NANOOK (NR) 70min [silent with live accompaniment] 7:00pm
In association with the Abbe Museum, and as a grand culmination of their annual Native American Film Series (which Reel Pizza sponsors) we present this seminal documentary silent film with accompaniment composed specifically for this film and performed live by the Sumner McKane Group, a modern instrumental music trio, including guitarist Sumner McKane, bassist Josh Robbins, and drummer Todd the Rocket Richard, based in southern Maine. Filmed in 1922, this film was one of the first to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry and is considered the first anthropological documentary film ever made. Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty spent a year following the lives of an Inuit family, led by Nanook, through their travels and travails enduring an Arctic winter. Tickets are available at the Abbe: 288-3519.
Saturday Feb 2
DOWNEAST (NR) 77min 2:00pm
An experiential story that unfolds over the course of two years in nearby Prospect Harbor, this intimate film from directors Ashley Sabin and David Redmon (Girl Model) observes the closing of the last remaining sardine cannery in the US and after, when Boston-based entrepreneur Antonio Bussone purchases the plant, hoping to re-build a lobster processing facility and rehire the laid-off, older sardine workers. His troubles begin day one as local politicians oppose his vision of rebuilding the factory. Undeterred, Antonio moves forward.
also Saturday Feb 2
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min 1:00pm
A special matinee screening of LINCOLN in association with the Acadia Senior College at 1pm. Lifelong Lincoln enthusiast Nat Fenton will speak and lead discussion after the screening. Taking its inspiration from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals director Stephen Spielberg, screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Angels in America), and actor Daniel Day-Lewis collaborate on this dramatic and powerful historical drama. Set during the final four months of the Civil War, of Lincoln’s presidency and his life, it brings to life the president’s determination at the tumultuous beginning of his second term to pass the thirteenth amendment (abolishing slavery) before the end of the war, so as to make this change permanent in the country. Tommy Lee Jones gives a memorable performance as abolitionist and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens.
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Friday Jan 18 - Thursday Jan 24
ARGO (R) 120min 6:00 and 8:30
With a story you’d think they’d only come up with in the movies, actor-director Ben Affleck’s third time directing is a solid, unexpectedly suspenseful and fully entertaining film. It is also based on true events, long kept secret but declassified by President Clinton in 1997. Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA specialist in “exfiltration” who was instrumental in concocting and implementing a far-fetched, in fact preposterous, scheme to rescue six Americans who managed to escape unnoticed when Iranians stormed the American Embassy in 1979 taking 52 hostages. These six found hiding in the home of the Canadian ambassador, but were trapped there, threatening themselves, the other hostages, and the Canadians. Seven Oscar nominations including Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin and Best Picture.
Friday Jan 18 - Monday Jan 21
Poor Ralph (John C. Reilly) has spent the last 30 or so years in the 1980s era arcade game Fix It Felix, crushing buildings that his cheerful nemesis rebuilds with remarkable aplomb and speed, to the delight of the residents of Niceland. Although he knows it is his job, he grows tired of being the bad guy, as he really is nice, and sets off on a quest to earn a medal that he hopes will make him a hero in his colleagues’ eyes. He ends up first in war game Hero’s Duty, then in another game, Sugar Rush, where he meets a character with pixelating issues (Sarah Silverman) who is ostracized by her co-characters. He has also unwittingly caused chaos in his home game. This imaginative, smartly witty and colorful new Disney film that celebrates gaming while encouraging interaction in the real world, directed by Rich Moore (The Simpsons) and executive produced by Pixar guru John Lasseter, does for arcade games what Toy Story did for the nursery toy box. Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.
Tuesday Jan 22 - Thursday Jan 24
Billy (Sam Rockwell) is a part-time actor who makes ends meet as a dog-napper with his partner-in-crime Hans (Christopher Walken). Most recently they have stolen the beloved pooch of a wacko, psychotic gangster (Woody Harrelson). Billy also really wants to help his best friend (Colin Farrell) an alcoholic, struggling writer overdue with his next screenplay. He’s got a title (the movie’s) but not much else. This bloody, funny mesh of these two stories is the heart of this most entertaining comedy from Irish director Martin McDonaugh (Oscar-nominated for the screenplay of his debut film In Bruges). It is Tarantino x Charlie Kaufman x Coen Brothers with an excellent cast, sharp dialogue and gleefully brutal violence that is side-splittingly funny.
LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min 5:30 and 8:00
This spellbinding, epic survival tale from director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) begins with a middle-aged Canadian man (Irrfan Khan) telling his immigration story to a writer. As a youth in Pondicherry, India, Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma), a spiritual boy who lives with his secular family and their small zoo of exotic animals. Moving to Canada with his family and their animals, the ship goes down; Pi survives, with only a Royal Bengal tiger as his companion in a lifeboat. The visually splendid, emotionally satisfying, altogether amazing adventure story, based on the novel by Yann Martel, tells of his 227 days spent with a carnivorous tiger at sea. Eleven Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Score and Best Song.
Fri Jan 25 - Mon Jan 28
HITCHCOCK (PG-13) 98min 6:00 and 8:15 except Sat 4:30 only
When a reporter asked influential director Alfred Hitchcock at the premiere of his latest, North by Northwest, if he wasn’t too old to continue making movies suggesting that he perhaps should retire while he was ahead, his response was to make the precedent-shattering horror film Psycho, a fresh, different story (for 1960) about a serial killer that the studios wouldn’t finance, even for a director of his stature. In this evocative, fully entertaining love story from director Sacha Gervasi (Anvil!) from Stephen Rebello’s exhaustively researched biography adapted by John McLaughlin (Black Swan), Anthony Hopkins stars as the obsessive director and Helen Mirren plays his wife and creative partner Alma as they negotiate their faltering relationship, the film production and other obstacles. Scarlett Johanssen costars as actress Janet Leigh, and James D’Arcy as actor Anthony Perkins, Psycho’s stars. Oscar nominated for Makeup and Hairstyling.
CHASING ICE (PG-13) 74min 6:00 and 7:45
Spurred by an assignment for National Geographic to visually depict climate change, acclaimed photographer James Balog, a global warming skeptic, set out to photograph melting glaciers, and in the process became a believer. First-time filmmaker Jeff Orlowski documents the challenges and successes of Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey of glaciers in Alaska, Greenland, Iceland and Montana. Using time lapse photography, Balog has captured a multi-year record of the eye-opening changes in these massive sheets of ice with harrowing, exquisitely beautiful and remarkably sobering images. Oscar nominated for Best Song.
Fri Feb 1 - Thurs Feb 7
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min
Taking its inspiration from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals director Stephen Spielberg, screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Angels in America), and actor Daniel Day-Lewis collaborate on this dramatic and powerful historical drama. Set during the final four months of the Civil War, of Lincoln’s presidency and his life, it brings to life the president’s determination at the tumultuous beginning of his second term to pass the thirteenth amendment (abolishing slavery) before the end of the war, so as to make this change permanent in the country. Tommy Lee Jones gives a memorable performance as abolitionist and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. Twelve Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Director, Actor (2) for Day-Lewis and Jones, Actress for Sally Field, Adapted Screenplay, Costumes, Cinematography and Score.
Fri Feb 1 - Mon Feb 4
OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) ??min animated earlier; live-action later
The Oscar Nominations won’t be announced until after this copy goes to the printer, so we don’t yet know the lineup of short films that will be honored by the Academy. After qualifying based on festival honors and commercial runs, the Academy has narrowed the field to eleven in the live-action category, and ten in the animated category, which will be further winnowed to between three and five in each category as announced on the morning of Thursday Jan. 10. We will show the animated collection early and the live-action after. Two separate admissions. Obviously all Oscar-nominated....
Stretch yourself by experiencing this wondrous, beautiful cinematic adventure from French director Leos Carax. This inventive, episodic ride, a tribute to the power of cinema, is a mesmerizing and unforgettable visual feast. Transformative actor Denis Lavant (Lovers on the Bridge) plays many different roles over the course of this film. He begins as Monsieur Oscar, a well-dressed business man who is picked up at his house by a limousine driven by a slender blonde chauffeur (Edith Scob). Each time he enters the limo as it drives around Paris, he is given a new assignment and emerges a different character: a tycoon, a gypsy beggar, a ninja warrior, a sewer troll. Eva Mendes and Australian pop star Kylie Minogue “costar.”
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COMING SOON on the next schedule:
A LATE QUARTET
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
ANNA KARENINA
LES MISERABLES
HYDE PARK ON HUDSON
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
THIS IS 40
OSCAH' NIGHT!
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
[Reel Pizza] update Jan 11 - 17
hi everyone
Here are the titles and times for this next week at Reel Pizza.
The Senior Matinee for Thurs 1/10 is FLIGHT at 1:00pm... be sure to say "Happy Birthday" to your projectionist!
Starting Friday we will be showing THE HOBBIT and THE SESSIONS and A ROYAL AFFAIR.
The next full schedule will be headed your way shortly.
See you soon!
-Lisa
Fri - Thurs 1/11 - 1/17 THE HOBBIT (PG-13) 168min 5:00 and 8:30
Fri - Mon 1/11 - 14 THE SESSIONS (R) 98min
Tues - Thurs 1/15 - 1/17 A ROYAL AFFAIR (R) 137min [in Danish with subtitles]
Fri Jan 11 - Thurs Jan 17
THE HOBBIT (PG-13) 169min
Director Peter Jackson returns to Middle Earth, adapting JRR Tolkien’s prequel to the Lord of the Rings, and making the first remarkable and entrancing part of what will become a trilogy of films. Here we are introduced to a young Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) a sedentary hobbit with no sense of adventure who is cajoled by wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen reprising his LOTR role) and thirteen dwarves to leave his comfortable hobbit hole and participate in a burgling of a vicious dragon who long ago took over the elves’ mountain home and its treasure. On the journey fraught with peril he wins a certain ring from a curious creature he meets, Gollum (Andy Serkis, also reprising).
Fri Jan 11 - Mon Jan 14
THE SESSIONS (R) 98min
Journalist and poet Mark O’Brien (in a remarkable performance by versatile actor John Hawkes in a totally different role from either his previous Winter’s Bone or Martha Marcy May Marlene), suffers from polio and has spent his life since he was six confined to an iron lung. Still a virgin at aged 38 he is determined (before he passes his sell-by date) to discover an inherently human experience, consensual sex. After receiving the (quite funny) blessing of his priest (William H Macy), he engages the services of a professional and forthright sex therapist (Helen Hunt) who has dealt with disabled people before, but none like Mark. Based on a published article by the real Mr. O’Brien in 1990, writer-director and polio sufferer Ben Lewin has made an honest, uplifting and unforgettable film.
Tues Jan 15 - Thurs Jan 17
A ROYAL AFFAIR (R) 137min [in Danish with subtitles]
This sumptuous historical costume drama tells the fascinating true story of Denmark’s unlikely transition from a feudal state run by nobles clinging to their religion into an Enlightened country in the 18 th century. Writer-director Nikolaj Arcel, who wrote the Swedish Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, brings this story to vibrant, intelligent life. British Princess Caroline (Alicia Vikander, Anna Karenina) is married off to her cousin, King Christian of Denmark (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard) sight unseen; it doesn’t take long for her to realize he is juvenile and possibly insane. When the king brings German physician Johann Struensee into their lives, both their worlds change.
Here are the titles and times for this next week at Reel Pizza.
The Senior Matinee for Thurs 1/10 is FLIGHT at 1:00pm... be sure to say "Happy Birthday" to your projectionist!
Starting Friday we will be showing THE HOBBIT and THE SESSIONS and A ROYAL AFFAIR.
The next full schedule will be headed your way shortly.
See you soon!
-Lisa
Fri - Thurs 1/11 - 1/17 THE HOBBIT (PG-13) 168min 5:00 and 8:30
Fri - Mon 1/11 - 14 THE SESSIONS (R) 98min
Tues - Thurs 1/15 - 1/17 A ROYAL AFFAIR (R) 137min [in Danish with subtitles]
Fri Jan 11 - Thurs Jan 17
THE HOBBIT (PG-13) 169min
Director Peter Jackson returns to Middle Earth, adapting JRR Tolkien’s prequel to the Lord of the Rings, and making the first remarkable and entrancing part of what will become a trilogy of films. Here we are introduced to a young Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) a sedentary hobbit with no sense of adventure who is cajoled by wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen reprising his LOTR role) and thirteen dwarves to leave his comfortable hobbit hole and participate in a burgling of a vicious dragon who long ago took over the elves’ mountain home and its treasure. On the journey fraught with peril he wins a certain ring from a curious creature he meets, Gollum (Andy Serkis, also reprising).
Fri Jan 11 - Mon Jan 14
THE SESSIONS (R) 98min
Journalist and poet Mark O’Brien (in a remarkable performance by versatile actor John Hawkes in a totally different role from either his previous Winter’s Bone or Martha Marcy May Marlene), suffers from polio and has spent his life since he was six confined to an iron lung. Still a virgin at aged 38 he is determined (before he passes his sell-by date) to discover an inherently human experience, consensual sex. After receiving the (quite funny) blessing of his priest (William H Macy), he engages the services of a professional and forthright sex therapist (Helen Hunt) who has dealt with disabled people before, but none like Mark. Based on a published article by the real Mr. O’Brien in 1990, writer-director and polio sufferer Ben Lewin has made an honest, uplifting and unforgettable film.
Tues Jan 15 - Thurs Jan 17
A ROYAL AFFAIR (R) 137min [in Danish with subtitles]
This sumptuous historical costume drama tells the fascinating true story of Denmark’s unlikely transition from a feudal state run by nobles clinging to their religion into an Enlightened country in the 18 th century. Writer-director Nikolaj Arcel, who wrote the Swedish Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, brings this story to vibrant, intelligent life. British Princess Caroline (Alicia Vikander, Anna Karenina) is married off to her cousin, King Christian of Denmark (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard) sight unseen; it doesn’t take long for her to realize he is juvenile and possibly insane. When the king brings German physician Johann Struensee into their lives, both their worlds change.
Monday, December 31, 2012
[Reel Pizza] update Jan 3 - 10
Happy New Year Everyone!
It is lovely to be reopened and see all the friendly faces. Thank you for coming in!
We start our Senior Matinees on this coming Thursday Jan 3. We will show SKYFALL starting at 1pm.
I haven't spoken to Chris about what will be the following week...stay tuned, but know it will happen!
Below is next week's regular film schedule; see you soon.
-Lisa
1/4 - 1/10 FLIGHT (R) 138min
1/4 - 1/7 PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (PG-13) 103min
1/8 - 1/10 SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN (PG-13) 85min
Fri Jan 4 - Thurs Jan 10
FLIGHT (R) 138min
Denzel Washington gives a fully grounded performance as a flawed regional airline pilot whose demons catch up with him. After a mid-flight mechanical failure that appears to doom the craft and passengers, he makes a miraculous landing and is hailed as a hero. As the ensuing investigation into the crash proceeds, his heroics are questioned as details of his physical state at the time are discovered. In his first live-action film in a dozen year, director Robert Zembeckis (Cast Away) has made a taut, thoughtful and action-packed character study.
Fri Jan 4 - Mon Jan 7
PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (PG-13) 103min
High school freshman Charlie (Logan Lerman) is a loner with a troubled past who is taunted by his classmates. But his life changes when he befriends an outgoing, offbeat senior (Ezra Miller) in his shop class, and develops a crush on his sensitive sister (Emma Watson, moving on from Harry Potter). This touching, witty and moving story captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up. Author Stephen Chbosky adapted and directed his own semi-autobiographical novel to high acclaim.
Tues Jan 8 - Thurs Jan 10
Back in the early 1970s, Detroit-based singer-songwriter Rodriguez, the son of Mexican immigrants, cut two albums. Released with high expectations, and although his soulful songs were well-reviewed, they did not sell and Rodriguez faded quickly into obscurity. A few years later, copies of his albums made their way to Capetown, South Africa, where they were bootlegged and shared, and their songs of protest became the anthems of white anti-Apartheid youth. Known only by these two records, the mysterious Rodriguez became widely revered; the music was a phenomenon, while the singer was reportedly dead. Recently, two longtime fans started searching for any knowledge of this icon, with extraordinary results. Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul chronicled their search into a fascinating story; this is the frontrunner for Best Documentary Oscar this year.
It is lovely to be reopened and see all the friendly faces. Thank you for coming in!
We start our Senior Matinees on this coming Thursday Jan 3. We will show SKYFALL starting at 1pm.
I haven't spoken to Chris about what will be the following week...stay tuned, but know it will happen!
Below is next week's regular film schedule; see you soon.
-Lisa
1/4 - 1/10 FLIGHT (R) 138min
1/4 - 1/7 PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (PG-13) 103min
1/8 - 1/10 SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN (PG-13) 85min
Fri Jan 4 - Thurs Jan 10
FLIGHT (R) 138min
Denzel Washington gives a fully grounded performance as a flawed regional airline pilot whose demons catch up with him. After a mid-flight mechanical failure that appears to doom the craft and passengers, he makes a miraculous landing and is hailed as a hero. As the ensuing investigation into the crash proceeds, his heroics are questioned as details of his physical state at the time are discovered. In his first live-action film in a dozen year, director Robert Zembeckis (Cast Away) has made a taut, thoughtful and action-packed character study.
Fri Jan 4 - Mon Jan 7
PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (PG-13) 103min
High school freshman Charlie (Logan Lerman) is a loner with a troubled past who is taunted by his classmates. But his life changes when he befriends an outgoing, offbeat senior (Ezra Miller) in his shop class, and develops a crush on his sensitive sister (Emma Watson, moving on from Harry Potter). This touching, witty and moving story captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up. Author Stephen Chbosky adapted and directed his own semi-autobiographical novel to high acclaim.
Tues Jan 8 - Thurs Jan 10
Back in the early 1970s, Detroit-based singer-songwriter Rodriguez, the son of Mexican immigrants, cut two albums. Released with high expectations, and although his soulful songs were well-reviewed, they did not sell and Rodriguez faded quickly into obscurity. A few years later, copies of his albums made their way to Capetown, South Africa, where they were bootlegged and shared, and their songs of protest became the anthems of white anti-Apartheid youth. Known only by these two records, the mysterious Rodriguez became widely revered; the music was a phenomenon, while the singer was reportedly dead. Recently, two longtime fans started searching for any knowledge of this icon, with extraordinary results. Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul chronicled their search into a fascinating story; this is the frontrunner for Best Documentary Oscar this year.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
[Reel Pizza] Schedule! Dec 26 - Jan 17
hi everyone~
Happy Solstice! Our time away was fabulous, southern Utah is an amazing place with lots to explore; we'd be glad to tell you about it if you are interested. We are getting ready to "bring back the light," spiffing things up and making some repairs, and will be reopening "for the season" on Wednesday December 26th. We are still selling gift certificates and big tickets for you last minute shoppers. I will be here Friday 8-3:30, Sunday 10-1 and Monday 10-1. Side door, upstairs...
We have our film schedule for the next three weeks (mostly) confirmed....here you go. Yes, the Hobbit and Lincoln will both be coming in January, just not sure exactly when.....will confirm up dates after the holidays. We are looking forward to getting back in to the groove. Have a great, happy (less than a) week and we will see you all soon!
-Lisa and Chris
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12/26 - 12/31 RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (PG) 97min
12/26 - 1/3 SKYFALL (PG-13) 143min
1/1 - 1/3 BREAKING DAWN Pt. 2 (PG-13) 116min
1/4 - 1/10 FLIGHT (R) 138min
1/4 - 1/7 PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (PG-13) 103min
1/8 - 1/10 SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN (PG-13) 85min
1/11 - 14 THE SESSIONS (R) 98min
1/15 - 1/17 A ROYAL AFFAIR (R) 137min [in Danish with subtitles]
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Fri Dec 26 - Mon Dec 31
RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (PG) 97min
This exhilarating and original animation, based on Oscar-winning author William Joyce’s THE GUARDIANS OF CHILDHOOD series, is an adventurous, magical family film. (Joyce co-created last year’s Oscar-winning short animation The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.) Adapted by Pulitzer-prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire (Robots), the enchanting story follows a team of mythical heroes who are guardians of childhood – Santa, Easter Bunny, Sandman, Tooth Fairy, and Jack Frost - protecting children from the evil of Pitch (as in black), the boogeyman who brings nightmares. Voice work is by Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, Isla Fisher, Chris Pine and Jude Law.
Fri Dec 26 - Thurs Jan 3
SKYFALL (PG-13) 143min
Daniel Craig returns for a third time as Bond, James Bond, in this chilling, thrilling and most entertaining new episode. Sam Mendes (American Beauty) directs the twenty-third entry, however, it may be the end for both Bond and M, as a new chairman believes these two have outlived their usefulness and should be retired. Javier Bardem is at his most evil as an exceptionally deranged bad guy who has gotten his hands on a hard drive containing the names of current secret agents. Judi Dench returns for her seventh round as M, the head of British intelligence, and under whose watch this drive disappeared.
Tues Jan 1 - Thurs Jan 3
BREAKING DAWN Pt. 2 (PG-13) 116min
In this funny and exciting and entertaining final installment, directed by Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) of the über-popular vampire romance series, Bella (Kristen Stewart) has been saved from death in childbirth by her vampire husband Edward Cullen (Rob Pattinson) and is now a member of the eternal undead. She is also a new mom of a half-human half-vampire daughter (Mackenzie Foy), upon whom her friend, werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner) has imprinted, for life. Also her daughter has attracted the unwelcome attention of the vampire authorities, the Volturi, and the Cullen family is going to have to fight them for their lives.
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Fri Jan 4 - Thurs Jan 10
FLIGHT (R) 138min
Denzel Washington gives a fully grounded performance as a flawed regional airline pilot whose demons catch up with him. After a mid-flight mechanical failure that appears to doom the craft and passengers, he makes a miraculous landing and is hailed as a hero. As the ensuing investigation into the crash proceeds, his heroics are questioned as details of his physical state at the time are discovered. In his first live-action film in a dozen year, director Robert Zembeckis (Cast Away) has made a taut, thoughtful and action-packed character study.
Fri Jan 4 - Mon Jan 7
PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (PG-13) 103min
High school freshman Charlie (Logan Lerman) is a loner with a troubled past who is taunted by his classmates. But his life changes when he befriends an outgoing, offbeat senior (Ezra Miller) in his shop class, and develops a crush on his sensitive sister (Emma Watson, moving on from Harry Potter). This touching, witty and moving story captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up. Author Stephen Chbosky adapted and directed his own semi-autobiographical novel to high acclaim.
Tues Jan 8 - Thurs Jan 10
Back in the early 1970s, Detroit-based singer-songwriter Rodriguez, the son of Mexican immigrants, cut two albums. Released with high expectations, and although his soulful songs were well-reviewed, they did not sell and Rodriguez faded quickly into obscurity. A few years later, copies of his albums made their way to Capetown, South Africa, where they were bootlegged and shared, and their songs of protest became the anthems of white anti-Apartheid youth. Known only by these two records, the mysterious Rodriguez became widely revered; the music was a phenomenon, while the singer was reportedly dead. Recently, two longtime fans started searching for any knowledge of this icon, with extraordinary results. Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul chronicled their search into a fascinating story; this is the frontrunner for Best Documentary Oscar this year.
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Fri Jan 11 - Mon Jan 14
THE SESSIONS (R) 98min
Journalist and poet Mark O’Brien (in a remarkable performance by versatile actor John Hawkes in a totally different role from either his previous Winter’s Bone or Martha Marcy May Marlene), suffers from polio and has spent his life since he was six confined to an iron lung. Still a virgin at aged 38 he is determined (before he passes his sell-by date) to discover an inherently human experience, consensual sex. After receiving the (quite funny) blessing of his priest (William H Macy), he engages the services of a professional and forthright sex therapist (Helen Hunt) who has dealt with disabled people before, but none like Mark. Based on a published article by the real Mr. O’Brien in 1990, writer-director and polio sufferer Ben Lewin has made an honest, uplifting and unforgettable film.
Tues Jan 15 - Thurs Jan 17
A ROYAL AFFAIR (R) 137min [in Danish with subtitles]
This sumptuous historical costume drama tells the fascinating true story of Denmark’s unlikely transition from a feudal state run by nobles clinging to their religion into an Enlightened country in the 18 th century. Writer-director Nikolaj Arcel, who wrote the Swedish Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, brings this story to vibrant, intelligent life. British Princess Caroline (Alicia Vikander, Anna Karenina) is married off to her cousin, King Christian of Denmark (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard) sight unseen; it doesn’t take long for her to realize he is juvenile and possibly insane. When the king brings German physician Johann Struensee into their lives, both their worlds change.
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Coming on our Second Screen?
With a story you’d think they’d only come up with in the movies, actor-director Ben Affleck’s third time directing is a solid, unexpectedly suspenseful and fully entertaining film. It is also based on true events, long kept secret but declassified by President Clinton in 1997. Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA specialist in “exfiltration” who was instrumental in concocting and implementing a far-fetched, in fact preposterous, scheme to rescue six Americans who managed to escape unnoticed when Iranians stormed the American Embassy in 1979 taking 52 hostages. These six found hiding in the home of the Canadian ambassador, but were trapped there, threatening themselves, the other hostages, and the Canadians.
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min
Taking its inspiration from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals director Stephen Spielberg, screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Angels in America), and actor Daniel Day-Lewis collaborate on this dramatic and powerful historical drama. Set during the final four months of the Civil War, of Lincoln’s presidency and his life, it brings to life the president’s determination at the tumultuous beginning of his second term to pass the thirteenth amendment (abolishing slavery) before the end of the war, so as to make this change permanent in the country. Tommy Lee Jones gives a memorable performance as abolitionist and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens.
LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min
This spellbinding, epic survival tale from director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) begins with a middle-aged Canadian man (Irrfan Khan) telling his immigration story to a writer. As a youth in Pondicherry, India, Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma), a spiritual boy who lives with his secular family and their small zoo of exotic animals. Moving to Canada with his family and their animals, the ship goes down; Pi survives, with only a Royal Bengal tiger as his companion in a lifeboat. The visually splendid, emotionally satisfying, altogether amazing adventure story, based on the novel by Yann Martel, tells of his 227 days spent with a carnivorous tiger at sea.
THE HOBBIT (PG-13) 169min
Director Peter Jackson returns to Middle Earth, adapting JRR Tolkien’s prequel to the Lord of the Rings, and making the first remarkable and entrancing part of what will become a trilogy of films. Here we are introduced to a young Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) a sedentary hobbit with no sense of adventure who is cajoled by wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen reprising his LOTR role) and thirteen dwarves to leave his comfortable hobbit hole and participate in a burgling of a vicious dragon who long ago took over the elves’ mountain home and its treasure. On the journey fraught with peril he wins a certain ring from a curious creature he meets, Gollum (Andy Serkis, also reprising).
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Coming Next Schedule?
Hitchcock
A Late Quartet
Silver Linings Playbook
Wreck It Ralph
Oscar Nominated Short Films
Seven Psychopaths
Anna Karenina
Nanook with live accompaniment 1/26 -- more on this soon!
Happy Solstice! Our time away was fabulous, southern Utah is an amazing place with lots to explore; we'd be glad to tell you about it if you are interested. We are getting ready to "bring back the light," spiffing things up and making some repairs, and will be reopening "for the season" on Wednesday December 26th. We are still selling gift certificates and big tickets for you last minute shoppers. I will be here Friday 8-3:30, Sunday 10-1 and Monday 10-1. Side door, upstairs...
We have our film schedule for the next three weeks (mostly) confirmed....here you go. Yes, the Hobbit and Lincoln will both be coming in January, just not sure exactly when.....will confirm up dates after the holidays. We are looking forward to getting back in to the groove. Have a great, happy (less than a) week and we will see you all soon!
-Lisa and Chris
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12/26 - 12/31 RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (PG) 97min
12/26 - 1/3 SKYFALL (PG-13) 143min
1/1 - 1/3 BREAKING DAWN Pt. 2 (PG-13) 116min
1/4 - 1/10 FLIGHT (R) 138min
1/4 - 1/7 PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (PG-13) 103min
1/8 - 1/10 SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN (PG-13) 85min
1/11 - 14 THE SESSIONS (R) 98min
1/15 - 1/17 A ROYAL AFFAIR (R) 137min [in Danish with subtitles]
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Fri Dec 26 - Mon Dec 31
RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (PG) 97min
This exhilarating and original animation, based on Oscar-winning author William Joyce’s THE GUARDIANS OF CHILDHOOD series, is an adventurous, magical family film. (Joyce co-created last year’s Oscar-winning short animation The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.) Adapted by Pulitzer-prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire (Robots), the enchanting story follows a team of mythical heroes who are guardians of childhood – Santa, Easter Bunny, Sandman, Tooth Fairy, and Jack Frost - protecting children from the evil of Pitch (as in black), the boogeyman who brings nightmares. Voice work is by Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, Isla Fisher, Chris Pine and Jude Law.
Fri Dec 26 - Thurs Jan 3
SKYFALL (PG-13) 143min
Daniel Craig returns for a third time as Bond, James Bond, in this chilling, thrilling and most entertaining new episode. Sam Mendes (American Beauty) directs the twenty-third entry, however, it may be the end for both Bond and M, as a new chairman believes these two have outlived their usefulness and should be retired. Javier Bardem is at his most evil as an exceptionally deranged bad guy who has gotten his hands on a hard drive containing the names of current secret agents. Judi Dench returns for her seventh round as M, the head of British intelligence, and under whose watch this drive disappeared.
Tues Jan 1 - Thurs Jan 3
BREAKING DAWN Pt. 2 (PG-13) 116min
In this funny and exciting and entertaining final installment, directed by Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) of the über-popular vampire romance series, Bella (Kristen Stewart) has been saved from death in childbirth by her vampire husband Edward Cullen (Rob Pattinson) and is now a member of the eternal undead. She is also a new mom of a half-human half-vampire daughter (Mackenzie Foy), upon whom her friend, werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner) has imprinted, for life. Also her daughter has attracted the unwelcome attention of the vampire authorities, the Volturi, and the Cullen family is going to have to fight them for their lives.
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Fri Jan 4 - Thurs Jan 10
FLIGHT (R) 138min
Denzel Washington gives a fully grounded performance as a flawed regional airline pilot whose demons catch up with him. After a mid-flight mechanical failure that appears to doom the craft and passengers, he makes a miraculous landing and is hailed as a hero. As the ensuing investigation into the crash proceeds, his heroics are questioned as details of his physical state at the time are discovered. In his first live-action film in a dozen year, director Robert Zembeckis (Cast Away) has made a taut, thoughtful and action-packed character study.
Fri Jan 4 - Mon Jan 7
PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (PG-13) 103min
High school freshman Charlie (Logan Lerman) is a loner with a troubled past who is taunted by his classmates. But his life changes when he befriends an outgoing, offbeat senior (Ezra Miller) in his shop class, and develops a crush on his sensitive sister (Emma Watson, moving on from Harry Potter). This touching, witty and moving story captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up. Author Stephen Chbosky adapted and directed his own semi-autobiographical novel to high acclaim.
Tues Jan 8 - Thurs Jan 10
Back in the early 1970s, Detroit-based singer-songwriter Rodriguez, the son of Mexican immigrants, cut two albums. Released with high expectations, and although his soulful songs were well-reviewed, they did not sell and Rodriguez faded quickly into obscurity. A few years later, copies of his albums made their way to Capetown, South Africa, where they were bootlegged and shared, and their songs of protest became the anthems of white anti-Apartheid youth. Known only by these two records, the mysterious Rodriguez became widely revered; the music was a phenomenon, while the singer was reportedly dead. Recently, two longtime fans started searching for any knowledge of this icon, with extraordinary results. Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul chronicled their search into a fascinating story; this is the frontrunner for Best Documentary Oscar this year.
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Fri Jan 11 - Mon Jan 14
THE SESSIONS (R) 98min
Journalist and poet Mark O’Brien (in a remarkable performance by versatile actor John Hawkes in a totally different role from either his previous Winter’s Bone or Martha Marcy May Marlene), suffers from polio and has spent his life since he was six confined to an iron lung. Still a virgin at aged 38 he is determined (before he passes his sell-by date) to discover an inherently human experience, consensual sex. After receiving the (quite funny) blessing of his priest (William H Macy), he engages the services of a professional and forthright sex therapist (Helen Hunt) who has dealt with disabled people before, but none like Mark. Based on a published article by the real Mr. O’Brien in 1990, writer-director and polio sufferer Ben Lewin has made an honest, uplifting and unforgettable film.
Tues Jan 15 - Thurs Jan 17
A ROYAL AFFAIR (R) 137min [in Danish with subtitles]
This sumptuous historical costume drama tells the fascinating true story of Denmark’s unlikely transition from a feudal state run by nobles clinging to their religion into an Enlightened country in the 18 th century. Writer-director Nikolaj Arcel, who wrote the Swedish Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, brings this story to vibrant, intelligent life. British Princess Caroline (Alicia Vikander, Anna Karenina) is married off to her cousin, King Christian of Denmark (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard) sight unseen; it doesn’t take long for her to realize he is juvenile and possibly insane. When the king brings German physician Johann Struensee into their lives, both their worlds change.
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Coming on our Second Screen?
With a story you’d think they’d only come up with in the movies, actor-director Ben Affleck’s third time directing is a solid, unexpectedly suspenseful and fully entertaining film. It is also based on true events, long kept secret but declassified by President Clinton in 1997. Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA specialist in “exfiltration” who was instrumental in concocting and implementing a far-fetched, in fact preposterous, scheme to rescue six Americans who managed to escape unnoticed when Iranians stormed the American Embassy in 1979 taking 52 hostages. These six found hiding in the home of the Canadian ambassador, but were trapped there, threatening themselves, the other hostages, and the Canadians.
LINCOLN (PG-13) 149min
Taking its inspiration from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals director Stephen Spielberg, screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Angels in America), and actor Daniel Day-Lewis collaborate on this dramatic and powerful historical drama. Set during the final four months of the Civil War, of Lincoln’s presidency and his life, it brings to life the president’s determination at the tumultuous beginning of his second term to pass the thirteenth amendment (abolishing slavery) before the end of the war, so as to make this change permanent in the country. Tommy Lee Jones gives a memorable performance as abolitionist and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens.
LIFE OF PI (PG) 127min
This spellbinding, epic survival tale from director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) begins with a middle-aged Canadian man (Irrfan Khan) telling his immigration story to a writer. As a youth in Pondicherry, India, Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma), a spiritual boy who lives with his secular family and their small zoo of exotic animals. Moving to Canada with his family and their animals, the ship goes down; Pi survives, with only a Royal Bengal tiger as his companion in a lifeboat. The visually splendid, emotionally satisfying, altogether amazing adventure story, based on the novel by Yann Martel, tells of his 227 days spent with a carnivorous tiger at sea.
THE HOBBIT (PG-13) 169min
Director Peter Jackson returns to Middle Earth, adapting JRR Tolkien’s prequel to the Lord of the Rings, and making the first remarkable and entrancing part of what will become a trilogy of films. Here we are introduced to a young Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) a sedentary hobbit with no sense of adventure who is cajoled by wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen reprising his LOTR role) and thirteen dwarves to leave his comfortable hobbit hole and participate in a burgling of a vicious dragon who long ago took over the elves’ mountain home and its treasure. On the journey fraught with peril he wins a certain ring from a curious creature he meets, Gollum (Andy Serkis, also reprising).
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Coming Next Schedule?
Hitchcock
A Late Quartet
Silver Linings Playbook
Wreck It Ralph
Oscar Nominated Short Films
Seven Psychopaths
Anna Karenina
Nanook with live accompaniment 1/26 -- more on this soon!
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