[Reel Pizza] update Oct 9 - 15

E-Greetings!
We are departing the text for this coming week's film.  Starting Friday 10/9 thru Thursday 10/15 we will be screening the thrilling adventure film EVEREST (PG-13), playing opposite of THE PROPHET (PG) and JIMMY'S HALL (R).  And if you sometimes get your showtimes from our ad in the Mount Desert Islander (or know someone who does), the times listed here in the email are correct; the times in the newspaper's ad were created with some erroneous information and have changed (I want to say I will never trust the internet again!)  We will be showing WALK IN THE WOODS next week, for those who are waiting, and the next schedule of films will be in your inbox by tomorrow. 

Here is this coming Holiday week's schedule.  We look forward to seeing you!
-Lisa

Fri Oct 15 - Thurs Oct 15    EVEREST (PG-13)  122min  6:00 & 8:30
Fri Oct 15 - Mon Oct 12    KAHLIL GIBRAN'S THE PROPHET (PG) 85min  5:30 & 7:45
Tues Oct 13 - Thurs Oct 15    JIMMY'S HALL (PG-13) 106min    5:30 & 8:00

Fri Oct 9 - Thurs Oct 15
EVEREST  (PG-13)  122mi n  6:00 & 8:30

Shot in the Himalayas and in Italy's Dolomite range, this harrowing and thrilling adventure is a loose dramatization of the events of the ill-fated 1996 Mount Everest expedition detailed in the non-fiction Into Thin Air by participant and author Jon Krakaurer (Into the Wild).  Jake Gyllenhaal stars as daredevil American guide Rob Hall and Jason Clarke as serious New Zealander guide Scott Fischer, rivals who are leading separate groups of hikers, including a defiant Texan (Josh Brolin) and a postal worker on his second attempt (John Hawkes).  Written by William Nicholson (Gladiator) and Simon Beaufoy (127 Hours) and costarring Emily Watson, Keira Knightly and Robin Wright this stunning film is directed by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (The Deep).   trailer

Fri Oct 9 - Mon Oct 12
KAHLIL GIBRAN'S THE PROPHET (PG) 85min  5:30 & 7:45
Enchanting and inspirational, this lovely animated adaptation of the classic volume of poetry by the celebrated Lebanese author features the works of an international group of nine award-winning animators, including Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues), 2 time Oscar Nominee Thom Moore (The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea), and 2 time Oscar Nominee and cartoonist Bill Plympton (Guard Dog), who bring a selection of the poems to life. Directed by R oger Allers (The Lion King), the animated poems are woven through a story of an exiled poet (Liam Neeson), his housekeeper (Salma Hayek) and her free-spirited daughter (Quvenzhané Wallis), with music by Damien Rice, Glen Hansard, and Yo-Yo Ma.  trailer

Tues Oct 13 - Thurs Oct 15
JIMMY'S HALL (PG-13) 106min  5:30 & 8:00
Socio-realist, British director Ken Loach (The Wind that Shakes the Barley, The Angel's Share) has made a rich, gentle, fact-based period drama about the only Irish man ever deported from Ireland. Based on a play by Donal O'Kelly and written by his long-time collaborator Paul Laverty, this is a portrait of Jimmy Gralton, whose sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads, which became a place where people could come to learn, argue, dream, dance and have fun. But the local priest and politicians deem it a den of communism, a threat to the community, and order it shut.  trailer

[Reel Pizza] update Oct 2 - 8

ok, now it kindof feels like fall!  Maybe with that mercifully not too much rain (poor Searsport!), the leaves will change color and not just shrivel up dried in the next few weeks...  Remember we have A/C when it's hot out and Heat when it's cold &/or rainy!  Might be time to bring back the soups!  Here is the schedule that starts today thru next Thursday.  We continue popular THE INTERN for another week, but at different showtimes than last week.  New films include both the highly acclaimed (with 99% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer) PHOENIX, and (also certified Fresh with 95% on the Tomatometer) DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL.  Hope to see you soon. Happy October!  -Lisa


Fri Oct 2 - Thurs Oct 8  THE INTERN (PG-13) 121min HELD OVER!  New Times!  5:30 & 8:00
Fri Oct 2 - Mon Oct 5  PHOENIX (PG-13) 98min [in GERMAN with subtitles]  6:00 & 8:15
Tues Oct 6 - Thurs Oct 8  THE DIARY OF A TEEN-AGE GIRL (R) 102min  6:00 & 8:15


Fri Oct 2 - Thurs Oct 8 
Held Over a Second Week!  New Times!
THE INTERN (PG-13) 121min  5:30 & 8:00
BRAND NEW! Robert DeNiro stars as Ben Whitaker, a 70 year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing and opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion startup, founded and run by Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway) who is finding herself more and more in over her head with her increasingly successful business. This funny new intergenerational comedy is written and directed by Nancy Meyers (The Parent Trap, Something's Gotta Give).  trailer

Fri Oct 2 - Mon Oct 5
PHOENIX (PG-13) 98min [in GERMAN with subtitles]  6:00 & 8:15
Acclaimed director Christian Petzold (Barbara, Jerichow) has made a spellbinding, haunting, and beautiful mystery of identity, illusion and deception that unfolds against the turmoil of post-WW2 Germany. Based on a French novel "Return from the Ashes" actress Nina Hoss (A Most Wanted Man) stars as Nelly a disfigured Holocaust survivor and former nightclub singer who reluctantly takes a new identity while searching for her husband after the war who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.  trailer

Tues Oct 6 - Thurs Oct 8
THE DIARY OF A TEEN-AGE GIRL (R) 102min  6:00 & 8:15
Captivating, frank, funny, and bracingly honest, this debut film from director Phoebe Gloekner, using the graphic novel by Marielle Heller and starring Kristen Wiig, Alexander Sarsgaard, and Bel Powley, explores the story of a fifteen year old girl's sexual and artistic awakening, and how she survives the consequences of her reckless decisions. She starts by enticing her largely absent mom's boyfriend into an inappropriate and complex relationship, then feels alternatively excited and self-loathing about herself with each subsequent choice, feelings she shares with her diary and with her artistic muse, groundbreaking feminist comic artist Aline Kominsky (Mrs. R. Crumb). "For the girls when they are grown."  trailer

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[Reel Pizza] update Sept 25 - Oct 1

hi everyone

Thank you to everyone who came out to Reel Pizza this past weekend for MIFF By-the-Sea and to all the filmmakers who came to town to share their work.  It was truly a great weekend of excellent films and speakers, and already we are looking forward to the 8th edition next fall! 

We are back into regular films.  This weekend we will be opening the new comedy starring Robert DeNiro and Anne Hathaway THE INTERN.  And we will present the 18th edition of the MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL. This was a great program we screened for the first time last year, in which the audience watches a program of 10 short films, both documentary and fiction (chosen from a record 678 entries) from filmmakers across the globe.  Then you mark a ballot with your choice of best film and best actor, which we tally and send on to headquarters, which is added to the choices from audiences all over the world (it is simultaneously screening in  over 250 countries this weekend); on Oct 5th the winners will be announced. 

Here is this coming week's schedule, we look forward to seeing you soon!
-Lisa

Fri Sept 25 - Thurs Oct 1
THE INTERN (PG-13) 121min  6:00 & 8:30
BRAND NEW! Robert DeNiro stars as Ben Whitaker, a 70 year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing and opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion startup, founded and run by Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway) who is finding herself more and more in over her head with her increasingly successful business. This funny new intergenerational comedy is written and directed by Nancy Meyers (The Parent Trap, Something's Gotta Give).  trailer

Fri Sept 25 - Mon Sept 28
MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (NR) 135min   5:30 & 8:00
Join with movie-goers in over 250 cities on six continents to vote for your choice of short film from one of today's up-and-coming young filmmakers behind the camera, as well as the actors in front in this 18th edition of this global festival. Every screening showcases ten films, most live-action but also two animated titles, from eight countries: Chile, Finland, France, Germany, Kosovo, Switzerland, Turkey, and USA; each viewer receives a ballot to fill out which will be tallied nightly with the winners announced at ManhattanShort.com on Monday Oct 5, at 10 AM. trailer

Tues Sept 29 - Thurs Oct 1
THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT (R) 122min   5:30 & 8:00
Would you rather be a guard or a prisoner? This was the question placed to two dozen Stanford college students in 1971 who had chosen to participate in social psychology professor Dr. Zimbardo's (Billy Crudup) infamous two week experiment recreating the prison environment; he wanted to look at whether people in positions of authority tended to abuse that authority. The experiment had to be truncated after six days because of the increasingly vicious behavior of the guards and growing distress of the traumatized inmates. The issues raised by the events portrayed in this thought-provoking, absorbing and well-acted historical drama from director Kyle Patrick Alvarez are still relevant today.  trailer

[Reel Pizza] update Sept 18 - 24

Hey everyone.

Busy week ahead of us. 

Tonight thru Thursday we have the last days of MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. and the extreme climbing film MERU.  (note, if you can't get to our screenings of MERU, it plays at the Alamo Theatre in Bucksport this coming weekend:  Fri/Sat at 7, Sun at 2)

Then Friday we start our 7th annual MIFF By-the-Sea Film Festival!  We are really excited for this year's event; we have several filmmakers who will be attending the opening night reception (the public is welcome to this ticketed event), and will also be speaking at at least one if not two of their screenings.  All the info is on the website, and was recently in your inbox, and the printed programs are available at the theater, Plus advance tickets are on sale now.  You can buy individual tickets (which are $8) to any screening, or if you are interested in more than one or two, you (and a friend, if you'd like) can go in on a pass to give you a price discount.  We offer 6 and 10 punch passes that two people can share, and a festival pass that gets you into everything.  Please be aware that BIG TICKETS will not get you into any of the MIFF By-the-Sea screenings.

If you want to go all out, you can see all the pictures (if not all the speakers) if you go in this order:
Fri: Dr Myes, The Living Green, In the Crosswind, Improvision
Sat:  After Winter, Quebekoisie, Astraea, Hancock County Shorts, The Hungry Years
Sun:  Angkor's Children, Children of the Arctic, The Congressman, The Epic of Everest
Mon: Come to My Voice, Theeb.

Then after the festival is all done, we have more excitement for you in the middle of next week.  
We will have our regular two films, AMY about the young singer Amy Winehouse, and Woody Allen's latest picture IRRATIONAL MAN.  However, the early show of AMY on Wednesday is being pre-empted by a special presentation of the new movie THE REFLEKTOR TAPES by the band Arcade Fire - two of the band's members' parents and grandparents live on MDI and we always enjoy supporting and presenting our local celebrities' film events.  Jazz harpist (and band mom) Liza Rey Butler will have pre-release copies of her new CD on sale.  Come enjoy the music!

Below is the schedule, and feel free to call if you want clarification, we understand there is a lot going on, and the schedule could be confusing!

Hope to see you this weekend!
-Lisa and Chris

FRI    4:00 - 6:00 CATERED OPENING NIGHT CELEBRATION (tickets $15)  6:00 - 7:30  THE STRANGE EYES OF DR MYES (guest)  6:15 - 7:45  COME TO MY VOICE   7:45 - 9:00   THE LIVING GREEN (guest)  8:15 - 10:10  THE CONGRESSMAN (guest)  9:15 - 10:45  IN THE CROSSWIND  11:00 - 12:25  IMPROVISION    

SAT  Screen one  2:00 - 3:15  THE LIVING GREEN (guest)  2:00 - 3:30  AFTER WINTER, SPRING   3:30 - 5:00  THE EPIC OF EVEREST   3:45 - 5:20  QUEBEKOISIE   5:15 - 7:05  ASTRAEA    5:30 - 7:00  IN THE CROSSWIND    7:15 - 8:35  ANGKOR'S CHILDREN (guest)  7:30 - 8:50  HANCOCK COUNTY SHORTS (guests)  9:00 - 10:35  THE HUNGRY YEARS  9:15 - 10:45  THE STRANGE EYES OF DR MYES  (guest)      SUN  Screen one  1:00 - 2:00  YOU ARE LOVED workshop(guests)  2:00 - 3:20  ANGKOR'S CHILDREN  2:30 - 4:10  THEEB   3:30 - 4:50  HANCOCK COUNTY SHORTS (guests)  4:30 - 6:05  CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC    5:15 - 6:45  AFTER WINTER, SPRING     6:15 - 8:10  THE CONGRESSMAN  7:00 - 8:35  THE HUNGRY YEARS  8:30 - 10:05  QUEBEKOISIE    8:45 - 10:15  THE EPIC OF EVEREST 

  MON  Screen one  5:30 - 7:05  CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC   6:00 - 7:30  COME TO MY VOICE  7:30 - 9:20  ASTRAEA   7:45 - 9:25  THEEB    Tuesday and Thursday  5:30	IRRATIONAL MAN (R)  97min  6:00	AMY  (R)  128min  7:45	IRRATIONAL MAN (R)  97min  8:30	AMY  (R)  128min    Wednesday only  5:30	IRRATIONAL MAN (R)  97min  6:00	THE REFLEKTOR TAPES (NR)  91min  7:45	IRRATIONAL MAN (R)  97min  8:30	AMY  (R)  128min  

Fri Sept 18 - Mon Sept 21
MAINE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL By-The-Sea
Four days of Maine-made and International films, both feature length and shorts, with talks by filmmakers, Special Edition of ImproVision, and more. 

Tues Sept 22 - Thurs Sept 24
IRRATIONAL MAN  (R)  97min   5:30 & 7:45
Veteran director Woody Allen's 50th feature film is a comic drama.  Joaquin Phoenix stars as a morose and alcoholic but also brilliant philosophy professor who is being chased by two women at his new school.  Parker Posey plays another professor in an unhappy marriage and Emma Stone plays one of his much younger students with a serious infatuation.  A misguided and ill-advised decision with the goal of making the world a better place changes his perspective on life for the better which helps him discover how he really can make a difference.  trailer
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Tues Sept 22 - Thurs Sept 24
AMY  (R)  128min  6:00* & 8:30   (No Wed 6pm screening)
This absorbing, restrained and honest film tells the story of Amy Winehouse, the gifted, talented British soul singer whose personal life was full of trouble.  With the participation of many of the young woman's friends and family, and with access to a trove of home video clips, director Asif Kapadia (Senna) has made a fascinating and intimate music documentary about the relationship between art, celebrity and addiction through the story of one of the biggest singing stars in British history whose light burned out too fast.  trailer
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Wednesday Sept 23  ONE SHOW ONLY 6:00pm  (pre-empts the early AMY screening)
THE REFLEKTOR TAPES  (NR)  91min   6:00
BRAND NEW!  A fascinating insight into the making of Arcade Fire's international #1 album Reflektor, this film recontextualizes the album experience and the band's creative journey, transporting the viewer into a kaleidoscopic sonic and visual landscape. It includes, filmed only for cinema audiences, never before seen personal interviews and moments captured by the band, two members whose roots are on MDI.    One Show Only!  trailer

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