As a result of the unparallelled support of the Spinning Reels community through its attendance over the past eight months, on behalf of those movie-goers, Spinning Reels made a donation of $2,000 to the Manna Food Bank in time for the Christmas “rush”.
“We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.”
Love is Strange
What says holiday season more than a film which is a thoughtful, heartbreaking, and beautifully realized ode to love, family, and both the struggles and rewards of age?
Please join us on Monday, December 8th as Spinning Reels presents Love is Strange. This modern-day love story is about a long-time couple who, just like most of us, face unexpected changes in their lives, but shortly after they finally marry. The movie is peppered with wonderfully-acted characters, none more so than Tony Award winning John Lithgow (Third Rock from the Sun, Terms of Endearment), Alfred Molina Chocolat, An Education) and Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny, The Wrestler). As the challenges mount, the effects on them and their friends and relatives play out on the large screen presenting us with a beautiful, emotional view of life.
98 min
Vivian Maier, was a career nanny who has earned a posthumous reputation as one of America’s most accomplished and insightful street photographers with an uncanny ability to get close to people from all walks of life.
Finding Vivian Maier
When she died in 2009 at age eighty-three, she left behind more than 100,000 negatives—images that she’d scarcely shared with anyone. She had spent most of her adult life as a child-care worker with no close ties. Her photographs and belongings were hidden in storage, until they were auctioned them off, and might have vanished into obscurity were it not for the intervention of John Maloof, a twenty-six year- old amateur historian who purchased a box of Maier’s unidentified photographs and became obsessed by what he discovered.
Finding Vivian Maier is an effort to uncover this mystery. Following clues, it trace s Maier’s history through New York City, France, and Chicago, yet as we meet people who knew Vivian, new questions arise about her life and work. Regardless, it’s a wonder to behold the world through Vivian Maier’s eyes. This initially playful, ultimately haunting look at the once-secret career of street photographer Vivian Maier is an aptly obsessive study of obsession. Click on the photo for more information about the movie.
83minutes
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Agata Trzebuchowska as Ida. Click on photo for IMDB page
We’ll examine that question and many others with our next film Ida on Monday, November 10.
A film Roger Ebert says is “Riveting, original and breathtakingly accomplished on every level…a masterpiece in any era, in any country”, Ida is the story of a young convent-raised girl who, having decided to become a nun, is directed by her Mother Superior to meet with her only known relative, an aunt. This journey of self-discovery takes place in 1960’s Poland and takes us into the countryside to uncover secrets both of Ida and her country’s past. Ida has been universally acclaimed by critics as a movie which is beautifully shot, acted, and at turns tender and bleak, funny and sad.
80 minutes
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Tracks starring Mia Wasikowska
In an acting tour-de-force, Mia Wasikowska (Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Albert Nobbs) portrays twenty-seven-year-old Robyn Davidson who crossed the desert of Australia in a journey of self-discovery. This 2,700 kilometer ‘walk’ from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean requires to to spend two years preparing.
Accompanied by her dog and four camels, this epic trip- the ultimate road movie, without a road- Tracks captures two extremely challenging journeys, one external, the other internal.
Forced by economic necessity to interact with a National Geographic photographer (Adam Driver), she comes to realize why she longs for the freedom that the journey offers her, and us.
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Brendan Gleeson stars in Calvary
Calvary is a well written, darkly funny and powerfully moving mystery set in an Irish coastal village. The local priest, played by Brendan Gleeson (The Grand Seduction, Brave Heart) is threatened during confession, and though he apparently knows the identity of his would-be murderer, he is more concerned about the struggling souls around him than of his own fate. As a result, he calmly goes about his weekly rounds in his quiet village where all is not, it turns out, as it seems. Part mystery, part mystery-of-life, the week of encounters helps him and us clarify some basic understandings of life, relationships, and faith.
For more information on Calvary, click on the photo.
100 minutes
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Josh Ronson, Michelle Hollingshead and Melinda Wilson have indicted that their bursaries will assist not only with the cost of tuition, materials and residence, but also provided a boost of confidence as they head off to study this fall. We look forward to seeing their efforts on “the big screen”!
Colin Firth and Emma Stone in “Magic in the Moonlight
Ahh, September with its warm days, cool nights, kids back at school- there’s a kind of magic in the air- especially as Spinning Reels presents Magic in the Moonlight on September 8, 7:00 PM at the Norwood Theatre.
Colin Firth (The Railway Man, The King’s Speech) and Emma Stone (The Amazing Spiderman, The Help) bring to life 1920’s Europe in all its comedic and visual glory. Magician Firth sets out to debunk the clairvoyant Stone which results in a conjuring of a whole different nature. Director Woody Allen is at his best as he creates a little movie magic of his own. For more on this movie click here.
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Rotary Club of Bracebridge
Gugu Mbatha-Raw as BELLE
Belle is a movie based on actual events and far more than a period piece of manners and costumes. It examines the issue of a free black woman in the heavily striated British society of the late 18th/early 19th centuries.
This is the story of an illegitimate mulatto child magnificently acted by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who is raised in affluence with an excellent education and, à la Jane Austen, once she’s an adult, provided with interesting marriage prospects. Coincidently, her uncle (Tom Wilkinson) is a judge who is hearing a case based upon the question of whether slaves are humans or things, a recurring backdrop of freedom and restriction.
This movie is far more than a costume drama as it is both intelligently written and well-acted, with the result a beautiful cinematic experience which is both intellectually and emotionally stimulating.
104 minutes,
MUSKOKA CONCERT ASSOCIATION
Many years ago, in response to a need for excellent musical artistry in cottage country, the not-for-profit Muskoka Concert Association was formed. Since then, many world-acclaimed musicians have performed at the classic Gravenhurst Opera House much to the delight of all area music lovers. The 2014-15 season of four excellent and diverse performers begins on October 24, and our benefit concert, “Oscar Peterson, the Jazz legend and the Man I knew”, with Lance Anderson of Orillia performing will take place on October 3rd. For more information, go to:www.muskokaconcertassociation.com, or click on the logo above.
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Colin Firth stars in The Railway Man. Click on the photo to go to IMDB page for more
On Monday, May 26 at 7PM join us at the Norwood theatre to see a moving story of forgiveness and redemption.
Based on the story of Eric Lomax, The Railway Man recounts the story of the signals engineer who was taken prisoner and forced to work on the notorious railway featured in the fictional movie The Bridge on the River Kwai. Colin Firth turns in a stellar performance as he confronts his past and the man responsible for its effect on his present life.
116 minutes
Rise Again-A Tribute to Stan Rogers, Driving Miss Daisy, and Star Trick-The Musical, play the MainStage at Actors’ Colony Theatre June 27 through August 17 in Bala. Also featuring a touring Punch ‘n Judy puppet show, top-notch cabaret performances each Sunday evening, and a Gala in Bala on August 12. It’s going to be an amazing season of summer stock at Actors’ Colony Theatre. www.actorscolonytheatre.com 705 641 2949
