Spinning Reels

May 2011

Ed Harris in The Way Back

Many thanks to our volunteers, our sponsors, to our friends at Film Circuit, and to you movie lovers for coming out and enjoying a movie with Spinning Reels. We couldn’t do it without you!

More to Come: We’ll be announcing our fall line-up mid-summer, so stay tuned.

Independent, foreign, Canadiana; Spinning Reels brings in movies you wouldn’t otherwise see in a small town like Bracebridge. Our movies run on the second and fourth Monday of the month, most months between September and May.

If you’re interested in joining our email list to receive alerts of upcoming movies or you’d like to talk to us about sponsoring a movie, we’d love to hear from you.

Have a safe and a happy summer. See you in September!

Screen date: May 9, 2011

Ed Harris in The Way Back

Set during the depths of the Second World War, seven prisoners escape a Siberian gulag, only to discover that their fight for survival has only just begun.

Grueling barely cuts it as the newly “liberated” escapees head into a frigid Siberian winterscape on what will be a 6,500 km journey that they have little chance of surviving.

For more, visit The Way Back’s website and trailer, IMDB page, and NYT Review.

Many thanks to our sponsor:

Gina & Brian Mitchell of The Norwood Theatre

For great movies all year round, visit The Norwood Theatre, 106 Manitoba Street, Bracebridge

Gina and Brian Mitchell of The Norwood Theatre have been welcoming Spinning Reels patrons since the group’s inception nearly a decade ago.

The Norwood shows great movies all year round. Check out what’s playing at www.thenorwoodtheatre.com or call their movie info line at 705.645.2333.

Monday, April 25, 2011 at 7 p.m.

A touching story of a most unlikely friendship. What does a hulking, middle-aged odd-jobber (Gérard Depardieu) have in common with a sweetly articulate retired international civil servant (Gisèle Casadesus)? In this gentle French-language comedy, what begins as an acquaintanceship on a park bench in a small provincial town blooms into a shared appreciation of literature, and for Depardieu’s character, a salve that begins to heal a lifetime of sorrow and ridicule.

For more, visit My Afternoons with Margueritte’s website and trailer, IMDB page, Observer Review.

Many thanks to our sponsor:

A Buyer’s Choice Home Inspections – Muskoka

Greg Thomson, Certified Home Inspector

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Screened on: Monday, March 28, 2011 at 7 p.m. Oscar-nommed international thriller Incendies (Scorched).

Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring Rémy Girard, Allen Altman, Lubna Azabal. This is a powerful French-language epic about how a mother’s last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East to unlock the secrets of her harrowing past, the father they thought was dead, the brother they didn’t know existed.

Based on Wajdi Mouawad’s internationally-acclaimed play.

For more, visit Incendies’ website and trailer, IMDB page, Hollywood Reporter Review.

Many thanks to our sponsor:

Westcott and Larkin Chartered Accountants*
New location:
4-230 Manitoba Street, Bracebridge.
705.645.1692.

*Clark Westcott CA Professional Corporation and Christine Ann Larkin Professional Corporation practicing in association.

Henry Paulson, Ben Bernake and Timothy Geithner. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.

Do you get angry when you think of the 2008 economic crisis? Inside Job will have you popping a cog.

Premiering at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, Inside Job offers the definitive screen investigation into what went wrong and why.

Directed by Charles Ferguson and narrated by Matt Damon, Inside Job is a whodunit in which the villains make no attempt to disguise themselves. Why should they? Their fraud caused trillions of dollars of losses, yet no one went to prison. Inside Job brings accountability where the justice system has failed.

For more, visit Inside Job’s website and trailer, IMDB page, New York Times Review.

Many thanks to our sponsor:
Chris Varga
Computer services for residential and small business

Reach him at chris@varganet.ca / 705.646.9613

Monday, February 14, 2011.

The ultimate date movie for the feminist in your life.

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at Britain’s Ford Dagenham car plant, in which female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination, Made in Dagenham follows newbie union representative Rita (Sally Hawkins, An Education, Happy-Go-Lucky) and her female co-workers as they tirelessly take their grievance to the highest powers in the land.

Directed by Nigel Cole (Saving Grace, Calendar Girls,) and featuring Miranda
Richardson in a wonderful performance as the British Minister of Labour and Bob Hoskins (Mrs. Henderson Presents) as a sympathetic union steward.

For more, visit Made in Dagenham‘s website and trailer, IMDB page, New York Times Review.

Many thanks to our sponsor:
Muskoka Foot Clinic

Margaret Carey, D.Pod.M.
3 – 230 Manitoba Street
Bracebridge, Ontario
705.645.4613

Based on Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel of the same name (itself inspired by Thomas Hardy’s classic Far From the Madding Crowd), this wittily modern take on the romantic English pastoral is a far cry from Hardy’s Wessex.

When Tamara Drewe (Gemma Arterton) sashays back to the bucolic village of her youth, life for the locals is thrown tail over tea kettle.

Directed by the inimitable Stephen Frears (The Queen, My Beautiful Launderette, Prick Up Your Ears), Tamara Drewe takes the urban notion of the countryside and its people and turns it on its ear.

For more, visit the Tamara Drewe Website,  IMDB profile, New York Times Review,  Movie Trailer

Many thanks to this movie’s sponsor:
Roy DeHaan Carpentry

Specializing in trim, mantels and stairs, you can trust Roy DeHaan Carpentry to do the job right.

Contact the experts at Roy DeHaan Carpentry today. 705.644.2031 or roy.dehaan5@hotmail.com.

January 10, 2011 — Michael McGowan’s Score: A Hockey Musical is a playful and joyously entertaining charmer uniting Canada’s national obsession with the overnight success stories of the classic Hollywood musicals.

Boasting young love, on-ice drama and cameos that range from Olivia Newton-John to Nelly Furtado to some surprises from Canadian icons, McGowan’s latest is a  delight. And you don’t have to dig hockey to love it.

Check out Score’s  IMDB profile here
Read the National Post review here
Watch the trailer online here

Many thanks to this movie’s sponsor:
Sharon Hunter Aiken
Chestnut Park Real Estate

Sharon has been providing forthright and knowledgeable advice to those purchasing and selling waterfront properties in Muskoka since 1978.

Connected, committed, and client-driven. Check her out online at www.muskokagetaway.com or call 705.646.3116.

Nowhere Boy: Screened on: December 13, 2010.

This chronicle of John Lennon’s tumultuous teenage years, based on a memoir by his half-sister Julia Baird, is less about rock ‘n’ roll than it is about his first steps toward emotional maturity. Starring newcomer Aaron Jonson and Kirstin Scott Thomas.

Check out Nowhere Boy’s IMDB profile here
Read the NYT review here