Film and Event Schedule

ADMISSION | Admission varies depending on the event (please see individual listings below). General Film Admission $7 Adults / $6 Seniors, Students, Children and Matinees (Before 5pm).

RESERVATIONS | You are welcome to purchase tickets in advance over the phone with a credit card...call 725-5222. Please be aware that we reserve the right to sell your ticket if you do not show up within 15 minutes of the start of the event.

SHOWTIMES | Please be advised that showtimes are subject to change.

CINEMA DINING | Food & beverage may be enjoyed in the cinema with all films and events. Please order in advance of show times (40min. suggested).

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a fantastical morality tale, set in the present-day. It tells the story of Dr. Parnassus and his extraordinary "Imaginarium", a traveling show where members of the audience get an irresistable opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom. Blessed with the extraordinary gift of guiding the imaginations of others, Doctor Parnassus is cursed with a dark secret. An inveterate gambler, thousands of years ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr. Nick, in which he won immortality. Centuries later, on meeting his one true love, Dr. Parnassus made another deal with the devil, trading his immortality for youth, on condition that when his daughter reached her 16th birthday, she would become the property of Mr. Nick.

In this captivating, explosive, and wonderfully imaginative race against time, Dr. Parnassus must fight to save his daughter in a never-ending landscape of surreal obstacles - and undo the mistakes of his past once and for all!

With three months left in the service, Will (Ben Foster) has spent a good deal of time in army hospitals, healing scars from his time in Iraq. To make things worse, the girl he left behind (Jena Malone) has moved on with her life. Ironically, his chance at a fresh start lies in working shoulder to shoulder with Tony (Woody Harrelson), a senior officer who teaches him the ropes of his new post with the Casualty Notification Office. Will, who narrowly escaped death, must now break the news about those who didn’t. Between assignments, these two soldiers form a unique bond that helps them in their struggle to get back to ""normal"" life, fully knowing nothing will ever really be normal again.Proving himself a cinematic craftsman, director Oren Moverman deliberately hasn’t made a political film. The Messenger isn't even about the military at its core; it's about people choosing to live life and finding the light and humor at the end of the tunnel. Harrelson and Foster infuse these complex characters with the necessary pathos to raise their story to a new level of compassion. Foster adds yet another layer when Will faces an ethical dilemma because he is drawn to one of the young widows, played by Samantha Morton. She rounds out this powerhouse cast in a moving and elegant film that is an elegy of our time.

FILM | Fly Fishing Film Tour
Presented By Fly Fishing In Maine, FlysandFins.com, Coastal Fly Angler, & Maine River Guides

Showtimes:
Thursday, Mar 11 | 7pm | $12 | SOLD OUT!
Friday, Mar 12 | 7pm | $12 | SOLD OUT!
Friday, Mar 12 | 8:45pm | $12 | Advanced Tickets Strongly Recommended! 725-5222

Fly Fishing in Maine is very excited to be partnering with FliesandFins.com, Coastal Fly Angler, and Maine River Guides to bring the Fly Fishing Film Tour to Maine! This event is sure to rock your fishing world, inspire you to life beyond your most amazing fishing dreams, and surely get you pumped for the 2010 season ahead that is just around the corner.

All proceeds from this event will go to the FFIM Grassroots Grant fund. Past recipients of FFIM Grassroots Grants have included Trout Unlimited, Casting For Recovery, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and many more.

SPECIAL EVENT | Coming Together For Haiti
With Live Music, Multimedia Presentation, & Photo Exhibit

Event Time:
Saturday, Mar 13 | 5pm-10pm (Dark Hollow Bottling Co. from 5pm-7pm, Presentation at 7pm, The Grumps from 8pm-10pm) | $10 Cover/Donation

Join Frontier, Dark Hollow Bottling Company, The Grumps, local physicians, and community members to celebrate positive efforts in Haiti! Learn about a new grassroots medical project taking formation in Haiti from local physicians who will present a slideshow and video as well as speak on recent surgical work in Haiti post-earthquake. They will highlight the resulting development of The Phoenix Center, a prosthetic workshop and clinic run by Pwoje Espwa, a locally established orphanage in Les Cayes, Haiti. Participate in a Skyped Q&A with Fr. Marc Boisvert, founder of Pwoje Espwa, serving the children of Haiti since 1998. Nathan Broaddus's personal photographs of his past trips to Haiti will be available for viewing and for purchase.

SPECIAL EVENT | Morning Storytelling
With Janice O'Rourke

Event Times:
Thursday, Mar 18 | 10am | Free
Thursday, Apr 15 | 10am | Free
Thursday, May 20 | 10am | Free
Thursday, June 17 | 10am | Free

Songs & Stories From Around The World

Join us once a month with your little one for inspiring world music and stories with Janice O'Rourke - an actress, singer/songwriter and mom of two small boys. She has a passion for stories and songs that teach us about culture, language, and community from all parts of the world. Come in with your kids and 'go beyond.' This program is best suited for children six and under.

SPECIAL EVENT | A Wind Power Forum
Developing the Resource with a Concern for Habitat and Community
Presented by Peaceworks

Event Time:
Thursday, Mar 18 | 7pm | Free

Where is the wind? What is the impact on the environment? Who benefits? Join Peaceworks and the community for a panel discussion with moderator, Bruce Gagnon and special guests, Jonathan Carter, Peter Kent, Angus King, Joanne Moore, Lynne Williams, and Peter Woodruff. This event is co-sponsored by Cool Communities Bath, Maine Greens, Friends of Merrymeeting Bay, Maine Chapter Sierra Club, and Greater Brunswick Transition Towns.

FILM | A Chemical Reaction
A Film By Brett Plymale
With Special Guest Speaker, Paul Tukey

Showtime:
Tuesday, Mar 23 | 7pm | Discussion to Follow | Free, Donations Welcome | Reserve your seat with UUCB Office: 729-8515 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The Green Sanctuary Committee in cooperation with green committees at St. Paul's and First Parish present A Chemical Reaction, a documentary movie that tells the story of one of the most powerful and effective community initiatives in the history of North America. It started with one lone voice in 1984. Dr. June Irwin, a dermatologist, noticed a connection between her patients’ health conditions and their exposure to chemical pesticides and herbicides. With relentless persistence she brought her concerns to town meetings to warn her fellow citizens that the chemicals they were putting on their lawns posed severe health risks and had unknown side effects on the environment.

As a young man, Paul Tukey of Yarmouth, Maine became a lawn care professional. He eventually became ill with acute pesticide sensitivity, thus began his journey into chemical reactions promoted by our addiction to having the "perfect" lawn. Now he is an organic lawn care specialist and author of the highly acclaimed gardening book, The Organic Lawn Care Manual. Tukey will introduce the film and lead a discussion following the film.

SPECIAL EVENT | Big History & The Multiverse
Conversations with Dr. Tom Gehrels

Event Time:
Wednesday, Mar 24 | 11am-1pm | Free

Come converse with Dr. Tom Gehrels, who was a teenager active in the Dutch Resistance during World War II. After escaping to England, he was sent back by parachute as an organizer for U.S. Special Operations, serving in Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Now, he is a renowned astrophysicist who studies the start of Big History in the Multiverse. The Multiverse is all universes, including our own, that together comprise everything that exists. He pioneered the first photometric system of asteroid identification, discovered several asteroids and comets, and initiated the Spacewatch Program to guard Earth from such impacts. He is the author of many scientific papers, as well as his recent popular books, Survival through Evolution: From the Multiverse to Modern Society and On the Glassy Sea: In Search of a Worldview. A powerpoint introducing the Multiverse will be shown and Dr. Tom Gehrels' books will be available!

Sponsored by the Big History Students & Faculty at USM at Lewiston-Auburn, Frontier, and Gulf of Maine Books.

OPERA | Il Trovatore (Verdi) | 165min
Performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu

Showtimes:
Wednesday, Mar 24 | 2pm & 6pm | $20

Founded in 1847, the Gran Teatre del Liceu has retained its role as a culture and arts centre throughout its history. A symbol of the vitality and energy of Barcelona, the Gran Teatre del Liceu has always been a powerful stimulus to artistic creativity in Spain. It aims to innovate with ideas that stimulate the identification of opera with a creative, living art form that is open to new audiences.

FILM | Broken Embraces | R | 127min
A Film By Pedro Almodovar
In Spanish & English
2010 Golden Global Nominee - Best Foreign Language Film

Showtimes:
Thursday, Mar 25-Wednesday, Apr 7 | Exact Details TBA

A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he not only lost his sight, he also lost Lena, the love of his life. This man uses two names: Harry Caine, a playful pseudonym with which he signs his literary works, stories and scripts, and Mateo Blanco, his real name, with which he lives and signs the film he directs. After the accident, Mateo Blanco reduces himself to his pseudonym, Harry Caine. If he can’t direct films he can only survive with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his beloved Lena. In the present day, Harry Caine lives thanks to the scripts he writes and to the help he gets from his faithful former production manager, Judit García, and from Diego, her son, his secretary, typist and guide. Since he decided to live and tell stories, Harry is an active, attractive blind man who has developed all his other senses in order to enjoy life, on a basis of irony and self-induced amnesia. He has erased from his biography any trace of his first identity, Mateo Blanco. One night Diego has an accident and Harry takes care of him (his mother, Judit, is out of Madrid and they decide not to tell her anything so as not to alarm her). During the first nights of his convalescence, Diego asks him about the time when he answered to the name of Mateo Blanco, after a moment of astonishment Harry can’t refuse and he tells Diego what happened fourteen years before with the idea of entertaining him, just as a father tells his little child a story so that he’ll fall asleep. The story of Mateo, Lena, Judit and Ernesto Martel is a story of “amour fou”, dominated by fatality, jealously, the abuse of power, treachery and a guilt complex. A moving and terrible story, the most expressive image of which is the photo of two lovers embracing, torn into a thousand pieces.

FILM | A Town Called Panic | NR | 75min
A Film By Stephane Aubier & Vincent Patar
2009 Sitges-Catalonian International Film Festival Winner - Best Animated Feature Film

Showtimes:
Thursday, Mar 25-Wednesday, Apr 7 | Exact Details TBA

Based on the Belgian animated cult TV series (which was released by Wallace & Gromit’s Aardman Studios), Panic stars three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town that never fails to attract the weirdest events.

Cowboy and Indian’s plan to gift Horse with a homemade barbeque backfires when they accidentally buy 50 million bricks. Whoops! This sets off a perilously wacky chain of events as the trio travel to the center of the earth, trek across frozen tundra and discover a parallel underwater universe of pointy-headed (and dishonest!) creatures. Each speedy character is voiced—and animated—as if they are filled with laughing gas. With panic a permanent feature of life in this papier-mâché burg, will Horse and his equine paramour—flame-tressed music teacher Madame Longray (Jeanne Balibar)—ever find a quiet moment alone? A sort of Gallic Monty Python crossed with Art Clokey on acid, A Town Called Panic is zany, brainy and altogether insane-y!

"Please note: Despite occasional bad language in the original French, A Town Called Panic is entirely appropriate for children." - Zeitgeist Films

SPECIAL EVENT | 2010 National Book Award Winner, Phillip Hoose
For Claudette Colvin: twice toward justice
Presented by Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance

Event Time:
Thursday, Mar 25 | 7pm | Free Reading & Discussion with the Author, Phillip Hoose | Tickets for the Reception at 6pm are $25 with proceeds to benefit the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance Fall Retreat Fellowship Fund | Call for Advanced Tickets: 725-5222

Phililip Hoose's book, Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice is a biography of young Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old who refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. Colvin's act of defiance in 1955 (nine months before Rosa Park's celebrated act) was followed a year later by Colvin's courageous testimony in the Browder v. Gayle court case. That case ended segregation on Montgomery buses and struck a fatal blow to segregation throughout the Jim Crow South. Colvin's story was virtually unknow until the publication of Hoose's book. Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing at the event, courtesy of Gulf of Maine Books.

FILM | Food, Inc | NR | 94min
Presented by Wolfe's Neck Farm Winter Community Forum

Showtime:
Tuesday, Mar 30 | 7pm | $5 | Call Wolfe's Neck Farm for Advanced Reservations: 865-4363

This 2009 documentary reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation, and where we are going from here.

This event is part of Wolfe's Neck Farm's Winter Community Forum, "Sustainability: Transitions to Resilience". The Forum tackles important social issues by taking a holistic look at Maine and its communities, and how we can be resilient to crisis and genuinely sustainable. It emphasizes community participation by giving community members a space to come together to face challenges and problem solve.

The speakers and films, and community discussions address different aspects of resiliency and sustainability, specifically food, energy, and water systems and economics. They will also examine hopeful and innovative models of sustainable and resilient communities, both past and present. The community dialogue will build on these ideas and aim to create a vibrant and purposeful community dialogue about Maine's future.

SPECIAL EVENT | Bowdoin Plunge
Fundraiser for Camp Sunshine

Event Time:
Saturday, Apr 3 |2:30pm-3:30pm | Location: Popham Beach | Party to follow at Frontier!

Camp Sunshine presents the 2010 Bowdoin Polar Dip at Popham Beach in Phippsburg. There will be an after party immediately following the plunge at Frontier, including a showing of the Plunge video and an announcement of the total funds raised for the event!

OPERA | Viva La Mamma (Donizetti) | 120min
Performed at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy

Showtimes:
Monday, Apr 5 | 2pm & 6pm | $20

Viva la Mamma, or Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali is a mad-cap farce about opera singers behaving badly and stage mothers behaving even worse! Rehearsals are underway for the very serious opera Romolo ed Ersilia, but the unruly performers, and their even more unruly egos, prevent any actual rehearsal from taking place. The prima donna Daria insists that her part is too small—even when Luigia, the seconda donna (the second-most important soprano), the German Tenor and the Musician all insist that the prima donna’s part is far too large. Luigia’s domineering mother Agata (the “mamma” of the title) arrives on the scene, and insists that her daughter’s part be bigger. Soon the Tenor and the Musician fume off, only to be replaced by Agata in the Musician’s role and Daria’s husband as the tenor. The stage manager, impresario and composer are helpless to quell the raging self-absorbed demands of the performers, so the police are called in to stop the chaos. Rehearsals finally begin, but are soon interrupted again by the announcement that the production has been called off. All of the performers sneak out of the theatre, in an effort to avoid having to repay all the money that has already been invested in the production.

FILM | No Impact Man | NR | 90min
A Film By Laura Gabbert & Justin Schein

Showtimes:
Monday, Apr 19-Saturday, Apr 24

"An entertaining, amusing, and provocative film." - David Edelstein, New York Magazine

Author Colin Beavan, a newly self-proclaimed environmentalist who could no longer avoid pointing the finger at himself, vows to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year. No more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more non-local food, no more material consumption...no problem. That is, until his espresso guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two-year-old daughter are dragged into the fray.