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INCLUDES OUR MAIN ATTRACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS A MBLERT HEATER.ORG 215 345 7855 Welcome to the nonprofit Ambler Theater The Ambler Theater is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization.

ADMISSION Give us Feedback Your film experience is the most important thing to us, so we welcome your feedback. Please let us know what we can do General...... $8.50 better. Call (215) 345-7855, or email us at Members...... $4.50* [email protected] Seniors (62+) Children under 18 and When will films play? Students w/valid I.D...... $6.50 Matinee (before 5:30 pm)...... $6.50 Main Attractions Wed Early Matinee (before 2:30 pm)...... $5.00 Film Booking. Our main films play week-to-week from Friday Affiliated Theaters Members**...... $5.50 through Thursday. Every Monday we determine what new films will start on Friday, what current films will end on Thursday, **Affiliated Theaters Members and what current films will continue through Friday for another The Ambler Theater, the County Theater, and the Bryn Mawr Film In- week. All films are subject to this week-to-week decision-mak- ing process. We try to play all of our Main Attraction films as stitute have reciprocal admission benefits. Your Ambler membership soon as possible. (For more info on the business of booking will allow you $5.50 admission at the other theaters. (You must films and why some films play longer or sooner than others, present your membership card to obtain this discount.) visit our website.) Be a Member When Will a Film’s Run Start? Become a member of the nonprofit Ambler Theater and show your After we decide on Monday (Tuesday at the latest) what new support for good films and a cultural landmark. See back panel for films will start on Friday, we immediately let you know on our a membership form. website and on our hotline. *Also be aware that as of July 1, 2008, members’ admission will We’ll send you an email message every Tuesday as to what increase by 25¢ to $4.75. is coming and going on Friday. (Sign up by emailing us at Policies [email protected].) Children under 6 – Children under age 6 will not be admitted to Make Sure That We Have Your Email Address our “Regular Films.” However, all age children are welcome to our We can keep you up-to-date on all our events and scheduling special “Kids Films” series. via our weekly email notices. Visit our web site to sign up, and Late Arrivals – The Theater reserves the right to stop selling tickets then stay plugged into our latest programming news. (and/or seating patrons) after a film has started. Special Programs Outside Food and Drink – Patrons are not permitted to bring out- Our Special Programs are scheduled for specific dates and side food and drink into the theater. times, which are listed in this PREVIEWS brochure. Check our The Ambler Theater has wheelchair accessible auditoriums website and hotline for any additions or changes. and restrooms, and is equipped with hearing enhancement devices. Please see the theater manager when you arrive.

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What is the Fine Print Ambler Theater? The official The Ambler registration and Theater is a non- financial informa- profit movie theater tion of the Ambler that shows inde- Theater, Inc. may pendent, art, and be obtained from foreign films, as well the Pennsylvania as special events Department of like Saturday Kids State by calling Matinees and clas- toll-free, within sic Hollywood films. Become a Business Sponsor! Pennsylvania, We also have filmmaker appearanc- Receive prominent recognition for 1-800-732-0999. Registration es, discussion groups, and lectures. your business in exchange for help- does not imply endorsement. ing our nonprofit theater. Recogni- Who is running the Theater? tion comes in a variety of ways – on Special Thanks “Ambler Theater, Inc.”, is a 501(c)(3) our silver screens, in our brochures, The Ambler Theater receives tax-exempt nonprofit corporation and on our website. Call us at (215) funding support through a grant which owns and runs the theater. Its 348-1878 for details. from the Pennsylvania Council local Board of Directors oversees all on the Arts, a state agency operations. Parties and Meetings funded by the Commonwealth State-of-the-art auditoriums avail- of Pennsylvania and the Become a Member! able for private parties and corpo- Your membership is the foundation National Endowment for the Arts, rate meetings. We also host birthday a federal agency. of our success. Please fill out and parties and special events. We are return the attached membership able to accomodate everything from form. (Or join online - it’s easy and video projection to PowerPoint secure.) Your financial support is presentations to conferencing, to tax-deductible. Memberships run for internet projection. And we’ll provide one year from date of joining. catering and other amenities. Put your star in the sidewalk! Contact Ross Grieve at (215) 345- We need your help to continue our 7855 x 7 or rgrieve@ renewtheaters. theater renovations. Your donations org or visit our web site AmblerThe- are fully tax-deductible. And you can ater.org for more details. put your name on a bronze star in the sidewalk! Contact our Business Office at (215) 348-1878. MAIN ATTRACTIONS

Persepolis Diva The Visitor France – 1 hr 35 min – Vincent Paronnaud 1981 – France – 2 hr 3 min – Jean- USA – 1 hr 43 min – Thomas McCarthy and Marjane Satrapi Jacques Beineix – with subtitles A bland and fastidious college professor Adapted from the graphic novel memoir We are excited to host the re-release travels to New York City to attend an by Marjane Satrapi, PERSEPOLIS is an of one of the most entertaining of the economics conference, and unexpectedly amazingly realized coming-of-age story, eighties – DIVA. A young Parisian fan discovers an undocumented immigrant told from the perspective of a nine year- attends the performance of a famed couple living in his apartment. He slowly old girl growing up in Iran during the American soprano who refuses to have is drawn into their world in this sharp and Islamic revolution. Featuring beautiful her voice recorded; he secretly makes insightful film. THE VISITOR marks the and imaginative black and white a tape of the performance, and havoc director’s follow-up to his superb first film, animation, this film is alternately moving ensues. Simultaneously a crime caper The Station Agent. and funny — and a remarkable artistic and a postmodern fairytale, DIVA is achievement. It’s an autobiographical humorous, suspenseful, and visually tour de force and is completely involving stunning. A movie that makes you fall in and accessible as an animated film. love with the movies.

A Word About Our The Orphanage Caramel Main Attractions: Mexico – 1 hr 45 min Lebanon – 1 hr 35 min – Nadine Labaki Juan Antonio Bayona – with subtitles with subtitles We try to play each of the films on From the producers of last year’s Pan’s Lebanese actress Nadine Labaki stars these two pages as soon as possible. Labyrinth, THE ORPHANAGE is a surreal in her directorial debut, a funny and Sometimes, however, because of and eerie ghost story about a woman touching film about five women who scheduling conflicts or problems with and her son who travel to the orphanage congregate at a beauty parlor in Beirut. print availability, we are unable to play in which she grew up. Events take The shop mirrors the city, with women of a film before its video release. (The a chilling turn when her precocious different ages, ethnicities, religions, and “theatrical window” is getting shorter son develops a relationship with an social levels coming together to share and shorter.) We apologize for when this imaginary friend. An atmospheric and their ideals, beliefs, and lives. A warm- happens. Know that it is our top priority spooky film with a formidable sense of hearted and lovely comedy-drama. to play as many great films for you as visual elegance. possible. (For more information, visit our website.) Thank you. MAIN ATTRACTIONS

In Bruges Miss Pettigrew Lives Priceless UK – 1 hr 47 min – Martin McDonagh for a Day France – 1 hr 44 min – Pierre Salvadori Two British hit men who are sent to the UK – 1 hr 32 min – Bharat Nalluri with subtitles quaint Belgian city to lay low following a Frances McDormand gives an Taking its queue from recent French high-profile job in London. Humorously unforgettable performance as Miss comedies like The Valet and My Best out of place in the medieval Flemish Pettigrew, a British governess who, when Friend, PRICELESS is an amusing comedy locale, they grow increasingly anxious as unjustly dismissed from her position, of errors in which a gold-digging siren they await the call to return to London lands an unexpected job as “social (Amelie’s Audrey Tautou) mistakes an from their crime boss. This is a quirky secretary” for a famous Amercian unsuspecting bartender for a wealthy comedy, to say the least. Starring Colin actress. The effervescent Amy Adams prospective suitor. Shot in the sun- Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph is irresistible as the endearingly dizzy drenched French Riviera, this delightful Fiennes. starlet, and she creates superb comic film is like a light breeze off the water. chemistry with McDormand. Set in the thirties, the film also has a marvelous set and costume design.

Young @ Heart The Band’s Visit The Counterfeiters USA – 1 hr 50 min – Stephen Walker Israel – 1 hr 27 min – Eran Kolirin Germany – 1 hr 38 min – Stefan Founded in 1982, the Young @ Heart with subtitles Ruzowitzky – with subtitles Chorus is an internationally acclaimed In this charming cross-cultural comedy, Based on a true story, THE group of singers that has toured the the musicians of an Egyptian ceremonial COUNTERFEITERS is about a huge world. Their eclectic repertoire ranges band, who are all policemen, find counterfeiting operation set up by the from the Rolling Stones to the Ramones, themselves stranded in a remote Israeli Nazis in 1936. A Jewish con artist is from Sonic Youth to the heart of Rock town. Lost, they decide to stay the night. handpicked in a concentration camp to and Roll. Oh yeah, and did we forget And then they slowly and awkwardly head up the scheme intended to disrupt to mention that every member is over begin to interact with the Israeli locals. the Allied economies. A penetrating the age of seventy? An entertaining A subtle and wry film that treats its morality tale that is haunting and and unexpectedly moving documentary subject with refreshing sensitivity and brilliant, this suspenseful film features that is more than just a feel-good treat humor. deft acting and great cinematography. (which it most definitely also is).

A MBLERT HEATER.ORG 215 345 7855 SPRING CINEMATHEQUE SERIES‘08 SPECIAL PROGRAMS AT 3 THEATERS. The County Theater, the Ambler Theater and Bryn Mawr Film Institute each present special film programs. Together we increase your opportunities to see classic and unusual films on the big screen. Unlike our MAIN ATTRACTIONS, these offerings are at fixed times and places (and not all offerings play at all locations), so check closely for details. Also check for updates on our websites.

Ambler: Feb 28 Thur 7:00 Bryn Mawr: Mar 5 Wed 7:00 Ambler: Mar 6 Thur 7:00 County: Mar 3 Mon 7:00 County: Mar 17 Mon 7:00

Filmmakers David Kessler and the Big Picture Alliance if you break the skin you must Angel-A come in Into Great Silence 2007 – USA – 1 hr 30 min – d. David Kessler 2005 – France – 1 hr 31 min – d. Luc Besson 2005 – France – 2 hr 42 min – digital The Big Picture Alliance is a Philadelphia- w/subtitles d. Philip Groning based partnership of filmmakers and A morality tale that is alternately comic and This meditative documentary chronicles educators who work with teens in urban areas brooding, ANGEL-A tells the story of a former filmmaker Philip Groning’s six-month stay at the to create their own films. IF YOU BREAK THE con artist whose past catches up with him. Shot Grande Chartreuse, a famous monastery in the SKIN is a BPA-sponsored documentary about in lush black and white and set in Paris, this French Alps. The poetic film’s quiet pleasures Zoe Strauss, a local photographer who has very stylish film plays like a hipster update of carry the viewer into the monks’ own unhurried exhibited at the Whitney and Philadelphia’s It’s a Wonderful Life. Superbly directed by Luc sense of time. Shot only with natural light, ICA. The screenings will be introduced and Besson. SILENCE has no soundtrack or voiceover. A discussed by the filmmakers and subject Zoe distinctive cinematic experience. Strauss.

County: Mar 10 Mon 7:00 Bryn Mawr: Mar 19 Wed 7:00 Ambler: Mar 20 Thur 7:00 Ambler: Mar 13 Thur 7:00 County: Mar 31 Mon 7:00

Lights in the Dusk Black Maria Film and Video 2006 – Finland – 1 hr 18 min Academy Award Nominated d. Aki Kaurismaki – w/subtitles Festival We are delighted to welcome back the Black This Helsinki-set film from the inimitable Animated Shorts 2008 – 1 hr 37 min – digital Maria Film and Video Festival, an award- Aki Kaurismaki is about a friendless night- Come see the Academy Award nominated winning festival committed to the exhibition of watchman who gets lured into an illegal animated films from this year’s Oscars! The cutting edge independent films. Each evening scheme by a sultry femme fatale. The program includes Josh Raskin’s I Met the will showcase a different program of new and cinematography, editing and acting are all Walrus, Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski’s highly creative films—documentary, narrative, superb in this pared-down, minimalist little Madame Tutli-Putli, Samuel Tourneux and animation, experimental, and more. The Ambler gem. Not much happens, except love, crime, Simon Vanesse’s Meme Les Pigeons Vont au screening will be introduced and discussed by betrayal and all of life. (And some great Paradis, Alexander Petrov’s My Love, and Suzie Festival Director John Columbus; the County music, too). Templeman and Hugh Welchman’s Peter and presentation will be announced. the Wolf. SPRING CINEMATHEQUE SERIES‘08 County: Mar 24 Mon 7:00 Ambler: Apr 3 Thur 7:00 County: Apr 7 Mon 7:00 Bryn Mawr: Mar 26 Wed 7:00 Ambler: Apr 10 Thur 7:00 Ambler: Mar 27 Thur 7:00

Film Preservationist Lou DiCrescenzo In the Shadow of the Moon Pierrot le fou Classic Comedy Shorts 2007 - Great Britain – 1 hr 36 min – 35mm 1965 – France – 1 hr 50 min – 35mm The Ambler Theater welcomes back film d. David Sington d. Jean-Luc Godard preservationist Lou DiCrescenzo for a fun-filled The excitement, majesty, and extraordinary Jean-Paul Belmondo stars in this dazzling evening of comedy shorts. Most of these films human accomplishment of America’s Apollo New Wave film as a bored husband who casts are over fifty years old, many of which have not flights to the moon are rousingly captured aside his bourgeois existence to take to the been shown on the silver screen in quite some in this marvelous film. Deftly mixing archival open road with a former love. An existential time. Come see Stan, Ollie, W.C. and Groucho—as footage with commentaries of astronauts from road trip as well as a meditation on movie- well as other lesser know comics! Program length the moonshots, this rousing film produces making, Pierrot will be screened with a approximately two hours. a visual and audio vibrancy that brings the newly struck 35mm print from Janus Films. stirring story alive. One last chance to see this Professor Maurizio Giammarco will introduce impressive film on the big screen. the screening at Bryn Mawr.

SHAKESPEARE County: Apr 14 Mon 7:00 Bryn Mawr: Apr 16 Wed 7:00 Ambler: Apr 17 Thu 7:00

Shakespeare Film Forums Shakespeare Join us for two separate lectures on the exciting recent film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. The lectures at County and Ambler will be given by Renew Theaters’ Programming Coordinator Shakespeare in Contemporary Cinema Alice Bullitt, and the lecture at Bryn Mawr will The last several years have seen a marked increase in Shakespeare’s plays being made into be given by Professor Katherine Rowe, Chair of films. Moreover, in addition to traditional screen adaptations, moviegoers have been treated to the English Department at Bryn Mawr College. imaginatively revisionist films that have been stylistically adventurous in many ways, including Both presentations will be highlighted by film resetting the plays in different historical eras. We are excited to present a series of lectures and films clips from many Shakespeare movies. Program that celebrate this rejuvenation of Shakespeare in the movies. We hope you’ll be able to accompany length approximately two hours. us on this stimulating cinematic journey. SPRING CINEMATHEQUE SERIES‘08 SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE County: Apr 21 Mon 7:00 Ambler: Apr 24 Thu 7:00 Ambler: May 1 Thu 7:00 Bryn Mawr: Apr 23 Wed 7:00 County: Apr 28 Mon 7:00 Bryn Mawr: May 7 Wed 7:00 Bryn Mawr: Apr 30 Wed 7:00

Titus Richard III Much Ado About Nothing 1999 – UK – 2 hr 42 min – 35mm 1995 – UK – 1 hr 44 min – 35mm 1993 – UK/USA- 1 hr 51 min – 35mm d. Julie Taymor d. Richard Loncraine d: Kenneth Branagh Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare’s first play, has Ian McKellen delivers a deliciously diabolical No one in recent movie history has done more to sometimes been regarded as a minor work. performance playing the charismatic and rejuvenate the popularity of Shakespeare on film But iconoclastic stage director Julie Taymor scheming Richard—only this film unfolds in a than Kenneth Branagh. His 1989 Henry V started (Broadway’s The Lion King) came along and setting of 1930’s fascist England and includes a whole new wave. MUCH ADO follows up with a brought the play to gloriously over-the-top life. cinematic references to Citizen Kane and delightful and breezy version of Shakespeare’s TITUS is set in an anachronistic fantasy world Sunset Blvd. The superb cast includes both amusing comedy. Starring Branagh and Emma that uses locations, costumes and imagery American actors (Annette Bening and Robert Thompson, as well as Kate Beckinsale, Denzel from several historical periods, including Downey, Jr.), as well as British (Jim Broadbent Washington, and Keanu Reeves. Gloriously filmed Ancient Rome and Mussolini’s Italy. The acting and Maggie Smith). in the Tuscan countryside. is transcendent, but be warned, the action is bloody. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange.

SHAKESPEARE County: May 5 Mon 7:00 Ambler: May 8 Thu 7:00 County: May 12 Mon 7:00 Ambler: May 15 Thu 7:00

Filmmaker Paul Lovelace Bound to Lose: The Holy Modal Rounders 2006 – USA – 1 hr 27 min – d. Sam Wainwright Douglas and Paul Lovelace From the Greenwich Village folk music scene Romeo + Juliet of the early 1960’s, to the tumultuous and 1996 – USA – 2 hr – 35mm – d. Baz Luhrmann drug-hazed years of touring, to the present While Romeo and Juliet has often been day, this highly entertaining documentary transposed to a modern-day setting, nothing charts the success and struggles of the Holy prepared audiences for Baz Luhrmann’s daring Modal Rounders, a music group whose songs rendition of the classic tale of star-crossed appeared on the soundtrack of Easy Rider. lovers. Taking place in fictional Verona Beach, the Featuring interviews with Dennis Hopper and Capulet and Montague “gang members” drive Sam Shepherd (who was the band’s drummer slick cars, carry guns, and listen to rock music. for a few years), the film humorously chronicles Despite these stylistic flourishes, the play’s the lives of band mates Steve Weber and Peter language is still carefully presented. Starring Stampfel, eloquently ruminating on the line Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. that divides (or connects) genius and madness. Both screenings will be introduced and discussed by director Paul Lovelace. SPRING CINEMATHEQUE SERIES‘08

County: May 19 Mon 7:00 AMBLER THEATER Bryn Mawr: May 21 Wed 7:00 MASTER SCHEDULE Ambler: May 22 Thu 7:00

Feb 28 Thur 7:00 Angel-A Mar 6 Thur 7:00 Filmmakers David Kessler and the Big Picture Alliance present The Best of the Diamond if you break the skin you must Screen Film Festival 2008 Kids Saturday Matinees From November to April, we play a different come in Showcase of Temple University classic or contemporary kids film each Saturday Student Films morning starting at approximately 11:00 am. Mar 13 Thur 7:00 Join us for three different evenings of the most Visit our website for details. Lights in the Dusk creative and outstanding student work from Temple University’s Film School, including March 1 Charlotte’s Web Mar 20 Thur 7:00 documentary, narrative, experimental, and March 8 The Iron Giant Black Maria animated films and videos. Each evening will March 15 How To Eat Fried Worms feature a different selection of Senior and Film and Video Festival Graduate works. Presented by the filmmakers March 22 Antz and Temple University’s Department of Film March 29 Pee Wee’s Big Adventure Mar 27 Thur 7:00 and Media Studies. April 5 Anastasia Pierrot le fou Apr 3 Thu 7:00 Lou DiCrescenzo Classic Comedy Shorts Bryn Mawr: First Monday of each month 9:00–11:00 pm Apr 10 Thu 7:00 In the Shadow of the Moon Apr 17 Thu 7:00 Shakespeare Film Forum Apr 24 Thu 7:00 Much Ado About Nothing

Film Discussion Groups May 1 Thu 7:00 at the County Theater Titus There are regular Film Discussion Groups at May 8 Thu 7:00 the Ambler Theater, the County Theater, and the Bryn Mawr Film Institute. Currently, the Ambler Filmmaker Paul Lovelace discussion is the first Wednesday of each Open Screen Mondays Bound to Lose: month, following a selected 7:00 screening. The Holy Modal Rounders For details, check each theater’s website, call at the Bryn Mawr The Bryn Mawr Film Institute invites area our hotlines, or inquire at the theaters. (The filmmakers to screen their films at our theater May 15 Thu 7:00 schedule is subject to change, so always check – just bring your film in DVD or VHS format, and ahead of time.) Romeo + Juliet we’ll run it on the BIG SCREEN! Admission, as well as praise (or criticism) from your peers, May 22 Thu 7:00 will all be offered FREE of charge. This is an exciting forum for Philadelphia area filmmakers. Diamond Screen You don’t have to be a filmmaker — come if you Film Festival 2008 just want to see interesting local work. FRAME IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME! ®

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Previews 63A March - May 2008