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Ambler Theater Previews7 6 A JUNE – AUGUST 2011 Gregory Peck publicity still TO forKILLA MOCKINGBIRD INCLUDES OUR MAIN ATTRACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS A MBLER T HEATER.ORG 215 345 7855 Welcome to the nonprofit Ambler Theater The Ambler Theater is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization. AMBLER THEATER Be a member. MEMBER ADMISSION Become a member of the nonprofit Ambler Theater General ..............................................................$9.75 and show your support for Members* .........................................................$4.75 good films and a cultural Seniors (62+) landmark. See back panel Students (w/ID) & Children (<18). ..................$7.25 for a membership form or join on-line. Your financial support is Matinees tax-deductible. Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri before 4:45 Join Now and Save! Sat & Sun before 2:30 .......................................$7.25 You have three months to join at our current membership rates. Wed Early Matinee before 2:30 ..........................$5.00 On Sept 1st, membership rates will increase. If you aren’t a Affiliated Theaters Members** ...........................$6.00 member, join now before the rate increase. If you are a current You must present your membership card to obtain membership discounts. member, add 12 months at the current rate before Sept 1st. The above ticket prices are subject to change. * Members’ admission will increase to $5 on September 1, 2011. Membership Rates Increase on September 1st Your survey feedback convinced us to implement the smallest **Affiliated Theaters Members possible membership rates increase. These small increases are The Ambler Theater, the County Theater, and the Bryn Mawr made to keep our operations in the black and our facilities well Film Institute have reciprocal admission benefits. Your Ambler maintained. (The member ticket price will increase to $5.00 on membership will allow you $6.00 admission at the other theaters. September 1st, as well.) Policies Our Membership Rate increases will be as follows: Children under 6 – Children under age 6 will not be admitted to our Current After Sept 1 “Regular Films.” Individual $45 $50 Late Arrivals – The Theater reserves the right to stop selling tickets Senior $35 $40 (and/or seating patrons) after a film has started. Couple $70 $75 Outside Food and Drink – Patrons are not permitted to bring out- Senior Couple $60 $65 side food and drink into the theater. Producer $100 $110 Accessibility & Hearing Assistance – The Ambler Theater Senior Producer X $100 (NEW) has wheelchair accessible auditoriums and restrooms, and Producer Couple $130 $150 is equipped with hearing enhancement devices. (For head- Senior Producer Couple X $130 (NEW) phones, please see the theater manager when you arrive.) Mogul $500 No Change Parking Angel $1,000 No Change Check our web site for parking information: AmblerTheater.org Additional senior options: We have added two new Senior Producer categories to expand Senior options. How else can I help? Make a gift. Your additional gifts and support help us to Ambler Theater improve. Your donations are fully tax-deductible. And you can 108 East Butler Ave, Ambler, PA 19002 put your name on a bronze star in the sidewalk! Contact our 215-345-7855 HOTLINE Business Office at (215) 348-1878 x 117. 215-348-1878 Administrative Office AmblerTheater.org Become a sponsor. Receive prominent recognition for your business in exchange for helping our nonprofit theater. Recognition comes in a variety of ways – on our silver screens, PREVIEWS (76) JUNE 1, 2011 in our brochures, and on our website. Call us at PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY AMBLER THEATER, INC. 108 EAST BUTLER AVENUE, AMBLER, PA 19002-4426 (215) 348-1878 x 112. ISSUE NO. 76 MAIN ATTRACTIONS Main Attractions What films will play? This section lists some of the main films we’ll play in the next few months. Additional unlisted films will also become available. Visit our website for the latest info on what films are upcoming. When will films play? We determine each Monday what main films will play starting on Friday. On Tuesday, we set the upcoming week’s schedule and then The Debt The Tree of Life UK - John Madden - 1 hr 52 min USA – 2 hr 18 min - Terrence Malick update our website and our telephone A political thriller in which three Mossad Few recent films have generated as much hotline. We’ll also send you a weekly agents hunt down and kill a Nazi war speculation and anticipation as Terrence email, if you sign up at our website. (We criminal in 1965. Thirty years later the Malick’s THE TREE OF LIFE. The writer- sometimes also book films more than agents, now national heroes in Israel, director’s fifth film stars Brad Pitt and a week ahead of time, which we post in revisit the operation, which was not what Sean Penn. It’s been described as the tale the “Coming Attractions” section of our it seemed. A well told story with a of a Texas boy’s journey from childhood website; however, those bookings are romantic subplot, THE DEBT stars Helen innocence to adult disillusionment and only tentative and subject to change.) Mirren, Ciaran Hinds and Tom Wilkinson. his quest to regain meaning in life. AmblerTheater.org Expect dazzling cinematography and (215) 345-7855 inventive filmmaking. Snow Flower and the Submarine Meek’s Cutoff Secret Fan UK – Richard Ayoade – 1 hr 37 min USA - Kelly Reichardt - 1 hr 44 min USA – Wayne Wang SUBMARINE is the coming-of-age story of Set in 1845, MEEK’S CUTOFF tells the SNOW FLOWER tells the story of the a sensitive teenager set in a coastal town story of a group of settlers that embark friendship of two girls over their lifetimes in Wales. It’s a sweet-natured comedy that on a journey along the Oregon Trail. in China. The film has two separate but has been compared to Rushmore and When their guide leads them astray, the parallel storylines. The first is the period The Squid and the Whale, but it also has expedition is forced to contend with the piece about the two girls. The second a strong dose of French New Wave-style unforgiving conditions of the high plain is a contemporary plot that follows the filmmaking. Made with genuine artfulness desert. Inspired by a true story, this women’s descendants who struggle and passion, this delightful original is a fine independent film is cerebral and to maintain their friendship as their joy. astonishingly cinematic. With Michelle demanding careers and complicated love Williams, Bruce Greenwood and Paul lives get in the way. Dano. MAIN ATTRACTIONS Another Earth Beginners The Greatest Movie USA - Mike Cahill - 1 hr 30 min USA – Mike Mills – 1 hr 44 min Ever Sold ANOTHER EARTH is an intimate drama to BEGINNERS is about a man who learns USA - Morgan Spurlock - 1 hr 30 min which science fiction adds a provocative, that his elderly father is gay. This off-beat Intrepid filmmaker Morgan Spurlock philosophical context. An astrophysics film features captivating performances (Super Size Me) examines the world student at MIT is driving when she is and a smart screenplay that mixes of advertising and product placement startled to see a new planet in the night the styles of Charlie Kaufman and by financing this entire film through sky. In that moment, she causes a tragic Miranda July. Director Mills breaks from advertising and product placement. He auto accident. The planet she saw is a conventional story structure to present gently mocks the whole enterprise by “mirror planet” of Earth, which prompts this surprising and moving drama. saturating his film with products and the possibility of visiting her “mirror life.” Starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher endorsements. This engaging and funny Plummer. film takes marketing to the limit. One Day Midnight in Paris Limited Engagements USA - Lone Scherfig USA – 1 hr 40 min - Woody Allen We try to play each of our Main ONE DAY follows a friendship between Woody Allen’s latest film is a romantic Attractions films for a full multi-week Emma (played by Anne Hathaway) and comedy about a family visiting run. Sometimes, however, we are unable Dexter (Jim Sturgess), who meet on the the City of Light. A young couple, to play a film in a timely or complete night of their college graduation - July engaged to be married, experiences a way, and it becomes a question of either 15th, 1988. For the next two decades, profound transformation. A man with squeezing it in or not playing it at all. We every July 15th reveals how “Em” and a romanticized view of the city finds then often schedule that film for a couple “Dex” are faring, as their friendship that not everything lives up to his of mid-week screenings, called Limited ebbs and flows with the passing of the expectations. Starring Marion Cotillard, Engagements. Make sure that you sign years. Through laughter and romance, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Owen up for our weekly email blast, so that heartbreak and happiness, they begin to Wilson, and Carla Bruni. you don’t miss these short, last-chance find what is important in their lives. screenings. A MBLER T HEATER.ORG 215 345 7855 HOLLYWOOD SUMMER2011 NIGHTS This Hollywood Summer Nights series contains the fixed schedules for both the County Theater and the Ambler Theater. Hollywood ClASSICS Menacing Summer NightS Hollywood Classics Menacing Summer Nights Chaplin in HD Every week this summer, the stars from The This series is NOT about classics from the We’re happy to continue our year-long Golden Age of Hollywood return to the silver Golden Age. These films are edgier. They’re Charlie Chaplin series. Chaplin wrote, screen: Gregory Peck, Grace Kelly, Audrey profane and violent and scary. And they directed, produced, and starred in some of Hepburn, Cary Grant, Judy Garland, Humphrey were not made for the entire family.