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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 - 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 and a week ahead of time, which we post in revisit the operation, which was not what . 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 . 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 -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 is cerebral and to maintain their friendship as their joy. astonishingly cinematic. With Michelle demanding careers and complicated love Williams, and Paul lives get in the way. Dano. MAIN ATTRACTIONS

Another Earth 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 - 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 ) 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 , Engagements. Make sure that you sign years. Through laughter and romance, Rachel McAdams, , 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 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 series. Chaplin wrote, screen: Gregory Peck, , Audrey profane and violent and scary. And they directed, produced, and starred in some of Hepburn, , , Humphrey were not made for the entire family. But they the most popular and artistically heralded Bogart, the list goes on and on. Memorable definitely were made to be seen on the big films ever made - immaculately constructed, acting in great films never fades. See these screen. Are they new classics in the making? deeply emotional, and always hilarious. This Hollywood classics the way they were intended You be the judge. retrospective includes some of Chaplin’s to be seen: on the big screen in a packed greatest works, as well as some of his early auditorium. shorts and lesser known features. All restored Free for our young patrons: These Hollywood and presented in stunning HD Digital. Classics are perfect for any age audience — and this entire Classics series is free for pa- trons 18 years old or younger. And, if you dress Come often and earn a free pass and more. Pick up a “Hollywood Insider” card at the start of the “in the theme” of the movie - we will give you summer. For each film that you watch, whether Classic or Chaplin or Menacing, you’ll get a stamp on your card. Get 5 stamps and earn a FREE PASS and concession voucher. Get 10 stamps and earn a a free popcorn. restaurant coupon and who knows what else! (Check our website for details.)

LIVE FROM BROADWAY Hollywood CLASSICS Hollywood CLASSICS Ambler: June 2 Thurs 7:00 County: June 7 Tues 7:00 Ambler: June 13 Mon 7:00 June 5 Sun 12:30 Ambler: June 9 Thurs 7:00 County: June 21 Tues 7:00 June 12 Sun 12:30 County: June 2 Thurs 7:00 June 5 Sun 12:30

The Importance of The Searchers Being Earnest 1962 - 2 hr 9 min - USA - b/w - 35mm 1956 - 2 hr - USA - color - HD Digital PERFORMED LIVE on March 11, 2011 Universal - d: Mulligan - w/Gregory Warner Bros - d: - w/, Roundabout Theatre Company, Broadway Peck This exciting addition to our LIVE Theater ’s novel comes to vivid life with A richly scenic film from director John Ford, Series was performed in March on Broadway Gregory Peck in an Oscar-winning role as THE SEARCHERS is one of the most influential to rapturous reviews. It’s Oscar Wilde’s lawyer Atticus Finch. Set in a small town in westerns of all-time. John Wayne stars as a war glorious comedy of wit and wordplay set in the Deep South of the thirties and told from veteran, who embarks on a long journey to find late Victorian England. Two young gentlemen the point of view of Scout, his young daughter, his niece, played by Natalie Wood, the survivor pursue idle leisure, as well as romance, amidst MOCKINGBIRD bristles with period authenticity of an Indian massacre. One of Wayne’s best confusion and mistaken identity. Towering over and color. Scout, her brother Jem and neighbor performances ever. everything is the formidable Lady Bracknell, Dill live their childhood adventures, while played to comic perfection by Brian Bedford. Atticus defends an innocent black man in (General $18 / Member $16.) legendary courtroom scenes. HOLLYWOOD SUMMER2011 NIGHTS This Hollywood Summer Nights series contains the fixed schedules for both the County Theater and the Ambler Theater.

Hollywood CLASSICS Hollywood CLASSICS County: June 14 Tues 7:00 Ambler: June 20 Mon 7:00 County: June 15 Wed 7:00 Ambler: June 16 Thurs 7:00 County: June 22 Wed 7:00 Ambler: June 23 Thurs 7:00

Jurassic Park Classic Cartoons from the Modern Times 1993 - 2 hr 7 min - USA - color - 35mm Universal - d: - w/ Sam Vaults of Lou D 1936 - 1 hr 27 min - USA - b/w - HD Digital Lou DiCrescenzo returns with another night d: Charles Chaplin Neill, , This action-packed blockbuster is director of classic cartoons. These rare treasures, Charlie Chaplin’s brilliant satire of the presented in their original 35mm glory, are machine age was also his last “silent,” even Steven Spielberg at his big-screen best. A new theme park is unveiled, where visitors a treat to see on the big screen. Don’t miss though it also featured his first words spoken this chance to see Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, on film. The Little Tramp bravely shuffles can observe dinosaurs created by “advanced DNA .” But then the dinosaurs escape, and the Pink Panther, as well as some lesser- forward into a maze of technology and known animated stars. modern society. Although barely in control forcing everyone to run for their lives. (This film of his own fate, he demonstrates pluck and also almost qualifies as a Menacing Summer endurance in the face of overwhelming forces. Night. Almost.)

s Hollywood CLASSICS Menacing Summer Night County: July 6 Wed 7:00 County: June 28 Tues 7:00 Ambler: June 27 Mon 7:00 Ambler: June 30 Thurs 7:00 2nd Annual Python Fest SPAM SPAM SPAM...This special evening at the County: June 29 Wed 7:00 County Theater celebrates the British comedy troupe that made us sing about spam and question the liveliness of a certain pet shop parrot. This Python Fest will include trivia, prizes, and other special events. We’ll screen some classic sketches from their TV show and then show their feature, The Holy Grail.

Duck Soup Goodfellas 1933 - 1 hr 8 min - USA - b/w - 35mm 1990 - 2 hr 26 min - USA - color - HD Digital Paramount - d: Leo McCarey - w/ The Marx Warner Bros - d: Brothers w/ , , Ray Liotta DUCK SOUP may be the most beloved of One of Martin Scorsese’s best films - a all Marx Brothers films. Groucho becomes Monty Python and quintessential look at “wiseguys.” A young man dictator of the tiny country of Freedonia, but grows up in the mob, advances and tries to the Holy Grail a misunderstanding with the ambassador 1975 - 1 hr 31 min - UK - color - 35mm make it big, only to see his fortunes unravel. of a bordering nation leads to war. The Marx Ray Liotta is great in the lead and DeNiro d: and Terry Jones Brothers are at their crazy best in this raucous King Arthur and his knights embark on a low- is amazing as always, but Joe Pesci is truly political satire, in which Chico, Harpo and unforgettable in a riveting performance. budget search for the Grail, encountering many Zeppo co-star as spies and counterspies. very silly obstacles. HOLLYWOOD SUMMER2011 NIGHTS This Hollywood Summer Nights series contains the fixed schedules for both the County Theater and the Ambler Theater.

Hollywood CLASSICS National Theater Live Menacing Summer Nights Ambler: July 7 Thurs 7:00 Ambler: July 10 Sun 12:30 County: Aug 2 Tues 7:00 County: July 17 Sun 12:30 Ambler: July 11 Mon 7:00 County: July 13 Wed 7:00

Rear Window The Cherry Orchard Fight Club 1954 - 1 hr 52 min - USA - color - HD Digital PERFORMED LIVE on June 30, 2011 1999 - 2 hr 19 min - USA - color - 35mm Paramount - d: - w/ James National Theatre, Fox - d: - w/ Brad Pitt, Edward Stewart, Grace Kelly Zoë Wanamaker stars in Chekhov’s Norton This supremely stylish Hitchcock thriller is masterpiece in a LIVE production from A bland office worker () meets about a photographer, played by Jimmy London’s National Theatre, the last of a roguish rebel (Brad Pitt) and together Stewart, who is confined to his apartment the current season. The play concerns an they form “Fight Club”, a secret society that with a broken leg. He proceeds to spy on aristocratic Russian woman and her family celebrates fighting and male aggression. his neighbors and soon suspects that he’s as they return to the family’s estate, just as Reality then begins to blur when the club uncovered a murder. The script is superb and it is about to be foreclosed. It’s a toweringly is transformed into a nihilistic cult bent on a young Grace Kelly is impossibly glorious. influential work of cultural commentary. overturning society. Lurid, twisted and violent – Hitchcock at the peak of his powers. (General $18 / Member $16.) but in a good way, right?

Hollywood CLASSICS Ambler: July 20 Wed 7:00 County: July 12 Tues 7:00 THE Ambler Ambler: July 14 Thurs 7:00 theater’s 5th Annual Little

The Big Lebowski Lebowski 1998 - 1 hr 57 min - USA - color - 35mm - Universal - d: Joel and Ethan Coen - w/ , John Goodman, A Star is Born Steve Buscemi, , 1954 - 3 hr 1 min - USA - color - HD Digital The Dude returns to Ambler for our annual “Little .” Warner Bros - d: - w/ Judy Fest With trivia, a costume competition, and some stupefying prizes. Garland, And back by popular demand - Achiever level tickets that will get A sweeping melodrama about a young singer you cool stuff (as well as white russians). Check our website for (played by Judy Garland), who is discovered by more details. a studio star (James Mason). He helps her rise to the top, even as his career is falling. George Then, of course, there’s the screening of movie Cukor’s musical drama is his masterpiece, itself, in which Jeff Bridges plays an aging -type an emotional story in which Garland gives in a stoned update of Raymond Chandler. There’s mistaken iden- her most impressive dramatic performance. tity, a kidnapping plot, rug micturation, and a ton of bowling. Visually dazzling, with wonderful music and an Do NOT miss this evening - it really ties the summer together!! intense storyline. Yeah, well, that’s just, you know, like, your opinion, man. 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 County: July 19 Tues 7:00 County: July 26 Tues 7:00 Ambler: July 21 Thurs 7:00 Ambler: July 25 Mon 7:00 Ambler: July 28 Thurs 7:00 County: July 27 Wed 7:00

On the Waterfront 1954 - 1 hr 48 min - USA - b/w - 35mm The Great Dictator Columbia - d: - w/ , Aliens 1940 - 2 hr 5 min - USA - b/w - HD Digital , Lee J. Cobb, 1986 - 2 hr 17 min - USA - color - 35mm d: Charles Chaplin Marlon Brando delivers an astonishing, Fox - d: - w/ Charlie Chaplin plays dual roles: a Hitler-like blistering performance as an ex-prize fighter The second installment of the “Alien” series in dictator and a comic Jewish barber. Yes, the turned longshoreman who struggles to stand which humans battle a particularly nasty pod of film is funny and filled with gags and pratfalls. up to corrupt union bosses. Masterfully creatures on a remote planet outpost. Sigourney But it is also one of Chaplin’s more serious directed by Elia Kazan, WATERFRONT won 8 Weaver is superb as Ripley, the chief who leads works, with deep strains of sadness and . It jumps off the screen, even a crew of marines back to kill these menacing tragedy. There are also wonderful moments of today, with its grit and immediacy and power. monsters. James Cameron directs and provides Chaplin pantomime: as he shaves a customer action-packed storytelling with exciting thrills in time to classical music, and when he and intense suspense. dances with the world globe as dictator.

Menacing Summer Nights Hollywood CLASSICS Ambler: Aug 3 Wed 7:00 Ambler: Aug 1 Mon 7:00 County: Aug 3 Wed 7:00

Reciprocal Benefits at the The Three Stooges: County Theater. Classic Shorts on the Big Screen Our programming is coordinated with our The best of golden period Three Stooges on sibling theater, the County Theater. If you’re Bullitt the big screen at the Ambler Theater. Join a member of the Ambler, you get reduced 1968 - 1 hr 54 - USA - color - HD Digital us for an evening of classic Stooges shorts, admission ($6.00) at the County. So, if you Warner Bros - d: Peter Yates - w/ Steve hosted by the Three Stooges Fan Club. The can’t make a film at the Ambler, check to see McQueen show will be introduced by Club President when it’s playing at the County! Steve McQueen stars as a no-nonsense Gary Lassin. Then join us on Saturday, August cop the crime boss who killed his 6th, from 10:00am - 3:00pm, for our annual protected witness. This classic thriller pilgrimage to the Stoogeum, Lassin’s amazing earned immortality for its memorable high world-class museum of Stooge memorabilia, speed car-chase that roared through the hidden away in Spring House, PA. It’s an streets of San Francisco. Nothing is cooler incredible collection and an exhilarating visit, than McQueen’s Mustang. (Except maybe his even if you don’t live and breathe the Stooges. shades.) Movies screened in digital format. HOLLYWOOD SUMMER2011 NIGHTS This Hollywood Summer Nights series contains the fixed schedules for both the County Theater and the Ambler Theater.

Summer Nights Hollywood CLASSICS Menacing 35mm or HD Digital? County: Aug 9 Tues 7:00 Yes, we are 35mm purists and we show classic Ambler: Aug 8 Mon 7:00 Ambler: Aug 11 Thurs 7:00 movies in the original 35mm film format, if we County: Aug 10 Wed 7:00 can. However, often films are not available in 35mm or the prints are in terrible shape with scratches, bad color and unacceptable sound. What then? Fortunately, great strides have been made in digital technology and sometimes the quality of a movie in HD Digital is comparable to 35mm (or even better). More and more classic films are becoming available in HD Digital, so this is a viable alternative. So, what’s the bottom line? We’ll bring you classic movies in the best possible format. Casablanca Our default choice is 35mm film, but if the Pulp Fiction 1942 - 1 hr 42 min - USA - b/w - 35mm HD Digital format is better, then we’ll go 1994 - 2 hr 34 min - USA - color - 35mm Warner Bros - d: with digital. We list the chosen format in the Miramax - d: - w/ John w/ , , credits here and on our website, so you’ll Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson Claude Rains know which format we’ll be screening. (One The film that secured Quentin Tarantino’s place The Bogart film of all Bogart films, with caveat, though: if a print is booked and listed as a star director features two mob enforcers, nightclub owner Rick fighting his cynicism and in 35mm and it arrives in terrible shape, we a boxer, a gangster’s wife, and a pair of petty choosing between love and honor. Containing reserve the option to jump to digital. So, check crooks. They all intertwine in four tales of crime one memorable scene after another, only to our website before you come to the theater to and redemption. With crackling dialogue and be topped by one of the greatest endings ever. get any late breaking news on the presentation memorable performances, PULP FICTION was Co-star Ingrid Bergman simply glows on the format.) one of the most audacious and imitated films screen. Play it again! of the 1990s.

Hollywood CLASSICS Hollywood CLASSICS Menacing Summer Nights County: Aug 17 Wed 7:00 County: Aug 16 Tues 7:00 Ambler: Aug 18 Thurs 7:00 Ambler: Aug 22 Mon 7:00 County: Aug 24 Wed 7:00

Laurel and Hardy Night: Saps At Sea 1940 - 1 hr 7 min - USA - b/w - 35mm Kiss Me Deadly United Artists - d: Gordon Douglas 1955 - 1 hr 46 min - USA - b/w - 35mm Join us at the County for another night of Charade United Artists - d: - w/ Ralph craziness with . The evening 1963 - 1 hr 53 min - USA - color - HD Digital Meeker will showcase their feature SAPS AT SEA. Universal - d: Stanley Donen - w/ Cary Grant, Ralph Meeker is a perfect Mike Hammer, Oliver suffers a nervous breakdown as a result , the toughest and most callous of all classic of working in a factory, but when he follows Romance and suspense in Paris. Audrey private detectives. This fast, moody, and very doctor’s orders about sea air, he finds that an Hepburn is pursued by several men who stylish film was years ahead of its time and ex-con is aboard. The evening will also include want the fortune that her murdered husband influenced everyone from the French New the shorts Going Bye Bye and Tit For Tat. had stolen. Whom can she trust? This cast Wave to Quentin Tarantino. The cinematography Presented with the local chapter of the Sons of of legendary stars has chemistry to burn in is dazzling. The script is crisp and heartless, the Desert, the Laurel and Hardy fan club. director Stanley Donen’s suave comedy. complete with murder and mahem. How did this film ever get made in 1955? C your future.

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Hollywood CLASSICS AMBLER THEATER County: Aug 23 Tues 7:00 County: Aug 28 Sun 1:00 MASTER CALENDAR Ambler: Aug 25 Thurs 7:00 Ambler: Aug 31 Wed 7:00 June 9 (Thurs 7:00) To Kill a Mockingbird June 13 (Mon 7:00) The Searchers June 16 (Thurs 7:00) Modern Times June 20 (Mon 7:00) Jurassic Park The Kid June 23 (Thurs 7:00) 1921 - 1 hr 8 min - USA - b/w - HD Digital Gone with the Wind Lou D Classic Cartoon Show d: Charles Chaplin - w/Jackie Coogan 1939 - 3 hr 58 min - USA - color - HD Digital June 27 (Mon 7:00) Chaplin’s first feature, THE KID, follows a pair Warner Bros - d: - w/ Clark Goodfellas of con artists. One heaves rocks through Gable, Vivien Leigh windows; the other happens by in the nick of Director Victor Fleming’s 1939 epic stars June 30 (Thurs 7:00) time to offer his services as an expert window Vivien Leigh as self-absorbed, headstrong Duck Soup repairman. It’s a system that works for The Scarlett O’Hara, a Southern Belle who meets July 7 (Thurs 7:00) Little Tramp and his tiny sidekick. And so does her match in Rhett Butler, played by Clark Rear Window everything else about this beloved Chaplin Gable. It’s a sweeping story that starts just as classic. Shown with Chaplin’s short, A DOG’S the Civil War is breaking out. One of the most July 11 (Mon 7:00) LIFE. monumental of all Hollywood films, we are Fight Club pleased to present this on the big screen in a superbly restored digital version. July 14 (Thurs 7:00) A Star is Born July 20 (Wed 7:00) Little Lebowski Fest July 21 (Thurs 7:00) July 25 (Mon 7:00) Join in the conversation. Aliens Become a fan of the Ambler Theater on July 28 (Thurs 7:00) Facebook, Twitter, or check out our blog at The Great Dictator RenewTheaters.org/blog Aug 1 (Mon 7:00) Bullitt AmblerTheater.org. Aug 3 (Wed 7:00) Three Stooges: Classic Shorts In addition to up-to-date movie listings Special Thanks: and information about upcoming films and Aug 8 (Mon 7:00) The Ambler Theater receives programs, the Ambler Theater website also Pulp Fiction funding support through a offers a quick and easy way to become a Aug 11 (Thurs 7:00) member. What are you waiting for? grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a Casablanca Our weekly email update. state agency funded by Aug 18 (Thurs 7:00) Sign up at our website and we’ll send you the Commonwealth of Charade our weekly email blast. Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Aug 22 (Mon 7:00) Arts, a federal agency. Kiss Me Deadly Aug 25 (Thurs 7:00) The Kid Aug 31 (Wed 7:00) Gone With The Wind

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