Ambler Theater Previews65A SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2008 Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes in THE DUCHESS and Ralph FiennesKeira Knightley in 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 your 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 5:00 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? 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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 Happy-Go-Lucky Synecdoche, New York Elegy Great Britain – 1 hr 58 min – Mike Leigh USA – 2 hr 4 min – Charlie Kaufman USA – 1 hr 51 min – Isabel Coixet The latest work from Mike Leigh is Screenwriting magician Charlie ELEGY is an intelligent meditation on the fascinating. He makes films with no pre- Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Eternal passionate affair between a celebrated existing script and builds them from the Sunshine) makes his directorial debut college professor and a young woman ground up with his cast of actors. HAPPY- with this typically intricate, self-referential who both transfixes and destabilizes him. GO-LUCKY stars Sally Hawkins as a thirty- film. A theater director struggles with his Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz give year-old school teacher who lives a full work (and the women surrounding him) mesmerizing performances that imbue and happy life. Will wonders never cease? as he toils away in a warehouse creating this film with a weight and seriousness A brightly lit comedy from the dour Mike a monumental replica of New York City that we rarely see in movies these days. Leigh? Yes. This is an optimistic and for his new play. It’s a wildly ambitious Based on Philip Roth’s novel, The Dying energetic film, full of marvelous acting (and funny?) contemplation of life, art, Animal. and sharp dialogue. love and death. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener. A Word About Our The Wackness American Teen Main Attractions: USA – 1 hr 50 min – Jonathan Levine USA – 1 hr 40 min – Nanette Burstein An indie comedy about a troubled This spirited film documents a year in We try to play each of the films on teen and his drug-addled therapist, the lives of four Indiana high school these two pages as soon as possible. THE WACKNESS has a great script and seniors. Entertaining and briskly paced, Sometimes, however, because of decidedly self-assured performances. it’s hard to believe that AMERICAN scheduling conflicts or problems with Ben Kingsley’s performance is particularly TEEN is actually, yes, a documentary. It print availability, we are unable to play inspired – he plays the flamboyant unfolds more like a tightly written drama, a film before its video release. (The shrink with great gusto. The film is both complete with rooting/hissing interest “theatrical window” is getting shorter amusing and melancholy and is full of in its principal subjects – the jock, the and shorter.) We apologize for when this surprises. popular girl, the artsy girl, and the geek. happens. Know that it is our top priority A big hit at Sundance, this promises to to play as many great films for you as be a real crowd-pleaser. possible. For more information, visit our website. Thank you. MAIN ATTRACTIONS Man on Wire Transsiberian The Duchess USA/Great Britain – 1 hr 40 min – James Great Britain – 1 hr 50 min – Brad Great Britain – 1 hr 49 min – Saul Dibb Marsh Anderson Keira Knightley stars in this beautiful A man walking across a high-wire An American couple takes the legendary drama as Georgiana, Duchess of between the Twin Towers – and how Trans-Siberian Express from Beijing to Devonshire, a glamorous 18th century he does it – is the grab-you-by-the- Moscow. As they strike up a friendship socialite known for her style and political lapels subject that propels this wildly with another couple on the train, they activism. (She was a prime supporter of entertaining film. This documentary of slowly realize that not everything is what the forward-looking Whig party.) When daredevil Philippe Petit’s amazing stunt, it appears to be. This exciting thriller she pushed to make her way in her performed in 1974, is an adventure comes straight from the Hitchcock own personal life, however, the resulting tale that astonishes in every respect. school of filmmaking. With compelling controversies and convoluted liaisons Spellbinding and exhilarating – this is the performances from Ben Kingsley, Emily pushed her to the brink of banishment real deal. Mortimer, and Woody Harrelson. from London society. With excellent supporting work from Ralph Fiennes.