Ambler Theater Previews63A MARCH – MAY 2008 Amy Adams and Frances McDormand in MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY Adams and Frances McDormand in MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR Amy 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? 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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 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.