Repertory

SCREEN

By Matt Prigge

Add Comment | Comments: 0 | Posted Oct. 17, 2007

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Ambler Theater
$4.50-$8. 108 E. Butler Ave. 215.345.7855. www.amblertheater.com

The Seventh Seal
(1957) (Shown on film): Checkmate, Ingmar. B Wed., Oct. 17, 7pm.

Bryn Mawr Film Institute
$4.50-$9.25 (unless otherwise noted). 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr. 610.527.9898. www.brynmawrfilm.org

The Seventh Seal
(1957) (Shown on film): See Ambler Theater. B Wed., Oct. 17, 7pm.

Rocky Horror Picture Show
(1975) (Shown on film): The region 's much-loved Transylvania Nipple Productions performs the rites over Richard O'Brien's primo midnight movie. C+ Sat., Oct. 20, midnight.

Day of Wrath
(1943) (Shown on film): Made while his country was occupied by the Germans, this signature work from Denmark's great Carl Theodor Dreyer (Passion of Joan of Arc) depicts life under totalitarian rule in the 17th century. The persecution of women by the church is the subject, specifically a woman accused of being a witch. By all accounts required viewing. (Not reviewed.) Wed., Oct. 24, 7pm.

Chestnut Hill Film Group
Free. Screening room at the Chestnut Hill Branch of the Free Library, 8711 Germantown Ave. 215.248.0977. www.armcinema25.com

Scream of Fear
(1961) (Shown on film): The CHFG turns its Halloween duties to this Hammer Studios offering, with Susan Strasberg as a wheelchair-bound woman who visits her father 's French estate only to be told he's away on business. When she reports seeing a ghost that appears to be her father stomping around the grounds, her claims are a touch too viciously swatted away by new stepmother Ann Todd and family doctor Christopher Lee. (Not reviewed.) Tues., Oct. 23, 6pm and 7:45pm.

Colonial Theatre
$4-$7. 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville. 610.917.0223. www.thecolonialtheatre.com

The Fall of the House of Usher
(1960) (Shown on DVD): Following in the footsteps of Bela Lugosi/Boris Karloff team-ups from the '30s, Roger Corman and Vincent Price began a half-decade desecrating Poe with this outing--and I don't mean that pejoratively. Tony and cheap, Usher finds Price as the cursed head of a castle on the verge of crumbling. This was the first time Corman realized he could afford to put some serious money into one film a year rather than release nothing but cheapie black-and-whites. Don't expect the art direction insanity of his Masque of the Red Death (screening next week), but neither should you expect Attack of the Crab Monsters. (Not reviewed.) Sun., Oct. 21, 2pm.