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

The 4th Dimension
(2006) (Shown on video): A PFF '06 fave making a brief pitstop home, Tom Mattera and Dave Mazzoni's debut melds David Lynch with Pi. Shot in Super 16 mm, the expressionistic film follows an antiques shop worker obsessed with time and memories whose reality is thrown into question upon receiving a broken antique clock. Mattera and Mazzoni will be present at both this screening and the one at the Bryn Mawr. (Not reviewed.) Wed., Nov. 21, 7pm.

Wizard of Oz
(1939) (Shown on DVD): When will Return to Oz get the love? Wheelies are way freakier than flying monkeys. A- Sat., Nov. 24, 11am.

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

Shrek
(2001) (Shown on DVD): Suckers. C- Sat., Nov. 24, 11am.

The Killer Within
(2006) (Shown on film): The unknowability of people gets a work-through in Macky Alston's documentary on the strange tale of Bob Bechtel. In 1955 Bechtel gunned down fellow Swarthmore student Holmes Strozier. Not five years later he was declared not guilty by reason of insanity and set free, whereupon he started a family, became a respected college professor and kept his past a secret to all. Bechtel himself is chillingly opaque; he seems to have rectified his past with his present, which is infinitely more troubling than someone who can't get a read on their own psyche. Sadly, Alston's decision to focus largely on Bechtel's daughter Carrah winds up crippling the film. Her singleminded quest to rationalize the man who raised her with a one-time murderer winds up limiting Alston's focus when it should've included other subjects and spun off in other directions. B Wed., Nov. 28, 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

I Know Where I'm Going!
(1945) (Shown on film): Inky critic extraordinaire Carrie Rickey introduces this unspeakably lovely Powell and Pressburger joint, with Wendy Hiller as a determined young woman en route to marry a millionaire on a remote Scottish isle. A storm detains her with local eccentric (and P&P regular) Roger Livesey, who may be a better suitor. A stopgap while the duo waited for the technology to make their stupendous A Matter of Life and Death, it's a deceptively simple film, and one that reveals more riches with every viewing. Thus concludes the CHFG's fall season; they'll return in February with another P&P treasure--the even richer and lovelier A Canterbury Tale. B Tues., Nov. 27, 7:30pm.

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

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(1975) (Shown on film): Yes, we know you can quote the movie front to end. So can we. A Fri., Nov. 23, 2pm, 5pm and 9pm; Sat., Nov. 24, 5pm and 9pm; Sun., Nov. 25, 5pm; Mon., Nov. 26, 8:30pm.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
(1968) (Shown on film): Among Ian Fleming's non-Bond works was this whimsical tale of a flying car invented around the turn of the century, which he and Roald Dahl adapted into a film released at the height of the Vietnam War. With that pedigree, how gratingcould it be? Then again, there's Dick Van Dyke and Benny Hill. (Not reviewed.) Sat., Nov. 24, 2pm.

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