May 15 – 21
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Tomorrow (Friday) we start a run of Gomorrah (above), the gritty Italian mafia film that won the Grand Prize at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Shall We Kiss?, a French romance (well, sort of!), starts on Friday, May 22.
Pray the Devil Back to Hell has its last screening tonight at 7:30PM.
We continue our month of classics to see with Mom on Sunday at 2PM with The African Queen (1951) starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart and directed by John Huston. It's a wonderful movie and is absolutely appropriate for ages 8 and up. I've only seen it once — with my Dad when I was about 10 years old, so I'm looking forward to seeing it again, this time on the big screen. We're also fortunate to have a rare restored print of the film, so do join us!
Tickets for Leon Redbone, at the Colonial on Sat, Nov 21 at 8PM, go on sale this Saturday (May 16) at 12PM online at at 4PM at the Colonial box office. Tickets are $24.50 – $34.50 and are available with cash or check at the Colonial Theatre Box Office. Credit card sales available by calling Charge-by-Phone at (866) 468-7619 or click here to go to ticketweb.com.
The Dogwood Festival Parade is happening this Saturday from approximately 1PM – 3PM on Main Street. So be prepared for street closings and traffic delays.
BlobFest Shorty Awards Update: MiND TV has come on board as a sponsor of the Shorty Awards and they are a perfect fit! MiND TV's programming consists exclusively of 5 minute videos made by their members. Membership starts at just $75 per year and includes a FREE video-making Boot Camp where you can learn, in one day, about concept development, video production, editing, and just about everything else you need to know to bring your ideas to screen! The next Boot Camp is scheduled for Sat, May 30 — just in time for the Shorty's submission deadline of Jun 15! For more info, go to www.mindtv.org.
Please note that we will be closed on Monday, May 25 for Memorial Day.
Thanks for your support and we'll see you at the theatre!