The Bayview Street Cinema
R.I.P The One Dollar Popcorn
After 32 years of showing the best in Independent and Art House films, the screen of Camden's own seaside cinema is going dark. The management and staff of the Bayview Street Cinema reluctantly announce their doors will be closing August 23rd. While the future of the cinema is unclear, please look for special holiday movie events and use of the facilities for both private and public functions.
Camden native, W. Doug Hall, opened the cinema in 1975 to share his love of "The Pictures" with his friends and neighbors throughout the miscast. He opened with "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and has since shown hundreds of the best films made over the last three decades. Enlightening, entertaining, and educational the films Doug and his staff have screened have always provided a wonderful perspective and reminder of the greater world in which we live. After all these years, Doug is now ready to retire and enjoy his Megunticook lake home, perhaps do some traveling and spend more time with family and friends.
The Bayview Street Cinema, the quirky little cultural institution in Camden, Maine, has been an integral part of the community and will be sorely missed.
There is a celebration of Doug's retirement and of the life of the Bayview Street Cinema planned for September 15th. Doug looks forward to recognizing and celebrating his retirement with all the community, his loyal customers and employees who have enjoyed the theater as much as he has by showing his favorite flick, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Lid once again. Details forthcoming.
Movies to be featured in the upcoming weeks are as follows: "Evening," playing Aug. 3 through 9, about the timeless love between a mother and daughter. "Once," running Aug. 10 through 16, is a modern day musical set on the streets of Dublin, and "Mighty Heart," Aug. 17 through 23, the true love story of Mariane Pearl and her husband Daniel, the Wall Street Journal bureau chief murdered in Pakistan in 2002. Movies are shown nightly at 7pm and 9pm with a Sunday matinee at 3:00 p.m.
{In lieu of flowers the Bayview Street Cinema encourages
you to support locally owned arts institutions...}
ADULTS $7
SENIORS $6
CHILDREN $5
MATINEE: ADULTS $6.50
SENIORS $5.50
CHILDREN $4.50
Showing the Movies You Really Should See Since 1975.
236 - 8722, Camden, Maine
WWW.BAYVIEWCINEMA.COM, www.bayviewstreetcinema.blogspot.com
Movies are subject to change given unforeseen circumstances. Note price change. Matinee prices remain the same.
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- Aug 3 - 9
- EVENING
Nightly
at 7 & 9pm, Sunday Matinee 3pm. PG13. D: Lajos Koltai. Vanessa Redgrave,
Meryl Streep, Toni Collette, Claire Danes.Evening is a deeply emotional film that illuminates the timeless love which binds mother and daughter - seen through the prism of one mother's life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. Two pairs of real-life mothers and daughters - Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha Richardson, and Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer - portray, respectively, a mother and her daughter and the mother's best friend at different stages in life. Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters; Constance and Nina. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But who is this "Harris," wonder her daughters, and what is he to our mother?
- Aug 10 - 16
- ONCE
Nightly
at 7 & 9pm Sun Mat at 3pm. PG 85min. D: John Carey. Glen Hansard,
Marketa Irglova.A modern day musical set on the streets of Dublin. Featuring Glen Hansard and his Irish band "The Frames," the film tells the story of a street musician and a Czech immigrant during an eventful week as they write, rehearse and record songs that reveal their unique love story.
"Even the uninitiated will be hard-pressed to resist the movie's charms, from its likable leading players and its charming Dublin setting to its wistful take on modern love." Ann Hornaday, WASHINGTON POST
- Aug 17 - 23
- MIGHTY HEART
Nightly
at 7 & 9pm, Sun Mat at 3pm. NR 103min. D: Michael Winterbottom. Angelina
Jolie.On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl's world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane he might be late for dinner. He never returned. In the face of death, Danny's spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl. Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he would never meet. Transcending religion, race and nationality, Mariane's courageous desire to rise above the bitterness and hatred that continues to plague this post 9/11 world, serves as the purest expression of the joy of life she and Danny shared.
"A straightforward, highly competent thriller. As you'd expect from English director Michael Winterbottom, the picture possesses levels of moral complication that are at first invisible." Andrew O'Heir, SALON.COM
April 20th - June 21st, 2007
10 Bayview Street, P.O. Box 1014
Camden, Maine 04843
236-8422 OFFICE
236-8722 RECORDING
Adults $7.00 • Seniors $6.00
Children $5.00
Nightly 7
Fri and Sat 7 & 9i
Sun Mat 3pm
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