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North Charleston Picture House lineup announced
By Christina Elmore
The Post and Courier
Thursday, August 5, 2010
The Greater Park Circle Film Society has announced the August lineup for Charleston's only nonprofit movie theater.
The Olde North Charleston Picture House, known for showing short films and documentaries, will feature "The Desert of Forbidden Art" on Saturday. It's a documentary about Igor Savitsky's preservation of censored artwork in the Soviet Union.
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The Olde North Charleston Picture House is at 4820 Jenkins Ave. in Park Circle (near East Montague and Jenkins avenues in the Olde Village Community Center). Admission is $2 for members and $5 for nonmembers. Visit http://parkcirclefilms.org or call 628-5534.
Audience members in attendance on Aug. 14 will be treated to a viewing of "Here and There," a film about a man from New York visiting Serbia the same time as a man from Serbia visits New York.
On Aug. 21, the theater will feature the 2010 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, "The Cove," a picture that sheds light on the abusive and dangerous industry of dolphin hunting. Upon its conclusion, audience members may participate in a discussion of the film with guest speakers Kim Iverson and Myra Brouwer of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council.
On Aug. 28, the Picture House will offer a double feature beginning at 4 p.m. with "Persepolis," based on a graphic novel depicting the story of a young Iranian girl. "Lorna's Silence," a film portraying the ambitions of two Albanian immigrants in Belgium, will be featured later that evening.
The Greater Park Circle Film Society, which was founded in August 2008, is entering its second year. The Picture House was developed in December of that year.
According to Dr. James Sears, the film society's executive director, the Picture House is only one of two nonprofit theaters in the state, the other being The Nickelodeon Theatre in Columbia.
"The idea for the theater came because there was nowhere in the area where people could go to see noncommercial, indie films and local films," Sears said.
Sears said that membership to the film society comes with a number of perks, including reduced prices on movie tickets and free popcorn at all of the shows.
"I don't know anywhere where someone could go see a movie for $2, get free popcorn and then go on a walk down Park Circle to one of the local restaurants or to get a drink afterward," Sears said.
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