After many successful years at the Tivoli Theatre, Friends of the Cinema is moving to Prince Charles Theatre for the 2012-2013 season.
“It’s basically a matter of cost,” organizer Jean Mutch said last week. “We put all of our profits back into the community and the more we make the greater the profits are. We have done a test of the picture quality at Prince Charles Theatre and we were pleased. And this summer the theatre will be getting new speakers, so sound quality should be excellent.”
At total of $16,000 has been donated back to the community over an eight-year period, Mutch said. Of that, $14,000 went to Friends of the Library (which handles administration of the film presentations, and the banking) and the other $2,000 went to the Creston Community Auditorium Society. Money for the Friends of the Library has helped purchase a photocopier and is now going to help acquire a new library computer operating system.
“Two of us from Friends of the Cinema worked on the original auditorium committee when the new school was being built,” Mutch said. “We want to keep the facility functioning well and by moving our movie screenings to Prince Charles Theatre, we can help do that.”
To help movie fans get used to the new venue, Friends of the Cinema is presenting a free promotional night at 7 p.m. on June 25, when Starbuck will be shown.
Starbuck centres of the life of 42-year-old David, an irresponsible slacker who is coasting through life as a deliveryman for his family’s butcher business. Then his life gets complicated. He owes $80,000 to a crime syndicate, he has no luck growing marijuana to play the debt and his girlfriend gets pregnant. Did we mention she’s a police officer?
Add to that the news that a fertility clinic has made front-page news when it is revealed that, as the result of an error, David’s sperm, donated 20 years ago) has resulted in 533 of his biological offspring, 142 of which have filed a class action lawsuit against “Starbuck”, David’s pseudonym. Soon to be the father of his own child, whose mother wants him to have nothing to do with, David undertakes to play guardian angel to other children he helped create, without revealing his identity.
Season passes for the 2012-2013 Friends of the Cinema movies will be available at the Creston Valley Fall Fair in September, with prices unchanged from recent years. Supporters will be polled for their opinions about intermissions and concession services.
