Tuesday, October 7, 2008

CinemaSalem opens vault for Harry Potter Film Fest

There are four more HARRY POTTER films to view this October at Cinema Salem! For only $6 a show, CinemaSalem is offering Harry Potter fans a chance to view all 35mm Harry Potter films, straight from the Warner Bros. vault, during the Harry Potter Film Festival.

The Festival takes place each weekend, with show times at 10 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Last weekend the Harry Potter Film Festival began with a showing of the first of the popular film series, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."

Harry Potter, a seemingly ordinary 11-year-old boy, lives with his negligent relatives, the Dursleys. That is, until he learns the truth about his wizardry – and how he received the lightning bolt scar on his forehead, at the hands of the evil dark Lord Voldemort. A visit from a mysterious stranger named Hagrid opens Potter's past and leads him through five stories that revolve around his education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The films star Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, alongside Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry's best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. The adult cast features Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Ian Hart, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Richard Griffiths, Jason Issacs, Gary Oldman, Fiona Shaw, David Thewlis, Emma Thompson and Julie Walters.

Oct. 11 & 12, look forward to the 35mm film, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," released in 2002. When Potter ignores warnings not to return to Hogwarts, he discovers the school is plagued by a series of mysterious attacks – and a strange voice haunting him.

Oct. 18 & 19, enjoy the 2004 release, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," when the 35mm film revisits the big screen. It's Harry's third year at Hogwarts; not only does he have a new "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards' Prison and is coming after Potter.

Oct. 25 & 26, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," released in 2005, will be shown at CinemaSalem. In this film, Potter finds himself selected as an under aged competitor in a dangerous multi-wizardry school competition.

To finish the series, Nov. 1 & 2, the 2007 release of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" will be shown. In his fifth year at Hogwarts, with warning about Lord Voldemort's return scoffed at, Potter and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.

All five films will be shown in 35mm film on the big screen, just as they were when originally released. The Harry Potter Film Festival coincides with CinemaSalem's opening of the renovated Cinema Café, Salem's newest espresso café to visit before or after the show, or even when you're not going to the movies! The Café serves great coffee drinks by Atomic Café roasts, offers free WIFI, and is a great place to relax with friends. Café goers can enjoy a host of delicious menu items including fruit smoothies, alternative concessions like granola snacks, baked cookies and brownies and yogurt parfait. Cinema Café is open Friday night and all day Saturday and Sunday.

CinemaSalem is located at One East India Square. Visit http://www.cinemasalem.com/ to buy tickets or call 978.744.1400 for more information on CinemaSalem's midnight shows, FLATLINE FILM FEST, to be offered each weekend throughout October with screenings of films such as THE BLOB and ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW!

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