Lawn Chair Drive-in Presents A New Leaf

Fri., Aug. 27, free, dusk, Water Tower Rec Center, 200 E. Hartwell Lane, 215-685-9296, lawnchairdrivein.com.

by Molly Eichel

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After 15 years holding it down at NoLibs' Liberty Lands Park, the Lawn Chair Drive-In will make the move to Chestnut Hill. By way of introduction, Lawn Chair will screen Elaine May's A New Leaf, starring Walter Matthau as a formerly rich playboy in search of the wealthy sugar momma (played by May) who can pull him out of his penniless rut. Since its inception, Lawn Chair has presented diamonds-in-the-cinematic-roughs, screened always on film, with tacked-on 'toons and vintage commercials. But a kerfuffle with the Northern Liberties Neighbors Association sent founders Dave Amodei and Todd Kimmell in search of new digs, selecting Chestnut Hill's Water Tower Rec Center for their final film of 2010 and setting their site sights on Pastorius Park (Abington Avenue and Lincoln Drive) for the future. But location is not important for the boys of Lawn Chair. "I'm not a filmmaker," says Kimmell. "I'm a guy who shows films and loves films. That's how I like to bring people together."