Film Society Bourse — Local services in Philadelphia

Nice theater with albeit expensive parking garage right next door that was super easy. Drive-In with a friend so the $27 parking for a movie will not spoil the fun of your $11.50 tickets! Nice clean neat theater but super empty for the matinee midweek, pop perhaps not surprisingly. There were not too many shorts thankfully and there is a concession stand, if you really want to pay concession stand prices for stuff you shouldn't eat 🤣 Thankfully, I found it a very easy to bring in my healthy snack, and to be very respectful about how and when I ate it so that I created no litter. Bathrooms were clean and neat, although they have a funny "suicide shelf," allegedly for your purse, located right over the toilet, so I don't recommend using that LOL. The check-in was bare bones due to short staff... the concession guy doubled as a ticket agent who just took a quick peek at our downloaded QR code ticket on our phones and that was that. A sadly underattended showing for such an amazing musical icon as Joan Baez, "I Am a Noise," so I hope you'll all run and see the other performances before this historical educational inspirational opportunity goes away, and keep this theater in business too! Around the corner from the Jewish Museum with the big yellow YO that spells OY backwards (HILARIOUS!) and the Museum of Illusions, so go early or stay late and make a day of it! It's a great little theater, so try to see this or something there, but you may want to find parking in the...

No one can deny that some of the best movies showing and the City of Philadelphia are showing here!

The problem I have with the theater, when it was designed it did not take into consideration true wheelchair accessibility for those who are watching movies except for theater one.(at the bourse location)

What does this mean for me and others. We are sitting in in an extreme slope, where you have to hold on to yourself in your wheelchair and adjust yourself regularly or attempt to sit sideways to prevent yourself from sliding all the way out of your wheelchair or be extremely uncomfortable trying to hold yourself back well try and eat popcorn 🍿

I seat myself now right in the main entrance once I get into the theater I don't even attempt to go into this area's supposedly for wheelchairs because they are not accommodating. So you get the emergency light in your eyes but you do see the movie without starting out of the chair your wheelchair that is. This only works if I'm going by myself.

The one thing the theaters can do to make themselves even more wheelchair-friendly is too install or fix existing electric door openers for all of...

My favorite place in Center City to watch films. If you go on a Monday, the tickets are $6, and they're very reasonably priced even outside of the discount day as well. You don't need to pre-purchase on Fandango / Atom or any of the ticket apps, just buy your concessions and tickets all in one easy transaction and walk right into your auditorium.

They only have the basic snack options - candy, popcorn, some baked goods, etc., so if you're looking for sliders and fancy burgers and nacho platters you might be a little disappointed. For most people this won't be a big deal; it's easy enough to go somewhere else in the neighborhood for food and drinks before or after a show her.

One of the best attributes of this theater as compared to more commercial ones like the AMC in Fashion District is that it attracts a more serious, cinephile audience. You are MUCH less likely to hear a phone ring or see people rudely texting or taking photos at this theater than at an AMC...