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County Theater 64 PreviewsJUNE – AUGUST 2008 Mary Astor and Humphrey Bogart in THE MALTESE FALCON THE MALTESE Bogart in MaryAstor and Humphrey INCLUDES OUR MAIN ATTRACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS C OUNTYT HEATER.ORG 215 345 6789 Welcome to the nonprofit County Theater The County Theater is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization. Give us your feedback ADMISSION Your film experience is the most important thing to us, so we General ............................................................$8.50 welcome your feedback. Please let us know what we can do Members .........................................................$4.50* better. Call (215) 345-6789, or email us at [email protected] Seniors (62+) Children under 18 and When will films play? Students w/valid I.D. .....................................$6.50 Early Matinee ..................................................$5.50 Main Attractions (shows prior to 2:30 pm) Film Booking. Our main films play week-to-week from Friday Late Matinee ...................................................$6.50 through Thursday. Every Monday we determine what new films (shows starting between 2:30 & 5:00 pm) will start on Friday, what current films will end on Thursday, Wed Early Matinee (before 2:30 pm) ...............$4.50 and what current films will continue through Friday for another Affiliated Theaters Members** .........................$5.50 week. All films are subject to this week-to-week decision-mak- ing process. We try to play all of our Main Attraction films as **Affiliated Theaters Members soon as possible. (For more info on the business of booking The County Theater, the Ambler Theater, and the Bryn Mawr Film films and why some films play longer or sooner than others, Institute have reciprocal admission benefits. Your County member- visit our website.) ship will allow you $5.50 admission at the other theaters. (You must When Will a Film’s Run Start? present your membership card to obtain this discount.) After we decide on Monday (Tuesday at the latest) what new Be a Member films will start on Friday, we immediately let you know on our Become a member of the non- COUNTY THEATER website and on our hotline. MEMBER profit County Theater and show We’ll send you an email message every Tuesday as to what your support for good films and a is coming and going on Friday. (Sign up at our web site.) cultural landmark. See back panel Watch for our new membership card! for a membership form. Make Sure That We Have Your Email Address *Be aware that as of October 1, 2008, members’ admission will We can keep you up-to-date on all our events and scheduling increase by 25¢ to $4.75. (We keep pushing this increase back.) via our weekly email notices. Visit our web site to sign up, and then stay plugged into our latest programming news. Policies Children under 6 – Children under age 6 will not be admitted to our Special Programs “Regular Films.” However, all age children are welcome to our special Our Special Programs are scheduled for specific dates and “Kids Films” series. times, which are listed in this PREVIEWS brochure. Check our Late Arrivals – The Theater reserves the right to stop selling tickets website and hotline for any additions or changes. (and/or seating patrons) after a film has started. Outside Food and Drink – Patrons are not permitted to bring outside food and drink into the theater. The County Theater has wheelchair accessible auditoriums and restrooms, and is equipped with hearing enhancement devices. Please see the theater manager when you arrive. County Theater 20 East State Street, Doylestown, PA 18901 215-345-6789 HOTLINE 215-348-1878 Administrative Office CountyTheater.org To our 4,200+ members, thank you. How can you support the County Theater? Be a member. Your membership is the Become a sponsor. Receive promi- Put your star in the sidewalk. Your foundation of our success. Please fill nent recognition for your business additional gifts and support make us out and return the attached member- in exchange for helping our nonprofit even better. Your donations are fully ship form. (Or join online – it’s easy theater. Recognition comes in a variety tax-deductible. And you can put your and secure.) Your financial support is of ways – on our silver screens, in our name on a bronze star in the sidewalk! tax-deductible. Memberships run for brochures, and on our website. Call us Contact our Business Office at (215) one year from date of joining. at (215) 348-1878. 348-1878. How does the County Theater run? “County Theater, Inc.” is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt nonprofit corporation which owns and runs the theater. Our current Board consists of: Sandra Teel Trainer, President; Louise McLeod, Vice President; Mary Beth Kineke, Secretary; Ron Strouse, Treasurer; Jim Bunn; Pamela Byers; Gregory J. Gore; Ellen Happ; Jack McMillin; Richard Patterson; Scott Petersen; Diana Resek; Joel Stewart; Lou White; and John Toner, Executive Director. The official registration and financial information on County Theater, Inc. may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll-free, within Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement. Special Thanks The County Theater receives funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. MAIN ATTRACTIONS American Teen Choke Mongol USA – 1 hr 40 min – Nanette Burstein USA – 1 hr 32 min – Clark Gregg Russia/Mongolia – 2 hrs 6 min – Sergei This spirited film documents a year in CHOKE is a wickedly dark satire about Bodrov - with subtitles the lives of four Indiana high school (among other things) sexual compulsion This spectacular production tells the story seniors. Entertaining and briskly paced, and the sordid underbelly of Colonial of Genghis Khan from childhood to his rise it’s hard to believe that AMERICAN theme parks. Sam Rockwell plays a med to power. Shot on location in Kazakhstan TEEN is actually, yes, a documentary. It school dropout who is an “historical and Inner Mongolia, MONGOL captures unfolds more like a tightly written drama, interpreter” by day. At night he pretends the nomadic life of the 12th century as complete with rooting/hissing interest to choke in upscale restaurants in order well as the harsh climate and terrain of in its principal subjects – the jock, the to manipulate the wealthy patrons who the Mongolian Steppe. The performances popular girl, the artsy girl, and the geek. “save” him. And that’s just the start of are riveting and the storytelling fast paced, A big hit at Sundance, this promises to this wild and raunchy comedy based on particularly during the chases and battle be a real crowd-pleaser. the writing of Chuck Palahniuk. sequences. A Word About Our The Flight of the Priceless Main Attractions: France – 1 hr 44 min – Pierre Salvadori Red Balloon with subtitles We try to play each of the films on France – 1 hr 55 min – Hsiao-hsien Hou Taking its cue from recent French these two pages as soon as possible. with subtitles comedies like The Valet and My Best Sometimes, however, because of Juliet Binoche plays a single mom who Friend, PRICELESS is an amusing comedy scheduling conflicts or problems with must balance her job and a preteen son of errors in which a gold-digging siren print availability, we are unable to play in this quiet and subtle French film. It (Amelie’s Audrey Tautou) mistakes an a film before its video release. (The explores modern-day Paris as well as unsuspecting bartender for a wealthy “theatrical window” is getting shorter the artistry of the 1956 French classic, prospective suitor. Shot in the sun- and shorter.) We apologize for when this The Red Balloon, from which this film drenched French Riviera, this delightful happens. Know that it is our top priority takes its primary poetic imagery. FLIGHT film is like a light breeze off the water. to play as many great films for you as is graceful, and insightful, and a joy to possible. For more information, visit our watch. website. Thank you. MAIN ATTRACTIONS Brideshead Revisited Encounters at the Hamlet 2 Great Britain – Julian Jarrold End of the World USA – 1 hr 34 min – Andrew Fleming Emma Thompson and Michael Gambon USA – 1 hr 39 min – Werner Herzog Steve Coogan stars in this amusing tale are among the principal cast of this Master filmmaker Werner Herzog travels about a deluded high school teacher, highly anticipated screen version of to Antarctica to make a film about who attempts to stage a career-saving the Evelyn Waugh novel. Set in England the people at the McMurdo Research Shakespeare “play.” HAMLET 2 (it’s the between the World Wars, BRIDESHEAD Station. He weaves a fascinating and sequel) is rowdy, freewheeling, and more focuses on the conflicted lives of an amusing film about those characters, as than a little irreverent. With a colorful upper-class family. Superbly acted well as about the forbidding vastness supporting cast that includes Catherine and beautifully presented, this lavishly of this final frontier. Offering one Keener, Amy Poehler, David Arquette, and produced film is a worthy successor to arresting visual marvel after another, Elisabeth Shue. the highly praised BBC mini-series of the ENCOUNTERS shows us images that are 1980s. truly profound. Highly recommended. Blindsight The Wackness Brick Lane USA – 1 hr 44 min – Lucy Walker USA – 1 hr 50 min – Jonathan Levine Great Britain – 1 hr 51 min – Sarah This engaging and likeable film is about An indie comedy about a troubled Gavron blind Tibetan youngsters who are being teen and his drug-addled therapist, An elegant film about the travails, helped by American mountaineers to THE WACKNESS has a great script and conflicting emotions and quiet liberation climb a Himalayan peak.