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County Theater 90 PreviewsDECEMBER 2014 – FEBRUARY 2015 FORCE MAJEURE 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. How can you support the COUNTY THEATER ADMISSION County Theater? MEMBER Be a member. General ............................................................$10.50 Become a member of the Members ...........................................................$5.00 nonprofit County Theater and Members as of January 2015 ............................$6.00 show your support for good Seniors (62+) & Students ..................................$8.00 films and a cultural landmark. See back panel for a member- ship form or join online. Your financial support is tax-deductible. Matinees Make a gift. Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri before 4:30 Your additional gifts and support make us even better. Your Sat & Sun before 2:30 .....................................$8.00 donations are fully tax-deductible. Contact our Business Office Wed Early Matinee before 2:30 ........................$7.00 at 215 348 1878 x117 or at [email protected]. Affiliated Theaters Members ...............................$6.00 Be a sponsor. You must present your membership card to obtain membership discounts. Receive prominent recognition for your business in exchange for helping our nonprofit theater. Recognition comes in a variety Member tickets. Member tickets will be $6. That’s a 43% of ways – on our movie screens, in our brochures, and on our discount from the general admission price of $10.50, which website. Contact us at 215 348 1878 x112 or at is the same discount as when we opened in 1993. And [email protected]. membership entitles you to a $6 ticket at all Renew theaters Get our weekly email notices. (County, Ambler, Hiway, Garden) as well as at all participating We can keep you up-to-date on all our events and scheduling “Art House Theaters” nationwide. via our weekly email notices. Visit our website to sign up, and then stay plugged into our latest programming news. Why the price increase? Because our film distributors require it. Each movie that we screen is supplied by a film Give us feedback. Your film experience is the most important thing to us, so we distributor. They share in our ticket revenues. In order to welcome your feedback. Please let us know what we can do maintain our relationships with them, we must implement better at 215 348 1878, or [email protected]. competitive price increases. Or they will not continue to Special Thanks: supply us with their movies. The County Theater receives funding support through Effective January 1, 2015. We first announced this change a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a in November of 2013 in our quarterly Previews Magazine, state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Penn- on-screen, and on our website. We delayed the change as sylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a long as we could, but it is finally time to implement it. federal agency. We’re Nonprofit. The County Theater is owned and operated by County Theater, Policies Inc., a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit corporation. Contribu- Children under 6 – Children under age 6 will not be admitted to our tions are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. The official films or programs unless specifically indicated. registration and financial information of County Theater, Inc. may Late Arrivals – The Theater reserves the right to stop selling tickets be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by call- (and/or seating patrons) after a film has started. ing toll-free, within Pennsylvania, 1 800 732 0999. Registration does not imply endorsement. Outside Food and Drink – Patrons are not permitted to bring out- side food and drink into the theater. Accessibility & Hearing Assistance – The County Theater County Theater has wheelchair-accessible auditoriums and restrooms, and 20 East State St., Doylestown, PA 18901 is equipped with hearing enhancement devices. (For head- 215 345 6789 HOTLINE phones, please see the theater manager when you arrive.) 215 348 1878 Administrative Office CountyTheater.org Parking Check our website for parking information. PREVIEWS (90) December 1, 2014 PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY CLOSELY WATCHED FILMS (COUNTY THEATER) 20 EAST STATE STREET, DOYLESTOWN, PA 18901-4311 ISSUE NO. 90 MAIN ATTRACTIONS Main Attractions What main films will play at the County? This section lists the Main Attractions that we intend to play in the coming weeks. Additional unlisted films will also become available. This list is only an educated guess, though, since film release plans often change. When will these main films play? Scheduling our Main Attractions is week- to-week. On Monday, we decide what main films will play starting that Friday. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we set the showtimes for the upcoming week and then update our website and telephone hotline. We also send out a weekly email (which you can receive by signing up at our website). Sometimes, we book a main film a few weeks in advance, which we post on our website’s “Coming Attractions” section. For our latest Main Attractions plans, visit: CountyTheater.org (Or call our hotline at 215 345 6789.) The Theory of Everything The Theory of Everything The Imitation Game Force Majeure UK – 2 hr 3 min – James Marsh UK - 1 hr 54 min - Morten Tyldum Sweden - 1 hr 58 min - Ruben Östlund Eddie Redmayne gives a gripping per- Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan w/subtitles formance as famous physicist Stephen Turing, the genius British mathematician, While vacationing in the French Alps, a Hawking in this stirring drama about his cryptologist, and computer scientist who Swedish family witnesses a threatening relationship with his wife Jane and their led the charge to crack the German Enig- avalanche. They must then come to joint battle against his illness. As Hawk- ma Code, which helped win WWII. But terms with their actions in the face of ing’s ideas expand to encompass time while leading his team of scholars and that incident. Relationships and family and space, his physical abilities contract. intelligence officers, Turing was hiding se- bonds are pushed to their limits. This This remarkable chronicle of one of the crets of his own - he was prosecuted by thought-provoking Scandinavian film is greatest minds of our time is also the the UK government for homosexual acts. an intriguing, challenging consideration story of two unstoppable spirits. This thrilling historical drama also stars of ego and family dynamics and was a Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode. crowd favorite at the Cannes and Toronto Fests. MAIN ATTRACTIONS The Imitation Game Red Army Wild Mr. Turner USA/Russia – 1 hr 16 min – Gabe Polsky USA - 1 hr 55 min - Jean-Marc Vallée UK - 2 hr 30 min - Mike Leigh Witty and fast-paced, this documentary Reese Witherspoon delivers one of the Mike Leigh’s new film is about the brilliant examines the history and politics of the year’s best performances in this drama- and eccentric 19th century painter J.M.W. Soviet Union from the perspective of the tization of one woman’s solo 1,100-mile Turner, who was both celebrated and Red Army hockey team’s coach, Slava hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. At once reviled as he rose to national acclaim. This Fetisov. Insightful and riveting for even an epic cinematic experience and a pro- touching portrait follows Turner’s closest non-sports fans, the film shows how foundly intimate personal narrative, WILD relationships and topsy-turvy life in an sports mirror social and cultural move- is an odyssey of loss and self-discovery. exquisitely detailed, superbly acted biopic. ments as it tracks the rise and fall of the Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club) Starring Timothy Spall. incredible Red Army team. directed this adaptation (by Nick Hornby) of Cheryl Strayed’s best-selling memoir. C OUNTYT HEATER.ORG 215 345 6789 MAIN ATTRACTIONS Still Alice Still Alice Leviathan Limited Engagements USA – 1 hr 39 min - Richard Glatzer, Wash Russia – 2 hr 20 min – Andrey Zvyagintsev We try to play each of our Main Westmoreland w/subtitles Attractions films for a full multi-week Julianne Moore gives a stunning On the outskirts of a small Russian town, run. Sometimes, however, we are unable performance as a renowned linguistics an ordinary family battles a corrupt mayor to play a film in a timely or complete professor with early-onset Alzheimer’s. who wants their land, house, and busi- way, and it becomes a question of either This superbly powerful drama is a ness. With a sweeping beauty, LEVIATHAN squeezing it in or not playing it at all. We compassionate, but honest, look at the finds the humanity in a story of dispiriting then often schedule that film for a couple illness’s impact on both its victim and her struggle. The film’s rich lyricism and poetry of mid-week screenings, called Limited family. Based on the bestselling 2007 accentuate the state of politics and reli- Engagements. Make sure that you sign novel. With Alec Baldwin and Kristen gion in modern-day Russia. up for our weekly email, so that you don’t Stewart. miss these short, last-chance screenings. C OUNTYT HEATER.ORG 215 345 6789 National Theatre Live NT NT NT County: Jan 18 Sun 12:30 County: Feb 8 Sun 12:30 Ambler: Jan 25 Sun 12:30 Ambler: Feb 15 Sun 12:30 Hiway: Jan 29 Thurs 7:30 Hiway: Feb 19 Thurs 7:30 National Theatre Live The NTLive season continues with the best of JOHN British theatre from the London stage. This spring’s JOHN is a new dance-theatre work by Lloyd groundbreaking new productions include a staging Newson, Artistic Director of DV8 Physical of the classic Treasure Island, a new play by Tom Theatre.