County Theater 79 PreviewsMARCH – MAY 2012 DAMSELS IN DISTRESS DAMSELS INCLUDES OUR MAIN ATTRACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS C OUNTY T 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 ADMISSION COUNTY THEATER the County Theater? MEMBER General ..............................................................$9.75 Be a member. Members ...........................................................$5.00 Become a member of the nonprofit County Theater and Seniors (62+) show your support for good Students (w/ID) & Children (<18). ..................$7.25 films and a cultural landmark. See back panel for a member- Matinees ship form or join on-line. Your financial support is tax-deductible. Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri before 4:30 Make a gift. Sat & Sun before 2:30 .......................................$7.25 Your additional gifts and support make us even better. 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PREVIEWS (79) MARCH 1, 2012 PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY CLOSELY WATCHED FILMS (COUNTY THEATER) 20 EAST STATE STREET, DOYLESTOWN, PA 18901-4311 ISSUE NO. 79 MAIN ATTRACTIONS Main Attractions What films will play? This section lists some of the main films we’ll play in the next few months. Additional unlisted films will also become available. Visit our website for the latest info on what films are upcoming. When will films play? We determine each Monday what main films will play starting on Friday. On Tuesday, we set the upcoming week’s schedule and then Damsels in Distress Salmon Fishing USA – Whit Stillman - 1 hr 39 min update our website and our telephone in the Yemen Whit Stillman returns, after a long hotline. We’ll also send you a weekly UK - Lasse Hallström – 1 hr 52 min absence, with this delightful, whimsical email, if you sign up at our website. (We Ewan McGregor stars as a British film about four “college coeds.” It’s Jane sometimes also book films more than bureaucrat forced to help a wealthy Austen goes to college with amusingly- a week ahead of time, which we post in sheik construct a salmon run in the mannered observations on life and love. the “Coming Attractions” section of our Middle East. Emily Blunt is the financial These young women are very sensible and website; however, those bookings are advisor thrown together with him as the proper – they have to be, because the tentative and subject to change.) improbable plan begins to work. The film guys are completely stupid and socially CountyTheater.org is funny, charming, and romantic. Kristin inept. Arch, but completely earnest at the (215) 345-6789 Scott Thomas is glorious as the foul- same time, DAMSELS is an utter delight. mouthed press secretary of the Prime Starring Greta Gerwig. Minister. Footnote The Best Exotic A Separation Israel – Joseph Cedar – 1 hr 43 min Marigold Hotel Iran - Asghar Farhadi – 2 hr 3 min w/subtitles UK - John Madden – 1 hr 58 min w/subtitles A highlight of recent Israeli cinema, This charming film follows a group of Set in contemporary Iran, A SEPARATION FOOTNOTE is a compelling drama British retirees who decide to “outsource” is an internationally recognized, award- about battling father and son their retirement to India. Enticed by winning drama of great emotional power. scholars in Jerusalem. The father is an advertisements for a life of leisure, they It’s a carefully observed story about a underappreciated purist, while his son arrive to find their accommodations middle-class Tehran couple’s legal and is a rising star. Then one day the father decidedly less luxurious than imagined. familial strife. Should the family leave for appears to have won the country’s most Despite initial setbacks, however, they are the West? Or stay for an ailing parent? prestigious award and the tables are transformed by their new experiences. Or divorce? It’s culturally specific, but turned. Or has a horrible mistake been Starring Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom universal in its themes. And deeply made? A wry satire about family and Wilkinson, Maggie Smith, and Dev Patel. moving. academics. MAIN ATTRACTIONS Monsieur Lazhar Pina Moonrise Kingdom Canada – Philippe Falardeau Germany – Wim Wenders – 1 hr 46 min USA – Wes Anderson 1 hr 34 min – w/subtitles w/subtitles Moonrise Kingdom is the much- MONSIEUR LAZHAR is a transcendent PINA is a feature-length dance film anticipated new feature from director film about an Algerian teacher who featuring the dance of the great German Wes Anderson. Set in New England in comes to a Montreal middle school choreographer, Pina Bausch. Director Wim the 1960s, the film follows a young boy class after the suicide of their well- Wenders takes the audience on a stunning and girl who run away from home. Their liked teacher. Canada’s Oscar entry is visual journey from the stage out into the absence turns things upside down in a a sensitively acted, precisely directed world. Whether you’re familiar with Pina wryly comedic, Wes Anderson-type way. drama about children and adults who Bausch’s work or not, this meditation on Bill Murray and Frances McDormand are forced to deal with loss. Starring movement and space, transportation and play the young girl’s parents; Bruce Willis Mohamed Fellag, whose deeply felt transcendence, is not to be missed. Be is the town sheriff; and Edward Norton performance is matched by the natural aware, though, that we will be showing this plays a camp leader. Tilda Swinton and charm of the child actors. movie in 2D, not 3D. Jason Schwartzman are also featured. Being Flynn In Darkness Limited Engagements USA – Paul Weitz – 1 hr 26 min Poland – Agnieszka Holland – 2 hr 25 min We try to play each of our Main This independent drama is about a w/ subtitles Attractions films for a full multi-week struggling writer, who works at a Boston Set during WWII, IN DARKNESS is a very run. Sometimes, however, we are unable homeless shelter. One night his troubled serious film about a handful of Jews to play a film in a timely or complete father, who is a con man and self- who hid in the sewers of Lvov, Poland to way, and it becomes a question of either proclaimed poet, shows up. Sensing escape the concentration camps. The squeezing it in or not playing it at all. trouble in his own life, the son wrestles story is absorbing and the suspense, We then often schedule that film for a with the question of whether to reach out derived from a true story, is excruciating couple of mid-week screenings, called again to his dad. Featuring Paul Dano, and inspiring in equal measure. It’s also Limited Engagements. Make sure that Robert De Niro, and Julianne Moore. an extraordinary journey of survival as you sign up for our weekly email, so that these men, women and children try to you don’t miss these short, last-chance outwit death during 14 months of ever- screenings. increasing danger. C OUNTY T HEATER.ORG 215 345 6789 SPRING CINEMATHEQUE SERIES 12 The Cinematheque series contains the combined schedules for both the County Theater and the Ambler Theater. Ambler: Mar 13 Tues 7:30 Ambler: Mar 8 Thurs 5:45 Cinematheque Series County: Mar 14 Wed 5:45 Spring 2012 In addition to our first-run Main Attractions, we present special programming throughout the year.