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APRIL 2016 broadway newsletter and tower KNIGHT OF CUPS Page 4 THE LOBSTER Page 4 Meet Front of House Staffer LEXI JOHNSON Page 3 showcasing the best in american independents, international films, and documentaries APRIL 2016 SEE THESE WHILE pretty in pink YOU STILL CAN th 30 ANNIVERSARY EVENT HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS Directed by Michael Showalter USA | R | 95 min | Comedy/Drama WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 Dance Party w/ DJ at 7 pm, Screening at 8 pm Starring: Sally Field, Tyne Daly, and Max $20 Screening, virgin punch, and commemorative photo Greenfield $50 - $75 V.I.P. Tickets available online (in advance only) ONLY YESTERDAY Sadie Hawkins, Spring Formal and Retro Prom attire requested, encouraged, and may even be rewarded Directed by Isao Takahata Japan | PG | 118 min | Drama COME AND SEE NEW AND EXCITING FILMS AT THE FIFTH ANNUAL CZECH THAT FILM FESTIVAL CZECH Released for the first time in North America. IN ASSOCIATION WITH SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT Directed by Ciro Guerra THAT COL/ARG/VEN | NR | 125 min | Drama A FESTIVAL OF CURRENT CZECH CINEMA FILM SALT LAKE CITY, MAY 3-5, 2016 BROADWAY CENTRE CINEMAS Nominated for the Best Foreign Language 111 E BROADWAY, SALT LAKE CITY Film at the 88th Academy Awards All Salt Lake Film Society dates and Check showtimes at SLFS.org 2 locations are subject to change. or 801.321.0310. APRIL 2016 EXPLORE THE CULTURE @SLFS Activist, and like to think of ways to create ways for ghosts to interact with the world in different LEXI mediums. AND I think about Dad Culture all the time. Those are my hobbies! JOHNSON What is your favorite part of working at SLFS? There are two again, but I’ll keep them both short! FRONT OF HOUSE STAFF I love it when people disagree with me on films; it forces me to learn more. I feel really tired and sad How long have you worked for SLFS? when people watch movies and don’t think about I’ve worked for the Film Society for almost one them and then drool themselves to sleep on their year. Not that long! pillows. Is that mean? Yes. But it’s fine. I love talking to people here and disagreeing wholeheartedly What made you want to work at SLFS? but respecting each other’s opinions and finding I have a background in contemporary art and people you line up with. Massive amounts of us English, but in my fifth year of undergrad when [SLFS staffers] love horror films which is so nice, it’s feels like I’m being fed, like I have a family at last. they were trying to kick me out, ‘cause I had too AMISTAD in class and I had a meltdown, and was Disagreeing on movies makes me learn more. I also many credits, I quickly was like, “Maybe I’ll get a just sobbing and all my classmates were fine. At am constantly compiling a list of books, movies, and film minor!” and I started taking film classes. Then the end of class, my teacher was like, “You need to music that my coworkers love to build like a ‘life- I realized that there’s this huge world that I had not get over it. You will be okay.” And ever since then syllabus’ for me, to self-educate for the rest of my experienced and not really been exposed to and just I’ve been really interested in playing with ways life. Where else could I do that? started cramming film classes into my semesters. of perceiving human joy and human suffering and When they finally forced me to graduate I was like using film as a way of understanding the absolute What are your hopes for the future of SLFS? “well, I have to devour more.” And I knew that by chaos of life. But that was definitely a minute when I hope that we can find ways to branch out further working here I would be forced to consume more I was like, “Maybe movies are not just to entertain.” into the community. I hope we can find ways to films. Even though now I don’t think that movie is a good include more local filmmakers, not that we don’t movie. Why is film important to you? already do that. I like to idea of having some pop- up venues for films that we run. And maybe the I have two reasons, is that okay? One is that If you weren’t working at SLFS, what would you SLFS staff every year has to collaborate on a film sometimes life feels really dark and grim and I feel want to be doing? project and we find a place to project it and invite like film is a really interesting way of addressing I really like what I’m doing right now, I feel really an audience. I just want us to maybe get out of our that. One of my favorite movies, SONGS FROM happy. I think I would be running my own non-profit theaters a little bit and get out into the world. THE SECOND FLOOR, is sooo grim and heavy and contemporary art gallery or teaching contemporary like very sad, but it looks so beautiful. It’s set up art or English at a college level. But I also really What is your favorite movie and why? in a way that from an outside point of view, to the love where I am right now…. Or maybe working on It’s a six-way tie and I’m not apologizing! I’m audience it looks incredible. When my life maybe a farm. feels miserable and incapable I like to think like absolutely not! SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR because it approaches grimness with beauty “maybe somebody watching it on the outside is What do you do in your free time? and I like need that grimness and beauty to seeing the beautiful thing.” The other reason is that So many things! I like to make jokes at my own counterbalance it. SOLARIS because of the water- I feel like when we’re alive we should try to have expense, I am an oil painter and working really hard world kind of thing and because it approaches as many parallel human experiences as possible to at that, making paintings that lots of people don’t magic realism in maybe the most beautiful way I’ve try and understand each other better. And stories understand at all. I like to think about mermaids. even seen. POSESSION, the 1981 Sam Neill movie is after stories after stories help us to reach into areas I like to consume books as thoroughly and fast as the best horror movie in the world! It is disorienting we never thought we would be able to get into. I can. I’m slowly building up a knowledge base in a delicious way. RAISING ARIZONA because I It’s also a wonderful area for play and a method of of video games and graphic novels. I like making don’t think there is a funnier, better made, comedy understand the world by playing with this medium of mediocre burritos and awesome sandwiches. I like in the world. I will fight anyone who tries to fight creation that involves a lot of people in the making. standing uncomfortably on skateboards. I’m having me on that. THREE WOMEN has to do with so many It’s really interesting to see the ways people try to a really fun time grading people on their jokes of the things I think obsessively about and I think interact with the things they encounter. right now. And I’m also having a really good time it’s just a perfect movie. And then the sixth spot defending ideas really passionately and strongly switches off between BEETLEJUICE and PUNCH Tell us about a memorable experience you’ve that I can’t back up and in a year will think are very DRUNK LOVE. I’m not sorry. Those are both great had with film. silly. I’m doing a lot of things for ghosts, and ghost movies. When I was in the second grade we had to watch rights. I like to think of myself as a Ghost Rights All Salt Lake Film Society dates and Check showtimes at SLFS.org locations are subject to change. or 801.321.0310. 3 APRIL 2016 home of APRIL 2016 independent film in SLC RAMS EYE IN THE SKY KNIGHT OF CUPS CREATIVE CONTROL Directed by Grímur Hákonarson Directed by Gavin Hood Directed by Terrence Malick Directed by Benjamin Dickinson ISL/DNK/NOR/POL | R | 93 min | Drama UK | R | 102 min | Drama/Thriller USA | R | 118 min | Drama USA | R | 97 min | Drama Starts March 25 @broadway Starts March 25 @broadway Starts March 25 @broadway Starts March 25 @tower In a remote Icelandic farming valley, two Complications arise when a drone missile A writer, indulging in all that Los Angeles and In near-future Brooklyn, an ad executive brothers who haven’t spoken in 40 years have strike is ordered to take out a group of Las Vegas has to offer, undertakes a search uses a pair of virtual-reality glasses to have to come together in order to save what’s terrorists in Nairobi, Kenya. for love and self discovery via a series of an affair with a hologram of his buddy’s dearest to them - their sheep. adventures with six different women. girlfriend. MY GOLDEN DAYS MILES AHEAD THE FIRST MONDAY IN APRIL AND THE MAY EXTRAORDINARY WORLD Directed by Arnaud Desplechin Directed by Don Cheadle Directed by Andrew Rossi Directed by Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci France | R | 123 min | Drama USA | R | 100 min | Drama/Biography USA | PG-13 | 93 min | Documentary France | PG | 105 min | Comedy/Adventure Starts April 15 @broadway Starts April 22 @broadway Starts April 22 @broadway Starts April 29 @broadway A middle-aged anthropologist reminisces In the 1970s, down-and-out jazz trumpeter The film follows the creation of The A teenage girl, her talking cat, her about family, school adventures, a trip to the Miles Davis tries to recover his new session Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most attended grandfather and a young scoundrel go off in USSR where he lost his virginity, and the love tape from music producers.