FILM GUIDE JUNE 2016 www.loftcinema.org
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FIRST FRIDAY SHORTS BABE FRIDAY, JUNE 3 AT 9:00PM SUNDAY, JUNE 5 AT 3:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES
$200 MONTHLY GRAND PRIZE! Celebrate our amazing animal friends at this $1,000 YEARLY GRAND PRIZE! special National Animal Rights Day screening of the beloved classic, Babe! A portion On the rst Friday of each month at 9:00pm, Red Meat’s Max Cannon hosts the biggest, baddest short lm contest in town – of the proceeds from this screening will just bring us your short lms and we’ll play them on the largest bene t Center for Biological Diversity. movie screen in Southern Arizona! “It’s a delight from start to nish that will In case you’ve never been to a First Friday Shorts show, here captivate children and melt the heart of even the are the rules: We’ll play anything you’ve made that’s under grumpiest adult.” – John Ferguson, Radio Times 15 minutes long and is brought to us on a DVD, thumb drive or BLU-ray (one lm per person, and DVDs must be playable on a regular DVD player and lms on drives need to be in by 8:00pm). Submissions are only taken on the day of the event, and all entries MUST BE RECEIVED PRIOR TO THE START OF THE ACTUAL SHOW (we cannot accept lms after the show has begun, or during intermission). All lms are played in the order they’re received. Every lm is guaranteed to play for 3 minutes, but after that the audience can call for the dreaded “gong” if they’re displeased. If the gong is struck, our intrepid host stops the lm and the next movie begins. But don’t despair … if your lm is gonged, you can re-work it and bring it back to see if the changes you’ve made have pleased the audience. is is a great way for lmmakers to try Gentle farmer Arthur Hoggett (James Cromwell) wins a shy out new ideas and see how an actual audience responds, so Yorkshire piglet named Babe at a county fair. Narrowly escaping take advantage. You cannot submit the same lm more than his fate as Christmas dinner when Farmer Hoggett decides to once unless it has been re-worked. Remember, the audience show him at the next fair, Babe bonds with motherly border decides the winner each and every month, so keep them happy! collie Fly and discovers that he too can herd sheep. But will the other farm animals, including Fly’s jealous husband Rex, accept PLEASE NOTE: We only take the rst 15 lms that are brought a pig who doesn’t conform to the farm’s social hierarchy? Soon, in each month and the spots have been lling up really fast. We with the help of a delightful assortment of barnyard animals, start taking submissions as soon as we open the day of the show the heroic little pig is headed for the challenge of his life as he so get your lms in early! sets out to become an award-winning sheepdog … or rather, sheep “pig,” and prove to the world that he can be anything he PLEASE BE ADVISED: Since we don’t pre-screen First Friday wants to be! Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Shorts entries, we don’t know what each month’s “ lm content” Best Picture, Babe is a charming, funny and inspirational ode to rating will be. Be advised that some material may not be suitable dreamers of any species! (Dir. by Chris Noonan, 1995, 91 mins., for all audiences. Rated G) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 4
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8 AT 7:30PM FRIDAY, JUNE 10 AT 7:30PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $6.99 FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING AT TRAIL DUST TOWN Please Note: We cannot accept passes or Groupons for this screening. 6541 EAST TANQUE VERDE ROAD
SATURDAY, JUNE 11 AT 10:00AM COMMUNITY RENTAL FEATURING A PRE- FREE SCREENING AT THE LOFT CINEMA SCREENING MEET AND GREET WITH DOORS OPEN AT 9:15AM LOCAL POLITICIANS AT 7:00PM, AND A Q&A WITH DIRECTOR AFTER THE PART OF OUR LOFT JR. SERIES SCREENING! A free monthly series showcasing great new and classic family-friendly lms from around the world! TICKETS AVAILABLE AT: EVENTBRITE.COM Presented by Trail Dust Town! Pre-show activities hosted by Mildred & Dildred Toy Store starting at Made in Tucson, e System Is Broken is not your typical 9:15am! political docudrama. It is an inspired-by-reality look at the political voting process through the eyes of two young people, Trail Dust Town is the in-town destination for old-west Pete and Natalia. Facing corruption and racism in a Presidential campaign, they and their fellow Latino volunteers ght back family fun! Enjoy wild west stunt shows, amusement by starting their own non-partisan grassroots movement. e rides, gift shops, and Pinnacle Peak Steakhouse! blowback from the campaign and the community endangers their lives and threatens to destroy their relationship. “Batteries Not Included is a sweet, cheerful and funny family entertainment.” – Roger Ebert, More than just an important and timely movie, e System Is Chicago Sun-Times Broken is a social movement that inspires people who have lost faith in the government to regain con dence and patriotism Loveable grandparents and tiny alien robots team up and by rallying behind authentic political candidates who speak to cause trouble in this a delightful fantasy for the whole family, their beliefs in the upcoming election. Our Writer-Director, from producer Steven Spielberg. In Batteries Not Included, an Ignatius Lin, is a man on a mission. He does not claim to have unscrupulous real estate developer sends thugs to get rid of the a lot of political clout. What he does have is passion about last ve tenants of a deteriorating New York City apartment righting what he perceives as wrongs in our voting process. (Dir. building, and the elderly residents need a miracle to save their by Ignatius Lin, 2015, USA, 65 mins., Not Rated) building from demolition. One night, when all hope seems lost, tiny visitors from outer space mysteriously glide through their Promotional partner: windows and use their magical extraterrestrial powers to help Powertalk, an internet broadcasting network the tenants ght for their homes. And once these wee electro- zap-powered marvels kick into overdrive, they set o a laugh- Facebook.com/TSIBMovie laden ruckus that may just bring down the walls! Filled with dazzling special e ects, this fun and heartwarming action/ Twitter.com/systemsbroken adventure stars the acclaimed husband-and-wife team of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy as a pair of feisty long-term tenants www.thesystemisbroken-movie.com whose faith is rewarded in ways they never expected. (Dir. by Matthew Robbins, 1987, USA, 106 mins., Rated PG) 5 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS
TRON ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST SATURDAY, JUNE 11 AT 7:30PM TUESDAY, JUNE 14 AT 7:30PM SUNDAY, JUNE 12 AT NOON FREE ADMISSION • $5 SUGGESTED DONATION REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES PART OF OUR ESSENTIAL CINEMA SERIES PRESENTED IN 70MM! See classic art lms the way they were meant to be With higher resolution than 35mm lm, 70mm is seen - with an audience, on the big screen! sharper, richer and more immersive – the ultimate in lm projection! “Quite simply a masterpiece, Leone’s revisionist western is a mythic spectacle of a lm and a See Je Bridges trapped inside a computer landmark in cinema history.” – Film4 in the groundbreaking 1982 special e ects extravaganza Tron, presented on the big screen Italian lmmaker Sergio Leone reimagined the American in glorious, mind-blowing 70mm! Western and produced one of the undisputable classics of the genre with Once Upon a Time in the West, a grandly operatic tale of revenge and redemption set against the stunning backdrop of A landmark in computer animation, and one of the very rst iconic Monument Valley. In this fable-like epic, two mysterious feature lms to reect the video-game craze of the 1980s, strangers join forces to defend a widow after a sinister hired gun Disney’s action/adventure Tron stars a young Je Bridges as hot- murders her family in a bid to grab their land for the railroad shot computer programmer Kevin Flynn, who becomes trapped – a story (co-created by Leone, Dario Argento and Bernardo inside the very game that he’s programming. Flynn’s nemesis Bertolucci) which allows Leone to blend popular ction, the is his glory-grabbing boss, Ed Dillinger (David Warner), who primal “once upon a time” impulses common to all storytelling likewise metamorphoses into a video-game character. e title and the Marxist ideals so in vogue in the late ‘60s. Unlike the character, a computer-generated superhero, is played by Bruce well-groomed characters depicted in traditional studio Westerns Boxleitner. As Tron aides Flynn in his e orts to escape from up to that point, the inhabitants of Leone’s frontier are dusty, the video game world, they must also band together to defeat sweaty and grimy, with a distinct blurring of the lines between the evil Master Control Program, whose long range ambitions the “good guys” and the “bad guys.” Among an all-star cast include not only ruling the video game realm, but also taking that includes Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale and Jason over the real world as well! Cue a harrowing series of thrilling Robards, Leone also cast good-guy icon Henry Fonda radically video game adventures, including high-speed Light Cycle against type as one of the darkest, most despicable villains in matches, electronic disc battles and Solar Sailer simulations movie history to smashing e ect. Bringing the orid European as the ultimate struggle for computer control heats up to epic stylistic interpretations perfected in his low-budget spaghetti proportions, and Flynn is left hoping it’s not “Game Over” for Westerns (including extreme close ups that pack the enormous himself and the rest of the human race! Visually dazzling and Cinemascope frame with giant images of gun barrels, eyeballs cool as all get out, the groundbreaking Tron, shot almost entirely and even a pesky y) to the quintessential American cowboy in 65mm Super Panavision, represented the absolute cutting location – John Ford’s beloved Monument Valley – Leone’s Once edge in computer special e ects back in 1982, making every Upon a Time in the West survived disastrous initial reviews and ‘80s kid wish they could live inside a video game, and paving the studio-mandated cuts to emerge as one of the greatest lms of way for the CGI- heavy blockbusters of today. Don’t miss what the 1960s, all the more spectacular in this restored Director’s might be your only chance to see it on the big screen in glorious Cut. (Dir. by Sergio Leone, 1968, Italy/ USA/ Spain, 175 mins., 70mm! (Dir. by Steven Lisberger, 1982, USA, 96 mins., Rated PG) Rated PG-13) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 6
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Whatever happened to Saturday night? It was locked in a closet with e Rocky Horror Picture Show and it hasn’t been the same since! Unleash your inner Sweet Transvestite when the mother of all cult classics hits the big screen with the “Heavy Petting” shadow cast, live and in your face! You’ll see a healthy PART OF OUR SCIENCE ON SCREEN SERIES young couple inducted into the world of absolute pleasure, e program is designed to pair thought-provoking Transylvanians doing the pelvic thrust and a sexy scientist trying lms, old and new, with insightful contextual to free us of all our inhibitions (not to mention our clothing)! So discussions with local experts and academics to create pull up your shnets and get ready to become a creature of the night at the strangest, sexiest “science ction double feature” of illuminating and entertaining programming that will all-time, a Loft tradition for 38 years and counting! (Dir. by Jim bring the exciting world of science alive on the big Sharman, 1975, UK/USA, 98 mins., Rated R) screen. Made possible by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Coolidge Corner eatre Foundation.
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Academy Award-winning documentary lmmaker Charles Ferguson (Inside Job, No End in Sight) turns his lens to address worldwide climate change challenges and solutions in his latest lm, Time to Choose. Featuring narration by actor Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: e Force Awakens), Time to Choose leaves audiences understanding not only what is wrong, but what can be done to x this global threat. Ferguson explores the comprehensive scope of the climate change crisis and examines the power of solutions already available. rough interviews with world- renowned entrepreneurs, innovators, thought leaders and brave individuals living on the front lines of climate change, the lm o ers an in-depth look at the remarkable people working to save our planet. (Dir. by Charles Ferguson, 2016, USA, 97 mins., Not Rated) 7 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK FILMMAKER JR. SUMMER DAY CAMP! SPECIAL FATHER’S DAY SCREENING! MONDAY, JUNE 20 – FRIDAY, JUNE 24 SUNDAY, JUNE 19 AT 3:00PM FROM 9:00AM – NOON GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 • LOFT MEMBERS: $6 is summer, join us as we launch our Celebrate Father’s Day with action hero Indiana Jones and a thrilling 35th Anniversary Filmmaker Jr. Summer Day Camp! presentation of one cinema’s greatest is one-week program teaches 8-11 adventures, Raiders of the Lost Ark, on the big screen! Enter our FREE RAFFLE for a fantastic year old campers the basic techniques Raiders Prize Package, featuring movies, of video production by creating stop music, books and more! And we guarantee… no snakes! motion animated short lms. Each day features fun- lled activities “One of the most deliriously funny, ingenious and stylish American adventure movies ever in lmmaking and lm education, made.” - Vincent Canby, New York Times including storyboarding, editing,
Simply put, there is perhaps no greater (or more fun) action/ and soundtrack development. We’ll adventure ick than Raiders of the Lost Ark, the rst and indisputably best of the initial three Indiana Jones movies host a special debut screening of cooked up by the dream team of director Steven Spielberg the short lms at the conclusion of and producer George Lucas. is wildly entertaining lm has it all: non-stop action, exotic locations, grand spectacle, camp. a wise-cracking hero, nasty villains, a beautiful and feisty love interest, humor, horror (melting Nazis!) … not to mention DATE & TIME: lots and lots of snakes. And along with all the familiar bits MONDAY, JUNE 20 – FRIDAY, JUNE 24 that are now deeply imbedded in pop culture - Harrison Ford running from that giant boulder, using his pistol instead of his FROM 9:00AM – NOON trusty whip to take out a sword-wielding bad guy, facing o with a hissing cobra, and on and on - there’s real resonance in COST: FREE! a gripping storyline that brings together a profound religious- archaeological icon (the Ark of the Covenant, nothing less than LOCATION: “a radio for speaking to God”) and the 20th century’s most infamous criminals (the Nazis). Now that’s entertainment! (Dir. THE LOFT CINEMA, THEATER 3 by Steven Spielberg, 1981, USA, 115 min., Rated PG) Thanks to everyone who applied! Registrations are now Closed. T BECOME A MEMBER! SIGN L UP ONLINE AT LOFTCINEMA.ORG Cem OR BY CALLING 520-795-0844 Our members provide valuable support to The Loft Cinema - all proceeds from our membership program go right back into bringing you great films and creating fantastic Loft Cinema special events!
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in Mildred Pierce (1945). After this brief period of success, “I never go outside unless Crawford’s career declined once again, and ever the savvy businesswoman, she left Warners and embarked on a I look like Joan Crawford new journey as a freelance actress, leading to a string of glossy 1950s melodramas and thrillers, including Sudden the movie star. If you want Fear (1952), which earned Crawford her third Oscar nomination as Best Actress. is ‘50s phase of Crawford’s to see the girl next door, go stunning career also brought her a devoted camp following, thanks to a series of outrageous and iconic camp classics next door.” – Joan Crawford in which her highly-stylized look and demeanor turned otherwise “normal” lms into deliriously over-the-top Joan Crawford’s extraordinary career encompassed over 45 extravaganzas, a phase which led to the beloved 1962 camp years and some 80 lms. Her long reign as a Hollywood icon fest, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, co-starring her began when she was spotted in a chorus line by MGM and o -screen rival, Bette Davis. Crawford retired from the signed by the studio as an ingénue in the silent era. She rose spotlight in the 1970s, but her uncanny ability to continually to superstardom in the 1930s playing relatable, upwardly reinvent herself, and her steadfast persistence in the face of mobile, sometimes gritty working girls, only to be named Hollywood’s ageism and sexism, cemented her reputation as “box oce poison” by the end of the decade. ings took one of the industry’s true survivors, and she was later named a decidedly upward turn after leaving MGM and signing as one of the Top 10 greatest female stars of Hollywood’s on with Warner Brothers in the early 1940s, where a new golden age by the American Film Institute. is June, e Crawford persona emerged in numerous melodramas and Loft Cinema pays tribute to Hollywood’s Queen of Camp with noirs: tough, intelligent, often neurotic and sometimes a gloriously over-the-top collection of spectacular Crawford ruthless, but also vulnerable – a career makeover that Camp Classics! culminated in her Academy Award-winning performance FEMALE ON THE BEACH THURSDAY, JUNE 2 AT 7:30PM “He was the kind of man that her kind of woman can’t leave alone!” It’s prime time for sand, surf and high camp shenanigans when Joan Crawford hits the water and becomes the Female on the Beach! As Joan expertly res o such hilariously overwrought zingers as “I have a nasty imagination and I’d like to be left alone with it!” and traipses through the sand in impractical high heels and negligees, Female on the Beach becomes one of the most perverse lms of Crawford’s 1950s diva phase, and certainly one of the most entertaining. (Dir. by Joseph Pevney, 1955, USA, 100 mins., Not Rated) SUDDEN FEAR THURSDAY, JUNE 9 AT 7:30PM Film Noir meets High Melodrama when Joan Crawford falls in love with the sinister Jack Palance and experiences a nasty case of Sudden Fear! Crawford turns in one of the most emotionally charged performances of her career (and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in the process) in this wickedly suspenseful thriller that begs the question Joan was prone to ask of many of her leading men in the 1950s: Is he going to kiss me or kill me? (Dir. by David Miller, 1952, USA, 110 mins., Not Rated)
QUEEN BEE • 35MM PRINT! THURSDAY, JUNE 16 AT 7:30PM e ads for Queen Bee screamed “She’s so excitingly good … when she’s so wonderfully bad,” and there has perhaps never been more truth in the history of movie advertising as Joan Crawford unleashes high kitsch devastation on everyone in her path in this gloriously hysterical melodrama that became the template for Faye Dunaway’s notorious performance as Joan in the 1981 camp classic, Mommie Dearest. An overheated combo of Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman and John Waters, Queen Bee is a honey of a kitsch classic. (Dir. by Ranald MacDougal, 1955, USA, 95 mins., Not Rated) JOHNNY GUITAR THURSDAY, JUNE 23 AT 7:30PM Joan Crawford saddles up and rides the range as a tough-talking, gun- toting saloon ownder in the deliciously o beat Westen Melodrama Exgravaganza, Johnny Guitar! Only director Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause) could pull o this crazed, baroque, emotionally twisted Western, featuring a torrid theme song by Peggy Lee, eye- scorching color cinematography and a blazing Joan Crawford ruling over all! (Dir. by Nicholas Ray, 1954, USA, 110 mins., Not Rated)
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? THURSDAY, JUNE 30 AT 7:30PM Joan Crawford dukes it out with her on and o -screen rival Bette Davis in this hilarious, no-holds-barred cult horror shocker that takes the concept of sisterly love and throws it down the staircase! Nominated for ve Academy Awards and packed with riotously iconic dialogue, unforgettable imagery and a scathing attitude towards Hollywood’s treatment of its former royalty, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? revitalized the careers of its two leading ladies, whose mutual animosity came through loud and clear. (Dir. by Robert Aldrich, 1962, USA, 134 mins., Not Rated)
THE ALL-NITE SCREAM-O-RAMA! FRIDAY, JUNE 17 FROM 7:00PM – 7:00AM GENERAL ADMISSION: $13 IN ADVANCE / $15 THE DAY OF | LOFT MEMBERS: $12 Please Note: We cannot accept passes or Groupons for this screening.
*START TIMES ARE APPROXIMATE* Everyone knows you shouldn’t pick up hitchhikers, especially when they’re played by Rutger Hauer, and one young man lost on the highway to hell is about to learn his lesson the hard way in this 7:00PM • POLTERGEIST / 35MM PRINT! atmospherically scary road movie/horror flick that definitely exceeds the speed limit for suspense. Co-starring C. Thomas Howell as the “Brilliantly terrifying and unexpectedly emotional… it remains endangered driver and Jennifer Jason Leigh as a helpful truck stop the ultimate Reagan-era horror movie. Thanks to Poltergeist, waitress, The Hitcher puts the terror pedal to the metal! (Dir. by Robert more than a few of us still sleep with the lights on.” – Rob Vaux, Harmon, 1986, USA, 97 mins., Rated R) Sci-Fi Movie Page 2:20AM • HOUSEBOUND They’re heeeeere! Tobe Hooper’s fun, ghost-filled spooktacular (produced by Steven Spielberg) is the ultimate suburban nightmare, as “A wonderfully witty horror comedy that delights in scaring an All-American family is forced to deal with a house plagued by killer the hell out of you. Bloody brilliant!” – Peter Jackson trees, evil clown dolls and a child-snatching TV set! Where’s a good realtor when you really need one? Released the same summer as E.T., When a young would-be-criminal is sentenced to house arrest in Poltergeist gleefully offers up the nightmarish flip side to Spielberg’s her childhood home, and put under the supervision of her whacked- feel good alien blockbuster. (Dir. by Tobe Hooper, 1982, USA, 114 mins., out mother, it turns out the evil house isn’t all that thrilled with the Rated PG) new living arrangement, and extremely bloody mayhem ensues. This clever, gory and genuinely funny shocker from New Zealand is a fun 9:10PM • HALLOWEEN and frightening ode to things that go bump (and splatter) in the night. (Dir. by Gerard Johnstone, 2014, USA, 107 mins., Not Rated) “Halloween is an absolutely merciless thriller, a movie so violent and scary that yes, I would compare it to Psycho.” – 4:10AM • NIGHT OF THE CREEPS Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times “A hilarious exercise in excess, Night of the Creeps is a genre It’s the night HE came home, and all the babysitters in town had lover’s dream, made with enthusiastic, go for broke gusto.” – better beware, because Michael Myers is looking to deliver a few tricks Odie Henderson, Slant and treats just in time for Halloween. John Carpenter’s iconic terror classic, which kicked off the slasher film craze of the 80s and turned College kids battle extraterrestrial brain parasites that enter humans Jamie Lee Curtis into the decade’s reigning Scream Queen, is still one through the mouth and turn their hosts into rampaging monsters in of the scariest films of all time – a nerve-wracking thrill-ride featuring Night of the Creeps, a deliriously fun and campy ‘80s homage to the a supremely creepy soundtrack and the debut appearance of one of terror flicks of the ‘50s, featuring everything you need in horror film, the screen’s most diabolical boogeymen. (Dir. by John Carpenter, 1978, including exploding heads, creepy crawlies, frozen frat geeks, burning USA, 91 mins., Rated R) zombies, axe murderers, lawnmower kills and genre great Tom Atkins (The Fog) as a mustached police officer with a flamethrower – and it 10:50PM • SLITHER / 35MM PRINT! all comes courtesy of the director of The Monster Squad! (Dir. by Fred Dekker, 1986, USA, 88 mins., Rated R) “If you’ve got a yen for gallons of goo and a smart, sassy story to boot, you couldn’t do better than James Gunn’s hellishly fun 5:30AM • VIDEODROME horror show, Slither.” – Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle “Cronenberg was way ahead of his time with this mind- When a small town is taken over by a creepy alien plague, the blowing, gross-out horror flick”. – Marc Robison,Reno Gazette unsuspecting residents begin changing in highly unusual, and highly Journal disgusting, ways, leading to an onslaught of slimy slugs, angry zombies and monstrous mutants that threaten to destroy the world! This Long Live the New Flesh! Watching TV becomes a real nightmare when wonderfully gross horror/comedy from Guardians of the Galaxy director a sleazy cable programmer stumbles across a mysterious broadcast of James Gunn, starring Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks and Michael a hyper violent reality show called Videodrome, and before you know Rooker, is a goofy, goo-splattered blast of B-movie madness that really it, he’s lost in a bizarre world of political conspiracies, S&M sex games delivers the goods! (Dir. by James Gunn, 2006 USA, 95 mins., Rated R) and nasty bodily transformations. A groundbreaking WTF? sci-fi/ horror classic from the sick and twisted mind of David Cronenberg, 12:30AM • THE HITCHER / 35MM PRINT! starring James Woods and Blondie singer Debbie Harry, Videodrome is even more relevant today than it was back in 1983. (Dir. by David “Easily ranks as one of the best thrillers of the ‘80s, thanks in Cronenberg, 1983, Canada, 87 mins., Rated R) large part to a tremendously creepy performance by Rutger Hauer.” – Robot Geek’s Cult Cinema 15 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS
IGGY POP: LIVE IN BASEL! RANGO • FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING! WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22 AT 7:30PM FRIDAY, JUNE 24 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES FREE ADMISSION!
PART OF OUR ONE HIT WONDERS SERIES e Loft Cinema, in collaboration with the Great new documentaries at special one-night-only 19TH Annual Celebration De El Dia De San Juan screenings! Community Fiesta, presents a special outdoor screening of the animated comedy/adventure, “If I don’t terrorize, then I’m not Pop.” – Iggy Rango! It’s a festive, free admission event for Pop the whole family, with entertainment, food, information booths, games and more!
Location: West of 1-10 on Congress St. @ Avenida del Convento
De El Dia De San Juan Community Fiesta runs from 5:00pm to 10:00pm. Rango lm screening begins after sundown at approximately 7:30pm. Please bring your own seating for the movie.
“Rango is some kind of a miracle: An animated comedy for smart moviegoers, wonderfully made, great to look at and wickedly satirical.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Iggy Pop, the godfather of punk, unleashes an incredible live show at the Baloise Session in Basel, Switzerland, where he In Rango, Johnny Depp provides the voice of the title character, was honored with a 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award. is a kooky pet chameleon who gets tossed into a wild and raucous electrifying performance features many of the legendary star’s western town in desperate need of a hero. rough a series of biggest hits, including “I Wanna Be Your Dog”, “ e Passenger”, comical misadventures, Rango is appointed sheri of this lawless “Lust for Life” and many more. ere‘s a good reason why outpost (a town so tough it’s just called “Dirt”), but the question many consider Iggy Pop the founding father of punk rock — is: can one unprepared and completely unquali ed chameleon every single punk band of the past and present has either possibly change this little town’s future for the better? Filled knowingly or unknowingly borrowed a thing or two from Pop with goofy characters, humorous action and comical parodies and his late-‘60s/ early-‘70s band, the Stooges, who reunited of classic Spaghetti Westerns, Rango is an animated treat for in 2003 and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the whole family. (Dir. by Gore Verbinski, 2011, USA, 107 mins., in 2010. Known for his raw musical power and outrageous and Rated PG) unpredictable stage antics, and with no signs of slowing down, Iggy Pop remains one of the most unique performers in modern For more information please contact Daniela Ontiveros music. (Total running time: 79 mins., Not Rated) at 520-322-5638 ex. 100 or [email protected]. SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 16
THE ROOM LIVE SCRIPT READING WITH GREG SESTERO PLUS A SCREENING OF THE ROOM! SATURDAY, JUNE 25 AT 7:00PM | LIVE SCRIPT READING AT 7:00PM; THE ROOM AT 9:00PM LIVE SCRIPT READING ADMISSION: $15 GENERAL; $12 LOFT MEMBERS THE ROOM ADMISSION: $10 GENERAL; $8 LOFT MEMBERS DOUBLE FEATURE: $20 GENERAL; $15 LOFT MEMBERS Please Note: We cannot accept passes or Groupons for these screenings.
“ is play can be played without any age e live reading will feature a mix of local talent lling restriction. It will work if the chemistry between the roles as well as audience members selected that night all the characters makes sense. Human behavior (with Greg himself playing Mark, natch)! Greg will also and betrayal applies to all of us. It exists within read from his acclaimed memoir e Disaster Artist: My ourselves. You love somebody. Do you? What is Life Inside the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, soon to be a love?” major motion picture starring James Franco, Seth Rogen, Sharon Stone, Zac Efron and Bryan Cranston, and the So begins Tommy Wiseau’s rst draft of what eventually pre-show for the event will feature Greg’s thirty minute became his landmark 2003 lm, e Room. Co-star, line making of documentary, utilizing behind the scenes producer and former Wiseau roommate Greg Sestero footage from e Room never released publicly! Special (“Oh, Hi Mark!”) is coming to e Loft Cinema to present e Room merch will be available for sale and signing at a live reading of this rst edition of Tommy’s screenplay, this event. which features settings, dialogue and plot devices that never made it on screen! If you’re a long-time Wiseau fan, Immediately following the Live Reading event, Greg will this will be a rare glimpse into the original vision of one introduce a screening of the incredible lm that started it of the most iconic cinematic gures of the twenty- rst all – the “Citizen Kane of Bad Movies,” the one-and-only century. e Room! (Dir. by Tommy Wiseau, 2003, USA, 99 min., Rated R) 17 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS
TARZAN AND HIS MATE JUNUN SUNDAY, JUNE 26 AT 1:00PM SUNDAY, JUNE 26 AT 7:30PM FREE ADMISSION! GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5
COMMUNITY RENTAL PRESENTED BY THE PART OF OUR LOFT STAFF SELECTS SERIES AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR NUDE A monthly series showcasing lm favorites chosen RECREATION (AANR) IN CELEBRATION OF by our amazing Loft Cinema sta ! is month’s Loft NUDE RECREATION WEEK (JULY 4 – 10) Sta Selects lm was chosen by Jonathan Kleefeld, Finance Director! Featuring a lecture by AANR Vice-President Sharon McLeod prior to the start of the Motion Picture! FEATURING A PRE-SHOW MUSIC VIDEO SALON! e lm banned in Nazi Germany by the National Socialist Party because it depicted Nordic man in brutal surroundings! “ e lm is, above all, a home movie of the best kind, celebrating the exuberance and joy Don’t miss this special 35mm screening of the movie considered in making music. Junun is a love letter to the by lm critics to be the best Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen creative process, and a treat for your ears.” – O’Sullivan pairing of Edgar Rice Burrough’s famed literary creation in MGM’s most ambitious jungle epic! Michelle Buchman, Nerdist
e showing of the feature will be preceded by the outstanding In 2015, acclaimed lmmaker Paul omas Anderson ( ere Will presentation of Sharon McLeod’s “Nudism in a Nutshell: e Be Blood, Boogie Nights) joined his close friend and collaborator History of Nudism in the United States.” is lecture, lm Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead and Israeli musician, composer introduction, and 1934 movie will include pictorial content and poet Shye Ben Tzur on a trip to Rajasthan in Northwestern which includes non-sexual frontal nudity. India, where they were hosted by the Maharaja of Jodhpur. eir destination was the 15th century Mehrangarh Fort, In this continuation of MGM’s very rst Tarzan lm, Tarzan, where Greenwood (with the help of Radiohead producer Nigel e Ape Man (1932), Jane’s crest-fallen suitor, Harry Holt (Neil Godrich) and an amazing group of musicians culled from across Hamilton) returns to Africa with new business partner Martin the Indian subcontinent, worked on Ben Tzur’s new album. Arlington (Paul Cavanaugh) to take the ivory tusks found in a e band assembled a make shift studio at the fort and over famed elephant burial ground. Unfortunately for them, Tarzan the following three weeks created the joyous collaboration that (Johnny Weissmuller) has morals that forbid their plans. Holt becomes both the music and lm of Junun (an alternate spelling also has intentions on his jilted Jane (Maureen O’Sullivan), but of “junoon,” the Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Hindi word for the jungle couple are too busy enjoying their free swinging life “mania,” or “the madness of love”). e nished lm, just under style in their tropical Eden-like setting for her to be interested an hour, is pure magic. Junun lives and breathes music, music- in returning to England with him. Rapacious Arlington, making, and the close camaraderie of artistic collaboration. however, has no such scruples and shoots Tarzan in an attempt It’s a lovely impressionistic mosaic and a one-of-a-kind sonic to have both the ivory and the girl. Can Tarzan survive his experience: the music will blow your mind. (Dir. by Paul omas ghts with wild beasts of the jungle, a gunshot wound, and still Anderson, 2015, USA/India, in English/ Hindi/ Hebrew/ Urdu with repeatedly rescue Jane? Bring your friends and family and nd subtitles, 54 mins, Not Rated) out! (Directed by Cedric Gibbons, Jack Conway, and James C. “Jack” McKay, 1934, 104 minutes, Not Rated) THE COMPLETE STUDIO GHIBLI: A 22 FILM RETROSPECTIVE
In collaboration with GKIDS, The Loft Cinema is pleased to present the return of our smash-hit retrospective of films from Japan’s famed Studio Ghibli animation house, featuring all 22 films from the Studio Ghibli catalog!
Don’t miss your chance to see some Films in the series will play at least of the greatest animated films of all once a day. We guarantee that films time, including such beloved favorites with a Wednesday start date will play as My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Thursday at 7PM and Saturday at Away and Castle in the Sky, as well Noon, and films with a Sunday start as more recent classics, including The date will play Sunday at Noon and Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The Wind Tuesday at 7PM. More showtimes Rises and When Marnie Was There, on the big screen! Most films will be will be added on a weekly basis. presented in both subtitled and English dubbed versions.
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MAY 11 – MAY 14: NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND The debut film from Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaa is considered by many to be his masterwork — and there are few films, animated or otherwise, of such sweeping scope and grandeur. Set in a devastated future world decimated by atmospheric poisons and swarming with gigantic insects, Nausicaa is the story of a young princess, both brave and innocent, whose love for all living things and passionate determination to understand the processes of nature lead her into terrible danger, sacrifice, and eventual triumph. Like most Studio Ghibli films, there is neither good nor evil, but conflicting viewpoints, weaknesses, and power struggles. Throughout the film, Miyazaki’s animation is awe-inspiring; the depiction of the poisoned forest in particular is a thing of transcendent beauty. This is a film not to be missed. (Dir. by Hayao Miyazaki, 1984, Japan, 116 mins, Rated PG)
MAY 15 – MAY 17: GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES Two children, Seita and his little sister Setsuko, are at the centre of this deeply moving anime classic from Studio Ghibli, set in Japan during World War II. After their mother is killed in an air raid, and with their father serving in the navy, the children are forced to fight for survival in the devastated Japanese countryside. Food and shelter are scarce, and even their own relatives are too concerned with their own survival. All they have is each other and their belief that life must carry on. Director Isao Takahata creates a visually stunning and emotionally powerful film that meditates on the devastating consequences of war. (Dir. by Isao Takahata, 1988, Japan, 89 mins, Rated PG) This feature will be shown in the subtitled version only.
MAY 18 – MAY 21: PRINCESS MONONOKE Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke is a landmark of animation and a film of unsurpassed power and beauty. An epic, eco-themed story of conflict between humans, gods, and nature, the film depicts a mystical battle between Animal Gods of the forest and humans during Japan’s Muromachi Period. While defending his village from a demonic boar-god, the young warrior Ashitaka becomes afflicted with a curse that grants him super-human power in battle but will eventually take his life. Traveling west to find a cure or meet his destiny, he journeys deep into sacred depths of the Great Forest where he meets San (Princess Mononoke), a girl raised by wolf-gods who is waging battle against the human outpost of Iron Town, on the edge of the forest. Mononoke is a force of nature – with blood smeared lips, riding bareback on a great white wolf, doing battle with both gods and humans, she is as iconic a figure as any from film, literature, or opera. (Dir. by Hayao Miyazaki, 1997, Japan, 134 mins, Rated PG-13) Please note: This film includes violent battle scenes and frightening fantasy creatures.
MAY 22 – MAY 24: MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS In a break from the frequently mythical storytelling of Studio Ghibli, director Isao Takahata wryly tweaks the everyday activities of family life with his depiction of the irresponsible, slovenly, and lazy Yamada family and their unassuming way of life. With cartoon-like characters and visual design unlike anything else in the Ghibli canon, the film is illustrated in a series of rough sketches and outlines, which are then filled with soft colors that evoke watercolor painting. (Dir. by Isao Takahata, 1999, Japan, 104 min, Rated PG)
MAY 25 – MAY 31: SPIRITED AWAY Hayao Miyazaki’s stunning, Academy Award-winning masterpiece Spirited Away was the biggest box office hit of all-time in Japan, as well as a film that helped redefine the possibilities of animation for American audiences and a generation of new filmmakers. Wandering through an abandoned carnival site, ten-year-old Chichiro is separated from her parents and stumbles into a dream-like spirit world where she is put to work in a bathhouse for the gods, a place where all kinds of nonhuman beings come to refresh, relax and recharge. Here she encounters a vast menagerie of impossibly inventive characters — shape-shifting phantoms and spirits, some friendly, some less so — and must find the inner strength to outsmart her captors and return to her family. Combining Japanese mythology with Through the Looking Glass-type whimsy, Spirited Away cemented Miyazaki’s reputation as an icon of inspired animation and wondrous, lyrical storytelling. (Dir. by Hayao Miyazaki, 2002, Japan, 125 mins, Rated PG)
JUNE 1 – JUNE 4: CASTLE IN THE SKY Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see one of Hayao Miyazaki’s most stunningly beautiful, exciting, and infrequently screened films. A young girl with a mysterious crystal pendant falls out of the sky and into the arms and life of young Pazu. Together they search for a floating island in the sky, site of a long-dead civilization promising enormous wealth and power to those who can unlock its secrets. Castle in the Sky is an early masterpiece of storytelling and filmmaking whose imaginative and ornately detailed vision presaged later Miyazaki films like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. (Dir. by Hayao Miyazaki, 1986, Japan, 124 mins, Rated PG)
JUNE 5 – JUNE 7: WHISPER OF THE HEART (35MM) Shizuku is spending her last summer vacation before high school reading and translating foreign music into Japanese. Perusing the eclectic selection of books she has checked out from the library, her curiosity is piqued when she notices that the name Seiji appears before hers on the checkout card of each one. Through a series of curious and magical incidents, she comes to meet and establishes a connection to a young man named Seiji – who has dreams of becoming a famous violinmaker in Italy, while she has aspirations of becoming a writer. As their life goals pull them in different directions, Shizuku and Seiji are determined to remain true to their feelings for one another. A masterpiece about the awakening of creative talent, Whisper of the Heart was the first and only full-length feature by Hayao Miyazaki’s protégé Yoshifumi Kondo before his sudden death at the age of 47. It remains one of the classics of Japanese animation. (Dir. by Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995, Japan, 119 mins, Rated G) Subtitled version only! THE COMPLETE STUDIO GHIBLI: A 22 FILM RETROSPECTIVE
JUNE 8 – JUNE 11: THE SECRET WORLD OF ARIETTY The Secret World of Arrietty, about a teeny-size 14-year-old girl who lives with her family beneath the floorboards of a big house and the human-size boy who befriends her, is adapted from British author Mary Norton’s wonderful children’s fantasy novels, The Borrowers. The lyrical animation, with its meditative attention to nature, bears the unique Studio Ghibli stamp. The result is a dreamy, soft-edged hybrid, equally interested in observing raindrops and the worries of a race of minuscule beings. (Dir. by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2010, Japan, 94 mins., Rated G)
JUNE 12 – JUNE 14: ONLY YESTERDAY It’s 1982, and Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her relatives in the countryside, and as the train travels through the night, memories flood back of her younger years: the first immature stirrings of romance, the onset of puberty, and the frustrations of math and boys. At the station she is met by young farmer Toshio, and the encounters with him begin to reconnect her to forgotten longings. In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self. From Academy Award-nominated director Isao Takahata (The Tale of The Princess Kaguya) and general producer Hayao Miyazaki, Only Yesterday is a masterpiece of time and tone, rich with humor and stirring emotion, and beautifully animated by one of the world’s most revered animation studios. Critically acclaimed but never before released in North America, the film received a national theatrical release in a new, Studio Ghibli-produced, English-language version in 2016 (featuring the voices of Daisy Ridley and Dev Patel), in celebration of its 25th anniversary. (Dir. by Isao Takahata, 1991/2016, Japan, in English and in Japanese with subtitles, 118 mins., Rated PG)
JUNE 15 – JUNE 18: PORCO ROSSO This relatively unsung treasure from Miyazaki nestles a tale of morality and identity inside a soaring airborne adventure — a tribute to early aviation and the reckless flyboys whose home was the open sky. Set in a mid-war Italy swept by fascism, the film follows the life of Marco, a world-weary flying ace-turned bounty hunter who plies his trade above the waters of the Adriatic. Somewhere along the way a curse has transformed Marco’s head into the head of a pig, reflecting his loss of faith in humanity. Marco meets his polar opposite in the innocent and energetic 17-year-old Fio, an aspiring female airplane designer, and the two are catapulted into an airborne adventure pursued by air pirates, the Italian army, and an egotistical American flying ace. Miyazaki fans will be familiar with the filmmaker’s fascination with flight; in this film, Miyazaki indulges his passion to the fullest, creating sweeping panoramas of wind, cloud, smoke and water, as he brilliantly captures the breathtaking feeling of soaring though the air in an open cockpit. (Dir. by Hayao Miyazaki, 1992, Japan, 94 mins, Rated PG)
JUNE 19 – JUNE 21: POM POKO (35MM) In this brilliant and often overlooked Studio Ghibli masterpiece, the forests are filled with groups of magical tanuki, mischievous raccoon-like animals from Japanese folklore that are capable of shape-shifting from their standard raccoon form to practically any object. The tanuki spend their days playing idly in the hillsides and squabbling over food – until the construction of a huge new Tokyo suburb clears the nearby forest and threatens their way of life. In an effort to defend their home, the tanuki learn to transform into humans and start playing tricks to make the workers think the construction site is haunted, ending in a spectacular night-time spirit parade, with thousands of ghosts, dragons and other magical creatures descending on the city – in an abundance of fantastical characters that would not be matched on screen by Studio Ghibli until Spirited Away. (Dir. by Isao Takahata, 1994, Japan, 119 Minutes, Rated PG) Subtitled version only.
JUNE 22 – JUNE 25: HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE Sophie, an average teenage girl working in a hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl. But after this chance meeting, the young girl is turned into a 90-year old woman by the vain and conniving Witch of the Waste. Embarking on an incredible adventure to lift the curse, she finds refuge in Howl’s magical moving castle. As the true power of Howl’s wizardry is revealed, and his relationship with Sophie deepens, our young grey heroine finds herself fighting to protect them both from a dangerous war of sorcery that threatens their world. Infused with wondrous beauty, a striking steampunk aesthetic and a compelling narrative driven by dream logic, Howl’s Moving Castle was the second Studio Ghibli film to be nominated for the Best Animated Feature Academy Award. (Dir. by Hayao Miyazaki, 2005, Japan, 114 mins,, Rated PG)
JUNE 26 – JUNE 28: FROM UP ON POPPY HILL From director Goro Miyazaki comes an inspired coming-of-age story set in 1960s Japan. In a lovingly hand-drawn tale, buoyed by period perfect pop music, two students develop a budding romance as they join forces to save their high school’s ramshackle clubhouse from demolition. Japan’s biggest box-office hit of the year and winner of the Japan Academy Prize for Animation, From Up On Poppy Hill conjures up a pure, wistful and nuanced evocation of the past and young love through its rich palette and painterly detail of glistening harbors, sun-drenched gardens and bustling cityscapes. (Dir. by Goro Miyazaki, 2011, Japan, 91 mins. Rated PG)
JUNE 29 – JULY 5: MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO One of the most endearing and internationally renowned family films of all time, a film that Roger Ebert called “one of the five best movies” ever made for children, Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro is a deceptively simple tale of two girls, Satsuki and Mei, who move with their father to a new house in the countryside. They soon discover that the surrounding forests are home to a family of Totoros, gentle but powerful creatures who live in a huge and ancient camphor tree and are seen only by children. Based on Miyazaki’s own childhood imaginings, Totoros look like oversized pandas with bunny ears and they take the girls on spinning-top rides through the tree tops and introduce them to a furry, multi-pawed Catbus — a nod to Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat. But beneath the film’s playfulness and narrative simplicity lie depths of wisdom. As with much of Miyazaki’s work, at its core My Neighbor Totoro is about human-kind’s relationship to the Earth, and viewers are left with a sense of wonder at the beauty, mystery and preciousness of the world around us. (Dir. by Hayao Miyazaki, 1988, Japan, 86 mins, Rated G) THE COMPLETE STUDIO GHIBLI: A 22 FILM RETROSPECTIVE
JULY 6 – JULY 9: TALES FROM EARTHSEA Based on the classic fantasy book series by Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea is the first feature directed by Hayao Miyazaki’s son, Goro Miyazaki. The film is set in a medieval world of castles and dragons, a world that has been thrown into chaos by an imbalance of magical forces and is being overtaken by a dark sorcerer on a quest to attain immortality. Meanwhile, troubled young Prince Arren is pursued by demons of his own, until he falls in with the master wizard Sparrowhawk and young Therru – another in a long line of strong-willed Miyazaki female protagonists – and together they set out to defeat the sorcerer and restore balance to Earthsea.(Dir. by Goro Miyazaki, 2006, Japan, 115 mins., Rated PG-13) Please note: This film contains some scenes of intense violence and bloodshed.
JULY 10 – JULY 12: OCEAN WAVES Rarely seen outside of Japan, Ocean Waves is a subtle, poignant and wonderfully detailed story of adolescence and teenage isolation. Taku and his best friend Yutaka are headed back to school for what looks like another uneventful year. But they soon find their friendship tested by the arrival of Rikako, a beautiful new transfer student from Tokyo whose attitude vacillates wildly from flirty and flippant to melancholic. When Taku joins Rikako on a trip to Tokyo, the school erupts with rumors, and the three friends are forced to come to terms with their changing relationships. Ocean Waves was the first Studio Ghibli film directed by someone other than studio founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, as director Tomomi Mochizuki led a talented staff of younger employees in an adaptation of Saeko Himuro’s best-selling novel. Full of shots bathed in a palette of pleasingly soft pastel colors and rich in the unexpected visual details typical of Studio Ghibli’s most revered works, Ocean Waves is an accomplished teenage drama and a true discovery. (Dir. by Tomomi Mochizuki, 1995, Japan, 72 mins, Rated PG) This feature will screened in the subtitled version only.
JULY 13 – JULY 16: KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE Miyazaki’s first big U.S. success tells the story of a resourceful young witch who uses her broom to create a delivery service, only to lose her gift of flight in a moment of self-doubt. It is tradition for all young witches to leave their families on the night of a full moon and set out into the wide world to learn their craft. When that night comes for Kiki, she embarks on her life journey with her chatty black cat, Jiji, landing the next morning in a sea-side village, where a bakery owner hires her to make deliveries. Rarely has Miyazaki’s art been so brilliantly rendered as in this delightfully imaginative film – a beautiful and timeless story of a young girl finding her way in the world. (Dir. by Hayao Miyazaki, 1989, Japan, 102 mins, Rated G)
JULY 17 – JULY 19: THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA Legendary Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies) revisits Japan’s most famous folktale in this gorgeous, hand-drawn masterwork, decades in the making. Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her – but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, an Academy Award-nominee for Best Animated Feature, is a powerful and sweeping epic that redefines the limits of animated storytelling and marks a triumphant high point within an extraordinary career in filmmaking for director Isao Takahata. (Dir. by Isao Takahata, 2014, Japan, 137 min., Rated PG)
JULY 20 – JULY 23: PONYO Perfect for audiences of all ages, Ponyo centers on the friendship between five-year-old Sosuke and a magical goldfish named Ponyo, the young daughter of a sorcerer father and a sea-goddess mother. After a chance encounter, Ponyo yearns to become a human so she can be with Sosuke. As to be expected with Miyazaki, the film is awash in pure unbridled imagination and visual wonder — but it is the tender love, humor, and devotion exhibited by Ponyo and Sosuke that form the emotional heart of the film. (Dir. by Hayao Miyazaki, 2008, Japan, 101 mins., Rated G)
JULY 24 – JULY 26: WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE Based on the novel by Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There is the newest animated feature from Studio Ghibli, and the second feature film by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, the director of The Secret World of Arrietty. Sent from her foster home in the city one summer to a sleepy town by the sea in Hokkaido, Anna dreams her days away among the marshes. She believes she’s outside the invisible magic circle to which most people belong – and shuts herself off from everyone around her, wearing her “ordinary face”. Anna never expected to meet a friend like Marnie, who does not judge Anna for being just what she is. But no sooner has Anna learned the loveliness of friendship than she begins to wonder about her newfound friend. Featuring the vocal talents of Hailee Steinfeld, Kiernan Shipka, Kathy Bates, Ellen Burstyn, Geena Davis, Catherine O’Hara, John C. Reilly, Raini Rodriguez and Vanessa Williams. (Dir. by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2014, 103 mins., Rated PG)
JULY 27 – JULY 30: THE CAT RETURNS In this sequel to Whisper of the Heart, a quiet suburban schoolgirl, Haru, is pitched into a fantastical feline world and must find her inner strength to make her way back home. Walking with her friend after a dreary day at school, Haru eyes a cat with a small gift box in its mouth attempting to cross a busy street. The cat fumbles the package in the middle of the road as a truck is rapidly bearing down. Haru manages to scoop the cat away to safety. To her amazement, the cat then gets up on its hind legs, brushes itself off, and thanks her very politely. Strange behavior indeed, but this is nothing compared to what happens later that evening when the King of Cats shows up in a feline motorcade replete with vassals, maidens, and even Secret Service cats. In a show of gratitude for saving his son’s life, the king cat showers Haru with gifts – including a large supply of individually wrapped live mice – and decrees that she shall marry the cat prince and come to live as a princess in the secret Kingdom of Cats. (Dir. by Hiroyuki Morita, 2002, Japan, 75 mins, Rated G)
JULY 31 – AUGUST 2: THE WIND RISES In Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises, Jiro— inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni — dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world’s most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. The film chronicles much of his life, depicting key historical events, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic and Japan’s plunge into war. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo. Writer/director Miyazaki here pays tribute to real-life engineer Jiro Horikoshi and author Tatsuo Hori in an epic tale of love, perseverance, and the challenges of living and making choices in a turbulent world. Miyazaki has said he was inspired to make this Academy Award-nominated film after reading this quote from Horikoshi: ‘All I wanted to do was to make something beautiful.’ If the celebrated director also had the same goal for this, his supposed final film, he succeeded magnificently.(Dir. by Hayao Miyazaki, 2013, Japan, 127 mins., Rated PG-13) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 22
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Don’t miss this special screening of the PART OF OUR NEW CINEPHILE acclaimed new rockumentary, e Seeds: Pushin’ SHOWCASE SERIES! Too Hard, featuring a post- lm Q&A with Featuring great new cinematic discoveries from director Neil Norman! around the world with the Loft Cinema stamp of approval! “A must see lm… a front-row seat to the rise and fall of e Seeds.” – Glen Starkey, New Times “Quietly incandescent… an unstemmable ow of beautifully unfathomable images … cinema “ ere’s plenty to enjoy in this a ectionate look as the stu dreams are made of.” – James at a seminal band.” – Sheri Linden, Hollywood Lattimer, Slant Magazine Reporter e wondrous new lm by ai director Apichatpong From Hollywood to Brooklyn, Toronto to Albuquerque, e Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) is Seeds: Pushin’ Too Hard, the acclaimed rock-doc tracing the set in and around a hospital ward full of soldiers stricken with incredible rags-to-riches-to rags trajectory of ‘60s garage a mysterious sleeping sickness. Attached to glowing dream rockers e Seeds, has been enlightening and entertaining machines, and tended to by Jenjira, a kindly volunteer, and audiences at screenings across the nation. e Seeds – keyboard Keng, a young clairvoyant who uses her psychic powers to help player Daryl Hooper, guitarist Jan Savage, drummer Rick loved ones communicate with the comatose patients, the men Andridge and charismatic singer Sky Saxon – were all emigres are said to be waging war in their sleep on behalf of long-dead to early ‘60s Hollywood. After building a stellar reputation in feuding kings, and their mysterious slumber provides the rich local clubs, the group burst out in late 1966 with the classic central metaphor: sleep as safe haven, as escape mechanism, as anthem, “Pushin’ Too Hard,” which went Top 40 nationally in ignorance, as bliss. When Jenjira discovers a cryptic notebook early 1967. And then things got interesting. e saga of Sky belonging to one of the sleeping men, she discovers there may Saxon and the Seeds is one of the more bizarre entries in the be a connection between the soldiers’ enigmatic syndrome history of rock; this movie traces their path from cutting-edge and the mythic ancient site that lies beneath the clinic. Magic, underground quartet to psychedelic emissaries who became healing, romance and dreams are all part of Jenjira’s tender victims of their own ower-powered success. Using rare vintage path to a deeper awareness of herself and the world around footage, stills and ephemera to spin the tale, the lm features her. In Cemetery of Splendor, director Weerasethakul merges luminaries such as Iggy Pop, Beach Boy Bruce Johnston, the supernatural phenomena with ailand’s historical phantoms Bangles and members of the original Seeds themselves weighing and national traumas, and even more seamlessly than in his in with pungent observations on the hugely inuential quartet previous lms, this sun-dappled reverie induces a sensation with the minimalist style that continues to strike a resonant of lucid dreaming, conjuring a haunted world where memory chord today. (Dir. by Neil Norman, USA, 2015, 100 mins., Not and myth intrude on physical space. (Dir. by Apichatpong Rated) Weerasethakul, 2015, ailand, in ai and English with subtitles, 122 mins., Not Rated) 23 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS
THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO TOP GUN / 30TH ANNIVERSARY! A SPECIAL 4TH OF JULY SCREENING! A SPECIAL 4TH OF JULY SCREENING! MONDAY, JULY 4 AT NOON MONDAY, JULY 4 AT 6:00PM DOORS OPEN AT 11:15AM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 • LOFT MEMBERS: $6 GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5 Ride into the Danger Zone this 4th of July and PRESENTED BY LIBERTY WATCH RADIO celebrate your independence with Maverick, Goose AND INSIDE TRACK and Iceman at a 30th Anniversary screening of the high-ying patriotic blockbuster, Top Gun! If you feel Join Tucson’s-own Charles Heller of Liberty Watch the need, the need for speed, this is the place to be! Radio and Emil Franzi of Inside Track for a special Independence Day screening of the Oscar-winning “Top Gun is still thrilling, and perfectly suited 1944 classic irty Seconds Over Tokyo, starring Van to the big screen.” – Elizabeth Weitzman, New Johnson, Spencer Tracy and Robert Mitchum! Get York Daily News here early and enjoy a 4th of July lunch on the Loft In the role that made him one of the world’s biggest stars, Tom patio – food trucks will be on site, serving up tasty, Cruise rides into the Danger Zone in this smash-hit action ick All-American hot dogs, hamburgers and more! that helped de ne both the modern-day blockbuster and the entire decade of the ‘80s. In Top Gun, Cruise plays Maverick, “A strong cast and enthralling action.” – Bob a hotshot ier who is sent to the Navy’s prestigious Top Gun McCabe, Empire Magazine program. Yes, he’s good, but he’s also cocky and a bit of a rebel, and in order to truly become the “best of the best,” he’ll need irty Seconds Over Tokyo, from acclaimed director Mervyn Leroy the help of his wingman Goose (Anthony Edwards) and his sexy (Mister Roberts, Quo Vadis), thrillingly details the top-secret new love interest, Charlie (Kelly McGillis), a ight instructor World War II mission that sent America’s hopes soaring. Coaxing who teaches him a few things outside the classroom. He’ll also a hulking Mitchell B-25 into the sky from a short, 500-foot need a push from his new frenemy, the tough-as-nails Iceman carrier runway on a bouncing sea is dangerous. Tougher still is (Val Kilmer), who takes competition to a whole new level, doing it with a full bomb load. But for Lt. Col. James Doolittle whether in the air or on the volleyball court. Does Maverick (Spencer Tracy) and the crewmen of the 16 B-25s, that’s just the have what it takes to become the true Top Gun? One of the start of the mission. Academy Award-winning special e ects rst of several megawatt collaborations between producer Jerry recreate the squadron’s low-altitude, “hedge-hopping” sweep Bruckheimer and director Tony Scott, Top Gun’s slick visuals, over Japan in this suspenseful saga of the attack that bolstered pumping action and MTV-friendly soundtrack (featuring such U.S. morale during the bleak early days of the Paci c war. e hits as Kenny Loggins’ rockin’ Danger Zone and Berlin’s Oscar- intensive training, the daring bomb run, the subsequent forced winning ballad Take My Breath Away) helped turn the aerial landings in China and the perilous trek to safety: all the valiant drama into the biggest box-oce hit of 1986 – a lm that thirty touchstones of the true-life raid are captured in a Hollywood years later still gets your adrenaline pumping and satis es your classic lled with A-list stars including Van Johnson, Robert need for speed. Let’s turn and burn! (Dir. by Tony Scott, 1986, Walker and Robert Mitchum. (Dir. by Mervyn Leroy, 1944, USA, USA, 110 mins., Rated PG) 139 mins., Not Rated) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 24
RAIDERS! THE STORY OF THE YARN GREATEST FAN FILM EVER MADE WEDNESDAY, JULY 6 AT 7:30PM PLUS RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES ADAPTATION / DOUBLE FEATURE PART OF OUR ONE HIT WONDERS SERIES TUESDAY, JULY 5 AT 6:30PM Great new documentaries at special one-night-only GENERAL ADMISSION: $10 • LOFT MEMBERS: $8 screenings! Please Note: We cannot accept passes or Groupons for this screening. FEATURING NARRATION BY AWARD- RAIDERS! THE STORY OF THE GREATEST WINNING WRITER AND FORMER FAN FILM EVER MADE AT 6:30PM TUCSONAN, BARBARA KINGSOLVER! RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION AT 8:30PM “Appealing… colorful… a diverting survey of artists working in the titular medium.” – Dennis DOUBLE FEATURE TICKETS ONLY – NO Harvey, Variety SINGLE TICKETS FOR THE ADAPTATION WILL BE AVAILABLE. Yarn is a vibrant documentary that follows top international artists and knitters as they bring yarn to the streets and into people’s lives in sensational new Raiders! e Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever ways. e traditional crafts of crochet and knitting Made opens for a regular engagement starting have become one of the hottest movements in on Friday, July 1. (See page 34) modern art. Starting in Iceland, this quirky and thought-provoking lm takes us on a colorful and “ e Adaptation is the least cynical movie I’ve global journey as we discover how yarn connects us ever seen. Each shot is a moment of wonder and all. Featured in the documentary are world-renowned discovery.” – Chicago Reader crochet artist Olek, ber artist and Net Play Works e Adaptation is a labor of love of the purest kind. In 1981, founder Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam, Cirkus Cirkör young teenage movie bu s, inspired by Steven Spielberg, George Director Tilde Björfors, Icelandic yarn grati Lucas and Lawrence Kasden, set out to reshoot the entirety of artist Tinna orudottir orvaldar, and National a major Hollywood blockbuster with little more than 1/4000th Humanities Medal-winning writer Barbara of the budget of the “real” Raiders of the Lost Ark. e result is a transcendently comical, inspiring and inspired work of art Kingsolver. (Dir. by ordur Jonsson, Una Lorenzen, that draws viewers in through sheer amazement at what can be Heather Millard 2016, Iceland, in English/Icelandic/ achieved with seven summers of shooting, unlimited youthful Swedish with subtitles, 76 mins., Not Rated) energy and the collective willpower of a handful of movie- obsessed friends. (Dir. by Eric Zala, 1989, USA, 100 mins., Not Rated) 25 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS
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LOVE & FRIENDSHIP THE LOBSTER STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 27 STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 3 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES
“Flat out hilarious. Jane Austen has never been “Hilarious and bracingly strange… like nothing funnier.” – Tim Robey, Telegraph you’ve ever seen before.” – Robbie Collin, Telegraph Set in the opulent drawing rooms of eighteenth-century English society, Love & Friendship focuses on the comical “An uproarious yet deadpan satire that also machinations of a beautiful widow, Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale), who, while waiting for social chatter about a manages to be a surprisingly moving, gloriously personal indiscretion to pass, takes up temporary residence weird love story.” – Oliver Lyttelton, Playlist at her in-laws’ estate. While there, the intelligent, irtatious, and amusingly egotistical Lady Vernon is determined to be Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz and John C. Reilly star in this a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica—and herself too, deliciously dark comedy from Oscar-nominated Greek naturally. She enlists the assistance of her old friend Alicia lmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth), about a curious (Chloë Sevigny), but two particularly handsome suitors (Xavier hotel where the residents are charged with nding a new mate Samuel and Tom Bennett) complicate her orchestrations. within 45 days – under penalty of being turned into an animal should they fail. What if the world demanded that people live as couples? ose unable to couple on their own are sent to a seaside hotel where they are free to mingle and irt with their kind, provided that they follow the very strict rules designed to keep them focused on a future of cohabitation. ose who can’t connect with a mate are turned into an animal of their choosing and released into the wild. is is the world of e Lobster. Colin Farrell plays the recently-divorced David, who arrives at the hotel with his brother, now a dog. In the event of failure, David has chosen to become a lobster, because they live so long. But when his earnest attempts to nd a mate go bizarrely south, he plots a course to break out into the woods, in search of what lies behind these societal constructs. Hilarious, strange and endlessly thought-provoking, with plenty to say about the Adapting Jane Austen’s unpublished early novella Lady Susan, illusory nature of romance and the thin veneer of civilization, Oscar-nominated writer/director Whit Stillman (Metropolitan) this wildly imaginative, absurdist sci- tale keeps ruminating has created a hilarious and literate comedy of manners, while about the nature of true connection until the very last frame. Kate Beckinsale shines in her role as the deliciously devious Featuring caustically funny performances from Farrell, Rachel Lady Vernon, delivering each of Stillman’s biting line with utter Weisz, John C. Reilly, Léa Seydoux and Ben Whishaw, e relish. Propelled by exquisite period detail and a script teeming Lobster is a true original. (Dir. by Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015, with bon mots and witty dialogue, Love & Friendship is a Ireland/UK/Greece/France/Netherlands, in English and French rare—and rari ed—treat. (Dir. by Whit Stillman, 2016, Ireland/ with subtitles, 119 mins., Rated R) Netherland/ France/ USA, in English, 92 mins., Rated PG) 27 NEW FILMS
MEN & CHICKEN THE IDOL STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 3 STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 10 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES
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“Dark, twisted and morbidly funny.” – CJ “ oroughly captivating… a charming, Prince, Way Too Indie rambunctious and crowd-pleasing tale.” – Justin Chang, Variety
Men & Chicken is a darkly hilarious slapstick comedy, starring Mads Mikkelsen (“Hannibal”), about a pair of socially- e Idol tells the incredible true story of Palestine’s rst pop challenged siblings who discover they are adopted half-brothers celebrity, Mohammed Assaf, and his stellar rise to fame in their late father’s videotaped will. Elias (Mikkelsen) and following his stirring victory in the 2013 season of “Arab Idol.” Gabriel’s (David Dencik, e Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) Two-time Academy Award nominated director Hany Abu- journey in search of their true father takes them to the small, Assad (Omar, Paradise Now) follows the dramatic and inspiring insular Danish island of Ork, where they stumble upon three journey of talented teenager Assaf (Tawfeek Barhom) from a additional half-brothers—each also sporting hereditary refugee camp in Gaza, through his “Arab Idol” audition in Egypt harelips and lunatic tendencies—living in a dilapidated (using a fake passport), to his crowning victory in Beruit, which mansion overrun by barn animals. Initially unwelcome by stirred the dreams and aspirations of Palestinians at home and their newfound kin, the two visitors stubbornly wear them abroad – an unexpected triumph that transformed the young down until they’re reluctantly invited to stay. As the mis t singer into a worldwide phenomenon. e rst feature to be bunch get to know each other, they unwittingly uncover a deep (partially) lmed on location in Gaza in decades, e Idol is a family secret that ultimately binds them together. Resembling crowd-pleasing tale, lled with music and heart, about nding a riotous nightmare version of e Island of Dr. Moreau on your voice and sharing it with the world. (Dir. by Hany Abu- laughing gas, Men & Chicken is an inventively bizarre and Assad, 2015, Palestine, in Arabic with subtitles, 100 mins., Not truly outlandish comedy. (Dir. by Anders omas Jensen, 2015, Rated) Denmark, in Danish with subtitles, 104 mins., Not Rated)
LET THE FUN BEGIN! Super summer excitement returns to The Loft Cinema with our tenth annual Loft Kids Fest! Each morning, children and their parents can experience some of the best family-friendly films of all-time, along with a fabulous animated short before every feature! There’s also fun games, hands-on activities, live performances, great giveaways, tons-o-free-popcorn and crazy surprises. And best of all, it’s FREE!
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DHEEPAN WEINER STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 17 STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 17 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES
“Clear-eyed, tightly wound, and cinematically “A riveting excursion into fear and loathing on and psychologically immersive, it’s a furious the campaign trail.” – Lanre Bakare, Guardian ride of a movie that actually has something to say.” – Zhuo-Ning Su, Film Stage “Fascinating… a jaw-dropping portrait… if this soap opera wasn’t real, you’d never believe it.” – Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Dheepan is a gripping immigrant drama from acclaimed lmmaker Jacques Audiard (A Prophet). Novelist Sexts, lies and Carlos Danger: watch the wildest political and former child soldier Jesuthasan Antonythasan stars as the meltdown in recent history as it unfolds. It’s 2013 and Anthony title character, a Tamil freedom ghter who ees his native Sri Weiner—still reeling from the sex scandal that ended his Lanka when the civil war is reaching its end, with defeat near. political career two years earlier—is back in the spotlight as At a refugee camp, desperate to escape to Europe, he joins he mounts an audacious comeback campaign for New York with a woman and a little girl, both strangers, to pretend to be City mayor. But it’s not long before history repeats itself and a family, hoping that they will make it easier for him to claim new sexting allegations leave Weiner and his aides scrambling political asylum. Arriving in Paris, the ‘family’ moves from one to contain the damage. Granted unfettered access to the temporary home to another until Dheepan nds work as the candidate and his campaign, lmmakers Josh Kriegman and caretaker of a run-down housing block in the suburbs. ere Elyse Steinberg capture a jaw-dropping, behind-the-scenes he works to build a new life and a real home for his ‘wife’ and documentary look at the political machine as it breaks down. his ‘daughter,’ but the daily violence he confronts in his new Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance Film neighborhood quickly reopens his war wounds, and Dheepan Festival. (Dir. by Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg, 2016, USA, 96 is forced to reconnect with his warrior’s instincts to protect mins., Rated R) the people he hopes will become his true family. (Dir. by Jacques Audiard, 2015, France, in English/ French/ Tamil with subtitles, 115 mins., Rated R) 33 NEW FILMS
GENIUS DARK HORSE STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 24 STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 24 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES
JUNE’S REEL READS SELECTION “Dark Horse is a canny package that uses the Purchase a copy of Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. classic structure of the sports-underdog story Scott Berg during the month of June and receive a to deliver a glowing ode to community pride.” – special “Loft Reel Reads” discount o the cover price Jeanette Catsoulis, New York Times – 20% for Loft Members and 10% for the general public. Copies of the book are available at e Loft “A heartwarming true story that has been Cinema and Antigone Books. expertly crafted into an irresistible, emotion- charged documentary.” – Allan Hunter, Screen “Colin Firth is excellent.” – Jessica Kiang, International Playlist
“A rich exploration of the creative partnership between author omas Wolfe and editor Max Perkins.” – Zade Constantine, Film Stage
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins (Colin Firth), literary editor at Scribner’s Sons, is the rst to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway (Dominic West) and F. Scott Fitzgerald (Guy Pearce). When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer named omas Wolfe (Jude Law) falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius. Together the two men e thrilling, inspirational documentary Dark Horse tells the set out to work on a version for publication and a seemingly story of a group of working-class friends in a small Welsh endless struggle over every single phrase ensues. During mining town who decide to pool their modest resources and this process, Perkins the gentle family man and Wolfe the take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ by breeding themselves eccentric author become close – a relationship eyed with a racehorse, whom they dub Dream Alliance. Raised on a suspicion by their wives. When Wolfe’s literary epic Look slagheap allotment, their foal grows into an unlikely champion, Homeward, Angel becomes a resounding success, the writer beating the nest thoroughbreds in the land, before su ering grows increasingly paranoid. Co-starring Nicole Kidman a near fatal accident. Nursed back to health by the love of his and Laura Linney, Genius is based on A. Scott Berg’s award- owners — for whom he’s become a source of inspiration and winning biography Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, which has been hope — he makes a remarkable recovery, returning to the track adapted for the screen by renowned scriptwriter John Logan for one last chance at a heart-stopping comeback. Irresistibly (Skyfall). (Dir. by Michael Grandage, 2016, UK, 104 mins., Rated heartwarming and exciting, this remarkable true story about a PG-13) long shot is a sure- re winner. (Dir. by Louise Osmond, 2015, UK, 85 mins., Rated PG) NEW FILMS 34
GURUKULAM RAIDERS! THE STORY OF THE STARTS FRIDAY, JULY 1 GREATEST FAN FILM EVER MADE REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES STARTS FRIDAY, JULY 1 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES “A unique viewing experience, one that quietly draws you toward introspection.” – David Catch a special double feature of the new Ferguson, Red Carpet Crash documentary Raiders! e Story of the Greatest Fan “So gentle a window into the world of a Film Every Made and Raiders of the Lost Ark: e traditional Advaita Vedanta ashram in Adaptation on Tuesday, July 5 only. Raiders! screens Tamil Nadu, India, that it is itself a kind of at 6:30pm and e Adaptation screens at 8:30pm. meditation.” – BeliefNet Double Feature tickets only – no single tickets for e Adaptation will be available. (see page 24)
“Often poignant, occasionally pathetic, but never short of entertaining, Raiders! captures the obsessive hold movies have on young people’s imaginations.” – Peter Debruge, Variety
is is the true, decades-spanning tale of the greatest fan lm ever made, an epic adventure story to rival any Hollywood blockbuster. After Steven Spielberg’s classic Raiders of the Lost Ark was released 35 years ago, three 11-year-old boys from In vivid and sensuous detail, Gurukulam follows a group of Mississippi set out on what would become a 7-year-long labor students and their teacher as they confront fundamental of love and tribute to their favorite lm; a faithful, shot-for- questions about the nature of reality and self-identity at shot adaptation of the action/adventure blockbuster. ey a remote forest ashram in southern India. Daily chores, nished every scene … except one; the lm’s explosive airplane meditation, ritual, and rigorous study are woven together set piece. Over two decades later, the trio reunited with the connecting the natural and spiritual worlds in moments original cast members from their childhood to complete their of surprising revelation and comic contradiction. Deeply masterpiece. Featuring interviews with original Raiders of the observational and experiential,Gurukulam evokes the presence Lost Ark star John Rhys Davies, Eli Roth and more, Raiders! e of the place and a tactile sense of the sacred. e richly layered Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made is just that: the story soundscape and the intimate imagery bring us into a place of of this long-gestating project’s culmination, chronicling the extraordinary beauty and simplicity. Building from Swami friends’ dedication to their artistic vision (mixed with some Dayananda’s rst lesson: ‘Saying is only an expression of movie magic) as they create a personal, epic love letter to a truly what you see,’ Gurukulam is a rare invitation to look, listen, classic lm. (Dir. by Jeremy Coon & Tim Skousen, 2015, USA, 95 and experience a contemplative rhythm of life as old as mins.,Not Rated) the Bhagavad Gita and as new as present-day India. (Dir. by Neil Dulal & Jillian Elizabeth, 2015, Canada/ USA, in English/ Tamil/ Sanskrit with subtitles, 108 mins., Not Rated) 35 NEW FILMS
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THE BIG LEBOWSKI JOHN CARPENTER’S SHOWGIRLS THE SANDLOT THE MAN WHO FELL (Dir. by Joel Coen, 1998, USA, 117 THE THING (Dir. by Paul Verhoeven, 1995, USA, (Dir. by David M. Evans, 1993, USA, TO EARTH mins., Rated R) 131 mins., Rated NC-17) 101 mins., Rated PG) (Dir. by John Carpenter, USA, 1982, (Dir. by Nicholas Roeg, 1976, UK, 109 mins., Rated R) 140 mins., Rated PG) In e Big Lebowski, a ridiculous No One Under 18 will be In this nostalgic, family-friendly case of mistaken identity embroils sports comedy, referred to by Horror legend John Carpenter admitted. Rock icon David Bowie, in his ultimate slacker Je “ e Dude” Roger Ebert as “the summertime took the 1951 sci- classic e rst lm role, plays a mysterious Lebowski in a kidnapping case and version of A Christmas Story,” an ing From Another World and Tawdry skin ick? Scathing social extraterrestrial who crash lands throws him into the role of hapless awkward young boy experiences turned it into something darker, satire? Hilarious camp classic? on Earth and discovers what detective in the Coens’ o -kilter a summer lled with baseball and ercer and altogether more How about all three? Director Paul it means to be human in this homage to Raymond Chandler and wild adventures that might just disturbing, pitting sombrero- Verhoeven’s deliciously decadent stunning cult classic from director Howard Hawks’ e Big Sleep. make him the big man in his small wearing helicopter pilot Kurt and lovably ludicrous ode to the Nicolas Roeg. A daring exploration town. Russell and a crew of isolated cutthroat world of Las Vegas’ of science ction as an art form, “One of the funniest, coolest, most Arctic scientists against a glitzy nude stage spectaculars e Man Who Fell to Earth tells absurd cult lms ever made, and “ e Sandlot is scene after scene ravenous, shape-shifting, host- has gone from one of the top the story of an alien (Bowie) one of the best from the dynamic of nostalgic perfection – it’s a love hopping alien being intent on turkeys of the 1990s to infamous who leaves his family and comes duo, Joel and Ethan Coen.” – R.L. letter to summer and to being conquering the world, one victim unintentional comedy to to Earth seeking a way to ship Sha er, IGN a kid. What a ridiculously fun at a time. reclaimed “maybe-masterpiece.” water back to his dying, drought- movie.” –Scott Beggs, Film School stricken planet. Rejects 2016 JIM CLICK MUSTANG RAFFLE
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