FILM GUIDE MAY 2018 www.loftcinema.org

THE FILMS OF CLAIRE DENIS, ALL THROUGH MAY! HAIRSPRAY SING-A-LONG, SPECIAL MOTHER’S DAY SCREENING! ENJOY BEER & WINE AT THE LOFT CINEMA! We also offer Fresco Pizza*, Tucson Tamale Factory Tamales, Burritos from Tumerico, Ethiopian Wraps from Cafe Desta and Sandwiches from the 4th Ave. Deli, along with organic popcorn, craft chocolate bars, vegan cookies and more! *Pizza served after 5pm daily. MAY 2018

SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 4-25 LOFT MEMBERSHIPS 6 BEER OF THE MONTH: SOLAR CINEMA 4, 8, 10 MADURO BROWN ALE LOFT STAFF SELECTS 7, 20, 25 CIGAR CITY BREWING LOFT JR. 14, 25 ONLY $3.50 ALL THROUGH MAY! NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE 16 ESSENTIAL CINEMA 20 NEW AT THE LOFT CINEMA! MONTH-LONG SERIES 23-24 The Loft Cinema now offers Closed Captions and Audio COMMUNITY RENTALS 26-28 Descriptions for films whenever they are available. Check our NEW FILMS 33-44 website to see which films offer this technology. REEL READS SELECTION 37 MONDO MONDAYS 45 FILM GUIDES ARE AVAILABLE AT: CULT CLASSICS 46 • aLoft Hotel • Espresso Art • Revolutionary Grounds • Antigone Books • Fantasy Comics • Rincon Market • Aqua Vita • First American Title • Rocco’s Little Chicago • Art Institute of Tucson • Fresco Pizza • Rogue Theatre THE LOFT CINEMA • AZ Title Security • Fronimos • Santa Barbara Ice Cream 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. • Bentley’s • Heroes & Villains • Shot in the Dark Café Tucson, AZ 85716 • Black Crown Coffee • Hotel Congress • Southern AZ AIDS • Bookmans • How Sweet It Was Foundation SHOWTIMES: 520-795-7777 • Bookstop • Humanities Seminars • SW U of Visual Arts • Ted’s Country Store THEATRE INFO: 520-795-0844 • Brooklyn Pizza • Imagine Barber Shop • Time Market LOFT OFFICE: 520-322-5638 • Buffalo Exchange • Jewish Community Ctr • Café Marcel • KXCI • Tooley’s EMAIL: [email protected] • Café Passe • Maynard’s Market • Tucson Museum of Art WEB: loftcinema.org • Caffe Luce • Metro Tucson Libraries • Tucson Racquet and Fitness • Casa Video • No Anchovies • Tucson Visitor’s Bureau • Chocolate Iguana • OLLI • UA Media Arts FREE MEMBERS SCREENING • Clues Unlimited • Parks and Recreation • Vila Thai • Coyote Wore Sideburns • Pima Community College GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT • Whole Foods • D&D Pinball • R-Galaxy AND BAMI (SEE PAGE 41) • Xoom Juice • Epic Café • Raging Sage FRIDAY, MAY 25 AT 7:00PM • Zia Records

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Ray Borboa A.J. Simon Assistant Manager Assistant Manager Zach Breneman Jeff Yanc Deputy Director Program Director Charley Brown Facilities Coordinator PROJECTIONISTS Clarice Bales David Correa Inventory Specialist Sarah Jardini Shawna DaCosta Haley McFeely (Lead) Director of Education & Engagement Candace Ripley (Lead) Jason Denholm FLOOR STAFF Director of Theatre Operations Blaine Austin J.J. Giddings Laura Bargfeld Marketing Director Reed Chandler Amber Kleefeld Director of Membership and Parisa Eshrati Donor Services Becky Hall Jonathan Kleefeld Ezra Heightchew-Howard Finance Director Ben Mackey Marcel Jeanisse Marketing Associate Thomas Kidder Matt McCoy Jaleh Padron Deputy Marketing Director Daniela Ontiveros America Valencia Administrative Assistant Emily Quinn & Outreach Coordinator Ana Quiñones Pedro Robles-Hill Assistant Manager Elizabeth Raskob Brenda Rodriguez Sunny Jo Wheaton Assistant Manager & Volunteer Coordinator

LOFT CINEMA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Ron Barber Carmen Marriott President Hal Melfi Tim Fuller David Nix Vice-President Katherine Pew Stephen Golden Tim Reckart Treasurer Claire Scheuren Melodie Lopez Lisanne Skyler Secretary Joanne Stuhr Betsy Bolding Joe Tarver Jaime Gutiérrez Frank Valenzuela Dianne Iauco Jan Mueller, Emeritus Mary Koss Dear Friends of The Loft Cinema,

Fifty years ago, May 1968, was an important and unique time in many ways, and one that changed French film forever.

Student riots grew into violent confrontations and led to some ten million workers going on strike. As dramatic events unfolded, the French Minister of Culture dismissed Henri Langlois, founder and director of the Cinematheque Francaise, where film screenings in the 1950s were attended by a generation of young cinephiles and critics who would become The French New Wave; among them Godard, Truffaut, Bresson, Clouzot, Rivette, Resnais and Agnes Varda.

A defense committee was formed, reuniting the cream of French directors, and after protests and demonstrations, Langlois was reinstated, leaving him and the filmmakers changed forever. This month The Loft Cinema honors this cinematic moment in film history with a tribute to Claire Denis, one of the most influential contemporary French directors. In addition to a series of her films that trace the trajectory of her career, The Loft Cinema is excited to present her new filmLet the Sunshine In, with which Denis again shows her strong voice and her resistance to constraints. We’re also screening Louis Malle’s homage to May 1968, May Fools.

Meanwhile, The Loft Cinema is getting ready for summer! We’re taking to the road with Loft Solar Cinema, taking films to underserved urban and rural areas for free family-friendly films under the stars, powered by the sun (details at loftcinema.org).

We’re also gearing up for our second summer day camp, expanded to two weeks for two different age groups (see details page 22).

And it wouldn’t be May without the year end finale of First Friday Shorts! Don’t miss the chance to see the winners of the past 12 months compete for the $1000 grand prize – it’s one of my favorite nights of the year, every year, at The Loft Cinema!

Peggy Johnson, Executive Director SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 4

THE HAND THAT FEEDS RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING AT LAS MILPITAS ROCKED THE WORLD COMMUNITY FARM! SATURDAY, APRIL 28 AT 7:00PM FRIDAY, APRIL 27 AT 6:30PM FREE ADMISSION FREE ADMISSION

PART OF OUR SOLAR CINEMA SERIES! PART OF OUR SOLAR CINEMA SERIES! With the power of solar energy, Loft Solar Cinema projects With the power of solar energy, Loft Solar Cinema projects films on a 20-foot inflatable screen using a state-of-the- films on a 20-foot inflatable screen using a state-of-the- art projector and sound system creating unique viewing art projector and sound system creating unique viewing experiences in underserved rural and urban areas while experiences in underserved rural and urban areas while indirectly promoting the value of sustainable energy. indirectly promoting the value of sustainable energy. WITH ACCLAIMED MUSICIAN AND RUMBLE This screening will take place at Las Milpitas EXECUTIVE PRODUCER STEVIE SALAS IN PERSON! Community Farm, 2405 S Cottonwood Ln, Tucson, AZ 85713. This free screening will be held outdoors at Please bring your own seating. Food trucks will Mission San Xavier del Bac, on the Tohono be on site starting at 6:00pm! O’odham San Xavier Indian Reservation, 1950 W. San Xavier Rd., Tucson, AZ, 85746., at the Co-presented by Las Milpitas Community Farm, San Xavier Dance Ramada. Pima County Food Alliance (PCFA), The UA’s Center for Regional Food Studies, La Doce Barrio Please bring your own seating. Foodways Project, and the Community Food Food will be available for sale at this event. Bank of Southern Arizona. This screening is part of Loft Film Fest on the Road, a community- At a popular deli on New York’s Upper East Side, customers get building program that takes unexpected films for free screenings in bagels and coffee served with a smile 24 hours a day. But behind underserved and unserved rural areas, providing a unique cultural the scenes, undocumented immigrant workers face sublegal wages, experience. These movies will travel across Southern Arizona in The dangerous machinery, and abusive managers. Mild-mannered sandwich Loft Solar Cinema, a cargo van outfitted with solar panels (donated by maker Mahoma López has never been interested in politics, but in Technicians for Sustainability) to power a 20-foot inflatable screen and January 2012, he convinces a small group of his co-workers to fight state-of-the-art mobile projection system. Loft Film Fest on the Road back. Risking deportation and the loss of livelihood, the workers is supported by Desert Diamond Casions & Entertainment and a grant team up with a diverse crew of innovative young organizers and from the National Endowment on the Arts take the unusual step of forming an independent union, launching themselves on a journey that will test the limits of their resolve. In The rocking documentary Rumble at long last reveals the untold story one rollercoaster year, they must overcome a shocking betrayal and of a profound, essential, and, until now, missing chapter in the history a two month lockout. Lawyers will battle in backroom negotiations, of rock n’ roll: the Indigenous influence. An eye-opening look at a Occupy Wall Street protesters will take over the restaurant, and a picket little known but vitally important component of American popular line will divide the neighborhood. If they can win a contract, it will music, Rumble is an astonishing documentary that shines a spotlight set a historic precedent for low-wage workers across the country. But on generations of phenomenal artists for whom recognition is long whatever happens, Mahoma and his compañeros won’t be exploited overdue. (Dir. by Catherine Bainbridge & Alfonso Maiorana, 2017, Canada, again. (Dir. by Robin Blotnick & Rachel Lears, 2015, USA, 84 mins., Not 103 mins., Not Rated) Rated) Thanks to our community partners: San Xavier Feast Preceded by a short documentary about Tucson’s own Committee 2018-2019 and San Xavier District. La Doce Barrio Foodways!

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DIRECTOR CIRCLE $1,000 All above benefits for two, plus 2 Film Passes to the Loft Film Fest and recognition in Loft Film Fest program.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CIRCLE $1,500 INDIVIDUAL; $2,500 COUPLE All above benefits plus Loft Film Fest event tickets upon request, FREE admission to all films at The Loft, invitations to EXCLUSIVE SALONS, and an invitation to the Secret Awards Party.

AUTEUR CIRCLE $3,000 INDIVIDUAL; $5,000 COUPLE All above benefits plus upgrade to 2 All-Access Passes to the Loft Film Fest, reserved seats (with 24 hour notice), 2 drinks and 1 any size popcorn per member at any screening or event, and tickets to the Secret Awards Party (4 for individuals, 8 for couples).

INSTALLMENT PAYMENTS AVAILABLE AT DIRECTOR CIRCLE LEVEL AND ABOVE. For more information, please contact Amber Kleefeld at: 520-322-5638 ext 109 or [email protected] Membership represents 16% of our total revenue, twice the average for other nonprofit art houses. Thank you for helping independent cinema remain a vital part of arts and culture in Tucson.

The Loft Cinema is an Arizona nonprofit corporation organized pursuant to IRS Secs. 501(c)(3) & 170(b) The Loft Cinema is supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. 7 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

THE LONG GOODBYE THE AGAVE HERITAGE FESTIVAL SUNDAY, APRIL 29 AT 7:30PM FILM SCREENINGS GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5 TUESDAY, MAY 1 AT 5:30PM FREE ADMISSION PART OF LOFT STAFF SELECTS! First-Come, First-Served Admission. No advance tickets will be available for this event. A monthly series showcasing film favorites chosen by our amazing Loft Cinema staff! This month’s Loft Staff Selects film was chosen by Jonathan Kleefeld, Finance Director! PRESENTED BY THE HOTEL CONGRESS

“One of the finest movies of the ‘70s Panel discussion co-sponsored by The UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, UA College of … wondrously scripted and superbly Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Tucson City of acted, this is easily the most intelligent Gastronomy of all screen adaptations of Chandler’s work.” – Geoff Andrew, Time Out The Agave Heritage Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary with over 25 events across 10 days! One of this year’s Legendary filmmaker Robert Altman followed his hits highlights is a free food and film event here at the Loft Cinema! M*A*S*H and McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and continued one of Enjoy pre-screening wine tasting and food sampling on the the greatest directorial hot streaks in ‘70s cinema, with this patio, followed by two powerful documentaries – Agave is Life beautifully woozy L.A.-based neo-noir, based on the novel by and The Mesoamerican Diet – focused on the significance of the Raymond Chandler. In The Long Goodbye, Altman deconstructs agave plant to our region and culture. See both films, engage the private-eye genre while somehow remaining faithful to with the filmmakers, enjoy wild foods, and learn more from a the spirit of the original novel (aided by screenwriter Leigh University of Arizona-led panel discussion on the influence of Brackett, who decades earlier helped pen Howard Hawks’ the Mesoamerican diet on our region. This is a first-come, first- Chandler adaptation, The Big Sleep). Set in sunny early-‘70s served free event! Learn more about this event and the other California, the film stars Elliott Gould as a smart-aleck, slightly Agave Heritage Festival events at www.agaveheritagefestival. inept Philip Marlowe, a detective seemingly more concerned com about feeding a cat than solving a case. However, things are about to get very complicated, as Marlowe is drawn into a 5:30pm – 6:30pm Free Food and Wine Tasting on the patio labyrinth of deceptions and double crosses by friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton), a beautiful rich woman (Nina Van 6:30pm – 7:30pm Screening of Agave is Life, followed by a Pallandt) with a drunken, genius writer of a husband (Sterling short discussion with filmmakers David Brown and Meredith Hayden), a quietly menacing psychiatrist (Henry Gibson) Dreiss. and a sociopathic gangster (Mark Rydell). Awash in a druggy haze and shot in gloriously steely colors by Vilmos Zsigmond, 7:50pm – 8:50pm Screening of The Mesoamerican Diet, The Long Goodbye rips aside the slick veneer of the Southern followed by a short discussion with filmmakers Patricia California good life, revealing the smog-drenched, corrupt Colunga and Daniel Zizumbo. underbelly like few other films before or since. (Dir. by Robert Altman, 1973, USA, 112 mins., Rated R) 9:00pm – 9:30pm Panel discussion on the influence of the Mesoamerican diet on the peoples of our region. Panelists include local experts Maribel Alvarez, Ph.D; Karen R. Adams, Ph.D.; Barry Infuso; Lisa S. Palaios; and Melanie Hingle, Ph.D, M.P.H., R.D.N. SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 8

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI THE LAST DRAGON FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING AT THE UA! FRIDAY, MAY 4 AT 10:00PM WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 AT 9:00PM SATURDAY, MAY 5 AT 10:00PM FREE ADMISSION GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5

PART OF OUR SOLAR CINEMA SERIES! PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! With the power of solar energy, Loft Solar Cinema projects The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big screen! films on a 20-foot inflatable screen using a state-of-the- art projector and sound system creating unique viewing Is The Last Dragon the greatest kung fu/action/romance/ experiences in underserved rural and urban areas while musical produced by Motown founder Berry Gordy and indirectly promoting the value of sustainable energy. starring karate champ Taimak and sexy ‘80s pop singer Vanity ever made? In a word: “Sho’nuff!” One-name kung fu wonder PRESENTED BY CATS AFTER DARK AND Taimak plays Leroy Green, a.k.a. Bruce Leroy, a humble kung fu-loving teen obsessed with Bruce Lee and old chop-sockey UA CAMPUS HEALTH SERVICE films. Leroy is a student of the martial arts who has achieved the highest level of skill, but who hasn’t yet found his inner master.

“Playing like a comic book come to life, This screening will take place at the Highland The Last Dragon is easily one of the best Bowl on the University of Arizona campus, B-movies of the ‘80s.” – Jarrett Kruse, 1224 E. Lowell St., on the Northwest corner of Den of Geek! Highland and 6th Street. Wandering through the streets of New York in a Chinese See the latest action-packed episode in the Star Wars saga, peasant outfit, he accidentally becomes the protector of screened under the stars on The Loft Cinema’s giant inflatable beautiful nightclub hostess/video jockey Laura Charles (played solar cinema screen! This is a great event for UA students, and by former Prince protégé Vanity), who is being threatened is also open to the general public. Free popcorn for CatCard by a height-challenged mobster who wants her to play his holders. Please bring your own seating. girlfriend’s Cyndi Lauper-esque music video. Meanwhile, a lunatic who calls himself Sho’Nuff, the Shogun of Harlem, Picking up exactly where 2015’s The Force Awakens left off, wants to kick Leroy’s ass and prove himself the baddest kung The Last Jedi takes the Star Wars saga to thrilling new places, fu master in town. Add to this Leroy’s smart-mouthed brother both physical and personal. From high-class space casinos to Richie (who calls Leroy “the chocolate-covered yellow peril”), the isolated islands of Ahch-To, The Last Jedi pits the saga’s a kicking Motown soundtrack (featuring DeBarge, among beloved characters against all-new challenges and revelations. many other Berry Gordy-produced artists), musical numbers, Director Rian Johnson (Looper) reunites nearly the entire cast ninja battles, pseudo-Eastern philosophical babble, static of the previous film – including the late Carrie Fisher, giving electricity, a jaw-dropping club performance by Vanity and an her final performance as General Leia – while introducing new early appearance by William H. Macy, and you have a hilarious cast members like Laura Dern and Benicio Del Toro. Full of new example of why the ‘80s were indeed “totally awesome.” (Dir. by sights, sounds, creatures and characters, Star Wars: The Last Michael Schultz, 1985, USA, 109 mins., Rated PG-13) Jedi is a thrilling, action-packed extravaganza that will take you to a galaxy far, far away! (Dir. by Rian Johnson, 2017, USA, 152 mins., Rated PG-13) 9 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

FIRST FRIDAY SHORTS: THE GOLDEN GONG YEAR-END SHOWDOWN! FRIDAY, MAY 4 AT 9:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5

All your favorite filmmakers PLUS: Year #14 of First Friday This year’s Golden Gong from Year #13 will be on hand as Shorts begins the same night, Showdown will feature films by: we pit them against one another immediately following the year- in a cinematic smackdown from end showdown, so bring us your Dillon Hayne which only one director shall new films as well, because one Bryan McAdams emerge victorious. First Friday lucky filmmaker will escape the Shorts hosts Bridgitte Thum dreaded “gong” to become our Cullen Hamblen and Mike Sterner call the shots first winner of the new year, Feifei Gong and dole out the comedy as we walking away with a sweet $200 Ryan Riffle see who will survive to claim the cash prize! glorious “Golden Gong” trophy Sara Luu (perfect for home use!), the PLEASE NOTE: We will only be Etienne Boeuf amazing cash prize of $1,000 accepting 5 new entries at this and endless bragging rights! Be show, so please make sure you Jazzy there to support your favorite, get your film in early. Mari Cleven because your votes will make it Richard Montoya all happen. Javier Ramirez SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 10

FREE POOLSIDE SCREENING JAWS at The Tucson Jewish Community Center SATURDAY, MAY 5 AT 7:00PM 3800 E. River Rd., Tucson, AZ, 85718 FREE ADMISSION

Please bring your own pool your toe????? Just when you a second, those two ominous floaties for swimming or thought it was safe to go to the musical notes?), it also redefined beach towels/folding chairs movies … our summer movie-going habits for sitting! Snacks will be available for sale at this by creating, in one fell swoop, screening. Everybody out of the water! When the “summer blockbuster” as we a giant, bloodthirsty great white know it today. A true Hollywood Start the summer season with a shark starts chowing down on classic from a time when fun SCREAM at this scary poolside the summer tourists off Amity popcorn entertainment could screening of the shark-tastic Island, it’s up to local police also be smart, stylish and scary, terror classic, Jaws! Watch the chief Martin Brody to hunt Jaws has everything you need in movie projected on The Loft’s down the deadly underwater a movie: kids in danger, drunken giant 20ft. inflatable screen menace and send it packing to sea shanties, mass panic on the from the safety of your land- that great fish fry in the sky. beach and Richard Dreyfus in a locked beach towel or chair, or Steven Spielberg’s expertly- cage. Also starring Roy Scheider if you’re feeling really brave, crafted rollercoaster ride of and Robert Shaw, whose chilling experience the thrill of watching a monster movie not only monologue recounting the a great white shark eating changed our swimming habits sinking of the USS Indianapolis swimmers while you float in the (after seeing this movie, who is the stuff of movie legend. (Dir. JCC’s huge swimming pool at could possibly dip a toe into the by Steven Spielberg, 1975, USA, night! What’s that nibbling on ocean without hearing, just for 124 mins., Rated PG)

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RAMEN HEADS THE BABADOOK TUESDAY, MAY 8 AT 7:30PM FRIDAY, MAY 11 AT 10:00PM REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES SATURDAY, MAY 12 AT 10:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5 THE FAT NOODLE FOOD TRUCK WILL BE ON HAND BEFORE THE MOVIE, SERVING PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! UP DELICIOUS NOODLES, DUMPLINGS, The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big screen! RAMEN BURGERS AND MORE! “Do you want to die?!” seven-year-old Samuel asks his stressed- out single mother, Amelia. She wonders if his question is In Ramen Heads, Japan’s reigning King of Ramen, Osamu a threat or a warning. After dealing with Samuel’s frantic Tomita takes audiences deep into his world by revealing every tantrums his entire life, Amelia suspects that her son has single step of his obsessive approach to creating the perfect begun directing his violent misbehavior toward her. However, soup and noodles, along with his relentless search for the after a dark and foreboding children’s book called Mister highest-quality ingredients. Babadook mysteriously appears on Samuel’s bookshelf, Amelia must decide if her son is truly deranged, or if there really is a “A heartfelt love letter to ramen that bogeyman lurking in their darkened halls at night. can teach the world the sheer joy of this dish.” – Chelsea Phillips-Carr, Point of “The finest and most genuinely View Magazine provocative horror movie to emerge in this still very-new century.” – Glenn In addition to Tomita, the film also profiles five other notable Kenny, RogerEbert.com ramen shops, each with its own philosophy and flavor, exemplifying the different aspects of the ramen world. Mixing First-time feature director Jennifer Kent vividly captures the in a brief look at ramen’s historical roots, this mouth-watering, vicious turbulence of Samuel’s shrill outbursts, generating eye-opening documentary offers viewers an in-depth look a real sense of horror from his aggressive unruliness, all the at the culture and “ramen head” fandom surrounding this while subtly hinting at the weary Amelia’s own deeply troubled unique and beguiling dish. (Dir by Koki Shigeno, 2017, Japan, in nature. The Babadook builds up tension and dread in this Japanese with English subtitles, 93 mins., Not Rated) damaged family’s home before deftly introducing the terrifying possibility that something even more ominous may be stalking the dysfunctional pair. (Dir. by Jennifer Kent, 2014, Australia, in English, 93 min., Not Rated) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 14

MADELINE (35MM PRINT!) SERIAL MOM SATURDAY, MAY 12 AT 10:00AM MOTHER’S DAY SCREENING FREE ADMISSION SUNDAY, MAY 13 AT 7:30PM REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES PART OF OUR LOFT JR. SERIES A free monthly series showcasing great new and classic family- Mother knows best, especially when it comes to murder, in friendly films from around the world! Pre-show activities writer/director John Waters’ outrageously twisted comedy hosted by Mildred & Dildred Toy Store starting at 9:15am. Serial Mom! Following the family-friendly fare of Hairspray and Cry-Baby, John Waters swung back to the dark side for THANKS TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNER, this devilishly cuckoo satire on the pressures of motherhood, STEM COALITION! America’s true crime obsession and the dangers of wearing white after Labor Day!

“Imaginative and charming … this Oscar-nominee Kathleen Turner, in a deliriously unhinged adaptation of the beloved children’s performance, stars as Beverly Sutphin, the world’s most books is a jaunty, good-humored film perfectly perfect happy homemaker. Along with her doting with a sumptuous retro look and a husband (Sam Waterston) and two teenage children, Misty (Ricki Lake) and Chip (Matthew Lillard), she lives a charmed contemporary feel.” – Amanda Lipman, life straight out of Good Housekeeping. But this nuclear family Sight and Sound just might explode when goody-goody Beverly’s hidden fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper The adventures of Madeline, a spunky flame-haired orphan, are code of ethics, transforming her from middle class mom lovingly adapted from Ludwig Bemelmans’ classic children’s to mass murderer! Soon, the bodies begin to pile up, and books in this fun comedy starring Oscar-winner Frances seemingly no one is safe from this relentless etiquette avenger McDormand. The indomitable Madeline (Hatty Jones) and her … the neighbor who refuses to recycle, the video renter who eleven friends live at a school in an old house in Paris (“In an won’t rewind, the math teacher who gives her son a bad grade old house in Paris that was covered in vines, twelve little girls … and the list goes on. As this quiet suburban neighborhood lived in two straight lines”), run by the stern headmistress Miss faces a horror even greater than a Neighborhood Watch Clavel (McDormand). The smallest of all the girls, Madeline meeting without cheese snacks, the question must be asked: is also the most adventurous, and the most adept at finding can Serial Mom be stopped, and if so, who will organize the trouble. She is also a quick-witted and likable child who can upcoming PTA bake sale? Filled with hilariously off-kilter bits solve almost any problem. Her latest scheme is to keep her (including Beverly’s shockingly nasty harassment of uptight school, which is also her home, from being sold by its owner, neighbor Dottie Hinkle, played by Waters’ regular Mink Stole the recently widowed Lord Covington (Nigel Hawthorne). … “pussy willows,” anyone?), kooky cameos (from the likes of Along the way, she tangles with kidnappers, loses her Traci Lords and Suzanne Somers), and a truly heroic star turn appendix but gains an awesome scar, falls into the Seine only from Kathleen Turner (who somehow manages to make her to be rescued by a dog whom the girls later adopt and name blood-lusting psychopath a likable person), Serial Mom finds Genevieve, and matches wits with Pepito, the devilish son of John Waters gleefully combining his signature sicko comedy the Spanish Ambassador who moves in next door. (Dir. by Daisy with the high production values of a big studio film, and the von Scherler Mayer, 1998, USA, 98 mins., Rated PG) joys of motherhood will never be the same. (Dir. by John Waters, 1994, USA, 94 mins., Rated R) 15 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

HAIRSPRAY SING-A-LONG! MOTHER’S DAY SCREENING• SUNDAY, MAY 13 AT 2:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $10 • LOFT MEMBERS AND CHILDREN 12 & UNDER: $8 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

Shake, shimmy and sing this Mother’s Day Hairspray, the 2007 movie musical dancing on-air with heartthrob Link at the Hairspray Sing-A-Long!, a ‘60s-style with the big heart and even bigger hair, Larkin (Zac Efron), much to the dismay shindig featuring a special screening comes dancing onto the big screen of her frumpy mother, Edna (John of the smash hit movie musical with with an unstoppable blast of pure, Travolta). Soon, she’s battling with teen onscreen lyrics so you can sing-a-long (and unadulterated fun. Based on the hit 2002 dance queen Amber Von Tussle (Brittany of course, dance-a-long) to all the toe- Broadway musical, which was itself Snow) and her evil mother Velma tapping tunes, including “Good Morning based on John Waters’ hilarious 1988 (Michelle Pfeiffer), and getting drawn Baltimore,” “Welcome to the ’60s,” “You cult comedy, Hairspray is that rare movie into the civil-rights movement when Can’t Stop the Beat” and a whole lot more! that captures the bubbly excitement she decides it’s not fair that the Corny Join spunky teenager Tracy Turnblad of a live musical while also delivering Collins Show is for white kids only. Can and her mother Edna as they embrace the cinematic goods. Baltimore, 1962. Tracy win Link’s heart, integrate the the big hair, dance crazes and social Tracy Turnblad (Nicky Blonsky), a show, and prove that talent comes in all changes of the 1960s while holding it all “hair-hopping” teenager with all the shapes and sizes … all without denting together with a sweet blast of Hairspray! right moves, is obsessed with The Corny her ‘do? Can Chubby Checker do The Enjoy complimentary fun packs filled Collins Show, a locally-produced TV Twist? Co-starring Queen Latifah, James with fabulous props and surprises to use dance show featuring Baltimore teens Marsden, Elijah Kelly, Christopher throughout the movie! Groovy prizes will (dubbed “The Nicest Kids in Town”), Walken, Allison Janney and Jerry Stiller, be awarded for the best Hairspray-inspired demonstrating the latest kooky dance featuring a cameo by John Waters outfits, and refreshing “Mom-osas” will be crazes like “The Mashed Potato” and himself, and driven by an avalanche of available for sale at the snack bar! You can “The Madison.” The plus-sized Tracy may catchy tunes by Marc Shaiman, Hairspray try to stop your dancin’ feet, but you know is a real blast! (Dir. by Adam Shankman, you never will … help of her best friend Penny Pingleton 2007, USA, 117 mins., Rated PG) (Amandanot fit in with Bynes), the Tracycool kids, is determined but with the to audition for the show and win a spot SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 16

JULIUS CAESAR BACK TO THE FUTURE TUESDAY, MAY 15 AT 7:30PM FRIDAY, MAY 18 AT 10:00PM THURSDAY, MAY 17 AT 11:00AM SATURDAY, MAY 19 AT 10:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 • LOFT MEMBERS: $10 SUNDAY, MAY 20 AT 11:00AM PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE SERIES Experience the best of British theatre on the big screen, PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! captured live and presented in beautiful high definition! The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big screen! Gotta get back in time! The ingenious time travel comedy *Please note that Julius Caesar will Back to the Future is a pitch-perfect combination of sharp contain strobe lighting. satire, warm sentiment and sci-fi excitement. Michael J. Fox plays 1985 teen Marty McFly, whose mentor, Doc Brown (a Ben Whishaw (The Danish Girl, Skyfall) and Michelle Fairley brilliantly manic Christopher Lloyd), invents a time-tripping (Fortitude, Game of Thrones) play Brutus and Cassius, David DeLorean that takes the kid back to 1955. Calder (The Lost City of Z) plays Caesar and David Morrissey (Hangmen, The Walking Dead) is Mark Antony in the National “To put it bluntly: if you don’t like Back Theatre’s stunning production of Shakespeare’s classic, to The Future, it’s difficult to believe that broadcast live from The Bridge Theatre, London. Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to you like films at all.” – Adam Smith, celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated Empire élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital. Nicholas Hytner’s When he inadvertently gets in the way of his teenage parents’ production will thrust the audience into the street party that relationship (and causes his future mother, played by Lea greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, Thompson, to develop a crush on him!), Marty has to figure out the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that how to give his nerdy father (a gloriously odd Crispin Glover) explodes in its wake. (Running time: 135 mins., No intermission, confidence and get them back together to insure his own Not Rated / R equivalent for violence) eventual existence. Funny, touching and suspenseful, this Flux Capacitor-powered love letter to American pop culture is one of the most purely entertaining films of the 1980s. (Dir. by Robert Zemeckis, 1985, USA, 116 mins., Rated PG)

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DOGGIE SHORTS: A FURRY FILM THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW FESTIVAL ENCORE SCREENING SATURDAY, MAY 19 AT MIDNIGHT GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5 SATURDAY, MAY 19 AT 2:00PM Please Note: No one under 17 admitted without Parent or Guardian.. ADVANCE TICKETS: $20 • DAY OF: $25 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING Whatever happened to Saturday night? It was locked in a closet with The Rocky Horror Picture Show and it hasn’t been the Here’s another chance to catch same since! Unleash your inner Sweet Transvestite when the Doggie Shorts: A Furry Film Festival 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 if you missed April’s sold out young couple inducted into the world of absolute pleasure, screening – or just want to watch Transylvanians doing the pelvic thrust and a sexy scientist trying them again! to free us of all our inhibitions (not to mention our clothing)! So pull up your fishnets and get ready to become a creature of the night at the strangest, sexiest “science fiction double feature” of all-time, a Loft Cinema tradition for 40 years and counting! (Dir. by Jim Sharman, 1975, UK/USA, 98 mins., Rated R)

In order to celebrate Handi-Dogs’ and The Loft Cinema’s passion for our canine companions, we’ve teamed up to put together a selection of the best shorts from The Bow Wow Film Festival in addition to some of our favorite dog-themed short films from all over the world! Doggie Shorts is a selection of 30 second to 10 minute short films and videos from across the globe – all featuring dogs. All genres included from documentaries that will touch your heart to just plain fun and quirky. SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 20

THIS IS SPINAL TAP SING-A-LONG! MEMORIES OF SUNDAY, MAY 20 AT 7:30PM UNDERDEVELOPMENT GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5 TUESDAY, MAY 22 AT 7:30PM FREE ADMISSION • $5 SUGGESTED DONATION PART OF LOFT STAFF SELECTS! A monthly series showcasing film favorites chosen by our amazing Loft Cinema staff! This month’s Loft Staff Selects PART OF OUR ESSENTIAL CINEMA SERIES film was chosen by Parisa Eshrati, Floor Staff and Green Team See classic art films the way they were meant to be seen - with Member! an audience, on the big screen!

Get ready to smell the glove and turn it up to “11” at this BRAND-NEW 50TH ANNIVERSARY special Sing-A-Long screening of the funniest rock ‘n’ roll movie of all-time! Sing-a-long to classic Tap tunes like “Hell RESTORATION Hole,” “Big Bottom” and “Stonehenge,” come dressed in your finest, spandex-iest heavy metal outfit, and strain your brain One of the first Cuban films to achieve significant success with rockin’ Spinal Tap trivia before the movie, featuring a Tap- abroad, and the first post-revolution Cuban film to be released tastic vinyl prize, courtesy of Wooden Tooth Records! Don’t theatrically in America, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s intimate and miss it, because tonight we will rock you tonight, all night! densely layered Memories of Underdevelopment is a landmark work of the country’s cinema. Left behind by his wife and family in the aftermath of the “It’s such a fine line between stupid and, uh … clever.” Director “This audacious, sensual portrait of an Rob Reiner’s side-splitting rock mockumentary This is Spinal alienated intellectual in Castro’s Cuba is Tap chronicles the less-than-triumphant return to America one of the great movies of the sixties.” of legendary heavy-metal group, Spinal Tap. We follow lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), lead singer/guitarist – Michael Sragow, New Yorker David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), and bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) as they hit the road with filmmaker/ Left behind by his wife and family in the aftermath of the TV commercial director Marty DiBergi (Reiner) on hand to Bay of Pigs, the bourgeois intellectual Sergio (Sergio Corrieri) document all the insanity. Responsible for such albums as passes his days wandering Havana and idly reflecting, his Intravenous DeMilo, The Sun Never Sweats, and Bent for the Rent, amorous entanglements and political ambivalence gradually the aging metal heads are now trying to make a comeback giving way to a mounting sense of alienation. With this with their latest LP, Smell the Glove. But just about anything adaptation of an innovative novel by Edmundo Desnoes, that can go wrong, does, from malfunctioning stage props Gutiérrez Alea developed a cinematic style as radical as the to deadly gardening accidents to spontaneously combusting times he was chronicling, creating a collage of vivid impressions drummers. This hilariously spot-on spoof of the over-the-top through the use of experimental, New Wave-inspired editing ‘80s rock scene includes cameos by Bruno Kirby, Dana Carvey, techniques, archival material, and spontaneously shot street Fran Drescher, Billy Crystal, Paul Shaffer, Anjelica Huston, scenes. Appearing on the fiftieth anniversary of its release Fred Willard, and Patrick MacNee, and such unforgettable Tap in a stunning new digital restoration, Memories stands as a hits as “Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight”, “Hell Hole”, biting indictment of its protagonist’s disengagement, and an “Big Bottom”, and, of course, “Stonehenge.” (Dir. by Rob Reiner, extraordinary glimpse of life in post-revolutionary Havana. 1984, USA, 82 mins., Rated R) (Dir. by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1968, Cuba, in Spanish and English with English subtitles, 98 mins., Not Rated) 21 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT HIPPIE FAMILY VALUES FRIDAY, MAY 25 – MONDAY, MAY 28 SATURDAY, MAY 26 AT 2PM AT 10:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $7 GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! Special encore screening with director Beverly Seckinger for a post-screening Q&A! The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big screen! Shot over a period of ten years at a remote communal ranch in New Visually spectacular, intensely action-packed and powerfully Mexico, Hippie Family Values is an intimate chronicle of a handful of prophetic since its 1982 debut, the classic sci-fi/noir thriller hippie elders, along with their adult children and grandkids. Blade Runner returned in 2007 in a definitive Final Cut that Sally was the ultimate back-to-the-land pioneer, building her own gave director Ridely Scott full artistic control, allowing him to adobe house—while pregnant—in time to give birth there. Now her perfect this stunning masterpiece even further by including daughter Dulcie is returning to the ranch to raise her own children in this extended scenes and never-before-seen special effects culled community. But will Dulcie and her husband Charris be able to resist the from restored archive materials. tug of the wider world? Kate came to the ranch to raise her children and work as a potter. When she can no longer sustain the commute to care for her ailing 90-year old mother, Kate brings her home to the ranch to spend “Blade Runner is a singular and her final months. Bjorn has lived at the ranch for nearly 40 years. Now enthralling experience. This is perhaps over 80, he struggles with declining health and wonders whether the next the only science fiction film that can generation will be able to sustain the community. be called transcendental.” – Owen The film counters dismissive stereotypes with stories of real people whose worldview was forged in the 60s counterculture, and who remain Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly motivated by those youthful convictions in their 60s, 70s and 80s. The founders of this back-to-the-land experiment are slowing down and In a future of high-tech possibility soured by urban and social facing declining health. Will the next generation be able to sustain the decay, 21st-century detective Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) community into the future? hunts for fugitive, murderous replicants (led by Rutger Hauer), Today, the legacy of the hippie counterculture of southern Arizona and is drawn to a mysterious woman (Sean Young) whose and New Mexico is a fluid network of artists, organic gardeners and secrets may undermine his soul. Based on the novel Do Androids farmers, food co-ops and CSAs, community organizers, educators Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner gave and activists, musicians and dancers, alternative health practitioners and natural builders, connected by a shared vision of social justice, the world a darkly cynical view of a rain-soaked, neon-lit future communitarianism and sustainability, which stands in stark contrast to that has inspired countless homages and im itations, none of the consumerist values of mainstream corporate America. At the same which have matched the hypnotic power of the original. Co- time, many countercultural innovations have seeped into mainstream starring Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh and Daryl culture, from organic produce and free range eggs in chain grocery stores Hannah, and featuring a haunting score by Vangelis, this is the to yoga, meditation, acupuncture and massage, wind farms and rooftop definitive version of a modern-day classic. If ever there was a solar, peace and border rights activism, cooperative business structures, film meant to be seen on the big screen, this is it! (Dir. by Ridley and much more. Scott, 1982 /2007, USA/UK, 118 mins., Rated R) Fifty years after the Summer of Love, the don’t-trust-anyone-over-30 generation now dotes on their grandchildren, and faces the challenges of advancing age. The elders profiled in the film continue to defy convention as they pursue communal alternatives to commercial retirement facilities and nursing homes. Despite their enduring contributions, energy and idealism, the word “hippie” remains an epithet, and cartoonish stereotypes prevail. Hippie Family Values tells a different story, and reclaims their legacy. (Dir. by Beverly Seckinger, 2017, USA, 64 mins., NR) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 22

MAY FOOLS (35MM PRINT!) FILMMAKER JR. SUMMER DAY TUESDAY, MAY 29 AT 7:30PM CAMP REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES SESSION ONE: JUNE 18 – 22 (AGES 8-11)

Commemorate the 50th anniversary of the SESSION TWO: JUNE 25 – 28 (AGES 12-14) historic May 1968 student revolts in Paris with a special 35mm screening of legendary This summer, join us for our Filmmaker Jr. Summer Day French filmmaker Louis Malle’s classic, May Camp! This program teaches kids the basic techniques Fools. of video production by creating stop-motion animation short films. Each day features fun-filled activities in In the charming and politically-charged comedy/drama May filmmaking and film education, including storyboarding, Fools, from celebrated director Louis Malle (My Dinner with editing, and soundtrack development. On the final day Andre, Atlantic City), a raucous family gathering at a country of camp, we’ll host a special debut screening of the short estate provides an amusing diversion from the tumultuous films at the conclusion of camp. Due to the popularity May 1968 student uprisings in Paris. Milou (Michel Piccoli, of our pilot year, we’re adding a second session! Session Belle de Jour) is an older man who has lived his whole life with his mother (Paulette Dubost, Rules of the Game) on the family’s One will run from June 18-22 and Session Two from estate, enjoying every aspect of rural life and being quite June 25-28. Each session is age specific, when applying, content with his own existence. please make sure you’re signing your child up for the correct session. All campers will be selected by lottery. “Director Louis Malle has fashioned Please download an application at loftcinema.org. an entertainment rich in sly wit and intelligence.” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

But the death of Milou’s mother, the family matriarch, draws the entire eccentric family to Milou’s country home, and as the clan prepares for her funeral, the squabbles over how to settle her estate begin. Even with the latest updates of the student riots in Paris coming in over the airwaves, the large family prefers to focus on their petty personal matters rather than the current political climate. As the country begins to shut down, the escalating protests leave them no choice but to venture deeper into the wilderness to escape the oncoming turmoil. Soon, thanks to a mortician’s strike, the siblings are stranded in the forest with their mother’s corpse, and they fall into various states of transgression. Malle’s slyly satirical take on the historic events of May 1968 has been described by the director himself as a “divertimento,” an appropriate description of a film that shows the pointed influences of Anton Chekhov and Jean Renoir. (Dir. by Louis Malle, 1990, France, in French with English subtitles, 107 mins., Rated R) Born in Paris in 1948, Claire and complex relationships – of her work. From the African Denis spent her childhood cultural, familial, sexual – by landscapes of these films, to in various African nations attending to the textures and the multicultural, urban France where her father was a French rhythms of the physical world of I Can’t Sleep, Trouble Every colonial administrator. She and to the ways that people Day and 35 Shots of Rum, Denis’ studied filmmaking at the move through it. powerfully visual work explores prestigious film school IDHEC the dynamics of belonging and (now FEMIS) in Paris, and the lives of outsiders, as well after graduating, worked as an as the underlying potential for assistant to New Wave legend, “For me, violence that can exist even in Jacques Rivette, about whom the most seemingly mundane she later made the portrait, filmmaking of relationships. Over the years, Jacques Rivette: The Watchman, she has also worked repeatedly for the “Cinema of our Times” is a journey with a select group of actors – series. Denis served a long including Isaach de Bankolé, apprenticeship before directing into the Vincent Gallo, Grégoire Colin, her own films, working as an impossible.” – and Alex Decas (whom she has assistant on Dušan Makavejev’s described as her “muse”) – in Sweet Movie (1974), and later Claire Denis a series of collaborations that working as an assistant director span decades. In honor of the to Costa-Gavras, Jim Jarmusch release of her latest film, Let the and Wim Wenders. With Several of her most celebrated Sunshine In (starring Juliette her acclaimed debut feature, films, from Chocolat to Beau Binoche), this May The Loft Chocolat, Denis began to shape travail and White Material, are Cinema is proud to present her unique, visceral cinematic set in Africa, and a concern a four film retrospective of vision. Her films feel their way with colonialism and its the work of Claire Denis, all through charged situations aftereffects runs through much presented on 35mm film prints. CHOCOLAT 35 SHOTS OF RUM WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 AT 7:30PM WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 AT 7:30PM

Acclaimed director Claire Denis made her feature film debut We come to understand their roles and relationships only with this intimate and evocative semi-autobiographical feature, gradually as Denis leaves crumbs for us to follow on a narrative based on her childhood as a French colonial in West Africa, path, and that is one of the pleasures of this extraordinarily where her civil servant father was stationed. The themes of this pleasurable film made up of small moments, of looks and meditative, intricately-observed film – race, class, sex, desire, silences, of physicality and pensiveness. Agnès Godard’s eroticism, colonialism, family, “Otherness” – have become cinematography richly limns an interior architecture in which signature elements in the cinema of Claire Denis. (Dir. by Claire objects take on an Ozu-like delicacy and immediacy, and uses Denis, 1988, France/West Germany/Cameroon, in French and train tracks (and cars and motorcycles and vans) to propel the English with English subtitles, 105 mins., Rated PG-13) story into the out-of-doors and, eventually, the future, as father and daughter face the inevitable: her independence. (Dir. by Claire Denis, 2008, France/Germany, in French and German with English subtitles, 100 mins., Not Rated)

TROUBLE EVERY DAY WHITE MATERIAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 AT 7:30PM THURSDAY, MAY 31 AT 7:30PM

This film is Rated NC-17. No one 17 or under will be admitted. Twenty-two years after her acclaimed debut Chocolat, Claire Denis returns to Africa and, for the first time, collaborates Claire Denis’ controversial “love story” Trouble Every Day is an with Oscar-nominated actress Isabelle Huppert (Elle), to craft erotically outré shocker that scandalized arthouses around the a visceral and very personal rumination on a society hurtling world. Vincent Gallo (Brown Bunny) and Béatrice Dalle (Betty Blue) into chaos. Crafted with Denis’ signature full-throttle visual star as unfortunates who are afflicted with a strange condition style, which places the viewer at the center of the maelstrom, that turns sexual hunger into, literally, hunger for flesh. Shane and driven by an unforgettably ferocious performance from (Gallo), is an American scientist honeymooning in Paris. His highly Huppert, White Material is a gripping evocation of the death unusual desires and ulterior motives bring him into the orbit of Coré (Dalle), a mysteriously seductive and dangerous woman, and throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a he begins to sink into obsession. (Dir. by Claire Denis, 2001, France/ woman lost in her own mind. (Dir. by Claire Denis, 2010, France/ Germany/Japan, in French and English with English subtitles, 101 Cameroon, in French with English subtitles, 106 mins., Not Rated) mins., Rated NC-17 for graphic sex and violence) 25 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

THE PEANUTS MOVIE STREETS OF FIRE (35MM PRINT!) SATURDAY, JUNE 9 AT 10:00AM SUNDAY, JUNE 10 AT 7:30PM FREE ADMISSION GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5

PART OF OUR LOFT JR. SERIES PART OF LOFT STAFF SELECTS! A free monthly series showcasing great new and classic A monthly series showcasing film favorites chosen by our family-friendly films from around the world! Pre-show amazing Loft Cinema staff! This month’s Loft Staff Selects film was chosen by Jeff Yanc, Program Director! activities hosted by Mildred & Dildred Toy Store starting at 9:15am. “There’s nothing wrong with going nowhere, baby, but we should be going nowhere fast!” One of the great gonzo “A delightful romp that captures the pleasures of the ‘80s, director Walter Hill’s (The Warriors) spirit of the adored comic strip.” – spectacular, retro rock ‘n’ roll-fueled pulp classic Streets of Fire Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood roars at you like a souped-up roadster with the radio going full blast. Billed (correctly) as a “Rock & Roll Fable,” this defiantly Reporter oddball, music-packed action flick stars ‘80s B-movie god Michael Paré (Eddie in Eddie and the Cruisers) as Tom Cody, an Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the enigmatic loner and soldier-for-hire who blows back into town Peanuts gang hit the big screen in an all-new animated to save rock singer Ellen Aim (Diane Lane) from the clutches adventure filled with laughs, fun and heart. Eternal of sinister biker Raven Shaddock (Willem Dafoe in his movie optimist and occasional “blockhead” Charlie Brown (also debut, sporting black vinyl overalls and one of the wickedest known as the world’s most beloved underdog), embarks hair-dos in movie history), whose sleazy gang of leather-clad upon an epic and heroic quest, kicked off by the arrival reprobates has kidnapped Ellen for their own evil purposes. of the object of his affection, the Little Red-Haired Girl, Naturally, Tom and Ellen were once a hot item, and even while his best pal, the lovable beagle Snoopy, takes to the though he’s been hired by Ellen’s weasely manager/boyfriend skies to pursue his arch-nemesis, the Red Baron. From Billy Fish (Rick Moranis) to get her back, Tom still has the imagination of Charles M. Schulz and the creators pulpy feelings for Ellen, so it’s a safe bet that love is going to of the Ice Age films, The Peanuts Movie proves that every complicate things. Gathering together his own ragtag gang underdog will has his day! (Dir. by Steve Martino, 2015, of misfits (including Amy Madigan as a tough drifter named USA, 88 mins., Rated G) McCoy, Elizabeth Daily as a teenybopper music fan named Baby Doll, and a slick doo wop group called The Sorels), Tom’s gotta travel through the most insanely dangerous part of town, rescue his true love, and engage in a brutal sledgehammer showdown with the psychotic Raven. And if there’s a whole lot of killer rock ‘n’ roll along the way, all the better! A highly- stylized, comic book-esque adventure set in a 1950s-by-way- of-the-1980s distant future, Streets of Fire is a giddy homage to the entire history of B-movies, topped off with some of the decade’s most awesomely bombastic rock ‘n’ roll anthems about fiery hearts and rain-soaked streets, performed by rock diva Diane Lane banging her fist in the air. You’d better dig it! (Dir. by Walter Hill, 1984, USA, 93 mins., Rated R) COMMUNITY RENTALS 26

BEFORE HOURS JAY THURSDAY, MAY 3 AT NOON THURSDAY, MAY 3 AT 7:00PM FREE ADMISSION FREE ADMISSION

PRESENTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF PRESENTED BY ARIZONA QUEER ARIZONA SCHOOL OF ART ARCHIVES

Followed by a Q&A with the artists! Followed by Q & A with Jay Kyle Petersen, Father Tom Picton, Christina For one showing only, one musician and eleven emerging Laukaitis, MD/PhD, Nick Duarte visual artists of the Graduate Video Art course from the School (filmmaker), and Jamie A. Lee, PhD of Art at the University of Arizona present Before Hours – a compilation of video artworks produced in 2018. The artists (Project Director, Arizona Queer include Ashley Dahlke, Olivier Dubois-Cherrier + Karima Archives). Walker, Samantha Heard, Daniel Hud, Martin Krafft, Anna Maranise, Nassem Navab, Leah Netsky, Jared Robison, Marina Jay is a documentary about spirituality, reality, perception Shaltout and Kenzie Wells. and, ultimately, perseverance and hope. A glimpse into the extraordinary and complex life of an abstract Tucson artist A celebration of the multiple uses of video art formats with an even more abstract past. Jay Kyle Petersen is a painter. including mise-en-scène, the long shot, performance, and Of soul energy, of deceased pets, of guardian angels and collage/ montage, this screening advances the creative capacity celestial bodies. He was also born intersex and raised female in and flexibility of the medium explored by the participants. rural 1950’s Minnesota. From there, his story gets interesting. With individual backgrounds in sculpture, printmaking, Sponsored by the Institute for LGBT Studies, University of painting, photography, illustration, performance and emergent Arizona. (Dir by Nickolas Duarte, 2017, USA, 22 mins., Not medias, the works in Before Hours situates each artist’s visual Rated) vocabulary within a conceptual framework of their own choosing. The themes explored draw upon diverse elements Official Selection of the 2017 St. Louis that the artists are concerned with in their creative endeavors and lives. Ranging in length from two to ten minutes each, International Film Festival the short works explore perception, futility, disassociation, accumulation, manipulation, disruption, horror, masculinity, Visit www.azqueerarchives.org to learn more about Jay Kyle border and body. Petersen through his oral history interviews.

Under the mentorship of video artist and Professor Sama Alshaibi, the artists produced all the technical, aesthetic and conceptual components authored in their final video artworks. Before Hours is a screening that exhibits evidence of the artists’ exertion in finding their own unique voice through the power of the moving image. Free and open to the public. (Dir. by Various, 2018, USA, Approx. 60 mins, Not Rated) 27 COMMUNITY RENTALS

TASTE BUD MEMORIES CHASING THE DRAGON SUNDAY, MAY 6 AT 10:00AM MONDAY, MAY 14 AT 7:00PM FREE ADMISSION FREE ADMISSION

PRESENTED BY THE SOUTHWEST FOLKLIFE PRESENTED BY FBI PHOENIX CITIZENS ALLIANCE INC. & ISKASHITAA REFUGEE NETWORK ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The social act of eating is part of how we become human. If learning to eat is learning to become a human being, perhaps learning to eat together is learning to become a community. Taste Bud Memories is a documentary film focusing on With a post-screening open question local food and refugees in Tucson, AZ. The film aims to promote understanding and answer forum with local subject of refugees’ experiences by connecting food resources, local geography and the public at large in a broader discourse about food and food security through matter experts. people’s individual stories about food. This film is supported and co-produced by the Southwest Folklife Alliance Inc. & Iskashitaa Refugee Network. Made possible by a grant from Arizona Humanities. REGISTER BY E-MAIL: [email protected]

Every day, the nation’s law enforcement agencies at the local, state, and federal levels—including the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)—use investigative resources to target the supply side in the war against drugs. But even with numerous law enforcement successes in this area, the demand for drugs continues. And one of the more worrisome trends is a growing epidemic of prescription opiate and heroin abuse, especially among young people.

Today, in an effort to help educate students and young adults about the dangers of opioid addiction, the FBI and DEA unveiled a documentary called Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., before an audience of educational leaders from the region. The 45-minute MAGIC HOUR film, whose title refers to the never-ending pursuit of the original or ultimate high, features stark first-person accounts THURSDAY, MAY 10 AT 7:30PM told by individuals who have abused opioids or whose children FREE ADMISSION have abused opioids, with tragic consequences.

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What does an annoying (but dead) grandpa, two pairs of conflicted siblings, a porch pirate, an ex-convict who misses his mother, the battling employees of a comic book store, a would-be presidential assassin, a woman on the lam, a young man and his alter ego, and one dead mouse all have in common?

They are all part of Magic Hour, a free screening of short fiction films made by students in the University of Arizona’s School of Theatre, Film and Television! (Various directors, 2018, USA, Approx. 90 mins, Not Rated) COMMUNITY RENTALS 28

GET OUT (AND VOTE) THE FUTURE OF FILM IN ARIZONA THURSDAY, MAY 17 AT 7:30PM MONDAY, MAY 21 AT 7:00PM FREE ADMISSION (WITH A PROMISE TO VOTE IN THE FREE ADMISSION UPCOMING ELECTIONS) Eager to know more about the Arizona film industry CO-PRESENTED BY THE LOFT CINEMA and its future? Interested in how you can help to grow AND TUCSON SUNDANCE ALUMNI it? Be part of the solution. Come hear what you can do to nurture, promote, and support the Future of Film in Enjoy food trucks, and register to vote, Arizona. if not already registered. Followed by short audience talkback and reception Panelists include Steve Brain – President, Arizona Film & Media Coalition, Shelli Hall – Director, Film in the courtyard. Tucson at Visit Tucson, Matthew Earl Jones – Director, Arizona Office of Film & Digital Media, and Don’t find yourself in the sunken place, GET OUT…AND VOTE! Genie Joseph, Ph.D. – President, Independent Film Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend, Rose Arizona. The conversation will be moderated by Lorna (Allison Williams), have reached the meet-the-parents Soroko, writer, producer and former L.A.-based studio milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway executive. upstate at her family’s secluded home. At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts The event is free and open to the public. Seating is to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as limited; please e-mail [email protected] to reserve the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing one. discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

“…An agile entertainment whose social and cultural observations are woven so tightly into the fabric that you’re laughing even as you’re thinking, and vice-versa.” -Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine

Get Out is a clever, brilliantly written and wonderfully uncomfortable neo horror movie, challenging racial stereotypes and viewer’ expectations in almost every scene. Get Out is a film that you’ll be having a conversation about long after the movie finishes, and brings to light discussions we need to have in our communities. (Dir. By Jordan Peele, 2017, USA, 104 mins., Rated R) THE ALL-NITE SCREAM-O-RAMA! SATURDAY, JUNE 2 AT 7:00PM ADMISSION: $15 ADVANCE; $17 DAY OF; $13 LOFT MEMBERS PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

Twelve terrifying give your gag reflexes a real your pajamas for a cinematic hours of horror movie workout, so all scaredy cats slumber party massacre that mayhem! Pay to get in need not attend! Thrills and you just might not survive! … pray to get out! chills await you throughout the night as we unleash SEVEN PLUS: Scary shorts, trashy Get ready, boys and ghouls, to hand-picked horror classics that trailers, ghoulish trivia games stay up all-nite at the sickest, are so scandalously shocking, and prizes, horrifying drink scariest, most scream-errific the only way to hold on to your specials, our infamously cinematic slaughterhouse sanity is to keep repeating to delicious “meat cups,” and you’ve ever seen! It’s yourself – “it’s only a movie, it’s collectible barf bags for all guaranteed to curdle your only a movie, it’s only movie …” chickens with weak stomachs! Bring your pillows and wear blood, raise your hair and *Start times are approximate* 7:00PM - SCREAM (35MM PRINT!)

“What’s your favorite scary movie?” A gang of terrorized teenagers are about to answer that question, and not all of them are going to live to hear Ghostface’s follow-up inquiry, in terror maestro Wes Craven’s funny/scary meta-horror hit that brought the slasher genre back from the dead and gave us all a refresher course on the rules for surviving a horror movie! (Dir. by Wes Craven, 1996, USA,, 111 mins., Rated R)

9:00PM - A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS (35MM PRINT!)

Freddy’s back to make a whole new batch of sleep-deprived kids wish they’d never even heard of Elm Street in this superior sequel that finds the original film’s star Heather Langenkamp returning as Nancy, who’s now a psychiatrist trying to stop the skewer-fingered killer from offing a group of teen patients in a mental hospital. Packed with dazzlingly surreal SFX and a rockin’ theme song by Dokken, this one will really keep you up all night! (Dir. by Chuck Russell, 1987, USA, 96 mins., Rated R) 10:50PM - RINGU

A mysterious VHS tape causes anyone who watches it to receive a weird phone call and then die one week later, and a young journalist decides to figure out what the hell’s going on in this ultra-creepy, truly-terrifying supernatural thriller from Japan that inspired a Hollywood remake and kicked-off the early 2000’s American craze for J-Horror flicks! (Dir. by Hideo Nakata, 1998, Japan, in Japanese with English subtitles, 96 mins., Not Rated)

12:40AM - THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE

A father and son coroner team experience a VERY weird night in the morgue while attempting to identify the body of a recently deceased woman – a body that seems to harbor more than a few dark secrets – leading to a series of shocking events that may put them BOTH in a casket! A scarily unpredictable supernatural shocker that feels like an Edgar Allan Poe story on crack, this underrated chiller stars Brian Cox (Super Troopers, The Ring) and Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild). From the director of Troll Hunter! (Dir. by André Øvredal, 2016, UK/USA, 99 mins., Rated R)

2:30AM - THE DESCENT

A group of daredevil women see their caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains go straight to hell when they find themselves trapped and hunted by a pack of blind (and very nasty) underground humanoids, in this horrifyingly claustrophobic scream-fest that’s guaranteed to have you gasping for breath and vowing to never enter a cave for the rest of your life! (Dir. by Neil Marshall, 2005, UK, 99 mins., Rated R)

4:00AM - SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE

An escaped mental patient with an over-sized power drill (paging Dr. Freud!) decides to crash a high school slumber party, and the girls are like, totally freaking out - but also kicking some major butt - in this goofy and gory, low-budget, female-written and directed ‘80s slasher classic from the Roger Corman factory. The film that answers the burning question: is it OK to eat pizza off the mutilated body of a dead delivery guy? (Dir. by Amy Jones, 1982, USA, 77 mins., Rated R)

5:30AM - THE BEYOND (35MM PRINT!)

From infamous Italian horror master Lucio Fulci comes the ultimate in disgusting supernatural terror. A cursed hotel, built over one of the seven gateways to hell, becomes a malevolent abyss that begins devouring both the bodies and the souls of all who enter in a graphic frenzy of gory crucifixions, brutal chain-whippings, eyeball impalements, sulphuric acid meltdowns, flesh-eating tarantulas, throat-shredding demon dogs and ravenous bloodthirsty zombies. Have fun, kiddies! (Dir. by Lucio Fulci, 1981, Italy, dubbed in English, 87 mins., Rated R)

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“The story is both fresh and archetypal; SWEET COUNTRY the landscape both hard and delicate STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 27 – and beautifully observed.” – Kate REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES Taylor, Globe and Mail

Accused of murder, an But when a bitter and often- face. But as the true details of Aboriginal stockman and drunk war veteran named the killing start to surface, the his wife try to stay ahead of Harry March (Ewen Leslie) community begins to question a fervent posse in the harsh returns to town, trouble whether justice is really being outback of the Northern escalates and Sam is forced to served. Featuring stunning Territory, in this inspired-by- kill in self-defense. Shocked, cinematography that captures true-events period drama from afraid, and with a deep distrust the salty desert, red earth, acclaimed Australian filmmaker in the impartiality of settler heat and dust of the outback Warwick Thornton (Samson & authority, Sam becomes a in all its harsh beauty, Sweet Delilah). In 1929 Australia, Sam wanted criminal for the murder Country is a sweeping yet Kelly (Hamilton Morris) works of a white man, and he and intimate drama with a striking the land of a kind preacher, his wife, Lizzie (Natassia contemporary resonance, Fred Smith (Sam Neill), living Gorey-Furber), go on the thanks to its compelling and laboring in a respectful, if run. Urgently pursued by a examination of colonialism, diffident, harmony. posse led by Sergeant Fletcher law and power. (Dir. by Warwick (Bryan Brown) and Aboriginal Thornton, 2017, Australia, in “A drama of imposing tracker Archie (Gibson John), English, 113 mins., Rated R) breadth and emotional expert bushman Sam must depth.” – David Rooney, ultimately decide which of Hollywood Reporter several looming unknowns to NEW FILMS 34

“A lovely, slow-burning drama, propelled LEAN ON PETE by a remarkable performance from Charlie STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 27 Plummer.” – David Rooney, Hollywood REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES Reporter

PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT Fifteen-year-old Charley his father’s absence—until he ACCEPT PASSES FOR THE Thompson (Charlie Plummer, discovers that Pete is bound FIRST TWO WEEKS OF THIS ENGAGEMENT All the Money in the World) for slaughter, prompting him arrives in Portland, Oregon to take extreme measures to From acclaimed filmmaker with his single father Ray spare his new friend’s life. Andrew Haigh (Weekend, (Travis Fimmel, Maggie’s Charley and Pete head out into 45 Years), and based on Plan), both of them eager for the great unknown, embarking the beloved novel by Willy a fresh start after a series on an odyssey across the new Vlautin, comes Lean on Pete—a of hard knocks. While Ray American frontier in search of deeply moving story about descends into personal turmoil, a loving aunt Charley hasn’t love, loneliness, family, and Charley finds acceptance and seen in years. They experience friendship, told through the camaraderie at a local racetrack adventure and heartbreak in unique prism of one boy’s where he lands a job caring for equal measure, but never lose connection to a very special an aging Quarter Horse named their irrepressible hope and racehorse. Lean On Pete. The horse’s resiliency as they pursue their gruff owner Del Montgomery dream of finding a place they (Steve Buscemi, Fargo) and his can call home. (Dir. by Andrew “A rivetingly beautiful seasoned jockey Bonnie (Chloë Haigh, 2017, USA, 121 mins., film.” – Robbie Collin, Sevigny, Love & Friendship) Rated R) Telegraph help Charley fill the void of 35 NEW FILMS

“The Rider is part truth, part drama, and THE RIDER completely heartrending … a wholly unique STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 4 slice-of-life drama.” – Kate Erbland, Indiewire REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

This enthralling, gorgeously- Back home in South Dakota, Rider is based on the true filmed portrait of America’s he finds himself wondering story of real-life rodeo rider cowboy culture provides an what he has to live for when Brady Jandreau, who gives an archetypal story of a man he can no longer do what gives extraordinary performance as redefining his hopes and him a sense of purpose. In an the injured former champion ambitions in the modern West. attempt to regain control of and horse trainer forced to give Once a rising star on the rodeo his fate, Brady undertakes a up the life he knows and loves. circuit, Brady is warned that his search for new identity and (Dir. by Chloé Zhao, 2017, USA, competition days are over after what it means to be a man in 104 mins., Rated R) a tragic riding accident. the heartland of America. Shot on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, The Rider “The Rider is a rare is a work of fiction that calls gem … a beautiful, on non-professional actors honest account of a to play characters similar to themselves, incorporating their tough way of life.” own skill sets and experiences. – Todd McCarthy, Directed by acclaimed Hollywood Reporter filmmaker Chloé Zhao (Songs My Brother Taught Me), The NEW FILMS 36

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PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT performance.” – Jessica Ames’ novel of the same name, ACCEPT PASSES FOR THE Kiang, Playlist and backed by a throbbing score FIRST TWO WEEKS OF THIS ENGAGEMENT courtesy of Radiohead’s Jonny In You Were Never Really Here, Greenwood, You Were Never Acclaimed filmmaker Lynne Phoenix (2017 Cannes Best Really Here brings Ramsay’s Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Actor Award winner) plays signature poetic grittiness to Kevin) returns to the big screen Joe, a stoic and hardened a brutally unsettling thriller in full force with this intense Gulf War veteran, former FBI that’s rightfully been hailed as thriller about an unhinged agent and now killer-for-hire a modern-day Taxi Driver, but avenger (Joaquin Phoenix) who is contracted by a senator with a disquietude and visual searching for a missing girl and desperately seeking answers flair that is firmly its own. losing himself in the process. about the disappearance of Winner of the 2017 Cannes his daughter. Armed with the Best Screenplay Award (Lynne “Extraordinary! This only tool he needs to carry out Ramsay). (Dir. by Lynne Ramsay, is filmmaking of the his dubious line of work – a 2017, UK/France/USA, in purest, most inventive hammer – Joe sets out on his English, 90 mins., Rated R) and energizing kind. latest mission with his habitual Closed Captions and Audio Joaquin Phoenix turns in confidence, only to find that Description Available. an effortlessly magnetic this time he may be in way over his head. Based on Jonathan 37 NEW FILMS

“A fist-pumping, crowd-pleasing documentary RBG … Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life comes to STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 11 entertaining and energetic life.” – Kate Erbland, REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES Indiewire

MAY’S REEL READS the right, Justice Ruth Bader the lawyers who defended free SELECTION Ginsburg’s vigorous dissenting speech during the Red Scare, Purchase a copy of Notorious opinions and ferocious Ginsburg refuses to relinquish RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth 20-push-up workouts have her passionate duty, steadily Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon earned this tiny, soft-spoken fighting for equal rights for and Shana Kinzhnikn during the intellectual giant the status all citizens under the law. month of May and receive a special of rock star and the title Through intimate interviews “Loft Reel Reads” discount off the “Notorious RBG.” What many and unprecedented access to cover price – 20% for Loft Cinema don’t know is Ginsburg’s Ginsburg’s life outside the members and 10% for the general public. Copies of the book are strategic, trailblazing role in court, RBG tells the electric available at The Loft Cinema and defining gender-discrimination story of Ginsburg’s consuming Antigone Books. law. love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved Special thanks to our Intent on systematically husband Marty—and of a life’s community partner NOW releasing women from second- work that led her to become an (National Organization class status, she argued six icon of justice in the highest of Women). pivotal gender-bias cases in court in the land. (Dir. by Julie the 1970s before an all-male Cohen & Betsy West, 2018, USA, As the United States Supreme Supreme Court blind to sexism. 97 mins., Rated PG) Court leans increasingly to Now 84, and still inspired by NEW FILMS 38

“A beautiful, brutal revelation in French horror REVENGE … astonishing and subversive.” – Britt Hayes, STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 11 Screen Crush REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

Soaking the revenge thriller “Tautly controlled and leave a tidal wave of gore in a strikingly hypnotic style, wildly over-the- top, in her wake. A stunningly writer/director Coralie Fargeat’s executed with flashy photographed, white-knuckle intense feature debut blasts style, sly visual humor tale of transgression and apart genre conventions with and a subversive transformation, Revenge a fiery feminist take on power gloriously blurs the lines of feminist sensibility.” and violence. Jen (fearlessly vengeance and survival while embodied by Matilda Lutz, – David Rooney, simultaneously delivering Rings) is enjoying a romantic Hollywood Reporter a ferocious dissection of getaway with her wealthy gender and genre. (Dir. by boyfriend which is suddenly Unfortunately for her Coralie Fargeat, 2017, France, disrupted when his male assailants, Jen survives and in English/French with English sleazy friends arrive for an reemerges with a relentless, subtitles, 108 mins., Rated R) unannounced hunting trip. wrathful intent: revenge. And Tension mounts in the house while the men try to sweep until the situation abruptly– their horrific attack under and viciously–intensifies, the rug, they are about to culminating in a shocking act of learn that Jen has some very violence. nasty surprises in store for them – surprises that will 39 NEW FILMS

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PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT exclusive behind-the-scenes ACCEPT PASSES FOR THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF THIS footage and sets out to ENGAGEMENT present his work of reform and his answers to today’s Pope Francis – A Man of His global questions. From Word, the new documentary his deep concern for the from Oscar-nominated poor and wealth inequality, filmmaker Wim Wenders to his involvement in (Buena Vista Social Club; environmental issues and Wings of Desire) is intended social justice, Pope Francis to be a personal journey with engages the audience face-to- Pope Francis, rather than a face and calls for peace. (Dir. biographical documentary by Wim Wenders, 2017, Italy/ about him. A rare co- Switzerland/Germany/France, production with the Vatican, In English/Spanish/Italian/ the pope’s ideas and his German with English subtitles, message are central to this 96 mins., Not Rated) documentary, which features NEW FILMS 40

“An exquisite romantic comedy LET THE SUNSHINE IN whose laughs are sad and whose STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 25 sadness is funny.” – Sam C. Mac, REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES Slant

Oscar-winner Juliette There’s a caddish banker 2017, France/Belgium, in French Binoche delivers a luminous (Xavier Beauvois, Of Gods with English subtitles, 94 mins., performance in this deliciously and Men) who, like many of Not Rated) witty, sensuously romantic new her lovers, happens to be film from acclaimed director married; a handsome actor “Rich, hilarious and Claire Denis (35 Shots of Rum). (Nicolas Duvauchelle, The sensual.” – Scout Isabelle (Binoche) is a divorced Well-Digger’s Daughter) who’s Tafoya, RogerEbert. Parisian painter searching working through his own com for another shot at love, but hang-ups; and a sensitive refusing to settle for the parade fellow artist (Alex Descas, The of all-too-flawed men who drift Limits of Control) who’s skittish in and out of her life. about commitment. But what sounds like a standard “A delight! This is romantic comedy premise is yet another reminder transformed, in the hands of that Juliette Binoche master filmmaker Denis, into is an international something altogether deeper, treasure.” – Ian more poignant, and perceptive about the profound mysteries Freer, Empire of love. (Dir. by Claire Denis, 41 NEW FILMS

GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 25 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

FREE LOFT MEMBERS worlds of pop culture icon collaborators Sly & Robbie, and SCREENING Grace Jones contrasts musical backstage at gigs around the Friday, May 25 at 7:00pm. Free sequences with intimate world, the film reveals Jones for Loft Cinema members and personal footage, all the while as lover, daughter, mother, open to the public at regular brimming with Jones’s boldly and businesswoman. But the admission prices. fierce aesthetic. A larger- stage is the fixed point to than-life entertainer, an which the film returns, with Members may pick up tickets only for androgynous glam-pop diva, an eye-popping performances of themselves (1 for Teacher, Student, or Individual, 2 for Couple and above) at unpredictable media presence – “Slave to the Rhythm,” “Pull the Box Office on the day of the Member Grace Jones is all these things Up to the Bumper,” “Love is Screening. The Box Office is open 1/2 hour before the first show of the day. Please see and more. the Drug,” and more. Jones the website for showtimes. herself has said watching the Sophie Fiennes’s acclaimed film “will be like seeing me Members will be issued a return pass (valid through the following Thursday) to see this documentary goes beyond the almost naked” and, indeed, film another time, if the screening is at traditional music biography, Fiennes’s treatment is every capacity. offering a portrait as stylish bit as definition-defying as and unconventional as its its subject, untamed by either subject. Taking us home age or life itself. (Dir. by Sophie This electrifying journey with her to Jamaica, into Fiennes, 2017, USA, 115 mins., through the public and private the studio with long-time Not Rated) NEW FILMS 42

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From the raucous dual Enn (Alex Sharp) is a shy they embark on a delirious imaginations of fantasy master suburban London teenager in adventure through the kinetic Neil Gaiman (“American 1977, sneaking out with his punk rock world of 1970s Gods,” Coraline) and glam- best friends to after-hours London, inadvertently setting rock auteur John Cameron punk parties, ruled by jaded off a series of events that will Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry punk matriarch Boadicea lead to the ultimate showdown Inch, Shortbus) comes the (Nicole Kidman). One night the of punks vs. aliens, and test the electrifying and singular sci-fi/ punks stumble upon a bizarre limits of how far each of them pop extravaganza, How to Talk gathering of sexy teenagers will go for true love. (Dir. by to Girls at Parties. who seem like they are from John Cameron Mitchell, 2017, another planet. In fact, they are USA, 102 mins., Rated R) “The creative collision from another planet, visiting of author Neil Gaiman Earth to complete a mysterious and the director of rite of passage. That doesn’t Hedwig and the stop Enn from falling madly in Angry Inch is a match love with Zan (Elle Fanning), a beautiful and rebellious alien made in bizarro world teenager who, despite her heaven.” – Nikola allegiance to her strange colony, Grozdanovic, Playlist is fascinated by Enn. Together 43 NEW FILMS

“You can feel the heat, temperature and THE SEAGULL otherwise, in Michael Mayer’s sultry screen STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 8 adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s classic 1896 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES play.” - Hollywood Reporter

An all-star cast, led by a tragicomedy unfolds Michael Mayer, 2018, USA, 98 Saoirse Ronan (Lady about art, fame, human mins., Rated PG-13) Bird), Annette Bening folly, and the eternal desire (20th Century Women) to live a purposeful life. and Elisabeth Moss (The Adapted by Tony-winning Handmaid’s Tale), brings playwright Stephen Karam Anton Chekhov’s classic play (The Humans), The Seagull to life in this stunning big explores, with comedy and screen adaptation directed melancholy, the obsessive by Tony-winner Michael nature of love, the tangled Mayer (Spring Awakening). relationships between One summer at a lakeside parents and children, and Russian estate, friends and the transcendent value family gather for a weekend and psychic toll of art. Also in the countryside. While starring Corey Stoll, Jon everyone is caught up in Tenney, Mare Winningham, passionately loving someone Michael Legen, Billy Howle who loves somebody else, and Brian Dennehy. (Dir. by NEW FILMS 44

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (BRAND-NEW 70MM PRINT!) ONE WEEK ONLY! FRIDAY, JUNE 22 – THURSDAY, JUNE 28 GENERAL ADMISSION: $10 • LOFT MEMBERS: $8 (PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS EVENT)

A brand-new 70mm print of awe-inspiring sci-fi head trip, cinematic technology in service Stanley Kubrick’s landmark sci- 2001: A Space Odyssey. Based of a story expressing grave fi masterpiece, 2001: A Space on Arthur C. Clark’s story “The doubts about technology itself. Odyssey, lands at The Loft Cinema Sentinel,” this mind-blowing Eschewing traditional narrative for one week only, June 22 – 28, meditation on technology and structure and embracing a tone in celebration of the film’s 50th humanity thrillingly hypothesizes of mythic transcendence, 2001, anniversary! This gorgeous new mankind’s evolution from ape provocatively promoted as “the 70mm print is being struck from to astronaut to celestial being, ultimate trip,” quickly caught on the original camera negative, while scientists Dave Bowman with the late ‘60s counterculture meaning that audiences will see (Keir Dullea) and Frank Poole audience open to a contemplative the film (and have their minds (Gary Lockwood) do battle with viewing experience of a film blown) the same way moviegoers a snarky artificial intelligence carefully designed to take them did in 1968! Buckle up, because unit named HAL and eventually on an journey they would never it’s still “the ultimate trip!” try to crack the mystery of forget. Nominated for four those baffling black monoliths. Academy Awards and a winner for Three million years ago, a With assistance from special its landmark visual effects, 2001 mysterious black monolith effects expert Douglas Trumbull, stands today as one of the all-time appeared out of nowhere and Kubrick spent over two years great science fiction classics. (Dir. gave a pack of unruly apes a meticulously creating the most by Stanley Kubrick, 1968, USA/UK, whole lot of new ideas … and “realistic” depictions of outer 141 mins., Rated G) thus begins Stanley Kubrick’s space ever seen, greatly advancing MONDO MO N DAYS EVERY MONDAY AT 8:00PM!

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