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FILM GUIDE JUNE 2018 www.loftcinema.org

SCI-FI SUMMER & THE SCI-FI SLUMBER PARTY! SELENA SING-A-LONG! | , FATHER’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. JUNE 2018

SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 4-28 LOFT MEMBERSHIPS 6 BEER OF THE MONTH: -O-RAMA 7-8 FREE TO ROAM SOLAR CINEMA 10, 14, 27 RENEGADE BREWING LOFT JR. 13 ONLY $3.50 ALL THROUGH JUNE! LOFT STAFF SELECTS 14 ESSENTIAL CINEMA 22 NEW AT THE LOFT CINEMA! MONTH-LONG SERIES 23-24 The Loft Cinema now offers Closed Captions and Audio REEL READS SELECTION 23 Descriptions for films whenever they are available. Check our SCI-FI SLUMBER PARTY 29-30 website to see which films offer this technology. NEW FILMS 32-44 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 • 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 HEARTS BEAT LOUD • Whole Foods • D&D Pinball • R-Galaxy (SEE PAGE 38) • Xoom Juice • Epic Café • Raging Sage FRIDAY, JUNE 15 AT 7:00PM • Zia Records

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REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES Tickets are available to purchase online at: PLEASE NOTE: $9.75 - Adult | $7.25 - Matinee* loftcinema.org/showtimes or by calling: Screen 2 is not wheelchair accessible. $8.00 - Student, Teacher, Military 520-795-0844 HEARING LOOP AVAILABLE IN $6.75 - Senior (65+) or Child (12 and under) Phone & Web orders are subject to a $1 surcharge. $6.00 - Loft Members ALL 3 SCREENS. There is a $1 surcharge for all 3-D screenings. Made possible by Paul & Mary Koss. *MATINEE: ANY SCREENING BEFORE 4:00PM LOFT CINEMA STAFF

Peggy Johnson Executive Director

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

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,

It’s summer once again in Tucson, and as usual, it’s going to get mighty toasty. As the heat soars, we all start looking for ways to cool off, and luckily, The Loft Cinema has got you covered with some good old-fashioned summer escapism to help keeps things frosty. We here at The Loft Cinema like to think that “escapism” can be both smart AND fun, and to that end, we’re proclaiming June to be Sci-Fi Summer month, with a curated selection of classic cinema that will unleash the entertainment while also making you think. The month, we’re proud to present the exclusive Tucson engagement of the 50th anniversary re- release of ’s iconic, brain-twisting 2001: A Space Odyssey in the glorious 70mm format! The Loft Cinema is one of only a handful of theatres nationwide chosen to screen a brand- new 70mm film print of 2001 this summer, and you can bet that experiencing “the ultimate trip” on the big screen is going to be a real mind-blower! We’re also presenting a selection of other landmark sci-fi films, including a new restoration of ’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, one of the first films to envision visitors as our allies rather than our enemies (insert your own modern metaphorical relevance here …); Disney’s visually stunning , the first major feature film to utilize extensive CGI (and which we’ll also be presenting in beautiful 70mm); and Ridley Scott’s Alien, which taught us all that in space, no one can hear you scream (but they’ll definitely hear you screaming in the theatre!). Since it’s too darned hot to sleep, why not stay up all-night and have some air-conditioned fun at not one, but TWO of our signature 12-hour, dusk-till-dawn movie marathons? For those who just can’t get enough extraterrestrial excitement, we’ve got The Sci-Fi Slumber Party!, featuring six out-of- this-world classics, including the original Planet of the Apes (also celebrating its 50th anniversary), and . And for those who like it a little scary, we’ve got our ever-popular All- Night Scream-O-Rama!, featuring seven back-to-back terror flicks, including Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and The Slumber Party Massacre. A word of warning: after watching this many horror films in a row, you may never sleep again! In keeping with the “beat the heat” theme, we’re also heading up to the cooler climates of Northern Arizona for a series of under-the-stars Solar Cinema screenings in Prescott (My Neighbor Totoro), Flagstaff (Faces Places) and Camp Verde (Kingdom of the Spiders, which was actually filmed there)! If you’re a hardcore cinephile AND you’re looking to take a road trip, please join us – it’s going to be a blast! And as usual, we’ve also got a great line-up of first-run films, regular series and special events (including our first-ever Selena Sing-A-Long!) on tap, so clearly, The Loft Cinema is the “cool” place to be this month. Hope to see you around the theatre!

-Jeff Yanc, Program Director SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 4

MAY FOOLS (35MM PRINT!) FIRST FRIDAY SHORTS TUESDAY, MAY 29 AT 7:30PM FRIDAY, JUNE 1 AT 9:00PM REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5

Commemorate the 50th anniversary of the $200 MONTHLY GRAND PRIZE! historic May 1968 student revolts in Paris $1,000 YEARLY GRAND PRIZE! with a special 35mm screening of legendary French filmmaker ’s classic, May On the first Friday of each month comedians Bridgitte Thum Fools. and Mike Sterner host our monthly short film contest – just bring us your short films and we’ll play them on the largest movie screen in Southern Arizona! In the charming and politically-charged comedy/drama May

Fools, from celebrated director Louis Malle (My Dinner with In case you’ve never been to a First Friday Shorts show, Andre, Atlantic City), a raucous family gathering at a country here are the rules: We’ll play any short film, music video or estate provides an amusing diversion from the tumultuous short documentary that you’ve made that’s under 15 minutes May 1968 student uprisings in Paris. Milou (Michel Piccoli, long and is brought to us on a DVD, thumb drive or BLU-ray Belle de Jour) is an older man who has lived his whole life with (one film per person, and DVDs must be playable on a regular his mother (Paulette Dubost, Rules of the Game) on the family’s DVD player and films on drives need to be in by 8pm. We do estate, enjoying every aspect of rural life and being quite not accept commercials or advertisements). Submissions are content with his own existence. only taken on the day of the event, and all entries MUST BE RECEIVED PRIOR TO THE START OF THE ACTUAL SHOW “Director Louis Malle has fashioned (we cannot accept films after the show has begun, or during an entertainment rich in sly wit and intermission). All films are played in the order they’re received. intelligence.” – Peter Travers, Rolling Every film is guaranteed to play for 3 minutes, but after Stone that the audience can call for the dreaded “gong” if they’re displeased. If the gong is struck, our intrepid host stops the film and the next movie begins. But don’t despair … if your But the death of Milou’s mother, the family matriarch, draws film is gonged, you can re-work it and bring it back to see if the the entire eccentric family to Milou’s country home, and as the changes you’ve made have pleased the audience. This is a great clan prepares for her funeral, the squabbles over how to settle way for filmmakers to try out new ideas and see how an actual her estate begin. Even with the latest updates of the student audience responds, so take advantage. You cannot submit riots in Paris coming in over the airwaves, the large family the same film more than once unless it has been re-worked. prefers to focus on their petty personal matters rather than the Remember, the audience decides the winner each and every current political climate. As the country begins to shut down, month, so keep them happy! Filmmaker must be in attendance the escalating protests leave them no choice but to venture to win the cash prize. deeper into the wilderness to escape the oncoming turmoil.

Soon, thanks to a mortician’s strike, the siblings are stranded in PLEASE NOTE: We only take the first 15 films that are brought in the forest with their mother’s corpse, and they fall into various each month and the spots have been filling up really fast. We start states of transgression. Malle’s slyly satirical take on the taking submissions as soon as we open the day of the show so get your historic events of May 1968 has been described by the director films in early! himself as a “divertimento,” an appropriate description of a film that shows the pointed influences of and Jean PLEASE BE ADVISED: Since we don’t pre-screen First Friday Shorts Renoir. (Dir. by Louis Malle, 1990, France, in French with English entries, we don’t know what each month’s “film content” rating will be. Be advised that some material may not be suitable for all audiences. subtitles, 107 mins., Rated R)

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ALL MEMBERSHIPS INCLUDE THE BENEFITS LISTED ABOVE Consider increasing your membership level to receive benefits like free admission to all regularly scheduled films, Loft Film Fest passes, Loft Cinema merchandise, discounts on all concessions, reserved seating, and more! FRIENDS OF THE LOFT $50 STUDENT, TEACHER OR MILITARY (Must show valid ID) $75 INDIVIDUAL • $125 COUPLE (2 people sharing the same address)

STARS $275 All benefits for two, plus a Loft Cinema aluminum water bottle, concession discount of 20%, and 4 film tickets to the Loft Film Fest.

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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. 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 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 ’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 , 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 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 (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 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) 9 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

ROMY AND MICHELE’S HIGH 13TH SCHOOL REUNION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6 AT 5:30PM FREE ADMISSION FRIDAY, JUNE 1 AT 10:00PM SATURDAY, JUNE 2 AT 10:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5 Part of the Art for Justice presented by The University of Arizona PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! Poetry Center. The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big screen! In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and A pair of nerdy party girls reinvent themselves for their 10-year politicians analyze the legacy of the thirteenth amendment of high school reunion (in Tucson, AZ!) and find that some things the Constitution of the , mapping the connection never change in this charmingly goofy comedy about revenge, between the legacy of slavery and the criminalization of African self-acceptance and blonde hair with black roots! Americans during U.S. prison boom.

“Cheerful, giddy fun … Kudrow and “Powerful, infuriating…[Director] Ava Sorvino elevate bubble-headedness to DuVernay’s documentary 13th will get new levels of comic ingenuity.” – Janet your blood boiling.” - Times Maslin, New York Times The title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary, galvanizing, Oscar- nominated documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Romy () and Michelle () are two Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary unnatural blonde besties who were inseparable in high school servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party and are now living together in L.A. They learn about their 10- shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United year high school reunion in Tucson and desperately want to States.” The progression from that second qualifying clause make a grand appearance, with a not-so-noble goal in mind: to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling the former teenage outcasts want to blow minds and make American prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with everyone jealous as payback for the hell that the A-list crowd bracing lucidity. With a potent mixture of archival footage put them through in high school. Unfortunately they have no and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, real jobs, no boyfriends, and absolutely no accomplishments to historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, speak of. So they borrow a car, dress in fancy threads and make DuVernay creates an eye-opening, emotional work of grand up a wild story about how they hit it big by inventing Post-It historical synthesis. (Dir. by Ava DuVernay, 2016, USA, 100 notes. Everyone is blown away until former mean girl Goth mins., TV-MA/Mature Audience Only) classmate Heather (Janeane Garofalo) blabs their real story to everyone, forcing Romy and Michele to let loose with a surprise of their own … one that’s going to have outrageous results! Co-starring Justin Theroux, , and a jukebox full of totally awesome ‘80s pop hits (prepare for an unforgettable three way interpretive dance number set to Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time”), Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion is an A+ comedy that graduates at the top of its class! (Dir. by , 1997, USA, 92 mins., Rated R) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 10

KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS FACES PLACES FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING IN FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING IN CAMP VERDE, AZ! FLAGSTAFF, AZ! THURSDAY, JUNE 7 AT 7:30PM (SUNDOWN) FRIDAY, JUNE 8 AT 8:00PM FREE ADMISSION FREE ADMISSION

PART OF OUR SHOT ON LOCATION SERIES! PART OF LOFT FILM FEST ON THE ROAD Celebrating the richly diverse history of filmmaking in Arizona A community-building program that takes unexpected films for free by hosting outdoor screenings of classic and cult films in the screenings in underserved and unserved rural areas, providing a unique communities where they were made, at locations all throughout cultural experience. will travel across Southern Arizona in The Loft Solar Cinema, a cargo van outfitted with solar panels (donated by the state. By offering audiences the unique opportunity to Technicians for Sustainability) to power a 20-foot inflatable screen and gather together in a fun and festive atmosphere to watch a state-of-the-art mobile projection system. beloved film “under the stars” in the area where it was actually shot, these screenings showcase Hollywood’s longtime love This screening will take place outdoors affair with the Grand Canyon State, and bring Arizona’s past to at Heritage Square, 22 Aspen Avenue, life through the magic of the movies! Flagstaff, AZ 86001. Please bring your own seating. This screening will take place outdoors at Verde Brewing Co., 724 N. Industrial Drive, A special thank you to Heritage Square Trust! Unit 7a, Camp Verde, AZ 86322. Please 89-year old Agnès Varda (Cleo from 5 to 7, The Gleaners and I), one of bring your own seating. the leading filmmakers of the French New Wave, and acclaimed 33-year old French photographer and muralist JR, teamed up to co-direct this enchanting documentary/road movie, nominated for the 2018 Best CO-SPONSORED BY VERDE BREWING CO. Documentary Academy Award! Kindred spirits, Varda and JR share a lifelong passion for images and how they are created, displayed and William Shatner battles eight-legged invaders trying to spin shared. Together they travel around the villages of France in JR’s photo a web of terror over a small Arizona town in the ultimate truck meeting locals, learning their stories and producing epic-size man vs. spider B-movie showdown! In 1977’s Kingdom of the portraits of them. The photos are prominently displayed on houses, Spiders, Shatner chews the scenery and stomps the spiders as barns, storefronts and trains revealing the humanity in their subjects, and themselves. Faces Places documents these heart-warming encounters swaggering veterinarian Rack Hansen, whose investigation as well as the unlikely, tender friendship they formed along the way. (Dir. into a mysterious rash of farm animal mutilations leads to the by Agnès Varda & JR, 2017, France, in French with English subtitles, 89 mins., shocking discovery that a migrating herd of angry tarantulas is Rated PG) about to devour his hometown of Camp Verde, AZ, building to a genuinely creepy climax in a spider-besieged hotel, and one This screening was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts with support from of the most infamous shocker endings of the 1970s. Featuring Desert Diamond Casinos & Entertainment a solid supporting cast including Tiffany Bolling (The Candy Snatchers) as a tough entomologist from Northern Arizona University and Western movie legend Woody Strode (Once Upon a Time in the West) as a feisty cattle rancher looking to clobber the nasty critters, Kingdom of the Spiders is a creepy- crawly horror movie must-see! (Dir. by John “Bud” Cardos, 1977, USA, 97 mins., Rated PG)

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THE BIG LEBOWSKI THE PEANUTS MOVIE FRIDAY, JUNE 8 AT 10:00PM SATURDAY, JUNE 9 AT 10:00AM SATURDAY, JUNE 9 AT 10:00PM FREE ADMISSION GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5 PART OF OUR LOFT JR. SERIES PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! A free monthly series showcasing great new and classic family- The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big screen! friendly films from around the world! Pre-show activities hosted by Mildred & Dildred Toy Store starting at 9:15am. In , a ridiculous case of mistaken identity embroils ultimate slacker Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski in a “A delightful romp that captures the kidnapping case and throws him into the role of hapless spirit of the adored comic strip.” – detective in the Coens’ off-kilter homage to Raymond Chandler and Howard Hawks’ The Big Sleep. Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter “One of the funniest, coolest, most Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the Peanuts absurd cult films ever made, and one of gang hit the big screen in an all-new animated adventure filled the best from the dynamic duo, Joel and with laughs, fun and heart. Eternal optimist and occasional Ethan Coen.” – R.L. Shaffer, IGN “blockhead” Charlie Brown (also known as the world’s most beloved underdog), embarks upon an epic and heroic quest, All The Dude (Jeff Bridges, in a sublimely hilarious performance kicked off by the arrival of the object of his affection, the Little that gets better with each viewing, man) wants to do is Red-Haired Girl, while his best pal, the lovable beagle Snoopy, go bowling, but when he’s mistaken for LA millionaire big takes to the skies to pursue his arch-nemesis, the Red Baron. Lebowski and a pair of knuckle-headed thugs pee on his rug – From the imagination of Charles M. Schulz and the creators of “It really tied the room together!” – he’s forced to take action, the films, The Peanuts Movie proves that every underdog and so the laziest man in takes on murderous will has his day! (Dir. by Steve Martino, 2015, USA, 88 mins., nihilists, angry ferrets, naked performance artists and morally Rated G) corrupt tycoons, guzzling White and dreaming of the perfect bowling match all the while. Filled with shaggy dog shenanigans and endlessly quotable dialogue, the Coen Brothers’ unstoppable cult classic The Big Lebowski delivers gut- busting hilarity from start to finish, aided immeasurably by a stellar cast including John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, , Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Turturro as the supremely freaky bowler, “Jesus.” (Dir. by Joel Coen, 1998, USA, 117 mins., Rated R) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 14

MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (35MM PRINT!) FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING IN SUNDAY, JUNE 10 AT 7:30PM PRESCOTT, AZ! GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5 SATURDAY, JUNE 9 AT 7:45PM (SUNDOWN) FREE ADMISSION PART OF LOFT STAFF SELECTS! A monthly series showcasing film favorites chosen by our PART OF LOFT FILM FEST ON THE ROAD amazing Loft Cinema staff! This month’s Loft Staff Selects film A community-building program that takes unexpected films for was chosen by Jeff Yanc, Program Director! free screenings in underserved and unserved rural areas, providing a unique cultural experience. The movies will travel across Southern “There’s nothing wrong with going nowhere, baby, but we Arizona in The Loft Solar Cinema, a cargo van outfitted with solar should be going nowhere fast!” One of the great gonzo panels (donated by Technicians for Sustainability) to power a pleasures of the ‘80s, director ’s (The Warriors) 20-foot inflatable screen and state-of-the-art mobile projection spectacular, retro rock ‘n’ roll-fueled pulp classic Streets of Fire system. roars at you like a souped-up roadster with the radio going full blast. Billed (correctly) as a “Rock & Roll Fable,” this defiantly This screening will take place outdoors at oddball, music-packed action flick stars ‘80s B-movie god A.C. Williams Granite Creek Park, 554 6th Michael Paré (Eddie in Eddie and the Cruisers) as Tom Cody, an Street, Prescott, AZ 86301. Please bring enigmatic loner and soldier-for-hire who blows back into town your own seating. to save rock singer Ellen Aim () from the clutches of sinister biker Raven Shaddock ( in his movie Thanks to our community partner, Yavapai debut, sporting black vinyl overalls and one of the wickedest Exceptional Industries! hair-dos in movie history), whose sleazy gang of leather-clad reprobates has kidnapped Ellen for their own evil purposes. One of the most endearing and internationally renowned family films of all time, a film that called “one of the five best Naturally, Tom and Ellen were once a hot item, and even movies” ever made for children, Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor though he’s been hired by Ellen’s weasely manager/boyfriend Totoro is a deceptively simple tale of two girls, Satsuki and Mei, Billy Fish (Rick Moranis) to get her back, Tom still has who move with their father to a new house in the countryside. pulpy feelings for Ellen, so it’s a safe bet that love is going to They soon discover that the surrounding forests are home to a complicate things. Gathering together his own ragtag gang family of Totoros, gentle but powerful creatures who live in a huge of misfits (including as a tough drifter named and ancient camphor tree and are seen only by children. (Dir. by McCoy, Elizabeth Daily as a teenybopper music fan named Hayao Miyazaki, 1988, Japan, 86 mins, Rated G) Baby Doll, and a slick doo wop group called The Sorels), Tom’s This screening was made possible by a grant from the gotta travel through the most insanely dangerous part of town, National Endowment for the Arts with support from rescue his true love, and engage in a brutal sledgehammer Desert Diamond Casinos & Entertainment 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) 15 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

ITZHAK FILMWORKER TUESDAY, JUNE 12 AT 7:30PM WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13 AT 7:30PM REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

CO-PRESENTED BY THE TUCSON Don’t miss the exclusive Tucson engagement INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL of the 50th anniversary re-release of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in Hailed as the world’s greatest living violinist, Itzhak Perlman 70mm, opening Friday, June 22 at The Loft is presented in a highly personal light in Itzhak, revealing his Cinema (see page 40 for details). appealing personality and deep passion for music. Leon Vitali was a rising young British television when “Itzhak is a joyous film about a joyous Stanley Kubrick picked him for the role of Lord Bullingdon man.” – , RogerEbert. in 1975’s Barry Lyndon. That first encounter with the famed auteur proved decisive – Leon swiftly resolved to devote the com rest of his life working for the director, this time behind the scenes, and took on just about every job available: casting The film explores Perlman’s remarkable biography as an director, acting coach, location scouter, sound engineer, color immigrant of humble origins and a childhood victim of polio corrector, A.D., promoter, and eventually restorer of Kubrick’s who went from young violin prodigy (debuting at 13 on The films. Ed Sullivan Show) to established international star, balancing a demanding performance schedule with a robust family life. Funny, irreverent and self-deprecating, Perlman is seen “An absolute must-see documentary rehearsing with fellow musicians Evgeny Kissin and Mischa for fans of Stanley Kubrick. Gives Maisky, trading stories in his kitchen with longtime friend cinephilies a unique view inside this Alan Alda, enthusiastically attending a Mets baseball game, closed-door world of Kubrick’s process.” teaching classes with eager young students, and sharing a loving marriage with Toby, his wife of over 50 years, in a close- – Chris O’Falt, Indiewire knit household steeped in Jewish traditions. As delightful and fascinating as the famous violinist himself, Itzhak is Tony Zierra’s affecting documentary profiles the devoted an unforgettable portrait of musical virtuosity enclosed in “filmworker” – Vitali’s preferred job title – as he enthusiastically warmth, humor and love. (Dir. by Alison Chernick, USA, 82 mins., recounts his days with the notoriously meticulous, volatile and Not Rated) obsessive director. The experiences brought both tremendous sacrifice and glowing pride. Candid, often funny and sometimes shocking, Filmworker gives unique insight into the creative genius of one of cinema’s greatest directors, as well as the man who helped him fulfill his vision – celebrating the invisible hands that shape masterpieces, and reminding us that behind every great director, there is a Leon Vitali. Featuring interviews with Ryan O’Neal, Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Stellan Skarsgård, Daniel Lloyd, Marie Richardson, Pernilla August and others. (Dir. by Tony Ziera, 2017, USA, 93 mins., Not Rated) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 16

THE GOONIES (35MM PRINT!) THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW FRIDAY, JUNE 15 AT 10:00PM SATURDAY, JUNE 16 AT MIDNIGHT SATURDAY, JUNE 16 AT 10:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5 Please Note: No one under 17 admitted without Parent or Guardian.. SUNDAY, JUNE 17 AT 11:00AM GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5 Whatever happened to Saturday night? It was locked in a closet with The Rocky Horror Picture Show and it hasn’t been the PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! same since! Unleash your inner Sweet Transvestite when the The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big screen! 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 Hey you guuuuyyyssss! Relive the totally awesome ‘80s young couple inducted into the world of absolute pleasure, adventure that convinced an entire generation of suburban Transylvanians doing the pelvic thrust and a sexy scientist trying kids that there was buried treasure in their backyards, and to free us of all our inhibitions (not to mention our clothing)! So that a freaky dude named Sloth was really just a fun-loving pull up your fishnets and get ready to become a creature of the guy with a thing for Baby Ruths! In this Spielberg-produced night at the strangest, sexiest “science fiction double feature” of action extravaganza, a group of pre-teen friends called The all-time, a Loft Cinema tradition for 40 years and counting! (Dir. Goonies band together to save their Oregon neighborhood by Jim Sharman, 1975, UK/USA, 98 mins., Rated R) – affectionately dubbed “the Goon Docks” – from being demolished by real estate developers.

“ is one of those magically entertaining films that never gets old … No matter what your age, there’s plenty of danger, fun, and laughs waiting around every bend.” – Michael Zupan, DVD Talk

What they really need in order to save the day is a lot of cash, and lucky for them, they’ve discovered an old treasure map, sparking an adventure to unearth the long-lost fortune of 17th-century pirate One-Eyed Willie. But first they’re going to have to outwit a trio of bumbling criminals and a survive an onslaught of wacked-out booby traps as they get ever closer to Willie’s fabled treasure. Starring a “who’s who” of then up and coming young , including Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, Martha Plimpton and Josh Brolin, The Goonies is a rip-roaring, rollercoaster ride of movie that delivers the fun no matter how many times you’ve seen it. (Dir. by Richard Donner, 1985, USA, 114 min., Rated PG)

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“Selena is entertaining and SELENA SING-A-LONG! uplifting, with Jennifer Lopez SATURDAY, JUNE 16 AT 7:30PM giving a stellar, confectionary GENERAL ADMISSION: $12 • LOFT MEMBERS: $10 performance.”- Paul Malcolm, PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING L.A. Weekly

Celebrate the magic of legendary ended just as she was taking and performs at concerts that music superstar Selena at this Tejano and Cumbia music where become electrifying events, special screening of the 1997 they had never gone - into along the way scoring hits like film, Selena, featuring on-screen mainstream America. Pulsating Amor Prohibido, No Me Queda lyrics to all the songs so you with Selena’s own voice on the Más and Bidi Bidi Bom Bom. can sing-a-long! PLUS, we’ll get soundtrack and made with the Seeking mainstream stardom, the party started with a hot participation of her family, the Selena begins recording an selection of Selena music videos film brims with authenticity English-language album which, before the movie! FREE glow and excitement, recreating the tragically, she would never sticks and other surprises will early life of Selena Quintanilla complete. Yet today, over 23 also be available, and fabulous (Jennifer Lopez), a young years after her death, Selena’s prizes will be awarded for the woman who dreamed big and legacy burns as brightly as ever. best Selena costume! had the talent and ambition to (Dir. by Gregory Nava, 1997, back it up. With the support of USA, in English/Spanish with The vibrant, music-filled drama her musician father Abraham English subtitles, 127 mins., Rated Selena tells the story of the (Edward James Olmos), the PG) iconic, Grammy Award-winning wildly-charismatic Selena Mexican-American star from finds success, hits the road in South Texas whose life tragically a band bus named Big Bertha SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 20

THE GODFATHER (FATHER’S DAY SCREENING!) SUNDAY, JUNE 17 AT 2:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 • LOFT MEMBERS: $6

This Father’s Day, make your dad the studio every step of the Oscar-winner Marlon Brando an offer he can’t refuse – take way as he transformed Mario in his immortal role as the him to see The Godfather on the Puzo’s pulp bestseller into an ultimate family patriarch, Don big screen! Spend the afternoon impossibly rich, deeply personal Vito Corleone, The Godfather with the Corleone family and meditation on family, power, also contains a “who’s who” enjoy this iconic, Oscar-winning violence and the harsh realities of legendary ‘70s performers, masterpiece as it was meant to of the American Dream. Filled including Robert Duvall, James be seen! Plus, enter our free raffle with some of film history’s most Caan, , , for movie-themed prizes! This iconic and imitated moments John Cazale and newcomer year, turn your Father’s Day into (Brando and the orange peel, (in his third feature “Godfather’s Day” … and tell ‘em “take the cannoli,” and that film appearance) as youngest Fredo sent you. infamous horse’s head, to name son Michael, who is drawn ever just a few), The Godfather has deeper into the family business. An undisputed classic and still embedded itself in American Whether it’s your first time or one of the most acclaimed and popular culture in ways that your fiftieth time experiencing popular films of all-time, The few other films have, pleasing The Godfather, it’s impossible Godfather feels just as fresh both audiences and critics to not be moved by one of the and groundbreaking today as alike, and becoming that true greatest films ever made. (Dir. by it did in 1972. The relatively rarity: a massive, blockbuster , 1972, USA, untested young filmmaker entertainment that is also 175 mins., Rated R) Francis Ford Coppola battled great movie art. Featuring 21 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (FATHER’S DAY SCREENING!) SUNDAY, JUNE 17 AT 7:30PM REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

Celebrate Father’s Day with his brilliant but spectacularly was a playwright and received one of the screen’s most dysfunctional family as they a Braverman Grant of $50,000 gloriously dysfunctional dads spiral into glorious chaos. Gene in the ninth grade. Richie (Luke in ’s hilariously Hackman is both hilarious Wilson) was a junior champion oddball family drama, The Royal and devastating as Royal player and won the U.S. Tenenbaums! Tenenbaum, the head of a self- Nationals three years in a row. destructive family of oddball Unfortunately, virtually all “The Royal Tenenbaums geniuses who struggle to memory of the brilliance of exists on a knife edge connect with each other and the young Tenenbaums was between comedy and the world at large. Tenenbaum subsequently vaporized by two sadness. There are big and his wife, Etheline (Anjelica decades of betrayal, failure, laughs, and then quiet Huston), had three children— and disaster. Funny, sad and moments when we’re Chas, Margot, and Richie—and bewildering (sometimes within touched.” – Roger Ebert, then they separated. Chas the same scene!), The Royal Chicago Sun-Times () started buying Tenenbaums is a unique and real estate in his early teens brilliantly stylized study of This painfully hilarious tragi- and seemed to have an almost melancholy and redemption. comedy from Wes Anderson preternatural understanding (Dir. by Wes Anderson, 2001, essays the epic misadventures of international finance. USA, 110 mins., Rated R) of a misanthropic patriarch and Margot () SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 22

EDWARD II THE HOUSE I LIVE IN BRAND-NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION! WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 AT 5:30PM TUESDAY, JUNE 19 AT 7:30PM FREE ADMISSION FREE ADMISSION • $5 SUGGESTED DONATION Part of the Art for Justice Film Series PART OF OUR ESSENTIAL CINEMA SERIES presented by The University of Arizona See classic art films the way they were meant to be seen - with Poetry Center. an audience, on the big screen! “A ballsy mix of interviews and In this new restoration of the iconic New Queer Cinema classic, cinematic provocateur Derek Jarman (Sebastian, Jubilee) offers editorializing that’s daring enough to a visually extravagant, sexually provocative postmodern take question a costly crackdown that has on Christopher Marlowe’s Elizabethan drama, The Troublesome long had the public’s support. This Reign of Edward II. essential-viewing docu-essay…should spark considerable press attention, “Extravagant visual elegance and sexual politics form a volatile mix in this historical drama which can only benefit the pic’s that has a strong contemporary resonance theatrical prospects.”– Variety … turns in a most memorable performance.”– Stephen Holden, New York Times For the past 40 years, the war on drugs has resulted in more than 45 million arrests, $1 trillion dollars in government Pleasure-seeking 14th-century monarch King Edward II spending, and America’s role as the world’s largest jailer. Yet (Steven Waddington, The Imitation Game) sets the stage for for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available than a palace revolt by openly rejecting his wife, Isabella (Oscar- ever. Filmed in more than twenty states, The House I Live In winner Tilda Swinton in a ferocious performance), and taking captures heart-wrenching stories of those on the front lines as a lover the deviously ambitious street urchin Piers Gaveston — from the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer (Andrew Tiernan, The Pianist), who uses his favor in Edward’s to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge — and offers a bed to wield political influence. The pair’s decadent and penetrating look at the profound human rights implications of outrageous lifestyle shocks conservative sensibilities and drives America’s longest war. “Persuasively urgent…[The House I Live the spurned, sexually-repressed Isabella to extremes, with the In] is an insistently personal and political look at the war on ensuing turmoil eventually sending the duo from the throne drugs and its thousands of casualties.” (Dir. by Eugene Jarecki, to the torture dungeons. In Jarman’s bold re-imagining of the 2012, USA, 108 mins., Not Rated) classic Marlowe play, the story of Edward II becomes a biting commentary on homophobia in contemporary England, filled with sex, sadomasochism and a hysterically pitched moral fury. Staged in a stylistically opulent, imaginary realm outside of time (characters dance to Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” blasting on their Walkman headphones, Swinton swans through palace corridors decked out in modern haute couture, and singer Annie Lennox appears to wistfully croon Cole Porter’s “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye”), Edward II is a daringly original vision and a landmark of gay cinema. (Dir. by Derek Jarman, 1991, UK, 87 mins., Rated R) This June, The Loft Cinema boldly goes to the outer Sci-Fi Summer brings monsters, Martians and machines limits (and beyond) as we bring four classic landmarks together for a cinematic extravaganza that will definitely of science fiction cinema to the big screen, in celebration be out of this world! PLUS: enter to win fabulously stellar of the 50th anniversary 70mm re-release of Stanley movie-related prizes at each screening! Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey! And don’t miss THE SCI-FI SLUMBER PARTY, “No one knows what’s waiting for us in the Saturday, June 30 from 7:00pm to 7:00am! Details on universe. Sometimes I think we are alone, and pages 29-30. sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.”- Stanley Kubrick JUNE’S REEL READS SELECTION Purchase a copy of Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur From 2001’s mind-blowing “trip” through the evolution C. Clarke and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael of humankind to Alien’s terrifying take on the dark Benson and Shana Kinzhnikn during the month of June mysteries of space, and from Tron’s groundbreaking and receive a special “Loft Reel Reads” discount off the plunge into the digital future to Close Encounter’s cover price – 20% for Loft Cinema members and 10% for profoundly optimistic speculation on our relationship the general public. Copies of the book are available at The with visitors from beyond the stars, The Loft Cinema’s Loft Cinema and Antigone Books. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF ALIEN THURSDAY, JUNE 21 AT 7:30PM THE THIRD KIND GENERAL ADMISSION: $10 • LOFT MEMBERS: $8 (NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION!) PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING THURSDAY, JUNE 7 AT 7:30PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $10 • LOFT MEMBERS: $8 The ads warned “In space, no one can hear you scream,” but PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING everyone in a theatre showing this landmark sci-fi/horror flick will definitely hear you scream, because it’s scary as hell! In Something of a “poetic interstellar action film,” Close Ridley Scott’s Alien, a close encounter of the third kind becomes Encounters’ stunning passages of the massive alien ships an interstellar nightmare of the worst kind when an unknown appearing over the desert – told almost entirely without life form invades a spacecraft and proceeds to lay waste to every dialogue – are among the most radiantly beautiful images in all human in sight. A highly-influential shocker that spawned of sci-fi cinema, made all the more spectacular thanks to this a franchise and created a new action heroine in Sigourney gorgeous 40th anniversary digital restoration! (Dir. by Steven Weaver, Alien is a truly timeless terror classic that’s twice as Spielberg, 1977, USA, 137 min., Rated PG) terrifying on the big screen! (Dir. by Ridley Scott, 1979, USA/UK, 117 mins., Rated R)

TRON 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (70MM PRINT!) (BRAND-NEW 70MM PRINT!) THURSDAY, JUNE 14 AT 7:30PM FRIDAY, JUNE 22 - THURSDAY, JUNE 28 GENERAL ADMISSION: $10 • LOFT MEMBERS: $8 GENERAL ADMISSION: $10 • LOFT MEMBERS: $8 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

A landmark in computer animation, and one of the very first A brand-new 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick’s landmark feature films to reflect the video-game craze of the 1980s, sci-fi masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, lands at The Loft Disney’s action/adventure Tron stars a young Jeff Bridges as Cinema for one week only, June 22 – 28, in celebration of the hot-shot computer programmer Kevin Flynn, who becomes film’s 50th anniversary! This gorgeous new 70mm print is trapped inside the very game that he’s programming. Don’t being struck from the original camera negative, meaning that miss this rare opportunity to see Tron presented on the big audiences will see the film (and have their minds blown) the screen in glorious 70mm! (Dir. by Steven Lisberger, 1982, USA, same way moviegoers did in 1968! Buckle up, because it’s still 96 mins., Rated PG) “the ultimate trip!” (Dir. by Stanley Kubrick, 1968, USA/UK, 141 mins., Rated G) 25 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON IN 3D FRIDAY, JUNE 29 AT 10:00PM FRIDAY, JUNE 22 AT 10:00PM SATURDAY, JUNE 30 AT 10:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5 SATURDAY, JUNE 23 AT 10:00PM SUNDAY, JUNE 24 AT 11:00AM GENERAL ADMISSION: $7 • LOFT MEMBERS: $6 PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big screen! PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! Glamour has never been more grotesque than in ’ The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big screen! hilarious trash epic Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. An expedition up the Amazon turns into a slimy monster mash in this classic ‘50s chiller, presented in the original 3D format – the terror will be splashing right off the screen “Female Trouble has the exuberance and into your lap, so watch out! A team of intrepid scientists and energy of genius … insanely (played by 1950’s genre vets Richard Carlson, Julie Adams and logical and horribly funny!” – Interview Richard Denning) set off on an excursion up the Amazon to Magazine find traces of the Missing Link and his prehistoric past. But the unprepared explorers end up getting more than they bargained The fabulous , writer/director Waters’ larger-than-life for when they run afoul of the fabled “Gill Man” — a half man/ muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, half fish with a bad temper and an unhealthy fascination with the living embodiment of the film’s lurid mantra, “Crime is the beautiful Ms. Adams. beauty,” who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to an out-of-control fame “One of the very best of the 1950’s monster whose egomaniacal impulses, questionable parenting creature features … by a long shot.” – skills and murderous blood lust land her in the electric chair. Scott Weinberg, efilmcritic.com Shot in Waters’ native on 16 mm, with a cast drawn from his beloved troupe of regulars, the Filled with unforgettably iconic images, the most famous being (including , , , the oddly romantic synchronized swimming scene between , and ), this film­—the director’s the Gill Man and his lovely prey, Creature from the Black Lagoon favorite of his work with Divine—comes to life through the was the last of the classic Universal Studios creature features, garish, tinsel-toned vision of production designer Vincent spawning two Creature sequels (not to mention serving as Peranio and costume designer/makeup artist . An inspiration for Spielberg’s Jaws and ’s endlessly quotable fan favorite (“Nice girls don’t wear cha-cha recent Oscar-winner, The Shape of Water). Featuring luminous heels!”), Female Trouble offers up a smorgasbord of perverse underwater 3D photography and great, jump-out-of-your-seat pleasures that never fail to satisfy. (Dir. by John Waters, 1974, scares, Creature is still a ton of fright-filled fun. If you’ve never USA, 89 mins., Rated NC-17) seen this in 3D (or even if you have), you need to make plans to swim on over to The Loft Cinema and catch the Gill Man … before he catches you! (Dir. by Jack Arnold, 1954, USA, 79 mins., Not Rated / Suitable for all ages) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 26

THE ROOM (SPECIAL 4TH OF JULY SCREENING!) WEDNESDAY, JULY 4 AT 6:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $10 • LOFT MEMBERS: $8 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

Prizes will be awarded “So-bad-it’s-freakin’- soon trapped by vicious betrayals for the “best” Room- awesome.” – Clark from everyone around him and inspired costume, so Collins, Entertainment he must find a way out before get those slinky red Weekly he is torn apart! The ultimate dresses, sleeveless tees cinematic car crash from which The Room is a cinematic experience you will definitely NOT want and ill-fitting tuxedos to look away, The Room is a cult out of the closet right unlike anything you have ever seen – an electrifying, soul-searing sensation that is hilariously awful now - but leave your and borderline surreal in ways stupid comments in your explosion of love, passion, betrayal and lies, starring the truly unique that can only be explained by pocket! writer/director Tommy Wiseau as sheer artistic madness. From its Johnny, a successful, happy-go- gloriously wooden dialogue to its Oh hi, Independence! Join us as lucky banker with a great job, cool bizarre green screen depiction of we make The Room go BOOM by friends and even a girlfriend he San Francisco to its unsettling obsession with spoons, footballs celebrating America’s birthday hopes will someday be “The One.” with Tommy, Lisa, Mark, Denny But wait! Cruel fate is lurking and breast cancer, The Room is and the whole spoon-loving, around every corner, and before a film so deeply insane it must football-tossing, Scotchka- you can say “Oh, hi doggie!,” be seen to be disbelieved. (Dir. chugging Room gang! Free party drugs, deception, soft-core sex by Tommy Wiseau, 2003, USA, 99 poppers and red, white and blue and a cheating heart begin to mins., Rated R) plastic spoons will be provided! unravel Johnny’s life. Our hero is 27 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

BRIMSTONE & GLORY APOLLO 13 FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING IN OUTDOOR SCREENING AT STARR PASS BISBEE, AZ! RESORT & SPA WEDNESDAY, JULY 4 AT 8:00PM FRIDAY, JULY 6 AT 7:00PM FREE ADMISSION GENERAL ADMISSION: $6 • LOFT MEMBERS: $5

PART OF LOFT FILM FEST ON THE ROAD A community-building program that takes unexpected films for free screenings in underserved and unserved rural areas, providing a unique cultural experience. The movies will travel across Southern Arizona in The Loft Solar Cinema, a cargo van outfitted with solar panels (donated by Technicians for Sustainability) to power a PART OF OUR SCIENCE ON SCREEN SERIES 20-foot inflatable screen and state-of-the-art mobile projection Creatively pairs screenings of classic, cult, science fiction, and system. documentary films with lively presentations by notable experts from the world of science and technology. Each film is used as a jumping- This screening will take place outdoors at off point for a speaker to introduce current research or technological City Park in Historic Bisbee, 62 Brewery advances in a manner that engages popular culture audiences. Ave, Bisbee, AZ 85603. Please bring your This screening will take place outdoors own seating. at JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa, CO-PRESENTED BY CITY OF BISBEE AND DISCOVER 3800 W Starr Pass Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85745. BISBEE Please bring your own seating.

From the creative team behind Beasts of the Southern Wild comes CO-PRESENTED BY SPACEFEST IX! the astonishing, explosive, ecstatic documentary, Brimstone & Glory. The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico is Featuring a pre-show Q&A with Astronaut Fred Haise, Apollo 13 a site of extravagant festivity unlike any other in the world. In Flight Directors and Controllers Gerry Griffin and Jerry Bostick, and celebration of San Juan de Dios, patron saint of firework makers, the man who saved the Apollo 13 crew from asphyxiating by building conflagrant revelry engulfs the town for ten days. (Dir. by Viktor the “scrubber,” Sy Liebergot. Q&A begins at 7:00PM, film begins at Jakovleski, 2017, Mexico/USA, in Spanish with English subtitles, 67 8:00PM. mins., Not Rated) Join us for a special under-the-stars presentation of the Oscar-winning This screening was made possible by a grant from the 1995 hit Apollo 13 at Spacefest IX, Tucson’s yearly celebration of all National Endowment for the Arts with support from things space! Based on the gripping true story of heroic astronauts Desert Diamond Casinos & Entertainment Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (), and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) and their ill-fated lunar mission, Apollo 13 captures the tension and uncertainty of one of the most widely watched disasters in American History. What was intended to be a routine mission turned disastrous after an oxygen tank explosion threatens both the astronauts’ survival and their safe return to Earth. After hearing, “Houston, we have a problem”, astronaut Ken Mattingly (), Flight Director Gene Kranz (Ed Harris), and a heroic ground crew race against the clock to bring the crew home. Also starring Oscar- nominated Kathleen Quinlan as Marilyn Lovell. (Dir. by , 1995, USA, 140min., Rated PG) YELLOW SUBMARINE EVENT SUNDAY, JULY 8 AT 2:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $10 LOFT MEMBERS AND CHILDREN 12 & UNDER: $8 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

This film will begin a regular engagement starting Friday, July 13 (See Page 43).

Special thanks to our community partner, Zia Records!

Don’t be a Blue Meanie … join us beneath the waves as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Yellow Submarine at The Loft Cinema! See John, Paul, George and Ringo save Pepperland while they sing great Beatles tunes like “All You Need is Love,” “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and, of course, “Yellow Submarine,” in this newly-restored edition of the 1968 animated classic that will still blow your mind today! Enjoy a fab selection of pre-show Beatles music videos, and wear your best psychedelic Beatles costume to win a groovy prize! Now your friends are all on board, and you should be, too!

“The classic, trippy animated Beatles movie is back and more colorful that ever!” – Entertainment Tonight

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Yellow Submarine is a classic of psychedelic pop culture, a colorful musical spectacle and an exhilaratingly joyful cinematic experience for all ages, filled with visual invention, optical illusions, word play and of course, glorious Beatles music. (Dir. by George Dunning, 1968, UK, 85 mins., Rated G) THE SCI-FI SLUMBER PARTY! SATURDAY, JUNE 30 AT 7:00PM ADMISSION: $15 ADVANCE; $17 DAY OF; $13 LOFT MEMBERS PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

Buckle up for 12 straight age cinema, featuring games and out-of- hours of intergalactic more aliens, robots and this-world prizes, this excitement at The apocalyptic insanity is an overnight space Loft Cinema’s Sci-Fi than you can shake a odyssey of truly epic Slumber Party!, a non- light saber at! With 6 proportions! stop excursion into the sci-fi classics, vintage outer limits of space movie trailers, trivia *Start times are approximate* 7:00PM - PLANET OF THE APES (50TH ANNIVERSARY!)

Charlton Heston takes on a planet of “damn dirty apes” in this legendary sci-fi classic about a world that looks a lot like ours … until the apes start talking! A blockbuster hit that spawned a franchise that’s still going strong today, the one-and-only original Planet of the Apes is a smart, thrilling, thought-provoking slice of speculative fiction (with a screenplay co-written by Twilight Zone creator ) that still chills today, 50 years after its initial release! (Dir. by Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968, USA, 112 mins., Rated G)

9:10PM - IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE

A rescue mission to Mars accidentally brings an unwanted visitor back onto their spaceship– a scaly, toothy alien creature that proceeds to hunt down and destroy the entire crew, one-by- one! Can the hapless space jockeys destroy their nasty passenger before they return to Earth and unleash IT on an unsuspecting human population? A major inspiration for Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic Alien, It! The Terror From Beyond Space is a tight and surprisingly scary shocker from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. (Dir. by Edward L. Cahn, 1958, USA, 69 mins., Not Rated/Suitable for all ages)

10:30PM -

It’s Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day in this fun, clever, mind-bending sci-fi action flick starring as a combat-shy military man who’s killed in battle by an invading alien race, only to get caught in a crazed time loop which forces him to relive his death day over and over again. But with the help of tough solider Emily Blunt, he may eventually learn how to beat death, escape the time loop, and knock the aliens out of commission forever! Exciting, unpredictable and unexpectedly funny, Edge of Tomorrow is one the most underrated sci-fi flicks of the past decade. (Dir. by Doug Liman, 2014, USA/Canada, 113 mins., Rated PG-13)

12:40AM - THE TERMINATOR

Arnold Schwarzenegger turned in a career-defining performance as an unstoppable, monosyllabic robo-bully from the future armed with killer quips and a really bad attitude in director ’s fast paced, brutally entertaining time-travel thriller that introduced audiences to Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Conner, the woman who’s eventually going to save the world from the robots. Better watch out, Arnie! (Dir. by James Cameron, 1984, USA, 107 mins., Rated R)

2:30AM - FLASH GORDON

Flash … ah, ah! Strange energy waves from the planet are pulling the moon out of orbit and threatening Earth, so brave football quarterback Flash Gordon, the lovely and the brainy Dr. must destroy Mongo’s evil ruler, Ming the Merciless, before our planet is annihilated! This extravagantly campy, big-budget update of the 1930s Flash Gordon serials, featuring a rockin’ soundtrack by Queen, is really out of this world. (Dir. by Mike Hodges, 1980, UK/USA, 111 mins., Rated PG)

4:40AM - PITCH BLACK

Vin Diesel is Richard B. Riddick, a notorious criminal with night-vision eyes who crash lands on a desert planet and faces down a gaggle of bloodthirsty mutant monsters whose only enemy is sunlight – and wouldn’t you know it, a total eclipse is due at any moment! Will our muscle-bound anti-hero be able to save his fellow humans, defeat the dark-dwelling creatures and escape the decidedly unfriendly planet? With two Riddick sequels coming down the pike, all signs point to “yes,” but it ain’t gonna be easy! (Dir. by David Twohy, 2000, USA, 109 mins., Rated R)

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“An exquisite 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 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, 33 NEW FILMS

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

This electrifying journey your most audacious stage is the fixed point to through the public and private outfit and get ready which the film returns, with worlds of pop culture icon for the Grace Jones eye-popping performances of Grace Jones contrasts musical experience.” – Ronda “Slave to the Rhythm,” “Pull sequences with intimate Lee, Huffington Post Up to the Bumper,” “Love is personal footage, all the while the Drug,” and more. Jones brimming with Jones’s boldly herself has said watching the Sophie Fiennes’s acclaimed fierce aesthetic. A larger- film “will be like seeing me documentary goes beyond the than-life entertainer, an almost naked” and, indeed, traditional music biography, androgynous glam-pop diva, an Fiennes’s treatment is every offering a portrait as stylish unpredictable media presence – bit as definition-defying as and unconventional as its Grace Jones is all these things its subject, untamed by either subject. Taking us home and more. age or life itself. (Dir. by Sophie with her to Jamaica, into Fiennes, 2017, USA, 115 mins., the studio with long-time Not Rated) “Pure energy! If collaborators Sly & Robbie, and you want a rock-n- backstage at gigs around the roll, sexy, feel good, world, the film reveals Jones empowering film, pull as lover, daughter, mother, up to the theater in and businesswoman. But the NEW FILMS 34

BOOM FOR REAL: THE LATE TEENAGE YEARS OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 1 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Using never-before- pre AIDS, President Reagan, Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat seen works, writings and the real estate and art boom— gives an intimate view of Jean- photographs, director Sara when the urge to create was Michel Basquiat’s pre-fame life Driver (Sleepwalk) worked driven by more than money in the period 1979-1981, and closely and collaboratively and ambition. The definition of how , the times, with her friends and other fame, success and power were the people and the movements artists who emerged from very different than today; to be surrounding him formed the that scene: Nan Goldin, Jim a penniless but published poet celebrated artist he became. Jarmusch, James Nares, Fred was the height of success, until Brathwaite (aka Fab 5 Freddy), everything changed in the early “A vivid and beautifully Lee Quiñones, Luc Sante and 1980s. This is New York City’s meditative memory many others. Providing their colorful and compelling story piece on the downtown thoughts, period film footage, before that change. (Dir. by Sara New York art and music music, images and anecdotes Driver, 2017, USA, 78 mins., Not scene of the late ‘70s of their young friend, they Rated) and early ‘80s.”- Chris helped visually tell the story of Barsanti, Playlist Basquiat’s downtown NYC— 35 NEW FILMS

HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 1 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

Special opening night author Neil Gaiman and rite of passage. That doesn’t screening Friday, the director of Hedwig stop Enn from falling madly in June 1st at 7:30PM and the Angry Inch is a love with Zan (), a with Geoff Notkin match made in bizarro beautiful and rebellious alien in person for a post- world heaven.” – Nikola teenager who, despite her Grozdanovic, Playlist allegiance to her strange colony, screening Q&A! is fascinated by Enn. Together Enn (Alex Sharp) is a shy they embark on a delirious From the raucous dual suburban London teenager in adventure through the kinetic imaginations of fantasy master 1977, sneaking out with his punk rock world of 1970s Neil Gaiman (“American best friends to after-hours London, inadvertently setting Gods,” Coraline) and glam- punk parties, ruled by jaded off a series of events that will rock auteur John Cameron punk matriarch Boadicea lead to the ultimate showdown Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry (Nicole Kidman). One night the of punks vs. aliens, and test the Inch, Shortbus) comes the punks stumble upon a bizarre limits of how far each of them electrifying and singular sci-fi/ gathering of sexy teenagers will go for true love. (Dir. by pop extravaganza, How to Talk who seem like they are from , 2017, to Girls at Parties. another planet. In fact, they are USA, 102 mins., Rated R) from another planet, visiting “The creative collision of Earth to complete a mysterious Closed Captions Available. NEW FILMS 36

“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 discovering her (The Humans), The Seagull (Lady sexual power.” - explores, with comedy and Bird), Annette Bening Dana Schwartz, melancholy, the obsessive (20th Century Women) nature of love, the and Elisabeth Moss (The relationships between Handmaid’s Tale), brings One summer at a lakeside parents and children, and Anton Chekhov’s classic play Russian estate, friends and the transcendent value to life in this stunning big family gather for a weekend and psychic toll of art. Also screen adaptation directed in the countryside. While starring Corey Stoll, Jon by Tony-winner Michael everyone is caught up in Tenney, Mare Winningham, Mayer (Spring Awakening). passionately loving someone Michael Legen, Billy Howle who loves somebody else, and Brian Dennehy. (Dir. by “Bening is the best a tragicomedy unfolds Michael Mayer, 2018, USA, 98 she’s ever been about art, fame, human mins., Rated PG-13) as the vain, aging folly, and the eternal desire stage actress, with to live a purposeful life. a perfectly naïve Adapted by Tony-winning Ronan as Nina just playwright Stephen Karam 37 NEW FILMS

“First Reformed is a stunner, a spiritually FIRST REFORMED probing work of art with the soul of a STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 8 thriller.” – Justin Chang, NPR REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT Reverend Ernst Toller plunged into his own ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS FILM () is a solitary, tormented past, and equally THROUGH JUNE 21ST middle-aged parish pastor despairing future, until he at a small Dutch Reform finds redemption in an act of From celebrated filmmaker Paul church in upstate New York grandiose violence. (Dir. by (writer of on the cusp of celebrating Schrader, 2018, USA, 108 mins., and writer/director of American its 250th anniversary. Once Rated R) Gigolo and Affliction) comes a a stop on the Underground gripping thriller about a crisis Railroad, the church is now “It’s the kind of work of faith that is at once personal, a tourist attraction catering political and planetary. of art that seems to a dwindling congregation, like it could inspire eclipsed by its nearby parent “One of the best fantastic conversation. church, Abundant Life, with its We need more movies movies of 2018. A state-of-the-art facilities and like it.” – Brian cinematic whirlwind 5,000-strong flock. When a that leaves you both pregnant parishioner (Amanda Tallerico, RogerEbert. exhilarated and Seyfried) asks Reverend Toller com spent.“ – Peter to counsel her husband, a Travers, radical environmentalist, Closed Captions Available. the clergyman finds himself NEW FILMS 38

“A truly sweet, funny and HEARTS BEAT LOUD downright likable comedy.” – STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 15 Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

FREE LOFT MEMBERS In the hip Brooklyn Sam’s resistance into a band SCREENING neighborhood of Red Hook, name, the duo finds We’re Not Friday, June 15 at 7:00pm. Free single dad and record store a Band’s debut song turning for Loft Cinema members and owner Frank (Nick Offerman, into an unexpected internet open to the public at regular Parks and Recreation) is hit, and they soon embark admission prices. preparing to send his hard- on a journey of personal and working teen daughter Sam musical discovery, using their Members may pick up tickets only for (Kiersey Clemons, Dope) off to songwriting efforts to work themselves (1 for Teacher, Student, or Individual, 2 for Couple and above) college, while also reluctantly through their feelings about the at the Box Office on the day of the accepting that his struggling life changes each of them faces. Member Screening. The Box Office is business is failing and that Also starring , open 1/2 hour before the first show he’ll soon be forced to close the Blythe Danner, Ted Danson of the day. Please see the website for store. and , Hearts Beat showtimes. Loud is a funny and moving Members will be issued a return pass Hoping to stay connected look at growing up and moving (valid through the following Thursday) through their shared love of on from writer/director Brett to see this film another time, if the music, Frank urges Sam to Haley (The Hero, I’ll See You in screening is at capacity. turn their weekly “jam sesh” my Dreams). (Dir. by Brett Haley, into an actual band – a father- 2018, USA, 97 mins., Rated PG- daughter live act. Channeling 13) 39 NEW FILMS

“Fiercely entertaining from AMERICAN ANIMALS start to finish.” – David Ehrlich, STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 22 Indiewire REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

Writer/director Bart Layton’s sobering reflection on their past foolish misdeeds, debut feature is a wildly young male privilege frequently contradicting each entertaining docu-fiction and entitlement.” – other in their -like hybrid about four young Guy Lodge, Variety testimonies. Quite unlike any men who attempt one of the other heist film, American most audacious art-heists in They hatch a plot to pull off Animals is an energetic, history. American Animals is an an incredible heist: stealing a boundary-pushing thriller, unbelievable but true story of number of incredibly valuable from the director of the four college students who are volumes from their college’s acclaimed 2012 documentary, determined to transcend their under-protected rare books The Imposter. (Dir. by Bart boring middle class existence. collection. Using a great cast Layton, 2017, UK/USA, 116 of young talents like Barry mins., Rated R) “Sensational! A Keoghan and Blake Jenner, riveting college-boy Layton’s brilliant strategy is crime caper that to also incorporate the four speeds along on actual subjects who attempted pure movie-movie the 2004 burglary into the adrenaline, before film. Older, and perhaps wiser, U-turning into a these four men reflect on NEW FILMS 40

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. 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 41 NEW FILMS

ZAMA A cinematic marvel … beautiful, hypnotic, STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 29 mysterious.” – Manohla Dargis, New York Times REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

Acclaimed filmmaker character, an officer of the and intoxicating experience. Lucrecia Martel (La Ciénaga) Spanish crown (Daniel Giménez (Dir. by Lucrecia Martel, 2017, ventures into the realm of Cacho) born in the Americas, Argentina, in Spanish with historical fiction and makes waits in vain for a transfer to English subtitles, 115 mins., Not the genre entirely her own in a more prestigious location. Rated) this stunning and hypnotic As the years of waiting go by adaptation of Antonio di with no results, Zama joins “The finest film of Benedetto’s 1956 classic of a party of soldiers involved 2018 so far.” – Austin Argentinean literature. in a dangerous mission, and Collins, Vanity Fair his life begins to spiral out of “An elegant, control. Martel renders Zama’s ravishing, often world—his daily regimen of delightfully strange small humiliations and petty achievement.” – Dom politicking—as both absurd Sinacola, Paste and mysterious, and as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia, subject to a In the late 18th century, in creeping disorientation. Precise a far-flung corner of what yet dreamlike, and thick with seems to be Paraguay, the title atmosphere, Zama is a singular NEW FILMS 42

MOUNTAIN “A sublime rush of adrenaline and orchestral STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 29 beauty.” – Janine Israel, Guardian REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

Narrated by Oscar-nominee “Spellbinding including Renan Ozturk Willem Dafoe, Mountain is and beautifully (Meru). A unique cinematic and a dazzling cinematic and mood-inducing.” – musical collaboration between musical experience; an epic Susan Wloszcyna, director Jennifer Peedom odyssey through the Earth’s (Sherpa) and the Australian RogerEbert.com most awesome landscapes, Chamber Orchestra, Mountain showcasing the spellbinding is an unforgettable experience, force of high places and their Where once their remoteness scored with classical works power to shape our lives and protected their purity, and new music by Richard dreams. Only three centuries mountains have today become Tognetti. Filmed on location in ago, climbing a mountain would theatres for recreation. But Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, have been considered close to their greatest value lies in their Austria, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, lunacy; peaks were places of power to inspire wonder and France, Greenland, Iceland, peril, not beauty. Millions are awe: to remind us of the limits India, Italy, Japan, Nepal, New now enchanted by the magic of our schemes and ambition. Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New of mountains, and daring Full of breathtaking footage, Guinea, Scotland, South Africa, adventurers are attracted to both beautiful and thrilling, Switzerland, Tibet and the challenge their heights. Mountain was photographed United States. (Dir. by Jennifer by the world’s leading high Peedom, 2017, Australia, in altitude cinematographers, English, 74 mins., Not Rated) 43 NEW FILMS

YELLOW SUBMARINE NEW 50TH ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION! STARTS FRIDAY, JULY 13 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

Special thanks to our when the Blue Meanies invade score were remixed in 5.1 stereo community partner, with their army of storm bloopers, surround sound at UMG’s Abbey Zia Records! apple bonkers, snapping turtle Road Studios. From the paper-doll turks, and the menacing flying residents of Pepperland, to the glove, in an attempt to stop the tinted photography of the soot- Celebrating its 50th anniversary, music and drain Pepperland of all covered roofs and smokestacks Yellow Submarine is a classic color and hope. So it’s of Liverpool, the menagerie of of psychedelic pop culture, a to the rescue, as our animated fanciful characters in the Sea of colorful musical spectacle and an heroes team up with Young Fred Monsters, the kaleidoscopic color- exhilaratingly joyful cinematic and the Nowhere Man and journey splashed rotoscoping of “Lucy experience for all ages, filled with across seven seas to free Sgt. in the Sky with Diamonds,” the visual invention, optical illusions, Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, vertigo-inducing op-art of the word play and of course, glorious make peace with the Meanies, Sea of Holes, and the triumphant Beatles music. and restore music, color, and euphony of the “It’s All Too Much” love to the world. A landmark in finale, Yellow Submarine is quite Once upon a time…or maybe animation, with Heinz Edelmann’s simply a joy. Don’t miss your twice… there was an unearthly inspired art direction conjuring chance to experience it on the big paradise called Pepperland. 80,000 up a non-stop parade of wildly screen – and to share it with the leagues under the sea it lay, a different styles and techniques, next generation of Beatles fans! place where beauty, happiness, Yellow Submarine was hand- (Dir. by George Dunning, 1968, UK, and music reign supreme. But this restored in digital 4K, frame by 85 mins., Rated G) peaceful harmony is shattered frame, and the film’s songs and NEW FILMS 44

“ invests a crusty old man BOUNDARIES with the smoothest of sly-boots charisma in a STARTS FRIDAY, JULY 13 touching and tasteful father-daughter road REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES movie.” – Owen Gleiberman, Variety

Laura () is a to be missed.” – John the way to secretly unload his bundle of neuroses, so afraid Hammond, Deadline epic marijuana stash, resulting of abandonment she can’t in some unexpected reunions resist adopting every stray Her teen son, Henry (Lewis with old friends and family. animal she sees. Her wayward McDougall), got expelled This quintessentially American father, Jack (Oscar-winner from school for making lewd story of an estranged family Christopher Plummer), barely a portraits of the teachers. struggling to connect is infused presence in her childhood, now Sounds like this family needs with new life by writer/director finds himself kicked out of his a therapeutic road trip! Soon, Shana Feste, who coaxes edgy, senior-care facility for dealing Laura, Jack, and Henry are against-type performances weed. cruising from Seattle to Los from her stellar cast. An Angeles so Jack can move endearing comedy/drama, “Wonderful. The in with Laura’s sister JoJo Boundaries shows how the most irresistible Christopher (Kristen Schaal), on the dysfunctional families can Plummer is simply condition that Jack pays find new ways to heal, even if great. Vera Farmiga is Henry’s private school tuition. they’re all traveling in opposite glorious. A wry, funny, To make this funding possible, directions. (Dir. by Shana Feste, smart and very human Jack meets up with some 2018, USA, 104 mins., Rated R) story with a great aging-hippie pals (Christopher ensemble cast. Not Lloyd and Peter Fonda) along MONDO MO N DAYS EVERY MONDAY AT 8:00PM!

Break out the canned tuna and top it with cheese, because June is MARINE MONSTER BEACH PARTY month at Monday Mondays, featuring a fabulously fishy collection of aquatic creatures just dying to get you in the water!

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MONDAY, MAY 28 MONDAY, JUNE 4 MONDAY, JUNE 11 MONDAY, JUNE 18 MONDAY, JUNE 25 CANNIBAL OCTAMAN PIRANHA II: THE ISLAND CLAWS THE CRATER LAKE WOMEN IN THE (Dir. by Harry Essex, 1971, 79 mins., SPAWNING (Dir. by Hernan Cardenas, 1980, MONSTER Rated PG) USA, 82 mins., Rated PG) AVOCADO JUNGLE (Dir. by James Cameron, 1982, USA/ (Dir. by William R. Stromberg, 1977, Italy, 84 mins., Rated R) USA, 85 mins., Rated PG) OF DEATH “A horror heap from the A seaside Florida community gets nuclear trash!” a nasty case of the crabs, and all (Dir. by J.D. Athens, 1989, USA, 90 “The terror is back … but “A beast more frightening the killer crustacean chaos is going mins., Rated PG-13) this time it flies!” than your most terrifying A floppy-armed Octaman (you to get hotter than a tub of melted nightmare!” know: half rubber octopus, half butter in this absurd B-movie “These women are serious King of the World James Cameron’s bad actor, all hilarious) rises from monstrosity that’s just begging about their taste in men!” much-maligned directorial debut The Loch Ness Monster’s socially the depths, stumbles around a for a zesty lemon wedge. Brought unleashes fearsome flying fish with awkward cousin, a giant, stop- small village, and throws a tentacle to you by the creators of the A female tracks fangs on a tropical island resort, motion animated dino-creature, temper tantrum as he tries to get charming 1960s’ TV series Flipper, down the fabled cannibal Piranha and the unsuspecting vacationers is unleashed from the bottom of any one of his eight claws on the Island Claws is a goofy, supposedly Women, who devour men (and must decide whether to arm Crater Lake thanks to a crashing stupid humans who are trying to terrifying ‘70s eco-horror flick only men!) with guacamole, in themselves with fishing poles or meteorite, and the rural residents turn him into a fried octa-appetizer mixing Frogs with Jaws, starring an this insanely goofy Raiders spoof fly swatters in this gory and goofy of a nearby small town find him in this fun, Grade Z sci-fi/horror army of angry crabs who are mad starring ‘80s trash movie queens Italian/American co-production to be a very unappealing new atrocity that will truly have you as hell and just aren’t going to take Shannon Tweed and Adrienne which in no way indicates its neighbor, leading to a whole lot asking yourself: “What were they it anymore! Barbeau, not to mention Bill Maher director was about to give the of bad movie shenanigans in this thinking?” … or better yet, “What as a male chauvinist pig! world The Terminator! awful ‘70s drive-in classic that may were they ON?” “This giant killer crab flick is really be the pinnacle of that decade’s more entertaining than it has any bizarrely popular “creature in a right to be.” – DVD Drive-In lake” horror flicks. Or not. CULT CLASSICS THE GREATEST CULT MOVIES OF ALL-TIME ARE BACK ON THE BIG SCREEN! ADMISSION IS ONLY $6! • LOFT MEMBERS PAY JUST $5!

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