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Film Guide June 2018 FILM GUIDE JUNE 2018 www.loftcinema.org SCI-FI SUMMER & THE SCI-FI SLUMBER PARTY! SELENA SING-A-LONG! | THE GODFATHER, 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: SCREAM-O-RAMA 7-8 FREE TO ROAM SOLAR CINEMA 10, 14, 27 RENEGADE BREWING COMPANY 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 • 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 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 WWW.LOFTCINEMA.ORG See what films are playing next, buy tickets, look up showtimes and much more! 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 science fiction 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 Stanley Kubrick’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 Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, one of the first films to envision alien visitors as our allies rather than our enemies (insert your own modern metaphorical relevance here …); Disney’s visually stunning Tron, 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), The Terminator and Flash Gordon. 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 Louis Malle’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.
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