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Ernest and Ernest 26 11:30AM 34 11:30AM

NOON 02 NOON 15 NOON 35 NOON Anita Walter Ideology Guide to Guide to Pervert’s Pervert’s the Beast Beauty and 1:00PM 03 1:00PM 16 1:00PM Shorts Moliere A Tribute To To A Tribute 27 1:30PM Bob Shelton International International Bicycling with Bicycling

2:00PM 28 2:00PM 36 2:15PM 2:30PM Pechorin 04 Nobody Mr. 37 2:30PM 17 2:45PM Tatanka

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05 3:15PM Before Christmas Nightmare Nightmare Guide to Guide to A Birder’s A Birder’s Go For Sisters For Go Everything Off Label Off 4:00PM 18 4:00PM Cooke Lenny 29 4:15PM 38 4:30PM Bastards

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07 5:30PM 19 5:30PM Shorts The Congress The Harvey Girls Harvey Documentary Documentary 6:00PM 08 6:00PM Circle Circle Darker Dear Mr. Mr. Dear Watterson Breakdown The Broken Broken The I Used to Be to I Used Yo u Room A Case of A Case 7:00PM 01 7:00PM 20 7:00PM Waiting The 32 7:00PM 40 7:00PM 09 7:15PM Short

Carson Mell Mell Carson 33 7:30PM 41 7:30PM 10 7:45PM

8:00PM 21 8:00PM Blood Faust the Lake Stranger by by Stranger USA Winter in the Winter Le Week-End Le Narco Cultura Red Willow Creek Willow Music City, City, Music 9:00PM Obsession 11 9:45PM

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31 | OFFSITE | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 6:00PM A Tribute To Jon Lovitz LOFT FIM FEST 2013 THURSDAY & FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7 & 8

A SPECIAL WELCOME FROM COUNCILMAN FESTIVAL STAFF STEVE KOZACHIK HONORARY CHAIR, LOFT FILM FEST 2013 Festival Executive Director Theatre Manager & Head Projectionist PEGGY JOHNSON The Loft Film Fest is a great annual event, bringing great films and KYLE CANFIELD filmmakers to Tucson. This year’s 4th annual fest is especially great because my brother is being honored! Festival Directors Assistant Managers JEFF YANC Other than our mom, there’s not another person around who has had the JJ GIDDINGS DAVID PAIZ unique opportunity to watch Pete begin, develop and grow his career in PEDRO ROBLES films. From back-yard sets created out of hand made foam rubber models Managing Director JASON DENHOLM and shot on Super 8 film, two frames at a time, to major motion pictures BRENDA RODRIGUEZ shot over years, and at the cost of millions of dollars, I’ve seen Pete ZACH BRENEMAN become the Oscar nominee that he deserves to be. Toss into that several Volunteer Coordinator 01 LE WEEK-END 02 BICYCLING WITH MOLIÈRE years of grooming on 16mm reels spinning ads and running the board Festival Programming Consultant TIM KEENE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7 AT 7:00PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT NOON for KZAZ television right here in Tucson. Pete is our own home grown MIKE PLANTE cinematographer who has walked out his childhood dream. Projectionists OPENING NIGHT OF THE LOFT FILM FEST, The new comedy from the director of The Women Development Director We’ll all have the chance to share together his wit, wisdom and talents MIKE WILKINS PRESENTED BY DESERT DIAMOND CASINOS & on the 6th Floor! both on the big screen, and during the presentation that’ll follow the show. DEBI MABIE DALE MEYERS RESORT! I’m extremely proud of my brother, and I know you’ll come away from DAN STEEN Popular television celebrity Gauthier Valence (Lambert Wilson) the screening with a new appreciation for the complexities of putting Loft Business Manager DANIEL TERRY embarks on a train journey to France’s L’Île de Ré with a clear together a major motion picture. JONATHAN KLEEFELD Free glass of champagne (for those over 21), hors ANA HUMPHREY mission in mind: convince his old friend Serge Tanneur (Fabrice RAY BORBOA d’oeuvres and French music before the film! Luchini) to return to the stage in the lead of Molière’s The Steve Kozachik Graphics & Marketing Associate Honorary Chair, Loft Film Fest 2013 Misanthrope. After The Women on the 6th Floor, director Philippe MATT MCCOY Theatre Floor Staff “Hugely entertaining, utterly charming and Le Guay brings us another delicious, smart and cruel comedy DAVID CORREA emotionally engaging British comedy-drama with a about the pleasures of playing with words, arguing, discussing ABOUT THE FESTIVAL Development Associate SARAH JOHNSON superb script by Hanif Kureshi and a pair of terrific and rehearsing a play. (Dir. by Philippe Le Guay, 2013, France, AMY COLLINSWORTH in French with English subtitles, 104 mins., Not Rated) Digital Celebrating its fourth year in 2013, The Loft Film Fest is dedicated to LINDSEY HOLANDES performances from Jim Broadbent and Lindsay showcasing the best independent, foreign and classic films, as well as WILL ERICKSON celebrating the work of established and emerging directors, writers, Administrative Assistant BROOKE HARTNETT Duncan.” - Matthew Turner, ViewLondon producers and actors. The Loft Film Fest, through its eclectic and diverse MARTIN RIGGENBACH programming, aims not only to expand the audience for cinema that challenges, inspires and entertains, but also to honor those artists whose talent and passion bring that cinema to life. The Loft Cinema would like to express a rousing cheer of appreciation to our incredible team of volunteers whose efforts & devotion make possible this Film Fest and everything we do! Thank You! FESTIVAL PASSES GENERAL ADMISSION: $125 • LOFT MEMBERS: $100 THE LOFT CINEMA 3233 E SPEEDWAY BLVD INDIVIDUAL TICKETS TUCSON, AZ 85716 GENERAL ADMISSION: $10 • LOFT MEMBERS: $8

Tickets available at our box office or online at: 520-795-7777 (SHOWTIMES) 03 PECHORIN loftfilmfest.org 520-795-0844 (BOX OFFICE) FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 1:00PM From director Roger Michell (Enduring Love, Venus, Notting Winner! Best Feature Film / London Film Awards 2012 Hill) comes the acclaimed new romantic comedy Le Week-end, starring Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as Nick and Meg, Based on Mikhail Lermontov’s classic Russian novel, A Hero of a British couple celebrating their thirtieth wedding anniversary Our Time, this arresting film by Moscow-based auteur Khrushch with a weekend getaway in Paris. As they travel around the city, Roman is a smoky, contemplative journey into the human soul. they revisit the highs and lows of their relationship, fight about Our hero is dying on a rickety cart. The scene around him: nothing their faults, and continue to run out of restaurants without paying but desert. But the life he has led has been anything but barren. the bill. They meet up with an old colleague of Nick’s and attend Hasn’t it? Roman’s thought-provoking, mysterious and visually- a dinner party at his house, leading to some painful truths being stunning adaptation is worthy of Lermontov’s original novel. spoken aloud. Jeff Goldblum co-stars in this romantic drama that (Dir. by Roman Khrushch, 2011, Russia, in Russian with English screened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. (Dir. by subtitles, 95 mins., Not Rated) Roger Michell, 2013, UK, 93 mins., Not Rated) FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8

04 A BIRDER’S GUIDE TO EVERYTHING 05 BASTARDS 06 I USED TO BE DARKER 07 A CASE OF YOU FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 2:30PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 3:15PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 5:00PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 5:30PM

“A Birder’s Guide to Everything offers many poignant “Put simply, Bastards offers confirmation were it WITH WRITER/DIRECTOR MATTHEW SPONSORED BY SPEEDWAY VETERINARY HOSPITAL insights on the therapeutic value of community. needed that Denis remains one of the most exciting PORTERFIELD IN PERSON! The script is very funny and thankfully treats its and innovative directors working today.” - David Young writer Sam (Justin Long) has a crush on Birdie (Evan somber moments with a light touch. Moreover, the Jenkins, Little White Lies Winner! Best Director, Buenos Aires International Rachel Wood), the cute and quirky barista at his local coffee shop. When his conventional attempts to woo her crash and burn, he nature photography is always stunning and lends a Festival of Independent Cinema 2013 takes his efforts online, creating an Internet profile embellished Thoreauvian spirituality to the proceedings.” - Sound with all of the details that would make him Birdie’s dream guy: on Sight “By its end, the film had worked its way under our ballroom dancing, rock climbing, a seemingly endless, escalating skin deeper than we expected, and through skilfully series of wacky and unlikely hobbies. When the harebrained unobtrusive editing and camerawork, we felt we scheme is a surprise success and Birdie falls for his exaggerated alter ego, Sam must keep up the act or lose his dream girl forever. had a clear, honest picture of these lives.” – Jessica (Dir. by Kat Coiro, 2013, USA, 92 mins., Not Rated) Kiang, Playlist

When Taryn (Deragh Campbell), a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, Maryland, she seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in . But Kim and Bill (Ned Oldham and Kim Taylor) have problems of their own: they’re trying to handle the end of their marriage gracefully for the sake of their Acclaimed director Claire Denis’ jagged, daringly fragmented daughter Abby (Hannah Gross), just home from her first year of and darkest film is a genuinely contemporary film noir inspired college. A story of family revelations, people finding each other by recent French sex ring scandals involving men of wealth and and letting go, looking for love where they’ve found it before; and, power. Vincent Lindon (Denis’s Friday Night) stars as Marco, a Sideways meets Stand by Me in this endearing story of , when that doesn’t work, figuring out where they might find it next. sea captain gone AWOL to avenge his brother-in-law’s suicide and With his third feature, writer/director Matthew Porterfield focuses family and a place in birdwatching’s history books. On the eve to rescue his estranged sister and his teenaged niece (Lola Créton, of his widowed father’s second wedding, 15-year-old David his delicate eye on this rip in a family’s fabric and the emotional Goodbye First Love); Chiara Mastroianni (A Christmas Tale) is fallout it causes, creating a quietly riveting story enlivened by live Portnoy (Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Road) spots what may just be Lindon’s married lover, who has sold her soul in exchange for the the extinct Labrador duck. Now he and the two other stalwart musical performance. (Dir. by Matthew Porterfield, 2013, USA, 08 CARSON MELL SHORT FILMS - FREE ADMISSION! security of her young son; and the remarkable Michel Subor is her 90 mins., Not Rated) Digital FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 6:00PM members of the local Young Birders Society, joined by their husband – a sleazy financier who is the very embodiment of an headstrong photographer classmate Ellen, take off on a rollicking, evil beyond comprehension. Denis takes the viewer into the very Arizona native Carson Mell moved to , CA eleven interstate road trip in search of a rare bird and elusive answers ABOUT MATTHEW PORTERFIELD heart of darkness in her most unsettling film yet, an unforgettable years ago to work in film and television. But he’d only lived there to teenage questions large and small. With marvelous supporting Matthew Porterfield wrote and directed Hamilton, for which he and thrilling commentary on late capitalism. An official selection for three years when nostalgia for his home state inspired him performances by Ben Kingsley and James LeGros, A Birder’s was named best new filmmaker at the Boulder International Film at the Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals. (Dir. by Claire Denis, to create Bobby Bird, an aging classic rockstar with the same Guide to Everything is an alternately poignant and funny window Festival in 2007, and Putty Hill. He studied at NYU’s Tisch School 2013, France, in French with English subtitles, 83 mins., Not Arizona origins as himself. Since then, Carson has completed four into the thoughtful world of birding and the inner peace that can of the Arts, lives in Baltimore, and teaches screenwriting, theory, Rated) short films and a novel starring the wilted Zonie rocker. While be discovered during a walk in the woods. Director Rob Meyer and production at . In 2012, Porterfield the novel, Saguaro, was self-published in 2006, this October it delivers a sparkling feature film debut, as his coming-of-age tale was a featured artist in the Whitney Biennial, a Creative Capital was re-released as an e-book by Electric Literature. This “Bobby to warm the hearts of anyone who grew up with a nerdy passion grantee, and the recipient of a Wexner Center Artist Residency Bird” program brings together all four of the Bobby Bird short becomes a tenderhearted look at the moments and relationships Award. He has two feature scripts in development - Sollers Point films and features Carson reading in character from the novel that change even the most intensely focused lives. —Arthur Ryel- and the IFP No Borders project Metal Gods. Saguaro, accompanied by 8mm footage shot by his father while Lindsey (Dir. by Rob Meyer, 2013, USA, 88 mins., Not Rated) he was living in New York in the 1960’s. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8

09 WILLOW CREEK 10 RED OBSESSION 11 IL FUTURO (THE FUTURE) 12 PAINing POORtraits FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 7:15PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 7:45PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 9:45PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 AT 10:00PM WITH WRITER/DIRECTOR BOBCAT SPONSORED BY GOLDEN EAGLE Winner! KNF Award (Best Feature Film), Rotterdam WITH DIRECTORS ADAM COOPER-TERÁN AND GOLDTHWAIT IN PERSON! International Film Festival 2013 STEVEN JOHNSON LEYBA IN PERSON! FREE wine tasting before the film with a sampling “A downright scary ride that’s also a ton of fun… Co-directors Adam Cooper-Terán and Steven Johnson Leyba will be careens from the funny to the painful and then back of wines from Napa Valley’s Bennett Lane Winery! “Brilliantly realized and excitingly unclassifiable … joined by Jeanelle Mastema (featured in the film) for a post screening to funny before pouring on the scares and weirdness” what feels at first like a coming-of-age story takes Q&A and an after party with Steven Johnson Leyba’s artwork on display. – Don R. Lewis, Film Threat “This exceptional, visually and informationally rich on apocalyptic and noirish undertones, all the while doc reveals much beyond its ostensible theme.” - maintaining its focus on wounded characters in The Reverend Steven Johnson Leyba has been called the first artist of the Handsome young city lad Jim is a true believer — he’s convinced of the Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal International crisis mode.” – John Ousler, Village Voice 21st Century to offend and enlighten the masses through his ‘unspeakable existence of the sasquatch, the elusive shambling man-beast nicknamed art.’ A painter, trickster, social critic, and controversial public performance Bigfoot, said to haunt the wilds of the American West Coast. Jim’s When her parents die in a tragic car accident, adolescent Bianca’s artist, Leyba is a folk hero, loved and hated by many. PAINing POORtraits girlfriend Kelly isn’t so sure. But she loves Jim and hey, joining him on universe is upended. Staying alone in the family’s Rome apartment follows Leyba as he reclaims and re-invents his work, giving friends and his silly quest to craft a homemade documentary while seeking out the muses alike the opportunity to destroy his paintings. In his examination notorious creature, well, there could be worst ways to spend her downtime and entrusted with the care of her younger brother, Tomas, she struggles to hold things together as her place in her surreal new of Destruction, Transformation, Reclamation, and Rebirth, Leyba takes between bit-part acting gigs. The couple drives out to Trinity County, CA, on various enemies, from ex-lovers to the Monsanto Corporation, even on a pilgrimage to the site where the famous Patterson-Gimlin film clip, world becomes blurry. Life is further complicated when Toma´s’s himself as the Hero and Fool. The film is an allegory for every TRUE which purported to capture the mysterious monster in motion, was shot gym-rat friends invite themselves to stay indefinitely. Using Artist who creates as a renegade to the system, fighting globalization, in 1967. Rolling into Willow Creek, they find a wonderland of Bigfoot- Bianca as a lure for a heist they’ve concocted, they convince her celebrity, consumerism, governments, multinationals, and the growing themed gimmickry and tourist traps, and chat with assorted locals. Some to initiate a sexual relationship with an enigmatic blind hermit, ineffectiveness of today’s activists. (Dir. by Adam Cooper-Terán and of the townsfolk are happy to share, while others are apprehensive. Their Maciste (Rutger Hauer, ). But as the two spend time Steven Johnson Leyba, 2013, USA, 65 mins., Not Rated) warnings become increasingly aggressive. The deep woods are no place together, Bianca unexpectedly finds normalcy and acceptance for a couple of naïve city slickers — as Jim and Kelly are soon to find in the aging B-movie star and former Mr. Universe’s rococo out! (Dir. by Bobcat Goldthwait, 2013, USA, 79 mins., Not Rated) ABOUT ADAM COOPER-TERÁN mansion. Alicia Scherson’s striking third feature uses the streets of Adam Cooper-Terán is an award-winning visualist and performer born ABOUT BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT Narrated by Russell Crowe, Red Obsession is a film about power, Rome to create a world both richly beautiful and unapologetically and currently residing in Tucson, Arizona. An autodidact known for his passion, and the fine wine game. For centuries Bordeaux has provocative - the very aesthetic reflecting Bianca’s disorientation collaborations with the underground and avant-garde, from musicians, Since his first claim to fame as the ridiculous Zed in thePolice Academy painters, performers, poets, to sex-pressionists, and a fire circus troupe. movies of the ’80s, stand-up comic/actor/screenwriter/director Bobcat commanded a mythical status in the world of fine wines as a as the future becomes her present. (Dir. by Alicia Scherson, Goldthwait has proven his ability to entertain — and upend expectations leitmotif of wealth, power and influence. Recently, prices for its 2013, Italy/Chile/Gemany/Spain, in Italian/Spanish/English with — both before and behind the camera. Detouring from his dark, biting prestigious ‘first growth’ red wines – including names like Chateau subtitles, 98 mins., Not Rated) Digital ABOUT STEVEN JOHNSON LEYBA comedy films Shakes ( The Clown, World’s Greatest Dad, God Bless Lafite-Rothschild, Chateau Margaux and Chateau Latour – have Rev. Steven Johnson Leyba is a ritualistic, shamanistic painter of America) and high-profile TV direction gigs, Goldthwait takes a shot at been breaking all records. Something unprecedented is happening Mescalero Apache ancestry. His art is equal parts satanic, holistic, radical, political, and extremely personal. Utilizing various media, Leyba the Blair Witch School of found-footage horror flicks withWillow Creek. Preceded by the to the fine wine market and that something is China. While the creates a celebration of the sacred and profane. Paint mixes with collage, He not only makes the scary bits work — the second act’s centerpiece, dragon economy could bring untold wealth to the revered wine- a 20-minute static shot inside the couple’s tent, is an excruciatingly AQUARIUM beadwork, and DNA making bold statements about the world we live in making region, the terms of engagement are different from any and constantly questioning the very nature of Art. effective episode of fear and suspense — but amps up the empathy The end of a relationship reveals the emptiness left in a woman’s and laughs with his believable leads and very real chats with true-life other customer in the past. This market is young, voracious and life by the one she loves. (Dir. by Philippe Grégoire, 2013, sasquatch obsessives (making Willow Creek effectively a hybrid mock/ unpredictable. Demand is massively outstripping supply. The ABOUT JEANELLE MASTEMA Canada, 14 mins.) doc). A subtle examination of faith and belief, a charming expose of product is finite and this new client wants it all. For better or Jeanelle Mastema is a performer and multimedia artist born and raised cryptozoological kitsch, and a surprisingly gripping creature-feature worse, Bordeaux is hitching itself to this new, infinitely wealthy in LA. She has participated in rituals from to Tokyo with the creep-out (Goldthwait makes brilliant use of the less-is-more principle client. Red Obsession sets out to explore this phenomenon and performance project Aesthetic Meat Front, and is a member of the too often overlooked in the horror genre), Willow Creek sets out to the link between China and Bordeaux. (Dir. by David Roach & body suspension troupe CoRE (Constructs of Ritual Evolution). Her achieve some very clear goals and, well, let’s just say Goldthwait has Warwick Ross, 2-13, Australia/China/France/UK/Hong Kong, experimental art project, Virgo Rising, has led to collaborations with Ace more luck than his hapless protagonists! - Fantasia Festival. Rated PG) Farren Ford, Orlando “Oddrocker” Greenhill, the Omega Collektiv, Sein Und Zeit, and the United Satanic Apache Front. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9

13 ERNEST AND CELESTINE 14 ANITA: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER 15 INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 16 MR. NOBODY SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 10:00AM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 11:00AM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT NOON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 1:00PM SPONSORED BY GEICO SPONSORED BY SIROW: SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE The short films in this program are as wide-ranging emotionally “There is plenty to love here… the film leaves you as they are globally. 10 shorts from around the world (and some with a feeling of having watched something very SPECIAL ADMISSION PRICE: $5! FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN from right down the street) make up the most diverse program special. Definitely recommended!” – Niels Matthijs, we’ve put together yet. “A delightful melding of visual style and narrative “An enthralling and revealing portrait of Anita Hill, Twitch pirouettes, Ernest And Celestine is a just-about- whose Senate Judiciary testimony led the country KAYIP After a painful breakup with the love of his life, a man waits at a cafe perfect hand drawn animated feature!” - Screen to recognize workplace sexual harassment.” - Duane for a lifetime, hoping she will walk in again. (Dir. by Mete Sozer, 2013, Belgium / Starring Jared Leto, Sarah Polley and Dianne Kruger Turkey / USA, 14 mins.) Daily Byrge, Hollywood Reporter and featuring Rhys Ifans, Linh-Dan Pham and Juno SWEETS An unplanned pregnancy leaves Rosilind lost and kidnapping for Temple. From the creators of A Town Called Panic comes a visually An entire country watched transfixed as a poised, beautiful African- answers. (Dir. by Ellie Jepperson, 2013, USA, 10 mins.) stunning, enormously entertaining new film with generation- American woman in a blue dress sat before a Senate committee spanning appeal. Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, of 14 white men and with a clear, unwavering voice recounted the ÁSTARSAGA A story of love, madness, and 24-hour daylight. Solange’s The philosophical sci-fi/romance Mr. Nobody tells the story of tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives repeated acts of sexual harassment she had endured while working boyfriend Baldur mysteriously takes off for Iceland. She follows, but an even Nemo (Jared Leto), the world’s oldest man. In 2092, Mars has a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who with US Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. That October deeper mystery awaits her. (Dir. by Asa Hjorleifsdottir, 2012, Iceland / USA, 17 mins.) become a trendy vacation destination and humans have achieved live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist day in 1991 Anita Hill, a bookish law professor from Oklahoma, immortality, thanks to staggering advances in genetics. At the age and a dreamer – and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for was thrust onto the world stage and instantly became a celebrated, PILLOWCASE of 120 years, Nemo is the last mortal left on Earth. His death ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it Last night’s party, this morning’s problem. (Dir. by David hated, venerated, and divisive figure. Lombroso 2013, USA, 16 mins) is drawing near, and media from all over the world are eager to isn’t long before their friendship is put on trial by their respective cover the event. Nemo doesn’t really remember who he is, but he bear-fearing and mice-eating communities. Fresh from standing Anita Hill’s graphic testimony was a turning point for gender IL PASSO DELLA LUMACA As a snail slithers down a storefront manages, while under hypnosis, to recall fragmented snippets of ovations at Cannes and Toronto Ernest & Celestine joyfully leaps equality in the US and ignited a political firestorm about sexual window, two kids start a game. (Dir. by Daniele Suraci, 2013, Italy, 7 mins.) his life. While recounting this all to a reporter, Nemo reveals his across genres and influences to capture the kinetic, limitless misconduct and power in the workplace that resonates still today. recollections of three alternate life paths, each one shaped by the possibilities of animated storytelling. Like a gorgeous watercolor She has become an American icon, empowering millions of DAS FEST DER LIEBE Louise prepares for Christmas in some consequences of specific choices he has made. In each possible painting brought to life, a constantly shifting pastel color palette women and men around the world to stand up for equality and unconventional ways. (Dir. by Anna Kirst, 2013, Austria, 6 mins.) life, he is in love with a different woman, with each relationship bursts and drips across the screen, while wonderful storytelling justice. reflecting the man his choices have led him to be. As these life and brilliant comic timing draw up influences as varied as Buster FACIAL After discovering a pornographic video of his girlfriend on-line, paths begin to intersect, with the three women entering each Keaton, Bugs Bunny and the outlaw romanticism of Bonnie and Against a backdrop of sex, politics, and race, Anita reveals the Scott struggles with the past, present and future as all collide in a finale of bloody regret and lost happiness. (Dir. by Mark J. Blackman, 2012, UK, 17 mins.) others’ alternate lives, the question arises: are any of these lives Clyde. Bringing it all together is the on-screen chemistry between intimate story of a woman who spoke truth to power. Directed by real or are they all a figment of a dying man’s imagination - the the two lead characters – a flowing, tender and playful rapport that Academy Award-winning filmmaker Freida Mock, the film is both OF TEACHING KILLER WHALES COMPASSION yearning for the path not taken? This ambitious, bold and highly will put a smile on your face and make your heart glow. Based on a celebration of Anita Hill’s legacy and a rare glimpse into her Joseph, a young homeless man, struggles through another day, when a chance provocative inquiry into how even the most seemingly minor the classic Belgian book series by Gabrielle Vincent, Ernest & private life with friends and family, many of whom were by her encounter offers the promise of the change he so greatly desires. (Dir. by Raphe decisions we make can create an infinity of possibilities also stars Celestine is winner of the Cesar Award for Best Animated Feature side that fateful day 22 years ago. Anita Hill courageously speaks Wolfgang, 2012, USA, 15 mins.) Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Juno Temple, Linh-Dan Pham and and numerous festival prizes. (Dir. by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent openly and intimately for the first time about her experiences that Rhys Ifans. (Dir. by Jaco Van Dormael, 2009, France/Germany/ Patar & Benjamin Renner, 2012, France, In French with English led her to testify before the Senate and the obstacles she faced THE HARD DAYS KNIGHTS A breezy light-hearted spin on that Canada, 141 mins., Rated R) subtitles, 80 mins., Not Rated) in simply telling the truth. She also candidly discusses what American staple, the tribute band. Four young lads suffer the same issues as their lovable mop-top idols: competitive spirits, “creative differences” and equipment Preceded by the short film happened to her life and work in the 22 years since. (Dir. by failures. This particular rehearsal will expose every member - warts and all. (Dir. RIDE OVER Freida Lee Mock, 2013, USA, 95 mins., Not Rated) by Alex Italics, 2012, USA, 7 mins.) Winnie just wants to ride her bike, while Maude, her mother, is just trying to hold FIVE YEARS On the first day of his probation sentence, Will getsa it all together. Take a spin with Winnie and Maude as they playfully go head- desperate call for help from a friend in crisis. (Dir. by Durier Ryan, 2013, USA, to-head in an alternate reality of control and rebellion in this beautifully scored, 13 mins.) hand-painted animated short. (Dir. by Mik Garrison and Zoe Matthiessen, 2013, USA, 6 mins.) SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9

17 OFF LABEL 18 THE CONGRESS 19 THE WAITING ROOM 20 WINTER IN THE BLOOD SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 2:45PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 4:00PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 5:30PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 7:00PM WITH DIRECTORS DONAL MOSHER AND “An extraordinary and very touching film that WITH DIRECTOR PETER NICKS IN PERSON! WRITER/DIRECTOR ALEX SMITH AND STAR MICHAEL PALMIERI IN PERSON! exists somewhere in the twilight zone between the CHASKE SPENCER IN PERSON! existential brainteasers of Charlie Kaufman and the To honor the groundbreaking work of documentary “Lyrical … Harrowing … Palmieri and Mosher have psychedelic wonders of Hayao Miyazaki.” - Empire filmmaker (and Tucson native) Kirby Dick, The Loft Presented by Arizona State Museum’s Native Eyes Film taken on a huge and urgent topic, and their work’s Magazine Cinema is proud to establish the Kirby Dick Social Justice Showcase with support from Tohono O’odham Nation impact rests on their refusal to tell viewers how to Award, to be presented to a filmmaker selected by Kirby Museum and Cultural Center and Indigenous Strategies. feel.” – Sheri Linden, whose work examines issues of social justice. CO-SPONSORED BY UOFA SCHOOL OF THEATRE, FILM & TV The inaugural award will be presented by Kirby to Pete Nicks, followed by a screening of Nicks’ award-winning “The film is artfully and skillfully made, with stunningly documentary The Waiting Room. gorgeous cinematography of Montana’s High Line, and pitch perfect, highly detailed ‘60s era production design. The score New York Times Critics Pick - “Confronts you head-on.” is beautiful, evocative and moody, and the performances … feel authentic and lived in.” – Katie Walsh, Playlist - Stephen Holden

Based on James Welch’s classic novel of Native American life, this The Waiting Room is a character-driven documentary film that hauntingly beautiful movie follows a young Blackfoot Indian’s alcohol- uses extraordinary access to go behind the doors of an American fueled search for his wife, his rifle, his identity - and salvation. Starring public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely Chaske Spencer (The Twilight Saga), David Morse (The Green Mile), uninsured patients. The film – using a blend of cinema verité and Julia Jones (The Twilight Saga) and Gary Farmer (Dead Man). (Dir. by Based on Stanislaw Lem’s sci-fi novelThe Futurological Congress, characters’ voiceover – offers a raw, intimate, and even uplifting Alex Smith & Andrew Smith, 2013, USA, 105 mins., Not Rated) Digital Doctors today are liberally writing prescriptions for psychotropic Ari Folman’s mind-bending follow up to his Oscar-nominated look at how patients, staff and caregivers each cope with disease, drugs such as Adderall, Ambien, Zoloft, and Prozac (amongst Waltz With Bashir tells the story of (played to bureaucracy and hard choices. (Dir. by Peter Nicks, 2012, USA, ABOUT ALEX SMITH many, many others). Often these drugs are combined in extraordinary effect by Wright herself), an actress facing the harsh polypharmacy cocktails or are given out for unapproved or 81 mins., Not Rated) Alex Smith, along with his twin brother Andrew, wrote and directed the realities of aging in Hollywood. No longer getting the parts she award-winning 2002 feature film, The Slaughter Rule, starring Ryan untested indications, leading to abuse, dangerous side effects and wants, Wright accepts a lucrative offer from ‘Miramount’ to have ABOUT PETER NICKS Gosling and Amy Adams. Winter in the Blood is their second feature heavy dependence. In Off Label, Michael Palmieri and Donal her image digitized, to be controlled by the studio in the form of film. Alex teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, Peter Nicks’ first feature documentary The Waiting Room, which Mosher (October Country) examine our runaway pharma-culture a virtual performer; the catch is, she must never act again. Twenty and is the Creative Director of the non-profit University of Texas Film chronicles a day-in-the-life of an Oakland, CA hospital waiting room, was by weaving together the stories of drug testing subjects, Big Institute, where he produced Dance with the One, which premiered in years after relinquishing her identity, the contract has expired released in 2012 to critical acclaim, being named by the Pharma representatives, and many others touched by the rampant main competition at SXSW 2010, and was made entirely by students but and she is summoned to a mysterious congress taking place Film Critics Circle as the best documentary of 2012 and shortlisted for use of pharmaceuticals. Together, they create a poetic, sometimes in an animated world. Although radically different in content an Academy Award. The Washington Post named The Waiting Room one mentored by film industry professionals amusing and frequently heartbreaking emotional road trip through to his previous political documentary, Folman’s slice of sci-fi of the “ten best films of 2012” and the film garnered numerous accolades an overmedicated, misdiagnosed, and drug-addled America. (Dir. eccentricity shares a similarly daring stylistic approach, blending including the Stella Artois Truer The Fiction filmmaking grant, Gotham ABOUT CHASKE SPENCER by Donal Mosher & Michael Palmieri; 2013, USA, 80 mins., Not live-action and psychedelic animation to wholly unique effect. IFP and Independent Spirit Award nominations for best documentary and Chaske Spencer was born of the Lakota Sioux tribe, and raised on Indian Rated) Digital As a scathing satire on the movie industry it’s fascinating; as an a Cinema Eye nomination for best debut feature. Prior to his recent work Reservations in Montana and Idaho. Chaske moved to in film, Nicks worked in television for several years and earned an Emmy and was cast in his first off-Broadway play, Dracula, playing the title ABOUT MICHAEL PALMIERI & DONAL MOSHER exercise in formal experimentation, it is never less than dazzling. Co-starring Paul Giamatti, Jon Hamm and Harvey Keitel. (Dir. by for Blame Somebody Else, which explored human trafficking during the role. Since then, he has starred in numerous films and television projects, Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher collaborated to direct the acclaimed Iraq War. Nicks is now developing the second of a trilogy of character- Ari Folman, 2013, France, 122 mins., Not Rated) including Skins, Dreamkeeper and Steven Spielberg’s Into the West. He 2009 documentary feature October Country, which won a grand jury driven films exploring health care, crime and education in Oakland, CA. has also received major attention playing “Sam Uley,” the alpha male prize at Silverdocs and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. He received his BA in English from Howard University and his MA in leader of the werewolves, in the popular The Twilight Saga film series. Palmieri has directed music videos for Beck, The Strokes, and many journalism from UC Berkeley. He lives in Piedmont, CA with his wife Most recently, Chaske starred in the NBC pilot Frontier from writer/exec others. Mosher is a widely exhibited photographer and writer. and two children. producer Shaun Cassidy.

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21 A TEACHER 22 THE ROOM 23 BACKLOT SHORTS - FREE ADMISSION! 24 ZERO CHARISMA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 8:00PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 10:00PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 10:00PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 10:30PM WITH WRITER/DIRECTOR HANNAH FIDELL IN Featuring a very special meet and greet with The Room These ain’t your grandma’s shorts. Join us on the Mooney Backlot as Winner! Audience Award, SXSW Film Festival 2013 star Philip Haldiman (Denny) before the movie! we contemplate the dark underbelly - with humor, music, animation, PERSON! and other coping mechanisms. “Zero Charisma is the nerd movie I’ve been hoping Celebrate 10 glorious years of The Room by mixing, mingling and maybe Winner! Emerging Woman Award, SXSW Film even tossing a football with Philip Haldiman (“Oh, Hi Denny!”), one of ANIMATION HOTLINE A series of micro-animations that use to see for years.” - Devin Faraci, Badass Digest Festival 2013 the stars of the cinematic phenomenon, at an informal meet and greet on crowd-sourced voicemail messages for inspiration. (Dir. by Dustin Grella, 2012, the Loft’s Backlot Bar and Lounge. Philip, who shot to fame as USA, 6 mins.) the irrepressible Denny in Tommy Wiseau’s runway hit, will have the “What makes the film work is that this potentially latest copies of his new comic book, My Big Break, available for sale and BACK HOME A music video for dark folk band Rasmus Leon. Shot lurid material is treated at all times with sensitivity signing, and will be sharing anecdotes from his days on set with the cast over the course of a night and featuring Tom A. England, the video distills the 6 and crew of The Room. In this comic book series, Philip chronicles his alchemical elements he is comprised of between birth and death. (Dir. by Dustin and probing psychological seriousness.” – David Grella, 2013, USA, 5 mins.) life in Hollywood, as well as his experiences working on the film. Issue Rooney, Hollywood Reporter No. 1 of My Big Break offers a surreal sneak peek into his first meeting with Tommy Wiseau and his audition for The Room. This “Denny-tastic” PLUMAS A hunter embarks, with a pair of eggs, searching for his next Part and part provocative character study, A backlot mixer will be followed by a special 10th anniversary screening trophy. (Dir. by Quike Frances, 2013, Spain, 8 mins) of the one, the only The Room, and every ticket holder will receive their Teacher explores the unraveling of a young high school teacher, RIDE OVER Diana (Lindsay Burdge), after she begins an affair with one of her very own plastic spoon! Winnie just wants to ride her bike, while Maude, her mother, is just trying to hold it all together. Take a spin with Winnie and Maude as they teenage students, Eric (Will Brittain). What starts as a seemingly The Room is a cinematic experience unlike anything you have ever seen playfully go head-to-head in an alternate reality of control and rebellion in this innocent fling becomes increasingly complex and dangerous as beautifully scored, hand-painted animated short. (Dir. by Mik Garrison and Zoe – an electrifying, soul-searing explosion of love, passion, betrayal and Matthiessen, 2013, USA, 6 mins.) the beautiful and confident Diana gets fully consumed by her lies, starring the truly unique writer/director Tommy Wiseau as Johnny, emotions, crossing boundaries and acting out in progressively As the strict Game Master of a fantasy role-playing game, a successful, happy-go-lucky banker with a great job, cool friends THERE’S AN OCTOPUS IN YOUR HEAD startling ways. Lindsay Burdge delivers a deeply compelling and and even a girlfriend he hopes will someday be “The One.” But wait! An emotionally Scott (Sam Eidson) leads his friends in a weekly quest through masochistic ‘pancake master’ attempts to unravel the mysteries of his mind by seamlessly naturalistic performance that brings us into the mind Cruel fate is lurking around every corner, and before you can say “Oh, mysterious lands from the safety of his grandmother’s kitchen. engaging in heavy-metal musical confrontations with the devil. (Dir. by Ari But his mastery of his own domain starts to slip — along with of an adult driven to taboo against her better judgment. (Dir. by hi doggie!,” drugs, deception, soft-core sex and a cheating heart begin Grabb, 2013, USA, 8 mins.) Hannah Fidell, 2013, USA, 75 mins., Not Rated) Digital to unravel Johnny’s life. Our hero is soon trapped by vicious betrayals everything else in his life — when neo-nerd hipster Miles from everyone around him and he must find a way out before he is torn (Garrett Graham) joins the game, winning over the group with his MEETING MR. ELM A man gets a surprise visit from his girlfriend’s apart! The ultimate cinematic car crash from which you will definitely ABOUT HANNAH FIDELL psychotic ex-boyfriend, who isn’t at all what he appears to be... (Dir. by David confident charm and dethroning Scott with an unexpected coup. NOT want to look away, The Room is a cult sensation that is hilariously Hannah Fidell is a director, writer, and producer based in Bornstein, 2013, USA, 6 mins.) Caught in delusions of grandeur, Scott must roll the dice and risk awful and borderline surreal in ways that can only be explained by sheer everything to expose Miles as the fraud he believes him to be. A and was recently named one of Filmmaker magazine’s annual “25 artistic madness. From its gloriously wooden dialogue to its bizarre green THE APOCALYPSE Four uninspired friends try to come up with a darkly comedic fable of epic proportions, Zero Charisma is an New Faces of Independent Film.” Two of her short films, The screen depiction of San Francisco to its unsettling obsession with spoons, terrific idea of how to spend their Saturday afternoon. The Apocalypse. (Dir. by ode to nerds from every realm. (Dir. by Katie Graham & Andrew Gathering Squall and Man & Gun, screened at SXSW in 2012. footballs and breast cancer, The Room is a film so deeply insane it must Andrew Zuchero, 2013, USA, 5 mins.) A Teacher, which she wrote, directed, and co-produced with Kim be seen to be disbelieved. (Dir. by Tommy Wiseau, 2003, 99 mins., Rated Matthews, 2013, USA, 86 mins., Not Rated) Sherman, is her first feature film. In May, Fidell attended the R) Digital UNLOVABLE Ah, obsessive love… it never turns out well, but our gal Preceded by the short film Champs-Elysees Film Festival, where A Teacher was awarded the turns her frown right upside down! (Dir. by Jackie Hutchinson, 2013, USA, 4 US In-Progress Grand Prize. ABOUT PHILIP HALDIMAN mins.) THERE’S AN OCTOPUS IN YOUR HEAD After watching The Room, it’s easy to tell that Philip Haldiman wasn’t born to act. But the one thing he DID start doing not long after being thrust from the warm #POSTMODEM Two Miami girls and how they deal with the An emotionally masochistic ‘pancake master’ attempts to unravel confines of his mother’s womb was write. It took his experiences in Los Angeles technological singularity. (Dir. by Lucas Leyva and Jillian Mayer, 2013, USA, 12 and his time working on the outrageous cult film to come full circle and realize the mysteries of his mind by engaging in heavy-metal musical mins.) that he should stick to writing. A theater degree, a number of credits in films you’ll confrontations with the devil. (Dir. by Ari Grabb, 2013, USA, 8 never see, a unique cinematic phenomenon and a journalism career later, he looks mins.) to his next project — a comic book series. By day, Haldiman works as a reporter MONOMYTH Winona, a young woman struggling to become a fantasy for The Arizona Republic. novelist, creates a heroic, sword-wielding character named Oraflex to distract her from her unbearably mundane reality. (Dir. by Sam Cooke, 2013, USA, 21 mins.) SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10

25 WALTER: LESSONS FROM THE WORLD’S OLDEST PEOPLE 26 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - FREE ADMISSION! 28 THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 29 THE HARVEY GIRLS: OPPORTUNITY BOUND SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 11:00AM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 11:30AM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 2:00PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 4:15PM WITH DIRECTOR HUNTER WEEKS IN PERSON! SPONSORED BY GEICO WITH VISUAL EFFECTS ARTIST PETE KOZACHIK WITH PRODUCER/EDITOR THADDEUS HOMAN A special free 35mm screening of the French fantasy classic, IN PERSON! IN PERSON! “Leisurely … intimate … heartfelt.” – Eric Monder, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the passing of poet, Film Journal International painter and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. SPONSORED BY GEICO AND SUVA SPONSORED BY SIROW: SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE Jean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of Mme. Leprince de FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN Beaumont’s fairytale masterpiece – in which the pure love of Pete Kozachik is an award-winning animator, visual effects a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral but gentle beast – is a artist and cinematographer, who will present a 20th anniversary The Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound is a new documentary that landmark of motion picture fantasy, with unforgettably romantic screening of his first major film, the animated classic The explores how starting in the 1880’s, over 100,000 brave young performances by Jean Marais and Josette Day. (Dir. by Jean Nightmare Before Christmas, for which he was nominated for women, Harvey Girls as they were called, made an unusual Cocteau, 1946, France, in French with subtitles, 93 mins., Not an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Pete’s other credits decision to leave home and travel west to work as waitresses Rated) 35mm include Corpse Bride and Coraline. Pete’s next project has just along the transcontinental railroad opening the doors of both the been announced: Auntie Claus, a stop-motion animated feature West and the workplace to women. (Dir. by Katrina Parks, 2013, based on Elise Primavera’s book. Pete is also the brother of 57 mins., Not Rated) Digital Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik. ABOUT THADDEUS HOMAN “T’was a long time ago, longer now than it seems, in a place that Thaddeus Homan has had an extensive career in communication perhaps you’ve seen in your dreams. For the story you are about arts, including working for top brand marketing firms and ad After an encounter with Walter Breuning, the World’s Oldest Man, to be told took place in the holiday worlds of old. Now, you’ve Hunter Weeks and his fiancée Sarah, embark on an adventure to agencies. After graduating from the University of Arizona, he probably wondered where holidays come from, if you haven’t I’d moved to San Francisco where he parlayed his degree in marketing meet the oldest people in the world, including some of the people say it’s time you begun.” born in the 1800s. Capturing the extraordinary lives of people 110 and eye for design into a diverse career working for industries years or older, including World’s Oldest Person, Besse Cooper of ranging from toy manufacturing to international engineering and And so begins Tim Burton’s fanciful tale of Pumpkin Kings, Oogie construction. Producing animation for the web brought a whole Georgia, the couple’s journey sheds light on what is truly important Boogies, and Sandy Claws, The Nightmare Before Christmas. in life. Traveling across the , Cuba, and Italy, Hunter new dimension of creativity to his work, which led to a career Filled with terrifyingly beautiful sights and one hell of a catchy in film production and editing. Thaddeus was the co-producer, and Sarah explore life’s lessons, connecting us through the stories soundtrack, The Nightmare Before Christmas tells the simple of several living supercentenarians and the families that support editor and DP on the 2011 feature film Better than Crazy and has 27 TATANKA story of Halloween Town’s most famous citizen, Jack Skellington, directed music videos for musicians Chuck Prophet and Stephanie them. Walter takes viewers on a marvelous journey, a story of SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 1:30PM and his desire to bring the colorful joy of Christmas Town to Finch. perseverance and purpose, meditations on love and life. (Dir. by the German-expressionistic gloom of his community of ghouls Hunter Weeks, 2013, USA, 84 mins., Not Rated) Digital WITH DIRECTOR JACOB BRICCA IN PERSON! through some of the most remarkable stop-motion animation ever Preceded by the short film SPECIAL PREVIEW SCREENING! seen. (Dir. by Henry Selick, 1993, USA, 76 mins., Rated PG) KEEPER OF THE MOUNTAINS, WITH DIRECTOR ABOUT HUNTER WEEKS SPONSORED BY UOFA SCHOOL OF THEATRE, FILM & TV ALLISON OTTO IN PERSON! Hunter Weeks has directed and produced six feature films, including ABOUT PETE KOZACHIK the award-winning documentaries Ride the Divide (2010), 10 MPH What would you sacrifice to change the world? In the compelling documentary Animator, visual effects artist, and cinematographer Pete (2007) and Where the Yellowstone Goes (2012). He is also the author of Tatanka, the son of a sixties activist confronts the enigma that is his father, a Keeper of the Mountains is a portrait of Elizabeth Hawley and her the 10 MPH DIY Manual, which discusses unique PR, marketing, and man whose uncompromising idealism helped build a movement but nearly tore Kozachik began collaborating with Henry Selick in 1990, and was unlikely key role in the Golden Age of Himalayan mountaineering, distribution insights on how to distribute indie films both digitally and his family apart. Featuring Joan Baez, Dolores Huerta and Daniel Ellsberg. (Dir. the director of photography on the director’s features James and her defiance of the traditional gender roles of her day andher conventionally without a major distributor. Hunter is a contributor and by Jacob Bricca, 2013, USA, 87 mins., Not Rated) Digital the Giant Peach (for the stop-motion portions) and The Nightmare decision to settle alone in Kathmandu in 1960, where she has Before Christmas consultant with Workbook Project and has spoken on his achievements in ABOUT JACOB BRICCA . On the latter, Mr. Kozachik was also part of the famously lived life on her own terms ever since. (Dir. by Allison distributing and marketing films at various major film events, including movie’s visual effects team, and as such was an Academy Award Jacob Bricca is the editor of a dozen feature films, including Terry Gilliam’s Lost Otto, 2013, USA, 25 mins., Not Rated) the , Galway Film Fleadh, The Conversation, and in La Mancha. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Theatre, nominee. DIY Days. Film and Television at the University of Arizona in Tucson. SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10

30 DEAR MR. WATTERSON 31 A TRIBUTE TO JON LOVITZ SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 5:00PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 6:00PM AN EXPLORATION OF CALVIN & HOBBES! AT A PRIVATE RESIDENCE, NOT AT THE LOFT CINEMA

“The film will send a viewer scrambling for their PASS HOLDERS: $25 • LOFT MEMBERS: $40 lovingly battered old copies of Yukon Ho! or GENERAL ADMISSION: $50 Something Under the Bed is Drooling.” - Rob Thomas, RECIPIENT OF THE 2013 LOFTY LIFETIME Capital Times ACHIEVEMENT AWARD! Calvin & Hobbes dominated the Sunday comics in thousands of newspapers for over 10 years, having a profound effect on YEAH! THAT’S THE TICKET! millions of readers across the globe. When the strip’s creator, Bill Watterson, retired the strip on New Year’s Eve in 1995, devoted Jon Lovitz will be presented with a LOFTY Lifetime Achievement Award readers everywhere felt the void left by the departure of Calvin, at a party at the home of Loft Cinema board member Paul Alexander and his wife Kathy Alexander. The party will include clips from Jon’s career Hobbes, and Watterson’s other cast of characters, and many fans and a discussion with Arizona Daily Star editorial cartoonist David would never find a satisfactory replacement. Fitzsimmons. The party will be catered by Heist Pizza Parlour.

It has now been more than a decade since the end of the Calvin Jon Lovitz’s career as comedian and actor got started on Saturday & Hobbes era. Bill Watterson has kept an extremely low profile Night Live with his oddball characters like Tommy Flanagan, The during this time, living a very private life outside of Cleveland, Pathological Liar, Annoying Man, Master Thespian, Hannukuh Harry Ohio. Despite his quiet lifestyle, Mr. Watterson is remembered and and Mephistopheles. Since then he has been seen on every possible appreciated daily by fans who still enjoy his amazing collection format including film, TV, Broadway, comedy clubs, and new media of work. (podcasts, anyone?) His film career includes roles in some of the most popular and funniest Mr. Watterson has inspired and influenced millions of people films ever made, including Big with , The Three Amigos through Calvin & Hobbes. Newspaper readership and book sales (shot in Tucson) with , Chevy Chase and Martin Short, A can be tracked and recorded, but the human impact he has had and League of Their Own, High School High, Todd Solondz’s Happiness, the value of his art are perhaps impossible to measure. The Producers and Richard Kelly’s . He has worked with some of today’s most successful directors including Woody Allen, Penny This film is not a quest to find Bill Watterson, or to invade his Marshall, and Rob Reiner. privacy. It is an exploration to discover why his ‘simple’ comic strip made such an impact on so many readers in the 80s and 90s, His television career includes one of the Loft staff’s favorite animated series, and NewsRadio, is the voice of Artie Ziff on The and why it still means so much to us today. (Dir. by Joel Allen Simpsons and was Archie Baldwin on . He has guest Schroeder, 2013, USA, 89 mins., Not Rated) starred on some of the most popular sitcoms ever, including and Friends.

His stage career includes the lead in ’s The Dinner Party (taking over from ), he has sung at Carnegie Hall, at Royal Albert Hall with English Rock Star . One of the few comedians to start as an actor and then do stand-up, thanking for helping him take the leap. SUNDAY & MONDAY NOVEMBER 10 & 11 MONDAY NOVEMBER 11

32 FAUST 34 THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY 35 A TRIBUTE TO BOB SHELTON 36 GO FOR SISTERS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 7:00PM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT 11:30AM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT NOON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT 2:15PM

Winner! Golden Lion (Best Film), Venice International Film “Intellectual rock star Slavoj Žižek dishes out another SPONSORED BY THE TUCSON FILM OFFICE! Two time Academy Award nominee (Lone Star) returns to Festival action-packed lesson in film history and Marxist the border in this new thriller starring Edward James Olmos. Bernice (LisaGay Hamilton) and Fontayne (Yolonda Ross) grew up the closest Employing elaborate camera movements, a dense soundscape, dialectics with The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, a RECIPIENT OF THE 2013 LOFTY LIFETIME of friends, but took very different paths in life. Twenty years later, those intricate production design and spectacular locations, Faust riveting and often hilarious demonstration of the ACHIEVEMENT AWARD! paths cross: Fontayne is a recovering addict fresh out of jail, and Bernice conjures up a unique and phantasmagoric vision of the Faustian Slovenian philosopher’s uncanny ability to turn is her new parole officer. But when Bernice’s son Rodney goes missing on the Mexican border, his shady partners in hiding or brutally murdered, legend about a man willing to bargain away his soul. This latest movies inside out and accepted notions on their In his honor, The Loft Cinema is creating the Bob retelling of Faust – one of the most popular stories in she needs someone who can navigate Rodney’s world without involving literature - is a mad, delirious, often surreal and unforgettably head.” - Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter Shelton Tucson Film Legacy Award, which Bob will the police... and turns to Fontayne. The pair enlist the services of Freddy beautiful cinematic feast from master filmmaker Alexander present at next year’s Loft Film Fest. Suárez (Edward James Olmos), a disgraced ex-LAPD detective, and plunge into the underbelly of Tijuana, quickly finding themselves in a Sukurov, director of Russian Ark and Alexandra. (Dir. by potentially deadly cat-and-mouse game with a ruthless gang of human Alexander Sukurov, 2013, Russia, in German with subtitles, 140 Bob Shelton personifies film in Tucson! Through his personal traffickers.(Dir. by John Sayles, 2013, USA, 123 mins., Not Rated) mins., Not Rated) Digital dedication, enthusiasm and perseverance, Bob singlehandedly built Tucson into The Hollywood of the Desert. From the 1960s until the early 1990s, Shelton oversaw the production more than 300 films and television shows.

Films included McClintock, starring John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara and Bob Shelton himself; El Dorado, directed by Howard Hawkes and starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum; Hombre, starring Paul Newman and Frederick March; Dirty Dingus Magee, starring and George Kennedy; Monte Walsh, starring Lee Marvin and Jeanne Moreau; Rio Lobo, directed by Hawkes Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Žižek re-teams with director with Wayne and Jennifer O’Neill, The Life and Times of Judge Sophie Fiennes (The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema) for another Roy Bean, starring Newman and Ava Gardner; The Man Who wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and Loved Cat Dancing, starring Burt Reynolds and Sarah Miles; The philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for Outlaw Josey Wales, directed by and starring . 33 NARCO CULTURA popular culture, Žižek literally goes inside some truly epochal 37 LENNY COOKE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 7:30PM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT 2:30PM movies, all the better to explore and expose how they reinforce Television series at Old Tucson under Bob’s reign included High “An eye-opening examination of Mexico’s blood-soaked drug war prevailing ideologies. As the ideology that undergirds our Chaparral and episodes of Bonanza, Gunsmoke and Little House “A film that will stand with and Sugar as cinematic fantasies is revealed, striking associations emerge: and its unsettling pop-culture side effects, Narco Cultura is as on the Prairie. An actor himself, Bob was the driving force behind the best portraits of failed path to sports stardom.” - overwhelming as it is absorbing.” - Geoff Berkshire, Variety What hidden Catholic teachings lurk at the heart of The Sound Tucson’s film industry, which at the time was second only to Los Filmmaker Magazine of Music? What are the fascist political dimensions of Jaws? Angeles for production activity. To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, Taxi Driver, Zabriskie Point, The Searchers, The Dark Knight, narco traffickers have become iconic outlaws and the new models In 2001, Lenny Cooke was the most hyped high school John Carpenter’s They Live (“one of the forgotten masterpieces Shelton is a champion of the film industry in Tucson, proving its of fame and success. They represent a pathway out of the ghetto player in the country, ranked above future greats LeBron James, of the Hollywood Left”), Titanic, Kinder Eggs, verité news importance as an economic driver by bringing $20-25 million a - a new form of the American Dream, fueled by the war on drugs. Amar’e Stoudemire and . A decade later, Lenny footage, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” and propaganda epics from year into the local economy. Bob continues to fight for the film Narco Cultura looks at this explosive phenomenon from within; has never played a minute in the NBA. In this quintessentially Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia all inform Žižek’s stimulating, industry here, vocally supporting film incentives for the state of cycles of addiction to money, drugs and violence that are rapidly American documentary, filmmaking brothers Joshua and provocative and often hilarious psychoanalytic-cinematic rant. Arizona. gaining strength on both sides of the US/Mexican border. (Dir. (Dir. by Sophie Fiennes, 2012, UK/Ireland, 136 mins., Not Rated) Benny Safdie track the unfulfilled destiny of a man for whom by Shaul Schwarz, 2013, USA/Mexico, in Spanish with English superstardom was only just out of reach. (Dir. by Ben & Joshua subtitles, 103 mins., Rated R) Safdie, 2013, USA, 88 mins., Not Rated) MONDAY NOVEMBER 11 MONDAY NOVEMBER 11

38 DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 39 THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN 40 STRANGER BY THE LAKE 41 MUSIC CITY, USA MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT 4:30PM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT 5:00PM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT 7:00PM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT 7:30PM The Loft Film Fest’s first collection of documentary shorts Winner! Best Actress & Best Screenplay, Tribeca Winner! Un Certain Regard (Directing Prize), WITH DIRECTOR CHRIS MCDANIEL IN PERSON! includes a wide range of experiences and techniques, all of Film Festival 2013 Cannes Film Festival 2013 them engaging and unique. In the new documentary Music City, USA, viewers get an Winner! Audience Award, International Film “An absorbing and intelligent exploration of queer intimate, behind the scenes look at the music capital of the world THE LADY IN NUMBER 6 as seen through the eyes of some of the biggest names in music. 109 year old Alice Herz Sommer, the world’s oldest pianist and Festival 2013 desire spiced up with thriller elements … shot in But Nashville, currently a town built on music, wasn’t always Holocaust survivor, shares her story on how to achieve a long lush, deceptively serene widescreen tableaux, this “Music City. “ Find out how this printing and insurance mecca and happy life. One of only 8 documentary short films shortlisted Belgium’s official submission for the 2014 Best improbable cocktail makes for entrancing viewing.” became the music center of the world, and see how, thanks to this for this year’s ! (Dir. by Malcolm Clarke, 2013, Foreign Language Film Academy Award! – Boyd van Hoeij, Variety thriving music community, the city was reborn after a massive Canada / USA / UK, 39 mins.) flood devastated the area in 2010 - a rebirth spearheaded by the artists, entertainers and musicians who put the “Music” in Music THE HEALING POWER OF ART “An immensely moving drama … a powerful and haunting An idyllic gay cruising spot in rural France provides the backdrop City. This new documentary illuminates what Nashville used Children faced with life-altering challenges share their art and tale of love, death and bluegrass … a mournful song for Alain Guiraudie’s mesmerizing mix of explicit sexual coupling to be, why Nashville was settled and how it grew into the rich reveal how Children’s Healing Art Project (CHAP) has improved played on a broken instrument, with striking visual and old-school Hitchcockian suspense. Boyishly handsome cultural mecca it is today. Home to music superstars from ALL their lives. (Dir. by Mariah Dunn, 2013, USA, 20 mins.) accompaniment.” – Mark Kermode, Guardian Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps) spends several languid summer genres, Nashville boasts some of the greatest musicians and recording studios in the world, and in Music City, USA, legendary I’LL BE FINE days lounging around a lakeside beach populated by men of all Punky Elise runs a tattoo shop. Cowboy Didier plays banjo in a shapes and sizes. He’s most attracted to the muscular, mustachioed talents like Vince Gill, Charlie Daniels, Pam Tillis, Naomi Judd A documentary about a family, their home, and the trials of living bluegrass band. When they meet, it’s love at first sight. When they Michel (Christophe Paou), who has Franck all but proposing on and Ricky Skaggs come together to tell us how Nashville became with a nineteen-year-old son who has autism. (Dir. by Micha move into a homey old farmhouse where their daughter Maybelle bended knee after a day of sexual frolic. But Franck’s desire turns ground zero for modern music-making. While country music Hilliard, 2013, USA, 15 mins.) is born, their happiness is complete. But when a crisis strikes the to unease when, late one night, he witnesses an act of shocking is, of course, a Nashville staple, many rock superstars like The hopeful new family, these two very different lovers are forced to Black Keys, The Kings of Leon, and Jack White of the White JONATHAN violence and finds himself drawn into an enticing web of danger fight for their marriage together. Elise finds comfort in religion, that may put his life in jeopardy. As sexual intrigue turns to Stripes also call Nashville home, and it is this exciting blending Jonathan wakes up every day at 3:15am to work at a in Ecuador while Didier clings to the here-and-now, and the two find their paranoia, Franck must contemplate the unthinkable: could this of different musical genres, styles and personalities that makes with his mother and sister. When his day ends well past 7:00pm, love and faith tested as they drift farther away from each other, sinewy Adonis actually be a murderer? This enigmatic meditation the city so uniquely “Nashville.” Music City, USA is an inspiring, what would overwhelm most of us simply fuels Jonathan for grasping for moments of connection amid their rousing country on love, sex and murderous desire is, on the surface, a deeply enlightening and entertaining documentary for anyone who another day. (Dir. by Abe Zverow, 2013, Ecuador / USA, 15 mins.) concerts. Flemish director follows up unconventional thriller. But it’s also something much more - with believes in the power of music. (Dir. by Chris McDaniel, 2013, his acclaimed drama The Misfortunates with this powerhouse USA, 80 mins., Not Rated) Digital A STORY FOR THE MODLINS its graphically un-simulated couplings, rigorously composed melodrama. Cutting between moments in time in an increasingly widescreen frames, eerily lush landscapes and empathic The tale of Elmer Modlin, who, after appearing in Rosemary’s sophisticated play with linearity, van Groeningen weaves together understanding of gay culture in all its multi-faceted shades, ABOUT CHRIS MCDANIEL Baby, fled with his family to a far-off country and shut himself and ultimately fuses the highs and lows of one tragic romance in a the film also feels like a queer-cinema landmark. (Dir. by Alain Chris McDaniel is an award winning filmmaker with strong away in a dark apartment for 30 years. (Dir. by Sergio Oksman, timeless tale of star-crossed lovers. Belgium’s official submission Guiraudie, 2013, France, in French with subtitles, 97 mins., Not ties to the Arizona film community. He produced the acclaimed 2013, Spain, 26 mins.) for the 2014 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, The Rated/Contains explicit sexual situations) Digital documentary Blood Into Wine featuring TOOL front man Maynard Broken Circle Breakdown is an epic, crowd-pleasing, tear-jerking, THE ROPER James Keenan and his transformation from full time rock star to one-of-a-kind musical romance. (Dir. by Felix Van Groeningen, Jerome, Arizona winemaker. McDaniel also produced the comedy A black man with hip-hop and zydeco roots hard-grafts through 2013, Belgium/Netherlands, in Flemish with subtitles, 111 mins., Queens of Country starring Lizzy Caplan and Ron Livingston, shot the local, all-white rodeo circuits in the Deep South as he dreams Not Rated) Digital in Cave Creek Arizona, due out later this year on TriBeCa Films of competing in the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. (Dir. by and his current feature, Music City, USA, is his directorial debut. A Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands, 2012, USA, 6 mins.) chiropractor, poet and children’s book author (The Adventures of Dusty Popsallot), this Arizona filmmaker stays busy and assures us his next music-themed film is right around the corner.