Loft Film Fest Schedule
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
LOFT FILM FEST SCHEDULE THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY NOV 7 NOV 8 NOV 9 NOV 10 NOV 11 THEATER 01 THEATER 01 THEATER 03 BACKLOT THEATER 01 THEATER 03 BACKLOT THEATER 01 THEATER 03 THEATER 01 THEATER 03 10:00AM 13 10:00AM 11:00AM 14 11:00AM 25 11:00AM Celestine 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 3:00PM The The 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 5:00PM 06 5:00PM 30 5:00PM 39 5:00PM 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 Films 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 A Teacher 11 9:45PM 10:00PM 12 10:00PM 22 10:00PM 23 10:00PM 24 10:30PM 11:00PM Il Futuro Shorts Backlot PAINing PAINing The Room The POORtraits Zero Charisma MIDNIGHT 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 Baltimore. 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.