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THE LOFT CINEMA Showtimes: FILM GUIDE 520-795-7777 MAY 2019 WWW.LOFTCINEMA.ORG See what films are playing next, buy tickets, look showtimes & much more!

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FREE MEMBERS SCREENING • 1702 Craft Beer & • Epic Cafe • R-Galaxy Pizza SHADOW • Ermanos • Raging Sage (SEE PAGE 40) • aLoft Hotel • Comics • Rocco’s Little FRIDAY, MAY 31 AT 7:00PM • Antigone Books • First American Title • Aqua Vita • Frominos • SW University of • Black Crown Visual Arts REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES • Heroes & Coffee • Shot in the Dark $9.75 - Adult | $7.25 - Matinee* • Hotel Congress $8.00 - Student, Teacher, Military • Black Rose Tattoo Cafe • Humanities $6.75 - Senior (65+) or Child (12 & under) • Southern AZ AIDS $6.00 - Loft Members • Bookman’s Seminars Foundation *MATINEE: ANY SCREENING BEFORE 4:00PM • Bookstop • Jewish Community • The Historic Y Tickets are available to purchase online at: • Borderlands Center • Time Market loftcinema.org/showtimes Brewery • KXCI or by calling: 520-795-0844 • Tucson Hop Shop • Brooklyn Pizza • La Indita • UA Media Arts Phone & Web orders are subject to a • Cafe Luce • Maynard’s Market $1 surcharge. There is a $1 surcharge for all • Varsity Hotel 3-D screenings. • Cartel Coffee Lab • OLLI • Visit Tucson Visitor • Casa Video • Parks & Recreation PLEASE NOTE: Center Screen 2 is not wheelchair accessible. • Chocolate Iguana • Pima Community • Welcome Diner • Coyote Wore College HEARING LOOP AVAILABLE IN ALL 3 • Whole Foods SCREENS. Sideburns • Pima County Made possible by Paul & Mary Koss. • Downtown Clifton Libraries • Xoom Juice Hotel • Public Brewhouse • Zia Records THE LOFT CINEMA 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. | Tucson, AZ 85716 loftcinema.org

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Executive Director: Peggy Johnson Deputy Director: Zach Breneman Program Director: Jeff Yanc Marketing Director: J.J. Giddings Finance Director: Jonathan Kleefeld Director of Membership and Services: Amber Kleefeld Director of Education and Engagement: Shawna DaCosta Deputy Marketing Director: Matt McCoy Marketing Associate: Ben Mackey Administrative Assistant/Outreach Coordinator: Daniela Ontiveros Director of Theatre Operations: Jason Denholm Assistant Managers: Ray Barboa, Marcel Jeanisse, Candace Ripley, Pedro Robles-Hill, Brenda Rodriquez, A.J. Simon

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 Secretary Lisanne Skyler Joanne Stuhr Betsy Bolding Joe Tarver Jaime Gutiérrez Frank Valenzuela Dianne Iauco Jan Mueller, Emeritus Mary Koss Dear of The Loft Cinema, We always look forward to May!

As we’ve done for the past 14 years, we celebrate the 12 winners of First Friday Shorts with the Golden Gongs, where one talented local filmmaker will take home $1000 and the inspiration to continue to make films! The Loft Cinema has one of the longest-running short film competitions in the country and we’re very proud of the talent and ingenuity that is represented in the winning films from the past 12 months.

May is also the month we get serious about the Loft Film Fest, which celebrates its 10th edition November 7-14! May 1 is the date filmmakers can submit their films for consideration. The Cannes is also in May, the first serious look at the films and filmmakers to keep an eye on!

Speaking of the Loft Film Fest, our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts is now official, and we are grateful for NEA support for 3 years in a row. NEA grants are highly competitive and having an NEA grant validates our efforts to make the Loft Film Fest whatVariety magazine calls “first class”.

May is a month full of great films and events! Enjoy!

Peggy Johnson, Executive Director The Loft Cinema

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FREE SOLO WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 AT 8:00PM PRE-SHOW ACTIVITIES AT 7:00PM FREE ADMISSION

FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MALL!

PRESENTED BY CATS AFTER DARK – PART OF FINALS SURVIVAL WEEK!

See the Oscar-winning documentary, Free Solo, presented outdoors on the UA Mall, projected on the Loft Cinema’s giant inflatable solar cinema screen! Come early to “free solo” on a climbing , build your own trail mix snack (for FREE SOLO CatCard holders), and enjoy other “finals week” stress relief WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 AT 8:00PM activities! This is a great event for UA students, and is also PRE-SHOW ACTIVITIES AT 7:00PM open to the general public. Please bring your own seating. FREE ADMISSION From award-winning documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (Meru) and world-renowned photographer FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING From award-winning documentary annals of achievement. and mountaineer comes National Geographic AT THE UNIVERSITY OF filmmaker Elizabeth Chai (Dir. by Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Documentary Film’s Free Solo, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber , ARIZONA MALL! Vasarhelyi (Meru) and world- Chai Vasarhelyi, 2018, USA, 100 renowned photographer and mins., Not Rated) as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the PRESENTED BY CATS AFTER face of the world’s most famous rock—the 3,000ft El Capitan mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes in Yosemite National Park—without a rope. Celebrated as DARK – PART OF FINALS National Geographic Documentary This screening is part of Loft one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, Honnold’s SURVIVAL WEEK! Film’s Free Solo, a stunning, Film Fest on the Road, made climb set the ultimate standard: perfection or death. intimate and unflinching portrait possible by a grant from See the Oscar-winning the National Endowment for Succeeding in this challenge, Honnold enters his story in documentary, Free Solo, presented of the free soloist climber Alex the Arts with support from the annals of human achievement. (Dir. by Jimmy Chin & outdoors on the UA Mall, projected Honnold, as he prepares to achieve Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, 2018, USA, 100 mins., Not Rated) Desert Diamond Casinos & on the Loft Cinema’s giant his lifelong dream: climbing the Entertainment. This screening is part of Loft Film Fest on the inflatable solar cinema screen! face of the world’s most famous Road, made possible by a grant from the Come early to “free solo” on a rock—the 3,000ft El Capitan in National Endowment for the Arts with support climbing wall, build your own trail Yosemite National Park—without from Desert Diamond Casinos & Entertainment. mix snack (for CatCard holders), a rope. Celebrated as one of the and enjoy other “finals week” greatest athletic feats of any kind, stress relief activities! This is a Honnold’s climb set the ultimate great event for UA students, and standard: perfection or death. is also open to the general public. Succeeding in this challenge, Please bring your own seating. Honnold enters his story in the SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 7

FIRST FRIDAY SHORTS: THE GOLDEN GONG YEAR-END SHOWDOWN FRIDAY, MAY 3 AT 9:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 • LOFT CINEMA MEMBERS: $6

All your favorite filmmakers from PLUS: Year #15 of First Friday This year’s Golden Gong Year #14 will be on hand as we Shorts begins the same night, Showdown will feature films by: pit them against one another in a immediately following the year- Grant Gyves cinematic smackdown from which end showdown, so bring us your Eric Flores only one director shall emerge new films as well, because one Colm Keeney victorious. First Friday Shorts lucky filmmaker will escape the hosts Bridgitte Thum and Mike dreaded “gong” to become our first Andrew Ryan Sterner call the shots and dole winner of the new year, walking John Konrad out the comedy as we see who away with a sweet $200 cash prize! Rich Montoya will survive to claim the glorious Chris Keaton “Golden Gong” trophy (perfect for PLEASE NOTE: We will only be Sofia Moraga home use!), the amazing cash prize accepting 6 new entries at this Toth of $1,000 and endless bragging show, so please make sure you get rights! Be there to support your your film in early. Sarah Bosson favorite, because your votes will Matt Cole make it all happen. Isaac Switzer Merritt Crocker 8 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

SHIN GODZILLA YOUNG GUNS II FRIDAY, MAY 3 AT 10:00PM SATURDAY, MAY 4 AT 7:00PM SATURDAY, MAY 4 AT 10:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $5 • LOFT MEMBERS AND GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 WAGON WHEEL PASS HOLDERS: $4 GATES OPEN AT 5:30PM, MOVIE STARTS AT 7:00PM PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big OUTDOOR SCREENING AT OLD TUCSON! screen! Featuring Young Guns II screenwriter and Make way for the ultimate homage to one of the most producer, John Fusco, in person! enduring legends of the big screen – Godzilla, The King of the is back in Tokyo for a city-crushing crusade that This screening will take place outdoors at speaks to the very roots of the world-renowned franchise. Old Tucson, 201 South Kinney Road, Tucson, AZ. Please bring your own seating. Bleacher “Shin Godzilla isn’t your grandma’s Godzilla. seating is also available. This isn’t like any Godzilla you’ve seen.” – Jay Hawkinson, Bloody Disgusting Go out in a Blaze of Glory at this outdoor screening of the 1990 Shot at Old Tucson , Young Guns II, shown on It’s a peaceful day in when a strange fountain of The Loft Cinema’s giant inflatable screen next to the world- water erupts in the bay, causing panic to spread among famous Mission set! Walk down Main Street, the same street government officials. At first, they suspect only volcanic where Emilio Estevez, and Lou Diamond activity, but one young executive dares to wonder if it may be Phillips met their destiny! Delicious food and drinks will be something different … something alive. His worst nightmare available for sale, including a full bar, theater snacks and Big comes to life when a massive gilled emerges from Jake’s BBQ sandwiches. the deep and begins tearing through the city, leaving nothing but destruction in its wake. As the government scrambles to Filmed on location at legendary Old Tucson Studios, this save the citizens, a rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through action-packed sequel to the original 1988 Young Guns a web of red tape to uncover the monster’s weakness and takes the legend of to new heights of western its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not excitement! En route to Mexico from the United States, on their side – the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez) and his associates are pursued world is about to evolve right before their very eyes. With by federal agents hell-bent on bringing them to justice. Shin Godzilla (aka Godzilla Resurgence), co-directors Hideaki But when Billy, Doc (Kiefer Sutherland) and Chavez (Lou Anno (Evangelion) and Shinji Hijuchi (Attack on Titan) have Diamond Phillips) prove too difficult to track down, the unleashed an epic, thrilling, action-packed installment of frustrated authorities enlist an old friend of theirs, reformed the enduring series (the 32nd film in the franchise, (), to take down the and a monster hit in its native Japan) that harkens back to elusive gunslinger. But Billy has a head start, and his crew the terrifying realism of Ishirô Honda original 1954 classic, of outlaws is growing by the minute. Also starring Christian Godzilla! (Dir. by Hideaki Anno & Shinji Hijuchi , 2016, Japan, Slater and Viggo Mortensen, Young Guns II is driven by the in Japanese with subtitles, 120 mins., Not Rated) rocking theme song, “Blaze of Glory” by Jon Bon Jovi (who also appears in the film). (Dir. by Geoff Murphy, 1990, USA, 104 mins., Rated PG-13) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 9

ASTROFILM EXTRAVAGANZA: ALL ABOUT EVE MAKING SENSE OF OUR CONNECTION TUESDAY, MAY 7 AT 7:30PM TO THE UNIVERSE THURSDAY, MAY 9 AT 11:00AM SUNDAY, MAY 5 AT 2:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 | LOFT MEMBERS: $10 GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 • LOFT MEMBERS & PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING CHILDREN 12 & UNDER: $6 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE SERIES Featuring an introduction and Q&A with Experience the best of British theatre on the big screen, astrophysicist Stéphanie Juneau, filmmaker captured live and presented in beautiful high definition! Bryan Nelson, and director/performer Stephanie Cortes. (The X-Files, NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire) and Lily James (Cinderella; Baby Driver) lead in All This event is part of Science on Screen, an About Eve, broadcast live to cinemas from the West End in initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, . in partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. “An acting masterclass from Gillian Anderson.” – Financial Times Science and art unite in this thought-provoking, family- friendly event featuring astronomy documentaries and live All About Eve tells the story of Margo Channing. Legend. performance. In Children of the Universe, a primary school True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has class embarks on a cosmological journey in the snow- been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful covered Swiss Alps, guided by Tucson-based astrophysicist Eve. The golden girl, the . But you know all Stéphanie Juneau, and in Streetlights of the Universe, a about Eve…don’t you…? Lifting the curtain on a world of groundbreaking new experiment aims to create the largest- jealousy and ambition, this new production, from one of ever 3-D map of the universe, using telescopes located at the world’s most innovative theatre directors, Ivo van Hove Kitt Peak National Observatory in Southern Arizona. These (Network, NT Live: A View from the Bridge), asks why our two short documentaries are connected by Cirque Roots’ fascination with celebrity, youth and identity never seems latest creation, Exist: Messengers of the Cosmos, an astronomy to get old. Adapted by Ivo van Hove from the Oscar-winning circus production that uses live spoken word, dazzling circus 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film by Joseph L Mankiewicz performance, and hypnotic dance to explore our connections and the play “The Wisdom of Eve” by Mary Orr. Ivo van to the cosmos. (Total event running time: 120 mins.) Hove directs this new stage version with set and lighting design from Jan Versweyveld, costume design by An D’Huys Stéphanie Juneau is an associate astronomer at NOAO and music from double Mercury Prize-winner PJ Harvey, (National Optical Astronomy Observatory), headquartered alongside Tom Gibbons’ sound design. Casting is by Julia in Tucson. She received her PhD in astronomy at the Horan CDG. (Running time: approximately 130 mins. / No University of Arizona in 2011 under the supervision of Intermission / Not Rated) NOAO’s Mark Dickinson. Her research interests are focused on the evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes across cosmic time. 10 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUPPETS FRIDAY, MAY 10 AT 10:00PM SATURDAY, MAY 11 AT 10:00AM SATURDAY, MAY 11 AT 10:00PM FREE ADMISSION GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 PART OF OUR LOFT JR. SERIES PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! A free monthly series showcasing great new and classic The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big family-friendly films from around the world! Pre-show screen! activities hosted by Mildred & Dildred Toy Store starting at 9:15am. Get ready to Bend and Snap while wearing your best pink ensemble, because whoever said orange is the new pink was PRESENTED BY PIMA COUNTY LIBRARY seriously disturbed! In this knockout comedy with a heart of gold (and to match!), () The Muppets return to the big screen in this hilarious, big- is a California blonde with couture clothes, fabulous friends hearted, song-filled comedy/adventure extravaganza that and the hottest boyfriend on campus. proves once and for all nobody does it better than Kermit and Company! “ is guilty of inciting a near laugh-riot thanks to an irresistible While on vacation in , Water, the world’s whose comic instincts are as impeccable as her biggest Muppet fan, his brother Gary (Jason Segal), and manicure.” – Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today their schoolteacher friend Mary () uncover the diabolical plot of a greedy oil baron to destroy the Muppet So when the snooty Warner Huntington III (Matthew Theater. Now, the Muppet-loving trio must try and reunite Davis) suddenly dumps her and heads for Harvard Law Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo and all their friends School, Elle takes matters into her own perfectly manicured to stage the biggest, greatest, most entertaining Muppet hands. Packing her sassy chihuahua, Bruiser, into her telethon ever to save their beloved theater! Perfectly color-coordinated handbag, Elle enrolls at Harvard Law, too. updated for a new generation yet still featuring all of the Now, getting Warner back should be a snap, right? Wrong! gently subversive humor, showbiz razzle dazzle, big musical Facing everyone’s low expectations regarding her chances numbers, cool celebrity cameos (! Donald Glover! for success, Elle’s about to begin the toughest fight of her !), and goofy puns that have long made The life for love, justice and respect for blondes everywhere! Muppets a national treasure, The Muppets is fabulous family Also starring as dreamboat Elliot, fun that brings on the blissful grins days after viewing. as mean girl Vivian, and Jennifer Coolidge as Paulette the Wacka-Wacka-Wacka! (Dir. by James Bobin, 2011, 103 mins., manicurist, Legally Blonde offers hilarious proof that one Rated PG) should never underestimate a blonde Gemini vegetarian with a hidden knack for the law! (Dir. by Robert Luketic, 2001, USA, Special thanks to our community partner, 96 mins., Rated PG-13) Tucson Museum of Art!

Closed Captions and Audio Description Available SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 11

THE GUARDIANS MOMMIE DEAREST SATURDAY, MAY 11 AT 7:00PM SUNDAY, MAY 12 AT 7:30PM FREE ADMISSION REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING IN PATAGONIA, AZ SPECIAL MOTHER’S DAY SCREENING!

This free screening will be held outdoors in Mommie Dearest, the mother of all camp classics, is a lavish, Patagonia, AZ at the Patagonia Public Library, outrageously over-the-top shocker detailing Hollywood 342 Duquesne Avenue, Patagonia, AZ, 85624. legend ’s infamously troubled relationship Please bring your own seating. Please note: In with her adopted daughter, Christina. the event of inclement weather, this outdoor screening will be moved to an indoor venue “In Mommie Dearest, Dunaway does not chew nearby. scenery. Dunaway starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene and swallows it This screening is part of Loft Film Fest on the Road, a whole, costars and all.” – Variety community-building program that takes unexpected films for free screenings in underserved and unserved rural areas, Based on Christina’s Crawford’s best-selling bombshell providing a unique cultural experience. of a memoir, this 1981 big screen adaptation, equal parts glossy biopic and unintentional horror flick, is driven to A visually dazzling meditation on the delicate balance untold heights of “did that really just happen?” hysteria between human and nature, The Guardians elegantly by the ferocious performance of , who so interweaves the lives of the iconic monarch butterfly with an scarily inhabits the role of Joan Crawford that it’s difficult indigenous community in Mexico. Both depend on the same to tell where one actress ends and the other begins. Told ancient forest for their survival and now face an uncertain from the perspective of a grown-up Christina remembering future. Migrating 3,000 miles to hibernate in the towering her traumatic upbringing at the hands of her movie Oyamels, the monarch population faces collapse, hitting a star mother, Mommie Dearest details “Mommie” Joan’s record low of 33 million, down from 1 billion just twenty spectacular unraveling under the pressures of alcohol, men years ago. In the valley below, the people of Donaciano Ojeda and show business, transforming before our very eyes from must carve out a sustainable future in their ancestral lands Hollywood Goddess into the rampaging domestic monster now part of the protected Monarch Butterfly Biosphere of her daughter’s controversial allegations. Though the film Reserve. Once loggers of this forest, they’ve made a radical flopped with mainstream audiences upon its initial release, decision to stop and regrow it instead. (Dir. by Ben Crosbie and Dunaway’s way-out-there performance (which often and Tessa Moran, 2018, USA/Mexico, 70 mins., Not Rated) resembles a kabuki drag show) earned equal parts hosannas and derision from bewildered critics, Mommie Dearest was Special thanks to our community partner for instantly enshrined as a hilarious, no-holds-barred camp this screening, Patagonia Public Library. classic of epic proportions, introducing such unforgettable lines as “No wire hangers, ever!,” “Don’t f**k with me, fellas This screening was made possible by a grant … this ain’t my first time at the !,” and “Tina, bring from the National Endowment for the Arts me the ax!” into the pop culture lexicon. (Dir. by Frank Perry, with support from Desert Diamond Casinos & 1981, USA, 129 mins., Rated R) Entertainment 12 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

MAMMA MIA SING-A-LONG! SUNDAY, MAY 12 AT 2:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $12 LOFT MEMBERS AND CHILDREN 12 & UNDER: $10 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

You can dance! You can jive! Having the time of your life … Spend Mother’s Day with and the music of ABBA at the Mamma Mia Sing-A-Long!, featuring a special screening of the smash hit movie musical with onscreen lyrics so you can sing-a-long to all the catchy tunes, including ‘Dancing Queen,’ ‘Take a Chance on Me,’ ‘Waterloo’ and many more! Enjoy pre-show ABBA music videos and complimentary fun packs filled with props and surprises to MAMMA MIA SING-A-LONG! use throughout the movie! Fabulous prizes will be awarded to the best ABBA-inspired outfits, and delicious “Chiquitita SUNDAY, MAY 12 AT 2:00PM Margaritas” will be available at the snack bar! Mamma Mia, GENERAL ADMISSION: $12 • LOFT MEMBERS AND CHILDREN 12 & UNDER: $10 here we go again … PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

Based on the Broadway smash and filled with all the incredibly catchy ABBA songs you know and love, Mamma You can dance! You can jive! Based on the Broadway smash men (Brosnan, Firth and Stellan Mia! is an irresistibly charming musical extravaganza Having the time of your life … and filled with all the incredibly Skarsgård) arrive for the wedding guaranteed to have you singing and grooving like the Spend Mother’s Day with Meryl catchy ABBA songs you know and at the sun-drenched Greek island Dancing Queen you know you are! Oscar-winner Meryl Streep and the music of ABBA love, Mamma Mia! is an irresistibly where Donna runs a hotel, Donna Streep leads an all-star cast, including Pierce Brosnan and at the Mamma Mia Sing-A-Long!, charming musical extravaganza flips out when she finds the Colin Firth, in this musical celebration of mothers, daughters featuring a special screening of guaranteed to have you singing passions she thought she’d laid and fathers, and true loves lost and new ones found. Young the smash hit movie musical with and grooving like the Dancing aside are coming back to life, and Sophie (), daughter of Donna (Streep), sends a letter to three men, inviting them to her wedding – onscreen lyrics so you can sing- Queen you know you are! Oscar- she’s going to need the help of because after reading her mother’s diary, she suspects one a-long to all the catchy tunes, winner Meryl Streep leads an all- her two best gal pals (Christine of them is her father. But which one? When all three men including ‘Dancing Queen,’ ‘Take star cast, including Pierce Brosnan Baranski and ), not to (Brosnan, Firth and Stellan Skarsgård) arrive for the wedding a Chance on Me,’ ‘Waterloo’ and and Colin Firth, in this musical mention a whole bunch of ABBA at the sun-drenched Greek island where Donna runs a hotel, many more! Enjoy pre-show ABBA celebration of mothers, daughters songs, to help her make it through! Donna flips out when she finds the passions she thought music videos and complimentary and fathers, and true loves lost and (Dir. by Phyllida Lloyd, 2008, USA, she’d laid aside are coming back to life, and she’s going to fun packs filled with props and new ones found. Young Sophie 108 mins., Rated PG-13) need the help of her two best gal pals ( surprises to use throughout the (Amanda Seyfried), daughter of and Julie Walters), not to mention a whole bunch of ABBA movie! Fabulous prizes will be Donna (Streep), sends a letter songs, to help her make it through! (Dir. by Phyllida Lloyd, 2008, USA, 108 mins., Rated PG-13) awarded to the best ABBA-inspired to three men, inviting them outfits, and delicious “Chiquitita to her wedding – because after Margaritas” will be available at the reading her mother’s diary, she snack bar! Mamma Mia, here we go suspects one of them is her father. again … But which one? When all three SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 13

FEATURING A POST-FILM Q&A JIMI HENDRIX: ELECTRIC CHURCH WITH JIMI HENDRIX’S SISTER, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 AT 7:30PM JANIE HENDRIX! REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

The thrilling music documentary largest U.S. audience of his a musical level, but also in terms Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church tells career – Jimi Hendrix was the of socio-political dynamics. It the story of the Jimi Hendrix critical component needed to was assumed that rural audiences Experience’s involvement as the elevate this three-day festival to would not take kindly to “long- headliner of the Second Atlanta a major cultural event. Featuring hair” bands, and that black and International Pop Festival, recently unearthed footage white artists could not comfortably then hailed as the ‘Southern (largely unseen until now) of exist on the same bill; Atlanta Pop Woodstock,’ on July 4th, 1970. Hendrix performing “Hey Joe,” “All set out to challenge those beliefs. Along the Watchtower,” “Purple Hendrix’s music and message of “This unearthed cinematic Haze” and many more classics, universal love made him the ideal nugget provides further Electric Church also features rare artist and, appropriately, was the evidence, not that any interviews with Hendrix himself, first act booked for the festival. was necessary, of the as well as Hendrix’s Experience (Dir. by John McDermott, 2019, legendary performer’s band mates Billy Cox and the late USA, 90 mins., Not Rated) magnetism and musical Mitch Mitchell, along with Paul virtuosity.” – Frank Scheck, McCartney, Steve Winwood, Rich Hollywood Reporter Robinson, Kirk Hammett, Derek Special thanks to our Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, and many community partner, Performing before an audience others. His performance at the Zia Records. of over 500,000 people – the Festival was not only significant on 14 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S PINK FLAMINGOS MOST WANTED FRIDAY, MAY 17 AT 10:00PM FRIDAY, MAY 17 AT 7:00PM SATURDAY, MAY 18 AT 10:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 FREE ADMISSION PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING IN HIMMEL PARK! The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big This screening will take place outdoors on screen! “Hippie Hill” at Himmel Park, 1000 N. Tucson PLEASE NOTE: Boulevard. Please bring your own seating. The NO ONE UNDER 18 WILL BE ADMITTED! You Sly Dog food truck will be on site selling tasty hot dogs and more! Divine and her demented brood battle to claim the title of “Filthiest People Alive” in one of the most notorious, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted is the fast, funny, action- outrageous and shocking comedies ever made – a joyous packed third installment in the popular Madagascar series. rollercoaster of depravity the whole family can enjoy … well, Animal pals Alex (), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman maybe the Manson family! (David Schwimmer) and Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith) are still in Africa, and still trying to make it back home to New York’s Pink Flamingos follows the adventures of Babs Johnson (the Central Park Zoo. incredible Divine), a plus-sized, style-obsessed criminal “Eye-popping and bounding with energy, this on the lam from the FBI who lives in a trailer with her is fun for audiences of all ages.” – Christopher egg-loving, mentally ill mother Edie (Edith Massey), her Tookey, Daily Mail delinquent son Crackers, and her bleached-blonde traveling companion Cotton. Soon, their strange (yet strangely idyllic) life is turned upside down when an eccentric couple, They are forced to take a detour to Europe to find the Raymond and Connie Marble (David Lochary and Mink penguins and chimps who broke the bank at a Monte Carlo Stole), “two jealous perverts”, try to seize Babs’ tabloid title casino. When the obsessive French animal-control officer of “Filthiest Person Alive.” Not about to relinquish her filthy Capitaine Chantel DuBois (Frances McDormand) picks up crown without a fight, Babs and her family retaliate in a no- their scent, Alex and company are forced to hide out in a holds-barred smackdown of sleaze. With an ever-escalating traveling circus to evade capture, and the foursome go to avalanche of demented acts that includes murder, bestiality, great lengths to impress the veteran circus animals and black market baby selling, furniture licking, castration, improve the struggling circus’ chances of winning a coveted cannibalism, a dizzying variety of sexual perversions and a American tour contract. But when it looks like the group’s final act of depravity so vile it redefines the word “filth,” Babs dream of returning to the New York Zoo may finally be and her deranged entourage shatter every conceivable taboo within their grasp, the quartet must question whether they with hilarious tongue-in-cheek gusto. An anarchic comedy really want to go back! Also featuring the voices of Sasha unlike any other, the massively successful Pink Flamingos Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, , became a midnight movie sensation (and was even banned Bryan Cranston and Martin Short. (Dir. by Eric Darnell, Tom in several countries!), launching writer/director McGrath & Conrad Verson, 2012, USA, 93 mins., Rated PG) into the annals of cinema history as America’s leading authority on bad taste. (Dir. by John Waters, 1972, USA, 93 mins., Rated NC-17) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 15

CHICKEN RUN THE ROCKY HORROR SATURDAY, MAY 18 AT 7:00PM PICTURE SHOW FREE ADMISSION SATURDAY, MAY 18 AT MIDNIGHT GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING AT FLOWERS & BULLETS! NO ONE UNDER 17 ADMITTED WITHOUT PARENT OR GUARDIAN. MUST HAVE PHOTO ID. This screening will take place outdoors in “Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the Tucson, AZ at Flowers & Bullets, 3538 E. Rocky Horror Picture Show cult is the extent Ellington Place, 85713. Please bring your own to which it evokes and weirdly resurrects, as seating. Please note: In the event of inclement if in a haunted house, a form of cinema as weather, this outdoor screening will be moved community that once flourished in the U.S., to an indoor venue nearby (ramada). when Hollywood was still in its heyday.” - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sight and Sound This screening is part of Loft Film Fest on the Road, a community-building program that takes unexpected films Whatever happened to Saturday night? It was locked in a for free screenings in underserved and unserved rural areas, closet with The Rocky Horror Picture Show and it hasn’t been providing a unique cultural experience. the same since! Unleash your inner Sweet Transvestite when the mother of all cult classics hits the big screen with the From Aardman Studios, makers of the Wallace and Gromit “Heavy Petting” shadow cast, live and in your face! You’ll see films, comes this wonderfully “egg-citing” Claymation a healthy young couple inducted into the world of absolute action/comedy in which the chickens will have their day! pleasure, Transylvanians doing the pelvic thrust and a On a Yorkshire chicken farm in 1950s England, a budding sexy scientist trying to free us of all our inhibitions (not to romance between Rocky the Rooster and Ginger the Chicken mention our clothing)! So pull up your fishnets and get ready leads to a daring escape plan. Both chickens are tired of to become a creature of the night at the strangest, sexiest being repressed by the farm’s owners, the evil Mr. and Mrs. “science fiction double feature” of all-time, a Loft Cinema Tweedy, and knowing that they’ll eventually end up on the tradition for 41 years and counting! (Dir. by Jim Sharman, dinner table, Rocky and Ginger decide to rally their fellow 1975, UK/USA, 98 mins., Rated R) chickens for a great escape from the wicked farmers, leading to a hilarious “chicken run” that no one will ever forget! (Dir. by Peter Lord & Nick Park, 2000, UK, 84 mins., Rated G)

Special thanks to our community partner for this screening, Flowers & Bullets.

This screening was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts with support from Desert Diamond Casinos & Entertainment 16 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA SIGNS (35MM PRINT!) THE BALLAD OF GREGORIO WITH LIVE MUSIC SCORE BY SUNDAY, MAY 19 AT 7:30PM CORTEZ (NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION!) GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 THE INVINCIBLE CZARS! WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 AT 7:30PM FREE ADMISSION | $5 SUGGESTED DONATION WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 AT 7:30PM PART OF LOFT STAFF SELECTS! GENERAL ADMISSION: $12 • LOFT MEMBERS: $10 A monthly series showcasing film favorites chosen by our PART OF OUR ESSENTIAL CINEMA SERIES PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING amazing Loft Cinema staff! This month’s film was chosen by See classic art films the way they were meant to be seen - Laura Bargfeld, Floor Staff! with an audience, on the big screen! The band encourages attendees to dress for the Halloween season at this scarifying screening! “A beautifully-crafted, white-knuckle, roller- coaster ride of old-school filmmaking – the Forced to run from the Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican Don’t miss this special screening of the 1925 silent horror kind that believes that the less you show, the American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight, classic, The Phantom of the Opera, starring the legendary Lon better.” – Lou Lumenick, New York Post evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days. Chaney, featuring an original live score combining rock and In this frightening, mind-bending sci-fi thriller from Oscar- orchestral music, created and performed by the acclaimed “A gripping film that establishes the power nominated writer/director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Austin music ensemble, The Invincible Czars! of language to both unite and unwittingly Sense; Unbreakable), an ordinary American family is forced divide.” – J Hurtado, Screen Anarchy The most adventurous band from Austin, TX – The Invincible to confront the terrifying possibility of extraterrestrial Czars – is bringing their latest film score to Tucson to invasion. Signs tells the story of the Hess family, who live Producer-star Edward James Olmos (American Me), seeking perform it live to The Phantom of the Opera starring and work on a farm in rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania. to shed new light on a real-life historical incident that had Lon Chaney! Fans, theaters and media have praised The Life down on the farm is extraordinarily ordinary, until been enshrined in a corrido (folk song), enlisted director Invincible Czars for making silent horror films “actually the family patriarch, Graham (Mel Gibson), wakes up one Robert M. Young (Alambrista!), a longtime practitioner scary” for modern-day audiences, so get ready to be morning to discover a 500-foot crop circle in their backyard. of socially engaged realism, to helm this trailblazing frightened! Set in nineteenth century , The Phantom As he investigates the growing mystery, and his family , a landmark of Chicano cinema. Shifting of the Opera tells the story of aspiring young opera comes to believe that extraterrestrials are responsible for the its perspective between the pursuers and the pursued, Christine Daaé (Mary Philbin), who discovers that she has appearance of the cryptic sign in their field, everything he The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez is a thrilling chase film and a a mysterious admirer intent on helping her become a lead had assumed about the world begins to change. As Graham, nuanced procedural that peels away the layers of prejudice performer. This enigmatic masked presence is Erik, also his brother (), and his young children and myth surrounding Cortez, uncovering the true story known as the Phantom (Lon Chaney), a horribly disfigured (Abigail Breslin and Rory Culkin), watch with growing dread of an ordinary man persecuted by the law and transfigured recluse who lives in the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera from their isolated farm, the news of crop circles being by legend. Based on the book, With a Pistol in his Hand by House. When the Phantom takes Christine prisoner and found all over the world begins to spread, and this typical Américo Paredes, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (recently demands her devotion and affection, her suitor, Vicomte American family must soon face the horrifying possibility restored by the Academy Film Archive) was one of the first Raoul de Chagny (Norman Kerry), sets out to rescue her. But that they are about to face their last moments on Earth as U.S.-produced films to feature a Latin , and is striking will he be too late? Featuring lavish sets, electrifying action the world prepares for the ultimate invasion from beyond today for its timely resonance with current immigration (including the famous “crashing chandelier” scene), romance the stars. Filled with M. Night Shyamalan’s trademark issues. (Dir. by Robert M. Young, 1981, USA, in English and and truly frightening horror (Chaney’s monstrous makeup blend of suspense and mystery, Signs explores the real-life Spanish with no subtitles, 106 mins., Rated PG) still sends shivers up the spine), The Phantom of the Opera phenomena of crop signs with a chilling sense of impending is a terror classic best experienced on the big screen! (Dir. by terror not easily forgotten! (Dir. by M. Night Shyamalan, 2002, Rupert Julian, 1925, USA, 93 mins., Not Rated) USA, 106 mins., Rated PG-13) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 17

JURASSIC PARK NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION! FRIDAY, MAY 24 AT 7:30PM FREE ADMISSION FRIDAY, MAY 24 AT 10:00PM, SATURDAY, MAY 25 – MONDAY, MAY 27 FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING IN PALO VERDE AT 11:00AM AND 10:00PM PARK! GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6

This screening will take place outdoors at Palo PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! Verde Park, 425 South Mann Avenue, Tucson, The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big AZ, 85710. Please bring your own seating. screen!

The following food trucks will be on site for Hey you guuuuyyyssss! Relive the totally awesome ‘80s this screening: Kettlicious Kettle Corn, Bugaloo’s adventure that convinced an entire generation of suburban Soft Serve, Cotton Family Barbecue, Johnny’s kids that there was buried treasure in their backyards, and Philippine Grill, and Jackie’s Food Court! that a freaky dude named Sloth was really just a fun-loving guy with a thing for Baby Ruths! In this Spielberg-produced This screening is part of Loft Film Fest on the Road, a action extravaganza, a group of pre-teen friends called The community-building program that takes unexpected films Goonies band together to save their Oregon neighborhood for free screenings in underserved and unserved rural areas, – affectionately dubbed “the Goon Docks” – from being providing a unique cultural experience. demolished by real estate developers.

Experience an adventure 65 million years in the making at “The Goonies is one of those magically this special outdoor screening of the original Jurassic Park, entertaining films that never gets old … projected on the Loft Cinema’s giant, dino-sized solar cinema No matter what your age, there’s of screen! Food trucks will be on site at this event. danger, fun, and laughs waiting around every bend.” – Michael Zupan, DVD Talk ’s blockbuster prehistoric creature feature Jurassic Park was advertised as “An Adventure 65 Million What they really need in order to save the day is a lot of Years in the Making,” and that about sums things up in this cash, and lucky for them, they’ve discovered an old treasure pulse-pounding thrill-ride that made the whole world go map, sparking an adventure to unearth the long-lost fortune dino-crazy. of 17th-century pirate One-Eyed Willie. But first they’re going to have to outwit a trio of bumbling criminals and Special thanks to our community partner, a survive an onslaught of wacked-out booby traps as they Palo Verde Park Neighborhood Association. get ever closer to Willie’s fabled treasure. Starring a “who’s who” of then up and coming young , including Sean This screening was made possible by a grant Astin, Corey Feldman, Martha Plimpton and Josh Brolin, from the National Endowment for the Arts The Goonies is a rip-roaring, rollercoaster ride of movie that with support from Desert Diamond Casinos & delivers the fun no matter how many times you’ve seen it. Entertainment (Dir. by Richard Donner, 1985, USA, 114 min., Rated PG) 18 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA WITH LIVE MUSIC SCORE BY THE INVINCIBLE CZARS! WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 AT 7:30PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $12 • LOFT MEMBERS: $10 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

The band encourages it live to The Phantom of the Opera House. When the Phantom takes attendees to dress for the starring Lon Chaney! Fans, Christine prisoner and demands Halloween season at this theaters and media have praised her devotion and affection, her scarifying screening! The Invincible Czars for making suitor, Vicomte Raoul de Chagny silent horror films “actually scary” (Norman Kerry), sets out to Don’t miss this special screening of for modern-day audiences, so rescue her. But will he be too late? the 1925 silent horror classic, The get ready to be frightened! Set Featuring lavish sets, electrifying Phantom of the Opera, starring the in nineteenth century Paris, The action (including the famous legendary Lon Chaney, featuring Phantom of the Opera tells the “crashing chandelier” scene), an original live score combining story of aspiring young opera romance and truly frightening rock and orchestral music, created singer Christine Daaé (Mary horror (Chaney’s monstrous and performed by the acclaimed Philbin), who discovers that she makeup still sends shivers up the Austin music ensemble, The has a mysterious admirer intent spine), The Phantom of the Opera Invincible Czars! on helping her become a lead is a terror classic best experienced performer. This enigmatic masked on the big screen! (Dir. by Rupert The most adventurous band presence is Erik, also known as the Julian, 1925, USA, 93 mins., Not from Austin, TX – The Invincible Phantom (Lon Chaney), a horribly Rated) Czars – is bringing their latest disfigured recluse who lives in the film score to Tucson to perform catacombs beneath the Paris Opera SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 19

THE MARTIAN THE SHINING FRIDAY, MAY 31 AT 7:30PM FRIDAY, MAY 31 AT 10:00PM FREE ADMISSION SATURDAY, JUNE 1 AT 10:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING IN SELLS, ARIZONA! PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big This screening will take place at The Coyote screen! Store, 86 Mile Marker, Sells, AZ, 85634. Please bring your own seating. Please note: in “Heeeeere’s Johnny!” suffers from one helluva the event of inclement weather, this outdoor case of writer’s block in ’s eccentric adaption screening will be move to an indoor venue of Stephen King’s metaphysical horror novel, The Shining (an nearby. adaptation which left the famous novelist somewhat less than thrilled). This screening is part of Loft Film Fest on the Road, a community-building program that takes unexpected films “The Shining buzzes madness and malevolence for free screenings in underserved and unserved rural areas, from every frame.” – Jamie Graham, Total Film providing a unique cultural experience. Frustrated novelist Jack Torrance (a perfectly demonic Jack During a manned mission to Mars, astronaut Mark Watney Nicholson) takes a job as the winter caretaker of the isolated () is presumed dead after a fierce storm and Overlook Hotel, with his long-suffering wife Wendy (Shelly left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds Duvall) and introverted young son Danny (Danny Lloyd) in himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With tow. The fast-fragmenting family tries to make the best of only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, things at the lonely resort, but as the snow, isolation and wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth cabin fever begin to pile up, the true horror of the Overlook that he is alive. Millions of miles away, NASA and a team begins to emerge. As Jack’s sanity is pushed to the breaking of international scientists work tirelessly to bring “the point, the denizens of the demonic hotel start to take control Martian” home, while his crewmates concurrently plot a and everyone is going to wish they’d never checked in. Filled daring, if not impossible rescue mission. As these stories of with bizarre humor, jolting shocks and an ever-escalating incredible bravery unfold, the world comes together to root atmosphere of pure dread, The Shining was a box-office for Watney’s safe return. (Dir. by Ridley Scott, 2015, USA/UK, disappointment upon its initial release in 1980, but has since 144 mins., Rated PG-13) become an obsessive fan favorite and a cultural touchstone that is continually referenced, analyzed and parodied. (Dir. by Thanks to our community partner, Stanley Kubrick, 1980, USA/UK, 146 mins., Rated R) I’oligam Youth Alliance & Schuk Toak Distric.

This screening was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts with support from Desert Diamond Casinos & Entertainment 20 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

DOGGIE SHORTS: THE GOONIES A FURRY FILM FESTIVAL SATURDAY, JUNE 1 AT 7:30PM ENCORE SCREENING FREE ADMISSION SATURDAY, JUNE 1 AT 2:00PM FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING IN AJO, AZ! EARLY BIRD ADMISSION: $20 | DAY OF: $25 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING This free screening will be held outdoors in Ajo, AZ, at the Ajo Town Plaza, 15 West Plaza A BENEFIT SCREENING FOR HANDI-DOGS AND Street, Ajo, AZ, 85321. Please bring your own THE LOFT CINEMA! seating.

This screening is 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 Goonies 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

Hey you guuuuyyyssss! Relive the totally awesome ‘80s adventure that convinced an entire generation of suburban kids that there was buried treasure in their backyards, and that a freaky dude named Sloth was really just a fun-loving In order to celebrate Handi-Dogs’ and The Loft Cinema’s guy with a thing for Baby Ruths! Starring a “who’s who” of passion for our canine companions, we’ve teamed up to put then up and coming young actors, including Sean Astin, together a selection of the best shorts from The Bow Wow Corey Feldman, Martha Plimpton and Josh Brolin, The Film Festival in addition to some of our favorite dog-themed Goonies is a rip-roaring, rollercoaster ride of movie that short films from all over the world! Doggie Shorts is a delivers the fun no matter how many times you’ve seen it. selection of 10 second to 10 minute short films and videos (Dir. by Richard Donner, 1985, USA, 114 min., Rated PG) from across the globe – all featuring dogs. All genres included from documentaries that will touch your heart to just plain Special thanks to our community partner, fun and quirky. International Sonoran Desert Alliance.

This screening was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts with support from Desert Diamond Casinos & Entertainment SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 21

JULIUS CAESAR TUESDAY, JUNE 4 AT 7:30PM SING-A-LONG! THURSDAY, JUNE 6 AT 11:00AM SUNDAY, JUNE 9 AT 2:00 PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 | LOFT MEMBERS: $10 GENERAL ADMISSION: $12 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING LOFT MEMBERS AND CHILDREN 12 & UNDER: $10 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE SERIES Experience the best of British theatre on the big screen, Step-right-up and sing-a-long to on Earth captured live and presented in beautiful high definition! at The Greatest Showman Sing-A-Long!, featuring a special version of the hit musical with onscreen lyrics so that you Ben Whishaw (The Danish Girl, Skyfall, Hamlet) and Michelle can sing-a-long to all the catchy tunes, including “This is Me,” Fairley (Fortitude, Game of Thrones) play Brutus and Cassius, “” and “The Other Side,” and wear your best David Calder (The Lost City of Z, The Hatton Garden Job) plays circus-inspired costume to win a fabulous prize! Let’s keep Caesar and David Morrissey (The Missing, Hangmen, The marching on to the beat we drum, for we are glorious! Walking Dead) is Mark Antony. “An unabashed piece of pure entertainment, “A pulse-quickening political tragedy.” – punctuated by 11 memorable songs, Evening Standard celebrating diversity and the importance of embracing all kinds.” – Sheila O’Malley, Broadcast live from The Bridge Theatre, London. Caesar RogerEbert.com returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, The Greatest Showman is a bold and dazzling movie musical the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his that celebrates the birth of show business and the sense of assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital. wonder we feel when dreams come to life. Inspired by the Nicholas Hytner’s production thrusts the audience into the ambition and imagination of the legendary P.T. Barnum street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that (Tony-winner Hugh Jackman), creator of the Ringling witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, The Greatest Showman and the chaos that explodes in its wake. (Running time: tells the story of a visionary who rose from nothing to create approximately 135 mins. / No Intermission / Not Rated) a mesmerizing spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. Directed by Michael Gracey, The Greatest Showman is a wildly PLEASE NOTE: Julius Caesar contains some entertaining, gloriously over-the-top musical extravaganza strobe lighting. filled with showbiz razzle-dazzle, a message of tolerance and acceptance, and a slew of wildly popular songs like “Rewrite the Stars” and the Oscar-nominated “This is Me,” by songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land, Dear Evan). Also starring Michelle Williams, , Rebecca Ferguson and . (Dir. by Michael Gracey, 2017, USA, 105 mins., Rated PG)

his love of American genre cinema, and after completing “There is a lot of a two-year program at the Korean Academy of Film Arts in the early ‘90s, he began working on other directors’ extreme emotion films, eventually making his own debut feature, the critically-acclaimed but little-seen Barking Dogs Never in Korean film. It’s Bite, in 2000. From there, Bong embarked on a wildly successful because there are writing and directing career, creating engaging, humorous and intense reinventions of popular a lot of extremes in genres animated by a flair for dramatically cinematic storytelling and sharp commentary on the historical Korean society.” – and political complexities of present-day Korean society. From dark true crime stories like Memories of Murder Bong Joon-ho (2003), to fun giant monster movies like The Host (2006), twisty suspense thrillers like Mother (2009), and action-packed sci-fi extravaganzas like Snowpiercer Thursday nights in May, The Loft Cinema celebrates (2013), Bong has continually reimagined and reshaped acclaimed South Korean director Bong Joon-Ho with a genre conventions to his own ends, in the process selection of his greatest films on the big screen! thrilling both critics and audiences alike. This May, in anticipation of his latest film, Parasite, The Loft Cinema Bong Joon-ho is a celebrated director and screenwriter is proud to present a retrospective of four of Bong’s best who has created some of the highest-grossing films in films, tracing his evolution from little-known critics’ South Korean cinema history. Born in 1969 in Daegu, darling to one of world cinema’s most consistently , Bong’s interest in filmmaking evolved from successful hit-makers. MEMORIES OF MURDER MOTHER NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION! 35MM PRINT! THURSDAY, MAY 9 AT 7:30PM THURSDAY, MAY 23 AT 7:30PM

Memories of Murder, based on an infamous real-life serial “Bold, unpredictable and quietly devastating, Mother is murder case that rocked the Korean peninsula in 1986, is Bong’s first masterpiece.” – Tom Huddleston, Time Out the second feature from acclaimed filmmaker Bong Joon- ho. In this hardboiled suspense thriller shot through with This suspenseful, heartrending and wildly unpredictable surprising and sometimes shocking dark humor, a small thriller from writer/director Bong Joon-ho is a uniquely team of police officers led by Detective Park (Song Kang- disquieting murder mystery about a mother’s primal love for ho, The Host) becomes increasing frustrated in their efforts her son. (Dir. by Bong Joon-ho, 2009, South Korea, in Korean to hunt down a mysterious killer who has been preying on with English subtitles, 129 mins., Rated R) women in a rural village in the Gyeong-gi province. (Dir. by Bong Joon-Ho, 2003, South Korea, in Korean with subtitles, 132 mins., Not Rated)

THE HOST SNOWPIERCER 35MM PRINT! THURSDAY, MAY 30 AT 7:30PM THURSDAY, MAY 16 AT 7:30PM In Bong Joon-ho’s politically-pointed, brilliantly-executed When a young girl is snatched father by a sci-fi thrill-ride, a post-apocalyptic ice age forces humanity’s giant river monster wreaking havoc on Seoul, her entire last survivors to hop aboard a globe-spanning, perpetually- family sets out to locate the beast and bring their little moving supertrain. Working with an all-star international girl back home to safety in writer/director Bong Joon-ho’s cast – including , Jamie Bell, Ed Harris, John action-packed, big-budget creature feature. Combining Hurt and – and the largest budget of his state-of-the-art special effects, offbeat comedy and genuine career, with Snowpiercer, director Bong Joon-ho has crafted emotion, The Host is both a rocking creature-feature thrill a blazingly original – and darkly funny – vision of the future ride and a poignant family drama. (Dir. by Bong Joon-ho, that’s also frighteningly relevant to our world today. (Dir. by 2006, South Korea, in Korean with English subtitles, 120 mins., Bong Joon-ho, 2013, South Korea/USA//Czech Republic, Rated R) in English/Korean/French/Japanese with subtitles, 126 mins., Rated R) PRESENTED BY PIMA COUNTY LIBRARY LOFT JR. AT THE LOFT CINEMA

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THE MUPPETS EARLY MAN THE SECRET LIFE ZATHURA:

The Muppets return to the big screen Set at the dawn of time, when OF PETS A SPACE ADVENTURE in this hilarious, big-hearted, song- prehistoric creatures and woolly filled comedy/adventure extravaganza mammoths roamed the earth, the The Secret Life of Pets is the hilarious Based on the acclaimed children’s book that proves once and for all nobody hilarious animated adventure Early animated comedy that finally answers by Chris Van Allsburg, the author of does it better than Kermit and Man tells the story of how plucky the question: what do your pets do Jumanji and The Polar Express, Zathura Company! (Dir. by James Bobin, 2011, Dug, along with when you’re not home? (Dir. by Chris is an interstellar adventure filled with 103 mins., Rated PG) sidekick Hognob, unites his tribe Renaud & Yarrow Cheney, 2016, 91 heart-racing sci-fi thrills! (Dir. by Jon against the mighty Bronze Age in a mins., Rated PG) Favreau, 2005, 101 mins., Rated PG) “The Muppets is a film bursting at the battle to beat them at their own game. seams with sheer, unadulterated joy: (Dir. by Nick Park, 2018, 89 mins., “Here’s something dog and cat people “Great fun! Zathura serves up kid- watch it, and the world seems just that Rated PG) can agree on: The Secret Life of Pets is friendly sci-fi thrills, along with a little bit brighter.” – Tom Huddleston, hilarious, sweet and fun.” – Raakhee little nostalgia for grownups. Its low- Time Out Mirchandani, tech special effects are a refreshing departure from the CG norm.” – Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger ESSENTIAL CINEMA AT THE LOFT CINEMA

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THE BALLAD THE ADVENTURES OF LA CIÉNAGA NETWORK PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF GREGORIO The release of ’s La “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not CORTEZ OF THE DESERT Ciénaga heralded the arrival of an going to take this anymore!” This 25TH ANNIVERSARY! astonishingly vital and original voice deliriously dark and wicked satire NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION! in Argentine cinema. With a radical of television run amuck, directed by The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of and disturbing take on narrative, Sidney Lumet from Paddy Chayefsky’s Based on the book, With a Pistol in his the Desert is a true landmark in the beautiful cinematography, and a scathing, Oscar-winning screenplay, Hand by Américo Paredes, The Ballad history of LGBTQ cinema, managing highly sophisticated use of on- and is a masterpiece of ‘70s Hollywood of Gregorio Cortez (recently restored by to expertly address themes of offscreen sound, Martel turns her cinema. (Dir. by Sidney Lumet, 1976, the Academy Film Archive) was one of identity, gender, aging, homophobia, tale of a dissolute bourgeois extended USA, 121 mins., Rated R) the first U.S.-produced films to feature and family, while simultaneously family, whiling away the hours of a Latin hero, and is striking today delivering side-splitting laughs one sweaty, sticky summer, into a “The greatest screenplay ever to for its timely resonance with current with its brilliant, often shockingly cinematic marvel. (Dir. by Lucrecia remain undestroyed by Hollywood.” – immigration issues. (Dir. by Robert irreverent, screenplay. A truly Martel, 2001, Argentina, in Spanish Cintra Wilson, Salon M. Young, 1981, USA, in English and fabulous, “tack-o-rama” classic! (Dir. with English subtitles, 103 mins., Not Spanish with no subtitles, 106 mins., by Stephan Elliot, 1994, , in Rated) Rated PG) English, 104 mins., Rated R) 28 COMMUNITY RENTALS

AGAVE: THE SPIRIT OF A NATION TUESDAY, APRIL 30 AT 7:00PM FREE ADMISSION

Part of Agave Heritage Festival 2019! ’s Revenge food truck will be at this screening from 5:30pm – 9:30pm! This is a rental of The Loft This expressive documentary explores the phenomenon of the fastest trending alcohol spirit in the Cinema, presented by Hotel world, Tequila and Mezcal. Congress, Rio Nuevo, Visit Tucson and Sysco “With strikingly beautiful cinematography, the film celebrates the hard labor that goes into each margarita.” – Dan Gentile, Austin Chronicle

This journey takes audiences to the world’s most bio-diverse landscape of the agave plant, Mexico; here families have been passing down the tradition of distilling agave for generations, at times, even clandestinely. From the alluring red highlands of Jalisco to the rugged mountains of Oaxaca the film follows three producers—, Graciela, and Aquilino in this burgeoning renaissance. From a bootstrap ambition to carrying on a father’s legacy, their successes and sacrifices unfurl in this interweaved story. Discover how one delicate plant can carry the weight of a nation and the people trying to protect it for the future. (Dir. by Nick Kovacic & Matthew Riggieri, 2018, USA/Mexico, in Spanish/English with English subtitles, 79 mins., Not Rated)

SIX: VIDEO ART SCREENING THURSDAY, MAY 2 AT NOON FREE ADMISSION

SIX is a collection of experimental video art created by artists enrolled in the MFA program at the University of Arizona School of Art. The works were generated as part of the studio art course, This is a rental of The Loft Graduate Video Art. Cinema, presented by The University of Arizona School Featured Artists: Bella Varel, Kaitlyn Smith, Lauren Steinert, Marisa Lewon McKenzie Dankert and of Art Tamrin Ingram

A SCHOLAR’S PACE & RESILIENCY THROUGH RUNNING SUNDAY, MAY 5 AT 6:00PM FREE ADMISSION

Two Indigenous storytellers, Amanda Cheromiah (Pueblo of Laguna) and Alejandro Higuera (Pascua ) share one narrative: the endurance and longevity of Indigenous runners. Featuring two films, This is a rental of The Loft A Scholar’s Pace: A Running Narrative of Indigenous Feat is a documentary that captures the narratives Cinema, presented by Native of Indigenous People who use running as an important means to navigate their professional, SOAR – University of Arizona personal and educational journey and beyond. The second film, Resiliency Through Running is a and Native American Student short documentary about the Pascua Yaqui Tribe Flag Run. The purpose of the run is to celebrate Affairs the resiliency, culture, and 40th year of federal recognition for the Pascua Yaqui people. The documentary follows individuals running from their ancestral homelands In Vicam Pueblo, Sonora Mexico to the Yaqui reservation in Southern Arizona. (Approximate event run time: two hours) COMMUNITY RENTALS 29

MAGIC HOUR WEDNESDAY, MAY 8 AT 7:00PM FREE ADMISSION

What does a demonic monkey, a son and his mother’s restless ghost, one very tough audience, a talking cat, unhappy parents and their resourceful son, a truly transformative self-help program, This is a rental of The Loft one soldier’s fateful decision, the return of the Rio Rillito Ranger, young lovers, hard times in a post- Cinema, presented by The apocalyptic future, and a Chupacabra all have in common? University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television. They are all part of Magic Hour, a free screening of short fiction films made by students in the University of Arizona’s School of Theatre, Film and Television!

CODE BLUE SUNDAY, MAY 19 AT 11:00AM FREE ADMISSION

Through the lens of filmmaker Marcia Machado, Code Blue reveals lapses in the current state of medicine and provides a common sense solution by featuring of lifestyle medicine to This is a rental of The Loft prevent, manage and reverse chronic diseases. The film presents the hurdles to the proposed shift: Cinema, presented by antiquated curricula in medical schools, confusion in the media, inadequate government policies, presented by Qilosophy and the underlying influences of the pharmaceutical and food industries. – Acupuncture Cupping Massage, Performance Code blue follows a passionate physician, Dr. Saray Stancic, as she reflects upon her journey Sports Therapy, and HanLing from a multiple sclerosis diagnosis to wellness through her own adoption of lifestyle medicine. Acupuncture Healing Center Dr. Stancic introduces us to expert physicians and scientists who are paving the way to make meaningful and necessary change in our healthcare environment, and in turn, empowering audiences to stand up and reclaim control of their health.

BILLY JACK SUNDAY, MAY 26 AT 2:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $10 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

When the counterculture students from an idyllic Freedom School (inspired by Prescott College) begin having unpleasant run-ins with conservative residents of the local town, (Tom This is a rental of The Loft Laughlin), a half-American former Green Beret hapkido master, is ready to kick some butt in Cinema, sponsored by Ted the name of peace! Filmed partially in Prescott, Arizona, this landmark of independent filmmaking Abrams and The Prime Leaf. catches a unique moment in the end days of hippiedom in the Southwest.

Post-screening reception Maverick independent filmmaker (directing here under the pseudonym T.C. Frank) to follow, with mystery would go on to change how movies were released with the follow-up, The Trial of Billy Jack. Movies musical guest! had traditionally been released in a “platform” style, meaning they would roll out slowly, from city to city. The Trial of Billy Jack was the first true “wide release,” meaning it was released nation-wide on the same date. The model was so successful that Universal copied it for Jaws, and the rest is history. But Laughlin changed the game and first found a mass audience with the smash hit Billy Jack, which espouses a gonzo blend of hippie and martial arts values. (Dir. by Tom Laughlin (as T.C. Frank), 1971, USA, 114 mins., PG) 30 NEW FILMS

“NYT Critic’s Pick! Everybody deserves to have Aretha AMAZING GRACE Franklin take them to the moon. Don’t bother with STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 26 tissues. Bring a towel. ”– Wesley Morris, New York Times REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

In January, 1972, legendary singer of the lost cinematic treasures of imbuing the church audience Aretha Franklin gave two days twentieth-century music. Until with an ever-escalating energy to of gospel performances at the now. Before Pollacks’s death in match her own, lifting everyone New Temple Missionary Baptist 2008, he expressed a wish for around her to dizzying heights of Church in Watts, Los Angeles, the film to be completed, and ecstatic excitement. Amazing Grace recording what would become the producer Alan Elliot took it up as lets the events unfold without best-selling album of her career, a passion project. The electrifying imposing present-day interviews, Amazing Grace. resurrected footage in Amazing allowing Franklin’s singular talent Grace transcends the decades to carry us home, creating a truly “Watching it is a that have passed since its filming, transcendent experience that transcendent, spine- transporting viewers into the pews encapsulates a phenomenal artist tingling, uplifting, utterly of that church in South Central Los sharing her gift with the world. joyous experience.” – Angeles, where The Queen of Soul (Dir. by Alan Elliot & Sydney Pollack, Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR brought down the house with the 2018, USA, 87 mins., Rated G) help of Reverend James Cleveland The sessions were captured and the Southern California by a film crew led by young Community Choir over two director Sydney Pollack, but the mesmerizing evenings. Franklin’s footage wound up shelved for fervent, joyful, soul-shattering decades and has remained one voice soars and fills , NEW FILMS 31

“’s energy-devouring performance makes HER SMELL it almost impossible to look away.” – Emily Yoshida, New STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 26 York Magazine REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s mother and supremely talented Tale) gives a blistering, tour-de- performer, she is at the very force performance in this searing top of her game and the only portrait of a self-destructive rock way is down, through a hell of star. drugs, booze, fights, botched recording sessions and public “Director meltdowns. A car crash of a life combines a knock-out cast is rendered in blood, , tears with an incisive script for a and heartrending pathos, while a wild-eyed musical-drama.” stellar ensemble cast (including – Victor Stiff, Playlist Cara Delevinge, Agyness Deyn, Ashley Benson, , Writer/director Alex Ross Perry Virginia Madsen, Dan Stevens (), taking his cues and Eric Stoltz) supports Moss’s from John Cassavetes, unsparingly rattling trip to the brink. (Dir. by traces the psychology of an Alex Ross Perry, 2019, USA, 134 unforgettable woman under the mins., Rated R) influence – Becky Something, the charismatic lead singer of popular ‘90s rock band, Something. Wife, 32 NEW FILMS

“The shock and richness of High Life HIGH LIFE are wonderfully enchanting and STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 26 perplexing.” – Jonathan Romney, REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES PLEASE NOTE: NO PASSES ACCEPTED FOR THE FIRST TWO WEEKS

High Life is a provocative, dazzling As the mystery of what happened and haunting science fiction drama onboard the ship is unraveled, from acclaimed French filmmaker father and daughter must rely Claire Denis (White Material, Beau on each other to survive as they Travail), making her English- hurtle toward the oblivion of a language debut. black hole. André Benjamin and Mia Goth also star. (Dir. by Claire “High Life is a pensive Denis, 2018, /France/ and profound study of /UK/USA, in English, 110 human life on the brink of mins., Rated R) the apocalypse.” – David Ehrlich, IndieWire “Claire Denis has crafted an astonishing and original Monte () and film, one to be pondered his baby daughter are the last over, reflected upon and survivors of a damned and ingested.” – Christopher dangerous mission to deep space. Machell, CineVue The crew—death-row inmates led by a doctor () with Closed Captions and Audio sinister motives—has vanished. Description Available. NEW FILMS 33

“America’s favorite diminutive sex therapist gets a ASK DR. RUTH crowd-pleasing documentary.” – Daniel Feinberg, STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 3 Hollywood Reporter REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

The crowd-pleasing documentary transformed the conversation York, where she found her calling Ask Dr. Ruth chronicles the around sexuality by hosting as the woman who spoke the truth incredible life of Dr. Ruth multiple radio and television about sex. (Dir. by Ryan White, Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor shows throughout the 1980s and 2019, USA, 100 mins., Not Rated) who became America’s most 1990s. As she approaches her 90th famous sex therapist. birthday and shows no signs of “Ruth Westheimer’s life slowing down, Dr. Ruth revisits and outlook is reminder of “Captivating and her painful past and unlikely path the indelible human spirit.” entertaining … offers a to a career at the forefront of the – Nicole Sperling, Vanity unique glimpse into the sexual revolution. Her traumatic Fair personal life of a woman childhood, when at age 10 she who has made a gigantic was sent to an orphanage in Closed Captions Available. impact on pop culture and Switzerland at the start of WWII, sexual liberation.” – Ali is told through her heartbreaking Shimkus, Slug Magazine letters to and from her family, Thanks to our community brought to life with creative partner, the Jewish History With her diminutive, 4-foot-7- animation. Later she emigrated Museum and Tucson inch frame, thick German accent, to Israel, lived on a kibbutz and Jewish Community Center! and uninhibited approach to sex became a sharpshooter in the therapy and education, Dr. Ruth military; eventually coming to New 34 NEW FILMS

“Sunset is maddening and mesmerizing … a boldly SUNSET unnerving follow-up to .” – Justin Chang, Los STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 10 Angeles Times REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

From László Nemes, the Academy While preparations are underway Award-winning writer/director of at the store to host important Son of Saul, comes the sumptuous wealthy, royal guests, a man new drama, Sunset. abruptly comes to Irisz looking for Kálmán Leiter, who he says is “An atmospheric mystery her brother. Refusing to leave the drama … entirely city, the young woman follows absorbing.” – Peter Kálmán’s tracks, her only link to Bradshaw, Guardian a lost past. Her quest brings her through the dark, dusty streets In 1913 , in the heart of of Budapest, where only the Europe as World War I approaches, Leiter hat store shines, into the the young Irisz Leiter (Juli Jakab) turmoil of a civilization on the arrives in the Hungarian capital eve of its downfall. (Dir. by László with high hopes to work as a Nemes, 2018, /France, in milliner at Leiter, the legendary Hungarian/German with English hat store that once belonged subtitles, 142 mins., Rated R) to her late parents; but she is quickly sent away by the new owner, Oszkár Brill (Vlad Ivanov). NEW FILMS 35

“Hail Satan? delivers everything you want from a movie HAIL SATAN? with such a cheeky title; it’s knockout funny, wickedly STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 10 smart, and a grand time at the cinema.” – Emily Wheeler, REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES Film Inquiry

Saturday, May 11 at 7:00pm: Meet world in just five years. Hail Satan? The Council of The Satanic Temple explores the Temple’s fight for Arizona at a post-film Q&A! equality, its focus on community, Tucson is featured prominently in and its devilish sense of humor. In the film! Chapter merchandise will an era when founding principles be available for sale at this event. and institutions can’t be trusted to work on behalf of all people, these “A devilishly fun progressive Satanic crusaders documentary about faith advocate to save the soul of a in America … provocative nation. (Dir. by Penny Lane, 2019, and hilarious.” – David USA, 95 mins., Rated R) Ehrlich, IndieWire “A crowd-pleaser … What is the Satanic Temple? Is it wickedly funny, fascinating religion? A cult? Performance art? and niftily made.” – Leslie Acclaimed filmmaker Penny Lane Felperin, Hollywood (Our Nixon) gains unprecedented Reporter access to this enigmatic movement, which has grown to over 100,000 members around the 36 NEW FILMS

“Master Z is a feast for martial arts MASTER Z: IP MAN LEGACY movie lovers.” – Edmund Lee, South STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 10 Morning Post REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

Legendary action director Yuen Following his defeat by Master Ip, Woo-Ping (Drunken Master) draws Cheung Tin Chi (), tries to on a stellar cast (Michelle Yeoh, make a life with his young son in Dave Bautista, Tony Jaa, and Max , waiting tables at a bar Zhang) to create a hard-hitting that caters to expats. But it’s not martial arts blast worthy of its long before the mix of foreigners, place in the celebrated IP Man money, and triad leaders draw him universe. once again to the fight. (Dir. by Yuen Woo-Ping, 2018, Hong Kong/ “All the elements for a China, in /Mandarin/ swift, creative English with English subtitles, 108 entertainment are present mins., Not Rated) and accounted for, among them exciting fights, luscious 1960s costume design and So. Much. Property. Damage.” – Elizabeth Kerr, Hollywood Reporter NEW FILMS 37

“Matt Smith gives a restlessly energetic performance as CHARLIE SAYS the bearded cult leader, Charles Manson.” – Geoffrey STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 17 Macnab, Independent REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

MAY’S REEL READS (Marianne Rendon, Mapplethorpe) to rehabilitate them. Convinced SELECTION – remain under the spell of the the prisoners are not the inhuman Purchase a copy of The Girls: A infamous and sociopathic cult monsters the world believes them Novel by Emma Cline during leader (Matt Smith, The Crown). to be, Karlene begins the arduous the month of May and receive a process of breaking down the special “Loft Reel Reads” discount “Brings a female gaze psychological barriers erected off the cover price – 20% for Loft to arguably the most by Manson. But are the women members and 10% for the general notorious crime spree ready to confront the horror of public. Copies of the book are in American history.” – what they did? Boundary-pushing available at The Loft Cinema and David Rooney, Hollywood filmmaker Mary Harron (American Antigone Books. Reporter Psycho; I Shot Andy Warhol) and screenwriter Guinevere Turner Years after the shocking murders Confined to an isolated cellblock in (; Go Fish) present that made the name Charles a California penitentiary, the trio a provocative new perspective on Manson synonymous with pure seem destined out the rest one of the most notorious crimes evil, the three women who killed of their lives under the delusion of the 20th century. (Dir. by Mary for him – Leslie Van Houten that their crimes were part of a Harron, 2019, USA, 110 mins., (Hannah Murray, Game of Thrones), cosmic plan – until empathetic Rated R) Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon, graduate student Karlene Faith 13 Reasons Why) and Susan Atkins (Merrit Wever, Birdman) is enlisted 38 NEW FILMS

“Like the remarkable poet at its center, Wild WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY Nights with Emily is playful, clever, and STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 17 alive.” – Kristy Puchko, Pajiba REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

In this laugh-out-loud, books indicate, or what she much – to bring her down. A timely emotionally-engaging period more? Planting her tongue firmly critique of how women’s history is piece that’s part sketch comedy, in her cheek, Olnek reclaims rewritten, Wild Nights with Emily part historical burlesque, Molly Dickinson’s identity from the remains vibrant, irreverent and Shannon transforms 19th-century throes of patriarchy, exploring tender—a perhaps closer depiction poet Emily Dickinson from tragic her wildly vivacious side and her of Emily Dickinson’s real life than spinster to irreverent lesbian lifelong romantic relationship with anything seen before. (Dir. by heartthrob. her best friend and brother’s wife, Madeleine Olnek, 2018, USA, 84 Susan (Susan Ziegler), recasting mins., Rated PG-13) “A different, funny take her life story through the lens of on Emily Dickinson, with a love that was (unfortunately) “Hilarious! something important to unspeakable in her day. Driven is brilliant. A surprisingly say.” – Moira Macdonald, by a crackling and hilarious touching love story.” – Times performance by Shannon that Jude Dry, Indiewire captures the passionate drive of In Wild Nights with Emily, writer/ a woman breaking all the rules, director Madeleine Olnek (The Olnek’s film is a deliriously absurd Foxy Merkins) asks and answers revisionist take on a creative the question: Was Emily Dickinson genius and the many men and really a stoic shut-in, as the history women who tried – and failed NEW FILMS 39

“Lovely, elegant … the film’s many ballet sequences are THE WHITE CROW stunning, to say the least.” – Peter Debruge, Variety STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 24 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

The White Crow tells the gripping from the Soviet Union to the Khamatova, Olivier Rabourdin, true story of legendary Soviet West in 1961, despite KGB efforts Raphaël Personnaz and Louis ballet star Rudolf Nureyev’s to stop him. Directed by Oscar- Hofmann. Inspired by the dramatic defection to the West. nominated /director Ralph book Rudolf Nureyev: The Life by Fiennes (The English Patient) from Julie Kavanaugh. (Dir. by Ralph “The White Crow is as a screenplay by (The Fiennes, 2018, UK/France, 127 striking and stirring as its Hours), The White Crow is the true mins., Rated R) subject, Rudolf Nureyev.” – story of an incredible journey Ed Potton, Times (UK) by a unique artist (nicknamed “Fascinating … poetic … “The White Crow” due to his elegantly scripted by David The film chronicles the dancer’s unusual and unique talents) who Hare.” – Geoffrey Macnab, poverty-stricken childhood in transformed the world of ballet Guardian the Soviet city of Ufa, to his forever. Acclaimed dancer Oleg blossoming as a student dancer Ivenko stars as Nureyev, alongside in Leningrad, to his arrival at Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the the epicenter of western culture Warmest Color) as Clara Saint, in Paris in the early 1960s and and Fiennes as Russian ballet a nail-biting stand-off at the coach Alexander Pushkin. Also Le Bourget airport—site of the featured are ballet-world enfant iconic dancer’s famed defection terrible Sergei Polunin, Chulpan 40 NEW FILMS

“Inspirational … feels like fresh air for the soul.” – BIGGEST LITTLE FARM Peter Debruge, Variety STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 24 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

The successes and failures of up. Motivated by their desire lump in your throat. (Dir. by John a couple determined to live in to both live a life outside of the Chester, 2019, USA, 91 mins., Rated harmony with nature on a farm city and provide a better life for PG) outside of Los Angeles are lovingly their rescue dog, Todd, the couple chronicled by filmmaker farmer waded through disastrous weather, “Genuinely moving and John Chester in this inspiring predators, and local diseases heartening.” – Todd documentary. over the next seven years as they McCarthy, Hollywood devoted themselves to the creation Reporter “A captivating personal of Apricot Lane Farms, with John journey with a concern documenting their progress every for harmony and a gentle step of the way. Teeming with Thanks to our community sense of humor.” – stunningly beautiful images of partner, Las Milpitas de John Fink, Film Stage flora and fauna — and a pregnant Cottonwood Community hog that will melt your heart — Farm! In 2011, Chester and his wife, Biggest Little Farm is a testament professional chef Molly Chester, to idealism. For urban viewers, it’s made a life-altering decision: the a necessary confrontation with couple left their jobs to move to a how our food is grown. It’s also a patch of land north of Los Angeles family adventure, full of suspense and build a farm from the ground and emotion that will leave a NEW FILMS 41

“Shadow is a sumptuous sensory feast filled with SHADOW spectacle, surprise, and madness.” – Felipe Freitas, Film STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 31 Threat REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

FREE LOFT MEMBERS With Shadow, celebrated director military commander () SCREENING (Hero; House of Flying has cultivated a secret weapon Friday, May 31, 7:00pm. Free for Daggers; ) to aid his survival: a “shadow”, a Loft Cinema members and open once again pushes the boundaries look-alike who can both his to the public at regular admission of wuxia action to create a film enemies and the King himself. prices. like no other, masterfully painting Now, the commander must a canvas of inky blacks and greys use this weapon in an intricate Members may pick up tickets only punctuated with bursts of color plan to launch a dangerous final for themselves (1 for individual from the blood of the defeated. assault against the forces of a rival levels, 2 for couple levels) at kingdom, in hopes of leading his the Box Office on the day of the “This is probably the people to victory in a war that the Member Screening. The Box Office most stunningly beautiful King does not want. (Dir. by Zhang is open 1/2 hour before the first Zhang Yimou has made to Yimou, 2018, China/Hong Kong, in show of the day. Please see the date.” – Boyd van Hoeij, Mandarin with English subtitles, 115 website for showtimes. Members Hollywood Reporter mins., Not Rated) will be issued a return pass (valid through the following Thursday) In a kingdom ruled by a wild and to see this film another time, if the dangerous young king (Zheng Kai) screening is at capacity. whose court is a hive of politicking and treachery, the monarch’s brave 42 NEW FILMS

“Heartfelt and searingly honest … THE SOUVENIR a magnificent self-portrait of love, COMING SOON loss and creative awakening.” – REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES David Ehrlich, Indiewire PLEASE NOTE: NO PASSES ACCEPTED FOR THE FIRST TWO WEEKS

In the early 1980s, a shy but to destroying her dreams. From ambitious film student (Honor acclaimed writer-director Joanna Swinton Byrne) begins to find her Hogg (Unrelated; Archipelago; voice as an artist while navigating Exhibition) comes an enigmatic a turbulent courtship with a and personal portrait of the artist charismatic but untrustworthy as a young woman, combining man (Tom Burke). passionate emotions and exquisite aesthetics into a lush, dreamlike “Souvenir is the best kind story of young adulthood and of film art: heartbreaking, first love. At once enrapturing sophisticated and deeply and mysteriously unsettling—and cinematic all at once.”- featuring a profoundly layered Tomris Laffy, The Wrap breakout performance by Honor Swinton Byrne—The Souvenir is She defies her protective mother an essential and enduring film (Tilda Swinton) and concerned from one of our most distinctive friends as she slips deeper and exciting filmmakers. (Dir. by and deeper into an intense, , 2019, UK/USA, 119 emotionally fraught relationship mins., Rated R) that comes dangerously close NEW FILMS 43

PARASITE COMING SOON REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

Don’t miss all the murder, The eagerly-awaited new film monsters, mothers and mayhem from celebrated director Bong of The Films of Bong Joon-ho, our Joon-ho (Snowpiercer; The Host) month-long big screen celebration tells a peculiar tale about two of the acclaimed director! In families who are worlds apart anticipation of Bong Joon-ho’s yet somewhat alike, portraying new film, Parasite, Thursday nights a striking reality of the world we in May we’ll be screening one of live in. Parasite will have its world the eclectic artist’s classic films, premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film including the 2003 true crime Festival! (Dir. by Bong Joon-ho, thriller Memories of Murder, the 2019, South Korea, in Korean with 2006 monster mash The Host (on English subtitles, 132 mins., Not 35mm), the 2009 psychological Rated) drama Mother (also on 35mm), and the 2013 post-apocalyptic sci-fi thrill-ride, Snowpiercer!

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It’s big! It’s hairy! And it’s out of control! It’s BIGFOOT MONTH at Mondo Mondays, featuring a Sasquatch-sized collection of nutty flicks starring everyone’s favorite missing link!

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