OCTOBER 21-25, 2015 PRESENTED BY COX COMMUNICATIONS AND DESERT DIAMOND CASINOS & ENTERTAINMENT LOFT FILM FEST 2015

Welcome to the Loft Film Fest! FESTIVAL STAFF I am so proud of the extraordinary lineup of lms and I’m thrilled that we get to bring them to Tucson for ve exciting days in October. festival executive director assistant managers PEGGY JOHNSON RAY BORBOA Film festivals should always be about discovery! I urge you to take some chances KYLE CANFIELD - see a lm that sounds unlike anything you’ve ever seen! Who knows - maybe festival directors PEDRO ROBLES you’ll discover a new director, a fresh face or your new favorite movie! JJ GIDDINGS BRENDA RODRIGUEZ JEFF YANC e 2015 Loft Film Fest will always be remembered as the one where you met volunteer coordinator Rita Moreno, Alfonso Arau, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana! In addition to managing director BRENDA RODRIGUEZ her many awards, Rita Moreno will be honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in ZACH BRENEMAN December! We’re proud to welcome Larry and Diana back for a 10th anniversary inventory specialist screening of Brokeback Mountain, just after Larry received the National festival programming consultant DAVID CORREA Humanities Medal from President Obama! Alfonso Arau is a Tucson favorite, MIKE PLANTE projectionists because, after all, he is El Guapo in ree Amigos! ANA HUMPHREY associate programmers DALE MEYERS We’re excited to add free outdoor movies this year in our newly improved parking SHAWNA DACOSTA KEISHA RICHARDSON lot! We’re adding valet parking from 5PM during the fest (free for pass holders!) JONATHAN KLEEFELD IZABELLA VANEK For the rst time, select lms will be in competition, a result of e Loft being MIKE WILKINS the only American festival member of the International Confederation of Art art director MATT MCCOY Houses. Look for the P so you can vote for the audience award. theatre floor staff CLARICE BALES All of us at the Loft are motivated by two things: a passion for lm and an equal development associates ADAM BUCHOLZ passion for our culturally-rich community! We hope you nd the 2015 Loft Film NICK KELSO TRENTON CASTILLO Fest a vibrant addition to the Tucson arts scene and from all of us - ENJOY! AMBER KLEEFELD BROOKE HARTNETT HALEY MCFEELY PEGGY JOHNSON administrative assistant LISA SCHAEFER festival executive director DANIELA ONTIVEROS A.J. SIMON MJ WATZ director of theatre operations MARYELLEN WHITMOYER ABOUT THE FESTIVAL JASON DENHOLM LENOX WIESE Celebrating its sixth year in 2015, e Loft Film Fest is dedicated to showcasing the best independent, foreign and classic lms, as well as celebrating the work of The Loft Film Fest is made possible in part by established and emerging directors, writers, producers and actors. e Loft Film the support of its generous members and our Fest, through its eclectic and diverse programming, aims not only to expand the audience for cinema that challenges, inspires and entertains, but also to honor incredible team of volunteers! those artists whose talent and passion bring that cinema to life.

ADOPT A FILM FOR $500! Help us make this the best lm festival yet! When you adopt a lm you help us cover the screening and travel costs of bringing in award-winning lmmakers from across the globe along with the top lms from the world’s greatest lm festivals! As our way of saying thanks we’ll put your name on the screen before the lm, you will be personally thanked in the introduction at the screening and you’ll have our eternal gratitude. Your name will also be featured on our website and in select social media posts!

IN ADDITION you will receive 2 passes to the Loft Film Fest ($250 value) and admission for two to a private cocktail party with Rita Moreno on October 22 (value: priceless as this is an invitation-only event - no tickets will be sold).

FESTIVAL PASSES (INCLUDES FREE VALET PARKING!) General admission: $125 • loft members: $100 INDIVIDUAL TICKETS General admission: $10 • loft members: $8 The Loft Cinema tickets available at our box office or Board of Directors online at: LOFTFILMFEST.ORG

THE LOFT CINEMA 520-795-7777 (showtimes) 3233 e speedway blvd 520-795-0844 (box office) tucson, aZ 85716 520-322-5638 (loft office) WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21 & 22

01 DOUBLE 02 COURT FEATURE AND ENCHANTMENT UNDER wednesday, oct 21 at 7:30pm (screen 3) THE SEA PARTY! wednesday, oct 21 at 6:00pm (screen 1) TUCSON PREMIERE! party starts at 6:00pm • films start at 7:00pm Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai lm festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste General admission to double feature (includes party): prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and $10 • loft members: $8 • admission to party only: free grassroots organizer, dubbed the “people’s poet,” is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide. His trial is a ridiculous and no tickets will be available for one film only. all tickets harrowing display of institutional incompetence, with endless procedural delays, will include the double feature. coached witnesses for the prosecution, and obsessive privileging of arcane colonial law over reason and mercy. What truly distinguishes Court, however, is Tamhane’s brilliant ensemble cast of professional and nonprofessional actors; PRESENTED BY BUFFALO EXCHANGE his aecting mixture of comedy and tragedy; and his naturalist approach to his characters and to Indian society as a whole, rich with complexity and Celebrate opening night of the 2015 Loft Film Fest AND Back to the contradiction. (Dir. by Chaitanya Tamhane, 2014, India, in Marathi, Gujarati, Future Day with a Back to the Future-themed party (Enchantment English, and Hindi with subtitles, 116 mins., Not Rated) Under the Sea!) in the Loft parking lot, featuring live ‘50s music, movie- themed snacks, a photo-op with an actual DeLorean and fashions from 1955, 1985 and 2015 courtesy of Bualo Exchange, to be followed by an indoor double feature screening of Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II. October 21, 2015 is international Back to the Future Day, celebrating the exact date Marty McFly travels to “in the future” in Back to the Future Part II. Get your Flux Capacitors charged and let’s all get back in time!

BACK TO THE FUTURE e ingenious time travel comedy Back to the Future is a pitch-perfect combination of sharp satire, warm sentiment and sci- excitement. Michael J. Fox plays 1985 teen Marty McFly, whose mentor, Doc Brown (a brilliantly manic Christopher Lloyd), invents a time-tripping DeLorean that takes the kid back to 1955. When he inadvertently gets in the way of his teenage parents’ relationship (and causes his future mother, played by Lea ompson, to develop a crush on him!), Marty has to gure out how to give his nerdy father (a gloriously odd Crispin Glover) condence and get them back together to insure his own eventual existence. 03 PAULETTE Funny, touching and suspenseful, this love letter to American pop culture is one thursday, oct 22 at noon (screen 1) of the most purely entertaining lms of the 1980s. (Dir. by , 1985, USA, 116 mins., Rated PG) ARIZONA PREMIERE!

BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II A crowd-pleasing comedy, Paulette tells the story of an older woman living alone Rather than rest on their laurels, Robert Zemeckis and writing partner Bob in the projects on the outskirts of Paris. Paulette’s meager retirement pension Gale completely reinvented the Back to the Future franchise with this audacious is not enough for her to make ends meet. When she notices some curious follow-up. In a bit of experimentation worthy of the French New Wave, Michael tracking outside her building one night, Paulette sees it as a sign of fate. As an J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd return for a sequel that spends most of its running ex-pastry chef, with a gift for commerce and cooking, she decides to start selling time not before or after the original story, but at the same time. A series of time- cannabis. But the other dealers refuse to accept Paulette’s unexpected success, travel complications send our hero Marty McFly and partner Doc Brown back to and she quickly nds herself in a spectacular series of events, allowing her to the 1955 of the rst lm, after a mishap in 2015 generates a parallel universe. prove herself in a remarkable and heroic way. (Dir. by Jerome Enrico, 2012, France, Even more elaborately plotted than the original, this highly ambitious sequel in French with subtitles, 87 mins., Rated R) Playing with the short lm On allows Zemeckis more opportunities for witty satire and cutting-edge special Vacation, Waiting to Die: An elderly couple tries to decide how to spend their eects. (Dir. by Robert Zemeckis, 1989, USA, 108 mins., Rated PG) vacation in Tucson. (Dir. by Greg Castro & Matthew Ramirez, 2015, USA, 7 mins.) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22

04 BOUNCE P 06 NARRATIVE SHORTS #1 P thursday, oct 22 at 12:45pm (screen 3) thursday, oct 22 at 2:45pm (screen 3) ARIZONA PREMIERE! One of two programs at this year’s fest featuring a diverse selection of incredible short lms from around the world. From Brazilian favelas to dusty Congolese villages, from Neolithic Scottish isles to modern soccer pitches, Bounce explores the little-known origins of our favorite LATINER sports. e lm crosses time, languages and continents to discover how the ball A young woman from Argentina comes to New York has staked its claim on our lives and fueled our passion to compete. Equal parts to work as an actress, but quickly realizes she may have trouble science, history and cultural essay, Bounce removes us from the scandals and nding her niche. (Dir. by Inés Gowland, 2015, USA, 12 mins.) commercialism of today’s sports world to uncover the true reasons we play ball, helping us reclaim our universal connection to the games we love. (Dir. by Jerome IN THE CLOUDS elia, 2015, USA/Brazil/Congo/India/Ireland/Italy/Mexico/UK, in English with e dierence between how we think subtitles, 71 mins., Not Rated) Playing with the short lm Every Day: At 86, romance should work and how it actually does. (Dir. by Marcelo Joy Johnson was the oldest woman to run the 2013 New York City Marathon. Mitnik, 2015, Argentina, 20 mins.) e story of an inspiring athlete with an uncommon passion for her sport, and for life. Part of ESPN’s 30 for 30 series. (Dir. by Gabe Spitzer, 2015, USA, 12 mins.) THE EXTRAORDINARY MR. JÚPITER Franco Júpiter, an extraordinary magician with real powers, challenges nature in order to nd real love. (Dir. by Federico Torres, 2015, Puerto Rico, 17 mins.)

SIREN e bond between a young woman and her older brother is tested by his manipulative new girlfriend. From the writer of e Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing. (Dir. by Melissa Bank, 2015, USA, 11 mins.)

NOTED. After a young lady runs out of room in her notebook, she sets out to nd more paper. e simple task quickly turns into a madcap and surreal adventure as her eorts are thwarted at every turn. (Dir. by Michael McDaniel, 2015, USA, 19 mins.)

HARRY – THE PROFESSIONAL A small lm examining 05 THE NEW GIRLFRIEND Harry, one of the most hard-working, dedicated, colorful thursday, oct 22 at 2:15pm (screen 1) musicians of his generation. (Dir. by Henry Dean, 2015, USA, 3 TUCSON PREMIERE! mins.)

Francois Ozon’s humorous psychological drama e New Girlfriend stars Anais OUR BEST BEAR A lo- experimental short story with its Demoustier as Claire, a young woman whose closest friend since childhood, Lea, own sense of humor, lled with strange rhythms and eccentric passes away leaving behind a husband, David (Romain Duris) and a newborn characters. (Dir. by Sasha Statman-Weil, 2015, USA, 14 mins.) baby. One day she drops by David’s house unexpectedly, and nds him dressed in his dead wife’s clothes and feeding their baby with a bottle. He explains that Lea was well aware of his predilection, and eventually, so relieved that he has EVERYTHING & EVERYTHING & EVERYTHING Shane someone to share his secret with, David and Claire create a female persona for Carruth (Primer, Upstream Color) stars in the story of a man him named Virginia. As David begins to identify more strongly as Virginia, this whose life is forever transformed when a mystical blue pyramid leads to confusing and conicting feelings in Claire, and causes a rift between Claire and her husband (Raphael Personnaz). (Dir. by Francois Ozon, 2015, France, – that inexplicably produces doorknobs – appears in his in French with subtitles, 116 mins., Rated R) apartment. (Dir. by Alberto Roldán, 2015, USA, 15 mins.) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22

07 THE DAUGHTER OF DAWN 09 45 YEARS thursday, oct 22 at 4:45pm (screen 1) thursday, oct 22 at 7:15pm (screen 1)

Co-presented by Arizona State Museum’s Native Eyes Film TUCSON PREMIERE! Showcase with support from Tohono O’odham Nation Museum and Cultural Center and Indigenous Strategies. Featuring a post PRESENTED BY CREST INSURANCE lm Q&A with special guest. e Daughter of Dawn is an 80-minute, six-reel silent lm shot in May, June, and July of 1920 in the Wichita Mountains of southwest Oklahoma. e story, “Rampling has never received an Oscar played by an all-Indian cast of 300 Kiowas and Comanches, includes a four-way nomination, but she deserves one for this love story, two bualo hunt scenes, a battle scene, village scenes, dances, deceit, courage, hand to hand combat, love scenes, and a happy ending. e Indians, who performance. Courtenay, who has two Oscar had been on the reservation less than fty years, brought with them their own nods under his belt, rates another one for tipis, horses, clothing, and material culture. e lead actor is White Parker, the son of the great Comanche leader Quanah Parker. ought lost for years, the lm helping Rampling reach this peak” – Lou was recently restored and given its rst score by David A. Yeagley, a University of Lumenick, New York Post Arizona alum. (Dir. by Norbert A. Myles, 1920, USA, 80 mins., Not Rated)

e winner of the Silver Bear for Best Actress (Charlotte 08 JAFAR PANAHI’S TAXI Rampling) and Best Actor (Tom Courtenay) at the thursday, october 22 at 5:30pm (screen 3) Berlin International Film Festival, Andrew Haigh’s (Weekend, Looking) lm is a moving and profound look at TUCSON PREMIERE! marriage and the secrets we keep. ere is just one week until Kate Mercer’s forty-fth wedding anniversary and the planning Internationally-acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (is is Not a Film) drives a for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse (and yet husband. e body of his rst love has been discovered, frozen representative) group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world, while being interviewed by and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the the curious and gracious driver/director. His camera, placed on the dashboard time the party is upon them, ve days later, there may not be of his mobile lm studio, captures a spirited slice of Iranian society while a marriage left to celebrate. (Dir. by Andrew Haigh, 2015, UK, also brilliantly redening the borders of comedy, drama and cinema. Taxi is a 93mins, Not Rated) gently rebellious lm, a blend of documentary and narrative that ris on the contentious life of the artist in modern Iran. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Taxi is another modern classic from master director Jafar Panahi. (Dir. by Jafar Panahi, 2015, Iran, in Persian with subtitles, 82 mins., Not Rated)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22

10 FLORENCE, ARIZONA P 12 THE FORBIDDEN ROOM thursday, oct 22 at 7:30pm (screen 3) thursday, oct 22 at 9:45pm (screen 1) WESTERN U.S. PREMIERE! ARIZONA PREMIERE! WITH DIRECTOR ANDREA B. SCOTT IN PERSON! A submarine in distress, a lumberjack who mysteriously appears to the crew – Florence, Arizona is a cowboy town with a prison problem. Founded wasn’t he just in the dark forests of Holstein-Schleswig rescuing the beautiful in 1866, this bastion of the Wild West is home to 8,500 civilians and Margot from the claws of the Red Wolves? A neurosurgeon who digs deeply into the brain of a manic patient; a murderer who pretends to be the victim of his own 17,000 inmates spread over nine prisons. rough an unconventional killings; a traumatized young woman “on the Deutsch-Kolumbianisch Express lens, the documentary lm Florence, Arizona weaves together the stories somewhere between Berlin and Bogota”; seductive skeletons, zeppelins colliding, of four key residents of Florence, whose lives have all been shadowed in and a hot bath that seems to have triggered the whole thing. Guy Maddin’s some way by the surrounding prison industrial complex. e result is rampant, anarchic lm, co-directed by Evan Johnson, resembles an apparently an intricately crafted cinematic tapestry, threaded through with deep chaotic, yet always signicant eroto-claustrophobic nightmare that never seems strands of Americana, humor, intimacy, and pathos, revealing as much to want to end, in which the plot, characters and locations constantly ow into about ourselves as it does about our modern carceral state. (Dir. by one another in truly enigmatic style. (Dir. by Guy Maddin, 2015, Canada, 130 Andrea B. Scott, 2014, USA, 78 mins., Not Rated) mins., Not Rated)

11 JULES AND JIM 13 IN THE BASEMENT thursday, oct 22 at 8:00pm (outdoor) thursday, oct 22 at 10:00pm (screen 3) FREE ADMISSION | $5 SUGGESTED DONATION ARIZONA PREMIERE! PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN SEATING NO ONE UNDER 18 WILL BE ADMITTED e lm is about people and their obsessions. e lm is about basements and Fall in love all over again with Francois Truaut’s French New Wave classic what people do in them in their free time. e lm is about brass-band music and at this special under the stars screening on our state-of-the-art outdoor opera arias, expensive furniture and cheap men’s jokes, sexuality and sadism, screen! And don’t miss the acclaimed new documentary, Hitchcock/ tness and fascism, whips and dolls, snakes and guns, love and the longing for Truaut, screening at e Loft Film Fest on Sunday, October 25 at love. In the Basement is a lm essay and Ulrich Seidl’s return to the documentary 11:30am! form after his wide-ranging Paradise trilogy. Using his familiar tableaux style, Ulrich Seidl’s stunning, hilarious, and outrageous new documentary explores the Propelled by jazzy editing, boundless energy and spot-on performances underground of the Austrian soul. (Dir. by Ulrich Seidl, 2014, Austria, in German from Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner and Henri Serre, Jules and Jim is with subtitles, 81 mins., Not Rated) Playing with the short lm Take Me: A an exhilarating romance as only Truaut could tell it. (Francois Truaut, nurse working at a center for the disabled confronts his principles when he’s asked to accomplish a particular task. (Dir. by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette & André 1962, France, in French with subtitles, 105 mins., Not Rated) Turpin, 2015, Canada, 10 mins.) FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23

14 PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT 16 CHUCK NORRIS VS COMMUNISM P friday, oct 23 at 11:45am (screen 1) friday, oct 23 at 2:00pm (screen 1) CO-PRESENTED BY THE TUCSON INTERNATIONAL ARIZONA PREMIERE! JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

Bouncing between Europe and the United States as often as she would “Stylish, breezily entertaining documentary between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim’s life was as swirling as the design of her uncle’s museum, and reads more like ction than any reality imaginable. Peggy explores the little-known role played by Guggenheim: Art Addict oers a rare look into Guggenheim’s world: blending the Hollywood movies – and one heroic lm dubber abstract, the colorful, the surreal and the salacious, to portray a life that was as complex and unpredictable as the artwork Peggy revered and the artists – in toppling Romanian communism.” – Scott she pushed forward. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, whose acclaimed debut feature Foundas, Variety documentary followed the life of Harper’s Bazaar fashion editor Diana Vreeland, turns her lens towards Peggy Guggenheim: a fascinating woman who dened and assembled the premier collection of 20th century modern art. (Dir. by Lisa In the 1980s, under the Nicolae Ceaușescu regime, Immordino Vreeland, 2015, USA/Italy/UK, 96 mins., Not Rated) Romanians suered from little access to foreign goods as well as an information blackout the Communist bureaucrats used to ensure ideological purity. But in clandestine screenings at neighbors’ homes of smuggled VHS tapes dubbed by a one-man distribution network, people got a glimpse of the Western world and a culture of muscular individuality with heroes like Jean-Claude Van Damme, , and, of course, Chuck Norris. In Chuck Norris vs Communism, one sees the power of lm to change individuals and whole societies. rough the stories of the hardworking female dubber (the most famous voice of Romania), the memories of everyday citizens, evocative re-creations of the time, and an enormous selection of clips from ’80s movies, rst- 15 DOUBLE DIGITS: THE STORY OF A time director Ilinca Calugareanu presents a lm about the NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIE STAR P unexpected consequences of mass entertainment, leading friday, oct 23 at noon (screen 3) to the conclusion that the greatest threat to Ceaușescu’s dictatorship might just have been the VCR. (Dir. by Ilinca WITH DIRECTOR JUSTIN JOHNSON IN Calugareanu, 2014, UK/Romania/Germany, in Romanian PERSON! with subtitles, 83 mins., Not Rated) Deep in the recesses of YouTube there is an ingenious artist who cannot be stopped. He consistently churns out 3-4 original feature-length lms a year. He’s Playing with the short lm e 414s: e Original Teenage made action movies, horror movies, westerns and more. He’s not rich, he has no Hackers: In 1983, a group of Milwaukee teenagers gained crew, no formal training and aside from his action gures, plays virtually every notoriety when they broke into dozens of high-prole computer part. Welcome to the inspiring, imaginative, and often handmade world of Ultra- systems. e ensuing media frenzy terried a nation previously DIY lmmaker Richard ‘R.G.’ Miller, a 50 year-old man who creates impossible blockbusters from his tiny studio apartment in Wichita, Kansas. His dream ignorant of the capabilities of computer interconnectivity. (Dir. audience? More than 9 people. (Dir. by Justin Johnson, 2015, USA, 76 mins., Not by Michael T. Vollmann, 2015, USA, 12 mins.) Rated) FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23

17 DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 18 IN TRANSIT friday, oct 23 at 2:15pm (screen 3) friday, oct 23 at 4:00pm (screen 1) e Loft Film Fest’s documentary shorts program includes a wide ARIZONA PREMIERE! range of experiences and techniques, all of them engaging and unique. CO-PRESENTED BY DOCSCAPES

DONNIE An intimate portrait of Donnie Cianciotto (Artisitc “Immediately joining the ranks of cinema’s most Director, Musical Mayhem Cabaret, Tucson, AZ), a trans man whose bittersweet swansongs, this gentle but (literally) sense of self is not recognized by the world around him. (Dir. by Anna moving doc takes us along for a ride on the Empire Augustowska, 2015, USA, 10 mins.) Director Anna Augustowska Builder, Amtrak’s busiest long-distance route.” – David and subject / star Donnie Cianciotto in person! Ehrlich, Time Out

NEW MO’ CUT: DAVID PEOPLES’ LOST FILM OF MOE’S BOOKS A short documentary chronicling the surprising discovery at the Berkeley dump of a 16mm lm of the 1965 opening night party for a legendary Telegraph Avenue bookstore. (Dir. by Siciliana Trevino, 2015, USA, 14 mins.) Director Siciliana Trevino in person!

THE BICKNELL Genevieve Bicknell comes from a family that has a crest emblazoned on t-shirts, writes genealogical books about themselves, and every year competes in a fancy-dress golf tournament. (Dir. by Genevieve Bicknell, 2015, UK, 17 mins.)

ANIMATION HOTLINE, 2015 (DOCUMENTARY Legendary documentary lmmaker Albert Maysles pioneered VERSION) An animated series of real life stories, crowd-sourced from telephone answering machine messages. (Dir. by Dustin Grella, feature documentary lmmaking and Direct Cinema, his 2015, USA, 7 mins.) work revealing a patient intimacy and unassuming quest for understanding. is technique is never more apparent than PAPA MACHETE Two hundred years ago, Haitian slaves defeated with In Transit, Maysles’ nal project before his death. He and his Napoleon’s armies with the same tool used to work the land: the collaborators capture a journey through the hearts and minds of machete. Papa Machete explores a martial art evolved from this passengers aboard e Empire Builder, America’s busiest long- victory through the practice of one of its few remaining masters. (Dir. distance train route. Aboard the train, we meet pensive runaways by Jonathan David Kane, 2015, USA/Haiti, 11 mins.) and eager adventurers, reunited family members, and perpetual loners, as the landscape shifts from urban centers to oil elds CHAU BEYOND THE LINES Chau, a teenager living in to seemingly innite plains. Seamlessly interweaving overheard a Vietnamese care center for kids disabled by Agent Orange, conversations, new friendships, and touching moments, this struggles with the reality of his dream to one day become a documentary becomes more than a web of intimate vignettes professional artist. (Dir. by Courtney Marsh, 2015, USA/Vietnam, 34 as it uncovers a new side of the American people. Connecting a mins.) Director Courtney Marsh and producer Jerry Franck in myriad of travelers in a transitory state, In Transit breathes new person! life into the cross-country commute and asks us to contemplate the unknowns that lie at our nal destination. (Dir. by Albert GORAN Joy and frustration as constructed by Goran Gostojić of Maysles, Lynn True, David Usui, Nelson Walker III and Benjamin Novi Sad. (Dir. by Roberto Santaguida, 2015, Serbia, 11 mins.) Wu, 2015, USA, 76 mins., Not Rated) FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23

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19 RITA MORENO RECEPTION 21 WEST SIDE STORY friday, oct 23 from 4:00pm-5:30pm friday, oct 23 at 6:00pm (screen 1) General admission: $60 • loft members: $50 LOFTY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Tickets include reception and screening of SCREENING! West Side Story at the Loft Film Fest at 6PM PRESENTED BY PATRICIA WHITEHILL Meet the legendary Rita Moreno at an intimate reception just before our gala screening of e legendary Rita Moreno appears at e Loft Film Fest for a West Side Story. special screening of the classic 1961 musical West Side Story, featuring her incredible, Oscar-winning performance as Anita. e Loft Film Fest’s tribute to Ms. Moreno will start at 6pm Hors d’oeuvre will be served, no host bar. with a pre-show conversation, a career highlight reel, the Admission is extremely limited! presentation of a 2015 Lofty Lifetime Achievement Award and the screening of West Side Story will start at 7pm. Tonight, tonight, won’t be just any night, as we celebrate one of cinema’s most beloved musicals, West Side Story, and its Oscar-winning star, Rita Moreno! Created by the musical dream team of Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins and Stephen Sondheim, and starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, George Chakiris, and the electrifying Ms. Moreno, this legendary 1961 lm won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress (Rita Moreno), inspired countless generations of musical fanatics and brought Shakespeare’s classic tale of teenage romance to vibrant life… only here, instead of Verona, the setting is 1950s New York City, and as always, the course of true love never, ever runs smoothly. A jazzy, snazzy, high energy classic that almost leaps o the screen (when it’s not breaking your heart), West Side Story endures as one of the greatest musicals in Hollywood history. (Dir. by Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, 1961, USA, 152 mins., Not Rated)

20 APPLESAUCE Rita Moreno is a legendary star of stage, screen and television, and is one of friday, oct 23 at 5:00pm (screen 3) only 12 performers in history to be classied as an EGOT winner (winner of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony). She is one of only four women to have ARIZONA PREMIERE! achieved this landmark status, as well as the rst Hispanic performer to be thusly honored. Over the course of her groundbreaking career, Ms. Moreno has Every Tuesday night, radio talk show host Stevie Bricks invites his listeners to starred in such iconic classics as Singin’ in the Rain, e King and I and West Side call in and share their stories. When one night he asks people to share the worst Story (for which she won the 1962 Best Supporting Actress Academy Award), thing they’ve ever done, high school teacher Ron Welz can’t resist. Big mistake performed on Broadway in hits like e Last of the Red Hot Lovers and e — what he reveals sets o a chain of hilariously uncontrollable events adversely Ritz (for which she won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress), aecting his marriage and another couple. And when someone starts sending appeared on such successful television shows as Oz, e Electric Company and him body parts, his life really begins to fall apart. Who is tormenting him? An e Muppet Show (for which she was awarded a 1977 Emmy), recorded albums insolent high school student? His best friend? His wife? ere are over eight (including her latest, the 2015 Spanish-language recording Una Vez Mas) and million people in the Naked City, and everyone’s a suspect. (Dir. by Onur Tukel, written a New York Times best-selling memoir, 2014’s Rita Moreno: A Memoir. She 2015, USA, in English, 91 mins., Not Rated) Playing with the short lm One has also been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Screen Actors Year Lease: In a story told almost entirely through voice mail messages, Brian, Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, and in December, 2015, she will receive a omas, and Casper endure a year with Rita, their cat-loving landlady. (Dir. by prestigious Kennedy Center Honor. Brian Bolster, 2015, USA, 11 mins.)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23

22 NASTY BABY 24 LOVE 3D friday, oct 23 at 7:15pm (screen 3) friday, oct 23 at 9:45pm (screen 3) ARIZONA PREMIERE! ARIZONA PREMIERE!

Brooklyn artist Freddy (Sebastián Silva) is baby obsessed. His new project centers NO ONE UNDER 18 WILL BE ADMITTED around newborns, and he and his boyfriend, Mo (TV on the Radio’s Tunde French provocateur Gaspar Noé (Irreversible, Enter the Void) continues to push Adebimpe), have recruited their best friend, Polly (Kristen Wiig), to help them the envelope with this 3D melodrama featuring explicit sex. Noé has always have a baby. On top of dealing with the stress of opening an art installation and worn his heart on his celluloid; in his latest sensation, he reveals more of himself the complications of conceiving a child via articial insemination, the three begin than ever before. Employing his trademark fractured narrative, Noé opens with to be harassed by e Bishop, a mentally ill neighborhood man. An escalating an intimate scene of lovemaking between American lm student Murphy (Karl series of incidents threaten to derail the comfortable lives these people have built Glusman) and the enchanting artist Electra (Aomi Muyock) — and suddenly for themselves. (Dir. by Sebastián Silva, 2015, USA/Chile, 100 mins., Not Rated) cuts to two years later as Murphy wakes next to a dierent woman, Omi (Klara Kristin). Omi is the mother of Murphy’s child, and Electra seems a distant Playing with the short lm Pink Grapefruit: A young married couple bring memory. But when he receives a call from Electra’s mother, searching for her two of their single friends to Palm Springs for a long weekend. It does not go as missing daughter, Murphy is led to fantasize about what could have been. (Dir. planned. Winner of the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at the SXSW by Gaspar Noé, 2015, France, in English, 134 mins., Not Rated, but appropriate for Film Festival. (Dir. by Michael Mohan, 2015, USA, 11 mins.) mature audiences only)

23 PSYCHO 25 THE HALLOW friday, oct 23 at 8:00pm (outdoor) friday, oct 23 at 10:00pm (screen 1) FREE ADMISSION | $5 SUGGESTED DONATION ARIZONA PREMIERE! PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN SEATING When London conservationist Adam (Game of rones’ Joseph Mawle) and his Experience the terror of Hitchcock’s classic shocker under the stars wife Clare (Bojana Novakovic, Devil, Drag Me To Hell) move with their infant son on our state-of-the-art outdoor screen! And don’t miss the acclaimed to a remote house near the Irish forest, they quickly nd their new neighbors unwelcoming. e discovery of a gruesome “zombie fungus” growing in the house new documentary, Hitchcock/Truaut, playing at e Loft Film Fest on is just the beginning, as the surrounding woods spew forth a terrifying array Sunday, October 25 at 11:30am! of folkloric banshees, baby snatchers, and demons. Awash in the otherworldly atmosphere of a dark fairy tale, e Hallow cleverly toys with genre conventions Coming o the comparatively big budget North by Northwest, director while unleashing some of the most nightmarishly terrifying creatures in years. Alfred Hitchcock decided he wanted to make a nice, little, low-budget (Dir. by Corin Hardy, 2015, UK, in English, 97 mins., Not Rated) Playing with black-and-white lm for a change of pace. is was the result, and the the short lm Anxiety #5: A man’s fate is sealed within a Brooklyn tenement shock waves are still reverberating. (Dir. by Alfred Hitchcock, 1960, USA, housing bathroom in 1983. (Dir. by Jesse Foster, 2015, Canada, 6 mins.) 109 mins., Rated R) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

26 HAND GESTURES P 27 FIDDLESTICKS saturday, oct 23 at 11:30am (screen 3) saturday, oct 24 at noon (screen 1) U.S. PREMIERE! ARIZONA PREMIERE!

WITH DIRECTOR FRANCESCO CLERICI IN PERSON! PRESENTED BY GEICO CO-PRESENTED BY MILDRED & DILDRED Hand Gestures follows the process of creating one of Velasco Vitali’s famous dog sculptures, from wax to glazed bronze, at the Battaglia Artistic Foundry in Milan. e lm observes the work of a group of skilled artisans in this 100-year old foundry and reveals the ancient traditions of bronze sculpture making, unchanged since the sixth century B.C. is method is not taught in school, but is passed on in the ancient oral tradition and through apprenticeships from artisans. is documentary observes and feels the work of the Battaglia Artistic Foundry: a place where the past and present share the same gestures and where each gesture is a sculpture itself. An artist who sculpts, who works the waxes, is treated in the same way as a craftsman who turns that wax into bronze, building and destroying other ephemeral sculptures: they have been making the same gestures e colorful village of Bollersdorf lies directly between northern for centuries, and by showing this to the camera they reveal and southern Germany, earning it the nickname “the belly button historical “jumps” in time. Director Francesco Clerici has made a of the world,” and by all accounts is considered 100% average. ne-tuned, carefully-observed study of a glorious thing to watch: Due to the town’s overwhelming normalness, a consumer artisans practicing their craft on lm. Winner of the FIPRESCI studies company named GFK has set up its headquarters in award at Berlinale Forum 2015. (Dir. by Francesco Clerici, 2015, the village square, from which it tests out its increasingly Italy, in Italian with subtitles, 77 mins., Not Rated) bizarre new products such as Green Corn Flakes and Blutella on the easily inuenced public. But to the group of resourceful, Francesco Clerici earned a Master’s Degree in Art History rambunctious young children known as the Coati Gang, average and Criticism from the University of Milan with a thesis on is a dirty word, and they bemoan the fact that their grandparents Buster Keaton’s inuence on contemporary art. Since 2003 have all been unceremoniously dumped into nursing homes as a he has presented a lm club and led lmmaking workshops result of their youthful, overactive imaginations and past careers for children. Since 2009 Francesco has collaborated with as stunt pilots, bold mountaineers, and rocket car inventors. the artist Velasco Vitali and with CICAE (International When the Coati Gang happens upon a book of world records, Federation of Arthouse Cinemas). His 2011 short lm Storie nel they get inspired and decide to break the village of its monotony Cemento (Cement Stories) won the of the FAI – Italian Artistic through whatever means necessary. Director Veit Helmer has Foundationprize at the Milano Film Festival and was selected elated audiences worldwide with such charmers as Tuvalu (1999) for various documentary lm festivals. In 2012 he published his and Absurdistan (2007), and the fantastical, wild, candy- rst book, 24 Fotogrammi: storia aneddotica del cinema. Il Gesto coated Fiddlesticks is no dierent, a lm as endlessly inventive as delle Mani (Hand Gestures), his rst feature documentary, won the Coati Gang themselves. (Dir. by Viet Helmer, 2014, Germany, the FIPRESCI award at Berlinale Forum 2015 and has been in German with subtitles, 82 mins., Not Rated, but appropriate for selected in many festival around the world. all ages) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

28 CALL ME LUCKY 29 RACING EXTINCTION saturday, oct 24 at 1:45pm (screen 3) saturday, oct 24 at 2:00pm (screen 1) TUCSON PREMIERE! TUCSON PREMIERE!

LEE MARVIN MAVERICK AWARD PRESENTED BY VEGAN LOGIC SCREENING! “If you’ve ever wondered what a breaking heart Acclaimed lmmaker Bobcat Goldthwait is the recipient sounds like, it’s right here in the futile warble of the Loft Film Fest’s 2015 Lee Marvin Maverick of the last male of a species of songbird, singing Award, presented to those lm artists whose work embodies a bold spirit of originality and independence. for a mate that will never come.” – Jeannette Mr. Goldthwait will be presented with the Maverick Catsoulis, e New York Times Award following the screening of his latest lm, Call Me Lucky. is award presentation will also include a career highlight reel and an onstage conversation with Mr. Goldthwait.

“Angry, quixotic, tragic, heroic – Crimmins’ life is stunning. Catch this portrait and you can de nitely call yourself lucky.” – Katharine Pushkar, New York Daily News

Bobcat Goldthwait’s award-winning documentary Call Me Lucky has had the lm festival circuit buzzing, with audiences and critics up on their feet in applause for the lm and the In Racing Extinction, a team of artists and activists exposes unlikely comedy hero at its center, . Call Me the hidden world of extinction with never-before-seen images Lucky is the inspiring, triumphant and wickedly funny portrait that will change the way we see the planet. Two worlds drive of one of comedy’s most enigmatic and important gures: extinction across the globe, potentially resulting in the loss of Barry Crimmins, the beer-swilling, politically outspoken and half of all species. e international wildlife trade creates bogus whip-smart comic whose eorts in the 70s and 80s fostered markets at the expense of creatures that have survived on this the talents of the next generation of standup comedians. planet for millions of years. And the other surrounds us, hiding Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, Call Me Lucky bravely tells in plain sight — a world that the oil and gas companies don’t Crimmins’ incredible story of transformation from a rage- want the rest of us to see. Using covert tactics and state-of-the- fueled funnyman into an acclaimed proponent of justice who art technology, the Racing Extinction team exposes these two personied the healing power of comedy. Interviews in the worlds in an inspiring armation to preserve life as we know documentary include Barry Crimmins, , David it. From the Academy Award® Winning Filmmakers of e Cross, Margaret Cho, , , Kevin Cove. (Dir. by Louis Psihoyos, 2015, USA/China, Hong Kong/ Meaney, Lenny Clarke, Steven Wright, Billy Bragg, and Cindy Indonesia/Mexico/UK, 90mins.) Sheehan. (Dir. by Bobcat Goldthwait, 2015, USA, 106 mins., Not Rated) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

30 JANIS: LITTLE GIRL BLUE 31 NARRATIVE SHORTS #2 P saturday, oct 24 at 4:00pm (screen 1) saturday, oct 24 at 4:30pm (screen 3) ADVANCE SCREENING! One of two programs featuring a diverse selection of incredible short lms from around the world.

FEATURING A POST-FILM Q&A WITH ANNIE & BRIAN Two young people disappointed in their own TUCSONAN MICHAEL JOPLIN, JANIS’ lives nd solace in each others’. (Dir. by Symeon Platts & Michael YOUNGER BROTHER. Dean, 2015, USA, 8 mins.) Directors Symeon Platts & Michael Dean in person!

“An absorbing documentary portrait of late MISSED CALL FROM DICKHOLE Corey is 26 and trying blues-rock goddess Janis Joplin… it’s the hard to not be alone. (Dir. by Brooke Hartnett, 2015, USA, 12 satisfying feature-length overview that Joplin’s mins.) Director Brooke Hartnett in person! brief, ercely brilliant career has long merited.” A KING’S BETRAYAL e tragic, nal 24 hours in the life – Guy Lodge, Variety of a Pinata, as told from the Pinata’s perspective. (Dir. by David Bornstein, 2015, USA, 9 mins.) Director David Bornstein in Academy Award-nominated lmmaker Amy Berg (Deliver Us person! from Evil) delves into the life of blazingly talented rock legend Janis Joplin in this engrossing new documentary. Since her FOLLOWERS Lynn, an elderly woman stricken with grief after death from a heroin overdose in 1970 at the age of twenty-seven, her husband’s death, nds solace in an apparition of Jesus on Janis Joplin has been a ubiquitous presence on posters, T-shirts, the swimming trunks of a young gay man at her adult swimming and classic-rock radio. In this documentary, she reverts from an class. (Dir. by Tim Marshall, 2015, UK/Australia, 12 mins.) icon back into a human being. Acclaimed lmmaker Amy Berg excavates unseen material, interviews Joplin’s condantes and THE TULIP CHAIR A simple apartment chair talks of his past, uncovers personal letters. e resulting portrait gives us fresh present, and passions. (Dir. by Courtney Marsh, 2015, USA, 4 insight into the mighty talent behind famous versions of “Piece mins.) Director Courtney Marsh & Producer Jerry Franck in person! of My Heart,” “Cry Baby,” and “Me and Bobby McGee.” rough interviews with her family members and fellow musicians, DOG DAYS e story of a coming of age moment for two the lm helps us better understand the dierent worlds Janis teenagers. (Dir. by Nathan Deming, 2015, USA, 23 mins.) Director inhabited and the people who had the most inuence on her. Nathan Deming in person! On stage and on camera, Janis frequently projected an image of being high and happy-go-lucky. Berg’s lm reveals a more SALAD DAYS Francine overcomes her own biases in an attempt vulnerable character who cycled in and out of addictions and to understand her recent breakup. (Dir. by Ana Humphrey, 2015, channeled her emotions into her art. Singer Cat Power does an USA, 8 mins.) Director Ana Humphrey in person! uncanny job of recreating Joplin’s voice in readings from her letters. But the dominant voice is Joplin’s own, in extraordinary A MILLION MILES AWAY Melancholy as survival strategy: performances drawn from both classic and rare footage. (Dir. by A woman on the edge of failing and a pack of teenage girls Amy Berg, 2015, USA, 106 mins., Not Rated) simultaneously experience a supernatural coming-of-age. e transformation unravels to the infectious beat of a heavy metal anthem rearranged as a lamentation. (Dir. by Jennifer Reeder, 2015, USA, 28 mins.) This program is appropriate for mature audiences only. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

32 BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 33 ENTERTAINMENT saturday, oct 24 at 7:00pm (screen 1) saturday, oct 24 at 7:30pm (screen 3) 10TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING / 35MM TUCSON PREMIERE! PRINT! “It’s what new lms ought to strive for: to Don’t miss this very special 10th Anniversary screening of the groundbreaking classic Brokeback Mountain on strike back against the familiar.” – Calum glorious 35mm, featuring an introduction by the lm’s Marsh,Village Voice Oscar-winning screenwriters/producers Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana!

Director Ang Lee’s epic American love story, beautifully adapted from an Annie Proulx short story by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (who, like Lee, earned Oscars for their work here), made cinematic history in 2005 as the rst gay romance to cross over into the mainstream, eventually grossing $178 million worldwide. A decade later, it’s still the most successful same-sex love story that Hollywood has ever produced. Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the lm tells the story of two young men – ranch hand Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllehaal) – who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a passionate lifelong A broken, aging comedian tours the California desert, lost connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide in a cycle of third-rate venues, novelty tourist attractions, a stunning testament to the endurance and power of love. More and vain attempts to reach his estranged daughter. By than just a box-oce smash, Brokeback Mountain became not day, he slogs through the barren landscape, inadvertently only an instant gay cinema classic, but a universal romance for alienating every acquaintance. At night, he seeks solace the ages, as well – a one-of-a-kind lm whose cultural impact and relevance remain as strong today as when it was rst released a in the animation of his onstage persona. Fueled by decade ago. (Dir. by Ang Lee, 2005, USA, 134 mins., Rated R) the promise of a lucrative Hollywood engagement, he trudges through a series of increasingly surreal and Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana are the Academy volatile encounters. In director Rick Alverson’s (e Award-winning co-screenwriters and co-producers of the Comedy) hallucinatory fugue, Gregg Turkington (aka Neil groundbreaking hit lm, Brokeback Mountain. Mr. Murtry is Hamburger) stars as e Comedian, caught in a struggle a prolic, Pulitzer Prize-winning author (for the best-selling between being the center of attention and the object of novel Lonesome Dove) and the Oscar-nominated screenwriter alienation, occasionally challenged by an unexpected of e Last Picture Show (based on his novel). Ms. Ossana is an cast of characters played by , John C. Reilly, acclaimed writer and Oscar-nominated producer (for Brokeback , and . (Dir. by Rick Alverson, Mountain). 2015, USA, 110 mins., Rated R) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

34 ¡THREE AMIGOS! 35 BEAVER TRILOGY PART IV P saturday, oct 24 at 8:00pm (outdoor) saturday, oct 24 at 10:00pm (screen 3) FREE ADMISSION | $5 SUGGESTED DONATION ARIZONA PREMIERE! PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN SEATING In 1979, KUTV in Salt Lake City acquired a new video camera. Trent Harris, a producer for the station’s obeat show Extra, ventured out into the parking lot PRESENTED BY GEICO to test the new equipment and happened upon a young man taking pictures of the station’s news helicopter. e kid, calling himself “Groovin’ Gary,” was the self-proclaimed Rich Little of Beaver, Utah. His infectious personality and small- FEATURING AN INTRODUCTION BY ALFONSO town impressions of John Wayne, Sylvester Stallone, and Barry Manilow piqued ARAU (EL GUAPO)! Harris’s interest enough so he gave him a business card and asked that he alert him if anything newsworthy happened in his hometown. What happened next Get your laugh on at a special under the stars screening of would become the foundation for Beaver Trilogy, a unique collection of lms that documented Harris’s multiple attempts at re-creating the original magic of the this Tucson-shot comedy classic, starring 2015 Lofty Lifetime Beaver Kid. Director Brad Besser dives deep into the mystique of this cult classic, Achievement Award winner Alfonso Arau as El Guapo, on unraveling the mystery of Harris’s original inspiration. (Dir. by Brad Besser, 2015, our state-of-the-art outdoor screen! And don’t miss Arau’s USA, 84 mins., Not Rated) acclaimed directorial eort, Like Water for Chocolate, featuring a pre-lm Q&A with the lmmaker, screening at e Loft Film Fest on Sunday, October 25 at 4:00pm! LOFT FILM FEST IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY OUR “A goofy delight. It’s like a cross between a big- GENEROUS SUSTAINING budget ree Stooges movie and a Hope-Crosby road picture, with dozens of old cowpoke gags MEMBERS! thrown in to spice up the brew. “– Patrick AUTEUR amy Zuckerman pam Grissom Goldstein, Times anita Katz paul & mary Koss debi chess mabie & clint mabie peggy Johnson & Joe tarver Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short travel a dusty Gretchen collins richard & ann bates road to adventure in this hilariously zany mixture of slapstick, Jan & John mueller one-liners and sight gags. e “ ree Amigos” are a silent screen EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DIRECTOR CIRCLE comedy act that has seen better days. So has a remote Mexican allen & Kim halper barbara & ed farmilant betsy bolding carolyn evarts called Santo Poco, which is being terrorized by a erce bonnie Kay dennis & sevren coon bandit gang. In desperation, a naïve villager sends the actors a claire scheuren harriet silverman telegram asking for their help. inking they’re being oered Gary & Joni Jones Joanne stuhr a fortune for a personal appearance, the hapless trio arrives in hal melfi Joseph chambers & david daniell Jennifer schneider martin dresner & ellen ristow Mexico, only to discover this time they’re dodging real bullets, Kathy alexander & paul lindsey nancy pitt courtesy of the nasty El Guapo (Alfonso Arau) and his criminal leigh bernstein price fishback & pamela slaten cohorts. Can our bumbling heroes rise to the occasion and mary ellen heard richard & mary rose duffield save the town, or will this be their nal performance? Filmed max mccauslin ron & marcia spark muriel & marc Goldfeder ronna fickbohm & Jeff willis at the legendary Old Tucson Studios, and directed by comedy rick & linda hanson susan & david hazan guru John Landis (Animal House), this is a comedy about three sam & linda yalkowsky loveable goofballs who are in way over their heads but come sharon & larry malcolmson what may, they’ll always remain e ree Amigos! (Dir. by John shawn miller stephen Golden & susan tarrence Landis, 1986, USA, 104 mins., Rated PG) timothy reckart SATURDAY & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 & 25

36 LATE NIGHT SHORTS 37 3D RARITES saturday, oct 24 at 10:30pm (screen 1) sunday, oct 25 at 11:15am (screen 3)

SON A sheltered kid cons his way into a sick day. Left alone for the rst e rst documented public exhibition of a 3D motion picture time, he stumbles upon a sinister family secret. (Dir. by Judd Meyers, 2015, took place on June 10, 1915 at New York’s Astor eatre. USA, 14 mins.) To commemorate the 3D Centennial, the 3D Film Archive THE UMBRELLA FACTORY An animated short based on “ e presents 3D RARITIES, an eye-popping collection of brilliantly- Monkey’s Paw.” (Dir. by Nick and Lexie Trivundza, 2015, USA, 4 mins.) restored 3D lms that span the dawn of 3D technology in the 1920s to Hollywood’s Golden Age of 3D in the 1950s and POP-UP PORNO: M4F A painfully ill Dutch Montrealer has to use ‘60s. ey include ru’ the Trees, Washington D.C. (1922), the the bathroom while his date is in the shower. (Dir. by Stephen Dunn, 2015, earliest surviving stereoscopic lm, with incredible footage of Canada, 4 mins.) Washington and New York City; the 1940 Technicolor short MYRNA THE MONSTER A heartbroken alien dreamer from the New Dimensions (aka Motor Rhythm), the rst domestic color 3D moon transitions into young adult life in Los Angeles just like any other lm, produced for the Chrysler Pavilion at the New York World’s twentysomething. Myrna is voiced by Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. (Dir. by Ian Samuels, 2015, USA, 14 mins.)

PALM ROT An old Florida fumigator discovers a mysterious crate in the Everglades that ruins his day. (Dir. by Ryan Gillis, 2015, USA, 8 mins.)

HUMMINGBIRD’S WINGS Experimental short bridging the gap between live action and animation, documentary and poetry. (Dir. by Dustin Grella, 2015, USA, 2 mins.)

MYNARSKI DEATH PLUMMET A completely handmade historical micro-epic combining wartime aviation melodrama with classical and avant-garde animation techniques, Mynarski Death Plummet is a psychedelic photo-chemical war picture on the themes of self-sacrice, immortality, and jellysh. (Dir. by Matthew Rankin, 2015, Canada, 8 mins.) Fair; rills For You (1940), a fascinating promotional lm SIMON A man prepares for his nal entry onto the grand stage, only to for the Pennsylvania Railroad, rst shown at the Golden Gate be confronted by his inner self. (Dir. by Camille de Galbert, 2015, USA, 12 International Exposition in San Francisco; e Adventures of mins.) Sam Space (1953), a fun stop-motion animated adventure; Doom THE HORSE RAISED BY SPHERES Horse ponders his loneliness. (Dir. Town (1953), a controversial anti-atomic testing lm which was by David O’Reilly, 2015, USA/Ireland, 3 mins.) mysteriously pulled from theatrical release after a few play- dates in July 1953; I’ll Sell My Shirt (1953), a burlesque comedy FERDINAND KNAPP Dominque Pinon (City of Lost Children) stars as featuring “Side-Splitting Comedians and Beautiful Girls in 3D!”; Ferdinand Knapp, the pre-eminent actor of French theatre, revered by all. e Maze (1953), a coming attraction trailer with fantastic 3D In preparing for a new play, the lines between his character’s malevolent production design by the legendary William Cameron Menzies, personality and his own begin to blur. (Dir. by Andrea Baldini, 2015, France, 15 mins.) and much more. Presented in high quality digital 3D, all lms in 3D RARITIES have been restored and mastered in 2K from SLASHED! Nancy stands up to her murderous lover after a run-in with original 35mm elements for optimum quality. Meticulously re- some of his victims in this slasher comedy musical. (Dir. by Wade Shields, aligned shot by shot for precise registration of the original left/ 2015, USA, 12 mins.) Director Wade Shields in person! right elements, these historic 3D lms have never before looked This program is appropriate for mature audiences only. this good! (Total program running time: 97 mins.) SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25

38 HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT 39 MUSTANG sunday, oct 25 at 11:30am (screen 1) sunday, oct 25 at 1:15pm (screen 3) ARIZONA PREMIERE! ARIZONA PREMIERE!

PRESENTED BY THE LAW OFFICES OF JOE F. TARVER “is terri c retrospective on the week-long series of interviews between François Truaut “is is a beautiful lm. I can’t wait for the rest and Alfred Hitchcock is a brilliant commentary of the world to discover it for themselves.” – on the discourse of cinema then, and now.” – Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com Peter Bradshaw, e Guardian

Director Deniz Gamze Ergüven poignantly examines a group In 1962, Alfred Hitchcock and François Truaut locked of young girls becoming women in her rst feature lm, the themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the haunting, atmospheric Mustang, winner of the Europa Cinemas secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the Label award at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. e lm opens original recordings of this meeting—used to produce the in a remote Turkish coastal village on the Black Sea as the school mythical book Hitchcock/Truaut—this lm illustrates the year ends for ve sisters. When a neighbor observes the long- greatest cinema lesson of all time and plummets us into haired, long-limbed girls at the beach, engaged in what she views the world of the creator of Psycho, e Birds, and Vertigo. as scandalous behavior, she reports them to their grandmother Hitchcock’s incredibly modern art is elucidated and explained and uncle. All “instruments of corruption” and pop-culture by today’s leading lmmakers: Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, artifacts are removed from the house, girly outts are replaced Arnaud Desplechin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, James with formless brown dresses, and, following a brief escape to an Gray, Olivier Assayas, Richard Linklater, Peter Bogdanovich and all-female soccer match, bars are installed on the windows and Paul Schrader. An incredible depiction of the meeting of two of gates erected at the home’s entrance. Co-written by Ergüven and cinema’s greatest minds, this is a documentary cinephiles will Alice Winocour, Mustang is a sensitive and powerful portrait of not want to miss! (Dir. by Kent Jones, 2015, France/USA, 80 sisterhood and burgeoning sexuality. Ergüven elicits wonderfully mins., Not Rated) naturalistic performances from her mostly non-professional actors, who bring a vibrant, youthful energy to the lm. e lm signals the emergence of a singular and erce new voice in Turkish cinema. (Dir. by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015, Turkey, in Turkish with subtitles, 97 mins., Not Rated) SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25

40 RIGHT FOOTED P 42 LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE sunday, oct 25 at 1:30pm (screen 1) sunday, oct 25 at 4:00pm (screen 1) WITH DIRECTOR/PRODUCER NICK SPARK LOFTY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AND JESSICA COX IN PERSON! SCREENING!

Born without arms as the result of a severe birth defect, Jessica Cox See the award-winning, crowd-pleasing romantic drama Like never allowed herself to believe that she couldn’t accomplish her dreams. Water for Chocolate on the big screen, featuring a post- lm An expert martial artist, college graduate and motivational speaker, Q&A with director Alfonso Arau (joined by one of the lm’s Jessica is also the world’s only armless airplane pilot, a mentor, and an stars, Yareli Arizmendi, and actor/artist/ lmmaker Sergio advocate for people with disability. Directed by Emmy Award winning Arau, Alfonso’s son)! e event starts at 4pm with a special lmmaker Nick Spark, Right Footed chronicles Jessica’s amazing story of career highlight reel showcasing scenes from some of Mr. overcoming adversity and follows her over a period of two years as she Arau’s most memorable lms, and the presentation of e Lofty becomes a mentor for children with disabilities and their families, and a Lifetime Achievement Award to the internationally-acclaimed disability rights advocate working in the U.S.A. and abroad. (Dir. by Nick lmmaker/actor. Like Water For Chocolate will start at 4:45pm. Spark, 2015, USA, in English with subtitles, 82 mins., Not Rated) A special “Chocolate Reception” will follow the lm. e Loft Film Fest will also present a free outdoor screening of the 1986 made-in-Tucson comedy classic, ree Amigos, starring Alfonso Arau as El Guapo! Saturday, October 24 at 8:00pm. Like Water For Chocolate, directed by Alfonso Arau, is a mouth-watering tale of food, magic and passion, based on screenwriter Laura Esquivel’s magical realist novel (with recipes!) about family life in turn-of-the- twentieth-century-Mexico. Tita is the youngest of three daughters in a traditional Mexican family. Bound by tradition to remain unmarried while caring for her stern and bitter mother, Tita nevertheless falls in love with a handsome young man named Pedro. Pedro returns her aection, but he cannot overcome her family’s disapproval, and he instead marries Tita’s elder sister, Rosaura (Yareli Arizmendi). e love struck young woman is brutally disappointed, and her sadness has such force that it infects her cooking: all who eat it her feel her heartbreak with the same intensity. is newly discovered power continues to 41 FINDERS KEEPERS manifest itself after the wedding, as Tita and Pedro, overcome by their sunday, oct 25 at 3:30pm (screen 3) denied love, embark on a secret aair. Winningly combining traditional melodrama and exotic fairy tale, Like Water For Chocolate became a ARIZONA PREMIERE! wildly popular box-oce hit (it was one of the highest grossing foreign language lms in the U.S. at the time of its release) as well as a cinematic Shannon Whisnant has a nose for a bargain. But when he bought a used grill “foodie” classic – a luscious testimony to the timeless power of good at a North Carolina auction, the severed human foot he found among its ashes food and true love. (Dir. by Alfonso Arau, 1992, Mexico, in Spanish with was not part of the deal. Soon the gruesome discovery becomes the toast subtitles, 105 mins., Rated R) of the infotainment world, and the new owner spies a golden opportunity to cash in on the media frenzy, until struggling addict and amputee John Wood Alfonso Arau, one of the legends of Mexican cinema, is the internationally- recognizes his missing member and demands his own foot back. Bizarre twists renowned director of such acclaimed lms as Zapata: e Dream of a Hero, A Walk of fate with perfectly twisted characters take center stage in a courtroom battle in the Clouds and the arthouse smash, Like Water For Chocolate (winner of the with television’s Judge Mathis, exploding this classic small-town feud to epic 1992 Ariel Awards for Best Picture and Best Director). Over the course of his proportions as their 15 minutes of fame turn their lives upside-down and they distinguished career, he has also made numerous memorable appearances as an nd themselves basking under the heat lamps of the international talk-show actor in such classics as e Wild Bunch, El Topo, Romancing the Stone and the circuit. (Dir. by Brian Carberry and J. Clay Tweel, 2015, USA, 82 mins., Rated R) Tucson-shot comedy ree Amigos (in the unforgettable role of El Guapo). SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25

43 HORSE MONEY 44 MIA MADRE sunday, oct 25 at 5:30pm (screen 3) sunday, oct 25 at 7:15pm (screen 1) ARIZONA PREMIERE! ARIZONA PREMIERE!

In the touching new lm from Italian master Nanni Moretti, a harried lmmaker “Horse Money is an inspired reminder that tries to juggle the production of her new lm with visits to the bedside of her dying mother. If most lms dealing with aging and death are sombre and politically rooted cinema needn’t just inhabit melancholic, Mia Madre adds large doses of glorious, anarchic comedy. In fact, the realm of the strictly real; it can have an the lm oscillates between extremes, making metaphysical points along the way about how mourning and joy can be inextricably intertwined. What elevates this unconscious too, a dream dimension haunted lm into a gentle kind of feminist manifesto is not just Margherita Buy’s main by ghosts.” – Jonathan Romney, Film Comment character, but also that of the mother (Giulia Lazzarini), a retired teacher of classical literature. ese strong women form the centre of Mia Madre. Moretti Magazine displaces himself further by giving the major male part to John Turturro, who plays the brash, outsized American star of the lm-within-a-lm with great comic ourish. (Dir. by Nanni Moretti, 2015, Italy/France, in Italian and English with subtitles, 106 mins., Not Rated)

A visionary masterwork from the renowned director of Colossal Youth, Pedro Costa’s Horse Money is a mesmerizing odyssey into the real, imagined and nightmarish memories of the elderly Ventura, a Cape Verdean immigrant living in Lisbon. e time is now, a numbing and timeless present of hospital stays, 45 EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO sunday, oct 25 at 7:45pm (screen 3) bureaucratic questioning, and wandering through remembered spaces… and suddenly it is also then, the mid ’70s and the time of TUCSON PREMIERE! Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, when Ventura got into a knife ght with his friend Joaquim. Horse Money is a self-reckoning, In 1931, at the height of his artistic powers, Soviet lmmaker Sergei Eisenstein moving memorialization of lives in danger of being forgotten, travels to Mexico to shoot a new lm to be titled Que Viva Mexico. Freshly rejected as well as a piercingly beautiful work of modern cinema. (Dir. by by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, Eisenstein arrives at the city of Guanajuato. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Pedro Costa, 2014, Portgual, in Portugese with subtitles, 103 mins., Cañedo, he vulnerably experiences the ties between Eros and anatos, sex and Not Rated) death, happy to create their eects in cinema, troubled to suer them in life. Peter Greenaway’s lm explores the mind of a creative genius facing the desires Playing with the short lm e Cart: A young woman fullls a and fears of love, sex and death through ten passionate days that helped shape mysterious task in an existential dreamscape. (Dir. by Patrik Eriksson, the rest of the career of one of the greatest masters of Cinema. (Dir. by Peter 2015, Poland, 6 mins.) Greenaway, 2015, Netherlands/Mexico/Finland/Belgium/France, in English and Spanish with subtitles, 105 mins., Not Rated)