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

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FREE MEMBERS SCREENING • 1702 Craft Beer & • Epic Cafe • R-Galaxy Pizza BE NATURAL... • Ermanos • Raging Sage (SEE PAGE 37) • aLoft Hotel • Fantasy • Rocco’s Little FRIDAY, JUNE 14 AT 7:00PM • Antigone Books • First American Title Chicago • Aqua Vita • Frominos • SW University of • Black Crown Visual Arts REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES • Heroes & Villains 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 Donor 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: Denholm Assistant Managers: Ray Borboa, Marcel Jeanisse, Candace Ripley, Pedro Robles-Hill, Brenda Rodriguez, 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 are so excited to announce that this summer we will be restoring our historic marquee to its two-panel glory!

The Loft Cinema’s marquee was originally constructed in 1969 at the same time as the theatre itself, and then expanded from one panel to two when a second screen was added in 1972; it remained a two-panel marquee for 30 years. In 2002, a monsoon severely damaged the top panel of the marquee, and it was removed. Since then, restoring the marquee to its original height and look has always been in our grand plans for refreshing the space!

The marquee is an iconic Speedway sign, and a crucial part of The Loft Cinema’s brand and identity. Since at least 2002, the marquee has served as The Loft Cinema’s logo. The marquee IS The Loft Cinema! The restoration of the marquee will have the additional benefit of converting all of the lighting to LED, continuing The Loft Cinema’s commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship.

To support this effort, we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of Woodstock with a very special fundraising screening of Woodstock: The Director’s Cut on Saturday, June 29th. Tickets to the screening include dinner served under the stars, two drinks, dessert, a groovy goodie bag, and more! Additional details are available on pages 24-25. Come celebrate with us or consider making a donation at loftcinema.org/support-the-loft/donate

“If you’re into cities, urban history, or even typefaces, it’s hard to ignore a theater marquee. These architectural appendages have lured us into plays and movies for decades, but changing tastes and technologies have made them a more uncommon sight. As they become more rare, old marquees have taken on a deeper cultural meaning, frequently serving as visual anchors for a street or cultural district.” – Mark Byrnes, CityLab

Peggy Johnson, Executive Director The Loft Cinema

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ALL LOFT CINEMA MEMBERS RECEIVE: • 2 FREE TICKETS PER MEMBER • FREE MONTHLY MEMBER SCREENING • FREE ORGANIC POPCORN EVERY VISIT • PAY ONLY $6 FOR REGULARLY SCHEDULED FILMS • DISCOUNTED ADMISSION TO SPECIAL EVENTS • WEEKLY EMAIL UPDATES • MONTHLY FILM GUIDE • AND MORE LOFTCINEMA.ORG/MEMBERSHIP OF THE OPERA WITH THE MARTIAN LIVE MUSIC SCORE BY THE FRIDAY, MAY 31 AT 7:30PM INVINCIBLE CZARS! FREE ADMISSION WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 AT 7:30PM FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING IN SELLS, GENERAL ADMISSION: $12 | LOFT MEMBERS: $10 ARIZONA! PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING This screening will take place at The Coyote encourages attendees to dress for the Store, 86 Mile Marker, Sells, AZ, 85634. Halloween season at this scarifying screening! Please bring your own seating. Please note: in the event of inclement weather, this outdoor Don’t miss this special screening of the 1925 silent horror screening will be moved to an indoor venue classic, The Phantom of the Opera, starring the legendary Lon nearby. Chaney, featuring an original live score combining rock and orchestral music, created and performed by the acclaimed This screening is part of Loft Film Fest on the Road, a Austin music ensemble, The Invincible Czars! community-building program that takes unexpected films for free screenings in underserved and unserved rural areas, The most adventurous band from Austin, TX – The Invincible providing a unique cultural experience. Czars – is bringing their latest to Tucson to perform it live to The Phantom of the Opera starring Lon During a manned mission to Mars, astronaut Mark Watney Chaney! Fans, theaters and media have praised The (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and Invincible Czars for making silent horror films “actually left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds scary” for modern-day audiences, so get ready to be himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With frightened! Set in nineteenth century Paris, The Phantom only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, of the Opera tells the story of aspiring young opera wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth Christine Daaé (Mary Philbin), who discovers that she has that he is alive. Millions of miles away, NASA and a team a mysterious admirer intent on helping her become a lead of international scientists work tirelessly to bring “the performer. This enigmatic masked presence is Erik, also Martian” home, while his crewmates concurrently plot a known as the Phantom (Lon Chaney), a horribly disfigured daring, if not impossible rescue mission. As these stories of recluse who lives in the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera incredible bravery unfold, the world comes together to root House. When the Phantom takes Christine prisoner and for Watney’s safe return. (Dir. by , 2015, USA/UK, demands her devotion and affection, her suitor, Vicomte 144 mins., Rated PG-13) Raoul de Chagny (Norman Kerry), sets out to rescue her. But will he be too late? Featuring lavish sets, electrifying action Thanks to our community partner, (including the famous “crashing chandelier” scene), romance I’oligam Youth Alliance & Schuk Toak District. and truly frightening horror (Chaney’s monstrous makeup still sends shivers up the spine), The Phantom of the Opera is This screening was made possible by a grant a terror classic best experienced on the big screen! (Dir. by from the National Endowment for the Arts Rupert Julian, 1925, USA, 93 mins., Not Rated) with support from Desert Diamond Casinos & Entertainment DOGGIE SHORTS: BRAND-NEW 4K RESTORATION! A FURRY FILM FESTIVAL FRIDAY, MAY 31 AT 10:00PM ENCORE SCREENING SATURDAY, JUNE 1 AT 10:00PM SUNDAY, JUNE 2 AT 2:00PM SATURDAY, JUNE 1 AT 2:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 EARLY BIRD ADMISSION: $20 | DAY OF: $25 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! A BENEFIT SCREENING FOR HANDI-DOGS AND The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big THE LOFT CINEMA! screen!

“Heeeeere’s Johnny!” Jack Nicholson suffers from one helluva case of writer’s block in ’s eccentric adaption of ’s metaphysical horror novel, The Shining (an adaptation which left the famous novelist somewhat less than thrilled).

“The Shining buzzes madness and malevolence from every frame.” – Jamie Graham, Total Film

Frustrated novelist Jack Torrance (a perfectly demonic Jack Nicholson) takes a job as the winter caretaker of the isolated Overlook Hotel, with his long-suffering wife Wendy (Shelly Duvall) and introverted young son Danny (Danny Lloyd) in tow. The fast-fragmenting tries to make the best of things at the lonely resort, but as the snow, isolation and cabin fever begin to pile up, the true horror of the Overlook In order to celebrate Handi-Dogs’ and The Loft Cinema’s begins to emerge. As Jack’s sanity is pushed to the breaking passion for our canine companions, we’ve teamed up to put point, the denizens of the demonic hotel start to take control together a selection of the best shorts from The and everyone is going to wish they’d never checked in. Filled Film Festival in addition to some of our favorite dog-themed with bizarre humor, jolting shocks and an ever-escalating short films from all over the world! Doggie Shorts is a atmosphere of pure dread, The Shining was a box-office selection of 10 second to 10 minute short films and videos disappointment upon its initial release in 1980, but has since from across the globe – all featuring dogs. All included become an obsessive fan favorite and a cultural touchstone from documentaries that will touch your heart to just plain that is continually referenced, analyzed and parodied. (Dir. by fun and quirky. Stanley Kubrick, 1980, USA/UK, 146 mins., Rated R) BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY SING-A-LONG! SATURDAY, JUNE 1 AT 7:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $12 | LOFT MEMBERS: $10 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

A portion of the proceeds with our pre-show Queen Music success, but in an unexpected turn, from this screening will Video Salon, and get your glam Freddie, surrounded by darker benefit SAAF (Southern on by wearing your best Queen- influences, shuns Queen in pursuit Arizona AIDS Foundation), inspired costume for the chance to of his solo career. Having suffered supporting HIV/AIDS win a fabulous prize! Is this the greatly without the collaboration prevention/education and real life? Is this just fantasy? No, of Queen, Freddie manages to anti-violence programs in it’s the Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-A- reunite with his bandmates just our community. Long! in time for Live Aid. While bravely facing a recent AIDS diagnosis, We … will … we … will … rock you Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot- Freddie leads the band in one of … at the Bohemian Rhapsody Sing- stomping celebration of the greatest performances in the A-Long, a Queen-sized musical Queen, their music and their history of , and Queen extravaganza featuring a totally extraordinary lead singer Freddie cements a legacy that continues magnifico version of the smash-hit Mercury (Rami Malek). Freddie to inspire outsiders, dreamers rock ‘n’ roll movie with onscreen defied and shattered and music lovers to this day. lyrics so you can sing-a-long with convention to become one of the Nominated for 5 , Freddie and the boys to all your most beloved entertainers on the including Best Picture and Best favorite Queen tunes like “Another planet. The film traces the meteoric Actor (Malek). (Dir. by , One Bites the Dust,” “We are rise of the band through their 2018, USA, 134 mins., Rated PG-13) the Champions,” and of course, iconic songs and revolutionary “Bohemian Rhapsody!” Rock out sound. They reach unparalleled THE GOONIES POLICE STORY DOUBLE FEATURE NEW DIGITAL RESTORATIONS! SATURDAY, JUNE 1 AT 7:30PM FREE ADMISSION SUNDAY, JUNE 2 AT NOON GENERAL ADMISSION: $13 | LOFT MEMBERS: $10 FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING IN AJO, AZ! PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

This free screening will be held outdoors in Get ready for some jaw-dropping, rock-‘em-sock-‘em movie Ajo, AZ, at the Ajo Town Plaza, 15 West Plaza mayhem as the one-and-only unleashes his Street, Ajo, AZ, 85321. Please bring your own signature martial arts slapstick in this one-two-punch of his seating. ‘80s classics, Police Story and , in brand-new digital restorations! This screening is part of Loft Film Fest on the Road, a community-building program that takes unexpected films POLICE STORY for free screenings in underserved and unserved rural areas, The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie providing a unique cultural experience. Chan’s breathtakingly inventive martial-arts comedy, a smash hit that made him a worldwide icon of daredevil “The Goonies is one of those magically action spectacle. The director/star/one-man machine entertaining films that never gets old … plays Ka-Kui, a Hong Kong police inspector who goes No matter what your age, there’s plenty of rogue to bring down a drug kingpin and protect the case’s danger, fun, and laughs waiting around every star witness (Chinese cinema legend ) from bend.” – Michael Zupan, DVD Talk retribution. Packed wall-to-wall with charmingly goofball slapstick and astoundingly acrobatic fight choreography— Hey you guuuuyyyssss! Relive the totally awesome ‘80s including an epic shopping-mall melee of flying fists and adventure that convinced an entire generation of suburban shattered glass—Police Story set a new standard for rock- kids that there was buried treasure in their backyards, and ’em-sock-’em mayhem that would influence a generation of that a freaky dude named Sloth was really just a fun-loving filmmakers from Hong Kong to . (Dir. by Jackie guy with a thing for Baby Ruths! Starring a “who’s who” of Chan, 1985, Hong Kong, in with English subtitles, then up and coming young actors, including Sean Astin, 100 mins., Rated Not Rated) , Martha Plimpton and Josh Brolin, The POLICE STORY 2 Goonies is a rip-roaring, rollercoaster ride of movie that Jackie Chan followed up the massive success of Police Story delivers the fun no matter how many times you’ve seen it. with an even bigger box-office hit. Having been demoted to a (Dir. by Richard Donner, 1985, USA, 114 min., Rated PG) lowly traffic cop for his, ahem, unorthodox policing methods, Chan’s go-it-alone officer Ka-Kui quits the force in protest. Special thanks to our community partner, But it isn’t long before he’s back in action, racing the clock International Sonoran Desert Alliance. to stop a band of serial bombers and win back his much- put-upon girlfriend May (the phenomenal Maggie , This screening was made possible by a grant reprising her star-making role). Boasting epic explosions, an from the National Endowment for the Arts awesomely electro soundtrack, and a show-stopping with support from Desert Diamond Casinos & —which turns an abandoned into a life-size Entertainment pinball machine of cascading oil drums, collapsing scaffolds, and shooting fireworks—Police Story 2 confirmed Chan’s status as a performer of unparalleled grace and daring. (Dir. by Jackie Chan, 1988, Hong Kong, in Cantonese with English subtitles, 122 mins., Rated Not Rated) JULIUS CAESAR FIRST FRIDAY SHORTS TUESDAY, JUNE 4 AT 7:30PM FRIDAY, JUNE 7 AT 9:00PM THURSDAY, JUNE 6 AT 11:00AM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 | LOFT MEMBERS: $10 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING $200 MONTHLY GRAND PRIZE! $1,000 YEARLY GRAND PRIZE! NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE SERIES Experience the best of British theatre on the big screen, On the first Friday of each month comedians Bridgitte Thum captured live and presented in beautiful high definition! and Mike Sterner host our monthly contest – just bring us your short films and we’ll play them on the largest Ben Whishaw (The Danish , Skyfall, Hamlet) and Michelle movie screen in Southern Arizona! Fairley (Fortitude, Game of Thrones) play Brutus and Cassius, David Calder (The Lost City of Z, The Hatton Garden Job) In case you’ve never been to a First Friday Shorts plays Caesar and David Morrissey (The Missing, Hangmen, show, here are the rules: We’ll play any short film, music The Walking Dead) is Mark Antony. Broadcast live from The video or short documentary that you’ve made that’s under Bridge Theatre, London. 15 minutes long and is brought to us on a DVD, thumb drive or BLU-ray (one film per person, and DVDs must be playable “A pulse-quickening political tragedy.” – on a regular DVD player and films on drives need to be in Evening Standard by 8pm. We do not accept commercials or advertisements). Submissions are only taken on the day of the event, and all Caesar returns in triumph to and the people pour entries MUST BE RECEIVED PRIOR TO THE START OF THE out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s ACTUAL SHOW (we cannot accept films after the show has popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. begun, or during intermission). All films are played in the After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the order they’re received. Every film is guaranteed to play for 3 capital. Nicholas Hytner’s production thrusts the audience minutes, but after that the audience can call for the dreaded into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress “gong” if they’re displeased. If the gong is struck, our that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his intrepid hosts stop the film and the next movie begins. But funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake. (Running don’t despair … if your film is gonged, you can re-work it and time: approximately 135 mins. / No Intermission / Not Rated) bring it back to see if the changes you’ve made have pleased the audience. This is a great way for filmmakers to try out PLEASE NOTE: Julius Caesar contains some new ideas and see how an actual audience responds, so take strobe lighting. advantage. Remember, the audience decides the winner each and every month, so keep them happy! Filmmaker must be in attendance to win the cash prize.

PLEASE NOTE: We only take the first 15 films that are brought in each month and the spots have been filling up really fast. We start taking submissions as soon as we open the day of the show so get your films in early!

PLEASE BE ADVISED: Since we don’t pre-screen First Friday Shorts entries, we don’t know what each month’s “film content” rating will be. Be advised that some material may not be suitable for all audiences. FANTASTIC PLANET EARLY MAN FRIDAY, JUNE 7 AT 10:00PM SATURDAY, JUNE 8 AT 10:00AM SATURDAY, JUNE 8 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. French director/ René Laloux’s landmark sci-fi adventure Fantastic Planet is a mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind PRESENTED BY PIMA COUNTY LIBRARY psychedelic masterpiece based on the book Om en Serie by Stefan Wul. An astonishingly beautiful and otherworldly “It’s simply impossible not to laugh at the vision, the film tells the tale of a race of humanoid creatures inspired silliness of Early Man.” – Peter called Oms, who are fighting for their freedom from the Bradshaw, Guardian giant, blue-skinned Traags, who keep them enslaved as pets. Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and “A hallucinatory vision quite unlike everything woolly mammoths roamed the earth, the hilarious animated you’ve ever seen.” – Ian Berryman, SFX adventure Early Man tells the story of how plucky Stone Magazine Age caveman Dug, along with sidekick Hognob, unites his tribe against the mighty Bronze Age in a battle to beat When a group of rebel Oms travel to a strange planet in them at their own game. Produced by Aardman hopes of uncovering the secret of the Traags’ existence, a (the studio behind Wallace & Gromit), and directed by Nick revolution is set in motion – a revolution that may change Park (), Early Man unleashes an unforgettable everything. Featuring incredible design work by Roland cast of wacky new characters and marks Park’s first feature Topor and a mind-blowing acid jazz rock score by Alain film since the Academy Award-winning Wallace & Gromit: Goraguer, and made at a time when adult was The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Featuring the voices of Tom gleefully subverting the traditional Disney model, Fantastic Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Eddie Redmayne and Timothy Planet prefigures much of the work of Hayao Miyazaki at Spall. (Dir. by , 2018, 89 mins., Rated PG) with its palpable political and social concerns, cultivated imagination and thrilling animation techniques. An international co-production between France and what was then Czechoslovakia, the film was continually waylaid by disapproving Czech authorities due to its biting political content, right up until it won the Grand Prix Award at the 1973 . Released by ’s that same year here in the U.S., Fantastic Planet was often double-billed with ’ Yellow Submarine, becoming an underground cult sensation thanks to its trippy animation, heady concepts and mind- blowing strangeness. (Dir. by René Laloux, 1973, France/ Czechoslovakia, in French with subtitles, 72 mins., Rated PG) SING-A-LONG! MONDAY, JUNE 10 AT 7:30PM REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES SUNDAY, JUNE 9 AT 2:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $12 Celebrate the groundbreaking career of LOFT MEMBERS AND CHILDREN 12 & UNDER: $10 the late, great filmmaker PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING at a special screening of his 1991 Oscar- nominated hit, Boyz N The Hood! Co-presented Step-right-up and sing-a-long to on Earth by The Tucson Black Film Club, featuring an at The Greatest Showman Sing-A-Long!, featuring a special introduction by Dr. Tani Sanchez, Associate version of the hit musical with onscreen lyrics so that you Professor in the UA Department of Africana can sing-a-long to all the catchy tunes, including “This is Me,” Studies. “” and “The Other Side,” and wear your best circus-inspired costume to win a fabulous prize! Let’s keep Director John Singleton’s stunning debut feature, which marching on to the beat we drum, for we are glorious! garnered the young filmmaker the first-ever Best Director Academy Award nomination for an African American artist, “An unabashed piece of pure entertainment, chronicles thetrials and tribulations of three young African punctuated by 11 memorable songs, American males growing up in South Central LosAngeles in celebrating diversity and the importance the early ‘90s. When young Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a bright of embracing all kinds.” – Sheila O’Malley, underachiever, begins to show signs of trouble, his struggling RogerEbert.com professional mother (Angela Basset) sends him to live with his father (Lawrence Fishburne), a hard-nosed, no-nonsense The Greatest Showman is a bold and dazzling movie musical disciplinarian. There he befriends Ricky (Morris Chestnut), that celebrates the birth of show business and the sense of a burgeoning football star, and Doughboy (Ice Cube), a wonder we feel when dreams come to life. Inspired by the would-be gang banger. Over the years, each chooses his ambition and imagination of the legendary P.T. Barnum own path: Tre seems bound for college; Ricky is a blue-chip (Tony-winner Hugh Jackman), creator of the Ringling running back with his pick of schools; Doughboy is a dope Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, The Greatest Showman dealer and bona fide gangster who drifts in and out of the tells the story of a visionary who rose from nothing to create county juvenile facility. All is well until, without warning, a a mesmerizing spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. rival gang enters their lives with tragic results, forcing Tre to Directed by Michael Gracey, The Greatest Showman is a wildly decide whether to jeopardize his future and, perhaps, his life entertaining, gloriously over-the-top musical extravaganza for the price of revenge and self-respect. One of the best and filled with showbiz razzle-dazzle, a message of tolerance most celebrated films of the early ‘90s wave of Hollywood and acceptance, and a slew of wildly popular songs like , Boyz N The Hoodis a searing, “Rewrite the Stars” and the Oscar-nominated “This is Me,” powerfully moving tale that feels as relevant today as it did by songwriters Benj Pasek and (La La Land, Dear over 25 years ago. (Dir. by John Singleton, 1991, USA, 112 Evan). Also starring Michelle Williams, , Rebecca mins., Rated R) Ferguson and Zendaya. (Dir. by Michael Gracey, 2017, USA, 105 mins., Rated PG) ROLLING THUNDER REVUE: THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, A BOB DYLAN STORY BY QUEEN OF THE DESERT 25TH ANNIVERSARY! TUESDAY, JUNE 11 AT 7:30PM WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 AT 7:30PM FREE ADMISSION | $5 SUGGESTED DONATION GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 | LOFT MEMBERS: $12 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING PART OF OUR ESSENTIAL CINEMA SERIES Don’t miss your chance to see Martin Scorsese’s See classic art films the way they were meant to be seen - new Bob Dylan film on the big screen at this with an audience, on the big screen! special ONE NIGHT ONLY event! This film is Celebrate Pride Month with a fabulous free only screening for limited engagements in screening of the Oscar-winning Aussie classic, select cinemas, and it’s here at The Loft Cinema! The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert! Rolling Thunder Review: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the When drag queen Anthony/Mitzi () agrees to joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that take his act on the road, he invites fellow performer Adam/ year. Part documentary, part , part fever dream, Felicia (Guy Pearce) and friend Bernadette (Terence Stamp) Rolling Thunder is a one of a kind experience, from master to come along. In their colorful bus, which Mitzi christens filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Featuring Bob Dylan, Allen “Priscilla,” the three performers travel across the Australian Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Scarlet Rivera, Joan Baez, Roger desert performing for enthusiastic crowds and homophobic McGuinn, Sam Shepard, , Anne Waldman and locals. more! (Dir. by Martin Scorsese, 2019, USA, 142 mins., Not Rated) “A bright, glitzy and fabulously queer … intelligent and entertaining, with spectacular costumes.” – Luke Buckmaster, Guardian

But when the other two performers learn the truth about why Anthony took the job, it turns their lives around and threatens their act and their friendship. Featuring stunning Australian landscapes, offbeat Aussie humor, an electric, booty-shaking 1970’s soundtrack packed with hits by Abba, Gloria Gaynor and the Village People, and unforgettable, over-the-top, Oscar-winning costumes by Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a true landmark in the history of LGBTQ cinema, managing to expertly address themes of identity, gender, aging, homophobia, and family, while simultaneously delivering side-splitting laughs with its brilliant, often shockingly irreverent, screenplay. A truly fabulous, “tack- o-rama” classic! (Dir. by Stephan Elliot, 1994, Australia, in English, 104 mins., Rated R) TERMINATOR 2: THE QUICK AND THE DEAD JUDGMENT DAY IN 3D SATURDAY, JUNE 15 AT 7:30PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $5 | LOFT MEMBERS AND FRIDAY, JUNE 14 AT 10:00PM WAGON WHEEL PASS HOLDERS: $4 SATURDAY, JUNE 15 AT 10:00PM GATES OPEN AT 6:00PM, MOVIE STARTS AT 7:30PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS A $1 SURCHARGE FOR ALL 3-D SCREENINGS OUTDOOR SCREENING AT OLD TUCSON! PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big This screening will take place outdoors at screen! Old Tucson, 201 South Kinney Road, Tucson, AZ. Please bring your own seating. Bleacher He said he’d be back, and here he is, in an eye- 3D seating is also available. conversion of the 1991 blockbuster, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, overseen by director himself! Don’t Saddle up for this outdoor screening of the all-star 1995 miss T2 3D, and prepare to be blown through the back of Shot at Old Tucson , The Quick and the Dead, starring the theatre by this highly-immersive version of one of the Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo DiCaprio and greatest action flicks of all-time! Russell Crowe, shown on The Loft Cinema’s giant inflatable screen next to the world-famous Mission set! Delicious food “One hell of a wild ride that takes no prisoners and drinks will be available for sale, including a full bar, and leaves audiences desperate for mercy.” – theater snacks and Big Jake’s BBQ sandwiches Mick LaSalle, Chronicle Director (The Evil Dead; Spiderman) brings his A decade after the original Terminator wreaked havoc on trademark comic book-influenced sensibilities to this wild Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), Arnold Schwarzenegger and witty homage featuring an all-star returns as another Model 101 cyborg. This, time, however, cast. Sharon Stone is Ellen, a mysterious, Eastwood-esque he’s reprogrammed and teleported to the past to protect gunslinger who arrives in the lawless town of Redemption Sarah’s young son John (Edward Furlong) from a newer, to settle a score that has haunted her since she was a child. more advanced, and even deadlier Terminator: the T-1000 As she seeks her revenge, she becomes swept up in a deadly (a chilling Robert Patrick), made entirely of shape-shifting quick-draw gun tournament, masterminded by Redemption’s liquid metal and bent on killing the boy before he can evil, corrupt mayor, Herod (Gene Hackman), a criminal fulfill his destiny and lead the human resistance in the who has taken over the town. The tournament has drawn a future war with the tyrannical machines. Together, John, motley crew of colorful gunfighters from around the country, Sarah, and Arnie’s good Terminator must try to defeat the all itching to take home the bloody prize money, and as Ellen seemingly indestructible T-1000 and prevent a nuclear blasts her way through the competition, she crosses paths war on Judgment Day from occurring and wiping out the with a fast-talking braggart known as “The Kid” (Leonardo human race. The battle for tomorrow has begun! Director DiCaprio), and the pacifist Reverend Court (Russell Crowe), James Cameron’s relentless, brain-blasting 1991 sci-fi sequel the fastest draw in the West who refuses to participate in the took cinematic special effects to eye-popping new heights bloodshed. As Ellen uncovers the town’s dirty secrets and and upped the ante with a spectacular second chapter that closes in on her prey, a crazed final showdown draws ever raised the bar for all action films that followed. (Dir. by James closer, and if she’s not quick, she may end up dead! A violent, Cameron, 1991, USA, 137 mins., Rated R) darkly funny, highly entertaining love letter to Leone flicks, The Quick and the Dead is a pulp western comic book come to life! (Dir. by Sam Raimi, 1995, USA, 107 mins., Rated R) THE ROCKY HORROR TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD PICTURE SHOW SUNDAY, JUNE 16 AT 2:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS & SATURDAY, JUNE 15 AT MIDNIGHT CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER: $6 GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 NO ONE UNDER 17 ADMITTED WITHOUT PARENT OR SPECIAL FATHER’S DAY SCREENING! GUARDIAN. MUST HAVE PHOTO ID. Celebrate Father’s Day with one of film (and literary) “Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the history’s greatest dads, Atticus Finch, played by Gregory Peck Rocky Horror Picture Show cult is the extent in an Oscar-winning performance! to which it evokes and weirdly resurrects, as “Astonishing and incredibly moving. To Kill a if in a haunted house, a form of cinema as Mockingbird is a faithful adaptation of one of community that once flourished in the U.S., the 20th century’s most important American when Hollywood was still in its heyday.” - works of literature. It is also a masterpiece in Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sight and Sound its own right.” – James Berardinelli, Reel Views Whatever happened to Saturday night? It was locked in a Directed by Robert Mulligan and scripted by Horton Foote, closet with The Rocky Horror Picture Show and it hasn’t been this emotionally-stirring adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, the same since! Unleash your inner Sweet Transvestite when Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, semi-autobiographical the mother of all cult classics hits the big screen with the novel, was lauded by viewers and critics alike. The poignant “Heavy Petting” shadow cast, live and in your face! You’ll see story has become an iconic part of American culture, telling a healthy young couple inducted into the world of absolute an enduring, ever-relevant tale of racism, integrity and the pleasure, Transylvanians doing the pelvic thrust and a fight for justice against overwhelming odds. Gregory Peck sexy scientist trying to free us of all our inhibitions (not to is Depression-era lawyer Atticus Finch, defending a falsely- mention our clothing)! So pull up your fishnets and get ready accused African-American client (Brock Peters) in a racist to become a creature of the night at the strangest, sexiest small Southern town. Finch’s young children, Jem (Philip “science fiction double feature” of all-time, a Loft Cinema Alford) and Scout (Mary Badham), learn much about their tradition for 41 years and counting! (Dir. by Jim Sharman, town’s fears and prejudices through the proceedings in the 1975, UK/USA, 98 mins., Rated R) courtroom, and much about their own fears and prejudices through their curious encounters with their mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley (Robert Duvall, in his screen debut). Mulligan elicits stellar performances from his actors, “achieving a bewitching indication of the excitement and thrill of being a child” (New York Times). Peck, in perhaps the best role of his legendary career, won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the film also received Oscars for Art Direction and Adapted Screenplay. (Dir. by Robert Mulligan, 1962, USA, 129 mins., Not Rated) ERASERHEAD ’S HOLIDAY SUNDAY, JUNE 16 AT 7:30PM WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 AT 7:30PM REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

SPECIAL FATHER’S DAY SCREENING! CO-PRESENTED BY TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART Celebrate one of the freakiest fathers in movie history with a special Father’s Day screening of ’s classic debut Don’t miss this special screening of ’s hilarious feature, Eraserhead! 1953 summer vacation classic, Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, and then travel over to Tucson Museum of Art to see their “Remains one of cinema’s most unsettling new exhibit, “Travelogue: Grand Destinations and Personal nightmares … see Eraserhead once and it’ll Journeys,” on display from May 18 – September 29! lodge itself firmly in some dank recess of your brain and refuse to vacate.” – Mike D’Angelo, “The movie is about the simplest of human AV Club pleasures: The desire to get away for a few days, to play instead of work, to breathe in the Self-described as “a dream of dark and troubling things,” sea air, and maybe meet someone nice. It’s a this 1977 avant-garde classic introduced David Lynch to comedy of memory, nostalgia, fondness and the world of feature films, going on to become a bona fide good cheer.” – , Chicago Sun-Times cult sensation and an iconic work of extraordinary, oddball beauty. Lynch started Eraserhead while still studying at Pipe-smoking Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing the American Film Institute, which provided some of the clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort where his presence $100,000 budget. With funds low, however, it took him five provokes one crazed catastrophe after another. Tati’s wildly years to finish the picture, during which time leading man funny satire of vacationers determined to enjoy themselves Jack Nance (a Lynch regular) kept his in the frizzed- includes a series of precisely choreographed sight gags out style featured on the picture’s famous poster. The involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers. The first entry in final product was a total immersion into Lynch’s darkest the beloved Hulot series (followed by Mon Oncle, imaginings, a dreamlike black-and-white tale of an offbeat and ) is a masterpiece of gentle slapstick, featuring a loner (Nance) who discovers his girlfriend has borne him soundtrack filled with breezy jazz that perfectly captures a child … if that’s what it is. He moves mother and child the fleeting pleasures of a summer vacation, abetted into his bleak one room apartment, at which point things magnificently by its sunny black-and-white cinematography. really get strange. Originally met with public indifference, It’s a one-of-a-kind film, a testament to the warm, relaxing Eraserhead eventually took off as a sensation on the joys that a perfect summer holiday can offer. And, despite its circuit, where its unique charms could be Palme d’or win at Cannes and its stateside Oscar nomination fully appreciated. Shot in dilapidated industrial settings, for best foreign film, the retro feel that the passing decades seething with rumbles and hisses, populated with disfigured have bestowed upon it may make it even more enjoyable and eccentric characters and featuring that legendarily today than it was in 1953. (Dir. by Jacques Tati, 1953, France, indefinable creature described as a premature baby (luckily, in English/French/German with English subtitles, 88 mins., Not Lynch still declines to discuss the exact meaning of the film), Rated) Eraserhead propels viewers into a shocking, comical and phantasmagoric dreamscape. (Dir. by David Lynch, 1977, USA, 89 mins., Not Rated) THE SANDLOT CLUE FRIDAY, JUNE 21 AT 7:30PM FRIDAY, JUNE 21 AT 10:00PM FREE ADMISSION SATURDAY, JUNE 22 AT 10:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING IN HIMMEL PARK! PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! This screening will take place outdoors on The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big “Hippie Hill” at Himmel Park, 1000 N. Tucson screen! Boulevard. Please bring your own seating. Who killed Mr. Boddy, and in what room with what weapon? “You’re killin’ me, Smalls!” In this nostalgic sports comedy, In this cult-tastic spoof of McCarthy-era paranoia and 1950s referred to by Roger Ebert as “the summertime version of wholesomeness, the crazed characters and crackerjack plot A Christmas Story,” an awkward young boy experiences a are drawn from the popular Parker Brothers board game of summer filled with baseball and wild adventures that might the same name. just make him the big man in his small town. “The popular board game Clue is here turned “The Sandlot is scene after scene of nostalgic into a spiked bon-bon of a film, filled with a perfection – it’s a love letter to summer and to whipped mixture of morbidity and macabre being a kid. What a ridiculously fun movie.” – humor … it’s great fun.” – Chris Cabin, Slant Scott Beggs, Film School Rejects Magazine

Fifth-grader Scotty Smalls (Tom Guiry) is the quiet new kid On a dark and stormy night in 1954, six mysterious in town in the summer of 1962. He’s eager to make new individuals are assembled for a dinner party at the swanky friends, so when the neighborhood sandlot baseball team mansion of one Mr. Boddy (Lee Ving). Boddy’s butler, needs one more player, he doesn’t mention that he has Wadsworth (Tim Curry), assigns each guest a colorful name: no idea how to play. After several embarrassing baseball Mr. Green (Michael McKean), Col. Mustard (Martin Mull), mishaps, Scotty is taken under the wing of the team’s star Mrs. Peacock (), Professor Plum (Christopher player, and soon all the boys on the team become best Lloyd), Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren), and Mrs. White friends. One summer day, Smalls borrows his step-father’s (Madeline Kahn). Two additional servants, the Cook ball to keep a game going, and in a moment of glory that (Kellye Nakahara) and Yvette, the maid (Colleen Camp), quickly turns to dread, he knocks it out of the sandlot and assist Wadsworth as he informs the guests that they have into the yard of mean old Mr. Myrtle (). been gathered to meet the man who has been blackmailing When the boys realize the ball was autographed by legendary them: Mr. Boddy. When Boddy turns up dead, however, the player Babe Ruth, they set out on a comically dangerous guests must try to figure out who killed him so they can mission to retrieve it from the claws of a 300-pound English protect their own reputations and keep the body count from mastiff known as “The Beast.” (Dir. by David M. Evans, 1993, growing. Deftly mixing wild slapstick, hilarious wordplay and USA, 101 mins., Rated PG) a gaggle of first-rate comedic performances, Clue proves that turning a board game into a film isn’t necessarily a terrible idea, provided it’s done with this much style. In a movie first, three separate endings were filmed for Clue and shown in different theaters during its original release; all three versions will be shown here. (Dir. by Jonathan Lynn, 1985, USA 94 min., Rated PG) THE SCI-FI SLUMBER PARTY! SATURDAY, JUNE 22 AT 7:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $17 | LOFT MEMBERS: $15 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

Buckle up for 12 straight hours 7:00PM: INVASION OF THE 12:50AM: UPGRADE of intergalactic excitement at BODY SNATCHERS (1956) “Upgrade, an irresistibly gory The Loft Cinema’s Sci-Fi Slumber “Easily the best of the ‘50s sci-fi science fiction , is Party!, a non-stop excursion thrillers … subtle but still scary B-movie schlock done right.” – into the outer limits of space age and suspenseful.” – Dennis Hunt, Simon Abrams, RogerEbert.com cinema, featuring more aliens, Times robots and apocalyptic insanity 2:40AM: than you can shake a light saber 8:30PM: ALIENS “Galaxy Quest manages to poke at! With 6 sci-fi classics, vintage “Superb … intense … a hair- wicked fun at while at movie trailers, trivia games and raising carnival ride that never the same time serving up a sincere out-of-this-world prizes, this is an stops. Aliens will frighten you as homage to the beloved sci-fi overnight space odyssey of truly few movies have.” – Roger Ebert, franchise.” – Michael O’Sullivan, epic proportions! Thanks to our Chicago Sun-Times Washington Post community partner Zia Records. 11:00PM: BARBARELLA 4:30AM: EVENT HORIZON The Substance Coffee Diner “An outrageously enjoyable romp! (35MM PRINT!) food truck will be here Barbarella is a pure goof, and “A hell of a good time! One of the from 9pm to 2am! Fonda seems to have reveled in most underrated space/horror every sexy, campy moment.” – flicks ever.” – Cheryl Eddy, IO9 *All start times are approximate* Edward Guthmann, HUGO GODZILLA (1954) SPECIAL SCREENING AT CENTER FOR SUNDAY, JUNE 23 AT 7:30PM CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY! GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 SATURDAY, JUNE 22 AT 2:00PM PART OF LOFT STAFF SELECTS! FREE ADMISSION PRE-SHOW ACTIVITIES START AT 1:00PM; FILM STARTS AT 2:00PM A monthly series showcasing film favorites chosen by our amazing Loft Cinema staff! This month’s film was chosen by This screening will take place at Center for Ben Mackey, Marketing Associate! Creative Photography, 1030 N. Olive Road, on the UA campus. This screening will take place Rejoice, man-in-a-rubber-monster-suit fans – the OG of indoors in the CCP auditorium. Godzilla flicks is stomping back onto the big screen at The Loft Cinema! While the great Japanese films of the 1950s CO-PRESENTED BY CENTER FOR CREATIVE like Rashoman, Ugetsu and Seven Samurai have long been PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE LOFT CINEMA revered in the US as major works of art, Japan’s biggest domestic hit of that decade, the pointedly allegorical See Martin Scorsese’s acclaimed family film, Hugo, presented Godzilla (also known in its as at the Center for Creative Photography! This screening is Gojira), has been fondly remembered here as a camp classic part of “Images in Motion,” which kicks off the CCP Summer of epic proportions. But that’s because it’s long been known Series, bringing together the magic and the mechanics of only in a butchered US release version re-titled Godzilla: still images, of moving images, and of the place where the King of the Monsters, which deleted 40 minutes of the two unexpectedly (and sometimes expectedly) crisscross. Japanese original – it’s very heart – and awkwardly added Starting at 1:00pm, participate in activities suitable for atrocious and poorly-matched, shot-in-Hollywood of all generations and all definitions. Learn about scenes of a pre-Perry Mason Raymond Burr observing the image-making in relation to imagination and automation action from the sidelines. Leaving less than an hour of with stop-motion challenges, make-your-own zoetropes, the original’s 98 minutes, the cuts eliminated entirely the and curatorial-led tours of the CCP’s newest exhibition, “A original film’s strong anti-nuclear theme – with Godzilla Portrait of Poetry.” Family-friendly snacks will be provided, seen as a radiation-fueled metaphor for the bombings of and self-packed snacks are welcome in the public foyer. At Hiroshima and Nagasaki – and oddly, all of its biting black 2:00pm, enjoy a screening of Hugo inside the CCP! humor. Directed by the great Ishiro Honda, who later went on to make such other classics of eiga (“strange creature In celebrated filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s spectacular movies”), as Rodan, Mothra and The H-Man, the original adventure Hugo, based on the children’s book The Invention of version of Godzilla features more scenes with the real Hugo Cabret, a resourceful orphan unlocks a fantastic secret (human) star of the film, Kurosawa-regular Takashi Shimura involving the history of cinema, which changes his world (who was also the Seven Samurai leader that same year), as forever! Both a rip-roaring adventure filled with incredible well as more of the beloved “suitmation” special effects by special effects and a love letter to the magic of , legendary effects artist Eiji Tsuburaya. Spawning over six the Oscar-winning Hugo is one of Scorsese’s most personal, decades of sequels, remakes and rip-offs – not to mention and purely fun, films. (Dir. by Martin Scorsese, 2011, USA, 126 generations of rabid fans – the original Godzilla remains mins., Rated PG) as thrilling and chilling as ever! (Dir. by Ishiro Honda, 1954, Japan, in Japanese with subtitles, 98 mins., Not Rated) LAWRENCE OF ARABIA BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT DOUBLE SUNDAY, JUNE 23 AT NOON FEATURE! (30TH ANNIVERSARY) WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 AT 7:00PM TUESDAY, JUNE 25 AT 7:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $12 | LOFT MEMBERS: $10 GENERAL ADMISSION: $13 | LOFT MEMBERS: $10 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

PRESENTED IN 70MM! With a greater aspect ratio and Celebrate the 30th anniversary of America’s most supremely higher resolution than 35mm film, 70mm is sharper, richer righteous dudes, Bill & Ted, with a totally non-non-non- and more immersive – the ultimate in film projection. non-non-heinous double feature of the 1989 comedy classic that taught us all about world history, Bill & Ted’s Excellent One of the screen’s grandest epics, this monumental Adventure, and the triumphant 1991 sequel, Bill & Ted’s story recounts the true-life experiences of T.E. Lawrence, Bogus Journey! It’s high time to see what trouble’s afoot at better known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia. A young, the Circle-K, turn up the Maiden and party on, dudes! idealistic British officer in WWI, Lawrence (Peter O’Toole) is assigned to the camp of Feisal (), an BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE Arab tribal chieftain and leader in a revolt against the Turks. History is about to be rewritten by two guys who can’t spell! In a series of brilliant tactical maneuvers, Lawrence leads Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and Ted “Theodore” Logan fifty of Feisal’s men in a tortured three-week crossing of the () are high school seniors on the verge of failing Nefud Desert to attack the strategic Turkish-held port of history. Their only hope is to deliver an impressive final Aqaba. report on how people from the past would view the world today. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is dumb ‘80s comedy “A bold, mad act of genius … to get the feeling at its absolute most excellent – set in San Dimas, CA but shot of Lean’s masterpiece you need to somehow, in Phoenix, AZ, and filled to the brim with totally hilarious somewhere, see it in 70mm on a big screen. buddy chemistry between Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves. This experience is on the short list of things that (Dir. by Stephen Herek, 1989, USA, 90 mins., Rated PG) must be done during the lifetime of every lover of film.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times BILL & TED’S BOGUS JOURNEY Once, they made history. Now, they ARE history! With the And following his successfulraids against Turkish troops and time-space continuum conquered, Bill S. Preston, Esquire trains, Lawrence’s triumphant leadership and unyielding (Alex Winter) and Ted Theodore Logan (Keanu Reeves) will courage gain him nearly god-like status among his Arab take on death incarnate and even Satan himself when the evil brothers. Director ’s career masterpiece, De Nomolos decides to travel back in time to erase the most lensed to sweeping perfection by Freddie Young and set to righteous San Dimas-based duo in the history of the world Maurice Jarre’s majestic score, won seven Academy Awards in this rampaging ruckus of aliens, evil Easter Bunnies, good including Best Picture, cemented Peter O’Toole as one of “robots usses” … and non-good “ usses!” Originally Hollywood’s favorite leading men and features a stellar intended to be titled Bill & Ted Go to Hell, this non-stop cast including Claude Rains, Anthony Quinn and Omar goof-a-thon is a radically mangulating excursion through the Sharif, in his first major English-speaking role. Huge (with myriad impossibilities of 20th century comedy and a highly a literal cast of thousands), gorgeous (featuring some of excellent sequel to the classic original. BANGARANG! (Dir. the most mesmerizing desert vistas ever captured on film) by Peter Hewitt, USA, 1991, 93 mins., Rated PG) and dramatically gripping, Lawrence of Arabia is as close to perfect as epic cinema can get, and was made to be seen on the big screen in 70mm! (Dir. by David Lean, 1962, UK, 227 mins. plus one intermission, Rated PG) THE GUARDIANS MANDY FRIDAY, JUNE 28 AT 7:30PM FRIDAY, JUNE 28 AT 10:00PM FREE ADMISSION SATURDAY, JUNE 29 AT 10:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING IN PATAGONIA, AZ PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! This free screening will be held outdoors in The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big Patagonia, AZ at the Patagonia Public Library, screen! 342 Duquesne Avenue, Patagonia, AZ, 85624. Please bring your own seating. Please note: In Somewhere in the primal wilderness near the Shadow the event of inclement weather, this outdoor Mountains in the year 1983, Red Miller (Academy Award- screening will be moved to an indoor venue winner Nicholas Cage, in a full-throttle, adrenaline-inducing nearby. performance) has fallen deeply for the beguiling Mandy Bloom (Andrew Riseborough, Oblivion). This screening is part of Loft Film Fest on the Road, a community-building program that takes unexpected films “Panos Cosmatos has crafted a mind-melting for free screenings in underserved and unserved rural areas, orgy of cosmic proportions that’s providing a unique cultural experience. ridiculously fun.” – Katherine McLaughlin, Sight and Sound A visually dazzling meditation on the delicate balance between human and nature, The Guardians elegantly But the life he has made for himself comes suddenly and interweaves the lives of the iconic monarch butterfly with an horrifyingly crashing down when a vile band of ravaging indigenous community in Mexico. Both depend on the same idolaters and supernatural creatures penetrate his idyllic ancient forest for their survival and now face an uncertain paradise with vicious fury. A broken man, Red now lives for future. Migrating 3,000 miles to hibernate in the towering one thing only – to travel through hell and hunt down these Oyamels, the monarch population faces collapse, hitting a maniacal villains to exact his terrible vengeance. Blood will record low of 33 million, down from 1 billion just twenty flow in rivers. Worlds will collapse unto themselves. And a years ago. In the valley below, the people of Donaciano Ojeda new gonzo cult classic will be born. In his deliciously over- must carve out a sustainable future in their ancestral lands the-top follow-up to Beyond the Black Rainbow, director Panos now part of the protected Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Cosmatos gleefully demonstrates an audacious command Reserve. Once loggers of this forest, they’ve made a radical of tone and atmosphere, conjuring up an ethereal treat for decision to stop and regrow it instead. (Dir. by Ben Crosbie the senses that begs to be seen on the big screen. Awash and Tessa Moran, 2018, USA/Mexico, 70 mins., Not Rated) in a salacious sea of gloriously unhinged performances, carnage, colors and sounds, Mandy grinds up beloved genre Special thanks to our community partner for tropes into a fine pulp and sculpts them into something this screening, Patagonia Public Library. otherworldly and altogether unforgettable. (Dir. by Panos Cosmatos, 2018, USA, 121 mins., Rated R) This screening was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts with support from Desert Diamond Casinos & Entertainment MOANA SING-A-LONG! 30TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING! THURSDAY, JULY 4 AT 2:00PM NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION! SATURDAY, JULY 6 AT 2:00PM SUNDAY, JUNE 30 AT 2:00PM SUNDAY, JULY 7 AT 2:00PM REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES GENERAL ADMISSION: $12 LOFT MEMBERS AND CHILDREN 12 & UNDER: $10 TICKETS ON SALE STARTING JUNE 7 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

See ’s Oscar-nominated classic, Do the Right Thing, This 4th of July weekend, dive into a world of music and on the big screen on the same day it was released to theatres adventure, and see “How Far You’ll Go,” as The Loft Cinema in 1989! presents a very special interactive sing-a-long screening of the fun-tastic Disney classic, Moana! “Comes closer to reflecting the current state of race relations in America than any other movie “An absolute delight, a lush, exuberant quest of our time.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times fable full of big musical numbers and featuring perhaps the most stunning visuals of any Spike Lee’s incendiary, groundbreaking look at race relations Disney film to date.” – Christopher Orr, The in America is a colorful, exuberant and finally devastating Atlantic modern masterpiece – quite possibly the best film ever made about race in America, revealing racial prejudices Join adventurous teenager Moana Waialiki (voiced by Auli’i and stereotypes in all their guises and demonstrating Cravalho) as she sails out on a daring, action-packed mission how a deadly riot can erupt out of a series of small to save her people, with a little help from the once-mighty misunderstandings. Set on one block in Bedford-Stuyvesant demi-god (and “just an ordinary demi-guy”) Maui (Dwayne on the hottest day of the summer, the movie shows the Johnson), who guides her on her quest to become a master whole spectrum of life in this neighborhood and then leaves wayfinder and discover her own identity. All your favorite it up to us to decide if, in the end, anybody actually does Moana songs, like “How Far I’ll Go,’ “You’re Welcome” and the “right thing.” Featuring as Sal, the pizza “Shiny” (written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mark Mancina and parlor owner; Lee himself as Mookie, the lazy pizza-delivery Tokelauan singer/songwriter Opetaia Foa’i) will be subtitled guy; John Turturro and Richard Edson as Sal’s sons; Lee’s so you can sing-a-long and be a part of all the magic! sister Joie as Mookie’s sister Jade; Rosie Perez as Mookie’s Everyone will also receive their very own Moana Goodie girlfriend Tina; Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee as the block elders, Bag, filled with fun props and surprises to use throughout Da Mayor and Mother Sister; Giancarlo Esposito as Mookie’s the movie! And don’t forget to dress up in your best Moana hot-headed friend Buggin’ Out; Bill Nunn as the boom-box costume so you can join our pre-show Costume Parade on toting Radio Raheem; and Samuel L. Jackson as deejay The Loft stage! We’ll all be partying here “where the sky Mister Señor Love Daddy. (Dir. by Spike Lee, 1989, 120 mins., meets the sea,” so don’t miss out on all the fun at the Moana Rated R) Sing-A-Long! (Dir. by and , 2016, USA, 107 mins., Rated PG) FULL DRAW FILM TOUR 2019 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 AT 7:00PM (DOORS OPEN AT 6:00PM) GENERAL ADMISSION: $17 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

Advanced tickets are not available at The Loft Cinema. Get advanced tickets at: www.showclix.com. Day of show tickets available on The Loft Cinema patio at 6:00pm. This is a rental of The Loft Cinema, presented by the Full Come join us for the 2019 Full Draw Film Tour! Draw Film Tour. Real Hunts. Real Films. Real People.

This isn’t grandpa’s outdoor TV. Bring a buddy, your spouse and definitely your kids to watch the best bowhunting films on the “Big Screen!” Enjoy a cold one and who knows you may just take home a new bow!

RETURN TO EARTH TUESDAY, JUNE 18 AT 6:30PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 | SONORAN DESERT MOUNTAIN BICYCLISTS MEMBERS: $10 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

Join Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists for Tucson’s premier of Return to Earth, the new feature- length film from Anthill Films. Featuring stunning videography and some of the best riders on This is a rental of The Loft the planet, Anthill’s movies take viewers on a global journey and showcase what is possible on a Cinema, sponsored by mountain bike. Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists. Tickets are $10 for SDMB members and $15 for the community; to join or renew your membership go to www.sdmb.org. All proceeds benefit 100-Acre Wood Bike Park, Tucson’s first progressive MTB TUCSON PREMIERE! skills park. To learn more, go to www.100acrewoodbikepark.org.

About the film: It’s time to Return to Earth. We increasingly live in a culture of distraction; constantly conducting our lives through 24/7 connectivity. We feed this attention economy with our most precious resource: our time. Time is either spent wisely or it is just spent. Second after second; minute after minute; moment after moment… they’re all there for the taking.

Return to Earth is a feature mountain bike film about the simple act of living in those moments. A cinematic journey connected by true to life examples set by riders of all ages around the world, the film will show that when we lose track of time, we make the most of it. Starring: Brett Rheeder, Ryan Howard, Casey Brown, Brandon Semenuk, Thomas Vanderham, Matt Hunter Jackson Goldstone, Jakob Jewett, Dane Jewett, Tahnee Seagrave, Kaos Seagrave, Kade Edwards, Joey Schusler, Thomas Genon, Emil Johansson, Reed Boggs, Carson Storch.

Presented by: Shimano and Trek. In association with Evoc, Sony, Whistler Mountain Bike Park, Clif Bar, Pink Bike, Trail Forks and Freehub Magazine. With support from Bike Park Lenzerheide, Spawn Cycles, Clif Bar and Rocky Mountain Cycles. WOODSTOCK – THE DIRECTOR’S CUT SATURDAY, JUNE 29 AT 4:30PM DOORS OPEN AND DINNER SERVED AT 4:30PM; FILM STARTS AT 6:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $80 | LOFT MEMBERS: $69 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING

Help us Light Up The Loft Admission includes a delicious dinner served under the stars, two drinks, dessert, a groovy goodie bag, live and raise funds to restore music, a ‘60s costume contest and more! And unlike the our iconic marquee back original Woodstock, no mud! to its original glory while A silent auction will include such fab items as Screen 1 celebrating 50 years of Peace seat naming opportunities; a rental of Screen 3 to screen the movie of your choice with your friends and family; and Music at this special an original 1970 Woodstock movie poster; a signed, screening of Woodstock: The limited edition copy of the photo book, Woodstock by Baron Wolman, with a silver print and an original ticket Director’s Cut! Flashback to from 1969; on the marquee; and an exclusive the legendary 1969 concert opport unity to “flip the switch” to inaugurate the new marquee and Light Up The Loft! that changed the world, and be a part of the historic This screening will include one intermission to “get your head 2019 restoration of The Loft together.” It will be totally groovy! Cinema marquee! For three days in the rural town of Bethel, New York, half the film has become a classic document of an event a million people experienced the single most defining that changed American culture forever. In this special moment of their generation; a concert unprecedented remastered Director’s Cut of Woodstock, a selection of in scope and influence, a coming together of people never-before-released performances not included in the from all walks of life with a single goal: peace original film brings viewers even closer to the Woodstock and music. They called it Woodstock. One year later, a experience. (Dir. by Michael Waldleigh, 1970/1994, USA, landmark, Oscar-winning documentary captured the 224 mins., Rated R) revolutionary essence of the music, the electricity of the performances, and the experiences of those who lived it. For General Admission tickets, $45.00 per person may “In terms of evoking the style qualify as a tax deductible donation. For Member tickets, $36.00 per person may qualify as a tax deductible donation. and feel of a mass historical event, Woodstock may be JUNE’S REEL READS SELECTION the best documentary ever Purchase a copy of The Road to Woodstock by Michael made in America. But don’t Lang during the month of June and receive a special “Loft Reel Reads” discount off the cover price – 20% for see it for that reason; see it Loft members and 10% for the general public. Copies of because it is so good to see.” the book are available at The Loft Cinema and Antigone Books. – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun- Times

Featuring mind-blowing concert footage of some of the era’s greatest musical acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Sly and the Family Stone, Crosby Stills & Nash and more, number one hit single on Billboard’s pop chart in each of “Until you’re ready the past six decades. And through it all, she has managed to look foolish, to light up the big screen and forge a career as one of Hollywood’s most chameleonic and selective superstars. you’ll never have the Mid-stream on a successful music and TV variety show run in the early ‘80s, Cher suddenly became a sought- possibility of being after dramatic actress with understated screen energy to burn after her turn in ’s Come Back to great.” – Cher the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982). Then came a blistering, award-winning run through the rest of the decade, during which she worked with some of the Born Cherilyn Sarkisian in in 1946, Cher’s greatest directors of the era on films such as Silkwood, other well-known nickname is the “Goddess of Pop.” A Mask, The Witches of Eastwick, Suspect, and Moonstruck, true renaissance woman with a flair for the fabulous, for which she took home the Academy Award for Best the one-name icon’s massive resume includes television Actress. Even after ramping back up her recording career shows, feature films, Broadway plays, pop songs, multi- in 1989, Cher continued to act in celebrated films such as year residencies at resorts, world concert , before stepping away from feature films from tours, fashion trends, four comebacks (and counting!), 1999 until her return in the glitzy and advocacy for LGBTQ rights and HIV/AIDS in 2010. To celebrate the 2019 “Cher-aissance” prevention and treatment. (which encompasses the current hit Broadway musical, The Cher Show, a best-selling album of Abba covers and a Cher has been an international superstar even since her new world tour), every Thursday night in June, The Loft debut on the pop charts with her then-partner Sonny Cinema presents some of the most fiercely fabulous films in the 1960s. She entertained, but she also radiated featuring Cher on the big screen! PLUS, sing-a-long with unmatched charisma, humor and talent. Fast-forward rockin’ Cher music videos before each movie – yes, we to today, and she has a Grammy, an Emmy, three Golden call it “Cher-aoke!” Globes, and an Oscar to go along with at least one MOONSTRUCK MERMAIDS NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION! 35MM PRINT! THURSDAY, JUNE 6 AT 7:30PM THURSDAY, JUNE 20 AT 7:30PM

This wonderfully romantic and delightfully oddball comic Cher is a flamboyant, free-spirited single mother trying her gem is a bellissimo celebration of love, passion and family best to raise two daughters amidst the turmoil of the 1960s that won three Academy Awards and transformed Cher in the heartfelt comedy/drama, Mermaids! It’s only 1963, into one of the most fabulous leading ladies of the ‘80s! but for Rachel Flax – that’s “Mrs. Flax,” to you – the sexual Moonstruck builds steadily and skillfully to a magnificently revolution is already well underway. Uninhibited and over- orchestrated finale in which all the pieces magically – and the-top, Rachel (Cher in sterling sexy/sassy/sensitive form) hilariously – fall into place. Think you can find a better is a fun-loving vagabond who breezes from town to town than this? SNAP OUT OF IT! (Dir. by (and man to man), leaving a trail of broken hearts in her , 1987, USA, 102 mins., Rated PG) wake and dragging her two daughters, Charlotte and Katie, along for the ride. (Dir. by Richard Benjamin, 1990, USA, 110 mins., Rated PG-13)

THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK BURLESQUE 35MM PRINT! THURSDAY, JUNE 27 AT 7:30PM THURSDAY, JUNE 13 AT 7:30PM Celestial pop stars collide in an explosion of glitter, glamour In The Witches of Eastwick, the “witches” are three modern- and glitz when Cher and Christina Aguilera team up and belt day women yearning for Mr. Right in a quaint New England it out in the camp musical extravaganza, Burlesque! Featuring town full of Mr. Wrongs. Cher plays Alex, a tough-talking over-the-top set design, flamboyant production numbers, windowed sculptor who meets every Thursday night with her a stellar supporting cast including Peter Gallagher, Kristen two best friends – harried mother Sukie (), Bell, and Alan Cumming, this goofy and glitzy and dowdy music teacher Jane (Susan Sarandon) – to chug show-biz fable was directed by Steve Antin, best-known for martinis, learn Chinese aphrodisiac cooking and lament the his role as jerk-jock Troy in The Goonies! (Dir. by Steven Antin, scarcity of eligible men. (Dir. by George Miller, 1987, USA, 118 2010, USA, 119 mins., Rated PG-13) mins, Rated R) PRESENTED BY PIMA COUNTY LIBRARY LOFT JR. AT THE LOFT CINEMA

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Set at the dawn of time, when OF PETS A SPACE ADVENTURE HENDERSONS prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, the The Secret Life of Pets is the hilarious Based on the acclaimed children’s book A friendly Bigfoot named Harry finds hilarious animated adventure Early animated comedy that finally answers by Chris Van Allsburg, the author of a human family to love and things Man tells the story of how plucky the question: what do your pets do Jumanji and The Polar Express, Zathura are going to get pretty hairy in this Stone Age caveman Dug, along with when you’re not home? (Dir. by Chris is an interstellar adventure filled with big-footed, big-hearted ‘80s comedy/ sidekick Hognob, unites his tribe Renaud & Yarrow Cheney, 2016, 91 heart-racing sci-fi thrills! (Dir. by Jon adventure! (Dir. by William Dear, 1987, against the mighty Bronze Age in a mins., Rated PG) Favreau, 2005, 101 mins., Rated PG) USA, 110 mins., Rated PG) battle to beat them at their own game. (Dir. by Nick Park, 2018, 89 mins., “Here’s something dog and cat people “Great fun! Zathura serves up kid- “A family adventure full of laughs, Rated PG) can agree on: The Secret Life of Pets is friendly sci-fi thrills, along with a Harry and the Hendersons offers hilarious, sweet and fun.” – Raakhee little nostalgia for grownups. Its low- some touching scenes and powerful Mirchandani, tech special effects are a refreshing messages in between rollicking action departure from the CG norm.” – Lisa scenes, slapstick gags, and sharp one- Rose, Newark Star-Ledger liners.” – Ellen Dendy, Common Sense Media

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The White Crow tells the gripping true story of Photograph, the wistful and funny new film from legendary Soviet ballet star Rudolf Nureyev’s dramatic writer/director Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox), tells the defection to the West. tale of a struggling Mumbai street photographer who, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a “The White Crow is as striking and stirring shy stranger to pose as his fiancée during a family visit. as its subject, Rudolf Nureyev.” – Ed Potton, Times (UK) “A quiet charmer … Photograph is a satisfying, unswoony romance.” – Caryn The film chronicles the dancer’s poverty-stricken James, Hollywood Reporter childhood in the Soviet city of Ufa, to his blossoming as a student dancer in Leningrad, to his arrival at Rafi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) comes to Mumbai from the epicenter of western culture in Paris in the early a small village to earn money to pay off an old family 1960s and a nail-biting stand-off at the Le Bourget debt. Working as a street photographer, he shares one airport—site of the iconic dancer’s famed defection small room with friends and sends almost everything from the Soviet Union to the West in 1961, despite he makes to his grandmother, Dadi (Farrukh Jaffar), KGB efforts to stop him. Directed by Oscar-nominated in the hope she will be able to buy back her ancestral actor/director Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient) from home. To satisfy the elderly woman’s desire, he sends a screenplay by David Hare (The Hours), The White her a photo of the strange woman he has met, claiming Crow is the true story of an incredible journey by a that the girl, Miloni (Sanya Malhotra), is his fiancée. unique artist (nicknamed “The White Crow” due to When his grandmother insists on a meeting, things his unusual and unique talents) who transformed the get complicated. (Dir. by Ritesh Batra, 2019, India/ world of ballet forever. Acclaimed dancer Oleg Ivenko Germany/USA, in Hindi/Gujarati/English with English stars as Nureyev, alongside Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue subtitles, 110 mins., Rated PG-13) Is the Warmest Color) as Clara Saint, and Fiennes as Russian ballet coach Alexander Pushkin. Also featured Closed Captions and Audio Description are ballet-world enfant terrible Sergei Polunin, Available Chulpan Khamatova, Olivier Rabourdin, Raphaël Personnaz and Louis Hofmann. Inspired by the book Rudolf Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanaugh. (Dir. by Ralph Fiennes, 2018, UK/France, 127 mins., Rated R) SHADOW BIGGEST LITTLE FARM STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 31 STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 31 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

With Shadow, celebrated director (Hero; The successes and failures of a couple determined to House of Flying Daggers; ) once live in harmony with nature on a farm outside of Los again pushes the boundaries of action to create Angeles are lovingly chronicled by filmmaker farmer a film like no other, masterfully painting a canvas of John Chester in this inspiring documentary. inky blacks and greys punctuated with bursts of color from the blood of the defeated. “Inspirational … feels like fresh air for the soul.” – Peter Debruge, Variety “This is probably the most stunningly beautiful film Zhang Yimou has made In 2011, Chester and his wife, professional chef Molly to date.” – Boyd van Hoeij, Hollywood Chester, made a life-altering decision: the couple Reporter left their jobs to to a patch of land north of Los Angeles and build a farm from the ground up. In a kingdom ruled by a wild and dangerous young king Motivated by their desire to both live a life outside of (Zheng Kai) whose court is a hive of politicking and the city and provide a better life for their rescue dog, treachery, the monarch’s brave military commander Todd, the couple waded through disastrous weather, ( Chao) has cultivated a secret weapon to aid his predators, and local diseases over the next seven years survival: a “shadow”, a look-alike who can fool both his as they devoted themselves to the creation of Apricot enemies and the King himself. Now, the commander Lane Farms, with John documenting their progress must use this weapon in an intricate plan to launch every step of the way. Teeming with stunningly a dangerous final assault against the forces of a rival beautiful images of flora and fauna — and a pregnant kingdom, in hopes of leading his people to victory in a hog that will melt your heart — Biggest Little Farm war that the King does not want. (Dir. by Zhang Yimou, is a testament to idealism. For urban viewers, it’s a 2018, /Hong Kong, in Mandarin with English necessary confrontation with how our food is grown. subtitles, 115 mins., Not Rated) It’s also a family adventure, full of suspense and emotion that will leave a lump in your throat. (Dir. by John Chester, 2019, USA, 91 mins., Rated PG)

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In the early 1980s, a shy but story of young adulthood and ambitious film student (Honor first love. At once enrapturing Swinton Byrne) begins to find her and mysteriously unsettling—and voice as an artist while navigating featuring a profoundly layered a turbulent courtship with a breakout performance by Honor charismatic but untrustworthy Swinton Byrne—The Souvenir is man (Tom Burke). She defies her an essential and enduring film protective mother () from one of our most distinctive and concerned friends as she slips and exciting filmmakers. (Dir. by deeper and deeper into an intense, Joanna Hogg, 2019, UK/USA, 119 emotionally fraught relationship mins., Rated R) that comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams. From Closed Captions and Audio acclaimed writer-director Joanna Description Available Hogg (Unrelated; Archipelago; Exhibition) comes an enigmatic and personal portrait of the artist as a young woman, combining passionate emotions and exquisite aesthetics into a lush, dreamlike LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 7 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

Bi Gan follows up his knockout among them a prickly hairdresser debut, Kaili , with this noir- played by Taiwanese superstar tinged stunner about a lost soul . When the search (Jue Huang) on a quest to find a leads him to a dingy movie theater, missing woman from his past (Wei the film launches into an hour- Tang, Lust, Caution). long, gravity-defying 3D sequence shot that plunges its protagonist— “Writer-director Bi Gan and us—into a labyrinthine takes you on a rapturous cityscape. China’s biggest arthouse ride through the night that hit of all time, the film took in will knock you for a loop, more than $40 million dollars especially with a sexy, in its opening weekend at the violent, 50-minute climax domestic box office. (Dir. by Bi Gan, that now stands as the 2019, China/France, in Mandarin 3D Shot of the Century.” – with English subtitles, 140 mins., Peter Travers, Not Rated)

Following leads across Guizhou province, he crosses paths with a series of colorful characters, “A touching story with an amazing performance by AMERICAN WOMAN Sienna Miller … the film shines because of how true STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 14 it is to life.” – Arianne Binette, Weekly Spoon REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

Following the disappearance of her small Pennsylvania town. Then one parent’s worst nightmare, pulling teenage daughter, a woman must night Bridget goes out with her viewers deep into the lives of these raise her infant grandson and find old boyfriend — Jesse’s father — flawed but ordinary people. (Dir. some answers, in this gripping, and never returns. Deb’s mother by Jake Scott, 2019, UK/USA, 111 decade-spanning drama starring (Madigan) and sister (Hendricks) mins., Rated R) Sienna Miller, Christina Hendricks, join the entire community in a Amy Madigan and . thorough search, but to no avail. “Sienna Miller offers Time passes, the devastation eases a beautiful, wide- “Sienna Miller throws little by little, and Deb moves ranging performance.” herself into the role, giving on, raising Jesse on her own. She – John DeFore, Hollywood an assertive, hard-working starts a new career and finds new Reporter performance.” – Dennis love in Chris (Paul), a charismatic Harvey, Variety construction worker and musician. But just when her devastating Deb (Miller) was never shy about loss seems far behind her, new being the bad girl in her family. truths come to light that change She had her daughter Bridget everything. Driven by a lived-in, young, Bridget had her son Jesse emotionally-charged performance young, and the three of them live from Sienna Miller, American a more or less happy life in their Woman is a riveting look at every BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 14 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

FREE LOFT MEMBERS Narrated by , Be such as child abuse, immigration, SCREENING Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Planned Parenthood, and female Friday, June 14, 7:00pm. Free for Guy-Blaché is an astounding empowerment. After a decade Loft Cinema members and open documentary about the first of making films at Gaumont she to the public at regular admission female filmmaker, who achieved had a second decade-long career prices. heights of fame and financial in the U.S., where she built and success before she was shut ran her own studio in Fort Lee, out from the very industry she New Jersey. Yet she is virtually Members may pick up tickets only helped create. Guy-Blaché began unknown today. Why? Director for themselves (1 for individual her career as secretary to Léon Pamela B. Green dedicated more levels, 2 for couple levels) at Gaumont and in 1896, at 23, than eight years of research in the Box Office on the day of the was inspired to make her own order to uncover the real story Member Screening. The Box Office film called La Fée aux Choux (The of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873- is open 1/2 hour before the first Cabbage Fairy), one of the first 1968)—highlighting not only show of the day. Please see the narrative films ever made. Over her pioneering contributions to website for showtimes. Members the span of her career, she wrote, the birth of cinema but also her will be issued a return pass (valid produced or directed 1,000 films, acclaim as a creative force and through the following Thursday) including 150 with synchronized entrepreneur in the earliest years to see this film another time, if the sound during the ‘silent’ era. Her of movie-making. (Dir. by Pamela screening is at capacity. work includes comedies, westerns B. Green, 2019, USA, 103 mins., Not and dramas, as well as films with Rated) groundbreaking subject matter “A fun time, and for the segment alone, it’s worth it.” – Chris Bumbray, JoBlo’s Movie STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 21 Emporium REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

In this twisted horror anthology and Tales from the Crypt unleashes featuring five ghoulish tales of new works from Garris, Joe Dante terror from some of the genre’s (), David Slade (30 Days of best and bloodiest, five strangers Night), (Midnight are drawn to an abandoned movie Meat Train), and Alejandro theater and forced to watch their Brugues (Juan of the Dead). Creepy deepest and darkest fears play tales of demented plastic surgeons, out before them. Lurking in the maniacs in the woods, demon shadows is the Projectionist possessed students, nightmares (), who preys upon that become real and dead people their souls with his monstrous who just won’t stay dead make collection of disturbing films. As Nightmare Cinema a gore-drenched each reel spins its sinister tale, treat for horror fanatics craving the characters find frightening a truly scary night at the movies! parallels to their own lives. (Various Directors, 2019, USA, 118 Concocted by mins., Rated R) creator (Stephen King’s The Stand), this fun and freaky throwback to such horror anthology classics as Creepshow IYENGAR: THE MAN, YOGA AND THE STUDENT’S JOURNEY STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 21 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

Iyengar Yoga is well respected, Clennell’s documentary Iyengar: yoga, wellness, spirituality, or the practiced worldwide and credited The Man, Yoga, The Student’s connection of mind and body. (Dir. by multitudes as life-transforming, Journey is able to showcase the by Jake Clennell, 2019, India/USA, but because its founder B. K. S. profound spirituality embedded in English/Kannada with English Iyengar is famously reclusive, in his practice, which has led subtitles, 106 mins., Not Rated) little is known about the man who religions around the world invented this powerful practice… including Catholicism and Islam to “Essential viewing for until now! incorporate Iyengar Yoga into their practitioners.” – Craig ritual observances. Best of all is Takeuchi, The Georgia “For anyone who has the extraordinary time spent with Straight experienced the joyful Iyengar himself, including in the potential of yoga, or even studio where he rules alternately struggled to get into a with an iron fist and a velvet Thanks to our community forward fold, this heartfelt touch while demonstrating feats partner, BSK Iyengar Yoga film is bound to strike a of flexibility and discipline that Studio of Tucson! chord.” – Marc Caron, would be extraordinary if carried Conscious Living out by an Olympic gymnast, let alone a man in his 90s. This Thanks to exclusive, intimate documentary is required viewing access to this legendary yogi, Jake for anyone with an interest in “An enticing blend of the comic and the serious, a smart NON-FICTION and sassy examination of the way we live now.” – Kenneth STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 21 Turan, REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

Juliette Binoche and Guillame using his real-life love affairs— Canet reunite with acclaimed including a passionate fling director (Personal with an actress (Binoche) who Shopper, The Clouds of Sils Maria) happens to be married to his for this wry, slyly seductive tale of editor (Canet)—as fodder for his sex, lies and literature. explosive new novel. Balancing dry wit with keen observations “Non-Fiction is a bonbon on the tensions between art, spiked with delicious commerce and technology, Non- wit and malice.” – Peter Fiction is a buoyant, breezy delight Travers, Rolling Stone from a master director at his most effortlessly brilliant. (Dir. by Olivier Set amidst the bohemian Assayas, 2019, France, in French intelligentsia of the Parisian with English subtitles, 108 mins., publishing world, Non-Fiction Rated R) traces the romantic and emotional fallout that results when a controversial writer (Vincent Macaigne) begins blurring the line between fact and fiction, THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO COMING SOON REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES PLEASE NOTE: NO PASSES ACCEPTED FOR THE FIRST TWO WEEKS

Jimmie (Jimmie Fails) dreams of other locals on the margins, The reclaiming the Victorian home his Last Black Man in San Francisco is grandfather built in the heart of a poignant and sweeping story San Francisco. Joined on his quest of hometowns and how they’re by his best friend Mont (Jonathan made—and kept alive—by the Majors), Jimmie searches for people who love them. Co-starring belonging in a rapidly changing Rob Morgan, Tichina Arnold city that seems to have left them and Danny Glover. Winner of behind. the Sundance Best Director and Special Jury Awards. (Dir. by Joe “An undeniable gem.” – Talbot, 2019, USA, 120 mins., Rated David Fear, Rolling Stone R)

As he struggles to reconnect “A warm, funny movie with his family and reconstruct about legacy, loss, and the community he longs for, his the strength to move hopes blind him to the reality of forward.”- Ben Pearson, his situation. A wistful odyssey Slash Film populated by skaters, squatters, street preachers, playwrights, and “A resonant tribute to an almost-bygone era.” - ECHO IN THE CANYON Justin Lowe, Hollywood Reporter STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 28 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES

Echo in the Canyon celebrates personal details behind the bands the explosion of popular music and their songs and how that that came out of L.A.’s Laurel music continues to inspire today. Canyon in the mid-’60s as folk Echo in the Canyon contains candid went electric and , The conversations and performances Beach Boys, with , , and The Mamas and the Papas Michelle Phillips, , gave birth to the California Sound. , , It was a moment (1965 to 1967) , Roger McGuinn when bands came to L.A. to and as well as emulate The Beatles and Laurel contemporary musicians they Canyon emerged as a hotbed of influenced such as (in creativity and collaboration for a his very last film interview), , new generation of musicians who , Cat Power, Regina would soon put an indelible stamp Spektor and Norah Jones. (Dir. by on the history of American popular Andrew Slater, 2019, USA, 92 mins., music. Featuring , the PG-13) film explores the beginnings of the Laurel Canyon music scene. Dylan uncovers never-before-heard PARASITE TONI MORRISON: COMING SOON THE PIECES I AM REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES STARTS FRIDAY, JULY 12 The eagerly-awaited new film from celebrated director REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer; The Host) tells a peculiar tale about two families who are worlds apart yet Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is an artful and uplifting somewhat alike, portraying a striking reality of the documentary on the life and works of the legendary world we live in. Parasite will have its world premiere storyteller and Nobel Prize-winner. at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival! (Dir. by Bong Joon-ho, 2019, South Korea, in Korean with English subtitles, 132 “Beautiful! Morrison and her novels are mins., Not Rated) treasures.” – Caryn James, Hollywood Reporter

From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to ‘70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own work. Inspired to write because no one took a “little black girl” seriously, Morrison reflects on her lifelong deconstruction of the master narrative. Woven together with a rich collection of art, history, literature and personality, the film includes discussions about her many critically acclaimed novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula and Song of Solomon, her role as an editor of iconic African-American literature and her time teaching at Princeton University. In addition to Ms. Morrison, the documentary features interviews with Angela Davis, Hilton Als, Fran Lebowitz, Walter Mosley, Sonia Sanchez, Farah Griffin, and , who turned Morrison’s novel Beloved into a . (Dir. by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, 2019, USA, 119 mins., Not Rated)

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