Film Guide March 2015
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FILM GUIDE MARCH 2015 www.loftcinema.org THE LAST UNICORN WITH AUTHOR PETER S. BEAGLE IN PERSON! RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK WITH SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY DR. DAVID SOREN! VISIT OUR NEW AND IMPROVED WEBSITE: WWW.LOFTCINEMA.ORG See what films are playing next, buy tickets, look up showtimes and much more! REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES Tickets are available to purchase online at: $9.25 - Adult | $6.75 - Matinee* loftcinema.org/showtimes $7.50 - Student, Teacher, Military $6.25 - Senior (65+) or Child (6 - 12) or by calling: 520-795-0844 $5.75 - Loft Members Phone orders are subject to a $1 surcharge. MARCH 2015 PLEASE NOTE: Screen 2 is not wheelchair accessible. There is a $1 surcharge for all 3-D screenings. SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 3-19 *MATINEE: ANY SCREENING BEFORE 4:00PM OR AFTER 9:45PM. HEARING LOOP AVAILABLE IN SCREENS 2 & 3. Made possible by Paul & Mary Koss. ART ON SCREEN 3 ESSENTIAL CINEMA 5, 19 LOFT MEMBERSHIPS 8 LOFT STAFF SELECTS 9, 19 NEW AT THE LOFT! LOFT JR. 11, 19 SCIENCE ON SCREEN 12 Late Night Matinees! MONTH-LONG SERIES 15-16 NEW FILMS 20-28 Now see all regularly scheduled MEMBER SCREENINGS 20,25 films starting at 9:45pm or later at REEL READS SELECTION 26 MONDO MONDAYS 29 the matinee price! LATE NIGHT CULT CLASSICS 30 THE LOFT CINEMA BEER OF THE MONTH: 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85716 DAWN OF THE RED INDIA RED ALE SHOWTIMES: 520-795-7777 NINKASI BREWING COMPANY THEATRE INFO: 520-795-0844 LOFT OFFICE: 520-322-5638 ONLY $3 ALL THROUGH MARCH! EMAIL: [email protected] WEB: loftcinema.org RENT THE LOFT! FREE MEMBERS SCREENING Each of our theaters are available to rent for Private Screenings, Corporate Events, Fundraisers, Birthday Parties, College Reunions, Weddings, Video Game Tournaments... Anything you can QUEEN AND COUNTRY dream up, you can make happen here. (SEE PAGE 25) FOR MORE INFORMATION ON RENTING THE LOFT FRIDAY, MARCH 20 • TIME TBA CALL: 520-322-5638 Ext 4# EMAIL: [email protected] VISIT: www.loftcinema.org LOFT FILM GUIDES ARE AVAILABLE AT: • aLoft Hotel • Casa Video • How Sweet It Was • Revolutionary Grounds • Tucson Racquet and • Antigone Books • Chocolate Iguana • Humanities Seminars • Rincon Market Fitness • Aqua Vita • Clues Unlimited • Imagine Barber Shop • Rocco’s Little Chicago • Tucson Visitor’s Bureau • Art Institute of Tucson • Coyote Wore Sideburns • Jewish Community Ctr • Rogue Theatre • UA Media Arts • AZ Title Security • D&D Pinball • KXCI • Santa Barbara Ice Cream • Vila Thai • Bentley’s • Epic Café • Maynard’s Market • Shot in the Dark Café • Whole Foods • Black Crown Coffee • Espresso Art • Metro Tucson Libraries • Southern AZ Aids • Wingspan • Bookman’s • Fantasy Comics • No Anchovies Foundation • Xoom Juice • Bookstop • First American Title • OLLI • SW U of Visual Arts • Yikes Toy Store • Brooklyn Pizza • Fresco Pizza • Parks and Recreation • Ted’s Country Store • Zia Records • Café Marcel • Fronimos • Pima Community College • Time Market • Café Passe • Heroes & Villains • R-Galaxy • Tooley’s • Caffe Luce • Hotel Congress • Raging Sage • Tucson Museum of Art 3 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS WRENCHED TREASURE ISLAND SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 AT 7:00PM PRESENTED BY NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES SUNDAY, MARCH 1 AT 11:00AM TUESDAY, MARCH 3 AT 7:00PM FEATURING A POST-FILM Q&A WITH THURSDAY, MARCH 5 AT 11:00AM GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR ML LINCOLN, LOFT MEMBERS & CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER: $10 CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY Please Note: We cannot accept passes or Groupons for this screening. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR KIERAN SUCKLING AND AUTHOR/ACTIVIST DOUG PEACOCK PART OF OUR ART ON SCREEN SERIES (“HAYDUKE” IN THE MONKEY WRENCH Enjoy the performing arts on the big screen, with GANG)! thrilling opera, ballet and theatre productions from around the world, captured live and presented in From Upton Sinclair’s e Jungle to Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, American literature has a history of being in the vanguard when beautiful high denition! it comes to activism about controversial issues. e books of Edward Abbey carry on that tradition, with memoirs like Desert “Spectacular! Daring! Fun for all the family.” – Solitaire and the classic comic novel, e Monkey Wrench Gang, taking on the degradation of the American Southwest. Filmmaker Time Out London ML Lincoln’s documentary Wrenched reveals how Edward Abbey’s anarchistic spirit and riotous novels inuenced and helped guide the nascent environmental movement of the 1970s and ‘80s. rough interviews, archival footage and re-enactments, ML Lincoln captures the outrage of Abbey’s friends who were the original eco-warriors. In defense of wilderness, these early activists pioneered ”monkeywrenching” - a radical blueprint for “wrenching the system.” Exemplied by EarthFirst! in the early ‘80s, direct action and civil disobedience grew in popularity. With tree-spiking, forest occupation and high-prole publicity stunts such as the cracking at Glen Canyon Dam, this group became the eventual target of FBI inltrators, leading to the arrest of various members. Abbey’s message has lived on. Young activists are carrying on the monkeywrenching torch, using his books as a source of inspiration. Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure tale of murder, Wrenched captures a new generation as personied in Tim money and mutiny is brought to life in a thrilling new stage DeChristopher, who singlehandedly stopped the sale of 100,000+ of adaptation by Bryony Lavery, broadcast live from London’s acres of public trust lands in southeastern Utah. He was sentenced National eatre. It’s a dark, stormy night. e stars are out. to federal prison for his actions. e ght continues to sustain Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a the last bastion of the American frontier – the Wild West. And terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, Wrenched, following in Abbey’s footsteps, asks the question: “how full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage far are we willing go in defense of wilderness?” Featuring Charles Bowden, Katie Lee, Robert Redford, Terry Tempest Williams and begins. (Running time 145 mins., includes one intermission, Not more! (Dir. by ML Lincoln, 2014, USA, 90 mins., Not Rated) Rated / Suitable for ages 10 and up) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 4 TO LIGHT A CANDLE WHAT THE UNIVERSE TELLS ME SUNDAY, MARCH 1 AT 4:00PM SUNDAY, MARCH 1 AT 7:00PM FREE ADMISSION REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES PRESENTED BY THE SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY Co-presented by Tucson Symphony OF THE BAHÁ’ÍS OF TUCSON. Orchestra. Featuring a TSO Conversation with Tucson Symphony Orchestra Music “A revealing new documentary… a turning Director and Conductor George Hanson point in addressing the circumstance of Baha’is following the film, and a free raffle for in Iran.” – Omid Memarian, Hungton Post TSO tickets! What the Universe Tells Me: Unraveling the Mysteries of Mahler’s ird Symphony is a passionate and mesmerizing documentary that explores how philosophy, mythology and music combine in Mahler’s ird Symphony to create an all-encompassing panoramic experience. From the volcanoes of the South Pacic to the Alpine peaks and meadows where Mahler composed, in What the Universe Tells Me, dramatic images from the natural world give shape to the Symphony’s evolutionary saga. Performances combine with illustrative artwork, computer animation, historical lm clips and the insights of world- renowned historians, philosophers and biographers. inkers such as Howard Gardner, Stan Brakhage and Catherine Keller To Light a Candle is a new documentary directed by Maziar join Mahler experts Henry Louis de La Grange, Donald Mitchell, Bahari, subject of the recent lm Rosewater. He was Newsweek’s Peter Franklin and Morten Solvik to introduce this masterpiece Iran reporter from 1998 to 2011 and has produced a number of to new audiences, while interspersed throughout is a thrilling other documentary lms about Iran. e Bahá’ís are a religious performance of the symphony with an orchestra culled from minority in Iran. ey are systematically imprisoned, tortured players from the Manhattan School of Music. (Dir. by Jason and killed by the Iranian government. e Islamic regime bans Starr, 2004, USA, 60 mins., Not Rated) the Bahá’ís from studying and teaching in Iranian universities. But the Bahá’ís do teach, and they do study. In 1987, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra presents Mahler Symphony No. 3, Bahá’ís started BIHE (Bahá’í Institute of Higher Education), conducted by George Hanson, Friday, March 13 at 8:00pm and an underground university with hundreds of students in Iran, Sunday, March 15 at 2:00pm, at the Tucson Music Hall. George and dozens of teachers in Iran and around the world. rough Hanson brings his tenure as TSO Music Director and Conductor powerful interviews, exclusive secret footage shot by citizen to a tting and inspiring close with Gustav Mahler’s massive journalists, rare archival material and dramatic letters written by Symphony No. 3. By doing so, he continues his acclaimed Bahá’í prisoners currently in jail in Iran, To Light a Candle shows conducting of Gustav Mahler’s work that has identied him as a how a small minority has deed the brutal systematic religious “Mahler specialist” in Europe. persecution through non-violent resistance and educating their youth. (Dir. by Maziar Bahari, 2014, Iran, in Persian and English with English subtitles, 52 mins., Not Rated) 5 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS HARLAN COUNTY USA THE LAND OF MANY PALACES TUESDAY, MARCH 3 AT 7:00PM TUESDAY, MARCH 3 AT 4:00PM FREE ADMISSION! • $5 SUGGESTED DONATION FREE ADMISSION! TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE DAY OF THE SCREENING ONLY. PART OF OUR ESSENTIAL CINEMA SERIES See classic art lms the way they were meant to be PRESENTED BY THE EAST ASIAN seen - with an audience, on the big screen! STUDIES COLLOQUIUM SERIES (SPRING, 2015), COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, THE “Extraordinarily detailed… instantly became UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA a cultural touchstone.” – Michael Atkinson, Village Voice Featuring a post-screening panel discussion and Q&A with Director Adam Smith in person! Winner of the Best Documentary Academy Award, Barbara Kopple’s groundbreaking Harlan County USA uninchingly documents a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town.