DENVER FILMCALENDAR Balloon

LANDMARKTHEATRES.COM/DENVER MARCH 20 – APRIL 30, 2020 DENVER FILMCALENDAR MOVIES OPENING EXCLUSIVELY AT CHEZ ARTISTE 4150 East Amherst Ave. (303) 758-3496 ESQUIRE 590 Downing St. (303) 733-0148 (Downstairs Only) MAYAN 110 Broadway (303) 744-6799 (Downstairs Only) GREENWOOD VILLAGE 5415 Landmark Place in Greenwood Village (303) 779-0584 /ChezArtiste @LTDenverCO /MayanTheatreDenver @ltdenverco /LTGreenwoodVillage /EsquireTheatre Email sign up: filmclub.landmarktheatres.com Werner Herzog’s NOMAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BRUCE CHATWIN © 2020 Landmark Theatres Balloon Never Rarely Sometimes Always STARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 20 • ONE WEEK STARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 27 • ONE WEEK WINNER! U.S. DRAMATIC SPECIAL JURY AWARD: NEO-REALISM 2020 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL “Flies high with Cold War thrills and sentiment to spare.”—USA TODAY “What an extraordinary film this is.”—Jason Bailey, THE PLAYLIST “A race against the clock with suspense expertly maintained.” “A quietly devastating gem.”—Andrew Barker, VARIETY —ROLLING STONE “A singular look at what it means to be a teenage girl today, and with all the “A solid political thriller, with good edge-of-the-seat tension.” joy and pain that comes with it.”—Kate Erbland, INDIEWIRE —Paul Byrnes, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD “With stunning performances from two completely genuine young leads, this is a movie people will talk about all year.” Released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Germany’s reunification, the gripping thriller BALLOON is —Brian Tallerico, ROGEREBERT.COM based on the true story of one of the most spectacular and daring escapes from Communist East Germany, in which two families sailed over the heavily fortified border in a homemade hot-air balloon. In the summer of 1979, the Strelzyk and Wetzel families—who had been working on their audacious plan for more than two Written and directed by Eliza Hittman (BEACH RATS), NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS is an intimate years—try to flee East Germany in a self-made hot-air balloon. But after the balloon crash-lands just short of the portrayal of two teenage girls trying to solve their problems on their own. Autumn (Sidney Flanigan), West German border, the Stasi find traces of the attempted escape and immediately launch an all-out search. a quiet teenager who works as a cashier at a supermarket in rural Pennsylvania, finds herself facing They put surveillance on all stores selling fabric, and check every pharmacy to trace a prescription medicine an unintended pregnancy, with no local access to a termination. With her cousin and best friend Skylar found in the crashed balloon. In a society filled with informers, even an innocent young son could give the game (Talia Ryder) along for support, both financial and emotional, Autumn embarks by bus across state lines to New away by mentioning his father’s big sewing project at day care. In a nerve-wracking race against the clock, the York City on a difficult journey of friendship, bravery and compassion. Both young actresses give remarkable two families attempt to build a new escape balloon as the Stasi get closer and closer each day. Directed and performances in a poignant and powerful story. Winner of a U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Neo-Realism co-written by Michael Bully Herbig. (Germany, 2019) at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. (USA/UK, 2020) distribfilmsus.com/our-movies/balloon-german-film focusfeatures.com/never-rarely-sometimes-always Sorry We Missed You Deerskin STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 3 • ONE WEEK STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 10 • ONE WEEK HHHH! “Powerful...Ken Loach is in blistering form with this gripping “Bat-sh*t crazy!”—Alex Saveliev, FILM THREAT indictment of the modern gig economy.”—TIME OUT LONDON “Enjoyably demented...Deerskin is a portrait of what happens when HHHH! “Loach, clearly still buzzing from the success of I, Daniel Blake, is technology falls into the wrong hands, made through technology that having the time of his life. Don’t miss this. You’ll be sorry if you do.” clearly fell into the right ones.”—Justin Chang, LOS ANGELES TIMES —Charlotte O’Sullivan, EVENING STANDARD “A loopy entertaining WTF lark…Dujardin gives an adventurous downbeat performance that tosses vanity—and sanity—right out the window.” The British working class is once again the empathetic subject of the new film by master director Ken Loach —Owen Gleiberman, VARIETY (I, DANIEL BLAKE; THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY; SWEET SIXTEEN), a wrenching, intimate family drama that exposes the dark side of the so-called “gig economy.” Ricky (Kris Hitchen), a former laborer, and his home- In this mad black comedy/crime thriller of middle-aged masculinity run amok, Academy Award winner attendant wife Abby (Debbie Honeywood), parents of two teenagers, lost their home in the 2008 financial Jean Dujardin (THE ARTIST, OSS 117: CAIRO, NEST OF SPIES) plays Georges, a suave recent divorcé who becomes crash and are desperate to make a better life for their family. When an opportunity comes for Ricky to work as obsessed with a snazzy vintage fringed deerskin jacket (it has “killer style”!) that begins to exert an uncanny his own boss as a delivery driver, they sell their only asset, Abby’s car, to trade it in for a shiny new white van and hold on him, dominating his life and actions. Georges finds himself stranded without funds in a sleepy French the dream that Ricky can work his way up to someday owning his own delivery franchise. But instead, it all goes alpine village, and makes the best of it. Asked his profession he is at a loss, but the possession of a recently wrong. Capturing the sacred moments that make a family as well as the acts of desperation needed to make acquired movie camera prompts him to declare he is an independent filmmaker. This gives him status in the it through each day, this universal story is skillfully and indelibly told with unforgettable performances and a eyes of a trusting bartender and aspiring film editor (Adèle Haenel, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE) who becomes searing script by Loach’s long-time collaborator Paul Laverty. In English with English subtitles. (UK/France/ his collaborator on a movie that will document a surprising new goal he sets himself. Written and directed by Belgium, 2019) quirky maverick Quentin Dupieux (RUBBER). (France, 2019) zeitgeistfilms.com/film/sorrywemissedyou greenwichentertainment.com/film/deerskin The Wild Goose Lake Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 17 • ONE WEEK STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 24 • ONE WEEK “An invigorating, poetic, and discretely brilliant Chinese noir.” “Heartfelt…Conveys a sense of profound beauty and primordial mystery.” —David Ehrlich, INDIEWIRE —Nick Schager, VARIETY “Ingenious…Exhilarating…This film’s greatness transforms from the kind that “A poignant testament to two friends’ shared curiosity about the world.” sneaks up on you to the kind that blows you away.” —John DeFore, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER —Charles Bramesco, LITTLE WHITE LIES “Despite walking many steps around the world and delivering many great films in the process, he’s never quite made a self-portrait like this one. Werner’s latest might be his most Herzoggian film yet.”—Pat Mullen, POV An archetypal noir tale of a gangster on the run, a femme fatale at his side, pursued by cops and bad guys trying to do them in unfolds on the hidden shores of THE WILD GOOSE LAKE. From acclaimed director Diao Yinan, this Werner Herzog, legendary director of GRIZZLY MAN, MEETING GORBACHEV, and CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, spellbinding thriller is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to his 2014 Berlinale-winning BLACK COAL, THIN ICE. turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with the late travel writer and explorer Small-time mob leader Zhou Zenong (sexy Chinese superstar Hu Ge), fresh out of jail, accidentally kills a cop. Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of IN PATAGONIA and a champion of the nomadic lifestyle. He was a kindred A dead-or-alive bounty is placed on his head, forcing him to go on the lam from squads of police as well as spirit whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe. Herzog re-visits places that Chatwin lethal gangsters out for the reward. Wounded and hiding out in China’s densely populated (and deeply divided) loved, including Patagonia, the Australian outback, and Ghana, where they worked together on Herzog’s 1987 Wuhan province, Zhou becomes entangled with a beautiful, enigmatic woman (Gwei Lun Mei) who says she film COBRA VERDE, adapted from Chatwin’s novel. Herzog’s deeply personal portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with was sent to help him, and has mysterious intentions of her own. Motorcycles speed through the rain-soaked insightful interviews, archival discoveries, film clips and a perplexing “brontosaurus skin,” encompasses their night and the tension escalates, with bursts of shocking, expertly choreographed action. THE WILD GOOSE LAKE shared interest in aboriginal cultures, ancient rituals and the mysteries stitching together life on earth. Told in is stylish and atmospheric, with gorgeous, neon-drenched cinematography by Dong Jingsong (LONG DAY’S Herzog’s inimitable style and bursting at the seams with unforgettable characters and encounters, NOMAD takes JOURNEY INTO NIGHT) casting a mesmerizing spell. (China/France, 2019) the viewer on a scenic journey to uncover stories of lost tribes, wanderers and dreamers. (UK, 2019) filmmovement.com/the-wild-goose-lake musicboxfilms.com/film/nomad-in-the-footsteps-of-bruce-chatwin.

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