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LOFT CINEMA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ron Barber Carmen Marriott President Hal Melfi Tim Fuller Katherine Pew Vice-President Tim Reckart Stephen Golden Claire Scheuren Treasurer Lisanne Skyler Melodie Lopez Secretary Joanne Stuhr Joe Tarver Betsy Bolding Jan Mueller, Emeritus Jaime Gutiérrez Dianne Iauco Mary Koss Dear Friends of The Loft Cinema, Jeff Yanc, our Program Director, and I spent 10 days in January at the Art House Convergence and the Sundance Film Festival. Both events are central to our mission. The Convergence because we meet and network with our peer cinemas, with film festival organizers, distributors, and others with whom we work on a daily basis. It’s a great chance to meet in person so many people who we know primarily by email or phone. And Sundance because we see so many films here that we end up booking at The Loft Cinema. It’s always great to see films before they are released to know how to calibrate our expectations and strategies.
We also spent January looking back at 2019, which set (another) record for box office. We are increasingly grateful for our capacity to screen films in 70mm (Joker) and 35mm (Little Women). When we bought The Loft Cinema in 2002, every theatre was showing only film. Since the radical shift to digital projection in about 2012, actual film has become somewhat exotic for many, but at The Loft Cinema, we will always screen films on film whenever we can!
One of my favorite films premieres this month:Portrait of a Lady on Fire. This beautiful, moving film by Celine Sciamma Tomboy,( Girlhood) is a revelation!
And this February we are starting a new Loft tradition with our Red Carpet Awards Evening on February 9th. Join us and support The Loft Cinema, Tucson’s authentic Art House since 1972!
Peggy Johnson, Executive Director
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“An immersive experience with a crackling sense of LES MISÉRABLES authenticity.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times STARTS FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES
Nominated for the Best does however probe the tensions International Feature between Paris’ anti-crime police Academy Award! and the poor Muslim population in the French suburb of Montfermeil In his astonishing, assured feature in the present day - where little film debut, Ladj Ly stages an has changed in the 150 years unconventional police procedural since Hugo first characterized in Montfermeil, the same Parisian the strife he saw through his district where Victor Hugo set bedroom window. Ly’s intensely his classic novel. The film follows vérité approach lends even more three plainclothes cops as they urgency to the timely tale of social navigate—and inflame—the injustice, which won the 2019 neighborhood’s simmering ethnic Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize. and racial tensions, exploring (Dir. by Ladj Ly, 2019, France, in the adversarial relationship French with English subtitles, 102 between law enforcement and mins., Rated R) the neighborhood’s poor Muslim population. Not quite an update Closed Captions and Audio of Hugo’s landmark work, this Description Available gripping and grounded drama NEW FILMS 7
“Profound and thrilling cinema verité filmmaking.” MIDNIGHT FAMILY – Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com STARTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES
In Mexico City, the Ochoas run a the spectrums of urgency and to the enduring community of, and family-owned ambulance service, boredom, honor and corruption, connections among, those living one of many private paramedic life and death—all with admirable and dying in the dark. (Dir. by Luke outfits addressing the massive civic resolve. Teenage Juan captivates as Lorentzen, 2019, Mexico, in Spanish void left when there are just 45 he helms the family’s ambulance, with English subtitles, 81 mins., Not municipal ambulances serving a with his father, uncle, and younger Rated) population that tops 9 million. brother rounding out the band of nocturnal rescuers who careen “Terrifying and “Midnight Family is both a through Mexico City’s neon-noir exhilarating … will leave compassionate portrait of streets evading dense traffic, you gasping.” – Manohla a working-class family and competing paramedics, and Dargis, New York Times a frightening ride through dubious police. In director Luke a broken health care Lorentzen’s bold and balletic vérité system.” – Monica Castillo, treatment, action, drama, humor, The Wrap and pathos fill the screen while an ominous microcosm of health care Living in circumstances only and humanity plays out in stark slightly less dire than those of the relief. A suspenseful and vivid tale victims they treat and transport, of subsistence, Midnight Family the Ochoa family nightly faces refers not only to the Ochoas but 8 NEW FILMS
“Outrageous, gleefully nasty, consistently clever, and COME TO DADDY a hell of a lot of fun.” – Michael Gingold, Rue Morgue STARTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Magazine REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES
Thirty-something Norval (Elijah and soon, the unexpected Wood) journeys to the middle of happens. A number of times. nowhere to visit his estranged Things proceed to get a little father (Stephen McHattie, strange and a lot violent as Norval Watchmen) after receiving a letter finds himself plunged into gonzo begging him to come. circumstances on the freakier side of outright lunacy. Also starring ”Savagely inventive, Martin Donovan (Inherent Vice), wonderfully macabre and Madeleine Sami (Slow West) and bitingly funny.” – Kristy Michael Smiley (Kill List), Come to Strouse, Film Inquiry Daddy is a jaw-dropping, darkly hilarious, blood-soaked barrel of Having not seen his dad since he fun from New Zealand writer/ was five, it’s all a bit mysterious director Ant Timpson, producer and emotional for Norval. He of Turbo Kid and Greasy Strangler! arrives at his father’s distinctly (Dir. by Ant Timpson, 2019, USA, UFO-shaped cabin in the woods Ireland/Canada/New Zealand/USA, and things almost immediately 93 mins., Rated R) start off on the wrong foot. Awkward unpleasantries abound, NEW FILMS 9
“A profound, affecting and beautifully told THE SONG OF NAMES chronical of faith, family, obsession and the STARTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14 language of music.” – Gary Goldstein, Los REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES Angeles Times
Martin Simmonds (Tim Roth) search to find him and learn has been haunted throughout why he left. Constructed like a his life by the mysterious detective mystery on a grand disappearance of his “brother” and scale, The Song of Names is an extraordinary best friend, a Polish emotionally devastating tale of Jewish virtuoso violinist, Dovidl family, obligation, ambition, and Rapaport, who vanished shortly friendship, driven by exquisite before the 1951 London debut music. From celebrated filmmaker concert that would have launched Francois Girard (The Red Violin; his brilliant career. Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould), with music by Oscar- “Juggles time periods in an winning composer Howard Shore incredibly intelligent and (The Lord of the Rings trilogy). (Dir. artful way.” – Wade Major, by Francois Girard, 2019, Canada/ FilmWeek Hungary, 113 mins., Rated PG-13)
Thirty-five years later, Martin Closed Captions and Audio discovers that Dovidl (Clive Owen) Description Available may still be alive, and sets out on an obsessive intercontinental 10 NEW FILMS
“NYT Critic’s Pick! Vivid and bracing … its depiction of INVISIBLE LIFE female friendship and love is pointedly ferocious.” – STARTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14 Glenn Kenny, New York Times REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES
Rio de Janeiro, 1950. Eurídice, 18, while never giving up hope of and Guida, 20, are two inseparable finding each other. A gorgeously sisters living at home with their photographed, emotionally bracing conservative parents. Although tropical melodrama from Karim immersed in a traditional life, each Aïnouz, the director of Madame one nourishes a dream: Eurídice Satã, Invisible Life won the Un (Carol Duarte) of becoming a Certain Regard Award at the renowned pianist, Guida (Julia 2019 Cannes Film Festival. (Dir. Stockler) of finding true love. by Karim Aïnouz, 2019, Brazil/ Germany, in Portuguese/Greek with “A heady blend of the English subtitles, 139 mins., Rated casual, the sorrowful, R) the near-mythical, and the carnally explicit.” – Closed Captions and Audio Anthony Lane, New Yorker Description Available
In a dramatic turn, they are separated by their father and forced to live apart. They take control of their separate destinies, NEW FILMS 11
“Eerily effective, with a wonderfully tense, terse THE ASSISTANT performance from Julia Garner.” – K. Austin Collins, STARTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 Vanity Fair REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES
PREVIEW SCREENINGS The Assistant follows one day in the follows her daily routine, she, and ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 life of Jane (Julia Garner, The Perks we, grow increasingly aware of AT 7:30PM & SATURDAY, of Being a Wallflower), a recent the abuse that insidiously colors FEBRUARY 1 AT 2:00PM college graduate and aspiring film every aspect of her work day, an producer, who has recently landed accumulation of degradations These special preview screenings her dream job as a junior assistant against which Jane decides to take of The Assistant are part of Level to a powerful entertainment a stand, only to discover the true Forward/Screen Forward, a new mogul. depth of the system into which she theatrical distribution network has entered. Written and directed designed to build stronger, direct, “Fascinating. An urgent by acclaimed filmmaker Kitty socially-purposeful relationships real-time thriller … Julia Green (Casting JonBenet). (Dir. between independent film and Garner is a revelation.” – Kitty Green, 2019, USA, 87 mins., diverse communities. Eric Kohn, Indiewire Rated R) A portion of the proceeds from Her day is much like any other these screenings will benefit assistant’s — making coffee, Emerge! Center Against Domestic changing the paper in the copy Abuse in Tucson. machine, ordering lunch, arranging travel, taking phone messages, onboarding a new hire. But as Jane 12 NEW FILMS
THE WOMAN WHO LOVES GIRAFFES STARTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES
FREE LOFT MEMBERS In 1956, four years before Jane original 16mm film footage offers SCREENING Goodall ventured into the world an intimate window into her life Friday, February 21 at 7:00pm. of chimpanzees and seven years as a young woman, juxtaposed Free for Loft Cinema members before Dian Fossey left to work with a first-hand look at the and open to the public at regular with mountain gorillas, 23-year- devastating reality that giraffes admission prices. old biologist Anne Innis Dagg are facing today. Both the world’s made an unprecedented solo first ‘giraffologist’, whose research Members may pick up tickets only journey to South Africa to study findings ultimately became the for themselves (1 for individual giraffes in the wild. foundation for many scientists levels, 2 for couple levels) at following in her footsteps, and the Box Office on the day of the “Unabashedly sincere, the species she loves have each Member Screening. The Box Office this stirring documentary experienced triumphs as well is open 1/2 hour before the first captures a pioneering as setbacks. The Woman Who show of the day. Please see the zoologist who blazed trails Loves Giraffes gives us a moving website for showtimes. Members in her field.” – Elizabeth perspective on both. (Dir. by Alison will be issued a return pass (valid Weitzman, The Wrap Reed, 2019, Canada, 83 mins., Not through the following Thursday) Rated) to see this film another time, if the In The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, screening is at capacity. Anne (now 86) retraces her steps, and with letters and stunning, NEW FILMS 13
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire goes PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE beyond painterly beauty. It sees STARTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 into souls.” – Joe Morgenstern, Wall REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES Street Journal
PREVIEW SCREENING ON reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne act of looking into a dangerous, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 arrives under the guise of engrossing thrill, crafting two of AT 7:30PM companionship, observing Héloïse the most breathtaking and elegant by day and secretly painting performances of the year. To Don’t miss this special advance her by firelight at night. As the watch Marianne and Héloïse fall screening of Céline Sciamma’s two women orbit one another, in love is to see love itself invented highly-acclaimed new drama, intimacy and attraction grow as onscreen. With contemporary Portrait of a Lady on Fire! This film they share Héloïse’s first moments themes in period dress, Portrait will open for a regular engagement of freedom. Héloïse’s portrait soon of a Lady on Fire is a stunning love at The Loft Cinema starting on becomes a collaborative act of and story for the ages. (Dir. by Céline Friday, February 28. testament to their love. Winner Sciamma, 2019, France, in French/ of the Best Screenplay Award at Italian with English subtitles, 121 Thanks to our community partner, the 2019 Cannes prize and one mins., Rated R) Lesbian Looks! of the best reviewed films of the year, Portrait of a Lady on Fire solidifies Céline Sciamma (Tomboy, France, 1760. Marianne is Girlhood) as one of the most commissioned to paint the exciting filmmakers working in wedding portrait of Héloïse, a the world today. Noémie Merlant young woman who has just left and Adèle Haenel turn the subtle the convent. Because she is a 14 NEW FILMS
ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND STARTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES
FEBRUARY’S REEL READS Once Were Brothers: Robbie Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Van SELECTION Robertson and The Band is a Morrison Martin Scorsese, Peter Purchase a copy of Testimony by confessional, cautionary, and Gabriel, Taj Mahal, Dominique Robbie Robertson during the occasionally humorous tale of Robertson, Ronnie Hawkins, and month of February and receive a Robbie Robertson’s young life and more. (Dir. by Daniel Rohr, 2019, special “Loft Reel Reads” discount the creation of one of the most Canada/USA, 100 mins., Rated R) off the cover price – 20% for Loft enduring groups in the history of members and 10% for the general popular music, The Band. The film “A lively, colorful and public. Copies of the book are is a moving story of Robertson’s engaging rockumentary.” available at The Loft Cinema and personal journey, overcoming – Michael Rechtshaffen, Antigone Books. adversity and finding camaraderie Hollywood Reporter alongside the four other men “Robertson is an articulate who would become his brothers and ingratiating tour guide in music and who together made through all this glorious their mark on music history. and eventually tortured Once Were Brothers blends rare history.” – Chris Willman, archival footage, photography, Variety iconic songs and interviews with many of Robertson’s friends and collaborators including Bruce NEW FILMS 15
“A delightfully absurdist, high-octane, drug-fueled video GUNS AKIMBO game come to life.” – Brent Goldman, Film Inquiry STARTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES
A nerdy video game developer death-match fight club streamed flick about a crazed “future” that (Daniel Radcliffe) becomes the live to the public. In response, could be happening right now! next contestant in an illegal live- Riktor (Ned Dennehy), the (Dir. by Jason Lei Howden, 2019, streamed death match, in this maniacal mastermind behind the UK/New Zealand/Germany, in hilariously dark, viciously violent, channel, decides to force Miles’ English, 95 mins., Rated R) and chillingly prescient sci-fi hand and have him join the “fun.” thriller. After a surprise home visit from “It’ll leave bizarre-action Riktor and his goons leaves Miles fans wanting more.” – “Bonkers! Spectacularly unconscious, he wakes to find John DeFore, Hollywood fun and exciting.” - Robert heavy pistols bolted into his hand Reporter Daniels, RogerEbert.com bones, and learns Nix (Samara Weaving), the psychopathic, Miles (Radcliffe) is a little too trigger-happy star of Skizm, is fond of stirring things up on the his first opponent. And she’s at internet with his caustic and his front door. Gleefully echoing antagonizing comments. One elements of Scott Pilgrim vs. the night, he makes the mistake World, the Purge franchise, and of drunkenly dropping an videogames like Smash TV and inflammatory barb on a broadcast Mortal Kombat, Guns Akimbo is a of Skizm, a wildly popular illegal loopy, turbo-charged sci-fi action 16 NEW FILMS
“Absolutely gripping. A big, brash operatic THE TRAITOR extravaganza. “ – Barbara Scharres, RogerEbert.com STARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 6 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES
The gripping drama The Traitor he may be next. Arrested and tells the true story of Tommaso extradited to Italy by the Brazilian Buscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino, police, Buscetta makes a decision World War Z; Angels & Demons) the that will change everything for man who brought down the Cosa the Mafia: he decides to meet Nostra. with Judge Giovanni Falcone and betray the eternal vow he made to “Show-stopping! A big, the Cosa Nostra. From acclaimed bold, true-crime gangster writer/director Marco Bellocchio movie.” – Peter Bradshaw, (Fists in the Pocket; The Wedding The Guardian Director). (Dir. by Marco Bellocchio, 2019, Italy/France/Germany/Brazil, In the early 1980’s, an all-out war in Italian/Sicilian/Portuguese/ rages between Sicilian mafia bosses English with English subtitles, 145 over the heroin trade. Tommaso mins., Rated R) Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil. Back home, scores are Closed Captions and Audio being settled and Buscetta watches Description Available from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowing NEW FILMS 17
Don’t miss The Loft Cinema’s March retrospective series, VARDA BY AGNÈS The Films of Agnes Varda: Part Deux, featuring classic STARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 6 features and shorts from the Oscar-winning director! REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES
The final film from the late, installation works while offering beloved Agnès Varda is a her one-of-a-kind reflections on characteristically playful, everything from filmmaking to profound, and personal feminism to aging. Suffused with summation of the Oscar-winning the people, places, and things she director’s own brilliant career. loved—Jacques Demy, cats, colors, beaches, heart-shaped potatoes— “A breathtaking self- this wonderfully idiosyncratic portrait of an artist at the work of imaginative autobiography height of her powers.” – is a warmly human, touchingly Travis Jeppesen, Artforum bittersweet parting gift from one of cinema’s most luminous talents. At once impish and wise, she (Dir. by Agnès Varda, 2019, France, acts as our spirit guide on a free- in English/French with English associative tour through her six- subtitles, 120 mins., Not Rated) decade artistic journey, shedding new light on her films (including such classics as La Pointe Courte, Cleo from 5 to 7 and The Gleaners and I), photography, and recent 18 NEW FILMS
“Utterly refreshing … in saying what’s long been unsaid, SAINT FRANCES Saint Frances gives audiences something to talk about.” – STARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 13 Stephen Saito, Moveable Feast REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES
Flailing thirty-four-year-old complication. Just as Bridget Bridget (Kelly O’Sullivan, who decides to end the pregnancy, she also penned the screenplay) is a begins to clash with the obstinate college dropout who finally catches Frances and struggles to navigate a break when she lands a much- growing tensions between Frances’ needed job as nanny to the rowdy moms. Amidst her tempestuous but irresistible six-year-old Frances personal relationships, a reluctant (Ramona Edith-Williams) – trouble friendship with Frances emerges, is, she’s uncomfortable around and Bridget contends with the kids, unable to filter her thoughts inevitable joys and sorrows of and preoccupied with her own becoming a part of someone else’s problems, so she doesn’t exactly family. Winner of the SXSW Film scream “nanny material.” Festival Audience Award, Saint Frances is both a heartening, funny “A beautifully specific story of an unlikely friendship and character study.” – Brian an illuminating look into girlhood, Tallerico, RogerEbert.com womanhood, and motherhood. (Dir. by Alex Thompson, 2019, USA, But an unwanted pregnancy 106 mins., Not Rated) introduces an unexpected NEW FILMS 19
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Lonely thirtysomething Rose (Maeve Higgins) is a 2020 Academy Award nominee for Best driving instructor in a rural Irish town. It’s not an International Feature! especially rewarding gig, but it’s all she can do to get away from her true calling — that of a paranormal Corpus Christi is the compelling story of twenty-year- “sensitive,” daughter of a famous departed TV old Daniel, who experiences a spiritual transformation medium. while incarcerated in a youth detention center. He feels a calling to the priesthood, but his criminal record “A winningly off-kilter comedy … a kind makes following his vocation impossible. When he of tea-cosy Ghostbusters that’s consistently is sent to work at a carpenter’s workshop in a small funny and off-the-wall.” – Dennis Harvey, town on work-release, he is mistaken for an itinerant Variety clergyman, a role he embraces with relish. Soon, he has accidentally taken on the local parish, but will the She’s become accustomed to seeing spiritual activity unconventional teachings of this young, charismatic that others are blessedly oblivious to, and she’s quite preacher help heal the community reeling from a happy to keep it private. This becomes rather difficult terrible tragedy or tear them further apart? (Dir. by Jan when past-his-prime rock star Christian Winter (Will Komasa, 2019, Poland, in Polish with English subtitles, Forte) comes to town, looking for a sacrificial victim 115 mins., Not Rated) to renew his Satanic pact for one hell of a come-back album. A whole lot of supernatural craziness is about “An engrossing exploration of faith, to put Rose to the test. One of the most exhilaratingly second chances and the possibility of funny and endearing comedy/occult creations in atonement.” – Allan Hunter, Screen recent years, Extra Ordinary is an inventively oddball International paranormal extravaganza fully befitting of its title. (Dir. by Mike Ahern & Edna Loughman, 2019, Ireland/ Belgium, in English, 94 mins., Rated R)
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2020 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS LIVE ACTION SHORTS DOCUMENTARY SHORTS FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 AT 7:00PM SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2 AT NOON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3 AT 7:00PM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6 AT 7:00PM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 AT 1:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $10 ANIMATED SHORTS LOFT MEMBERS: $8 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 AT NOON PLEASE NOTE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 AT 7:00PM WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THESE SCREENINGS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 AT 6:00PM
Don’t miss your chance to and Documentary Short Films the winner (the winning films will experience this year’s best short that received Academy Award be announced at the Academy films the way they were meant to nominations this past year. The Awards ceremony on Sunday, be seen – on the big screen – before 2020 Oscar Nominated Short February 9) will be entered into the 92nd Annual Academy Awards Films program offers viewers the a drawing for free movie passes telecast on Sunday, February 9, rare opportunity to experience to The Loft! Pass winners will be 2020! Predict the winners and you the year’s best short films from notified the week following the could win free passes to The Loft across the globe, collected Oscar telecast. Don’t miss your Cinema! together in this special cinematic golden opportunity to experience showcase courtesy of Shorts HD all of this year’s Oscar nominated Once again, The Loft Cinema is and Magnolia Pictures. At the short films, exclusively at The Loft proud to present this nationally- screenings, pick up an “Oscar Cinema! touring program highlighting Shorts Prediction” ballot in the all of the Live Action Short lobby, check off your favorite film, Film titles and running times TBA. Films, Animated Short Films and all those who correctly guess SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 25
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TICKETS ON SALE EXCLUSIVELY TO LOFT CINEMA SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 MEMBERS UNTIL MONDAY, JANUARY 13TH! DINNER/DOORS AT 4:30PM GENERAL ADMISSION $110 | LOFT MEMBERS $90 WATCH THE FASHIONS AT 5:00PM PLEASE NOTE: THE SHOW BEGINS AT 6:00PM WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS EVENT
In 2020, The Loft Cinema is Yanc. Plus: fill out an awards ballot For General Admission tickets, inaugurating an annual fundraiser before the show begins; if your $70.00 per person may qualify as a by throwing the party of the year ballot contains the most correct tax deductible donation. For Member and showing the year’s glitziest guesses of all attendees, you could tickets, $52.00 per person may awards show on Tucson’s biggest win a year of free movies to The qualify as a tax deductible donation. screen! Join other film aficionados Loft Cinema! to see who will take home the film industry’s biggest awards! Admission includes drinks and dinner, generously provided by Dress as fancy as you dare and Locale, the new restaurant from walk the red carpet before the the team behind Contigo. Check show, play along with Awards loftcinema.org for full details on Bingo, devised and hosted by none the menu! other than Program Director Jeff 26 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS
THE ASSISTANT – PREVIEW THEY LIVE SCREENINGS FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 AT 10:00PM FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 AT 7:30PM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 AT 10:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 AT 2:00PM REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big A portion of the proceeds from these screenings screen! will benefit Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse in Tucson. Legendary director John Carpenter’s clever sci-fi satire follows a drifter (actor/pro wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper) These special preview screenings of The who discovers that America is being controlled by evil yuppie Assistant are part of Level Forward/Screen aliens using advertising to spread subliminal messages to Forward, a new theatrical distribution network “OBEY,” “CONSUME,” and “CONFORM.” designed to build stronger, direct, socially- purposeful relationships between independent “John Carpenter’s paranoid freakout deserves film and diverse communities. to be thought of as a masterpiece … it’s a cheesy but lovable sci-fi/action movie with The Assistant opens for a regular engagement something to say.” – Joshua Rothkopf, Rolling at The Loft Cinema starting Friday, February Stone 21. Using a pair of hyper-advanced sunglasses that allow The Assistant follows one day in the life of Jane (Julia Garner, him to see the skinless spacemen in their true form, our The Perks of Being a Wallflower), a recent college graduate and hero attempts to blow the lid off of a trans-dimensional aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream human enslavement plot while still finding time to deliver job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. the immortal line: “I have come here to chew bubblegum Her day is much like any other assistant’s — making coffee, and kick ass … and I’m all out of bubblegum.” Combining changing the paper in the copy machine, ordering lunch, goofy horror/cheese aesthetics with a major studio budget, arranging travel, taking phone messages, onboarding a new Carpenter manages to deliver the goods with as many hire. But as Jane follows her daily routine, she, and we, grow explosions, villainous monsters and crazed action sequences increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every as you can handle (including an infamously and impractically aspect of her work day, an accumulation of degradations lengthy fight sequence that must be seen to be believed). But against which Jane decides to take a stand, only to discover it’s the film’s razor-sharp social commentary that really puts the true depth of the system into which she has entered. it over the top. They Live is perhaps the ultimate Regan-era Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Kitty Green rebuttal – an anti-establishment, media-paranoid classic that (Casting JonBenet). (Dir. Kitty Green, 2019, USA, 87 mins., will open your eyes to the terrifying truth about bubblegum, Rated R) billboards and little old ladies. (Dir. by John Carpenter, 1988, USA, 98 mins., Rated R) “Fascinating. An urgent real-time thriller … Julia Garner is a revelation.” – Eric Kohn, Indiewire SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 27
FIRST FRIDAY SHORTS MALLRATS PRESENTED BY MOTHER ROAD BREWING CO. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 AT 10:00PM FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 AT 9:00PM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 AT 10:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6
$200 MONTHLY PRIZE! | $1,000 YEARLY PRIZE! PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big On the first Friday of each month comedians Bridgitte Thum screen! and Mike Sterner host our monthly short film contest – just bring us your short films and we’ll play them on the largest “Snooch to the Nootch!” Kevin Smith’s goofy follow-up to his movie screen in Southern Arizona! breakout hit Clerks stars Jeremy London and Jason Lee as a
pair of emotionally-stunted yet lovelorn pals who attempt to IN CASE YOU’VE NEVER BEEN TO A FIRST get over being dumped by their girlfriends (Shannen Doherty FRIDAY SHORTS SHOW, HERE ARE THE RULES: and Claire Forlani, respectively) with an action-packed day at We’ll play any short film, music video or short documentary the mall. that you’ve made that’s under 15 minutes long and is brought to us on a thumb drive (One film per person, drives “Viciously witty, refreshingly rude and often need to be in by 8pm. We do not accept commercials or very funny.” – Rob Gonsalves, efilmcritic.com advertisements). Submissions (the first 15 films each month) are only taken on the day of the event. All films are played in Like a live-action Mad Magazine comic strip, Mallrats features the order they’re received. Every film is guaranteed to play a tornado of wild adventures with the blunt-wielding for 3 minutes, but after that the audience can call for the layabouts Jay and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith and Jason dreaded “gong” if they’re displeased. If the gong is struck, Mewes) and two extremely unpleasant baddies (Michael our intrepid host stops the film and the next movie begins. Rooker and Ben Affleck). Non-stop zany fun, Mallrats is But don’t despair … if your film is gonged, you can re-work a gloriously silly comedy told with a voice that could only it and bring it back to see if the changes you’ve made have come from Kevin Smith. If you’ve ever wanted to see the pleased the audience. This is a great way for filmmakers to Easter Bunny get mauled by a pack of school children, Stan try out new ideas and see how an actual audience responds, Lee discuss the sexual anatomy of some of his most famous so take advantage. You cannot submit the same film more superhero creations or learn the mystery of the “stink palm,” than once unless it has been re-worked. Remember, the don’t miss a day at the mall with this classic ‘90s comedy! audience decides the winner each and every month, so keep (Dir. by Kevin Smith, 1995, USA, 94 mins., Rated R) them happy! Filmmaker must be in attendance to win the cash prize. We reserve the right not to screen any short film for any reason.
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MALEFICENT PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 AT 10:00AM ADVANCE SCREENING! FREE ADMISSION WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 AT 7:30PM REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES PART OF OUR LOFT JR. SERIES PRESENTED BY PIMA COUNTY LIBRARY Don’t miss this special advance screening of Céline Sciamma’s highly-acclaimed new drama, A free monthly series showcasing great new and classic Portrait of a Lady on Fire! This film will open family-friendly films from around the world! Pre-show for a regular engagement at The Loft Cinema activities hosted by Mildred & Dildred Toy Store starting at starting on Friday, February 28. 9:15am.
“An exquisitely designed, emotionally France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint absorbing work of dark enchantment.” – Sheri the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who Linden, Hollywood Reporter has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of Maleficent explores the untold story of Disney’s most iconic companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly villain from the classic Sleeping Beauty, and the elements of painting her by firelight at night. As the two women her betrayal that ultimately turn her pure heart to stone. orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow Driven by revenge and a fierce desire to protect the moors as they share Héloïse’s first moments of freedom. over which she presides, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) cruelly places an irrevocable curse upon the human king’s newborn Héloïse’s portrait soon becomes a collaborative act infant Aurora (Elle Fanning). As the child grows, Aurora of and testament to their love. Winner of the Best is caught in the middle of the seething conflict between Screenplay Award at the 2019 Cannes prize and one of the forest kingdom she has grown to love and the human the best reviewed films of the year, Portrait of a Lady kingdom that holds her legacy. Maleficent realizes that on Fire solidifies Céline Sciamma (Tomboy, Girlhood) Aurora may hold the key to peace in the land and is forced as one of the most exciting filmmakers working in the to take drastic actions that will change both worlds forever. world today. Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel turn (Dir. by Robert Stromberg, 2014, USA, 97 mins., Rated PG) the subtle act of looking into a dangerous, engrossing thrill, crafting two of the most breathtaking and elegant performances of the year. To watch Marianne and Héloïse fall in love is to see love itself invented onscreen. With contemporary themes in period dress, Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a stunning love story for the ages. (Dir. by Céline Sciamma, 2019, France, in French/ Italian with English subtitles, 121 mins., Rated R)
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MOULIN ROUGE SING-A-LONG! “A genuinely exhilarating experience. Moulin Rouge is like THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13 AT 7:00PM the best party ever, to the power of GENERAL ADMISSION: $12 | LOFT MEMBERS: $10 10.” – Film 4 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING
Celebrate Truth, Beauty, If you’re a true romantic, you dancing and romancing, featuring Freedom and Love with Ewan already know the story: Christian songs by Nirvana, Madonna, The McGregor and Nicole Kidman (Ewan McGregor) leaves behind his Beatles and Queen, among many while singing and swooning-a- bourgeois family during the French others. And we all find out that long to Baz Luhrman’s grand Belle Époque of the late 1890s and the greatest thing you’ll ever learn romantic musical extravaganza, moves to Paris to pursue a true is to love and be loved in return Moulin Rouge! This special early bohemian lifestyle. While there, he (with a little help from the Green Valentine’s Day screening includes meets the absinthe-and-alcohol- Fairy, of course)! (Directed by Baz a complimentary fun pack filled addicted artist Henri de Toulouse- Luhrmann, 2001, Australia/USA, with props and goodies to use Lautrec (John Leguizamo), who 127 mins., Rated PG-13) throughout the movie, and we’ll introduces him to a wild world kick things off with a group sing- of sex, drugs, music, theater and a-long to the Moulin Rouge music the scandalous dance known as video with Christina and Company. the cancan, all at the infamously Come dressed to impress in your decadent Moulin Rouge. Of course, finest Moulin Rouge attire and he also falls into a doomed love you could win a fabulous prize, affair with the beautiful courtesan especially if you can also do the Satine (Nicole Kidman), who can-can-can! Your gift is your becomes the star of the play he’s song so give it all you’ve got at the writing. Along the way, there’s Moulin Rouge Sing-A-Long! much heart-swelling singing, 30 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS
TRUE ROMANCE THE ROCKY HORROR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14 AT 10:00PM PICTURE SHOW SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15 AT 10:00PM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15 AT MIDNIGHT GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 PLEASE NOTE: NO ONE UNDER 17 ADMITTED WITHOUT PARENT OR PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! GUARDIAN. MUST HAVE PHOTO ID. The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big screen! “Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the Rocky Horror Picture Show cult is the extent Under the direction of filmmaker Tony Scott, the Quentin to which it evokes and weirdly resurrects, as Tarantino-scripted True Romance was transformed into a if in a haunted house, a form of cinema as movie nerd’s dream of a romantic road movie – a violent, community that once flourished in the U.S., action-packed ode to exploitation cinema, trashy romance when Hollywood was still in its heyday.” - flicks and all-around Hollywood excess. Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sight and Sound
“Made with such energy, such high spirits, such Whatever happened to Saturday night? It was locked in a an enchanting goofiness, that it’s impossible to closet with The Rocky Horror Picture Show and it hasn’t been resist.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times the same since! Unleash your inner Sweet Transvestite when the mother of all cult classics hits the big screen with the Geeky Detroit comic store clerk Clarence (Christian Slater) “Heavy Petting” shadow cast, live and in your face! You’ll see falls for ditzy hooker Alabama (Patricia Arquette), and before a healthy young couple inducted into the world of absolute you can say “lovers on the run,” the young newlyweds are pleasure, Transylvanians doing the pelvic thrust and a on a honeymoon road trip to L.A. with a stolen suitcase full sexy scientist trying to free us of all our inhibitions (not to of $5 million worth of mafia cocaine, which they plan on mention our clothing)! So pull up your fishnets and get ready selling in order to ensure a bright future of marital bliss. Of to become a creature of the night at the strangest, sexiest course, the path to true romance never runs smooth, and “science fiction double feature” of all-time, a Loft Cinema soon the not-so-innocent lovers are caught between the tradition for 42 years and counting! (Dir. by Jim Sharman, police, the mob and the ghost of Elvis in a crazed adventure 1975, UK/USA, 98 mins., Rated R) filled with wild car chases, kung fu vengeance and over-the- top Mexican standoffs! Will their love survive? Chock full of Tarantino’s trademark “pop culture in a blender” obsessions and colorfully profane dialogue, True Romance features a killer supporting cast that includes James Gandolfini, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Walken. (Dir. by Tony Scott, 1993, USA, 121 mins., Rated R) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 31
KES MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16 AT 7:30PM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19 AT 7:30PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 FREE ADMISSION | $5 SUGGESTED DONATION
PART OF LOFT STAFF SELECTS! PART OF OUR ESSENTIAL CINEMA SERIES A monthly series showcasing film favorites chosen by our PRESENTED BY BARRIO BREWING! amazing Loft Cinema staff! This month’s film was chosen by See classic art films the way they were meant to be seen - Gilbert Rataezyk, Projectionist! with an audience, on the big screen!
“Jaunty, sad, poetic, Kes is so humane it makes The 2008 debut film from Oscar-winning writer/director you tremble.”– Charlotte O’Sullivan, London Barry Jenkins (Moonlight; If Beale Street Could Talk) stars Evening Standard then-unknown Wyatt Cenac and Tracey Heggins as Micah and Jo’, two young people who spend an extended one-night Named one of the ten best British films of the century stand grappling with popular culture and black identity amid by the British Film Institute, Ken Loach’s Kes is cinema’s a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco. quintessential portrait of working-class Northern England. “An exciting debut … both sad and vibrant, Billy (an astonishingly naturalistic David Bradley) is a meandering and formally sure-footed.” – A.O. fifteen-year-old miner’s son whose close bond with a wild Scott, New York Times falcon provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead- end life. Kes brought to the big screen the sociopolitical Shot in luscious sepia tones, Medicine for Melancholy follows engagement Loach had established in his work for the BBC, two hipsters whose one-night stand stretches into a 24- and pushed the British “angry young man” film of the sixties hour odyssey through the city. In between bike rides and into a new realm of authenticity, using real locations and underground dance parties, Micah grapples with his identity nonprofessional actors. Loach’s poignant coming-of-age as a black man in an overwhelmingly white indie scene, drama remains one of the now legendary director’s most while Jo questions her commitment to her white boyfriend. beloved and influential film. (Dir. by Ken Loach, 1969, UK, Intimate, engaging, and gorgeous to look at, Medicine for 101 mins., Rated PG-13) Melancholy ponders big picture questions—about race, class, housing—while never losing sight of the human story at its center. With a budget of just $15,000, 15 days to shoot, and a cast of two, Jenkins quietly helped usher in a new era of idiosyncratic, auteur-driven cinema in the decade since. (Dir. by Barry Jenkins, 2008, USA, 88 mins., Not Rated)
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VIOLET EVERGARDEN ETERNITY HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE AND THE AUTO MEMORIES DOLL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 AT 10:00PM TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 AT 7:30PM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 AT 10:00PM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 AT 7:30PM SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 AT 11:00AM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! Funimation presents a special limited theatrical release The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big of the first Violet Evergarden feature film, from celebrated screen! production house Kyoto Animation! The 11:00AM screening will be dubbed and the “Stands out as one of Kyoto Animation’s many 10:00PM screenings will be subtitled. greats. Engrossing and engaging.” -Daryl Harding, Crunchy Roll Sophie, an average teenage girl working in a hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off In Violet Evergarden Eternity and the Auto Memories Doll, her feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl. Violet Evergarden, a former solider returned from war, comes to a private women’s academy to tutor Isabella in the “So richly detailed and colorful that one almost ways of being a proper lady. Heir to the York family, Isabella aches from the beauty.” – Bruce Westbrook, feels trapped in this new and uncomfortable world. She still Houston Chronicle grieves for the only person to ever bring her happiness — now lost to her. Violet’s lessons seem to offer hope and a But after this chance meeting, the young girl is turned into new beginning for young Isabella, but can time truly heal all a 90-year old woman by the vain and conniving Witch of wounds? (Dir. by Haruka Fujita & Taichi Ishidate, 2019, Japan, the Waste. Embarking on an incredible adventure to lift in Japanese with English subtitles, 90 mins., Not Rated) the curse, she finds refuge in Howl’s magical moving castle. As the true power of Howl’s wizardry is revealed, and his relationship with Sophie deepens, our young grey heroine finds herself fighting to protect them both from a dangerous war of sorcery that threatens their world. Infused with wondrous beauty, a striking steampunk aesthetic and a compelling narrative driven by dream logic, Howl’s Moving Castle was the second Studio Ghibli film to be nominated for the Best Animated Feature Academy Award. (Dir. by Hayao Miyazaki, 2005, Japan, 114 mins,, Rated PG) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 33
THE CAT VIDEO FEST 2020! SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 AT 2:00PM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 AT 7:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $10 | LOFT MEMBERS AND CHILDREN 12 & UNDER: $8 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING
A portion of ticket sales “Proof that cats really do videos featuring more cats than from these screenings will rule everything around you can shake a feather cat toy at! benefit the Hermitage us.” – Time Out New York This show is produced specifically No-Kill Cat Shelter and the for the festival and is not available HOPE Animal Shelter! The Cat Video Fest is a fun, frisky online, so make kitty tracks to and furry celebration of online cat The Loft Cinema and catch The The all-new 2020 edition of The Cat videos. The festival is a live event Cat Video Fest while you can! Video Fest is coming your way, and gathering fellow feline fanatics (Approximate Running time: 75 it’s bigger, bolder and cuter than together to watch a curated mins., Not Rated) ever! Join your fellow cat fans collection of crazy cat clips in a for some major feline fun as we social environment. This all-new, dive into this purr-fectly hilarious all-cat-tastic video showcase is collection of kooky kitty videos on a true kitty rumpus featuring a the big screen, and help us raise fresh selection of hilarious, odd money for local cats in need! and downright adorable cat clips curated by Will Braden, creator of the beloved Henri, le Chat Noir videos. This brand-new show for 2020 features approximately 100 34 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS
MIKE WALLACE IS HERE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 AT NOON GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS & STUDENTS: $6
PART OF JOURNALISM ON See the acclaimed 2019 the “60 Minutes” vault, the film SCREEN, PRESENTED BY documentary Mike Wallace explores what drove and plagued is Here, followed by an Wallace, whose storied career onstage discussion with was entwined with the evolution Andy Rosenthal, former of journalism itself. (Dir. by Avi Journalism on Screen is an Opinion Page Editor, Belkin, 2019, USA, 94 mins., Rated ongoing series combining Columnist, Assistant PG-13) films that explore the world of Managing Editor, Foreign journalism with lively discussions Editor and Deputy Andy Rosenthal became editorial with experts and industry Washington Bureau Chief page editor of The New York Times professionals. Presented by The of The New York Times. in January 2007 after having New York Times, The Arizona Daily previously served as deputy Star, The Daily Wildcat/UA TV-3, Mike Wallace Is Here offers an editorial page editor since 2003. The University of Arizona College unflinching look at the legendary As a Washington correspondent, of Social and Behavioral Sciences, reporter, who interrogated the Rosenthal covered the Bush The University of Arizona School 20th century’s biggest figures in administration, the 1988 and of Journalism, Arizona Inn and his over fifty years on air, and his 1992 presidential elections and The Loft Cinema. aggressive reporting style and the Persian Gulf War. Prior to showmanship that redefined what joining The Times in March 1987, America came to expect from Rosenthal worked at the Associated Closed Captions Available broadcasters. Unearthing decades Press, where he served as Moscow of never-before-seen footage from bureau chief. SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 35
PAN’S LABYRINTH FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 AT 10:00PM VOLUME 9 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29 AT 10:00PM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29 AT 7:30PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 | LOFT MEMBERS: $13 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS ENGAGEMENT PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (The Colbert Report) screen! return to The Loft Cinema with an all-new show! Join the Found Footage gurus for a hilarious live guided tour through Fantasy Master Guillermo del Toro fashioned a tour-de-force their latest VHS finds, including the 1987 Miss Junior mix of phantasmagoric fairy tale and fascist nightmare and America Wisconsin pageant, a mysterious tape labeled had an art-house hit with the ambitious Pan’s Labyrinth, “bonion sergery,” home movies taken at an Ontario hose winner of a trio of Oscars (for Cinematography, Art factory, and a fitness video called Skiercise. Prepare for an Direction, and Makeup). epic explosion of live comedy and video insanity you’ll never forget, no matter how hard you try! “This is like no movie you’ve seen before, a haunting mixture of horror, history and fantasy “Hysterical and brilliant!” – Time Out that works simultaneously on every level.” – Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail The Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind event showcasing VHS relics salvaged from thrift stores, garage The film is set in 1943 in a rural backwater of Franco’s sales and garbage cans across the country. Curators/hosts Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War; its young Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (The Colbert Report) protagonist is Ofelia, a bookish schoolgirl who escapes take audiences on a guided tour of their latest and greatest into the magical labyrinth of her fantasies — marvelously, VHS finds, providing live commentary and where-are- menacingly rendered and populated with talking goat-men, they-now updates on the people in these video obscurities. huge venomous toads and a terrifying Pale Man with eyeballs From the curiously-produced industrial training video to on his hands — after her widowed mother weds a sadistic the forsaken home movie donated to Goodwill, the Found officer leading the campaign against Republican guerrillas Footage Festival resurrects these forgotten treasures and still operating in the area. Soon, the lines between fantasy serves them up in a lively celebration of all things found. and reality begin to blur, and before Ofelia can turn back, (Total running time: 90 mins., Rated R) she finds herself at the center of a ferocious battle between good and evil. Propelled by inventive visuals partly inspired by Goya’s ‘black paintings,’ Pan’s Labyrinth is a beautifully freaky Alice in Wonderland for grown-ups – an alternately frightening, moving and spellbinding fable celebrating the power of childhood imagination. (Dir. by Guillermo del Toro, 2006, Spain/Mexico/US, in Spanish with subtitles, 118 min., Rated R) 36 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS
ORDINARY PEOPLE MARS ATTACKS! WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 AT 7:30PM FRIDAY, MARCH 6 AT 10:00PM REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES SATURDAY, MARCH 7 AT 10:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6 Co-presented by the UA’s Care, Health & Society program, School of Sociology, the UA PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! Department of Psychology and The Loft Cinema The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big screen! Featuring a post-film discussion with Darla M. Still, M.A., UA School of Sociology; David This subversive black comedy, about the planet-wide A. Sbarra, Ph.D, Professor of Psychology, pandemonium that ensues when “Little Green Men from UA School of Psychology; and moderator Mars” decide to gleefully terrorize Earth, is Tim Burton’s Terrence D. Hill, Ph.D, UA Associate Professor winking homage to the entire genre of Cold War-era alien of Sociology and Founding Director of the UA invasion films of the ‘50s and ‘60s, in all their compellingly Care, Health & Society Program. kitschy glory.
Ordinary People is an intensely moving, Oscar-winning “A lyrically surreal spectacle … Burton’s giddily examination of a family being torn apart by tension and satiric epic may be the first sci-fi disaster movie tragedy. In first-time director Robert Redford’s adaptation that’s also an impish black-comedy prank.” – of Judith Guest’s bestselling novel, Donald Sutherland Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly and Mary Tyler Moore star as the upper-middle-class couple whose “ordinary” existence is irrevocably shattered Based on the iconic ‘60s Topps bubblegum trading cards — by the death of their oldest son in a boating accident. drawn and painted by legendary pulp artists Wally Wood Timothy Hutton is their younger son, Conrad, struggling and Norman Saunders — Mars Attacks! deploys deliberately against suicide and survivor’s guilt because he believes his campy special effects, an over-the-top Theremin-fueled emotionally-detached mother wishes he’d been the one to music score and a delightfully gruesome spirit of anything- die. Making his feature film debut, Hutton offers a powerful goes anarchy as it follows the bulb-headed, bad-tempered portrait of grief and teenage angst, becoming the youngest aliens on their mission to ray gun blast a cast of big-name male Oscar-winner to date, and Moore subverts her sunny movie stars into piles of vaporized dust. Underappreciated TV persona with a brilliant, Oscar-nominated rendering of a and perhaps somewhat misunderstood upon its original bitter, inexplicably aloof mother. Judd Hirsch (also Oscar- release, the film has gained a cult following over the years nominated) as Conrad’s therapist and newcomer Elizabeth among those able to tune in to its edgy, offbeat wavelength McGovern as Conrad’s understanding girlfriend complete the combining sci-fi, horror and comedy. The impressive cast of cast in this extraordinary character study, which also earned Earthlings (most of whom get zapped, fried or kidnapped for Oscars for Best Picture, Best Screenplay (Alvin Sargent) and alien probing experiments) include Jack Nicholson, Glenn Best Director (Redford). (Dir. by Robert Redford, 1980, USA, Close and a young Natalie Portman as the President and the 124 mins., Rated R) First Family, with supporting turns from Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Martin Short, Michael J. Fox, Danny DeVito, Rod Steiger, Pam Grier, Jim Brown, Jack Black, Lukas Haas, Sylvia Sidney, Lisa Marie and yes, even “What’s New Pussycat?” singer Tom Jones! (Dir. by Tim Burton, 1996, USA, 106 mins., Rated PG-13) SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 37
CATS MOVIE PARTY! “CATS is an operatically weird cult classic for the ages.” – Dana SATURDAY, MARCH 7 AT 7:00PM Stevens, Slate GENERAL ADMISSION: $12 | LOFT MEMBERS: $10 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING
Calling all Jellicles! Gather ‘round Cat Costume. Meow! their way into being selected to for the Sparkly Cinematic Catnip ascend into the ionosphere during Extravaganza that is CATS, the The Jellicles finally hit the big the heavenly reincarnation ritual sensationally eccentric movie screen in this cinematic event at the annual Jellicle Ball? Find musical guaranteed to transport truly unlike any other, a big- out while watching this future cult you to the Heaviside Layer! Join budget adaptation of the Andrew classic that must be seen to be Rum Tum Tugger, Skimbleshanks Lloyd Webber stage musical believed! (Directed by Tom Hooper, and the magical Mr. Mistoffelees featuring head-scratching 2019, USA/UK, 110 mins., Rated at this purr-fectly delicious Movie “digital fur technology,” glitter- PG) Paw-ty featuring a screening of the dusted surrealism, spectacular spectacular (and spectacularly odd) production numbers with Closed Captions and Audio big-screen adaptation of Andrew fantastical choreography by Andy Description Available Lloyd Webber’s record-shattering Blankenbuehler (Hamilton), and a stage musical in which we’ll all mind-blowing cast that somehow clap, purr, hiss and hairball cough includes dancing tabby versions of when the time feels right, not to Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, Ian mention sing-a-long with all those McKellan, Dame Judi Dench, Idris unforgettably catty showtunes. Elba, Jason Derulo, Rebel Wilson, Free cat ears will be available for all James Corden and newcomer to wear, and a fabulously feline-y Francesca Hayward. Which one of prize will be awarded to the Best these junkyard street cats will sing 38 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA FRIDAY THE 13TH THURSDAY, MARCH 12 AT 7:00PM 40TH ANNIVERSARY! REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES FRIDAY, MARCH 13 AT 10:00PM CO-PRESENTED BY TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS SATURDAY, MARCH 14 AT 10:00PM AND THE LOFT CINEMA GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | LOFT MEMBERS: $6
Featuring a pre-film discussion with Erin PART OF OUR CULT CLASSICS SERIES! Carlson, acclaimed author of the new book, The greatest cult movies of all-time are back on the big Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds screen! and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep! Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing Welcome to Camp Crystal Lake, where the fun-packed at this event, courtesy of Mostly Books. Book summer activities include “Kill the Counselor,” “Run for Your sales and signing begin at 6:30pm. Life” and “Try Not to Lose Your Head.”
In this wildly entertaining dramatic comedy based on the “A landmark horror film … a near perfect best-selling novel by Lauren Weisberger, Meryl Streep (in a slasher that set the pace for an entire genre … fiercely funny, Oscar-nominated performance) stars as high- bloody, suspenseful and fun.” – Oh, the Horror! powered New York fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, a diabolical woman whose new assistant is Andy Sachs (Anne Friday the 13th is the one that started it all, the original Hathaway), a small-town girl in her first job out of college. “Spam in a Cabin” slasher classic that sent a group of Trying to navigate a world she’s only glimpsed in print, the sexually-active, weed-smoking teens (including a young fashion-clueless Andy struggles to survive her impossibly Kevin Bacon!) into the woods where they could be sliced, demanding new boss and launch herself into the journalism diced and chopped by a mysterious maniac on the unluckiest career she’s always dreamed of. With Stanley Tucci, Simon day of the year! A shocking summer camp massacre and Baker, Emily Blunt and Adrian Grenier. (Dir. by David Frankel, monster box-office hit that lit the fuse on one of the longest- 2006, USA, 109 mins., Rated PG-13) running horror franchises in movie history, the original Friday the 13th features horrifically gruesome special effects Erin Carlson is the author of Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, by genre legend Tom Savini and memorable performances Heroic Deeds and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep and I’ll Have from Betsy Palmer as the insanely unhinged Mrs. Voorhees What She’s Having: How Nora Ephron’s Three Iconic Films Saved and Adrienne King as Alice, the series’ original Final Girl. the Romantic Comedy. Carlson has covered the entertainment Chee-chee-chee, ha-ha-ha … (Dir. by Sean S. Cunningham, industry for The Hollywood Reporter and the Associated Press. 1980, USA, 95mins., Rated R) Her work has appeared in Glamour, Fortune and the Los Angeles Times, and she holds a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University. The Loft Cinema FOR EDUCATORS
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ARCHAEOLOGY CAFÉ: WHY YOU SHOULD EXPERIENCE CASA GRANDE RUINS NATIONAL MONUMENT TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4 AT 6:00PM FREE ADMISSION This is a rental of The Loft Knowledge seekers of every kind are welcome at Archaeology Café at The Loft Cinema for a series Cinema, presented by of programs exploring the deep and diverse history of the Southwest. Join us on Tuesday, February Archaeology Southwest. 4, 2020, as Kyle Woodson discusses Casa Grande National Monument. Explore what makes this place special, discover what it tells us about life long ago, and learn how you can experience this With Kyle Woodson! significant place today.
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TUCSON STORYTELLERS: LOVE & HEARTBREAK TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 AT 7:00PM CHECK-IN BEGINS AT 6:00PM – STORIES BEGIN AT 7:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $12 | STUDENTS WITH VALID ID: $8 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING
Dating in the digital age can be exhausting, exhilarating and downright crazy. Join us as six Tucson This is a rental of The Loft community members will explore stories about heartbreak, true love and everything in between. Cinema, presented by The Arizona Daily Star and This Tucson Storytellers Project, hosted by the Arizona Daily Star and This is Tucson, is a live storytelling Is Tucson. event dedicated to the idea that oral storytelling and journalism have the same goals: Serving and reflecting the community while fostering empathy. Check-in for the event starts at 6 p.m. and stories begin at 7 p.m. Seating and tickets are first-come, first-serve.
Tickets and more information are at Tucson.com/storytellers.
FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF: BS MOVIES PRESENTS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16 AT NOON GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 | STUDENTS WITH VALID ID: $6 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING
Brian & Shelly are two friends and lifelong movie lovers who talk everything film all the time. As they continued to discuss movies together it seemed only natural to record their ramblings and This is a rental of The Loft share them with the world on their podcast, BS Movies! Cinema, presented by BS Movies. After the screening join BS Movies for a live podcast taping, trivia & prizes from Zia Records!
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” And so it goes in one of the most iconic teen movies of the ‘80s – a hilarious ode to “taking it easy” from writer/director John Hughes. If you’ve ever wanted to know how to fake an illness, scam a meal from a fancy French restaurant by posing as “The Sausage King of Chicago,” or sneak your way onto a parade float in order to sing “Twist and Shout” for thousands of admiring onlookers, this is the movie for you! (Dir. by John Hughes, 1986, USA, 103 mins., Rated PG-13) COMMUNITY RENTALS 41
THE ARCHIVETTES TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 AT 7:00PM FREE ADMISSION
Followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Megan Rossman, Lesbian Herstory Archives co- founder Deborah Edel, Arizona Queer Archives founding director Jamie Lee, and distinguished historian Elizabeth Kennedy. This is a rental of The Loft Cinema, presented by Founded in the 1970s in a New York City apartment, The Lesbian Herstory Archives is now the Lesbian Looks, with support world’s largest collection of materials by and about lesbians. For more than 40 years, the all- from the Hanson FilmTV volunteer organization has striven to combat lesbian invisibility by literally rescuing history from Institute. the trash. Frustrated by misogyny and homophobia within academia, Deborah Edel and Joan Nestle co-founded the archives for those conducting research, both professional and personal. Over Followed by a post- the years, the organization has witnessed many of the major milestones in LGBTQ+ history and screening Q&A. has weathered several storms. Today, with its founders in their seventies, the archives are facing new challenges, including a change in leadership and the rise of digital technology. (Dir. by Megan Rossman, 2018, USA, 61 mins., Not Rated)
THE WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL ON TOUR SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 ACTION HUB TO CONNECT WITH ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS STARTING AT 3:00PM, WITH FILMS AT 4:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $11 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING
This is a rental of The Loft Defenders of Wildlife is hosting The Wild & Scenic Film Festival on Tour as a fundraiser for Tucson’s Cinema, presented by first ever Climate Jubilee. Film selections will range from love of wild places to social justice and Defenders of Wildlife. scientific discovery. Environmental organizations working in Arizona on conservation-oriented issues will be on hand once you’ve been inspired by the films to act!
JILL ROBINSON: TO THE MOON AND BACK TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 AT 7:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $20 | STUDENTS WITH VALID ID: $16 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING
Across China and Vietnam over 11,000 Asiatic black bears – better known as moon bears – are trapped in tiny coffin-like cages, suffering regular bile extractions for use in traditional medicine, This is a rental of The Loft cosmetics and wine. Deprived of all but the most basic necessities to keep them alive, the bears are Cinema, presented by the forced to endure unimaginable pain and torment for up to 30 years. Animals Asia. Co-presented by McGuire Center for In 1993, British-born Robinson took a stand against this practice. Jill began animal welfare charity Entrepreneurship, Rancho Animals Asia and created two bear sanctuaries in China and Vietnam spanning over 180,000 square Doggo, and Dent Busters. metres. Narrated by the actor, Peter Egan, the film also includes contributions from Downton Abbey actress Lesley Nicol, Born Free founder, Virginia McKenna and Guns ‘n’ Roses drummer Matt With film subject Jill Sorum. (Directed by Andrew Telling, 2017, UK, 54 mins, Not Rated) Robinson in person for a post-screening Q&A! 42 COMMUNITY RENTALS
UNSETTLED: SEEKING REFUGE IN AMERICA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27 AT 7:00PM FREE ADMISSION
Followed by a post-screening Q&A with Co-producer and Cinematographer Jen Gilomen.
Unsettled is a feature-length documentary revealing the untold stories of LGBTQ refugees and This is a rental of The asylum seekers who have fled intense persecution from their home countries and who are resettling Loft Cinema, presented in the U.S. The film follows four new arrivals, each of whom have escaped potential peril in their by Lesbian Looks, in native countries for being different. They’ve landed in the purported “gay mecca” of San Francisco, collaboration with yet even there, building a new life in an adopted nation is a precarious undertaking. DocScapes, with support from the Hanson FilmTV Institute. As new leadership in America continues to restrict immigrants and drastically cut the flow of refugees and asylum seekers, Unsettled sheds light on a group about which few people know. What Followed by a post- are the costs persecuted immigrants pay for seeking refuge? And how are everyday Americans screening Q&A. stepping forward to help those most in need? (Dir. by Tom Shepard, 2019, USA, 84 mins., Not Rated)
RAFIKI FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 AT 7:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $20 PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES FOR THIS SCREENING
“Fun, fierce and frivolous African art.” This is how director Wanuri Kahiu defines AFROBUBBLEGUM, her vision for the future of filmmaking on the African continent. Her latest feature, Rafiki, embodies This is a rental of The Loft this vision perfectly. A love story between two young women (played by newcomers Samantha Cinema, presented by The Mugatsia and Sheila Munyiva) in a society that still bans homosexuality, Rafiki is saturated with University of Arizona College joy, heartbreak, and a richly effervescent cinematography that showcases Kahiu’s native Nairobi of Humanities. in all its vibrancy. When Kena and Ziki first lock eyes, it’s genuinely love at first sight, despite the fact their families are political rivals. The young women grow close, but as they are not able to show With director Wanuri their attraction in public — or even to their relatives and friends — they are forced to sneak small Kahiu in person! moments in private. Together they create their own world, where their love isn’t anything other than an expression of their commitment to each other. However, the space they create isn’t immune to the biases of the outside world. Banned in Kenya mere days before its Cannes premiere, Rafiki, inspired by Monica Arac de Nyeko’s story Jambula Tree, is an uplifting celebration of love. (Dir. by Wanuri Kahiu, 2018, Kenya/South Africa, in English/Swahili with English subtitles, 83 mins., Not Rated).
PRECIOUS GURU: JOURNEY INTO THE WILD HEART OF THE SECOND BUDDHA SUNDAY, MARCH 1 AT 3:00PM FREE ADMISSION
Precious Guru is a feature length documentary movie that gives vivid insight into the life, times and This is a rental of The Loft legacy of Padmasambhava – the 8th century Indian yogi who carried Buddhism over the Himalayas Cinema, presented by into Tibet. The story unfolds against a backdrop of majestic mountain ranges and vast landscapes. Arizona Friends of Tibet. It is told via the voices of people from three continents. Revered for centuries in the Himalayan regions as the second Buddha, Padmasambhava’s influence is now a global phenomenon, carried With director Mark across the world by refugee lamas, following the Chinese takeover of Tibet in 1959. He is also known Wennberg in person for as Guru Rinpoche – which translates as Precious Guru. Precious Guru is a tribute to the resonance of a post-screening Q&A! Padmasambhava’s realization, which is still a vibrant reality for many thousands of people today. The voices that tell his story include Tibetan monastics and lay people encountered by Marc’s group on their Himalayan travels, accomplished lamas like Mingyur Rinpoche, western Buddhist teachers like Lama Tsultrim Allione, Lama Glenn Mullin and Professor Robert Thurman.
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Mondo Mondays serves up some bad medicine during MEDICAL MADNESS MONTH, featuring more insane doctors, unlucky patients and hospital horror than your HMO can handle!
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THEY LIVE MALLRATS TRUE ROMANCE HOWL’S MOVING PAN’S LABYRINTH (Dir. by John Carpenter, 1988, USA, (Dir. by Kevin Smith, 1995, USA, 94 (Dir. by Tony Scott, 1993, USA, 121 CASTLE (Dir. by Guillermo del Toro, 2006, 98 mins., Rated R) mins., Rated R) mins., Rated R) (Dir. by Hayao Miyazaki, 2005, Spain/Mexico/US, in Spanish with Japan, 114 mins,, Rated PG) subtitles, 118 min., Rated R) Legendary director John “Snooch to the Nootch!” Kevin Under the direction of filmmaker Carpenter’s clever sci-fi satire Smith’s goofy follow-up to his Tony Scott, the Quentin Tarantino- The 11:00am screening will Fantasy Master Guillermo del follows a drifter (actor/pro wrestler breakout hit Clerks stars Jeremy scripted True Romance was be dubbed and the 10:00pm Toro fashioned a tour-de-force Rowdy Roddy Piper) who discovers London and Jason Lee as a pair of transformed into a movie nerd’s screenings will be subtitled mix of phantasmagoric fairy tale that America is being controlled by emotionally-stunted yet lovelorn dream of a romantic road movie and fascist nightmare and had an evil yuppie aliens using advertising pals who attempt to get over – a violent, action-packed ode Infused with wondrous beauty, a art-house hit with the ambitious to spread subliminal messages being dumped by their girlfriends to exploitation cinema, trashy striking steampunk aesthetic and Pan’s Labyrinth, winner of a trio of to “OBEY,” “CONSUME,” and (Shannen Doherty and Claire romance flicks and all-around a compelling narrative driven by Oscars (for Cinematography, Art “CONFORM.” Forlani, respectively) with an Hollywood excess. dream logic, Howl’s Moving Castle Direction, and Makeup). action-packed day at the mall. was the second Studio Ghibli “John Carpenter’s paranoid “Made with such energy, such film to be nominated for the Best “This is like no movie you’ve seen freakout deserves to be thought “Viciously witty, refreshingly high spirits, such an enchanting Animated Feature Academy Award. before, a haunting mixture of of as a masterpiece … it’s a cheesy rude and often very funny.” – Rob goofiness, that it’s impossible to horror, history and fantasy that but lovable sci-fi/action movie Gonsalves, efilmcritic.com resist.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago “So richly detailed and colorful that works simultaneously on every with something to say.” – Joshua Sun-Times one almost aches from the beauty.” level.” – Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail Rothkopf, Rolling Stone – Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle THE LOFT CINEMA NONPROFIT 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. ORGANIZATION Tucson, AZ 85716 US POSTAGE PAID PHOENIX, AZ RED CARPET PERMIT NO. 1714
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