loftcinema.org THE LOFT CINEMA Showtimes: FILM GUIDE 520-795-7777 FEBRUARY 2020 WWW.LOFTCINEMA.ORG See what films are playing next, buy tickets, look up showtimes & much more! ENJOY BEER & WINE AT THE LOFT CINEMA! We also offer Fresco Pizza*, Tamales from Tucson Tamale Company, Burritos from Tumerico, Ethiopian Wraps from FEBRUARY 2020 Cafe Desta, add Sandwiches from 4th Ave. Deli along with organic popcorn, craft chocolate bars, vegan LOFT MEMBERSHIPS 5 cookies and more! *Pizza served after 5pm daily. NEW FILMS 6-19 REEL READS SELECTION 14 OSCAR SHORTS 24 BEER OF THE MONTH: RED CARPET EVENING 25 BOYSEN THE HOOD SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 26-38 3 SONS BREWING COMPANY LOFT JR. 28 ONLY $3.50 WHILE SUPPLIES LAST! LOFT STAFF SELECTS 31 ESSENTIAL CINEMA 31 CLOSED CAPTIONS & AUDIO DESCRIPTIONS! JOURNALISM ON SCREEN 34 The Loft Cinema offers Closed Captions and Audio COMMUNITY RENTALS 40-42 Descriptions for films whenever they are available. Check our MONDO MONDAYS 46 website to see which films offer this technology. CULT CLASSICS 47 FILM GUIDES ARE AVAILABLE AT: FREE MEMBERS SCREENING • 1702 Craft Beer & • Epic Cafe • R-Galaxy Pizza THE WOMAN WHO LOVES • Ermanos • Raging Sage GIRAFFES (SEE PAGE 12) • aLoft Hotel • Fantasy Comics • Rocco’s Little FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 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. 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Speedway Blvd. | Tucson, AZ 85716 loftcinema.org SHOWTIMES: 520-795-7777 THEATRE INFO: 520-795-0844 LOFT OFFICE: 520-322-5638 For general questions email: [email protected] For questions about membership: [email protected] For questions about supporting The Loft Cinema: [email protected] For questions about volunteering: [email protected] For questions about school field trips and education-related issues: [email protected] For questions about renting The Loft Cinema: [email protected] LOFT CINEMA STAFF 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: Jason Denholm Operations Manager: Brenda Rodriguez Assistant Managers: Marcel Jeanisse, Madeline McClure, Candace Ripley, Pedro Robles-Hill 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 The Loft Cinema is a local nonprofit dedicated to creating community by celebrating the art and diversity of film. LOFTCINEMA.ORG/MEMBERSHIP ALL LOFT CINEMA MEMBERS RECEIVE - 2 S - - S - - S - - A S S - - S SS S S - - S - - - THE LOFT CINEMA MISSIONDRIVEN MEMBERSHIPSUPPORTED NONPROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATION 6 NEW FILMS “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