ADMIT ONE 3233 LOFT FILM FEST 2014 A SPECIAL WELCOME FROM MAYOR FESTIVAL STAFF JONATHAN ROTHSCHILD festival executive director assistant managers honorary chair, loft film fest 2014 PEGGY JOHNSON KYLE CANFIELD DAVID PAIZ As a lifelong Tucsonan, I’ve enjoyed watching e Loft Cinema’s festival directors PEDRO ROBLES long journey to becoming the entertainment destination it JJ GIDDINGS BRENDA RODRIGUEZ is today. I remember its original incarnation as an art house JEFF YANC theatre at Freemont and 6th in the 1970s and 80s, and its volunteer coordinator reincarnation on Speedway Blvd in 2002 as a nonprot. e Loft managing director TIM KEENE has had many great moments since then. A couple that stand ZACH BRENEMAN out are the 2004 Tribute to Philip Seymour Homan, which projectionists festival programming consultant RAY BORBOA featured Q&As with Homan himself, and the 2006 screenings MIKE PLANTE of Brokeback Mountain, which were attended by Oscar winners ANA HUMPHREY DALE MEYERS Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. associate programmer JESSICA PRENTICE JONATHAN KLEEFELD MIKE WILKINS Tucson is home to a passionate and supportive lm community. art director anks to that support, e Loft continues to thrive and expand. theatre floor staff MATT MCCOY e addition of a third screen last year allowed for more lms ADAM BUCHOLZ and more patrons. A fourth screen, a bigger lobby, and a new development associates TRENTON CASTILLO concession stand will added soon. e community’s continued ERIN HENDERSON BROOKE HARTNETT support is what makes this possible. e Loft is a vital part of our MAHALA LEWIS KATELYN INMAN arts community, and I am proud to be among its biggest fans. IZABELLA VANEK MARYELLEN WHITMOYER anks for your continued support. administrative assistant SHAWNA DACOSTA loft cinema interns Mayor Jonathan Rothschild director of theatre operations TERA BABB Honorary Chair, Loft Film Fest 2014 JASON DENHOLM ANTORA MAJUMDAR ABOUT THE FESTIVAL The Loft Film Fest is made possible in part by the support of its generous members and our Celebrating its fth year in 2014, e Loft Film Fest is dedicated incredible team of volunteers! to showcasing the best independent, foreign and classic lms, as well as celebrating the work of established and emerging directors, writers, producers and actors. e Loft Film Fest, through its eclectic and diverse programming, aims not only to expand the audience for cinema that challenges, inspires and entertains, but also to honor those artists whose talent and passion bring that cinema to life. FESTIVAL PASSES General admission: $125 • loft members: $100 INDIVIDUAL TICKETS General admission: $10 • loft members: $8 tickets available at our box office or online at: LOFTFILMFEST.ORG THE LOFT CINEMA 3233 e speedway blvd tucson, aZ 85716 520-795-7777 (showtimes) 520-795-0844 (box office) 520-322-5638 (loft office) THURSDAY OCTOBER 16 01 THE LAST PICTURE SHOW 02 GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE 3D THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 AT 7:00PM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 AT 7:30PM WITH NOVELIST AND SCREENWRITER SOUTHWEST PREMIERE! LARRY MCMURTRY, RECIPIENT OF THE 2014 LOFTY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, IN “e result is, beyond question, the nest way PERSON! SPONSORED BY PEPPER VINER that the [3D] format has ever been put to use.” - HOMES. Jake Cole, Movie Mezzanine Celebrate opening night of the Loft Film Fest 2014 with “As far as purely aesthetic experiences go, I a free glass of champagne (for those over 21), delicious doubt anything I’ll see anywhere this year will hors d’oeuvres and live music on the Loft patio beginning beat Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye To Language.” - at 6:00pm. Opening night is sponsored by Golden Eagle Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club Distributors. Adapted from Larry McMurtry’s knowingly nostalgic, semi- autobiographical novel, e Last Picture Show is one of the most acclaimed lms of the 1970s – an elegiac, bittersweet drama about growing up in a small, dust-blown Texas town that perfectly captures the end of an era. Directed with astonishing assurance by up-and-coming lmmaker Peter Bogdanovich (who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay along with McMurtry), e Last Picture Show immediately catapulted the young auteur into the ranks of major American lmmakers, with critics praising the lm as “the most important work by a young American director since Citizen Kane.” Revolving around the adventures of three sexually-confused 1950s teens, played by then-unknowns Je Bridges, Timothy Bottoms and Cybill Shepherd, the lm expertly depicts their tentative journey to adulthood involving death, disaster, ruined relationships, moments of joy and the slow realization of life’s e idea is simple: A married woman and a single man meet. ey unfairness, all played out against the backdrop of a dying small town love, they argue, sts y. A dog strays between town and country. American life that’s about to vanish into history. Featuring luminous e seasons pass. e man and woman meet again. e dog nds black and white cinematography and a letter-perfect supporting cast led itself between them. e other is in one, the one is in the other by Ben Johnson (Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner), Cloris Leachman and they are three. e former husband shatters everything. (Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner) and Ellen Burstyn, e Last A second lm begins: the same as the rst, and yet not. From Picture Show is a modern-day classic that only gets better with age. (Dir. the human race we pass to metaphor. is ends in barking and by Peter Bogdanovich, 1971, 118 mins., Rated R) 35mm a baby’s cries. In the meantime, we will have seen people talking Larry McMurtry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written of the demise of the dollar, of truth in mathematics and of the more than forty novels, biographies and collections of essays, several death of a robin. e new lm from legendary director Jean-Luc of which have been adapted into award-winning feature lms and Godard is his rst in 3-D, and one of the most singular of his television movies, including Hud (1963), e Last Picture Show (1971), storied career. Winner of the Jury Prize (and the Palm Dog Jury Terms of Endearment (1983) and Lonesome Dove (1989). He is also the Prize!) at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. (Dir. by Jean-Luc Godard, author of more than thirty screenplays, and winner of the Academy 2014, France, in French with English subtitles, 70 min., Not Rated) Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (along with co-writer Diana Ossana) for Brokeback Mountain (2005). e Loft Cinema is proud to present Festivals: Cannes, Toronto, New York Larry McMurtry with the 2014 Lofty Lifetime Achievement Award. FRIDAY OCTOBER 17 03 SONG FROM THE FOREST 04 BORN TO FLY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 AT NOON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 AT 12:30PM SOUTHWEST PREMIERE! ARIZONA PREMIERE! “Gorgeous.” - Eric Kohn, Indiewire “A portrait of a maverick artistic sensibility. Routines that sometimes suggest a meeting of As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the Busby Berkeley and Looney Tunes violence… radio that gripped his imagination. He followed the mysterious makes for jaw-dropping viewing.” – John sounds all the way to the Central African rainforest and found their source with the Bayaka Pygmies, a tribe of hunters and DeFore, e Hollywood Reporter gatherers. He never left. Today, 25 years later, Louis Sarno has recorded more than 1,000 hours of unique Bayaka music. He is a “It’s all joy and motion in this dazzled fully accepted member of the Bayaka society and has a 13-year- and breathless documentary” - Jeanette old son, Samedi. Once, when Samedi was a baby, Louis held his Catsoulas, New York Times seriously ill son in his arms through a frightful night and made him a promise: “If you get through this, one day I’ll show you the world I come from.” Elizabeth Streb and the STREB Extreme Action Company form a motley troupe of yers and crashers. Propelled by Streb’s edict that “anything too safe is not action,” these daredevils challenge Now the time has come to fulll his promise, and Louis travels the assumptions of art, aging, injury, gender, and human with Samedi from the African rainforest to a concrete jungle: possibility. Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity traces the New York City. Together, they meet Louis’ family and old friends, evolution of Elizabeth Streb’s movement philosophy as she pushes including his closest friend from college, Jim Jarmusch. Carried herself and her performers from the ground to the sky. Revealing by the contrasts between rainforest and urban America, with a the passions behind the dancers’ bruises and broken noses, Born to fascinating soundtrack and peaceful, loving imagery, Louis and Fly oers a breathtaking tale about the necessity of art, inspiring Samedi’s stories are interwoven to form a touching portrait of an audiences hungry for a more tactile and erce existence. (Dir. by extraordinary man and his son. Song from the Forest is a modern Catherine Gund, 2014, USA, in English, 82 min., Not Rated) Digital epic set between rainforest and skyscrapers. (Dir. by Michael Obert, 2014, USA, in English, 98 min., Not Rated) Digital Festivals: SXSW, Seattle International Film Festival Festivals: essaloniki, London, SXSW FRIDAY OCTOBER 17 05 THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT 06 ADVANCED STYLE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 AT 2:30PM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 AT 3:00PM ARIZONA PREMIERE! TUCSON PREMIERE! “One of the most condent and unusual “Sweet, funny and very, very New York.” - rst features in recent memory.” - Ignatiy Cormac O’Brien, Little White Lies Vishnevetsky, AV Club “Advanced Style celebrates the glamour and Siblings Karin and Simon are visiting their parents and their vitality of sassy New Yorkers who still cut a little sister Clara.