loftcinema.org THE LOFT CINEMA Showtimes: 520-795-7777 FILM GUIDE MARCH 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, Ethiopian Wraps from Cafe Desta, MARCH 2020 and Sandwiches from 4th Ave. Deli along with organic popcorn, craft chocolate bars, vegan cookies and LOFT MEMBERSHIPS 5 more! *Pizza served after 5pm daily. NEW FILMS 6-19 REEL READS SELECTION 11 MONTH-LONG SERIES 24-25 BEER OF THE MONTH: SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 26-38 SANTA CRUZ’R ESSENTIAL CINEMA 30 DRAGOON BREWING CO. SOLAR CINEMA 30 ONLY $3.50 WHILE SUPPLIES LAST! LOFT JR. 31 SCIENCE ON SCREEN 32 CLOSED CAPTIONS & AUDIO DESCRIPTIONS! LOFT STAFF SELECTS 35 The Loft Cinema offers Closed Captions and Audio COMMUNITY RENTALS 38-41 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 CORPUS CHRISTI • Ermanos • Raging Sage (SEE PAGE 14) • aLoft Hotel • Fantasy Comics • Rocco’s Little FRIDAY, MARCH 20 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, March starts off with one of my favorite films,Portrait of a Lady on Fire. I’m so proud to be showing this incredibly beautiful work from Céline Sciamma! PARASITE! Wow! We are so honored to have this history making film at The Loft Cinema! It is my hope that that Parasite will, once and for all, eliminate that one-inch wall that subtitles represent, as director Bong Joon-Ho so elegantly observed. March is a perfect month to become a member of The Loft Cinema. Our March membership drive is incredibly important to our sustainability, and it’s a great opportunity for you to get DOUBLE passes! The Loft Cinema’s membership program is one of the most successful among art houses in the US, representing 21% of the total revenue annually. Your membership helps The Loft Cinema do everything we do, all outlined on the pages of this film guide. Thank you for helping make sure that YOUR community art house will continue to be among the most respected nonprofit cinemas in the US and beyond. This month we are celebrating one of our favorite filmmakers, Agnes Varda, with a second retrospective of her work. Varda, who died a year ago this month at the age of 90, left us the gift of her incredible body of work. Don’t miss the chance to see her work on the big screen! Peggy Johnson, Executive Director The Loft Cinema is a local nonprofit dedicated to creating community by celebrating the art and diversity of film. THE LOFT CINEMA SPRING MEMBERSHIP DRIVE! Join or renew in March 2020 to receive double free passes! 4 FREE PASSES FOR INDIVIDUALS | 8 FREE PASSES FOR COUPLES Sign up online at loftcinema.org or in person at the box office! 6 NEW FILMS ONCE WERE BROTHERS: GUNS AKIMBO ROBBIE ROBERTSON STARTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES AND THE BAND A nerdy video game developer (Daniel Radcliffe) STARTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 becomes the next contestant in an illegal live-streamed REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES death match, in this hilariously dark, viciously violent, and chillingly prescient sci-fi thriller. Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band is a confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous “Bonkers! Spectacularly fun and exciting.” tale of Robbie Robertson’s young life and the creation - Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band. Miles (Radcliffe) is a little too fond of stirring things up on the internet with his caustic and “Robertson is an articulate and antagonizing comments. One night, he makes the ingratiating tour guide through all this mistake of drunkenly dropping an inflammatory glorious and eventually tortured history.” barb on a broadcast of Skizm, a wildly popular illegal – Chris Willman, Variety death-match fight club streamed live to the public. In response, Riktor (Ned Dennehy), the maniacal The film is a moving story of Robertson’s personal mastermind behind the channel, decides to force journey, overcoming adversity and finding camaraderie Miles’ hand and have him join the “fun.” After a alongside the four other men who would become surprise home visit from Riktor and his goons leaves his brothers in music and who together made their Miles unconscious, he wakes to find heavy pistols mark on music history. Once Were Brothers blends bolted into his hand bones, and learns Nix (Samara rare archival footage, photography, iconic songs Weaving), the psychopathic, trigger-happy star of and interviews with many of Robertson’s friends Skizm, is his first opponent. And she’s at his front and collaborators including Bruce Springsteen, Eric door. Gleefully echoing elements of Scott Pilgrim vs. Clapton, Van Morrison Martin Scorsese, Peter Gabriel, the World, the Purge franchise, and videogames like Taj Mahal, Dominique Robertson, Ronnie Hawkins, Smash TV and Mortal Kombat, Guns Akimbo is a loopy, and more. (Dir. by Daniel Rohr, 2019, Canada/USA, 100 turbo-charged sci-fi action flick about a crazed “future” mins., Rated R) that could be happening right now! (Dir. by Jason Lei Howden, 2019, UK/New Zealand/Germany, in English, Closed Captions Available 95 mins., Rated R) NEW FILMS 7 “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 France, 1760. Marianne is solidifies Céline Sciamma (Tomboy, commissioned to paint the Girlhood) as one of the most wedding portrait of Héloïse, a exciting filmmakers working in young woman who has just left the world today. Noémie Merlant the convent. Because she is a and Adèle Haenel turn the subtle reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne act of looking into a dangerous, arrives under the guise of engrossing thrill, crafting two of companionship, observing Héloïse the most breathtaking and elegant by day and secretly painting performances of the year. To her by firelight at night. As the watch Marianne and Héloïse fall two women orbit one another, in love is to see love itself invented intimacy and attraction grow as onscreen. With contemporary they share Héloïse’s first moments themes in period dress, Portrait of freedom. Héloïse’s portrait soon of a Lady on Fire is a stunning love becomes a collaborative act of and story for the ages. (Dir. by Céline testament to their love. Winner Sciamma, 2019, France, in French/ of the Best Screenplay Award at Italian with English subtitles, 121 the 2019 Cannes prize and one mins., Rated R) of the best reviewed films of the year, Portrait of a Lady on Fire 8 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.