FILM GUIDE APRIL 2018 www.loftcinema.org BEST F(R)IENDS & THE DISASTER ARTIST W/ GREG SESTERO IN PERSON! LAWRENCE OF ARABIA PRESENTED IN 70MM • SUNDAY, APRIL 15 AT NOON! ENJOY BEER & WINE AT THE LOFT CINEMA! We also offer Fresco Pizza*, Tucson Tamale Factory Tamales, Burritos from Tumerico, Ethiopian Wraps from Cafe Desta and Sandwiches from the 4th Ave. Deli, along with organic popcorn, craft chocolate bars, vegan cookies and more! *Pizza served after 5pm daily. APRIL 2018 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 4-23 JOURNALISM ON SCREEN 6 BEER OF THE MONTH: LOFT MEMBERSHIPS 8 FIRESTONE LAGER LOFT JR. 12 BY FIRESTONE WALKER BREWING CO. ESSENTIAL CINEMA 14 ONLY $3.50 ALL THROUGH APRIL! SCIENCE ON SCREEN 16 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE 17 NEW AT THE LOFT CINEMA! MONTH-LONG SERIES 19-20 The Loft Cinema now offers Closed Captions and Audio LOFT STAFF SELECTS 21 Descriptions for films whenever they are available. Check our COMMUNITY RENTALS 23-24 website to see which films offer this technology. NEW FILMS 25-34 REEL READS SELECTION 32 FILM GUIDES ARE AVAILABLE AT: MONDO MONDAYS 35 • aLoft Hotel • Espresso Art • Revolutionary Grounds • Antigone Books • Fantasy Comics • Rincon Market CULT CLASSICS 36 • Aqua Vita • First American Title • Rocco’s Little Chicago • Art Institute of Tucson • Fresco Pizza • Rogue Theatre THE LOFT CINEMA • AZ Title Security • Fronimos • Santa Barbara Ice Cream 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. • Bentley’s • Heroes & Villains • Shot in the Dark Café Tucson, AZ 85716 • Black Crown Coffee • Hotel Congress • Southern AZ AIDS • Bookman’s • How Sweet It Was Foundation SHOWTIMES: 520-795-7777 • Bookstop • Humanities Seminars • SW U of Visual Arts • Ted’s Country Store THEATRE INFO: 520-795-0844 • Brooklyn Pizza • Imagine Barber Shop • Time Market LOFT OFFICE: 520-322-5638 • Buffalo Exchange • Jewish Community Ctr • Café Marcel • KXCI • Tooley’s EMAIL: [email protected] • Café Passe • Maynard’s Market • Tucson Museum of Art WEB: loftcinema.org • Caffe Luce • Metro Tucson Libraries • Tucson Racquet and Fitness • Casa Video • No Anchovies • Tucson Visitor’s Bureau • Chocolate Iguana • OLLI • UA Media Arts FREE MEMBERS SCREENING • Clues Unlimited • Parks and Recreation • Vila Thai • Coyote Wore Sideburns • Pima Community College SWEET COUNTRY • Whole Foods • D&D Pinball • R-Galaxy (SEE PAGE 31) • Xoom Juice • Epic Café • Raging Sage FRIDAY, APRIL 27 AT 7:00PM • Zia Records WWW.LOFTCINEMA.ORG See what films are playing next, buy tickets, look up showtimes and much more! REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES Tickets are available to purchase online at: PLEASE NOTE: $9.75 - Adult | $7.25 - Matinee* loftcinema.org/showtimes or by calling: Screen 2 is not wheelchair accessible $8.00 - Student, Teacher, Military 520-795-0844 HEARING LOOP AVAILABLE IN $6.75 - Senior (65+) or Child (12 and under) Phone & Web orders are subject to a $1 surcharge. ALL 3 SCREENS. $6.00 - Loft Members Made possible by Paul & Mary Koss. There is a $1 surcharge for all 3-D screenings. *MATINEE: ANY SCREENING BEFORE 4:00PM loftcinema.org/about/accessibility LOFT CINEMA STAFF Peggy Johnson Executive Director Ray Borboa Rachel Saindon Assistant Manager Assistant Manager Zach Breneman A.J. Simon Deputy Director Assistant Manager Charley Brown Jeff Yanc Facilities Coordinator Program Director David Correa Inventory Specialist PROJECTIONISTS Clarice Bales Shawna DaCosta Director of Education Sarah Jardini & Engagement Haley McFeely (Lead) Jason Denholm Candace Ripley (Lead) Director of Theatre Operations FLOOR STAFF J.J. Giddings Blaine Austin Marketing Director Laura Bargfeld Amber Kleefeld Reed Chandler Director of Membership and William Elizondo Donor Services Parisa Eshrati Jonathan Kleefeld Finance Director Becky Hall Ezra Heightchew-Howard Ben Mackey Marketing Associate Marcel Jeanisse Matt McCoy Thomas Kidder Deputy Marketing Director Jaleh Padron Daniela Ontiveros America Valencia Administrative Assistant Emily Quinn & Outreach Coordinator Ana Quiñones Pedro Robles-Hill Elizabeth Raskob Assistant Manager Sunny Jo Wheaton Brenda Rodriguez Assistant Manager & Volunteer Coordinator LOFT CINEMA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ron Barber Carmen Marriott President Hal Melfi Tim Fuller David Nix Vice-President Katherine Pew Stephen Golden Tim Reckart Treasurer Claire Scheuren Melodie Lopez Lisanne Skyler Secretary Joanne Stuhr Betsy Bolding Joe Tarver Jaime Gutiérrez Frank Valenzuela Dianne Iauco Jan Mueller, Emeritus Mary Koss Dear Friends of The Loft Cinema, April is Volunteer Appreciation Month, and we want to thank all of the 120 volunteers at The Loft Cinema for all they do to help make literally everything possible! From working at the membership table and helping out at special events to working in the office filing and doing data entry, The Loft Cinema’s volunteers are a crucial part of our everyday operations! A big part of what they do is exude their enthusiasm for The Loft Cinema’s programming and share their smiles, which means the world! Volunteers, we could not do it without you!! Thanks, too, to The Loft Cinema’s members! Our March Membership Drive was extremely successful – a new record for the number of memberships. Revenue from memberships makes it possible for The Loft Cinema to present the incredible number of films and special events and, of course, the many free screenings we do every month of the year. April also is the launch of the 2018 season of Loft Solar Cinema, taking films to underserved rural and urban areas with our solar van, equipped with solar panels and batteries provided by our friends at Technicians for Sustainability! We’ll be at the UA with Coco, Las Milpitas Community Farm with The Hands that Feed and the San Xavier Mission with one of the hits from the Loft Film Fest, Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World! Thanks to Desert Diamond Casinos and Entertainment and the National Endowment for the Arts for supporting our mobile solar screenings! April is going to be a great month at The Loft Cinema. Enjoy! Peggy Johnson, Executive Director SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 4 PETER RABBIT AND TALES OF BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD BEATRIX POTTER WITH PRODUCER DAN JANVEY IN PERSON! SUNDAY, APRIL 1 AT 2:00PM THURSDAY, APRIL 5 AT 7:30PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $8 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES LOFT MEMBERS AND CHILDREN 12 & UNDER: $6 CO-PRESENTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF Celebrate the Easter holiday with this new digital restoration ARIZONA SCHOOL OF THEATRE, FILM of the 1971 live-action dance adaption of Beatrix Potter’s AND TELEVISION AND THE LOFT CINEMA beloved tales, brought to magical life by members of the Royal Ballet! With free surprise-filled Easter eggs for everyone, while Join us for a special screening of the 2012 Oscar-nominated supplies last! drama, Beasts of the Southern Wild, featuring a post-film Q&A with producer Dan Janvey, whose other film producing credits include “Your children will enjoy this Peter Heart of a Dog, Patti Cake$ and Brimstone & Glory! Rabbit, and you will too.” – Roger Ebert, In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the Chicago Sun-Times rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl named Hushpuppy (the extraordinary Quvenzhané Wallis, making her This magical live-action film, presented in a brand-new digital film debut) exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her restoration, adapts the beloved animal stories of Beatrix Potter childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes into a full-fledged ballet performance danced by various stars that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce of the Royal Ballet. The story begins with a young Beatrix storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this Potter hard at work on her writing when, suddenly, her fictional tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic creations come dancing into the real world. Mice, ducks, frogs, proportions. This imaginative, fantastical and visually striking squirrels, and of course, rabbits, all figure into Potter’s colorful drama, the debut feature film from director/co-writer Benh Zeitlin, menagerie, as the members of the Royal Ballet company bring won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and was nominated for Squirrel Nutkin, Tom Thumb, Hunca Munca, Jemima Puddle- 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Actress, Director and Duck, Jeremy Fisher, Pigling Bland, Peter Rabbit and other Adapted Screenplay. (Dir. by Benh Zeitlin, 2012, 93 mins., Rated PG- Potter creations to life. Moving through beautiful sets and 13, Fox Searchlight) wearing enchanting (and sometimes surreal) animal costumes, the dancers render each creature with a kind of freewheeling Dan Janvey is a NYC manager/producer with Untitled authenticity that separates the piece from typical ballet fare. Entertainment who has been at the center of many of the most This unique, family-friendly film was directed by Reginald Mills, successful and challenging independent film productions of the editor of such Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger classics last six years. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 2013 for as Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman, and the runaway indie hit Beasts of the Southern Wild, and followed this was choreographed by the great Frederick Ashton, who also up with such notable narrative films as the Cannes Film Festival choreographed the quintessential dance film, The Red Shoes. selection Meditteranea (2015) and the major theatrical release, Patti (Dir. by Reginald Mills, 1971, UK, 90 mins., Rated G) Cake$ (2017). His work