Telluride by the Sea 2015

Please note: All films in Historic Theater except What’s Up? Docs! (Passholders only) in the Loft.

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6pm Doors open for Patron Passholders 7pm

Suffragette Patron Party at Radici Restaurant after film

Weekend Pass: $90

11am What’s Up? Docs! (Loft)

Ken Burns’ Huey Long 2pm

Ixcanul Volcano

Passes/tickets may be purchased through our Box Office at the Historic Theater at 28 Chestnut St. in downtown Portsmouth, by phone at (603) 436-2400 or online at TheMusicHall.org.

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September 18 - 20, 2015

Cinémange at the following restaurants: 4-6pm The Franklin Oyster House 4-5:15pm Jumpin’ Jay’s Fish Café 4-6pm Radici Restaurant *See our website for further details

Preferred seating for all films, Wrap Party at The Portsmouth Brewery, admission to passholder-only special films (as space permits). Great value!

Individual Film Tickets: $15/$13 members A limited number of individual tickets for each film will be available beginning Sept. 4 at noon (excluding Passholder-only films at the Loft).

17 th Year!

SATURDAY 9/19

Patron Pass: $210

Primary seating for all films, opening night post-show party at Radici Restaurant, VIP access to Founders Lobby all weekend - no waiting in line, Sunday Brunch at The District, Wrap Party at The Portsmouth Brewery, first admission to passholder-only special films (limited seating) and a Music Hall seat saver.

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FRIDAY 9/18

5:30pm Queues on Chestnut St. Live entertainment

PORTSMOUTH, NH PERMIT NO. 202

Now in its 42nd year, the Telluride Film Festival (TFF) in Colorado, held every Labor Day Weekend, represents “the rarest jewel in the crown of the festival-going experience” (The Variety Guide to Film Festivals). Its younger cousin, Telluride by the Sea, now in its 17th year, features six films taken from their Colorado debuts. TFF Co-Founder and Director Emeritus and Music Hall Film Curator, Bill Pence, praises Telluride by the Sea as “reflecting the original spirit of the early years of Telluride in Colorado.”

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Telluride by the Sea 2015

Six new films, three days, one weekend festival of cinema!

6:30pm

45 Years 9pm

Spotlight

SUNDAY 9/20

10:30am What’s Up? Docs! (Loft)

Errol Morris’ Gates of Heaven 12-1pm Patron Passholder Brunch at The District 1:30pm

Rams 3:40pm What’s Up? Docs! (Loft)

Kevin Macdonald’s Life in a Day 6:15pm

He Named Me Malala Suffragette UK, d: Sarah Gavron, 1h 46m, courtesy of Focus Features Friday, September 18 • 7pm

DAY SPONSOR: BayRing Communications FILM SPONSORS: Harbour Women’s Health; Jackson Lewis, P.C.; The Portsmouth Brewery; Radici Restaurant; Robinson Smith Wealth Advisors

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The stirring story centers on Maud (Carey Mulligan), a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the UK’s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life. Inspired by true events, Suffragette is a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of those who risked all they had for women’s right to vote.

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Guatemala, d: Jayro Bustamante, subtitled, 1h 33m, courtesy of Kino-Lorber

Saturday, September 19 • 2pm

45 Years UK, d: Andrew Haigh, 1h 35m, courtesy of IFC Saturday, September 19 • 6:30pm

Spotlight US, d: Tom McCarthy, 2h 6m, courtesy of Open Road Saturday, September 19 • 9pm

At the base of an active volcano, in a region long inhabited by Mayan people, Maria’s family prepares for her marriage. The teenage girl, however, has other ideas. With one drunken encounter, she alters her fate and that of her family. Jayro Bustamante’s masterful debut feature begins as an intensely lovely immersion into contemporary rural Guatemalan culture. By its startling finale, Ixcanul has taken on an operatic energy, reminiscent of early Werner Herzog, and injected a dose of political fury.

On the eve of their 45th anniversary, Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff (Tom Courtenay), an intelligent, progressive, relatively healthy married couple living in rural England, confront a long-buried emotional memory that inexplicably, and seemingly arbitrarily, resurfaces. Suddenly, everything Kate and Geoff believe they know about each other comes into question. Rampling and Courtenay offer some of the finest work of their long careers, turning 45 Years into one of the most subtle, powerful and devastating British dramas in recent memory.

Stars Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schrieber and Stanley Tucci. It tells the riveting true story of The Boston Globe’s Spotlight investigation team who uncovered a scandal that would rock the city and shock the world. For years, whispers of the Boston Archdiocese’s coverup of sexual abuse within the Catholic church were largely ignored by the media, the police and the legal system.

Against all odds, the Spotlight team fought to expose the truth.

Spotlight is directed by Academy Award® Nominee Tom McCarthy.

Ixcanul Volcano

Life in a Day

PLUS...a special series for passholders only

What’s Up? Docs!

Rams Iceland, d: Grímur Hákonarson, subtitled, 1h 33m, courtesy of Cohen Media

Sunday, September 20 • 1:30pm

While living next door to one another, two aging brothers, locked in some unnamed, decades-long feud, go to dryly comical extremes to avoid communication with each other. Gummi (Sigurour Sigurjónsson) is shy, quiet but essentially decent, while Kiddi (Theodór Júlíusson) is a bombastic, misanthropic drunk. But they share their passionate love for the sheep to whom they’ve each dedicated their lives and land. When one of their sheep contracts a contagious disease, the livelihood of the brothers and their neighbors is threatened.

He Named Me Malala US, d: Davis Guggenheim, 1h 27m, courtesy of Fox Searchlight Sunday, September 20 • 6:15pm

Three years ago, 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for her advocacy of girls’ education in her native Pakistan.

Acclaimed filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for Superman) tells the miraculous story of Malala’s survival and rehabilitation and the inspiring guidance given by her educator-activist father Ziauddin Yousafzai (who named her). The film chronicles her attempts to lead the life of a normal teenager, even as she travels as a spokesperson for girls’ rights, speaks at the UN and recently became the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Malala’s past and inner life are poignantly illustrated through animation, conveying her sense of the homeland she cannot return to, but will always love.

Sat., Sept. 19 @ 11am: Ken Burns’ Huey Long (1h 28m) Sun., Sept. 20 @ 10:30am: Errol Morris’ Gates of Heaven (1h 25m) Sun., Sept. 20 @ 3:40pm: Kevin Macdonald’s Life in a Day (1h 35m) (All films in the Loft for passholders only. Seating limited, Patron Passholders admitted first) Many would agree we are in a golden era of documentary filmmaking.

Excellent documentaries are garnering more attention now than ever before. Documentary films have been a vital part of Telluride Film Festival from the outset. This year’s Loft passholder series celebrates three of the finest practitioners of the art form. Ken Burns is a TFF Silver Medallion Tributee and longtime friend of the Festival. Errol Morris, also a close friend, is a past guest-curator with TFF. Scottish director Kevin Macdonald excels at both documentary (Touching the Void) and narrative (The Last King of Scotland) filmmaking, but it was his 2011 collaboration with Ridley Scott, YouTube and hundreds of filmmakers from around the globe that turned the documentary form on its ear.