SLFS Newsletter April 2016

APRIL 2016

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KNIGHT OF CUPS Page 4

THE LOBSTER Page 4

Meet Front of House Staffer

LEXI JOHNSON Page 3

showcasing the best in american independents, international films, and documentaries

APRIL 2016

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SEE THESE WHILE YOU STILL CAN

30th ANNIVERSARY EVENT

HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS

Directed by Michael Showalter USA | R | 95 min | Comedy/Drama

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 Dance Party w/ DJ at 7 pm, Screening at 8 pm

$20 Screening, virgin punch, and commemorative photo $50 - $75 V.I.P. Tickets available online (in advance only) Sadie Hawkins, Spring Formal and Retro Prom attire requested, encouraged, and may even be rewarded

Starring: Sally Field, Tyne Daly, and Max Greenfield

ONLY YESTERDAY Directed by Isao Takahata Japan | PG | 118 min | Drama

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Released for the first time in North America.

EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT

Directed by Ciro Guerra COL/ARG/VEN | NR | 125 min | Drama

A FESTIVAL OF C U R R E N T C Z E C H C I N E M A

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Nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards

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LEXI JOHNSON

Activist, and like to think of ways to create ways for ghosts to interact with the world in different mediums. AND I think about Dad Culture all the time.

Those are my hobbies!

What is your favorite part of working at SLFS?

FRONT OF HOUSE STAFF How long have you worked for SLFS? I’ve worked for the Film Society for almost one year. Not that long!

What made you want to work at SLFS? I have a background in contemporary art and English, but in my fifth year of undergrad when they were trying to kick me out, ‘cause I had too many credits, I quickly was like, “Maybe I’ll get a film minor!” and I started taking film classes. Then I realized that there’s this huge world that I had not experienced and not really been exposed to and just started cramming film classes into my semesters.

When they finally forced me to graduate I was like “well, I have to devour more.” And I knew that by working here I would be forced to consume more films.

Why is film important to you?

I have two reasons, is that okay? One is that sometimes life feels really dark and grim and I feel like film is a really interesting way of addressing that. One of my favorite movies, SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR, is sooo grim and heavy and like very sad, but it looks so beautiful. It’s set up in a way that from an outside point of view, to the audience it looks incredible. When my life maybe feels miserable and incapable I like to think like “maybe somebody watching it on the outside is seeing the beautiful thing.” The other reason is that I feel like when we’re alive we should try to have as many parallel human experiences as possible to try and understand each other better. And stories after stories after stories help us to reach into areas we never thought we would be able to get into.

It’s also a wonderful area for play and a method of understand the world by playing with this medium of creation that involves a lot of people in the making.

It’s really interesting to see the ways people try to interact with the things they encounter.

Tell us about a memorable experience you’ve had with film.

When I was in the second grade we had to watch

AMISTAD in class and I had a meltdown, and was just sobbing and all my classmates were fine. At the end of class, my teacher was like, “You need to get over it. You will be okay.” And ever since then I’ve been really interested in playing with ways of perceiving human joy and human suffering and using film as a way of understanding the absolute chaos of life. But that was definitely a minute when I was like, “Maybe movies are not just to entertain.”

Even though now I don’t think that movie is a good movie.

If you weren’t working at SLFS, what would you want to be doing?

I really like what I’m doing right now, I feel really happy. I think I would be running my own non-profit contemporary art gallery or teaching contemporary art or English at a college level. But I also really love where I am right now…. Or maybe working on a farm.

What do you do in your free time?

So many things! I like to make jokes at my own expense, I am an oil painter and working really hard at that, making paintings that lots of people don’t understand at all. I like to think about mermaids.

I like to consume books as thoroughly and fast as I can. I’m slowly building up a knowledge base of video games and graphic novels. I like making mediocre burritos and awesome sandwiches. I like standing uncomfortably on skateboards. I’m having a really fun time grading people on their jokes right now. And I’m also having a really good time defending ideas really passionately and strongly that I can’t back up and in a year will think are very silly. I’m doing a lot of things for ghosts, and ghost rights. I like to think of myself as a Ghost Rights

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There are two again, but I’ll keep them both short!

I love it when people disagree with me on films; it forces me to learn more. I feel really tired and sad when people watch movies and don’t think about them and then drool themselves to sleep on their pillows. Is that mean? Yes. But it’s fine. I love talking to people here and disagreeing wholeheartedly but respecting each other’s opinions and finding people you line up with. Massive amounts of us [SLFS staffers] love horror films which is so nice, it’s feels like I’m being fed, like I have a family at last.

Disagreeing on movies makes me learn more. I also am constantly compiling a list of books, movies, and music that my coworkers love to build like a ‘lifesyllabus’ for me, to self-educate for the rest of my life. Where else could I do that?

What are your hopes for the future of SLFS? I hope that we can find ways to branch out further into the community. I hope we can find ways to include more local filmmakers, not that we don’t already do that. I like to idea of having some popup venues for films that we run. And maybe the SLFS staff every year has to collaborate on a film project and we find a place to project it and invite an audience. I just want us to maybe get out of our theaters a little bit and get out into the world.

What is your favorite movie and why?

It’s a six-way tie and I’m not apologizing! I’m absolutely not! SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR because it approaches grimness with beauty and I like need that grimness and beauty to counterbalance it. SOLARIS because of the waterworld kind of thing and because it approaches magic realism in maybe the most beautiful way I’ve even seen. POSESSION, the 1981 Sam Neill movie is the best horror movie in the world! It is disorienting in a delicious way. RAISING ARIZONA because I don’t think there is a funnier, better made, comedy in the world. I will fight anyone who tries to fight me on that. THREE WOMEN has to do with so many of the things I think obsessively about and I think it’s just a perfect movie. And then the sixth spot switches off between BEETLEJUICE and PUNCH DRUNK LOVE. I’m not sorry. Those are both great movies.

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EYE IN THE SKY

KNIGHT OF CUPS

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Directed by Grímur Hákonarson ISL/DNK/NOR/POL | R | 93 min | Drama Starts March 25 @broadway

Directed by Gavin Hood UK | R | 102 min | Drama/Thriller Starts March 25 @broadway

Directed by Terrence Malick USA | R | 118 min | Drama Starts March 25 @broadway

Directed by Benjam USA | R | 97 min | Dram Starts March 25 @t

In a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven’t spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what’s dearest to them - their sheep.

Complications arise when a drone missile strike is ordered to take out a group of terrorists in Nairobi, Kenya.

A writer, indulging in all that Los Angeles and Las Vegas has to offer, undertakes a search for love and self discovery via a series of adventures with six different women.

In near-future Brooklyn uses a pair of virtual-re an affair with a hologra girlfriend.

MY GOLDEN DAYS

MILES AHEAD

THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY

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Directed by Arnaud Desplechin France | R | 123 min | Drama Starts April 15 @broadway

Directed by Don Cheadle USA | R | 100 min | Drama/Biography Starts April 22 @broadway

Directed by Andrew Rossi USA | PG-13 | 93 min | Documentary Starts April 22 @broadway

Directed by Christian D France | PG | 105 min Starts April 29 @br

A middle-aged anthropologist reminisces about family, school adventures, a trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, and the love of his life.

In the 1970s, down-and-out jazz trumpeter Miles Davis tries to recover his new session tape from music producers.

The film follows the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most attended fashion exhibition in history, “China: Through The Looking Glass,” an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.

A teenage girl, her talk grandfather and a youn search of her parents, adbucted. They soon fi center of a shadowy co from government agen

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Whose eyes are these? The first right answer on our Facebook page wins a pair of tickets.

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CITY OF GOLD

I SAW THE LIGHT

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Directed by Laura Gabbert USA | R | 96 min | Documentary Starts April 1 @broadway

Directed by Marc Abraham USA | R | 123 min | Drama/Biography Starts April 1 @broadway

Directed by Xavier Giannoli France | R | 129 min | Drama Starts April 8 @broadway

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Filmmaker Laura Gabbert follows Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold as he explores the culinary culture of Los Angeles.

Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Williams.

In 1920s Paris, Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman who loves to sing for her friends and family. However, when she follows her dream to sing in front of a real audience, no one tells her how bad she is.

HE NARY WORLD

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THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY Coming May 13 Directed by Matt Brown UK | PG-13 | 106 min | Drama/Biography STARRING: Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

THE LOBSTER Coming May 13

THE MEDDLER Coming May 27

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos IRE/UK/GRC | R | 118 min | Comedy/Drama

Directed by Lorene Scafaria USA | PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy/Drama

STARRING: Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, Lea Seydoux, and Ben Whishaw

STARRING: Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, J.K. Simmons, and Jason Ritter

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

An aging widow from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away.

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JULIE TAGGART VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT

Interviewed by Erin Emerson, Volunteer Coordinator This month’s volunteer spotlight is about our ticket volunteer, Julie Taggart. She’s warm and welcoming and always a delight to see every Tuesday at the Broadway when we open for our matinees. If you haven’t had a chance to be greeted by her beautifully beaming smile, come on in for a weekday matinee sometime!

How did you start volunteering with SLFS? Well, at first, I was here all the time. After a while, Andik (the manager at the time) told me that as often as I was here, I should think about getting a membership and I did that for a few years. When I could no longer afford it, I started volunteering so I could support my film habit.

What is your favorite film and why?

(Initially, Julie mentioned THE ENGLISH PATIENT and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN; but after a little more discussion, here was her final answer.)

One of my very favorite movies, actually, is THE THREE IDIOTS. It is a Bollywood movie that I finally got copies of and gave to my kids. After watching

it, my one son texted me back saying, “Mother, I’m a better person for having watched that movie.” I mean that movie, is actually my very favorite. That would be a good first [Bollywood] one!!

What do you do when you’re not volunteering?

Well, I play tennis, I play pickleball, I go to a lot of movies, both at the Broadway and outside, especially Bollywood ones. In fact, we’re going to one tonight, KAPOOR AND SONS.

Tell me a little about yourself.

I grew up in Northern California, Los Altos/Bay Area. I raised eight children, (mom of eight, with 14 grandchildren). I was married 33 years, then divorced. When I came to Salt Lake, I was married at the time and my husband got a job offer here.

We had been living in Las Vegas for 15 years, and I really didn’t want to move here. But I think I knew I was probably going to divorce him and didn’t want to be left a single mom in Las Vegas with eight kids, which is a challenge there especially.

After the divorce, it was a challenge. It was hard to try to survive and support my kids on the little odd jobs I could find. As far as other things go, my passion is poverty. I support a plan: it’s called the Humanity Party. I will be voting anonymous this election, hoping to bring attention to the fact that I don’t believe that one candidate is going to be able to solve the problems we have. There is a movie on YouTube, you can find it by going to voteanonymous2016.com (which takes you to the Humanity Party’s site). The video explains that the Humanity Party will rewrite the Constitution so

that it’s inclusive for all, taking care of all people, and providing free basic necessities for all: free healthy food, free housing commensurate to the size of your family (so as a single person I would get, maybe, the equivalent the size of a hotel room), free education, and free healthcare. I absolutely believe that we need to do that because the root of crime and terrorism is poverty. What wouldn’t you do to support your family? That’s pretty much it in a nutshell.

What are your hopes for SLFS in the future?

That’s a big question. Let’s see. I love it here; I love the people that come here. I would like to see SLFS possibly expand into even more foreign films, more documentaries, and more educational type films.

I’m big on that. I love watching documentaries at SLFS and Utah Film Center. I would love to see perhaps more of a forum to discuss films afterwards, in whatever way that would work, or more guest speakers.

Thank you so much, Julie, for being such a wonderful, constant source of light in our Broadway lobby. We greatly appreciate your service and presence.

If you are interested in volunteering with us, please sign up and register at: www.shiftboard.com/slfs/register.html or contact our Volunteer Coordinator at erinemerson@saltlakefilmsociety.org or 801-503-9434.

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“I invest in Salt Lake Film Society because it changes the beat of our town. It deepens and enriches our sense of culture and makes Salt Lake City feel more cosmopolitan.”

SUPPORT INDEPENDENT FILM INVEST IN SLFS

Salt Lake Community Leaders Bill Allred Jackie Biskupski Jeffrey Breglio Michael W. Christopherson Lori Feld Donna Lifsey Foster Rachel Hodson Thomas Francis Jakab Seth Jarvis Chris Lippard Justina Parsons-Bernstein George Pence Dan Purjes Miles Romney Thomas Sobchack Jonathon Tichy Scott Ulbrich

Film Professionals Barbara Boyle, Producer Trevor Groth, Sundance Senior Programmer David Cummins, Post Production Stephen Katz, Cinematographer Chapin Cutler, Digital Media Guru Kelly Loosli, BYU Animation Lance Williams, Producer/Actor Sarah Sinwell, U of U Film & Media Arts Film Directors Richard Dutcher Keith Gordon Trent Harris Jared Hess Jerusha Hess Tyler Measom