SLFS Newsletter August 2018

AUGUST 2018

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See photos from our 2017-2018 Utah Screenwriters Project

GRADUATION & SCRIPT READING Page 2

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

AUGUST 2018 E X P L O R E T H E C U LT U R E @ S L F S

SLFS’s batch of screenwriters for 2017-2018 celebrated the end of their coursework and the completion of many screenplays with a graduation dinner followed by a table reading of sections of the new works. The private dinner with family and friends followed by the public table reading was the perfect way to ‘cut’ and ‘wrap’ this spirited and successful year-long workshop.

Photos by Austen Diamond Photography.

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AUGUST 2018 S A LT L A K E F I L M S O C I E T Y P R E S E N T S

SEE THESE WHILE YOU STILL CAN WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?

Directed by Morgan Neville USA | Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary

From the director of: 20 FEET FROM STARDOM and THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS

SORRY TO BOTHER YOU Directed by Boots Riley USA | Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy/Sci-Fi

DARK CITY AUGUST 10-12 COFFY AUGUST 17-19 ELECTION AUGUST 24-26 FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! AUGUST 31- SEPTEMBER 2 LORDS OF DOGTOWN

Starring: Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer, and Steven Yeun

AUGUST 3-5

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS

Directed by Tim Wardle UK | PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary

FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS AT 11 PM / SUNDAYS AT NOON

TOWER THEATRE 876 E 900 S

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AUGUST 2018

BLINDSPOTTING

DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT

Directed by Carlos López Estrada USA | R | 95 min | Comedy/Drama STARRING: Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal

Directed by Gus Van Sant USA | R | 113 min | Drama/Comedy STARRING: Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara FROM THE DIRECTOR OF: GOOD WILL HUNTING

Starts JULY 27 at BROADWAY CENTRE

EIGHT GRADE

BLACKkKLAN

Directed by Bo Burnahm USA | R | 93 min | Comedy/Drama STARRING: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, and Emily Robinson

Directed by Spike Lee USA | Not Rated | 135 min FROM THE DIRECTOR OF: MALCOM X, and SHE’S G

Starts JULY 27 at BROADWAY CENTRE

Starts JULY 27 at BROADWAY CENTRE

Starts AUGUST 10 at TO

Lifelong friends Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal co-wrote and star in this timely and wildly entertaining story about the intersection of race and class, set against the backdrop of a rapidly gentrifying Oakland.

On the rocky path to sobriety after a lifechanging accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school -- the end of her thus far disastrous eighth-grade year.

Ron Stallworth, an Africa officer from Colorado, su infiltrate the local Ku Klu head of the local chapte

THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST

SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD

PUZZLE

THE BOOKSH

Directed by Desiree Akhavan USA | Not Rated | 90 min | Drama STARRING: Chloë Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, and Forrest Goodluck

Directed by Matt Tyrnauer USA | Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary FROM THE DIRECTOR OF: CITIZEN JANE

Directed by Marc Turtletaub USA | R | 103 min | Drama STARRING: Kelly Macdonald and Irrfan Khan

Directed by Isabel Coixe UK/SPA/GER | PG | 113 mi STARRING: Emily Mortime Patricia Clarkson

Starts AUGUST 17 at BROADWAY CENTRE

Starts AUGUST 17 at TOWER THEATRE

In 1993 after teenage Cameron is caught in the backseat of a car with the prom queen, she is forced in gay conversion therapy by her conservative parents.

A portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.

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All Salt Lake Film Society dates and locations are subject to change.

Starts AUGUST 24 at BROADWAY CENTRE

Identical triplets become separated at birth and adopted by three different families. Years later, their amazing reunion becomes a global sensation but also unearths an unimaginable secret that has radical repercussions.

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Starts AUGUST 31 at BR

Set in a small town in 19 the story of a woman wh polite but ruthless local a bookshop, a decision w political minefield.

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AMERICAN CHAOS

TOWER OF TERROR

Directed by Björn Runge SWE/UK/USA | R | 100 min | Drama

Directed by James D. Stern USA | R | 90 min | Documentary

STARRING: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, and Max Irons

Six months before the 2016 presidential election, filmmaker James D. Stern travels across the country to ask potential voters about their feelings for candidate Donald Trump.

Fan of creepy? Of the spooky and scary? Of the bloody and disgusting? Well join SLFS for another year of TOWER OF TERROR. A new horror classic, cult film, or hidden gem every weekend this October. Keep a look out for a full line-up, we’ll be announcing in September.

Opening at Broadway Centre

A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Opening at Tower Theatre

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Opening at Tower Theatre

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AUGUST 2018

SLFS SIGHT AND SOUND Accessibility Upgrades

Thanks to you we met our goal and received enough donations in June to help SLFS make great cinema more accessible to our Deaf, hearing impaired, and visually impaired patrons.

New equipment is now in our theaters! Inquire at concessions.

We appreciate your support!

LIKE MOVIES? SO DO WE!

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AUGUST 2018

at Broadway Centre Cinemas

Derek Kitchen, featured in the film, James Huntsman, producer; and Holly Tuckett, a director of the film.

Producer James Huntsman and Mark Lawrence, featured in the film.

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Leigh Ann Bernal Kurt Bestor Bernardo Flores-Sahagun Prescott Muir Tamra Rieper Bridget Shears-Lee

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ADVISORY BOARD

“We are lucky to have SLFS exhibiting classic films and new works by independent filmmakers.” - Cassandra Loveless

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Salt Lake Community Leaders Bill Allred Matt Frisbie Rachel Hodson Thomas Francis Jakab Chris Lippard Donna Lifsey-Foster George Pence Dan Purjes Miles Romney Thomas Sobchack Jonathon Tichy Scott Ulbrich

Film Professionals Barbara Boyle, Producer Kevin Hanson, Film & Media Arts Department, U of U 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 Film Directors Richard Dutcher Keith Gordon Trent Harris Jared Hess Jerusha Hess Tyler Measom