SLFS Calendar April 2014

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ERNEST AND CELESTINE Page 6

STEPHEN SIMMONS Page 3

Manager of Operations

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

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ALL FILMS FREE ADMISSION

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STEPHEN SIMMONS

SLC filmmaker fostering a passion for film

by Annie Jenkins

Any plans for future videos, any ideas?

State your name and official title: My name is Stephen Simmons and I am the Manager of Operations at SLFS, and I work with customer service as well.

How long have you worked for SLFS and how did you start?

I’ve been with the Salt Lake Film Society for about 6 and a half or 7 years. As a wee lad, I always wanted to work at the Tower Theatre. And I also always wanted to do a stage play at the Tower.

Years later I got a phone call from a friend who worked here who said there was a manager position opening at the Tower. I was working as a general We work together, manager at a not only as a team, but theater up in Park City, but I as a family. took a pay cut and came here to work at the Tower as theater manager. I also had my annual show, An October Evening, at the Tower one year as well. So, dreams do come true.

Favorite thing about working here?

For everybody, it’s what we represent at the Film Society, which is independent and foreign cinema. That’s a huge passion for me. But most of all, I like the people who work here. We work together, not only as a team, but as a family. And I think that’s very important in a work environment because not only we get along really well at work, but after work, you know, we also hang out, we watch movies, and we also share a bottle of wine. It’s beautiful.

What would you want people to take away from their experience at SLFS?

Yes! As a kid I was a huge cinephile but my tastes were more in the horror and cult genre. So that’s what got me into film a lot, just old films like the original Thing, The Gate, and The Changeling.

Manager of Operations

I’m a local filmmaker here in Utah and I’ve been doing film for over ten years. When I can do something I have a passion for and that’s my hobby on the side and incorporate that into work – you know, people always say don’t mix pleasure with work, but that’s exactly what I do with the Salt Lake Film Society videos and I have a lot of fun doing them. My friend and coworker, Conor Long, and I are given free range, basically, to do whatever we want and that’s always a good thing. So when an employer gives you that kind of freedom, artistic freedom, you can really do whatever you want, you know? And hopefully you have an audience that likes the end result.

Directed by Wes Anderson USA/GERMANY | R | 100 min. | Comedy

No, I don’t have any ideas for any future videos; I usually just take an idea when inspiration hits first and usually that happens when I get all the materials presented to me. And then ideas start coming. I never really think about what I’m going to do in the future. It’s like freestyle film.

Have you always been interested in film?

Talk about the films you make for the Film Society.

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

I hope they walk away from the venue, either the Broadway or the Tower, having had a cinematic experience, like they just went into an art museum, because film is art, and they’ve walked away feeling changed or different.

Either in a positive or a bad way, whatever the film evoked inside them, I think that’s important because that’s what art does. It gives you a wide range of emotions. Overall, I hope they had a good customer service experience.

Starring Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Saoirse Ronan, Willem Dafoe, Jason Schwartzman, Jeff Goldblum, and Owen Wilson

MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS Directed by Tom Berninger USA | NR | 75 min. | Documentary

Tom Berninger chronicles his time spent on the road as a member of the tour crew for The National, the rock & roll band fronted by his brother, Matt.

VERONICA MARS

Directed by Rob Thomas USA | PG-13 | 107 min. | Comedy/Drama

What are your hopes for SLFS? I hope we keep moving forward and expanding what we do and expanding our audiences. That we can continue with great programming, and hopefully always fulfilling our mission.

What’s your favorite movie and why?

That’s a hard one. Marcus Salem also said this, but it’s a film that I always go back to, It Happened One Night by Frank Capra. I think it’s a brilliant movie and you can watch it over, and over and over and it’s for all those hopeless romantics out there.

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Starring Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni

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Salt Lake Film Society presents a live stage performance ADMISSION: General - $18 SLFS Members - $12

An exciting visual universe that ranges from colourful comedy to exhilarating drama.

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BLUE RUIN

Directed by Drake Doremus

Directed by Jeremy Saulnier

Starring Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, and

Starring Macon Blair, Devin Ratray,

Mackenzie Davis

Amy Hargreaves

Mr. Selfridge Sundays 8PM

ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE

DANCING IN JAFFA

Directed by Jim Jarmusch

Directed by Hilla Medalia

Starring Tom Hiddleston, Tilda

Starring Pierre Dulaine, Yvonne

Swinton, Mia Wasikowska

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Marceau, Alaa Bubali

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Season 2

The sumptuous new season continues, following the drama around the American mogul who brought seductive shopping to early 20th -century London.

Full episodes available anytime after broadcast at video.kued.org

KUED The University of Utah

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@ NOON SATURDAY, APRIL 26 A refreshing satire with filled with jazz and cabaret musical parodies featuring a variety of dance styles.

ADMISSION: General - $18 SLFS Members - $12 Students - $9.25

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OSFER

UU N O S F Ea RT aT Presented by Westminster College

Monday, April 7 7:00 pm @tower free admission

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ERNEST AND CELESTINE

THE LUNCHBOX

Directed by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent

Directed by Ritesh Batra INDIA, FRANCE, GERMAMNY, USA PG | 104 min. | Drama Starts April 4 @broadway

Patar, and Benjamin Renner FRANCE | PG | 80 min. | Comedy Starts April 4 @broadway

NYMPHOMANIAC: VOL. 1 & VOL. 2 Directed by Lars von Trier DENMARK | NR | Vol. 1: 118 min./ Vol. 2 : 123 min. | Drama VOL. 1 Starts April 4 @broadway VOL. 2 Starts April 18 @tower

NOMINATED

OSCAR

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR

A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating.

Starring Forest Whitaker, Mackenzie Foy, Lauren Bacall, and Paul Giamatti

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.

ENEMY

THE RAID 2

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Directed by Denis Villeneuve USA | R | 90 min. | Thriller Starts April 4 @tower

Directed by Gareth Evans INDONESIA | NR | 148 min. | Action Starts April 11 @broadway

Directed by Roger Michell UK | R | 93 min. | Comedy Starts April 11 @broadway

The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine.

A man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie.

Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon

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Only a short time after the first raid, Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans to bring down the syndicate and uncover the corruption within his police force.

From the director of THE RAID: REDEMPTION and V/H/S/2

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

Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, and Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman From the director of ANTICHRIST, MELANCHOLIA

A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage.

From the director of NOTTING HILL, VENUS, AND MORNING GLORY

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UNDER THE SKIN

THE UNKNOWN KNOWN

Directed by Jonathan Glazer UK | R | 108 min. | Sci-Fi Starts April 18 @broadway

Directed by Errol Morris USA | PG-13 | 96 min. | Documentary Starts April 18 @broadway

A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one the most accomplished street photographers.

An alien seductress preys upon hitchhikers in Scotland.

Starring Scarlett Johansson

Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

ON MY WAY

THE RAILWAY MAN

JODOROWSKY’S DUNE

Directed by Emmanuelle Bercot FRANCE | NR | 116 min. | Drama Starts April 25 @broadway

Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky AUSTRALIA/UK | NR | 116 min. | Drama Starts April 25 @broadway

Directed by Frank Pavich USA/FRANCE | PG-13 | 90 min. | Documentary Starts April 25 @broadway

FINDING VIVIAN MAIER Directed by John Maloof and Charlie

Siskel

USA | NR | 83 min. | Documentary Starts April 18 @broadway

Facing a failed relationship and a struggling restaurant, a woman hits the road for a trip with her grandson.

Based on a true story, a victim from World War II’s “Death Railway” sets out to find those responsible for his torture.

Starring Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, and Colin Firth

The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel.

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ALL SUPER 8 BENEFITS, PLUS $2.00 off all regular admissions FREE Tower video rentals year ‘round FREE SLFS T-Shirt (2 with DUAL) FREE tix to 6 exclusive members-only events

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2 FREE Tower video rentals 25% discount on SLFS merch

Entry in drawing to attend 1 Sundance Film Fest private screening (2 entries for DUAL) SLFS Member’s local punch card

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Application also available at www.slfs.org

Bill Allred Jackie Biskupski

Film Professionals Barbara Boyle, Producer Trevor Groth, Sundance Sr. Programmer

Jeffrey Breglio

Dave Cummins, Post Production

Jeffrey Burke

Stephen Katz, Cinematographer

Craig Cleveland

Chapin Cutler, Digital Media

Lori Feld

Kelly Loosli, BYU animation

Seth Jarvis Justina Parsons-Bernstein George Pence Ken Pollard Miles Romney Thomas Sobchack Scott Ulbrich

Chris Lippard, Film Professor Lance Williams, Producer/Actor Film Directors Richard Dutcher Keith Gordon Trent Harris Tyler Measom