SLFS Calendar December 2014

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

DECEMBER 2014

SEE THESE WHILE YOU STILL CAN! BIRDMAN Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

USA | R | 119 min. | Comedy

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Nov. 28 - Dec. 4

Dec. 5 - Dec. 11

Dec. 12 - Dec. 18

Dec. 19 - Dec. 25

Starring Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, and Edward Norton

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Directed by James Marsh UK | R | 123 min. | Drama

Dec. 26 - Jan. 1

Starring Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, and Emily Watson

WHIPLASH Directed by Damien Chazelle USA | R | 106 min. | Drama

Every day at noon & Tuesdays at 7:00 pm in December @ The Tower Theatre 876 E. 900 S. Starring Miles Teller and JK Simmons

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ANNIE

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PR & MARKETING COORDINATOR How did you come to work at SLFS? Slipped a twenty to the bouncer. No, I had just moved to Salt Lake City and I heard through various channels that there was an opening, and I called, determined to set up an interview. I began to intern here, working three or four hours a day and then drive up to Park City to work six or seven hours at my other job.

After about a month I was hired formally and started working more full time.

What is your job title and what do you do?

I am the PR & Marketing Coordinator. I do various tasks around the department; making ads, sending out our weekly email, helping with our monthly calendar by writing our staff profiles and collecting data. I’m basically second-in-command in the department.

Can you tell about some parts of your job that you particularly like, or some special things you’ve enjoyed working on?

I really love that a large portion of my job is researching films.

I get paid to collect as much trivial knowledge about upcoming movies as I possibly can. I also really enjoy working on any of our events that we have, like dumping water on people’s heads at Rocky Horror or serving waffles at Wassail and Waffles. Any event where people come out to appreciate film is cool with me.

But obviously the best part of my job is the people I work with.

It’s honestly like a big family here and all the people I work with are wildly cool.

What’s the most preposterous thing you’ve been asked to do?

I don’t know if I’ve ever really been asked to do anything preposterous, although spending the day at the zoo in 40 degree weather with vague animal noises being pumped through hidden speakers at random times wasn’t exactly the most fun thing I’ve ever done.

When did you begin to be interested in film?

I think as long as I can remember I’ve been in love with film.

I have a lot of significant memories of growing up watching movies, like when I was really little I was obsessed with the movie The Mummy. The 1999 version, not the universal movie monster. Seriously, I was obsessed with it. For Halloween I went as the main female villain, Anck-Su-Namun, for like three years in a row. And you know, I used to go home from seeing movies at the theater and play in the backyard, pretending that I was in that movie. I would always force my friends to watch movies with me that they had no interest in. Stuff like that.

What do you think it is that makes film such a special medium?

It’s such a powerful tool for storytelling. Film can entertain you, can educate you, can inspire you to create something for yourself. But also, I love how different film can be. You can go from watching like There Will Be Blood, which as amazing film, to Big Trouble in Little China, which is also an AMAZING film, but they’re both so different from each other, like you would never connect those two movies in your head. There are so many genres and subgenres out there and it’s all awesome, it’s just cool to think about. You can really Film can entertain you, can go out there and make any kind of story you educate you, can inspire want and someone will enjoy it.

Do you envision making your own film someday, or contributing in some way to the production of a film?

you to create something for yourself.

Clockwise from top left: Dave Godsey, Derrek Wall, Riley Ashton, Annie Jenkins, Krystille Souza

I’m actually working on writing my first short film right now.

Well, more like I know what it’s going to be about, but every time I open up Celtx, I decide that writing is awful and I’d rather saw my arm off than actually get that script done. And I’ve worked on television production before, while I was in college, but I’d love to be involved with making a film one day, I think it sounds really interesting.

change.” But I’m really pleased with how the lobby turned out. I think it’s definitely a more professional and updated setting, and it’s our space now. It’s not just leftovers from the last theatre that was here before us, it’s really a statement on who were are. Although I do miss that neon dearly.

It has to happen: What’s your favorite film and why?

Wishing I was working here. It’s really hard to imagine what I’d being doing. I’ve made so many friends and had great experiences because of my job here. I didn’t know anybody when I moved to Salt Lake, and now I have this totally awesome family that I work with, so I don’t want to think about if I wasn’t here. I’d probably be in school or something boring like that.

Whenever I ask someone this question, they always groan and say it’s a stupid question, but I actually immediately knew the answer. My favorite movie is Moulin Rouge, and has been since I was about nine years old. It was just the first film I saw that really moved me. Since my parents didn’t want me watching that film when I was super young, I would always sneak into a guest room and watch it while no one was home. It’s beautifully filmed, like honestly one of the most gorgeous films I’ve ever seen. It has this perfect balance of camp and serious drama that I think blends together really well. I’ve memorized every song in it and could probably recite the entire movie if you asked me to.

You’ve seen the old Broadway lobby and the new one. Compare and contrast.

I mean it’s really apples and oranges. I mean when we first started renovation, I was sad because the Broadway really began to feel like a home to me, and you know, I’m basically Garth Algar, just standing in the corner muttering “we fear

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

What would you be doing if you weren’t working here?

What’s your fondest wish for SLFS going forward?

To cross the narrow sea and take what is ours with fire and blood, preferably with dragons. Or you know, to continue growing as an organization and get the recognition as cultural institution that we really deserve. I see how many people apply to work here and people who would kill to work here, but then I talk to someone out in the world and they have no idea who we are, so I think my dream for SLFS is to have people know about us and love us as much as they love the megaplex.

Anything else you’d like to say?

Hi mom!

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DECEMBER 2014

THE HOMESMAN Directed by Tommy Lee Jones USA | R | 122 min. | Drama Starts December 5 @broadway

SUNDANCE SHORTS PROGRAM

THE WAY HE LOOKS

COMET

Directed by Various Directors NR | 94 min.

Starts December 5 @tower

Directed by Daniel Ribeiro BRAZIL | NR | 95 min. | Drama Starts December 12 @broadway

Directed by Sam Esma USA | R | 91 min. | Come Starts December 12 @to

BEST FEATURE FILM

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INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her.

Sundance Institute/Sundance Film Festival is touring a program of eight short films in theaters across America, and this year, shorts-loving audiences here get a chance to see it on the big screen. Showcasing a variety of stories and styles, the program features award-winning fiction and documentaries.

For a full listing of Shorts please see our website.

FILM FESTIVAL

Leonardo is a blind teenager searching for independence. His everyday life, the relationship with his best friend, Giovana, and the way he sees the world change completely with the arrival of Gabriel.

Set in a parallel universe, C forth over the course of paired couple’s six-year re

Starring Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi, and Tess Amorim

Starring Emmy Rossum, Winter

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THE IMITATION GAME

Coming January 9

Directed by Morten Tyldum USA | PG-13 | 114 min. | Drama Starts December 25 @broadway

Coming

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Starring: Jena Malone, Reese Witherspoon, Joaquin Phoenix

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In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles detective Larry “Doc” Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.

MR. TURNER

INHERENT VICE PEOPLE’S CHOICE

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, helps crack the Enigma code during World War II. Keira

From the director of HEADHUNTERS, FALLEN ANGELS, and BUDDY

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AUDIENCE CHOICE

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Knightley, and Matthew Goode

An explora quarter ce if eccentric J.M.W. Tur

FOXCATCHER

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Directed by Bennett Miller Starring: Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo Based on the true story of Mark Schultz, an Olympic wrestler whose relationship with sponsor John du Pont and brother Dave Schultz would lead to unlikely circumstances.

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Directed by Luc Dardenn Starring: Ma Rongione, Pi

TWO DAYS ONE NIGHT

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

PELICAN DREAMS

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Directed by Judy Irving USA | NR | 80 min. | Documentary Starts December 12 @tower

Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée USA | R | 115 min. | Drama Starts December 19 @broadway

Directed by Jennifer Kent AUSTRALIA | NR | 93 min. | Horror Starts December 19 @tower

Comet bounces back and an unlikely but perfectly elationship.

Judy Irving follows a wayward California pelican from her “arrest” on the Golden Gate Bridge into care at a rehab facility and explores nesting grounds, Pacific coast migration and survival challenges.

A chronicle of one woman’s 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent catastrophe.

A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

From the director of THE WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL

From the director of DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, C.R.A.Z.Y., AND THE YOUNG VICTORIA

Starring Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall, and Noah Wiseman

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Christmas Eve & Christmas Day THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL

Saturday Dec. 13, 10 am

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DECEMBER 2014 COME SING WITH US

@ tower

K U E D7 p r e s e n t s

SEASON 5

BEGINS SUN. JAN. 4, 8PM

L I V E S TA G E P E R F O R M A N C E S @ broadway

MACBETH

From the Home of William Shakespeare captured live at

The Globe Theatre

A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM

SATURDAY, DEC 6 @ NOON From its mesmerising first moments to the last fulfilment of the witches’ prophecy, Shakespeare’s gripping account of the profoundest engagement with the forces of evil enthrals the imagination.

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SATURDAY, DEC 20 @ NOON

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

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Shakespeare put some of his most dazzling dramatic poetry at the service of this teasing, glittering, hilarious and amazingly inventive play, whose seriousness is only fleetingly glimpsed beneath its dreamlike surface.

DECEMBER 2014

SpruceFest!

SLFS Hosts a Bash to Celebrate Broadway’s Beautiful New Lobby The Broadway underwent a thorough spruce-up and has emerged from its chrysalis as a gorgeous new home for independent film.

We partied all day and all night on Thursday, November 13 to initiate the space. Here are some pictures of the day.

Our heartfelt thanks to Hamilton Partners, our landlords, who funded our remodel.

Tori Baker and Bruce Bingham cut the ribbon to make it official. Because it’s us, the ribbon is made of film.

A new, bold wall in our lobby.

Nick, Derrick, and Laurent check out the new concessions area.

Tori Baker, SLFS Executive Director, and Amy Beth Leber, Director of Operations for SLFS enjoyed the evening reception.

Tori Baker, SLFS Executive Director; Utah State Senator Jim Dabakis; Vicky Bourns, Zoo Arts and Parks Program Director; Bruce Bingham and Brian Horrocks, Hamilton Partners.

At right, Kevin Hanson, SLFS Board Member and U of U Chair, Department of Film and Media Arts, brings a couple of friends by to check out the new space. (They seem to like it.)

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Salt Lake Community Leaders Bill Allred Jackie Biskupski Jeffrey Breglio Craig Cleveland Levi Elder Lori Feld Seth Jarvis Justina Parsons-Bernstein George Pence Ken Pollard Dan Purjes Miles Romney Thomas Sobchack Scott Ulbrich

Film Professionals Barbara Boyle, Producer Trevor Groth, Sundance Sr. Programmer Dave Cummins, Post Production Stephen Katz, Cinematographer Chapin Cutler, Digital Media Kelly Loosli, BYU animation Chris Lippard, Film Professor Lance Williams, Producer/Actor Film Directors Richard Dutcher Keith Gordon Trent Harris Tyler Measom