SLFS Calendar June 2014

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What’s up with

SLFSEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Tori Baker?

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WORDS AND PICTURES Page 5

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

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

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Professional Actors Workshop drops by with a Big Check “Our founder taught that you don’t just take; our ethic is, we give back,” says Lance Williams, Director of the Professional Actors Workshop, explaining his organization’s recent $5695 gift to Salt Lake Film Society.

“We do a yearly project to help our community in some way.

We’ve done different things over the years…” Williams says that this year PAW chose Salt Lake Film Society and they feel they’ve hit on a wonderful match for their philanthropy.

By nature, SLFS supports actors by providing a home for independent film, a place where their work can be seen. By supporting SLFS, the students, in addition to helping out a community non-profit, are working to ensure a future for themselves, and for those who come after them.

Williams holds great admiration for “Tad”, the founder of Professional Actors Workshop. Tadeusz Zbigniew Danielewski fought in the Polish Underground and was imprisoned at Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II. Then he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art under Lawrence Olivier. Following that, he trained with Lee Strasberg at The Actors Studio and went on to start the Professional Actors Workshop.

Tad’s former students include James Earl Jones, Martin Sheen, Sigourney Weaver, Jack Lemmon, Jessica Tandy, Mercedes Ruehl, and Ralph Waite Lance Williams became one of Tad’s students as well.

Then he was handpicked by Danielewski to take over the Professional Actors Workshop. “I worked with Tad for six years and one day he looked me in the eye and said, ‘Lance, you are going to give back now.’” Williams knew what Tad

Lance Williams, pointing, and Tori Baker, amazed (at left), along with Utah actors, celebrate the Professional Actors Workshop’s generous gift to SLFS.

meant; he was to take over for the aging founder.

A successful L.A.-based producer by day, Williams keeps running the PAW out of love for Danielewski and for the pleasure of the association with his students. He travels between L.A. and Salt Lake City, training actors and then returning to his producing work.

Tad died in 1993, but his presence is felt to this day and his ethos continues to guide the group. “He taught us about two qualities he thought were essential in successful

actors, or people in general,” says Williams, “Quality X and Quality Y. Quality X for Tad was an aspiration to greatness, a dedication to becoming the very best. Quality Y is about inclusion, participation, community, and giving back.”

More than a decade after his passing, SLFS is benefitting from the kindness of a concentration camp survivor and the people who keep his work and values alive. Many thanks to Lance Williams and all the talented folks at Professional Actors Workshop.

SEE THESE WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

PALO ALTO

BELLE

Starring Emma Roberts, James Franco, and Jack Kilmer

Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Goode, and Emily Watson

Directed by Gia Coppola USA | R | 100 min. | Drama

COLD IN JULY

Directed by Amma Asante UK | PG | 104 min. | Drama

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

Directed by Jim Mickle USA/FRANCE | NR | 109 min. | Drama

Matthew

In 1980s East Texas, two fathers pitted against each other in revenge must band together to uncover a darker truth.

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NIGHT MOVE

Directed by Charlie Paul UK/USA | R | 89 min. | Documentary Starts June 6 @broadway

Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski POLAND/DENMARK | PG-13 | 80 min. | Drama Starts June 6 @broadway

Directed by Jon S. Baird USA | R | 97 min. | Comedy/Drama Starts June 6 @tower

Directed by Kelly Reic USA | R | 112 min. | Dr Starts June 13 @broad

GRAND PRIX

WARSAW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL BEST FILM

LONDON FILM FESTIVAL

In Polish with English subtitles

Johnny Depp pays a call on his friend and hero Ralph Steadman and we take off on a high-spirited, raging and kaleidoscopic journey discovering the life and works of one of the most distinctive radical artists of the last 50 years.

Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation.

From the director of MY SUMMER OF LOVE and LAST RESORT

A bipolar, bigoted junkie cop manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.

Starring James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Eddie Marsan

A drama centered on thr plot to blow up a dam.

From the director of TRAINSPOTTING

Starring Dakota Fannin Eisenberg, and Peter Saar

SUPERMENSCH

THE GRAND SEDUCTION

WE ARE THE BEST!

THE DOUBLE

Directed by Mike Myers USA | R | 85 min. | Documentary Starts June 20 @broadway

Directed by Don McKellar CANADA | PG-13 | 115 min. | Comedy Starts June 20 @broadway

Directed by Lukas Moodysson SWEDEN | NR | 102 min. | Drama Starts June 20 @broadway

Directed by Richard A UK | R | 93 min. | Dram Starts June 20 @towe

AUDIENCE AWARD

SARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL

In his directorial debut, Mike Myers documents the astounding career of Hollywood insider, the loveable Shep Gordon, who fell into music management by chance after moving to LA straight out of college.

Stuffed with fantastic archive footage the film traces Shep’s transformation from the 1970’s hedonist to today’s practicing Buddhist yearning for a family of his own.

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The small harbor of Tickle Cove is in dire need of a doctor so that the town can land a contract to secure a factory which will save the town from financial ruin. Village resident Murray French leads the search, and when he finds Dr. Paul Lewis he employs - along with the whole town tactics to seduce the doctor to stay permanently.

Starring Brendan Gleeson, Taylor Kitsch, and Liane Balaban

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

A clerk in a govern unenviable life takes a tu arrival of a new co-wor physical double and h charismatic and seducti Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band -- despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.

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Starring Jesse Eisenb Wallace Shawn

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WORDS AND PICTURES

THEY CAME TOGETHER

Directed by William Eubank USA | PG-13 | 95 min. | Sci-fi Starts June 13 @broadway

Directed by Fred Schepisi USA | PG-13 | 111 min. | Comedy/Drama Starts June 13 @broadway

Directed by David Wain USA | R | 83 min. | Comedy Starts June 27 @broadway

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A group of college students are lured to the middle of the desert by a hacker.

An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.

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Starring Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Robert Longstreet

Starring Juliette Binoche, Clive Owen, and Keegan Connor Tracy

When Joel and Molly meet, it’s hate at first sight: his big Corporate Candy Company threatens to shut down her quirky indie shop. Amazingly, they fall in love, until they break up and Molly starts dating her accountant.

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Ayoade

Directed by François Ozon FRANCE | NR | 95 min. | Drama Starts June 13 @tower

Directed by Lucía Puenzo ARGENTINA/SPAIN/NORWAY/FRANCE PG-13 | 93 min. | Drama Starts June 27 @broadway

Directed by Kat Candler USA | NR | 94 min. | Drama Starts June 27 @tower

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In Spanish and German with English subtitles

After losing her virginity, Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her clients for hotel-room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.

The true story of an Argentine family who lived with Josef Mengele without knowing his true identity, and of a girl who fell in love with one of the biggest criminals of all time.

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

Starring Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Bill Hader

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed thirteen-year-old Jacob’s increasing delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and for each other in order to bring Wes home.

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JUNE 2014 L I V E S TA G E P E R F O R M A N C E S @ broadway

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

CAPTURED LIVE

Salt Lake Film Society presents a live stage performance

SATURDAY, JUNE 7 @ NOON ADMISSION: General - $18 SLFS Members - $12 Students - $9.25

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SATURDAY, JUNE 21 @ NOON ADMISSION: General - $18 • SLFS Members - $12 • Students - $9.25

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How It Works: 1. Make a movie that’s under 10 min.

2. Put it on a DVD - No Menus Please

SUNDAY, JUNE 22 @ NOON

Verdi’s tragic tale of a Parisian courtesan who sacrifices all for love is vividly told in Richard Eyre’s powerful staging of Verdi’s epic opera.

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

3. Bring the DVD plus $5 to the Tower Theatre (between 6 and 6:30 p.m. on the 25th) 4. Tell as Many Friends as You Can Then, around 9 p.m.we will show your masterpiece on the big screen.

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JUNE 2014

MEXICAN INDEPENDENT FILM TOUR The Mexican Film Tour was such fun this year, especially our opening night red carpet premiere of Man Behind the Mask. El Hijo del Santo, a Lucha Libre wrestler beloved by the Mexican people and profiled in the film, and Gabriela Obregon, the director, traveled from Mexico for the premiere. The screening was well attended by Latino people in particular and the film seemed to fill them with great excitement and a sense of cultural pride. For the uninitiated, El Hijo’s quiet dignity, his sense of responsibility to live a life worthy of his fans’ respect, and the love the public has for him were truly wonderful to see.

Don’t miss this annual event when it comes back next May.

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Vicious Begins Sun. June 29, 9:30PM The hilarious new British comedy stars acting icons Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi as sharp-tongued, long-time partners who have lived together in a small London flat for nearly 50 years. watch it online at video.kued.org

KUED The University of Utah

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2 FREE Tower video rentals 25% discount on SLFS merch

$120 Individual | $180 Dual

ALL SUPER 8 BENEFITS, PLUS $2.00 off all regular admissions Entry in drawing to attend 1 FREE Tower video rentals year ‘round Sundance Film Fest private FREE SLFS T-Shirt (2 with DUAL) screening (2 entries for DUAL) FREE tix to 6 exclusive members-only events

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Salt Lake Community Leaders Bill Allred Jackie Biskupski Jeffrey Breglio Jeffrey Burke Craig Cleveland 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