FEBRUARY 2017
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I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO Page 4
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showcasing the best in american independents, international films, and documentaries
FEBRUARY 2017 E X P L O R E T H E C U LT U R E @ S L F S
TOP TEN FILMS OF 2016
STAFF PICKS ANNIE JENKINS
MARISSA BECKSTROM
DERREK WALL
TORI BAKER
Marketing Manager
Front of House Staff
Venues Manager
Executive Director
1. Moonlight
1. Moonlight
1. Moonlight
1. The Lobster
2. Manchester by the Sea
2. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
2. Jackie
2. The Mermaid
3. The Witch
3. La La Land
3. King Kobra
3. Embrace of the Serpent
4. The Lobster
4. Embrace of the Serpent
4. The Handmaiden
4. Everybody Wants Some!!
5. Midnight Special
5. Manchester by the Sea
5. The Lobster
5. Love and Friendship
6. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
6. The Handmaiden
6. The Witch
6. Captain Fantastic
7. The Handmaiden
7. The Lobster
7. Boo! A Madea Halloween
7. Don’t Think Twice
8. Arrival
8. Arrival
8. The 13th
8. A Tale of Love and Darkness
9. The Wailing
9. 13th
9. The Neon Demon
9. The Last Picture Show
10. Swiss Army Man
10. Kubo and the Two Strings
10. Nocturnal Animals
10. Nosfeatu w/ live score
AARON KRAMER
CLEO RICKS
Front of House Staff
JACK OTT
Operations Manager
Front of House Staff
1. Moonlight
1. Embrace of the Serpent
1. The Handmaiden
1. Moonlight
2. Manchester by the Sea
2. American Honey
2. American Honey
2. Tale of Tales
3. The Witch
3. River of Fundament
3. The Lobster
3. The Handmaiden
4. The Lobster
4. The Neon Demon
4. Born to be Blue
4. Elle
5. Arrival
5. The Witch
5. Kubo and the Two Strings
5. The Thin Yellow Line
6. The Handmaiden
6. The Lobster
6. Knight of Cups
6. Things to Come
7. La La Land
7. The Love Witch
7. Manchester by the Sea
7. The Eagle Huntress
8. Swiss Army Man
8. Hail, Caesar!
8. Moonlight
8. Hail, Caesar!
9. Tickled
9. Moonlight
9. Certain Women
9. Nocturnal Animals
10. The Wailing
10. Manchester by the Sea
10. The Wailing
10. Hell or High Water
MARA LEMESANY
SUSAN TIVE
JACOB HALL
RACHEL GETTS
Front of House Staff
Director of Philanthropy
Front of House Staff
Website/Social Media Coordinator
1. American Honey
1. Arrival
1. OJ: Made in America
1. Knight of Cups
2. American Honey
2. Moonlight
2. The Wailing
2. La La Land
3. American Honey
3. The Lobster
3. Moonlight
3. The Witch
4. The Lobster
4. Captain Fantastic
4. Manchester by the Sea
4. The Lobster
5. Manchester by the Sea
5. OJ: Made in America
5. Nocturnal Animals
5. Sing Street
6. Moonlight
6. Elle
6. Arrival
6. Love and Friendship
7. The Handmaiden
7. La La Land
7. Hunt for the WIlderpeople
7. Hell or High Water
8. La La Land
8. Fire at Sea
8. Elle
8. Midnight Special
9. Don’t Think Twice
9. Cameraperson
9. The Conjuring 2
9. Green Room
10. Arrival
10. Kubo and the Two Strings
10. The Night Of
10. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
TIMOTHY MORRISE Development Associate
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Assistant Manager
STEPHEN SIMMONS
LEVI ELDER Director of Programming
BARB GUY Director of PR and Marketing
JACK BROWN Front of House Staff
1. A Bigger Splash
1. The Lobster
1. City of Gold
1. Green Room
2. Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party
2. Nocturnal Animals
2. Moonlight
2. The Mermaid
3. Knight of Cups
3. The Wailing
3. Embrace of the Sepent
3. American Honey
4. Krisha
4. Dr. Strange
4. Rams
4. 45 Years
5. La La Land
5. Deadpool
5. Sing Street
5. Krisha
6. Lemonade
6. Hell or High Water
6. Eat That Question
6. Eye in the Sky
7. The Mermaid
7. High-Rise
7. Captain Fantastic
7. Lo & Behold
8. Moonlight
8. Swiss Army Man
8. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
8. Creative Control
9. Nocturnal Animals
9. The Neon Demon
9. Lion
9. Weiner
10. Sonita
10. The Handmaiden
10. The Eagle Huntress
10. The Witch
All Salt Lake Film Society dates and locations are subject to change.
Check showtimes at SLFS.org or 801.321.0310.
FEBRUARY 2017
SEE THESE WHILE YOU STILL CAN
20TH CENTURY WOMEN Directed by Mike Mills USA | R | 118 min | Drama
APRIL 4-5
STARRING: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, and Billy Crudup
at BROADWAY CENTRE
LA LA LAND Directed by Damien Chazelle USA | PG-13 | 128 min | Musical/Drama
STARRING: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, and John Legend
LION Directed by Garth Davis AUS/UK/USA | PG-13 | 120 min | Drama
May 19-20 | Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E 300 S | Free Admission STARRING: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, and Rooney Mara All Salt Lake Film Society dates and locations are subject to change.
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FEBRUARY 2017
JULIETA
PATERSON
THE COMEDIAN
I AM NOT YO
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar Spain | R | 99 min | Drama Starts February 3 | BROADWAY
Directed by Jim Jarmusch USA/GER/FRA | R | 118 min | Drama Starts February 3 | BROADWAY
Directed by Taylor Hackford USA | R | 119 min | Comedy Starts February 3 | BROADWAY
Directed by Raoul Pe USA /FRA| PG-13 | 93 m Starts February 10 |
After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events about her stranded daughter.
A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.
An aging insult comic tries to reivent himself while serving out a sentence of community service after accosting an audience member.
Writer James Baldwin t in modern America with Remember This House.
THE RED TURTLE
UNITED KINGDOM
I, DANIEL BLAKE
THE SALESM
Directed by Michael Dudok de Wit FRA/BEL | PG | 80 min | Fantasy Starts February 24 | BROADWAY
Directed by Amma Asante USA/UK/CZE | PG-13 | 111 min | Drama Starts March 3 | BROADWAY
Directed by Ken Loach UK/FRA/BEL | R | 100 min | Drama Starts February | BROADWAY
Directed by Asghar F Iran/FRA | PG-13 | 125 Starts February | BR
The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s.
A middle aged carpenter who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.
After their old flat beco and Rana, a young coup are forced to move into Eventually, an incident tenant of their new hom changes the couple’s li
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OUR NEGRO
OSCAR SHORTS
NERUDA
TONI ERDMANN
| BROADWAY
Starts February 10
Directed by Pablo Larraín CHI/ARG/FRA/SPA/USA | R | 107 min | Drama Starts February 17 | BROADWAY
Directed by Maren Ade GER/AUT/ROU | R | 162 min | Comedy/Drama Starts February 17 | BROADWAY
tells the story of race h his unfinished novel, .
A collection of the various films nominated in the Short Film catergories at the 89th Academy Awards.
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
A reluctant woman must spend time with her estranged father when he comes for a surprise visit.
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min | Documentary
MAN
| TOWER
COMING SOON @SLFS
Farhadi min | Drama
ROADWAY
omes damaged, Emad ple living in Tehran, o a new apartment. linked to the previous me dramatically ife.
MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI
THE SENSE OF AN ENDING
Directed by Claude Barras SWI/FRA | NR | 70 min | Animation/Family
Directed by Ritesh Batra UK | PG-13 | Drama
STARRING: Robert De Niro and Leslie Mann
STARRING: Michelle Dockery, Emily Mortimer, Charlotte Rampling, and Jim Broadbent.
Coming March 17
After his mother’s sudden death, Zucchini struggles to find his placeat his new foster home. But with his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love, as he searches for a new family of his own.
Coming March 24
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
All Salt Lake Film Society dates and locations are subject to change.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 | 7 PM FREE | POST THEATRE
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FEBRUARY 2017 NATIO N A L T H E AT RE L I VE a t B R O A D WAY
ADMISSION: General - $20 SLFS Members - $15 Students - $10
AMADEUS
K UE D7 presents
LONG LIVE THE QUEEN THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN
Begins Sun. Jan. 15, 8PM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 NOON
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Salt Lake Community Leaders Bill Allred Jackie Biskupski Jeffrey Breglio Michael W. Christopherson Sean Desilets Lori Feld Matt Frisbie Rachel Hodson Thomas Francis Jakab Seth Jarvis Chris Lippard Donna Lifsey-Foster Justina Parsons-Bernstein 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