SLFS Calendar January 2014

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thank you for getting us through a challenging year of fund raising for our digital deadline

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JANUARY 2014 calendar

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get to know the Assistant Theatre Manager @tower

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

january 2014

See These while you still can!

Inside Llewyn Davis

Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen USA | R | 105 min. | Drama

Starring Oscar Issac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, and Justin Timberlake

out of the furnace

Directed by Scott Cooper USA | R | 116 min. | Drama

Starring Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana

nebraska Directed by Alexander Payne UK | R | 115 min. | Drama

Starring Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb

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january 2014 explore the culture

MICHAEL

by Annie Jenkins

DeHaan

So you were just awarded employee of the month how does that feel?

It feels good but I feel like I just pull my weight, I feel like everybody else here is definitely more of the heart and soul of the place. I don’t know what I did to deserve that. You shouldn’t put that in. I do just as much as everybody else does.

Are there any perks of being employee of the month?

I got a little reward, a gift certificate award. But just the recognition from Stephen and Amy Beth, my higher-ups, was reward enough. It’s cool.

How long have you worked here?

A year in October, so about a year and two months.

How did you come to work here?

It’s an interesting story. I moved to Salt Lake when I was eighteen and I came to apply here when I was eighteen, and it took three years’ worth of applying and about four or five applications to Andik, who kept losing them, and he would say “keep coming back, keep calling back.” So I was just really persistent because this place has always been like a sanctuary for me since I moved here from Ogden about eight years ago.

So I just kept applying and eventually I got the call back to come work three years after first applying.

Have you always been interested in film?

Absolutely. I got my degree from SLCC in film and since I was a kid, I’ve been in love with movies. My parents have a lot to do with that. Since I was a kid, they would always show me movies, some that weren’t appropriate for kids, but they definitely groomed me really, really well, to a point where I had my own personal movie taste and my own personal movie library as a pre-teen.

What’s your favorite thing about working here?

My favorite thing about working here is our mission. I really enjoy turning people on to things that they would never be otherwise turned onto as far as film goes. And just an independent organization in general I think is really something. I also love my coworkers; I learn a lot from them. Before I worked here I thought I was well versed in film, but after meeting everybody here I realized that I was just scraping the surface. These guys have taught me a lot and that’s something I really, really enjoy about working here because I learn about my hobby.

What are your hopes for the Salt Lake Film Society?

I hope we can continue to reach the audience we are currently reaching towards, but I hope we broaden our horizons in getting more of the younger generation in here and turning them onto things that are the past. Nowadays movies aren’t what they used to be so I hope we can continue to cultivate the younger generation and show them things they have never experienced before. And just progresses in our mission in general.

@SLFS

Strengthening Salt Lake’s community through film

Favorite movie and why?

That’s a really hard question; I’ve been working on a top sixty list for the past three months. It started out as a top twenty, then a top thirty and fifty, and now it’s at a top sixty. And I’ve been working on it This place has been for a few months and I still haven’t been able to do it. But just to name a few, like a sanctuary for me off the top of my head, I really love Ben since I moved here.

Hur, I think that’s one of the most perfect movies ever made, closest to the most perfect movie ever made. Night of the Hunter and There Will Be Blood. But that’s just off the top so don’t quote me on it.

But I’m interviewing you.

Well, you can quote me, but don’t quote me.

Assistant Theatre Manager, Tower

Dear SLFS members and supporters, Thanks to the generosity and overwhelming support of our community, SLFS has beaten the Digital Deadline.

This has been the “Year of Change” for the art house. As your home for independent cinema, we faced the most challenging fundraising campaign of our 13-year history. Due to industry-mandated changes in technology, SLFS had to upgrade our projection equipment from 35mm film to digital technology by the end of 2013 or risk shutting our doors or scaling back our programming.

With the generous support from every sector of our community, SLFS has converted 5 of our 7 screens to digital technology. The final two theaters will be completed by January 10, 2014, just in time for Oscar season and the Sundance Film Festival. Each of our newly equipped theaters features top quality picture and sound. We can’t wait for you to visit and experience this new digital cinema!

This means programs like our Hitchcock retrospective, our children’s programs in the summer for shelters, community projects, film fostering projects, cultural retrospectives, and our regular season programming will thrive and continue. Our pledge to you is to continue the best curated programs in cinema, including works from modern artists today, historical retrospectives, cult and social justice programming and much, much more. We are proud to be your home for cinema and look forward to wonderful programs and exhibits in 2014.

On behalf of the board, staff, and volunteers of SLFS, I want to sincerely thank each and every one of you who made a donation in support of our mission-based film and educational programs. There is no way we could have reached our goal without your support and we promise to continue serving everyone in our community with the finest in film and educational and arts programming for many years to come.

All my best, Tori Baker Executive Director Salt Lake Film Society

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At Middleton @broadway

Tuesday 1/28 7 pm

Pr i ce : General - $18 SLFS Members - Free

With live in NY pre-show appearances by Vera Farmiga, Andy Garcia, and Director Adam Rogers.

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FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM

See SLFS through our own lens!

KUED7 p r e s e n t s

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Downton Abbey Sundays, 8PM Starting Jan. 5

Salt Lake Film Society presents a live stage performance of

Wagner The British ’s PA RSIFAL are Back!

Sherlock Sundays, 9PM Starting Jan. 19

New Seasons Begin in Jan.

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at Noon january 12 Admission: General - $18 SLFS Members - $12 Students - $9.25

january 2014

Open Your Eyes

to Independent Visions

HOLIDAY Wassail FUN and

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Wassail and Waffles has been a fun tradition at SLFS for nine years now.

Anyone can come and join in for free waffles with millions of toppings, wassail, a chat with Santa, and a free screening of a great holiday film.

This year we watched Polar Express and everyone seemed to have a great time. Several families told us this is an annual tradition for them, too! There are tons more pictures of the day in a photo album on our facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/SaltLakeFilmSociety. Thanks to everyone who came and helped us have a great time!

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The punk singer

Her

one chance

Directed by Sini Anderson USA | NR | 80 min. | Documentary Starts January 3 @tower

Directed by Spike Jonze USA | R | 126 min. | Comedy Starts January 10 @broadway

Directed by David Frankel UK | PG-13 | 103 min. | Comedy Starts January 10 @broadway

A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that’s designed to meet his every need.

Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson

The true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night who became a phenomenon after being chosen for -- and ultimately winning -- “Britain’s Got Talent”.

From the director of Where the wild things are, adaptation, and being john malkovich

From the director of the devil wears prada, marley & me, and hope springs

A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the “riot grrrl” movement of the 1990s.

the great beauty

the invisible woman

Directed by Paolo Sorrentino ITALY | NR | 142 min. | Drama Starts January 10 @broadway

Directed by Ralph Fiennes UK | R | 111 min. | Drama

Starts January 24 @broadway

Frankenstein - January 4, Noon (1st Screening)

with Benedict Cumberbatch as The Creature and Jonny Lee Miller as Victor Frankenstein (actors switch roles on 1/11)

In Italian with English subtitles

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. nominated

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At the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death.

Frankenstein - January 11, Noon (2nd Screening)

Starring Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas

$18; $12 SLFS Members; $8.75 Students; $9.25 for Students at the door

From the director of coriolanus

Live-stage production from London’s National Theatre

with Jonny Lee Miller as The Creature and Benedict Cumberbatch as Victor Frankenstein (actors play opposite roles on 1/4)

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6:45 My Prairie Home

6:00 Documentary Shorts Program II

6:00 Lilting

9:45 Happiness

9:00 Shorts Program II

9:00 Blue Ruin

12:45 Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People

Noon

Shorts Program III

3:45 SEPIDEH- Reaching for the Stars

3:00 Shorts Program I

6:45 R100

6:00 Shorts Program IV

6:00 Dinosaur 13

9:45 The Notorious Mr. Bout

9:00 Shorts Program V

9:00 The Babadook

11:59 Love Child Sun 19

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12:45 Liar’s Dice

Noon

3:45 Return to Home

3:00 Blind

6:45 Obvious Child

6:00 To Kill a Man

6:00 The Guest

9:45 Concerning Violence

9:00 We Come as Friends

9:00 The Skeleton Twins

3:45 Difret

3:00 Fed Up

6:45 52 Tuesdays

6:00 Web Junkie

6:00 Cooties

9:45 Living Stars

9:00 Land Ho!

9:00 Life After Beth

3:45 Animation Spotlight

3:00 We Are The Giant

6:45 Drunktown’s Finest

6:00 Marmato

6:00 The Double

9:45 Viktoria

9:00 Ivory Tower

9:00 Last Days in Vietnam

3:45 Rich Hill

3:00 Lock Charmer (El cerrajero)

6:45 Appropriate Behavior

6:00 Private Violence

6:00 Jamie Marks Is Dead

9:45 The Girl From Nagasaki

9:00 War Story

9:00 The Signal

3:45 The Foxy Merkins

3:00 Imperial Dreams

6:45 Happiness

6:00 All the Beautiful Things

6:00 The Battered Bastards of Baseball

9:45 E-TEAM

9:00 The One I Love

9:00 No No: A Dockumentary

3:45 The Disobedient

3:00 Mr leos caraX

6:45 Watchers of the Sky

6:00 Listen Up Philip

6:00 Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

9:45 Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory

9:00 Only Lovers Left Alive

9:00 Dear White People

12:45 The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

Noon

11:59 20,000 Days on Earth

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

3:45 Ping Pong Summer

3:00 Obvious Child

3:00 Cesar’s Last Fast

6:45 Documentary Shorts Program I

6:00 Killers

6:00 Freedom Summer

9:45 Under the Electric Sky

9:15 Ida

9:15 Life Itself

11:59 What We Do in the Shadows Sun 26

11:59 Fishing Without Nets

White Shadow

11:59 Dead Snow; Red vs. Dead Sat 25

@tower

11:59 The Babadook

3:00

3:00 They Came Together

6:00

6:00 The One I Love

Sundance Screenings @SLFS

Salt Lake’s favorite spots to enjoy the Sundance Film Festival!

january 2014

This schedule is highly subject to change. Check listings at Sundance.org.

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876 East 900 South Video Rentals: 801.359.5158

$50 Standard | $40 Youth

$1.00 off all regular admissions FREE small popcorn on Mondays FREE tix to 6 exclusive members-only events

Panaflex

So do we!

Let’s be buds!

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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SLFS thanks the voters of Salt Lake County for their support of the Zoo, Arts & Parks program.

George Q. Morris Foundation

I would like to support Salt Lake Film Society’s programs by becoming a member.

BEEHIVE

Today’s Date:_____/______/_________

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Academy $5,000 Independent Spirit $1,000 Chronik $300 Panaflex $120 Super 8 $50 Youth Super 8 - age 22 and younger $40 Additional Donation $_________

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ALL Panaflex BENEFITS, PLUS FREE admission to ALL films ALL year!

1 FREE small popcorn per visit (2 with DUAL) FREE admission to ALL member events Entry in drawing to attend 2 Sundance Film Fest private screenings (2 entries for DUAL)

City

801.321.0310

facebook.com/SaltLakeFilmSociety @SaltLakeFilmSoc

$300 Individual | $500 Dual

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111 East 300 South Lost & Found: 801.746.0288

You like movies?

$120 Individual | $180 Dual

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 mdse

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Kevin Hansen, Vice Chair Gavin Payne, Treasurer David Dobbins, Secretary Lisa Bickmore Robert Brown

David Emmitt Helen Langan Prescott Muir Tamra Rieper Brian Rivette Hal Widlansky

Richard K. and Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation

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Founder Board Peter Kelson Kris Liacopoulos Paul Liacopoulos

email address Advisory Board

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Salt Lake Community Leaders Yo u w i l l r e c e i v e a coupon for 1 tee or cami (2 for dual members).

Additional merchandise can be ordered here:

Additional Shirts

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T-Shirt $12 Hoodie $30 Thank you for your membership request.

This form may be mailed or faxed using the following information:

Salt Lake Film Society memberships 300 S. 111 E. Suite 99 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Fax: 801-363-8022 Please allow two weeks for processing.

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

Chris Lippard, Film Professor

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

Film Directors Richard Dutcher Keith Gordon Trent Harris Tyler Measom