SLFS Newsletter March 2017

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Meet Front of House Staffer

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

MARCH 2017 E X P L O R E T H E C U LT U R E @ S L F S

KEITH SULLIVAN FRONT OF HOUSE STAFF

How long have you worked for SLFS? About a year and a half.

What made you want to apply?

My friend Ellen mainly! She worked here and told me to apply. What sold me though were the free films and lovely staff, of course.

Describe your relationship with film. Why is it important to you? What draws you to it?

I mean I’ve lived my whole life with films, most people have I think. So we’ve had a long relationship. But I guess when I fell in love with them was probably high school, films became not just a way for me to relate to my friends but, as I saw more and more, a way for me to understand myself, my crazy emotions and artistic mind.

Especially the films of David Lynch and Wes Anderson changed me in that way. And while focused visions, loads of empathy, and surrealites all can draw me in like that, I really just love good film, whatever flavor!

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What are your hobbies outside of the Film Society?

Call me a child (I know you wouldn’t), but I’ve been in love with video games for even longer than I’ve been in love with film! As a kid I basically breathed Nintendo and especially recently there’ve been more and more independent games pushing the medium in

new interesting ways. And now I make them too. Favorites include: Journey, Majora’s Mask, games by Vectorpark, Bloodborne, The Witness, and Night in the Woods. Also meeting nice new people is always an experience I’m open to.

Any projects you are currently working on?

Sure! Right now, a game involving pretty interactive animations, some story elements, and perhaps some genetically evolved creature things. Should be nice!

What is your favorite aspect of working here?

Oh, of course it’s my coworkers! Also basically my best friends by now. They’re all so cool and sweet and interesting and have really made this place a home. So say hi sometime (if you want)!

What are your hopes for the future of SLFS? Just that it stays open and showing important films for as long as those films are being made.

Salt Lake City needs it!

What is your favorite movie and why?

Oh, this question, alas! Well over the years it’s been many things: Rushmore, La Strada, Eraserhead, 8 ½, Paper Moon, Asparagus. Most recently though, Possession (1981) because it makes me feel C-R-A-Z-Y in a way no other film has. God, that film rocks!

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MARCH 2017

SEE THESE WHILE YOU STILL CAN

PATERSON Directed by Jim Jarmusch USA/GER/FRA | R | 118 min | Drama

STARRING: Adam Driver and Golshifteh Farahani

LA LA LAND Directed by Damien Chazelle USA | PG-13 | 128 min | Musical/Drama

CZECH THAT FILM NEW AN D EXCITIN G F IL MS AT THE SIXTH AN N U A L C Z E C H T H AT FI LM T O U R PRESEN TED BY SALT L AKE F IL M SOCIETY A TOUR OF CURREN T CZECH CIN EMA

A P R I L 4- 6, 2017 a t B R O A D WAY C E NT R E CI N E M A S

Tuesday, April 4

Wednesday, April 5

Thursday, April 6

7 pm - THE DEVIL’S MISTRESS 5 pm - I, OLGA HEPNAROVA (Lida Baarova)

(Já Olga Hepnarová)

5 pm - LITTLE FROM THE FISH SHOP

Q&A with Visiting Film Artist, director Filip Renc.

7 pm - THE SNAKE BROTHERS

7 pm - TIGER THEORY

9:10 pm - THE TEACHER

9:10 pm - THE NOONDAY WITCH

(Kobry a úžovky) (Ucitelka)

STARRING: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, and John Legend

(Malá z Rybárny) (Teorie Tygra) (Polednice)

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO Directed by Raoul Peck USA /FRA| PG-13 | 93 min | Documentary

Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the unfinished James Baldwin novel “Remember This House”

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

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MARCH 2017

home of

independent film in SLC

MARCH 2017

THE RED TURTLE

UNITED KINGDOM

KEDI

NERUDA

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 Ceyda Torun Turkey/USA | NR | 80 min | Documentary Starts March 10 | BROADWAY

Directed by Pablo La CHI/ARG/FRA/SPA/US Starts March 10 | 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 profile of Istanbul and its unique people, seen through the eyes of the most mysterious and beloved animal humans have ever known, the Cat.

An inspector hunts dow Chilean poet, Pablo Ner fugitive in his home cou for joining the Commun

SONG TO SONG

THE LAST WORD

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THE ZOOKEE

Directed by Terrence Malick USA | NR | 145 min | Drama Starts March 24 | BROADWAY

Directed by Mark Pellington USA | R | 108 min | Comedy/Drama Starts March 24 | BROADWAY

Directed by Julia Ducournau FRA/BEL | R | 99 min | Horror/Drama Starts March 24 | TOWER

Directed by Niki Car USA | NR | 126 min | Dr Starts March 31 | BR

Set against the Austin, Texas, music scene, two entangled couples chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.

Harriet is a retired businesswoman who tries to control everything around her. When she decides to write her own obituary, a young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth resulting in a life-altering friendship.

When a young vegetarian undergoes a carnivorous hazing ritual at vet school, an unbidden taste for meat begins to grow in her.

The Zookeeper’s Wife t keepers of the Warsaw Jan Zabinski, who help of people and animals d invasion.

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

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

DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST

MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI

THE SENSE OF AN ENDING

SA | R | 107 min | Drama

Directed by Julie Dash UK/USA | PG | 112 min | Drama Starts March 17 | BROADWAY

Directed by Claude Barras SWI/FRA | NR | 70 min | Animation/Family Starts March 17 | BROADWAY

Directed by Ritesh Batra UK | PG-13 | 118 min | Drama Starts March 17 | BROADWAY

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Set in 1902, it tells the story of three generations of Gullah women in the Peazant family on St. Helena Island as they prepare to migrate to the North.

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.

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.

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Directed by Danny Boyle UK | R | 117 min | Comedy/Drama Starts March 31 | BROADWAY

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COMING SOON @SLFS

FRANTZ

OBIT

Directed by Claude Barras GER/FRA | PG-13 | 113 min | Drama

Directed by Vanessa Gould USA | NR | 93 min | Documentary

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé’s grave to lay flowers.

How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys and existential angst of the Times obit writers, as they chronicle life after death on the front lines of history.

Coming April 14

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.

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

Coming May 5

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MARCH 2017 NATIO N A L T H E AT RE L I VE a t B R O A D WAY

K UE D7 presents

VIOLINS OF HOPE

Strings of the Holocaust

KUED and the Salt Lake Film Society invite you to an advance screening of a new documentary featuring an Israeli violin maker’s efforts to restore violins recovered from the Holocaust, some played by Jewish prisoners in concentation camps. Narrated by Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody.

FREE SCREENING • MON. MAR. 20, 7PM

ADMISSION: General - $20 SLFS Members - $15 Students - $10

SAINT JOAN

Broadway Centre Cinemas • Seating is limited For information call Laura at 801 585-3523

SATURDAY, MARCH 11 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