SLFS Newsletter May 2018 by Salt Lake Film Society

MAY 2018

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MAY 2018 E X P L O R E T H E C U LT U R E @ S L F S

JOSHUA STODDARD

Tell us about your life outside of SLFS. What are some of your hobbies?

My life outside of SLFS, and in general to be honest, is pretty low-key, which is intentional and what I enjoy. I’m a college student in Computer Science and I like to hang out with friends. I also like to travel when I can. I’ve been to Italy and Peru so far, but I hope to go to more places in the future.

FRONT OF HOUSE STAFF How long have you worked for SLFS?

I’ve worked for SLFS for nearly a year now! Time really flies. It will have been a year in midMay.

What are your hopes for the future of SLFS?

I hope that we can get even more repertory films in the future mainly. I think the Tower is such a good place for stuff like that with the extensive history it already has.

What made you want to apply?

I’ve been coming to the Broadway, and especially the Tower, ever since I can remember. I’ve been seeing and renting movies for years and years. It’s one of the reasons I grew to love movies in the first place, and so it was a place I wanted to work at for a while. The fact I get free movies and popcorn at the theater where I see the most movies doesn’t hurt either.

What is your favorite part of your job?

It’d have to be referring people to movies that I think get passed over or movies that people would not usually go for. I think it’s good to expand artistic horizons as a consumer. It helps to expand people’s horizons, if even a bit.

What is your favorite movie and why?

That is a DIFFICULT question! I have so many favorite movies, but if I had to pick one I think I’d have to pick Andrew Haigh’s Weekend. It’s such an intimate and romantic movie that How would you say film impacts comments so beautifully on how gay people and your life? relationships are perceived in the world today. Film has been a huge part of all of my life. It’s helped me discover myself as I grew up and how I’d also like to mention a couple of my other favorites that way more people should know I view the world. It’s how I learned a lot about about: 3-Iron by Kim Ki-Duk, Cure by Kiyoshi the world as well. Kurosawa, and Irma Vep by Olivier Assayas.

SATURDAY, MAY 26 | TOWER THEATRE

With special guest, visiting film artist Terrance Zdunich Meet and greet at 8 pm, free signing & photos at 9 pm Tickets are $20, all proceeds benefit SLFS

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MAY 2018

SEE THESE WHILE YOU STILL CAN FINAL PORTRAIT Directed by Stanley Tucci UK | R | 90 min | Drama

STARRING: Armie Hammer and Geoffrey Rush

ISLE OF DOGS Directed by Wes Anderson Germany/USA | PG-13 | Comedy/Adventure

FROM THE DIRECTOR OF: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, and FANTASTIC MR. FOX

YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE

Directed by Lynne Ramsay UK/FRA/USA | R | 90 min | Drama/Thriller

Presented by

In collaboration with

FROM THE DIRECTOR OF: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN All Salt Lake Film Society dates and locations are subject to change.

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MAY 2018

ISMAEL’S GHOSTS

ITZHAK

TULLY

Directed by Arnaud Desplechin France | R | 114 min | Drama STARRING: Mathieu Amalric, Marion Cotillard, and Charlotte Gainsbourg

Directed by Alison Chernick Israel/USA | Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary

Directed by Jason Reitman USA | R | 96 min | Comedy/Drama FROM THE DIRECTOR OF: JUNO, UP IN THE AIR,

Starts MAY 4 at BROADWAY CENTRE

GRACE JONES BLOODLIGHT

YOUNG ADULT, and THANK YOU FOR SMOKING

Directed by Sophie Fien IRE/UK | NR | 115 min | Do

Starts MAY 4 at BROADWAY CENTRE

Starts MAY 4 at TOWER

The story follows a filmmaker whose life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.

A look at the life, work and religious heritage of violinist Itzhak Perlman.

Marlo, a mother of three, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully.

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BEAST

Directed by Betsy West amd Julie Cohen USA | PG | 97 min | Documentary

Directed by Chloé Zhao USA | R | 104 min | Drama FROM THE DIRECTOR OF: SONGS MY BROTHER TAUGHT ME

Directed by Ferenc Török Hungary | Not Rated | 91 min | Drama FROM THE DIRECTOR OF: MOSCOW SQUARE, EASTERN SUGAR, and ISZTAMBUL

Directed by Michael Pea UK | Not Rated | 107 min | STARRING Jessie Buckle Geraldine James

Starts MAY 18 at BROADWAY CENTRE

Starts MAY 25 at BROADWAY CENTRE

Starts JUNE 1 at BROA

An intimate portrait of an unlikely rock star: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. With unprecedented access, the filmmakers explore how her early legal battles changed the world for women.

After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.

12 August 1945, 11 AM. Two mysterious strangers dressed in black appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village. Within a few hours, everything changes.

In a small island commu woman falls for a myster empowers her to escape When he comes under s murders, she defends hi

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MAY 2018

THE JUDGE

THE ENDLESS

POPE FRANCIS: A MAN OF HIS WORD

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Directed by Erika Cohn USA | Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary

Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead USA | Not Rated | 111 min | Horror/Sci-Fi FROM THE DIRECTORS OF: SPRING (2014)

Directed by Wim Wenders IT/SWI/FRA/GER | NR | 96 min | Documentary FROM THE DIRECTORS OF: THE SALT OF THE EARTH and BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB

R THEATRE

Starts MAY 11 at BROADWAY CENTRE

Starts MAY 11 at TOWER THEATRE

Starts MAY 18 at BROADWAY CENTRE

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In a land where women rarely ascend to the ranks of governance, Kholoud Al-Faqih becomes the first woman judge appointed to any of the Middle East’s Shari’a courts.

Two brothers return to the UFO cult they fled from years ago. Hoping to find the closure they couldn’t find before, they’re forced to reconsider the cult’s beliefs when confronted with unexplainable phenomena.

Pope Francis embarks on a personal journey to present his work of reform and answer today’s global questions -- from his deep concern for wealth inequality to environmental issues, social justice and calls for peace.

IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY

HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES

JEWEL’S CATCH ONE

Directed by Tamer El Said Egypt/GER/UK/UAE | Not Rated | 118 min | Drama

Directed by John Cameron Mitchell UK/USA | R | 102 min | Comedy/Romance FROM THE DIRECTOR OF: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, SHORTBUS, and RABBIT HOLE

Directed by C. Fitz USA | Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary

ADWAY CENTRE

Starts JUNE 1 at BROADWAY CENTRE

Starts JUNE 1 at TOWER THEATRE

nity, a troubled young rious outsider who e her oppressive family. suspicion for a series of m at all costs.

A documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin.

An alien touring the galaxy breaks away from her group and meets two young inhabitants of the most dangerous place in the universe: the London suburb of Croydon.

Filmmakers explore the history of the oldest black-owned disco in America and of its owner Jewel Thais-Williams, who defied discrimination and hate for 42 years.

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MAY 2018

WOMEN DIRECTORS JUNE 1-JULY 3, 2018

BROADWAY CENTRE CINEMAS

S A LT L A K E F I L M S O C I E T Y P R E S E N T S

CLUELESS JUNE 8-10 POINT BREAK JUNE 15-17 THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN JUNE 22-24 RUBIN AND ED JUNE 29-JULY 1 MAD MAX FURY ROAD: BLACK & CHROME EDITION JULY 6-8 PINK FLOYD THE WALL JULY 13-15 THE LOVE WITCH JULY 20-22 IDIOCRACY JULY 27-29 CONAN THE BARBARIAN AUGUST 3-5 DARK CITY AUGUST 10-12 COFFY AUGUST 17-19 ELECTION AUGUST 24-26 FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! AUGUST 31- SEPTEMBER 2 LORDS OF DOGTOWN JUNE 1-3

FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS AT 11 PM / SUNDAYS AT NOON

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MAY 2018 COMING SOON at SLFS

THE SEAGULL

WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?

THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE

Directed by Michael Mayer USA | PG-13 | 98 min | Drama

Directed by Morgan Neville USA | Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary

Directed by Aki Kaurismäki FIN/GER | NR | 100 min | Comedy/Drama

STARRING: Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss, Annette Bening, and Corey Stoll

FROM THE DIRECTOR OF: 20 FEET FROM STARDOM, THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS, and BEST OF ENEMIES: BUCKLEY VS. VIDAL

STARRING: Ville Virtanen, Kati Outinen, and Dome Karukoski FROM THE DIRECTOR OF: LE HAVRE, LA VIE DE BOHEME, and DRIFITNG CLOUDS

Opening at Broadway Centre

Irina, an againg actress, pays a visit to her brother Pjotr and her son Konstantin on a country estate. She brings along Trigorin, a successful novelist. Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, falls in love with Trigorin. As Trigorin lightly consumes and rejects Nina, so the actress all her life has consumed and rejected her son, who loves Nina. The victims are destroyed while the sophisticates continue on their way.

A portrait of Mister Fred Rogers, a man whom we all think we know, this emotional and moving film takes us beyond the zip-up cardigans and the land of make-believe, and into the heart of a creative genius who inspired generations of children with compassion and limitless imagination.

Opening at Broadway Centre

A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees that has recently arrived in Finland.

KUE D7 presents

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