To all our Film Society members and supporters,
As the community non-profit film organization in your town, we are proud
to present our first members screening. Only.... for this time, we would
extend the free screening invitation to anyone in the community! So,
tell all your friends. The film will inspire and move you and - we hope
- engage you enough to want to come see more independent films at the
Red Cliffs. Our fantastic events manager Amy Beth Leber will be in from
Salt Lake City to talk with you about the Film Society and answer any
questions you may have. We look forward to this opportunity to talk with
you!
Free Screening details!
Bring as many people as you like to this one!
Gifts and prizes.
Tell all your friends.
WAR/DANCE
Thursday, April 3 @ 7:30 p.m.
As a thank you, we offer our very first member screening! In combination
with the Chamber of St. George ribbon cutting ceremony and free
screening to be held on Thursday, April 3 at 7:30 p.m. The special free
screening is the amazing, inspiring four star film WAR/DANCE - this is a
film that is a "must see" for anyone who has never tried
independent film or documentaries and thinks that they are
stereotypically boring or
non-entertaining.... if any film will inspire you to think otherwise it
is WAR/DANCE.
****"This War/Dance is among the most affecting films I've seen all
year; it cuts to the
core of being and gives individual faces to sorrow and to
hope."...Boston Globe
****"An enormously emotional and spirit-raising documentary." LA Times
***"For these kids to sing and dance with all their hearts, they need to
go to a place in
themselves that should be closed down forever. The glories of War/Dance
are torturously won, and all the more glorious for it" New York Magazine
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This Week!
The critically acclaimed drama STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING starring
Frank Langhella and Lili Taylor
**** Los Angeles Times
"Intelligent, involving and conspicuously adult, Starting Out in the
Evening is almost shocking in its distinctiveness, its ability to create
high drama from an unlikely source."
Held over!
Ryan Gosling in charming indie dramedy LARS AND THE REAL GIRL- Last week!
The amazing, Oscar nominated film THE BAND'S VISIT
Ends Thursday:
IN BRUGES
I'M NOT THERE
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As we're reaching out into the community to let everyone know of our new
theater at Red
Cliffs, we need your help! Tell all your friends and family. We won't be
able to do it
without the support of you the community, and we're so thrilled to be
here offering what
you haven't had a chance to see in the past!
Xetava Coffee is the best in the state and it's available to you
exclusively at our
theater - so, we're the only show in town that offers a latte or
americano with amazing
cinema!
The Space Between Theater Company!
Great community partners with SLFS
Join them for an Acting Ensemble Workshop beginning April 1, 2008
Lead by John Parkinson, this Workshop will emphasize ensemble work as
opposed to
individual acting skills. Those of you who have studied with Douglas
Caputo will find
your work with him to be complementary to the work in this workshop. We
plan to begin
with “Nickel and Dimed” by Joan Holden, based on the novel by Barbara
Ehrenreich. We will
use improvisational techniques extensively and explore the use of
character archetypes in
developing an approach to ensemble acting. If you have studied with Mr.
Parkinson at
Dixie State College, you will find this workshop to be an extension of
the formal
improvisation techniques we studied there.
The fee schedule for the workshop is designed to permit drop-in
participation. Drop-in is
$12 /class. Pay by the month, $10 /class, $50 for April (5 weeks) and
$40 for May (4
weeks) etc. Should Drop-in Participants wish to continue, any previously
paid fees will
be applied to the monthly rate.The workshop will meet every Tuesday,
7:00PM to 9:00PM at
Grace Episcopal Church, 1072 E 900 S, St.George, UT.
Please let John know if you plan to attend. You can reach him at
john@??? or
435-628-1328.
Word of Mouth marketing...
Many of the films Salt Lake Film Society brings will not have the
marketing budget for
you to be able to see them on television ads or in the papers, so please
feel free to
read our "tell me more" section below that describes each film and lists
details of cast
with critical review re-caps. This should hopefully get you enough
information to want to
venture out for a night at the cinema!
Memberships are a great way to support our non-profit as well. Ask any
staff member
and/or reply to this e-mail for details. Our first member screening will
likely take
place in March. All memberships are tax-deductible - what a way to see
movies!
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QUICK LOOK at SHOWTIMES - RED CLIFFS CINEMAS
Behind the RED CLIFFS MALL 1750 E. RED CLIFFS DR.
THIS WEEK:
Thru Thursday April 3
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 01:15, 4:05, 7:05, 09:25
Lars and The Real Girl 01:05, 4:10, 7:10, 09:40
In Bruge 01:00, 07:00
I'm Not There 04:00, 9:20
The Band's Visit 01:10, 4:15, 7:15, 09:15
NEXT WEEK
FRI 4/4 - THU 4/10
1 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day........01:15, 4:05, 7:05, 09:25
2 Lars and The Real Girl................01:05, 4:10, 7:10, 09:40
3 Starting Out In The Evening...........01:00, 4:00, 7:00, 09:20
4 The Band's Visit......................01:10, 4:15, 7:15, 09
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TELL ME MORE...PLEASE!
(all star ratings are based on 4 star rating systems)
WAR/DANCE
Set in northern Uganda, a country ravaged by more than two decades of
civil war,
War/Dance tells the story of Dominic, Rose, and Nancy, three children
whose families have
been torn apart, their homes destroyed, and who currently reside in a
displaced persons'
camp in Patongo. When they are invited to compete in an annual music and
dance festival,
their historic journey to their nation's capital is also an opportunity
to regain a part
of their childhood and to taste victory for the first time in their
lives. (ThinkFilm)
****"This War/Dance is among the most affecting films I've seen all
year; it cuts to the
core of being and gives individual faces to sorrow and to
hope."...Boston Globe
****"An enormously emotional and spirit-raising documentary." LA Times
***"For these kids to sing and dance with all their hearts, they need to
go to a place in
themselves that should be closed down forever. The glories of War/Dance
are torturously
won, and all the more glorious for it" New York Magazine
STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
Directed by: Andrew Wagner . Written by: Fred Parness and Andrew Wagner
. Starring: Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, Lili Taylor
All that remains for Leonard Schiller is his work. His one enduring goal
in life is to finish the novel whose completion has eluded him for ten
years. With his earlier books out of print, he has learned to starve
himself of the desire for the success he was once so close to, though
beneath this practice lies a pull for his work to be rediscovered.
Schiller’s main contact to the world is through his daughter, Ariel,
with whom he has settled into an amiable relationship, though he must
hide his disappointment that at 39 she remains befuddled by life, still
looking for love and a father for a longed-for child. Schiller’s world
is shaken when Heather Wolfe, a smart, ambitious graduate student,
convinces him that she can use her thesis on his work to bring him back
into the literary world spotlight. (Roadside Attractions)
**** Roger Ebert
The movie is carefully modulated to draw us deeper and deeper into the
situation, and uses no contrived plot devices to superimpose plot jolts
on what is, after all, a story involving four civilized people who are
only trying, each in a different way, to find happiness.
**** Baltimore Sun
A rapturous, ruefully funny flight of sympathetic imagination. Featuring
the first movie role for Frank Langella that ranks with his best stage
parts, it's a rare kind of American movie.
**** Entertainment Weekly
Andrew Wagner has made a lovely comedy of death and rebirth.
THE BAND'S VISIT
Directed by: Eran Kolirin . Written by: Eran Kolirin . Starring: Ronit
Elkabetz Sasson
Gabai Uri Gavriel Imad Jabarin Ahuva Keren Rubi Moskovitz Khalifa Natour
Hilla Sarjon .
The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel to play at
the opening of an
Arab Cultural Center. Dressed in full regalia and observing all military
police protocol,
the members of the orchestra are at a pivotal time in their careers.
It’s not just the
political nature of an Arab military police band playing traditional
Arab music in Israel
that makes this event so important; budget cuts and many reorganizations
have threatened
the continued existence of the Orchestra. Faced with the heavy burden of
this assignment,
the stoic conductor Tewfiq is determined not to foul their excursion.
Despite all Tewfiqs
efforts, it’s not long before problems arise. The band arrives at the
airport with no one
there to greet them. Stranded and unable able to contact their Israeli
hosts or the
Egyptian consulate for help, Tewfiq decides that the Orchestra will
persevere with its
assignment and orders, and designates Khaled, a sauve young ladies man,
to ask for
directions. Khaled and the station agent struggle in English, Arabic and
Hebrew to
communicate, but despite their best efforts, the Orchestra is sent to
the outskirts of a
small forgotten Israeli town in the desert. (Sony Classics)
****Roger Ebert
The Band’s Visit has not provided any of the narrative payoffs we might
have expected,
but has provided something more valuable: An interlude involving two
“enemies,” Arabs and
Israelis, that shows them both as only ordinary people with ordinary
hopes, lives and
disappointments. It has also shown us two souls with rare beauty.
****Entertainment Weekly
Something marvelous happens as the filmmaker, in his first feature,
expertly metes out
small scenes of communication between people taught, for generations, to
be wary of one
another: This Band swings with the rhythms of hope.
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
Directed by: Craig Gillespie . Written by: Nancy Oliver . Starring: Ryan
Gosling Patricia
Clarkson Emily Mortimer Kelli Garner Paul Schneider .
Lars and the Real Girl is the touching, amusing, and humorous story
about a man whose
emotional baggage has kept him from fully embracing life. After years of
what is almost
solitude, Lars invites Bianca, a friend he met on the Internet, to visit
him. He
introduces Bianca to his brother Gus and his wife Karen and they are
stunned. They don't
know what to say to Lars or Bianca--because she is a life-size doll, not
a real person,
and he is treating her as if she is alive. They consult the family
doctor, who explains
that this is a delusion he's created--for what reason, she doesn't yet
know, but they
should all go along with it. What follows is an emotional journey for
Lars and the people
around him. (Kimmel International)
****Wall Street Journal
It's nothing less than a miracle that the director, Craig Gillespie, and
the writer,
Nancy Oliver, have been able to make such an endearing, intelligent and
tender comedy
from a premise that, in other hands, might sustain a five-minute sketch
on TV.
****Kenneth Turan LA Times
The creators of this film were fiercely determined not to go so much as
a millimeter over
the line into sentiment, tawdriness or mockery. It's the rare film that
is the best
possible version of itself, but "Lars" fits that bill.
MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY
Directed by: Bharat Nalluri . Written by: David Magee Simon Beaufoy .
Starring: Frances
McDormand Amy Adams Ciaran Hinds Shirley Henderson Lee Pace .
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who
finds herself
once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Without so much as severance
pay, Miss
Pettigrew realizes that she must--for the first time in two
decades--seize the day. This
she does, by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her
comfort level--as
"social secretary." Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview,
Miss Pettigrew
is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an
American actress
and singer, Delysia Lafosse. Within minutes, Miss Pettigrew finds
herself swept into a
heady high-society milieu--and, within hours, living it up. Taking the
"social secretary"
designation to heart, she tries to help her new friend Delysia navigate
a love life and
career, both of which are complicated by the three men in Delysia's
orbit: devoted
pianist Michael, intimidating nightclub owner Nick, and impressionable
junior impresario
Phil. Miss Pettigrew herself is blushingly drawn to the gallant Joe, a
successful
designer who is tenuously engaged to haughty fashion maven Edythe, the
one person who
senses that the new "social secretary" may be out of her element and
schemes to undermine
her. During the next 24 hours, Guinevere and Delysia will empower one
another to discover
their romantic destinies. (Focus Features)
****Reelviews
Adams shines brightly, reinforcing the image she projected in Junebug
and enhanced in
Enchanted and Charlie Wilson's War. At this time of the year, it's tough
to find a more
diverting way to spend 90 minutes in a multiplex.
***Chicago Tribune
Style is a tricky, elusive thing, and this film doesn’t so much have it
as strive for it,
constantly. But something in Watson’s story endures: The
wish-fulfillment truly
satisfies. And with the war clouds gathering by story’s end, the fairy
tale acquires a
bittersweet edge, nicely cutting all that whipped cream.
I'M NOT THERE
Directed by: Todd Haynes . Written by: Oren Moverman Todd Haynes .
Starring: Cate
Blanchett Richard Gere Heath Ledger Christian Bale Michelle Williams
Julianne Moore Ben
Whishaw Marcus Carl Franklin .
I'm Not There is a film that dramatizes the life and music of Bob Dylan
as a series of
shifting personae, each performed by a different actor—poet, prophet,
outlaw, fake, star
of electricity, rock and roll, martyr born-again Christian—seven
identities braided
together, seven organs pumping through one life story, as dense and
vibrant as the era it
inspired. (The Weinstein Company)
****Entertainment Weekly
I'm Not There lets you hear it again, more majestically than ever.
****Village Voice
I'm Not There is the movie of the year.
****Film Threat
What Haynes has essentially done is create a film that is a Bob Dylan
song, one of his
best.
IN BRUGES
Directed by: Martin McDonagh . Written by: Martin McDonagh . Starring:
Colin Farrell
Brendan Gleeson Ralph Fiennes Clemence Posey .
Very much out of place amidst the gothic architecture, canals, and
cobbled streets, the
two hit men fill their days living the lives of tourists. Ray, still
haunted by the
bloodshed in London, hates the place, while Ken, even as he keeps a
fatherly eye on Ray's
often profanely funny exploits, finds his mind and soul being expanded
by the beauty and
serenity of the city. But the longer they stay waiting for Harry's call,
the more surreal
their experience becomes, as they find themselves in weird encounters
with locals,
tourists, violent medieval art, a dwarf American actor shooting a
European art film,
Dutch prostitutes, and a potential romance for Ray in the form of Chloe,
who may have
some dark secrets of her own. And when the call from Harry does finally
come, Ken and
Ray's vacation becomes a life-and-death struggle of darkly comic
proportions and
surprisingly emotional consequences. (Focus Features)
****Film Threat
In a film full of great performances, Ralph Feinnes steals the show as
Harry, the boss.
***Rolling Stone
A haunting and hypnotic movie, just the thing to get lost in.
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FILMS TO COME
In no particular release order
WAR DANCE
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
COUNTERFEITERS
SNOW ANGELS
STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
SON OF RAMBOW
UNDER THE SAME MOON (LA MISMA LUNA)
PARIS JE T'AIME
And many more....
Our staff here at the Salt Lake Film Society thanks all our supporters.
SLFS takes great care in hiring a staff that has a film history or
knowledge, so feel free to talk with any staff member about up coming
releases. They are a wealth of knowledge and I'm happy to take all
e-mail correspondence.
If you would like to volunteer for the Film Society events and earn
passes, please contact Amy Beth Leber at 801-746-0037
We thank you for your continuing support.
Tori Baker
Executive Director
Salt Lake Film Society...film festival all year long!
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