To all our Film Society members and supporters,
I would like to thank all the new members and participants that came to
our ribbon cutting ceremony for the St. George Chamber this last week.
We had a great time and are so looking forward to continuing to get the
word out about Salt Lake Film Society and our exciting community impact.
In addition, we had an amazing screening of WAR DANCE for our
supporters. Look for our next member screening to be in a couple of
months and to be exclusive to SLFS members. Those of you who are new
members... I would like to extend thanks on behalf of the staff and
volunteers of Salt Lake Film Society. We are processing those
memberships this week, so look for your benefits soon!
This Week!
PARIS JE T'AIME, stories of love from the city of love. 18 masterful
shorts about Paris from some of the most influential directors working
today including, the Coen bros., Alfonso Cuaron, Alexander Payne, and
Gus Van Sant... and starring the talents of Juliette Binoche, Steve
Buscemi, Willem Dafoe, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Hoskins, Natalie Portman,
and Elijah Wood
Held over!
The critically acclaimed drama STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING starring
Frank Langhella and Lili Taylor
Double emails!
We've figured out the problem. I put a lot of you on my personal list
when you contacted me and then we exported the list to Xmission too.
So, our amazing assistant manager Jim is working on de-duplicating.
Thanks for your patience.
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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 Theatre Company
Presents an Intimate Evening with
Carol Lynn Pearson
Fundraiser
Carol Lynn Pearson, renowned playwright, author and poet, will join a
limited number of guests and members of The Space Between Theatre
Company on April 15, 2008 for an intimate evening of dinner and
discussion. This very special event will benefit The Space Between
Theatre Company, who will be producing Carol Lynn's play FACING EAST in
May, 2008 in St. George, Utah. The evening will be limited to 12 donors
and will be held in a private setting at one of the beautiful and unique
homes in the Kayenta area of Ivins. Tickets for this fundraising event
are $175.00 per person* and will include an elegant and intimate dinner
with Ms. Pearson, two tickets to the Opening Night of FACING EAST and a
special gift at the end of the evening. For reservations and further
information please call (435) 703-0759. For more information about The
Space Between, please visit:
www.TSBTC.org.
*All contributions are tax deductible. (The Space Between is a 501(c)3
non-profit educational organization.)
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 THU 4/10
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
Starting Out In The Evening 01:00, 4:00, 7:00, 09:20
The Band's Visit 01:10, 4:15, 7:15, 09:15
NEXT WEEK
FRI 4/11 - THU 4/17
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
Starting Out In The Evening 04:00, 9:20
The Band's Visit 01:10, 7:00
Paris Je T'aime 01:10, 4:15, 7:15, 09:45
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TELL ME MORE...PLEASE!
(all star ratings are based on 4 star rating systems)
PARIS, JE T'AIME
Directed by: the Coen bros., Alfonso Cuaron, Alexander Payne, Gus Van
Sant, and more . Starring: Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi, Willem
Dafoe, Ben Gazzara, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Hoskins, Natalie Portman, and
Elijah Wood
Paris, je t'aime is about the plurality of cinema in one mythic
location: Paris, the City of Love. Twenty filmmakers will bring their
own personal touch, underlining the wide variety of styles, genres,
encounters and the various atmospheres and lifestyles that prevail in
the neighborhoods of Paris. Each director has been given five minutes of
freedom, and we, as producers, carry the responsibility of weaving a
single narrative unit out of those twenty moments. The 20 films will not
appear in the order of the arrondissements, from one to twenty, but
rather, in a pertinent narrative order, initially unknown to the
audience. They will be fused together by transitional interstitial
sequences, and also via the introduction and epilogue sequences of the
feature film. Each transition will begin with the last shot of the
previous film and will end with the first shot of the following film,
and will have a threefold function: 1) The first is to extend the
enchantment and the emotion of the previous segment, 2) The second is to
prepare the audience for the surprise of the next segment, and 3) The
third is to provide a general, comfortable and cohesive atmosphere to
the feature film. The delightful and brief interludes of these
transitions will enable the viewer to slide from one world to the next,
featuring a recurring and unexpected character. This mysterious
character is a witness to the Parisian life and helps create a
continuous narration. It appears both in and in-between the films. In
addition to the information these transitions will provide about the
city and its people, their tone will be intentionally light often
referring to famous scenes easily attributed to the history of Paris
cinema. Similar specifications will be followed by the composer who will
supervise the musical fusion between the films and the transitions as he
creates the musical score of Paris, je t'aime. Considering the common
theme of Paris and Love, the fusion between the films and the
transitions, the fast pace of a fluid and complete storytelling, Paris,
je t'aime will not be just another "anthology" picture. It will be a
unique collective feature film that will constitute a two-hour
cinematographic spectacle whose original structure will make for a
dramatically different experience for its global audience.
**** Entertainment Weekly
Anthology films usually work better in theory than execution, but this
feature parade of shorts is a blithe, worldly, and enchanting exception.
*** San Francisco Chronicle
The result is that after two hours one gets the sense of having seen a
panorama of human experience, of having witnessed a moment of time in
all its true fullness.
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.
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FILMS TO COME
In no particular release order
RAPE OF EUROPA
SMART PEOPLE
BONNEVILLE
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
COUNTERFEITERS
SNOW ANGELS
SON OF RAMBOW
UNDER THE SAME MOON (LA MISMA LUNA)
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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Salt Lake Film Society
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