To all our Film Society members and supporters,
Opening this Week!
This Sundance hit UNDER THE SAME MOON tells the heart-warming story of a
young mexican immigrant searching for his mother in Los Angeles.
**** TV Guide
"It's an unexpectedly powerful little film that manages to say a lot of
what, despite all the talk on the subject, isn't being said in the
national debate on immigration."
Also, the critically acclaimed documentary THE RAPE OF EUROPA, which
chronicles the Nazi's pillage of European artwork, then the miraculous
campaign to rescue then return the millions of lost, hidden, and stolen
treasures.
**** Chicago Reader
"Filmmakers Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, and Nicole Newhman do a superb
job of telling this neglected story in vivid detail."
Ends Thursday:
STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
PARIS JE T'AIME
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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!
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 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
NEXT WEEK
FRI 4/18 - THU 4/24
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 01:15, 4:05, 7:05, 09:25
Lars and The Real Girl 04:10, 9:40
Band's Visit 01:05, 7:10
Rape of Europa 01:10, 4:00, 7:00, 09:30
Under The Same Moon 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)
UNDER THE SAME MOON (LA MISMA LUNA)
Directed by: Patricia Riggen . Written by: Ligiah Villalobos . Starring:
Kate Del
Castillo, Adrian Alonso, Jesse Garcia, Kate del Castillo
When the death of his grandmother leaves young Carlitos alone, he takes
his fate into his
own hands and heads north across the border to find his mother. As he
journeys from his
rural Mexican village to the L.A. barrio, Carlitos faces seemingly
insurmountable
obstacles with a steely determination and unfettered optimism that earn
him the grudging
respect and affection of a reluctant protector, a middle-aged migrant
worker named
Enrique. The unlikely pair finds their way from Tucson to East L.A., but
the only clue
Carlitos has to his mother's whereabouts is her description of the
street corner from
which she has called him each Sunday for the last four years. Unaware
that Rosario is
just hours away from returning to Mexico to be with her son, Carlitos
and Enrique
desperately comb the vast, unfamiliar city for a place he has seen only
in his
imagination. (Fox Searchlight)
**** Entertainment Weekly
The film says that the U.S. immigrant situation is untenable, but then
it forces US to
ask: What should be done?
***1/2 TV Guide
It's an unexpectedly powerful little film that manages to say a lot of
what, despite all
the talk on the subject, isn't being said in the national debate on
immigration.
THE RAPE OF EUROPA
Directed by: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, and Nicole Newnham . Written
by: Richard Berge,Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham, and Lynn Nicholas (book)
The Rape of Europa is an epic journey through seven countries that
follows the violent
whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare, which threatened to wipe
out the artistic
heritage of Europe. For 12 long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed
art on an
unprecedented scale in history. But heroic young art historians and
curators from
America, as well as across Europe, fought back. They did so in a
miraculous campaign to
rescue then return the millions of lost, hidden, and stolen treasures.
(Menemsha)
**** Chicago Reader
Filmmakers Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, and Nicole Newhman do a superb
job of telling this neglected story in vivid detail.
***1/2 Baltimore Sun
With Joan Allen bringing a crisp intelligence to the sharp,
unsentimental narration, it's
both awful and fascinating to follow Hitler's warped growth from
frustrated painter to
self-appointed arbiter of Germanic art.
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
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
COUNTERFEITERS
SNOW ANGELS
SON OF RAMBOW
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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