To all our Film Society members and supporters,
Thanks to those that supported our Senior PG-55 day at the Red Cliffs
for Young @ Heart! We've got the film another week, so be sure to tell
all your friends! We have two delightful films for you this week!
Starring Helen Hunt and Bette Midler we bring you THEN SHE FOUND ME
(please note starts Friday night). "With the screenwriters Alice Arlen
and Victor Levin, Hunt adapted the story from a 1990 novel by Elinor
Lipman, and has turned the material into a fine, tense, unpredictable
comedy of mixed-up emotions and sudden illuminations." New Yorker
And... THE VISITOR. This amazing film has been rare to get around the
country and is well worth the wait! So, see it this weekend and beat the
heat.
"In a world of 6 billion people, it takes only one to change your life.
In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy's follow-up to his award-winning
directorial debut "The Station Agent," we get to know Walter Vale, a
disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed
by a chance encounter in New York City. Through newfound connections
with virtual strangers, Walter is awakened to a new world and a new life."
Held over!
FLAWLESS- w/ Michael Caine & Demi Moore
SMART PEOPLE - with Sarah Jessica Parker
Ends Thurs...
MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
Thanks to your support, and frequent choice of our venues for your film
entertainment, these community programs thrive. Your membership dollars
and ticket admission pays for all our continued film fostering and film
exhibiting programs. Thank you!
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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:
Through Thurs June 5
YOUNG AT HEART 01:15, 4:00, 7:05, 09:20
SMART PEOPLE 01:05, 4:10, 7:10, 09:10
FLAWLESS 01:00, 4:15, 7:00, 09:15
MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS 01:10, 4:05, 7:00, 09:30
NEXT WEEK
Starting Friday June 6-12
YOUNG AT HEART 01:15, 4:00, 7:05, 09:20
SMART PEOPLE 01:05, 7:10
FLAWLESS 04:10, 9:10
THEN SHE FOUND ME 01:00*, 4:15*, 7:00, 09:15
* FRI 6/6 NO 1 PM or 4:15 PM Show (Print will arrive Late afternnon on
Friday)
THE VISITOR 01:10, 4:05, 7:00, 09:30
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TELL ME MORE...PLEASE!
(all star ratings are based on 4 star rating systems)
THEN SHE FOUND ME
Starring Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, and
Ben Shankman
Adapted from Elinor Lipman’s novel of the same name, Helen Hunt makes
her feature directing debut with Then She Found Me, a touching story of
schoolteacher April Epner and her very unlikely path towards personal
fulfillment. Following the separation from her husband and the death of
her adopted mother, April is contacted by her apparent birth mother, who
turns out to be a local talk show host Bernice Graves. As Bernice tries
to become the mother to April that she was never able to be, April seems
to find solace in the arms of the parent of one of her students, only to
find that the mystery to life's questions cannot be solved by a simple
revelation. (THINKFilm)
****Variety
A smart, subtle and seriously funny dramedy bound to find favor with
sophisticated auds.
***1/2 Chicago Tribune
A strength of Then She Found Me, from Elinor Lipman's novel, is its
straightforward, uncomplicated storytelling that keeps the threads
untangled and blends the everyday and the absurd with natural ease.
THE VISITOR
Directed by: Thomas McCarthy . Written by: Thomas McCarthy . Starring:
Richard Jenkins Haaz Sleiman Hiam Abbass Maggie Moore .
In a world of 6 billion people, it takes only one to change your life.
In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy's follow-up to his award-winning
directorial debut "The Station Agent," we get to know Walter Vale, a
disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed
by a chance encounter in New York City. Through newfound connections
with virtual strangers, Walter is awakened to a new world and a new
life. (Overture Films)
****San Francisco Chronicle
The Visitor, is, if anything, more imaginative and touching than his first.
****Baltimore Sun
As a writer-director, McCarthy, like the characters and the places that
he suffuses with emotion, has poetry in him - and he knows how to let it
out. He has a talent for demarcating those spaces in which characters
can become whoever they want to be.
YOUNG @ HEART
Directed by: Stephen Walker
Prepare to be entertained by the inspiring individuals of Young atHeart,
a New England senior citizens' chorus that has delighted audiences
worldwide with their covers of songs by everyone from The Clash to
Coldplay. As Stephen Walker's documentary begins, the retirees, led by
their strict musical director, are rehearsing their new show, struggling
with a discordant Sonic Youth number and giving new meaning to James
Brown's "I Feel Good." What ultimately emerges is a funny and
unexpectedly moving testament to friendship, creative inspiration, and
reaching beyond expectations.
**** Entertainment Weekly
They make joyful music, communicated, both by the singers and their
playful, sensitive documentarian, with an authority that quite knocks
off socks.
**** Chicago Tribune
An exuberant, affectionate documentary.
**** USA Today
A heartening and poignant affirmation of the transformative power of music.
MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
Written and directed by: Wong Kar Wai . Starring: Jude Law, Norah Jones,
Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, and David Strathairn
In Wong Kar Wai's debut English-language feature, the internationally
acclaimed director takes his audience on a dramatic journey across the
distance between heartbreak and a new beginning. After a rough breakup,
Elizabeth sets out on a trip across America, leaving behind a life of
memories, a dream, and a soulful new friend, a cafe owner, all to search
for something to mend her broken heart. Waitressing her way through the
country, Elizabeth befriends others whose yearnings are greater than
hers, including a troubled cop, his estranged wife, and a down-on-her
luck gambler with a score to settle. Through these individuals,
Elizabeth witnesses the true depths of loneliness and emptiness, and
begins to understand that her own journey is part of a greater
exploration within herself.
*** TV Guide
...has the same dreamy, romantic melancholy that distinguishes Wong's
best films.
*** San Francisco Chronicle
Wildly romantic.
FLAWLESS
Directed by: Michael Radford . Written by: Edward Anderson . Starring:
Michael Caine, and Demi Moore
Flawless is a clever diamond-heist thriller set in swinging 1960s
London. Demi Moore plays Laura Quinn, a bright, driven, and beautiful
executive at the London Diamond Corporation who finds herself frustrated
by a glass ceiling after years of faithful employment, as man after man
is promoted ahead of her despite her greater experience. Michael Caine
is Hobbs, the nighttime janitor at London Diamond who is virtually
invisible to the executives who work there, but over the years has
amassed a startling amount of knowledge about how the company runs.
Hobbs has his own bone to pick with London Diamond and, observing
Laura's frustration, convinces her to help him execute an ingenious plan
to steal a hefty sum in diamonds. But unbeknownst to Laura, Hobbs plans
go even further than he's let on, and together they set in motion a
thrilling heist of dizzying proportions, the likes of which London has
never seen.
*** Boston Globe
It's assured and neatly crafted - the time zips by while you're watching it.
*** Washington Post
The joy of this movie, which features Joss Ackland as a memorably
intimidating, Afrikaner-accented boss, is in the gradual revelation of
intrigue.
SMART PEOPLE
Directed by: Noam Murro . Starring: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker,
Ellen Page, and Thomas Haden Church
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, but when
it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright
flummoxed as the next guy. His teenage daughter is an acid-tongued
overachiever who follows all too closely in dad's misery-loving
footsteps, and his adopted, preposterously ne'er-do-well brother has
perfected the art of freeloading. A widower who can't seem to find
passion in anything anymore, not even the Victorian literature in which
he's an expert, Lawrence seems to be sleepwalking through a very stunted
middle age. When his brother shows up unexpectedly for an extended stay
just as he accidentally encounters a former student, Janet, the
circumstances stir him from his deep freeze, with often comical,
sometimes heartbreaking consequences for himself and everyone around him.
***1/2 TV Guide
A sharp, superbly acted character-driven comedic drama.
*** New York Times
The great virtue of Smart People, attributable to Noam Murro's easygoing
direction as well as to Mr. Poirier's wandering screenplay, lies in its
general preference for small insights over grand revelations.
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FILMS TO COME
In no particular release order
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
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