To all our Film Society members and supporters,
*The Tower Still Needs Your Help!
*Thanks to all who have donated to help the Tower get a new projector!
We've received a flood of donations in the past week but are still a
little short of our goal. We realize that Facebook's Causes application
has been having some troubles so we've extended the donation deadline a
few days in order for us to catch up.
If you've yet to donate, please consider helping us out. Remember, all
donations are tax deductible and will be going towards helping a very
important community cause. We're raising money primarily through
Facebook Causes, if you're not a member of Facebook it only takes a few
seconds to sign up and start helping!
*Click here to visit the cause page and DONATE!
<
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/358352/40103119?m=bc0fb5c3>*
If you're having trouble with the cause site or would rather donate
through a check or cash, please feel free to drop by the Tower or
Broadway and let one of our helpful employees know that you'd like to
donate to the projector fund, they'll help you out. You can also email a
donation request to jim_faulkner@???
Thank you all so much! We're almost there.
*
**Tower of Terror is back!
*The Tower begins its annual Tower of Terror midnight programming this
Friday with Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
Each Friday and Saturday at midnight and Sunday at noon we will present
a classic in the horror genre concluding with The Rocky Horror Picture
show on Halloween weekend.
This year's schedule :
10/2-10/4 - *The Shining <
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/>*
10/9-10/11 - *Evil Dead II <
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092991/>
*10/16-10/18 - Zombie Weekend including *Shaun of the Dead
<
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092991/>*, *The Return of the Living Dead
<
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089907/>*, and *Michael Jackson's Thriller
<
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088263/>* with zombies in attendance each
night.
10/23-10/25 - *The Exorcist <
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070047/>*
Only $5 for each show!
*
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
<
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073629/>* schedule:
10/29 at 10:00, 10/30 at 8:00 and midnight, and 10/31 at 8:00 and midnight
Ticket for Rocky are $10 go on sale 10/1 and include the show and
performance! No prop kits allowed... prop kits are on sale for $3 day of
show and proceeds go to the Latter Day Transvestites performance group.
*Opening at the theaters this week!
_Broadway
Capitalism: A Love Story <
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232207/>_*
Michael Moore does it again with Capitalism: A Love Story, a doc that
explores the root causes of the global economic meltdown and takes a
comical look at the corporate and political shenanigans that culminated
in what Moore has described as the biggest robbery in the history of
this country--the massive transfer of U.S. taxpayer money to private
financial institutions.
***1/2 Rolling Stone- "Moore's fireball of a movie could change your
life. It had me laughing with tears in my eyes."
_*Bright Star <
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/brightstar>*_
Acclaimed director, Jane Campion, brings us an intimate drama based on
the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny
Brawne.
**** The New York Times- "Ms. Campion, with her restless camera
movements and off-center close-ups, films history in the present tense,
and her wild vitality makes this movie romantic in every possible sense
of the word."
_*Tower*_
_*
No Impact Man <
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/noimpactman>*_
Follow the Manhattan-based Beavan family as they abandon their
high-consumption, 5th Avenue lifestyle and try to live a year while
making no net environmental impact in this inspirational documentary.
***1/2 San Francisco Chronicle- "...enlightening, ridiculous, foreboding
and funny at the same time."
*_
The Shining <
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/>_* A family heads to
an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence
influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific
forebodings from the past and of the future in Stanley Kubrick's epic
nightmare of horror on 35mm.
*_
_**Held Over!*
*_
It Might Get Loud
<
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/itmightgetloud>_* Rarely can a
film penetrate the glamorous surface of rock legends. It Might Get Loud
tells the personal stories, in their own words, of three generations of
electric guitar virtuosos -- The Edge (U2), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin),
and Jack White (The White Stripes). It reveals how each developed his
unique sound and style of playing favorite instruments, guitars both
found and invented.
**** Rolling Stone- "Does this sound like rock heaven? It is."
*_
(500) Days of Summer
<
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/500daysofsummer>_* An offbeat
romantic comedy and Sundance hit about a woman (played perfectly by
Zooey Deschanel) who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man
(Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who falls for her.
**** Roger Ebert- "Here is a rare movie...a delightful comedy, alive
with invention."
*
*
*The Baader Meinhof Complex
<
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/baadermeinhofcomplex>* Nominated
for the Best Foreign Language Oscar, The Baader Meinhof Complex is a
perfectly executed and haunting look at Germany's terrorist group, The
Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings
and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.
*_
_***** The New York Times- "A taut, unnerving, forcefully unromantic
fictional film."
*My One and Only <
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/myoneandonly>* A
1950s-set comedy in which the glamorous Anne Deveraux (Renee Zellweger)
embarks on a drive down the Eastern Seaboard in a quixotic search for a
wealthy man to fund a new life for her and her sons. Also starring Kevin
Bacon, Chris Noth, and Nick Stahl.
***1/2 Roger Ebert- "This is essentially Renee Zellweger's picture, and
she glows in it."
*_
_**Big Fan <
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/bigfan>* From the
creator of The Wrestler, Big Fan tells the story of Paul Aufiero (played
masterfully by Patton Oswalt), a hardcore New York Giants football fan
who struggles to deal with the consequences when he is beaten up by his
favorite player.
**** Los Angeles Times- "Starring an ideally cast Patton Oswalt in the
title role, Big Fan is a poignant, dead-on character study, an
examination of a crisis in the life of the most die-hard of die-hard New
York Giants football fans."
*Last Chance ... Ends Thursday 9/24!
****Cold Souls <
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/coldsouls>
*_*Ponyo <
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/ponyo>
*_*_Adam <
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185836/plotsummary>
_**_Food, Inc. <
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/foodinc>_*
________________________________________________________________________________________________
_*PROGRAMS AND NEWS
*_
*Free Screening of Metropolis on 35mm!
*SLFS and the Westminster Film Program are collaborating to bring you
the Ivory Tower screening series, a program which brings a classic film
on print to the Tower for a free screening the first Monday of each
month, complete with intros and facts about the films from select
Westminster film students.
October's Ivory Tower film:
*Metropolis <
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/>* Possibly the
crowning achievement of silent cinema, Fritz Lang's 1927 blockbuster
fuses the frenetic storytelling of twenties pulp fiction with Lang's
personal fascination with the darker side of human nature.
Presented on a newly re-mastered 35mm print!
*Salt Lake City Bicycle Film Festival
*SLFS is proud to support the *Bicycle Film Festival
<
http://bicyclefilmfestival.com/>* as it makes its debut in SLC on Oct
2nd and 3rd, to present the emerging bicycle culture. Originating in New
York City, the festival adds SLC to its roster of 39 global cities,
lending its voice and vision to the most powerful and culturally
relevant movement of the past decade: the urban bike movement. The BFF
brings together many creative communities, including fashion, music and
arts as well as various bicycling communities-- including fixed gear,
BMX, mountain racing, cyclocross and road cycling--over a shared passion
for bike riding.
Click on the link above for more details and showtimes.
*City Weekly's Flick Clique
*There will be a discussion after the Friday night 7:00pm show of No
Impact Man with City Weekly film critic Scott Renshaw and Slow Food Utah
as part of City Weekly's new Flick Clique series. Bring your own mug and
get free unlimited fountain drinks with any concessions purchase.*
*
_*QUICK LOOK AT SHOWTIMES*_
*THIS WEEK*
****** Thru Thursday 10/1...
_ Broadway
_Big Fan 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 9:40
Cold Souls 4:20, 9:35
Adam 1:20, 7:20
The Baader Meinhof Complex 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50
It Might Get Loud 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 9:30
500 Days of Summer 1:05, 4:15, 7:10, 9:15
My One and Only 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 9:25
_Tower _
Ponyo 4:30, 7:00* *no 7:00 show on Mon-Wed 9/28-9/30
Food Inc. 9:30
*NEXT WEEK *
****** From Friday 9/25 - Thursday 10/1
_ Broadway
_Big Fan 1:25, 4:25, 7:25*, 9:40 * no 7:25 show on Mon 10/5
My One and Only 1:10, 7:05
The Baader Meinhof Complex 4:00, 9:25
Capitalism: A Love Story 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55
It Might Get Loud 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 9:30
500 Days of Summer 1:05, 4:15, 7:10, 9:15
Bright Star 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50_
__Tower _
No Impact Man (2:00 Fri thru Sun only), 4:30, 7:00*, 9:30 *no 7:00 show
on Mon 10/5 or Wed 10/7_
_Midnight show: The Shining Fri 10/2, Sat 10/3, and Sun 10/4 @ noon_
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*Staff*
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 and our video collection at the Tower Theatre. They are a
wealth of knowledge and I'm happy to take all e-mail correspondence.
*Volunteer*
If you would like to volunteer for the Film Society events and earn
passes, please contact Jim Faulkner at 801-746-0038
<callto:+1801-746-0038> or reply to this e-mail.
We thank you for your continuing support.
*
SPECIAL THANKS*
Salt Lake Film Society thanks Xmission for their donation of services.
Salt Lake Film Society thanks Zoo Arts and Parks and SL County.
Salt Lake Film Society thanks George Q. Morris Foundation for sponsorship.
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