Island Claws
A seaside Florida community gets a nasty case of the crabs, and all the killer crustacean chaos is going to get hotter than a tub of melted butter!
Free Admission!
The Peanuts Movie
Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the Peanuts gang hit the big screen in an all-new animated adventure filled with laughs, fun and heart!
Free Outdoor Screening in Flagstaff, AZ!
Faces Places
Agnès Varda, one of the leading filmmakers of the French New Wave, and acclaimed 33 year-old French photographer and muralist JR team up for this enchanting documentary/road movie.
Octaman
A floppy-armed Octaman rises from the depths and throws a tentacle temper tantrum as he tries to get any one of his eight claws on the stupid humans who are trying to turn him into a fried octa-appetizer!
Presented by the Full Draw Film Tour
Full Draw Film Tour 2018
Bowhunting adventure on the “Big Screen!” Full Draw breaks the boundaries of hunting films and will truly inspire all who share the passion and pursuit of bowhunting and outdoor films.
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
A female Indiana Jones tracks down the fabled cannibal Piranha Women, who devour men with guacamole, in this goofy Raiders spoof!
Firewalker
Professional butt-kicker Chuck Norris and Oscar-winner Lou Gossett Jr. team up to cinematically embarrass themselves as they trot around the globe searching for a hidden Mayan treasure – a treasure protected by the Bad Movie Gods at Cannon Films!
CLOSED CAPTIONS & AUDIO DESCRIPTION
Pope Francis – A Man of His Word
The new documentary from Oscar-nominated Wim Wenders is intended to be a personal journey with Pope Francis, rather than a biographical documentary about him.
Closed Captions
Ghost Stories
Experience three spine-tingling tales of terror to haunt your dreams, in this chilling homage to the classic British horror anthologies of the ‘60s and ‘70s.
Back to the Future
Gotta get back in time! The ingenious time travel comedy Back to the Future is a pitch-perfect combination of sharp satire, warm sentiment and sci-fi excitement.
Preview Party
SLOBBY’S WORLD
Join local Tucsonans for a Preview Party of Slobby’s World, a new reality show for viewers who love everything cool from the 80s and 90s.
Julius Caesar
Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake.
Chasing The Dragon
Stark first-person accounts told by individuals who have abused opioids or whose children have abused opioids, with tragic consequences.
The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak
If you’ve been waiting for a softcore parody of Raiders based on an adult comic strip, and featuring ‘80s Whitesnake vixen Tawny Kitaen, it’s your lucky day!
Free Admission!
Madeline
The adventures of Madeline, a spunky flame-haired orphan, are lovingly adapted from Ludwig Bemelmans’ classic children’s books in this fun comedy starring Oscar-winner Frances McDormand.
The Babadook
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Treasure of the Four Crowns
In this hilariously cheapo Italian Raiders knock-off, a middle-aged soldier of fortune named J.T. Striker is hired to assemble a crack team of thieves to steal the titular treasure, which actually turns out to be three crowns…
Presented by the Southwest Folklife Alliance Inc. & Iskashitaa Refugee Network
Taste Bud Memories
“Taste Bud Memories” is a documentary film focusing on local food and refugees in Tucson, AZ.
The Last Dragon
Is The Last Dragon the greatest kung fu/action/romance/musical produced by Motown founder Berry Gordy and starring karate champ Taimak and sexy ‘80s pop singer Vanity ever made? In a word: “Sho’nuff!”
The Deadly Spawn
Hordes of giant alien worms with big nasty teeth travel to Earth and begin chowing down on the residents of a small New Jersey town until four teenagers and a monster movie-loving kid try to figure out a way to stop them!
The Alien Factor
When a spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth, things go from bad to worse as the freaky specimens escape and start mutilating the local rednecks in an all-out alien orgy of terror!
Presented by The Arizona Daily Star
Fitz at The Loft!
Join acclaimed Arizona Daily Star Editorial Cartoonist David Fitzsimmons for a live taping of The Point Being, The Star’s opinion page podcast!
SPECIAL PRIVATE ARIZONA SCREENING WITH Q&A AND PERFORMANCE!
When I Sing
Funny, irreverent, heartfelt, and real, with Linda Chorney (Tucson resident) playing herself, this is the story of a singer-songwriter’s wild ride toward finally being “almost famous” after thirty years on the road.
Keep The Change Sensory Friendly Screenings
A New York City romantic comedy, Keep the Change is the unlikely love story of two people who meet in a support group.
Closed Captions
Lean on Pete
A deeply moving story about love, loneliness, family, and friendship, told through the unique prism of one boy’s connection to a very special racehorse.
3rd Annual Psychout!
Psychout! is a showcase of neo-psychedelic bands with homemade imagery created specifically for the event that is projected onto the screen while they’re playing.
Revenge
Soaking the revenge thriller in a strikingly hypnotic style, writer/director Coralie Fargeat’s intense feature debut blasts apart genre conventions with a fiery feminist take on power and violence.
With panel discussion before the film!
The Cleaners
A documentary short that follows three immigrant workers who clean for a department store in Tucson. After being paid less than the minimum wage, the women decide to demand their right to fair pay.
Teenagers from Outer Space
An overly-sensitive teen from another world visits our planet and falls in love with a totally boss Earth girl, and the two of them join forces to stop the boy’s evil alien comrades from feeding Earthlings as food for their giant pet space lobsters!
Mind Game
Buckle up and prepare for an exhilarating and wildly entertaining ride in this trippy animated adventure from Masaaki Yuasa (Kick-Heart) and Kôji Morimoto (animator on Akira and Kiki’s Delivery Service).
CLOSED CAPTIONS & AUDIO DESCRIPTION
You Were Never Really Here
Filmmaker Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin) returns to the big screen with this intense thriller about an unhinged avenger (Joaquin Phoenix) searching for a missing girl and losing himself in the process.
Free Admission! (CC & AD)
Rio
From the creators of the popular Ice Age series comes Rio, a colorfully comical animated adventure about taking a walk on the wild side.
Let the Sunshine In
Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche delivers a luminous performance in this deliciously witty, sensuously romantic new film from acclaimed director Claire Denis.
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Using a phone booth time machine, Bill and Ted kidnap a team of historical luminaries to help deliver a most excellent grade on their final and save the world!
Closed Captions & Audio Description
The Rider
This enthralling, gorgeously-filmed portrait of America’s cowboy culture provides an archetypal story of a man redefining his hopes and ambitions in the modern West.
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
From the dual imaginations of Neil Gaiman & glam-rock auteur John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) comes an electrifying and singular sci-fi/pop extravaganza!
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
This electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with personal footage, all brimming with Jones’s fierce aesthetic.
Closed Captions
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
An intimate view of Basquiat’s pre-fame life and how New York City, the times, the people and the movements surrounding him formed the celebrated artist he became.
Xtro
A nutty family drama of epic proportions, somehow combining a not-exactly-heartwarming story of a father/son reunion with a bunch of bats**t crazy alien-fueled shenanigans!
Free Talk by Dr. Mark Pirtle
Dr. Pirtle will teach you how to shift into a higher perspective. When you do, your perspective on life will instantly improve.
Sold Out
Doggie Shorts: A Furry Film Festival
The Loft Cinema and Handi-Dogs are proud to present a dog-centric short film festival!
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Based on the wildly popular 1998 TV series, the big-screen adventure Cowboy Bebop: The Movie pits Spike and Co. against their deadliest adversary ever.
Not of this Earth
In this deliciously campy remake of the 1957 Roger Corman classic, a sickly, sunglasses-wearing space vampire visits Earth to find human blood for the inhabitants of his dying planet!
The Big Lebowski
A ridiculous case of mistaken identity embroils ultimate slacker Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski in a kidnapping case and throws him into the role of hapless detective.
Generation Silent
A documentary film featuring six LGBT older adults as they deal with surviving in a care system that is hostile to their lifestyles.
Pyewacket
In this ultra-unsettling occult nightmare, teenage Leah finds solace from the recent death of her father-and from her strained relationship with her mother – by dabbling in the dark arts.
35mm Print!
Valley Girl
She’s cool. He’s hot. She’s from the Valley. He’s not. And thus begins this, like, totally awesome ‘80s comedy of star-crossed teen romance starring a punked-out Nicolas Cage in his first major movie role!
Frankenhooker
When Jersey boy Jeffrey Franken’s fiancée is chopped to pieces by the blades of a remote-controlled lawnmower, he uses his dubious medical knowledge to try to bring her back to life.
JUMANJI
Re-live the adventure and see the original 1995 Jumanji, starring Robin Williams, on the big screen!
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster
An American astronaut (and android) named Frank becomes a hideous burnt-face monster thanks to some gratuitous outer space laser-blasting by Martians who want to invade Earth!
Presented by Lesbian Looks and Southern Arizona Senior Pride
Lives: Visible and Leftovers
Legendary director Michelle Citron will be in person to present her newest films!
Free Admission!
Fantastic Mr. Fox
A hilarious and heartwarming animated adventure about a clever, quick and exceptionally well-dressed fox with a hunger for adventure.
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
Place your bets on the goofy ‘70s porn star-looking bloodsucker or the lumpy mashed potato-faced Frankenweenie … either way, the only winners here will be those viewers with a taste for hilariously awful horror trash!
Special Guests in Person!
Cinematic Labyrinths
The Kissinger Twins mix digital technologies with film, music and literature to create new forms of storytelling.
Free Outdoor Screening!
Rio Bravo
Filmed on location at legendary Old Tucson Studios, the thrilling 1959 Western Rio Bravo stands tall as one of the all-time greats of the genre.
The Restored Director’s Edition
Ichi the Killer
Takashi Miike’s ultra-violent cult film has endured as one of the most influential pieces of genre filmmaking of the last two decades, and now it returns in an all-new, all-stunning digital restoration approved by Miike himself.
Frankenstein’s Daughter
A bewildering and highly entertaining non-classic that thoroughly trashes the Frankenstein legend, from the director of She-Demons and Missile to the Moon!
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
The classic sci-fi/noir thriller in a definitive Final Cut that gave director Ridley Scott full artistic control to include extended scenes and never-before-seen special effects.
Blade II
In this blood-soaked, adrenaline-pumping action/horror fun machine sequel, Wesley Snipes returns to kick a whole lot of vampire butt as ultra-cool Marvel superhero Blade!
Free for Members!
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
This electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with personal footage, all brimming with Jones’s fierce aesthetic.
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Animated Shorts
Catch all of this year’s Oscar nominated short films before the 90th Annual Academy Awards telecast!
Death Spa
A hip and happening L.A. health club is the hottest place to work out, hook up and hang out until it’s possessed by the evil satanic spirit of the owner’s dead wife!
Free Community Forum
Guns in America: Where Do You Go from Here?
Photojournalist Jamie Hunter toured the U.S., documenting all sides of the gun control issue. Following Hunter’s presentation, we will conduct a community forum.
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Live Action Shorts
Catch all of this year’s Oscar nominated short films before the 90th Annual Academy Awards telecast!
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Rarely has Miyazaki’s art been so brilliantly rendered as in this delightfully imaginative film – a beautiful and timeless story of a young witch finding her way in the world.
Pulsebeat
Feel the burn with the sweaty, silly and downright sleazy ‘80s “aerobic-sploitation” classic, Pulsebeat!
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Documentary Shorts
Catch all of this year’s Oscar nominated short films before the 90th Annual Academy Awards telecast!
Wizards
Boundary-pushing adult animator Ralph Bakshi’s (Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic) first foray into fantasy is, in true Bakshi style, a dark, strange, psychedelic wonder.
The Insult
A dispute between two men – one a Lebanese Christian, one a Palestinian refugee – on the streets of Beirut escalates into a national sensation as they face off in court.
Sold Out
No Man’s Land Film Festival
Get inspired by adventure! No Man’s Land Film Festival celebrates the grit, spirit, and unique experience of women adventurers.
Body Melt
The residents of Pebbles Court are just dying to get healthy in this gloriously gruesome Ozploitation splatter flick about a mysterious diet pill that melts the pounds away – literally!
Free Admission!
Cool Runnings
The hilarious and inspiring comedy Cool Runnings is based on a true story about the unlikely formation of a Jamaican bobsled team who dream of competing in the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Twilight
Star-crossed teens and sparkly vampires fuel this action-packed, modern-day love story, the first film in the popular Twilight franchise.
Closed Captions & Audio Description
Phantom Thread
Paul Thomas Anderson reunites with Daniel Day-Lewis to paint a stylish and illuminating portrait of an artist on a creative journey, as well as of the fascinating women who keep his world running.
Bending The Arc
A powerful documentary about the extraordinary team of doctors and activists whose work thirty years ago in a Haitian village grew into a global battle in the halls of power for the right to health for all.
Killer Workout
An exercise-hating maniac is terrorizing the big-haired, spandex-clad members of Rhonda’s Gym and it’s really getting their blood pumping – all over the exercise equipment!
CLOSED CAPTIONS & AUDIO DESCRIPTION
The Shape of Water
From master storyteller Guillermo del Toro comes The Shape of Water, an otherworldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America, circa 1962.
25th Anniversary!
Groundhog Day
Bill Murray is at his wisecracking best in this hilarious high concept comedy about a self-absorbed TV weatherman caught in a personal time warp on the worst day of his life.
Ninja III: The Domination
It’s the age old story: sexy aerobics instructor becomes possessed by the spirit of an evil ninja who uses her body to seek revenge on the cops who killed him!
Fundraising Screening to Support MOCA Tucson!
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
A documentary concerning Paris and New York between 1969 and 1973 and viewed through the eyes of Antonio Lopez, the dominant fashion illustrator of the time.
The Craft
A coven of teen witches transforms their high school into a little shop of horrors in the magically delicious comedy/thriller The Craft.
Presented by Ben's Bells!
Social Justice Parenting with Mako Fitts Ward
Mako Fitts Ward will discuss her journey into motherhood and the challenges of applying ethics of justice, kindness, equality and integrity into parenting.
Before We Vanish
Acclaimed horror director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Tokyo Sonata) reinvents the alien invasion movie as a unique and profoundly human tale of love and mystery.
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation
Can the American Ninja find romance, pull out his magic ninja tricks AND stop the Lion’s army of kung-fu freaks from taking over the world?
Keep the Change
A New York City romantic comedy, Keep the Change is the unlikely love story of two people who meet in a support group.
Closed Captions
Leaning into the Wind – Andy Goldsworthy
Riedelsheimer’s second documentary on British artist Andy Goldsworthy takes viewers on a journey into the hillsides, wild terrains and outdoor spaces that inspire Goldsworthy’s creative spirit.
CLOSED CAPTIONS & AUDIO DESCRIPTION
Call Me By Your Name
A sensual and transcendent tale of first love, adapted from Andre Aciman’s acclaimed novel by Oscar-nominated filmmaker, James Ivory.
9 Deaths of the Ninja
Martial arts superstar Sho Kosugi (a lollipop-loving U.S. secret agent/ninja) takes his dimwit sidekick Steve and tough commando Jennifer to the Philippines to rescue kidnapped American tourists!
Closed Captions
The Death of Stalin
The one-liners fly as fast as political fortunes fall in this uproarious, wickedly irreverent satire from Armando Iannucci (Veep, In the Loop).
Double Lover
Celebrated writer/director François Ozon (Swimming Pool) makes a kinky return to the thriller genre with Double Lover – an intense exploration of a woman venturing into dangerous romance.
In Between (Bar Bahar)
In the award-winning, taboo-breaking drama In Between, three independent minded Palestinian women share an apartment in the vibrant heart of Tel Aviv.
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr.
November
In this gorgeously bizarre tale of love and survival in 19th century Estonia, peasant girl Liina longs for village boy Hans, but Hans is inexplicably infatuated by the visiting German baroness who possesses all that he longs for.
Conan the Barbarian
Arnold Schwarzenegger crushes bones, bashes brains and saves humanity from ultimate destruction in the original 1982 heavy-metal action classic, Conan the Barbarian!
Mary and the Witch’s Flower
A dazzling new animated adventure about a young girl named Mary who discovers a flower that grants magical powers, but only for one night.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson invites you to book a room in The Grand Budapest Hotel, a hilariously offbeat, meticulously-designed screwball tragi-comedy set in Europe between the World Wars.
CLOSED CAPTIONS & AUDIO DESCRIPTION
The Party
In the wicked dark comedy The Party, the latest film from acclaimed director Sally Potter (Orlando), a celebratory gathering of friends goes violently wrong in a very short space of time.
A Fantastic Woman
In A Fantastic Woman, Daniela Vega delivers a powerhouse performance as a transgender nightclub singer, Marina, in love with Orlando (Francisco Reyes), a successful businessman 20 years her senior.
Sweet Country
Accused of murder, an Aboriginal stockman and his wife try to stay ahead of a fervent posse in the harsh outback of the Northern Territory, in this inspired-by-true-events period drama from acclaimed Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton.
CLOSED CAPTIONS
BORG VS. MCENROE
The story of the 1980s tennis rivalry between the placid Björn Borg and the volatile John McEnroe.
35mm Print!
The Goonies
The Goonies is a rip-roaring, rollercoaster ride of movie that delivers the fun no matter how many times you’ve seen it.
Audio Description
Foxtrot
The reported death of an upper-class Israeli couple’s soldier son sparks a series of tragicomically absurd events, in the bold new film from award-winning filmmaker Samuel Maoz.
Loveless
Zhenya (Maryana Spivak), a beauty salon owner, and Boris (Aleksey Rozin), a middle-management office worker, are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations.
Closed Captions
Gemini
In this intoxicating L.A.-set neo-noir, a shocking crime tests the complex and dangerous relationship between a tenacious personal assistant (Lola Kirke, Gone Girl), and her self-absorbed Hollywood starlet boss (Zoë Kravitz, Mad Max: Fury Road).
Free Outdoor Screening in Prescott, AZ!
My Neighbor Totoro
One of the most endearing and internationally renowned family films of all time!
Gymkata
Real-life ‘80s Olympic gymnast Kurt Thomas goes for the gold in Gymkata, playing an ‘80s Olympic gymnast who is sent by the U.S. government to compete in a deadly karate tournament in the fictional country of Parmistan!
Mad Max: Fury Road
An outrageous, full-throttle action extravaganza filled with unexpected depth, feeling and characters to root for.
Peter Pan
A riot of magic, music and make-believe ensues. A delight for children and adults alike, Sally Cookson directs this wondrously inventive production, a co-production with Bristol Old Vic theatre.
SOLD OUT!
The Cat Video Fest
The jingle cats are back with a special gift just for you! Bring the whole family to The Loft Cinema as we unwrap the latest edition of THE CAT VIDEO FEST, just in time for the holidays!
Santa’s Slay
WWE star Bill Goldberg kills it as the “real” Santa, the one who is actually Satan’s deadly son. Playing like Bad Santa with more blood, breasts and exploding children, Santa’s Slay just might be your new favorite Christmas movie!
Die Hard
Deck the Halls with Bruce and Bullets, Fa-La-La-La-Argh! Celebrate the holidays with everyone’s favorite Christmas action flick – the one, the only, the original Die Hard!
Closed Captions & Audio Description
Final Portrait
In 1964, while on a short trip to Paris, American writer and art-lover James Lord (Armie Hammer, Call Me by Your Name) is asked by his friend, the world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush, Shakespeare in Love), to sit for a portrait.
Brand New Digital Restoration!
Christmas Evil
A sadistic holiday treat in which Taxi Driver finally meets It’s a Wonderful Life, and all the world rejoices!
Sold Out
Reel Rock 12
Reel Rock 12 premieres four new short films that will deliver heart-thumping action, big laughs, and pure inspiration.
Shriek of the Mutilated
A gang of groovy ‘70s college kids head out to a secluded island in the dead of winter to help their weirdo professor catch a killer Yeti.
Free Outdoor Screening!
Home Alone
Don’t miss this fun, festive and FREE outdoor screening of the holiday classic, Home Alone, featuring tasty hot chocolate and cookies, holiday snowflake crafting and a movie-themed photo booth!
FREE ADMISSION!
Elf
Buddy the Elf is searching for the true meaning of Christmas, but it’s not going to be easy in this hilariously off-the-wall comedy!
Rule Breakers Movie Party!
Gremlins
Don’t miss the hilarious holiday horror classic, Gremlins, on the big screen, featuring an all-new introduction and exclusive pre-recorded Q&A with director Joe Dante before the movie!
VW Presents: Warren Miller’s Line of Descent
Travel the globe, by land, air, and sea, exploring the ties that bind us. Visit skiing icons who have made the mountains their home and raised the next generation of winter adventurers.
Free Outdoor Screening in Camp Verde, AZ!
Kingdom of the Spiders
William Shatner battles eight-legged invaders trying to spin a web of terror over a small Arizona town in the ultimate man vs. spider B-movie showdown!
Gesticulate
For one showing only, 10 undergraduate students from the School of Art at the University of Arizona present Gesticulate – a compilation of video artworks produced in 2017.
free admission!
What’s Up, Docs?
New documentary work from the UA School of Theatre, Film & Television featuring films about art, science and religion, culture and politics.
Iced
It’s The Big Chill meets Friday the 13th, with a bargain basement budget and serious case of brain freeze!
Father's Day Screening
The Royal Tenenbaums
Celebrate Father’s Day with one of the screen’s most gloriously dysfunctional dads in Wes Anderson’s hilariously oddball family drama, The Royal Tenenbaums!
Shelter Me: In Times of Need
Shelter Me: In Times of Need is the eighth episode in this inspiring series that celebrates shelter pets and the people who help them.
Co-Presented by The Loft Cinema, and Young Voters of Pima County
Get Out (AND VOTE)
Funny, scary, and thought-provoking, Get Out seamlessly weaves its trenchant social critiques into a brilliantly effective and entertaining horror/comedy thrill ride.
35MM Print!
Streets of Fire
One of the great gonzo pleasures of the ‘80s, director Walter Hill’s (The Warriors) spectacular, retro rock ‘n’ roll-fueled pulp classic roars at you like a souped-up roadster with the radio going full blast.
Brand-new 50th Anniversary Restoration
Memories of Underdevelopment
One of the first Cuban films to achieve success abroad, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s intimate and densely layered Memories of Underdevelopment is a landmark work of Cuban cinema.
70mm Print!
Tron
A landmark in computer animation, Jeff Bridges stars as hot-shot computer programmer Kevin Flynn, who becomes trapped inside the very game that he’s programming.
Brand-New Digital Restoration!
Edward II
In this iconic New Queer Cinema classic, cinematic provocateur Derek Jarman (Sebastian, Jubilee) offers a visually extravagant, sexually provocative postmodern take on Marlowe’s Elizabethan drama, The Troublesome Reign of Edward II.
The House I Live In
Filmed in more than twenty states, The House I Live In offers a penetrating look at the profound human rights implications of America’s longest war: the war on drugs.
Free Admission
13th
Analyzes the legacy of the thirteenth amendment, mapping the connection between the legacy of slavery and the criminalization of African Americans during U.S. prison boom.
Hippie Family Values
Shot over a period of ten years at a remote communal ranch in New Mexico, Hippie Family Values is an intimate chronicle of a handful of hippie elders, along with their adult children and grandkids.
Closed Caption & Audio Description
Itzhak
Hailed as the world’s greatest living violinist, Itzhak Perlman is presented in a highly personal light, revealing his appealing personality and deep passion for music.
Father's Day Screening!
The Godfather
This Father’s Day, make your dad an offer he can’t refuse – take him to see The Godfather on the big screen! Spend the afternoon with the Corleone family and enjoy this iconic, Oscar-winning masterpiece as it was meant to be seen!
Filmworker
Gives unique insight into the creative genius of Stanley Kubrick, as well as the man who helped him fulfill his vision, Leon Vitali, celebrating the invisible hands that shape masterpieces.
Mother's Day Screening
Serial Mom
Mother knows best, especially when it comes to murder, in writer/director John Waters’ outrageously twisted comedy Serial Mom!
DOGGIE SHORTS: A FURRY FILM FESTIVAL ENCORE SCREENING
The Loft Cinema and Handi-Dogs are proud to present a dog-centric short film festival!
CLOSED CAPTIONS
Hearts Beat Loud
In Red Hook, Brooklyn, a father (Nick Offerman) and daughter (Kiersey Clemons) become an unlikely songwriting duo the summer before she leaves for college.
40th Anniversary!
Eraserhead
Self-described as “a dream of dark and troubling things,” this 1977 avant-garde classic introduced David Lynch to the world of feature films, going on to become a bona fide cult sensation.
35MM PRINT!
Trouble Every Day
An erotically outré shocker that scandalized arthouses around the world. Vincent Gallo and Béatrice Dalle star as unfortunates who are afflicted with a condition that turns sexual hunger into hunger for flesh.
35MM PRINT!
35 Shots of Rum
Denis’ deeply emotional yet light-of-touch drama, 35 Shots of Rum, follows a small circle of Parisians in a roundelay of relationships that touches on almost every kind of love there is.
35MM PRINT!
White Material
Twenty-two years after Chocolat, Denis returns to Africa and collaborates with Oscar-nominated actress Isabelle Huppert (Elle), to craft a visceral and very personal rumination on a society hurtling into chaos.
This is Spinal Tap Sing-A-Long!
Get ready to smell the glove and turn it up to “11” at this special Sing-A-Long screening of the funniest rock ‘n’ roll movie of all-time!
Salomé
This charged retelling turns the infamous biblical tale on its head, placing the girl we call Salomé at the centre of a revolution.
The Breadwinner
The Breadwinner tells the story of Parvana, an 11-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001.
The Stuff
A new tasty treat is sweeping the nation – it’s “The Stuff,” and it’s delicious, nutritious and oh yeah, absolutely deadly!
Parents
In this childhood nightmare of a horror flick, Mikey’s parents seem like your typical 1950’s suburbanites, except for one thing – they just might be vicious cannibalistic murders!
The Longest Day
Don’t miss Darryl F. Zanuck’s tribute to WWII veterans post Veterans Day after the completion of the Loft Film Festival.
Presented by The American Legion
Arizona Heroes of World War 1
Arizona Heroes of World War 1 tells the stories of the soldiers and citizens from the new state of Arizona as they did their part to help win the “The War To End All Wars.”
With the director in person!
Arrangiarsi (Pizza… & the Art of Living)
From the Bay Area to Italy, Matteo Troncone searches for the meaning of life in this engaging, intimate documentary.
Human Flow
Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The amazing story of one romantic slacker’s epic quest to power up with love in the video game-inspired action/comedy Scott Pilgrim vs. the World!
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion
A pair of nerdy party girls reinvent themselves for their 10-year high school reunion (in Tucson, AZ!) and find that some things never change.
Beyond the Wall
Beyond the Wall highlights one of the most critical issues in criminal justice reform: the many prisoners returning to their communities each year where they face tremendous challenges and barriers.
Free Outdoor Screening at the UA
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
See the latest action-packed episode in the Star Wars saga, screened under the stars on The Loft Cinema’s giant inflatable solar cinema screen!
Blood Diner
An absurdly gory ‘80s horror/comedy that gives the term “eating out” a whole new meaning!
The Witch
Age-old concepts of witchcraft, black magic and possession are brought together to tell the intimate story of one family’s frightful unraveling in the New England wilderness circa 1630.
Tucson Comic-Con Screening
Rocky Horror Picture Show Cast with Film Screening
Join us for a panel and Q&A with the REAL Brad, Columbia and Magenta with a full screening of film to follow!
Free Admission! Subtítulos en español!
The Book of Life
The Book of Life is a dazzling and fun animated adventure through Mexican folklore, following a young man who is torn between becoming a matador, as his family wishes, and following his heart.
35MM PRINT!
The Hidden Fortress
Mifune stars as a brave general charged with guarding his defeated clan’s princess as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory in war-torn feudal Japan.
Tucson Comic-Con Screening
The Crow
Join writer/creator James O’Barr for an intimate screening of The Crow, based on the hit comic book series of the same name.
Free Outdoor Screening at Las Milpitas Community Farm!
The Hand That Feeds
Sandwich-maker Mahoma López unites his undocumented immigrant coworkers to fight abusive conditions at a popular New York restaurant chain.
Ends Thursday, Nov. 30
The Florida Project
The Florida Project, a deeply moving and unforgettably poignant look at childhood, follows six-year-old Moonee and her rebellious mother Halley over the course of a single summer.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Following his smash hit production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Benedict Andrews’ ‘thrilling revival’ stars Sienna Miller, alongside Jack O’Connell and Colm Meaney.
Goodbye Christopher Robin
A glimpse into the complex relationship between beloved children’s author A. A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Distant Sky: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Live in Copenhagen
Recorded at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena in October 2017, Distant Sky captures an extraordinary and triumphant live concert from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
Presented by the University of Arizona School of Art
Before Hours
A compilation of video artworks produced in 2018 from one musician and eleven emerging visual artists of the Graduate Video Art course from the School of Art at the University of Arizona.
Ends Thursday, Nov. 30
Blade of the Immortal
The 100th film by celebrated director Takashi Miike (13 Assassins, Audition) is a samurai action epic taken to spectacular (and spectacularly violent) new heights.
They Live
An anti-establishment, media-paranoid classic that will open your eyes to the terrifying truth about bubblegum, billboards and little old ladies.
Ends Thursday
Loving Vincent
The world’s first fully oil painted feature film brings the artwork of Vincent van Gogh to vibrant life in an exploration of the complicated life and controversial death of one of history’s most celebrated artists.
Everything is Terrible! The Great Satan Show
Join your bedazzled Dadgods for an all-new live show, featuring never before seen puppets and costumes, as EIT! presents their newest feature, The Great Satan!
Rashomon
A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, Rashomon is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made.
35mm Print!
Seven Samurai
One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
35MM PRINT!
Throne of Blood
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan.
Earth Day Screening!
Skyglow
Join us for a special Earth Day screening of the new documentary, Skyglow, featuring filmmakers/authors Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan, and a post-film discussion with local scientists and experts!
Vagabond
One of Agnès Varda’s most celebrated features, Vagabond tells the harrowing story of the last months in the life of a young female drifter.
35MM PRINT!
The Gleaners & I
Agnes Varda’s marvelous “wandering road documentary,” voted one of the 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century, focuses on the centuries-old tradition of “gleaning” in France – literally, picking up the cast-offs of others.
Free Outdoor Screening at the UA!
Coco
See the magical, musical, Oscar-winning animated adventure Coco, screened under the stars on The Loft Cinema’s giant inflatable solar cinema screen!
Ramen Heads
Osamu Tomita takes audiences deep into his world by revealing every single step of his obsessive approach to creating the perfect soup and noodles, along with his relentless search for the highest-quality ingredients.
Peter Rabbit and Tales of Beatrix Potter
Celebrate the Easter holiday with this new digital restoration of the1971 live-action dance adaption of Beatrix Potter’s beloved tales, brought to magical life by members of the Royal Ballet!
Ends Thursday, January 18
Jane
Set to a rich orchestral score from legendary composer Philip Glass, the film offers an unprecedented, intimate and poetic portrait of Jane Goodall.
A Brief History of Time
Celebrate the life and legacy of the incredible Stephen Hawking at this special presentation of the Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris’ acclaimed 1991 documentary, A Brief History of Time.
Free Admission
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
The first installment in the Lone Wolf and Cub series, this is the epic story of Ogami Ittō, a wandering assassin for hire who is accompanied on his violent adventures by his young son, Daigoro.
Presented by Arizona Queer Archives
Jay
“Jay” is a documentary about spirituality, reality, perception and, ultimately, perseverance and hope. A glimpse into the extraordinary and complex life of an abstract Tucson artist with an even more abstract past.
Presented by Take Back the Night Tucson
No! The Rape Documentary
A community education fundraiser benefiting Take Back the Night Tucson, a kick-off event for April Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Sold Out
The All-Nite Scream-O-Rama!
Pay to get in … pray to get out! Get ready, boys and ghouls, to stay up all-nite at the sickest, scariest, most scream-errific cinematic slaughterhouse you’ve ever seen!
Free Outdoor Screening at Mission San Xavier del Bac!
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Rumble reveals the untold story of a profound, essential, and, until now, missing chapter in the history of rock n’ roll: the Indigenous influence.
New Digital Restoration!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielberg’s thrilling, suspenseful and somehow very human speculation on the possibility of alien contact with mankind.
Good Night, and Good Luck
In this timely dramatization of journalist Edward R. Murrow’s battles with anti-Communist crusader Joseph McCarthy, director/star George Clooney creates a provocative look at a dark chapter of American history.
Free For Members!
Sweet Country
Accused of murder, an Aboriginal stockman and his wife try to stay ahead of a fervent posse in the harsh outback of the Northern Territory, in this inspired-by-true-events period drama from acclaimed Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton.
CLOSED CAPTIONS & AUDIO DESCRIPTION
Interstellar
A special screening of Christopher Nolan’s 2014 science fiction epic, Interstellar, featuring a live introduction by Dr. Feryal Ozel, theoretical astrophysicist and Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the U of A.
Free Poolside Screening!
Jaws
Start the summer season with a SCREAM at this scary poolside screening of the shark-tastic terror classic, Jaws!
Presented in 70mm!
Lawrence of Arabia
One of the screen’s grandest epics, this monumental story recounts the true-life experiences ofT.E. Lawrence, better known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia
The Agave Heritage Festival Film Screenings
Enjoy wine tasting and food sampling on the patio, followed by two documentaries focused on the significance of the agave plant to our region and culture.
Presented by DocScapes
Quest
An intimate documentary film that captures ten years in the life of a family living in North Philadelphia.
Free Screening
Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman
The new documentary Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman tells the inspiring story of heartland conservation heroes who are feeding the world while stewarding the land and water.
Presented by The University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film and Television!
Magic Hour
A free screening of short fiction films made by students in the University of Arizona’s School of Theatre, Film and Television!
Mother's Day Screening!
Hairspray Sing-A-Long!
Shake, shimmy and sing this Mother’s Day at the Hairspray Sing-A-Long!, a ‘60s-style shindig featuring a special screening of the smash hit movie musical with onscreen lyrics so you can sing-a-long!
REPO MAN
Alex Cox’s sci-fi comedy features the captivating Harry Dean Stanton, in one of his greatest roles, as a weathered repo man in a desolate Los Angeles, and Emilio Estevez as the middle-class punk he takes under his wing.
First Friday Shorts: The Golden Gong Year-End Showdown
All your favorite filmmakers from Year #13 will be on hand as we pit them against one another in a cinematic smackdown.
Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey
There is only one Fred Beckey. His legacy in the mountains will live on forever.
A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg and The Loft ’s Executive Director Peggy Johnson will discuss the Pentagon Papers and how that event, and Ellsberg himself, have been portrayed in films.
Skype Q&A with producer Dan Janvey!
Beasts of the Southern Wild
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl named Hushpuppy exists on the brink of orphanhood.
35MM PRINT!
Chocolat
Denis made her feature film debut with this intimate and evocative semi-autobiographical feature, based on her childhood as a French colonial in West Africa.
Vincent Van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing
Don’t miss this special Exhibition on Screen presentation exploring the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh!
The Long Goodbye
Set in sunny early-‘70s California, the film stars Elliott Gould as a smart-aleck, slightly inept Philip Marlowe, a detective seemingly more concerned about feeding a cat than solving a case.
The Other Side of Hope
A humorous and heartbreaking fictional look at the 21st century migrant crisis, told through the evolving relationship between an appealingly odd couple in modern-day Helsinki.
Brimstone & Glory
The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico is a site of extravagant festivity unlike any other in the world. In celebration of San Juan de Dios, patron saint of firework makers, conflagrant revelry engulfs the town for ten days.
The Devil’s Rain
A cult of black magic-loving Satanists are running amuck in the American Southwest and William Shatner’s gotta try and stop them!
My Friend Dahmer
Based on the cult graphic novel, My Friend Dahmer chronicles the origins of the man. The monster. The high school senior.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Acclaimed filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) returns with a sensational thriller brimming with unsettling humor, steeped in Greek tragedy, existential horror, and riveting suspense.
Funeral Parade of Roses
A headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara.
The International Ocean Film Tour Volume 4
The International Ocean Film Tour Volume 4 wraps the most powerful stories, inspiring protagonists and stunning visuals into one film program.
Mansfield 66/67
50 years after the blonde bombshell’s untimely death, Mansfield 66/67 carries out a delightfully absurd investigation into the bizarre relationship between Mansfield and Church of Satan founder, Anton LaVey.
Army of Darkness
Bruce Campbell returns as Ash, a hardware-store clerk who is magically transported – along with his beat-up Oldsmobile and a chainsaw forearm – to the brutal battlefields of the 14th century!
Zero Weeks
Zero Weeks is the first documentary to explore America’s paid leave crisis and the cost of doing nothing.
Marjorie Prime
Jon Hamm, Geena Davis and Tim Robbins star in this haunting vision of a foreseeable future where death has become slightly less final.
Martha & Niki
Martha Nabwire and Niki Tsappos took part in the biggest international Street Dance Competition, Juste Debout in Paris. It was the first time ever two women became World Champions in Hip Hop.
Novitiate
Spanning over a decade from the early 1950s to the mid-‘60s, Novitiate is about a young girl’s first initiation with love, in this case with God.
Dog Years
Burt Reynolds plays an aging, former movie star who is forced to face the reality that his glory days are behind him. On its surface Dog Years is a tale about faded fame, but at its core, it’s a universal story about growing old.
Presented by UA Russian and Slavic Studies
Storm Over Asia
A Mongol fur trapper escapes the indignities of Western imperialism and makes a violent entry into revolutionary consciousness.
The Killing of Satan
Satan is apparently alive and well, but he’s about to be challenged by a clumsy, mustachioed, jean jacket-wearing dad who just can’t wait to get his hands on the horny hound of hell!
35mm Print!
Dogtooth
The intoxicatingly offbeat Dogtooth spins the story of three twenty-something “kids” confined to their parents isolated, fenced-in estate, and kept under strict rule and regimen.
Ends Thursday
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children
Stranded on an island in a post-apocalyptic world, teenager Dinky and her friends hatch a dangerous plan to escape in the hope of finding a better life.
Free for members!
Novitiate
Spanning over a decade from the early 1950s to the mid-‘60s, Novitiate is about a young girl’s first initiation with love, in this case with God.
The Divine Order
The Divine Order is set in Switzerland in 1971 – a time and place where, despite the worldwide social upheavals of the previous decade, women were still denied the right to vote.
Wonder Wheel
The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s.
Ends Thursday, January 18
BPM (Beats Per Minute)
This award-winning French drama follows a group of activists in early 1990s Paris who go to extraordinary lengths in their battle to force the French government to address the AIDS epidemic.
Free Outdoor Screening at MOCA Tucson
The Wicker Man: Final Cut
The Wicker Man: Final Cut is the definitive version of Robin Hardy’s celebrated ’70s thriller of pagan worshippers running amuck on a remote Scottish island.
The Square
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, The Square is a sprawling, jaw-dropping satire centered on a Swedish art museum and a PR stunt that goes horribly wrong.
Home Movie Day 2017
Bring your vintage home movie reels to The Loft Cinema for Tucson’s 6th annual Home Movie Day, featuring expert inspection, preservation advice and screenings of local home movies.
Awake: A Dream From Standing Rock
Standing Rock North Dakota became one of the most watched places on earth. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe captured world attention through their peaceful resistance.
CLOSED CAPTIONS & AUDIO DESCRIPTION
Lady Bird
Set amidst a rapidly shifting American economic landscape, Lady Bird is an affecting look at the relationships that shape us, the beliefs that define us, and the unmatched beauty of a place called home.
The Force
With fly-on-the-wall intimacy, we see a department trapped in transition, desperate to shed its corrupt image but also challenged by the Black Lives Matter movement erupting right outside its doorstep.
Free for Members!
The Breadwinner
The Breadwinner tells the story of Parvana, an 11-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001.
Happy End
A scathing takedown of the bourgeoisie, Happy End is a satanically mixed brew that writer/director/provocateur Michael Haneke stirs with dazzling inspiration.
Let Yourself Go
An uptight psychoanalyst’s life is upended when he becomes involved with a free-spirited personal trainer, well-versed in matters of the body, but less of the mind.
Presented by UA Russian and Slavic Studies
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
Ten Days that Shook the World is one of Eisenstein’s best known experimental works as well as an exemplary showcase of Soviet revolutionary ideology
Petey Wheatstraw, the Devil’s Son-In-Law
Rudy Ray Moore takes a break from playing Dolemite to battle the devil and practice his own very special brand of martial arts in this jaw-dropping explosion of pure WTF magic!
The Challenge
Italian visual artist Yuri Ancarani’s beautiful and bizarre documentary takes us inside the rarefied world of Middle Eastern falconry
Presented by Patronato San Xavier
In the Americas Patronato San Xavier Fundraiser
Enjoy an exploration of our iconic Mission San Xavier is this Season 7 episode, followed by a panel discussion led by David Yetman.
Desert Bride
Human emotions are as subtle as the beauty of the Argentinian plains in the delicate and keenly-observed drama, Desert Bride.
I Am Another You
Unfolding like a low-key mystery, I Am Another You is an incisive and powerful examination of the myth and bitter realities of America’s rugged individualism.
20th Anniversary Party!
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Celebrate Harry Potter’s 20th anniversary with a magical movie party featuring costumed characters, Bertie Botts, and Butter Beer!
Free Admission!
Hocus Pocus
A trio of kooky witches conjures up a cauldron of laughs and causes a whole lot of trouble on one very memorable Halloween night!
Set It Off
A gritty crime thriller combining explosive action and social commentary in a story about four women bank robbers from a housing project in L.A.
The Untamed
A mysterious, otherworldly visitor offers gratification to the sexually oppressed in this daring, disturbing and erotically-charged sci-fi thriller from Mexican provocateur Amat Escalante.
Free Outdoor Screening!
Cars 3
Rev your engines for an exciting outdoor screening of Pixar’s automotive blockbuster, Cars 3, on the University of Arizona mall!
The Eagle Huntress
The Eagle Huntress follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter.
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children
Stranded on an island in a post-apocalyptic world, teenager Dinky and her friends hatch a dangerous plan to escape in the hope of finding a better life
The Boy Downstairs
Girls star Zosia Mamet exhibits winsome charm as Diana, navigating the rite of passage of every single New Yorker: the search for the perfect apartment.
Delay, Deny, Hope You Die
A documentary about the Iraq and Afghanistan U.S. military burn pit operation scandal
The Other Side of Hope
A humorous and heartbreaking fictional look at the 21st century migrant crisis, told through the evolving relationship between an appealingly odd couple in modern-day Helsinki.
Satan’s Cheerleaders
A high school cheerleading squad shakes their pom poms for Satan and things are going to get pretty devilish in this campy drive-in classic that could have only escaped from the 1970s!
The Long Shadow
Of all the divisions in America, none is as insidious and tenacious as racism. In this powerful documentary, journalist Frances Causey investigates the roots of our current racial conflicts.
Free Outdoor Screening
Ghostbusters (1984)
If there’s something strange in the neighborhood, who you gonna call? How about Ghostbusters?
Evilspeak
Clint Howard’s got a home computer and a direct dial-up to Satan, and the bullies at his school are going straight to hell in this goofy-n-gory ‘80s horror flick that’s 100% Devil-approved!
Spotlight Event
The Tent Village
A story about the lives of road-side dwellers in S. India, filmed by their teenaged children and friends.
Brand-New Digital Restoration
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Sergio Leone’s epic, “Man With No Name” trilogy-capping Spaghetti Western thrillingly conjures up operatic excess, existential cowboy crisis and the blackest of black humor
Free Outdoor Screening in Douglas
West Side Story
A jazzy, snazzy, high energy classic that almost leaps off the screen, West Side Story endures as one of the greatest musicals in Hollywood history.
Freaked
Randy Quaid is starting his own freakshow, but he’s not just collecting freaks – he’s creating them! – in this bizarre, tasteless and totally insane ‘90s comedy featuring Mr. T and Keanu Reeves!
Kékszakállú
This extraordinary film blends narrative and documentary styles as it follows the lives of several daughters of rich industrialists from Buenos Aires.
Free Outdoor Screening!
Waste Land
The Oscar-nominated documentary Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho.
SYLVIO
Sylvio is a small town gorilla in the midst of an existential crisis.
Dead Snow
A fun ski vacation turns disgustingly deadly for a group of oversexed medical students when they come face-to-rotting-face with a horror movie first: Nazi zombies in the snow!
Sami Blood
Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sámi girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930’s and race biology examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life.
Better Watch Out
Better Watch Out is a sharp, sadistic horror comedy that pays tribute to both Home Alone and Funny Games while offering a subversive twist on the home-invasion story that cleverly upends expectations.
Gook
It’s 1992 in Los Angeles and Eli and Daniel, two Korean American brothers, struggle to keep their father’s shoe store afloat.
Killjoy 3: Killjoy’s Revenge
Four college kids on Spring Break are trapped inside a mirror and must battle a demonic, wisecracking clown and his posse of freakshow monsters if they ever want to party again!
WHITE SUN
Filmmaker Deepak Rauniyar sensitively explores the damage done to the fabric of Nepalese society by the decade-long civil war between the Maoists and Nepal’s monarchical government.
The Ballad of Lefty Brown
*SOLD OUT*
The Grease Sing-A-Long
Welcome back to Rydell High for this electrifyin’ sing-a-long sock hop, featuring free Grease Goodie Bags, a Rockin’ Rydell Costume Contest and a few boss surprises!
Hellboy
The acclaimed Dark Horse comic book series about a creature from Hades who joins the battle against evil is brought to cinematic life by visionary director Guillermo del Toro.
FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING!
The Sandlot
An awkward young boy experiences a summer filled with baseball and wild adventures that might just make him the big man in his small town.
Spettacolo
Once upon a time, villagers in a tiny hill town in Tuscany came up with a remarkable way to confront their issues: they turned their lives into a play.
Woodpeckers (Carpinteros)
Sent to Santo Domingo’s notorious Najayo prison for petty theft, Julián acclimates himself to his new surroundings, using the prison’s hidden economies while trying to hold on to his humanity.
Souvenir
The inimitable Isabelle Huppert stars in in this endearing musical romance about a middle-aged factory worker whose brush with fame is reignited by a relationship with a younger man.
The Feels
A funny, breezy and touching exploration of the bonds and boundaries of love and friendship, fueled by a killer ‘90s R&B and electro-pop soundtrack.
Vampire Circus
A troupe of shape-shifting circus vampires put on a “fang-tastic” show for the unsuspecting residents of a small village, and things are about to get really batty in this sexy, bloody and sleazy ‘70s shocker!
Ismael’s Ghosts
The new film from director Arnaud Desplechin is a delirious love letter to the art of cinema, featuring an all-star cast including Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Mathiew Amalric and Louis Garrel.
My Friend Dahmer
My Friend Dahmer entertains with its frighteningly compelling narrative while simultaneously presenting a nuanced snapshot of mental illness, the inherent desire for human interaction, and the perils of duplicitous friendship.
Falsettos
Don’t miss the smash-hit, Tony-nominated musical Falsettos, captured live at the Lincoln Center Theater and presented on the big screen!
FREE ADMISSION!
Shaun the Sheep Movie
From Aardman Studios, creators of Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run, comes the delightfully zany stop-motion animated comedy, Shaun the Sheep Movie!
Free Outdoor Screening at the UA!
THE OFFICE BINGE WATCH
A special outdoor binge-watching event, featuring five of the best episodes of the hit TV comedy, The Office, played back-to-back!
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3D
He said he’d be back, and here he is, in a brand-new 3D conversion of the 1991 blockbuster, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, overseen by director James Cameron himself!
Obsession
Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino (Jude Law) and Giovanna begin a fiery affair and plot to murder her husband. But, in this chilling tale of passion and destruction, the crime only serves to tear them apart.
Spotlight Event
Gas Food Lodging (25th Anniversary Screening)
In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Finally, the truth about clowns is out! Beneath their smirky grins, oversized shoes and big red noses, these fun-loving jokers are actually diabolical killers from out of this world.
Documentary Shorts
This year’s collection of offers a stunningly diverse bunch of films, with windows into the way people live across the world.
Presented by Habitat for Humanity
Hard Hats and Heels: A Benefit for Habitat for Humanity Tucson’s Women Build
LaughingStock Comedy Company is the funniest company in business today.
Three Colors: Blue
More than just a blistering study of grief; it’s also a tale of liberation, as Julie (Juliette Binoche) attempts to free herself from the past while confronting truths about the life of her late husband, a composer.
Night of the Comet
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and not everyone is feeling fine, in this, like, majorly awesome ‘80s sci-fi comedy!
The Cakemaker
Thomas, a young German baker, is having an affair with Oren, an Israeli married man. When Oren dies in a car crash in Israel, Thomas travels to Jerusalem seeking for answers regarding his death.
The Quay Brothers in 35mm
A unique touring program of four short films on 35mm curated by celebrated filmmaker Christopher Nolan!
Solo Horn Project: Sound and Images
Original short films presented with live musical accompaniment! Featuring video, animated illustration, and photography by Shiang Hwang, Christine Rogers, Robert Jaime, Carl Bowser and Jim Karrer.
Free Outdoor Screening in Dragoon
Geronimo: An American Legend
An American legend comes to breathtaking life in this explosive epic Western starring Jason Patric, Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman and Wes Studi.
70mm print
Hook
Robin Williams stars as a grown-up Peter Pan in Steven Spielberg’s high-flying tale of magic, adventure and derring-do!
Seabiscuit
Based on the bestselling book by Laura Hillebrand, the multiple Oscar-nominated drama Seabiscuit tells the inspiring true story of one of the most successful racehorses in history.
SOLD OUT
The Princess Bride
Spend the most romantic night of the year with Westley and Buttercup as we celebrate the magical “storybook love” of this ever-enchanting, always-hilarious, endlessly-quotable classic on the big screen!
The Age of Consequences
A new documentary investigating the impacts of climate change on increased resource scarcity, migration, and conflict through the lens of U.S. national security and global stability.
The Very Merry Holiday Sing-A-Long Spectacular!
Get ready to stuff your stocking, roast your chestnuts and jingle your bells once again at The Loft Cinema’s annual shiny holiday shindig!
Presented by SavetheSaveable.com
Best in Show
Christopher Guest’s hilarious mockumentary takes a behind-the-scenes look into the highly competitive and cutthroat world of competitive dog shows and the ruthless dog owners who will do (almost) anything to win.
New Digital Restoration!
The Sacrifice
Andrei Tarkovsky’s final masterpiece, The Sacrifice is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation.
Wasted!: The Story of Food Waste
The Story of Food Waste showcases forward-thinking leaders who show how each of us can make small changes – all of them delicious – to solve one of the greatest problems of the 21st Century.
Cléo from 5 to 7
A real-time portrait of a beautiful singer set adrift in Paris as she awaits the potentially life-changing results of a medical test.
W/ the short films Black Panthers and Uncle Yanco
Documenteur
Varda’s fascination with California has resulted in a number of uniquely beautiful films shot in the Golden State, films that subtly capture the director’s ambivalent, complicated and ultimately loving feelings about America.
Free for Members!
The Insult
A dispute between two men – one a Lebanese Christian, one a Palestinian refugee – on the streets of Beirut escalates into a national sensation as they face off in court.
My Brilliant Career
Actress Judy Davis and director Gillian Armstrong both made a huge splash on the international arthouse scene with this Australian drama about a young writer who refuses to conform to society’s expectations.
Cronos
Featuring the haunting imagery for which Guillermo del Toro would soon become world-renowned, Cronos is a dark, visually rich, and emotionally-charged horror fantasy.
With Special Guest
The Graduate
Glamorous, funny, sexy and sad, The Graduate is an emotional touchstone for an entire generation, not to mention a late-‘60s harbinger of the “New Hollywood” studio films that would storm the movie industry in the early ‘70s.
Pacific Rim
It’s giant robots vs. monstrous sea creatures in Guillermo del Toro’s colossal, heavy-metal sci-fi/action extravaganza that transforms the impending apocalypse into a roller coaster of exuberant fun!
Presented by The University of Arizona College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
INSECTA
Journey alongside leading insect scientists and Coyote Peterson to explore the most painful stings and the fascinating science of the unseen lives that surround us.
The 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows
The 19th annual edition of The Animation Show of Shows comes to the big screen, featuring 16 internationally acclaimed animated short films!
FREE ADMISSION!
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Experience the dubious holiday magic of the one, the only, the infamous 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special, for free, on the big screen!
With Special guest!
The Fiddler on the Roof Sing-A-Long
Belt it out and raise the roof at this special Sing-A-Long screening of one of the most beloved movie musicals of all-time, the multi-Oscar winning Fiddler on the Roof!
Frida
The life and career of one of Mexico’s most prominent painters comes to the screen under the guiding hand of producer/star Salma Hayek and director Julie Taymor in the Oscar-winning drama, Frida.
The Rape of Recy Taylor
Against formidable odds and threats to her life and the lives of her family members, Recy Taylor chose not to remain silent, but instead to bravely speak up and press charges, waging a war for justice that resonates today.
Devil in a Blue Dress
This stylish, intelligent neo-noir from acclaimed director Carl Franklin (One False Move) stars Denzel Washington as a private investigator plying his trade in South Central Los Angeles after WWII.
With Chris Lemmon in person!
The Apartment
Join TV and film star Chris Lemmon for a very special screening of the 1960 comedy classic, The Apartment, starring Jack Lemmon in one of his greatest roles!
Tucson Lunafest 2018
Get ready for an entertaining and enlightening evening of short films made by, for and about women!
An Interactive Screening hosted by Chuzapalooza!
White Christmas Sing-a-Long!
Join us for an interactive screening of the holiday classic, hosted by Chuzapalooza!
Pan’s Labyrinth
An alternately frightening, moving and spellbinding fable celebrating the power of childhood imagination.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Jack Nicholson stars as counterculture hero Randle Patrick McMurphy in this highly-acclaimed adaptation of Ken Kesey’s classic novel detailing one man’s battle against an oppressive establishment.
SOLD OUT
A Fantastic Woman
In A Fantastic Woman, Daniela Vega delivers a powerhouse performance as a transgender nightclub singer, Marina, in love with Orlando (Francisco Reyes), a successful businessman 20 years her senior.
70mm print
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is coming to save the day, and she’s doing it in glorious 70mm! Catch one of the year’s biggest movies on one of the biggest screens in Southern Arizona, in the superhero-sized 70mm format!
A Hard Day’s Night Sing-A-Long
Catch Beatlemania with John, Paul, George and Ringo at this fab sing-a-long screening of the 1964 rock ‘n’ roll musical, A Hard Day’s Night!
20th Anniversary
Princess Mononoke
Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke is a landmark of animation and a film of unsurpassed power and beauty.
2017 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour
Including fiction, documentary and animation from around the world, the 2017 program offers audiences a taste of what the Festival has to offer!
Highway to Hell
A teen nerd must drive his hot rod straight into hell if he wants to save his girlfriend from becoming Satan’s bride in this dementedly demonic road trip extravaganza from the director of Drop Dead Fred!
Jane
Set to a rich orchestral score from composer Philip Glass, the film offers an unprecedented and poetic portrait of Jane Goodall – a trailblazer who defied the odds to become one of the world’s most respected and admired conservationists.
Narrative Shorts
Spanning a range of styles, emotions, and techniques, this year’s collection of short films offers something for everyone.
Presented by Xanadu Collective
The Unholy Tarahumara and Rita of the Sky
Join us at a benefit screening of two of late Tucson filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson’s documentaries.
35th Anniversary
Creepshow
It’s a match made in scary movie Hell: legendary zombie guru George A. Romero, and literary horror hound Stephen King, coming together to unleash the gruesome godfather of all ‘80s horror anthologies, Creepshow!
Twelfth Night
Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a bold new twist on Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity.
Tragedy Girls
Sadie and McKayla are two social media-obsessed partners in crime, reporting on a deranged serial killer terrorizing their sleepy Midwestern town in the hope of gaining more than 15 minutes of online infamy.
The Women’s Balcony
The Women’s Balcony is a highly entertaining dramatic comedy about community, old traditions and values, and the power of women to keep all of these together in the face of modern extremism.
Lost in Paris
The latest comedic confection from filmmaking duo Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon (L’iceberg, Rhumba, The Fairy) is a hilarious screwball comedy of love, confusion and pratfalls, crafted in their signature whimsical style.
The Vagrant
Bill Paxton flips out and experiences the ultimate yuppie nightmare when a crazed vagrant invades his new home and makes his life a living hell in this literally insane black comedy horror film shot in Phoenix, AZ!
Spotlight Event/25th Anniversary Screening
MANUFACTURING CONSENT
This award-winning documentary showcases Chomsky’s message of how government and businesses cooperate to produce a propaganda machine to manipulate public opinion.
Born in Flames
This provocative, thrilling and still-relevant classic is a comic fantasy of female rebellion set in America ten years after the Second American Revolution.
Step
Deeply insightful and emotionally inspiring, Step embodies the true meaning of sisterhood through a story of courageous young women worth cheering for.
Free Outdoor Screening on the UA Mall
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Blast off for an outdoor screening of Marvel’s hilarious sci-fi blockbuster, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, on the University of Arizona mall!
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight returns and this time he’s got a whole new slew of toys for his war on crime in Christopher Nolan’s epic follow-up to Batman Begins.
Damnation Alley
An ultra-chintzy ‘70s “epic” featuring some of the worst radioactive skyline effects ever seen in a motion picture, Damnation Alley is a fun blast of post-nuke garbage.
FREE ADMISSION!
Sing
From the studio that brought you The Secret Life of Pets comes this toe-tapping, star-studded animated comedy about finding the music inside all of us.
The Midwife
Two of French cinema’s biggest stars (Catherine Frot and Catherine Deneuve) shine in this touching dramatic comedy about unlikely friendships, forgiveness and the need for change.
Free Outdoor Screening in Patagonia
DisneyNature: Wings of Life
Join us for a free screening in Patagonia of this stunning adventure full of intrigue, drama and mesmerizing beauty. Due to rain we’ll be moving this screening indoors.
*No one under 18 will be admitted*
Kuso
Broadcast through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, Kuso is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles’s worst earthquake nightmare, traveling between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survivors.
Presented by The University of Arizona Poetry Center
Welcome to This House
Welcome To This House is a feature documentary film on the homes and loves of poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979).
The Haury Conversation: Noam Chomsky
On Nov. 9, University of Arizona Professor Noam Chomsky will have a conversation with Regents’ Professor Toni Massaro about social justice and the environment.
13 Minutes
This gripping political thriller, based on the real life story of one man’s attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, explores the methods and motives of a German driven to take desperate action in 1939, early in the war.
Pop Aye
One day, as he wanders the city, successful Bangkok architect Thana chances upon an elephant whom he recognizes as Pop Aye, his beloved childhood friend from their rural home town, named after a favorite cartoon.
Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time
An unintentionally hilarious trainwreck of misguided intentions and massive confusion, Beastmaster 2 will hurl YOU into another bad movie dimension.
Baby Driver
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
FREE SCREENING
Buck
Please join us for a special free presentation of Buck in Three Points, AZ at Robles Elementary School!
The Trip to Spain
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on another deliciously deadpan culinary road trip, heading to Spain to sample the best of the country’s gastronomic offerings in between rounds of their hilariously off-the-cuff banter
Double Feature!
Smoke Signals & More Than Frybread
Don’t miss this special 20th anniversary screening of the acclaimed 1998 hit, Smoke Signals (presented on 35mm), paired with the hilarious 2012 comedy, More Than Frybread!
With star Ted Neeley in person!
Jesus Christ Superstar Sing-A-Long
Prepare for a Rock Opera Extravaganza of epic proportions when The Loft Cinema presents the Jesus Christ Superstar Sing-A-Long, with star Ted Neeley in person!
Presented by Summit Hut & Vasque Footwear
Metanoia
Jeff Lowe’s Metanoia is a film about one man’s journey from the top of the world to the end of the line.
Spotlight Event
Revenge of the Nerds
Meet acclaimed actor Curtis Armstrong in person at a special screening of the 1984 comedy classic, Revenge of the Nerds, filmed in Tucson on the University of Arizona campus!
Local Film Premiere!
Fractured
On his first case as a Private Investigator, Tommy Collins tracks down what is believed to be an unknown serial killer who hides his murders as accidents.
Free Admission
Boyz in the Hood
The trials and tribulations of three young African American males growing up in South Central Los Angeles in the early ‘90s.
Madman
A wicked campfire legend becomes a nightmare of gushing gore, gratuituous nudity and overwrought acting when a psychotic farmer with an axe to grind goes on a B-movie summer camp rampage!
Free Admission!
Ice Age
The first film in the beloved Ice Age series is a fun and fast-paced comedy/adventure thousands of years in the making!
Free Admission!
Ponyo
Perfect for audiences of all ages, Ponyo centers on the friendship between five-year-old Sosuke and a magical goldfish named Ponyo, the young daughter of a sorcerer father and a sea-goddess mother.
Twelve Monkeys
Celebrated filmmaker Terry Gilliam (Brazil) unleashes this intense, darkly comic sci-fi mind-bender about time travel, the apocalypse and Bruce Willis!
Free Admission!
Bee Movie
From creator Jerry Seinfeld comes Bee Movie, a hilarious animated comedy that will change everything you thought you knew about bees.
Free Admission!
Akeelah and the Bee
Akeelah and the Bee is the inspirational story of a smart eleven-year-old girl from south Los Angeles with a gift for words and dreams of competing in a national Spelling Bee.
Party Camp
A mind is a terrible thing to waste, and it doesn’t get much more mindless (or terrible!) than a summer spent among the nerds, jocks, nudists and Ferris Bueller-wanna be’s at Party Camp!
Free Admission!
Disneynature: Oceans
This live-action treat from Disneynature takes viewers on a spectacular journey in to the depths of a watery wonderland filled with mystery, beauty and power.
Free Admission!
Cinderella (2015)
An enchanting live-action remake of the beloved Disney animated classic from acclaimed director Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet, Iron Man).
25th Anniversary!
Wayne’s World
It’s party time, excellent, with this hilariously goofy pop culture comedy that still ranks as the highest-grossing Saturday Night Live spin-off in history.
Saint Joan
Joan: daughter, farm girl, visionary, patriot, king-whisperer, soldier, leader, victor, icon, radical, witch, heretic, saint, martyr, woman.
New Digital Restoration!
Suspiria
The long-awaited new digital restoration of Dario Argento’s gruesomely gorgeous 1977 art-horror masterpiece Suspiria is here!
Cheerleader Camp
Welcome to Camp Hurrah, where bloody pom-poms are the hottest new accessory when a psycho killer begins slaughtering high school cheerleaders on the eve of the all-state finals.
Columbus
When an architecture scholar falls ill during a speaking tour, his estranged son Jin (John Cho, Star Trek) finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana—a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings.
FREE OFF-SITE SCREENING!
An Injury to One
Please join us for a special free outdoor presentation of An Injury to One in Bisbee, AZ at the Central School Project!
Beach Rats
On the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie (Harris Dickson), an aimless teenager, suffocates under the oppressive glare cast by his family and a toxic group of delinquent friends.
20th Anniversary!
Lost Highway
Lost Highway is an intricately structured explosion of expressionistic strangeness, and a key example of Lynch’s unique ability to push the boundaries of conventional storytelling.
Leatherface
In this terrifying prequel to director Tobe Hooper’s landmark original film, directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo unleash the macabre origin story of the iconic madman, Leatherface!
Menashe
Menashe follows a kind but hapless grocery store clerk named Menashe trying to maintain custody of his son Rieven after his wife, Lea, passes away.
Tales of an Immoral Couple
A pair of high school sweethearts unexpectedly meet again 25 years later, and a crazed comedy of errors erupts, threatening to engulf everyone around them!
Digital Restoration!
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Celebrate the late Tobe Hooper with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in a digitally restored edition guaranteed to keep you screaming!
Meatballs Part II
This low-rent, brain-dead sequel to the 1979 hit Meatballs finds Bill Murray long gone (shocking!) as a new bunch of campers and counselors unleash a summer of shenanigans!
Walk With Me
Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, Walk With Me takes viewers deep inside a Zen Buddhist community that practices the art of mindfulness with their world-famous teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh.
Southern Arizona Activist Fair
Meet representatives from vital, Southern Arizona-based social justice groups, and find out how you can help support their missions to create a better world.
Viceroy’s House
The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
Dolores
Dolores Huerta is one of the most important, yet least known, activists in the fight for racial, class and gender equality in American history.
HUMANITIES SEMINARS FILM SCREENING
THE MEXICAN SUITCASE
The Mexican Suitcase tells the story of the recovery of 4,500 negatives taken by photographers Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour during the Spanish Civil War.
Chavela
A captivating look at the unconventional life of beloved performer Chavela Vargas, whose passionate renditions of Mexican popular music and triumphant return to the stage late in life brought her international fame.
Lucky
Lucky follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town.
Sleepaway Camp
Young Angela is all set for some good clean summer fun at Camp Arawak. Let’s see, there’ll be hiking, canoeing, crafting, and oh yeah … rivers of gore!
Free For Members!
Chavela
A captivating look at the unconventional life of beloved performer Chavela Vargas, whose passionate renditions of Mexican popular music and triumphant return to the stage late in life brought her international fame.
Maniac Cop
Written by genre master Larry Cohen (The Stuff, Q the Winged Serpent), and directed by William Lustig (Maniac), Maniac Cop will really put you away … forever!
Super Fuzz
When a Miami rookie cop develops ridiculous super powers after being exposed to a plutonium bomb, he gets to star in his own ultra-goofy, Italian-produced superhero action/comedy called Super Fuzz, along with Oscar-winner Ernest Borgnine!
Free Outdoor Screening on the Border Fence in Nogales, AZ and Nogales, Sonora!
Cesar Chávez
The acclaimed biopic, Chávez, starring Michael Peña and directed by Diego Luna, screened simultaneously on the Arizona side and the Sonora side of the Border Fence in Nogales!
Policewomen
Lacey Bond (no relation to James) is a tough police woman who’s tired of dealing with her sexist male co-workers and who longs for more interesting assignments, and gets one when she infiltrate a gang of female criminals running amuck in the city.
Jurassic Park
Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster prehistoric creature feature Jurassic Park stomps it way back to the big screen!
Samurai Cop
He’s big. He’s bad. He’s got serious hair issues. He’s Samurai Cop! A consistently hilarious, bona-fide jaw-dropper of a bad movie.
Presented by The Haven
Hooked
A free screening of two short documentary films, followed by a community forum with local experts.
Bruising for Besos
An intimate character study of Yoli— a charismatic and complicated Xicana lesbian making a family in the Queer and Trans People Of Color (QTPOC) suburban Los Angeles scene.
Happy-Go-Lucky
Sally Hawkins stars as Poppy, an irrepressibly free-spirited school teacher who brings an infectious laugh and an unsinkable sense of optimism to every situation she encounters.
Part of the 2017 Tucson Film Festival!
CORTEZ
After a canceled tour, flailing musician Jesse Lirette seeks out an old flame in a small town in Northern New Mexico.
Velvet Goldmine
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Todd Haynes (Carol) takes viewers on an electrifying, glitter-dusted trip through the outrageous glam-rock era of the early 1970s in Velvet Goldmine.
Dolores
See the award-winning new documentary Dolores, and meet legendary activist and film subject Dolores Huerta in person at a post-film Q&A!
New Digital Restoration
The Seduction of Mimi
A blistering satire of Italy in the 1970s, The Seduction of Mimi takes aim at a corrupt government, compromised labor leaders and the Neanderthal sexual politics of men in power, with uproarious results.
New Digital Restoration
Love & Anarchy
Love & Anarchy plumbs the depths of fascist Italy from the perspective of a simple farm boy sent to kill Mussolini.
Presented by CITY Center
DREAM BIG: Engineering Our World
Dream Big celebrates the human ingenuity behind engineering marvels big and small, and reveals the heart that drives engineers to create better lives for people around the world.
Bill Cunningham New York
See the acclaimed documentary, Bill Cunningham New York, about the celebrated New York Times fashion photographer, followed by an onstage discussion with New York Times Culture and Style writer/critic, Guy Trebay.
Presented by The Arizona Browncoats
Serenity in the Desert
Presented by The Arizona Browncoats, with all proceeds benefiting The Women’s Foundation of Southern Arizona.
The Purple Rain Sing-A-Long!
Purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka and then get down to The Loft Cinema for a night of purple-tinted partying you’ll never forget!
Free Outdoor Screening at Las Milpitas Community Farm
Can You Dig This?
Can You Dig This? follows the inspirational journeys of four unlikely gardeners, discovering what happens when they put their hands in the soil.
Unrest
Unrest offers a compelling and highly personal look at the often mysterious medical condition known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
New Digital Restoration!
Night of the Living Dead
The one-and-only Night of the Living Dead rises from the grave in its first-ever major restoration, supervised by director George A. Romero himself!
World Premiere!
The Monkey Farm
The latest feature from Arizona-based filmmaker Ian Messenger is an exploration of what happens when human curiosity and animal rage collide!
Girlfriend from Hell
The Devil turns a high school wallflower into a voracious vixen with claws and cleavage in this ludicrous mélange of sex, Satanism and silliness featuring Dana Ashbrook, aka Bobby Briggs in Twin Peaks!
Silver Bullet
A rubbery werewolf is terrorizing Small Town, USA, and only Gary Busey, Corey Haim and a souped-up wheelchair called “Silver Bullet” can stop him! Featuring Everett McGill, aka Big Ed Hurley in Twin Peaks!
Graduation
Winner of the Best Director Award at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Graduation is the new film from acclaimed filmmaker Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), a powerful study of a devoted father who faces a tormenting moral dilemma.
Galaxy of Terror
Space is the place for trashy terror when a group of neurotic astronauts blast off to a remote planet and discover an evil alien lifeforce! Featuring Grace Zabriskie, aka Sarah Palmer in Twin Peaks!
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May it Last: A Portrait of The Avett Brothers
Filmed with extraordinary access over more than two years, May it Last is an intimate and revealing look at the Grammy-nominated North Carolina band fronted by Seth and Scott Avett.
A Quiet Passion
Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson as she personifies the wit and intellectual independence of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death.
I Am the Blues
I Am the Blues takes the audience on a musical journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta and Moonshine soaked BBQs in the North Mississippi Hill Country.
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
Tim Burton burst onto the big screen in a big way with his very first feature, a richly-detailed, deeply-quirky comedic adventure of epic proportions.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
As the alcohol flows and dawn approaches, a young couple is drawn into a toxic game until the evening reaches its climax in a moment of devastating truth-telling.
New Digital Restoration
Seven Beauties
Nominated for four Oscars, Seven Beauties is the saga of an amoral punk’s passion to live at any cost, a shocking sketch of Holocaust horror, and a searing moral statement.
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea
Equal parts disaster cinema, high school comedy and Hollywood blockbuster satire, told through a trippy, dream-like mixed media animation style that incorporates drawings, paintings and collage.
Advance Screening
The Road Movie
Dmitrii Kalashnikov’s The Road Movie is a stunning compilation of absurd and frightening real-life video footage shot exclusively via dashboard cameras in Russian automobiles.
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
Errol Morris’s new documentary takes a look at the life and work of photographer Elsa Dorfman.
Presented and Hosted by Tucson NOW
Equal Means Equal
Equal Means Equal offers an unflinching look at how women are treated in the United States today.
Brillo Box (3¢ Off)
Blending humorous personal narrative with Pop Art history, Brillo Box (3¢ Off) follows an Andy Warhol sculpture as it makes its way from a New York family’s living room to the contemporary global art market.
Endless Poetry
Colorfully shot by ace cinematographer Christopher Doyle (In the Mood for Love), Endless Poetry is replete with Jodorowsky’s wonderfully imaginative, surreal and psychedelic imagery.
Birthright: A War Story
Birthright: A War Story, a real-life Handmaid’s Tale, examines how women are being jailed, physically violated and even put at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America.
The Manhattan Short Film Festival 2017
Don’t miss the 20th annual Manhattan Short Film Festival, featuring 10 great new shorts from around the world – and YOU help select the winner!
All the Rage: Saved by Sarno
All The Rage braids Galinsky’s universal story of pain and emotion together with the story of Dr. Sarno’s radical approach to back pain, connecting the audience to both the issues and the emotions involved.
New Digital Restoration
Swept Away
Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Mediterranean, this bittersweet satirical allegory is Wertmüller’s most famous and controversial film, as well as her most overt styling of class warfare as a battle of the sexes.
Jodorowsky’s Dune
Jodorowsky’s Dune tells the stranger than fiction tale of the legendary filmmaker’s ill-fated adaption of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel Dune – an unfinished epic dubbed “The Greatest Movie Never Made.”
Pearl Jam: Let’s Play Two
Let’s Play Two is a thrilling concert film chronicling Pearl Jam’s legendary performances at Wrigley Field during the Chicago Cubs’ historic 2016 season.
Between Earth and Sky: Climate Change on the Last Frontier
Between Earth and Sky examines climate change through the lens of impacts to native Alaskans, receding glaciers, and arctic soil.
Presented by Ben's Bells!
Find Your Kind with Jeannette Maré
Jeannette Maré, Ben’s Bells founder and Executive Director, explores the power of intentional kindness to transform our communities in this engaging talk.
Columbus
When an architecture scholar falls ill during a speaking tour, his estranged son Jin (John Cho, Star Trek) finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana—a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings.
Ghoulies
Bumbling Satanists, breakdancing frat guys and a bunch of silly rubber hand puppets! Featuring Eraserhead himself, Jack Nance, aka Peter Martell in Twin Peaks!
50th Anniversary!
Bonnie and Clyde
The brilliant, bloody, groundbreaking crime drama Bonnie and Clyde is a taboo-shattering hit that divided critics, thrilled audiences and forever changed the way Hollywood made movies.
With MST3K’s Frank Conniff and Trace Beaulieu!
The Mads Are Back/Live Riffing Show!
Join MST3K’s stars Frank Conniff and Trace Beaulieu as they riff the hilariously awful 1953 Ed Wood, Jr. classic, Glen or Glenda!
Kickoff for National Drive Electric Week!
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Paine’s film investigates the events leading to the quiet destruction of thousands of new, radically efficient electric vehicles.
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
A comic and compassionate drama of a little man whose downfall is rooted in a human frailty all too easy to forgive—a need to matter.
The Rocky Horror Halloween Bash!
Look out, all you creatures of the night … Rocky Horror is coming to get you this Halloween! It’s our 39th annual Rocky Horror Halloween Bash, so help us celebrate the freakiest night of the year (even if it IS a few days early)!
35mm prints!
Friday the 13th Double Feature
Have a bloody good time at the Friday the 13th Double Feature, with back-to-back 35mm screenings of the original 1980 slasher classic, Friday the 13th and the terrifying 1981 sequel, Friday the 13th Part II!
The Holy Mountain
Jodorowsky’s most gorgeous, visually extravagant film is a grotesque, candy-colored, mind-blowing concoction that must be seen on the big screen in order to fully appreciate its hypnotically trippy splendor.
Santa Sangre
Santa Sangre is a mind-blowing fever dream of a thriller by the one-and-only Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose psychedelic “event films” El Topo and The Holy Mountain gave life to the Midnight Movies of the 1970s.
Logan Noir
Experience the critically-acclaimed superhero drama Logan in stunning black and white!
Buena Vista Social Club: Adios
Featuring original members of the Buena Vista Social Club as they embark on their 2016 Farewell Tour, this is a vibrant, joyful, music-filled documentary sequel that will have you dancing in the aisles!
The Lovers
A refreshing, funny look at love, fidelity, and family, starring three-time Academy Award-nominee Debra Winger (Terms of Endearment) and two-time Tony Award-winner Tracy Letts (The Big Short).
I, Daniel Blake
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, the latest from legendary director Ken Loach is a gripping, human tale about the impact one man can make.
My Cousin Rachel
A dark and suspenseful romance based on the classic novel by Daphne du Maurier tells the story of a young Englishman who plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin (Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz).
The Bad Batch
Ana Lily Amirpour’s highly anticipated follow-up to her acclaimed vampire western, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, is a unique post-apocalyptic thriller that’s part Mad Max, part Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and all Amirpour.
Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century
He’s big. He’s bad. He’s got the feathered hair of a Bee Gee. He’s the Yeti, and he’s the butt-kicking disco star of one of the wackiest King Kong rip-offs ever made!
Brand-New Restoration!
The Zodiac Killer
Directed by Tom Hanson, who had previously owned a chain of Pizza Man restaurants, the bizarre 1971 horror/crime thriller The Zodiac Killer was made with one goal in mind: to capture the real-life Zodiac Killer.
Maudie
Academy Award-nominees Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke star in the true story of Maud Lewis, who overcame the physical challenge of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis to become one of Canada’s premier folk artists.
The Hero
The legendary Sam Elliott stars as an aging actor confronting his mortality in this moving new comedy/drama from writer/director Brett Haley.
Landline
Welcome to the Manhattan of 1995: a land without cell phones, but abundant in CD listening stations, bar smoke and family dysfunction.
The Little Hours
In the irreverent, all-star comedy The Little Hours, a young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages.
A Ghost Story
A Ghost Story, the new film from acclaimed writer/director David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon) is a singular exploration of legacy, loss and the essential human longing for meaning and connection.
Link
Future Oscar-nominee Elisabeth Shue tangles with a super-intelligent, super-amorous, super-deadly orangutan named Link in this weird ‘80s thriller / worst romantic comedy ever!
In this Corner of the World
Based on the award-winning manga by Fumiyo Kouno, this acclaimed feature recently won the coveted Animation of the Year award at this year’s 40th Japan Academy Prize.
Lemon
Middle-aged struggling actor Isaac is a loser, but thinks of himself as an unrecognized supreme talent in this cringe-inducing comedy of epically awkward proportions.
Whose Streets?
Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising.
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Whose Streets?
Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising.
Night of the Bloody Apes
A lust-crazed monkey man is looking for love in all the wrong places (including the wrestling arena) in this ultra-insane, ultra-gory late-‘60s Mexican shocker!
Okja
Meet Mija, a young girl who risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend – a fascinating animal named Okja.
Shakma
Things get pretty hairy when an angry, super-powered baboon named Shakma unleashes a load of pure primate whoop-ass on a bunch of nerdy college students who forgot that it’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature!
Loft Film Fest Preview Event
Make the most of your 2017 Loft Film Fest experience by attending this special Preview Event that’s guaranteed to make you a Fest Expert in one easy step!
El Topo
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s legendary, notorious cult hit essentially created the genre of the Midnight Movie — a spectacle so stunning and bizarre that normal hours couldn’t contain it.
Food Evolution
Food Evolution is set amidst a brutally polarized debate marked by fear, distrust and confusion: the controversy surrounding GMOs and food.
Benefit for Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts
Raiders of the Lost Ark
See one of the greatest adventure films of all-time on the big screen, and help raise funds for the Hurricane Harvey Relief Effort!
The Devil’s Candy
A not-so-average family wrestles with Satan in a house from hell in this heavy metal-fueled shocker from the acclaimed director of The Loved Ones.
Free Admission! This screening will take place at The University of Arizona Poetry Center
New York International Children’s Film Festival Best of the Festival Short Films
Join us for a special night of imaginative short films!
70mm print
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Return to the wonderful wizarding world of Harry Potter with the magical adventure, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, presented on the big screen in glorious 70mm!
35mm Print
Shattered Glass
See the acclaimed 2003 drama, Shattered Glass, starring Hayden Christensen and Peter Sarsgaard, followed by an onstage discussion with Arizona Daily Star editor, Jill Jorden Spitz!
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Summer Camp returns to The Loft Cinema for a one-night-only screening of Russ Meyer’s outrageously campy rock musical, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, written by Roger Ebert! This is my Happening, and it freaks me out!
Free off-site screening!
Rango
Please join us for a special free outdoor presentation of Rango, in Arivaca, AZ at the Arivaca Community Center!
Free Admission!
Kubo and the Two Strings
In this epic animated adventure, kindhearted Kubo ekes out a humble living, telling stories to the people of his seaside town, including Hosato, Hashi and Kameyo.
Free Admission! This screening will take place at The Global Justice Center
Who is Dayani Cristal?
The startling hybrid documentary Who is Dayani Cristal? looks at the immigration issue from the most basic human vantage point.
FREE ADMISSION! THIS SCREENING WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE GLOBAL JUSTICE CENTER
I Am Not Your Negro
A radical examination of race in America using Baldwin’s original words and rich archival material, screening at The Global Justice Center.
FREE OFF-SITE SCREENING!
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Please join us for a special free outdoor presentation of Hunt for the Wilderpeople on the Pascua Yaqui Reservation!
XX
XX is an all-new, all-female helmed horror anthology featuring four dark tales of terror directed by fiercely talented women.
Free Admission!
UNDERWATER ADVENTURE KICK-OFF PARTY AT TRAIL DUST TOWN
Celebrate the kick-off of Loft Kids Fest at Trail Dust Town with FREE Underwater Adventure themed festivities, live music, games, giveaways and more!
A United Kingdom
Both sweeping and intimate, A United Kingdom, from acclaimed director Amma Asante (Belle), illustrates how love can challenge even the harshest constraints.
Raw
Part sister bonding, part coming-of-age story, part gross-out horror flick, Julia Ducornau’s debut feature is the terror discovery of the year.
Song to Song
In this modern love story set against the vibrant Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.
Kedi
Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the crowded streets of Istanbul, free, without a human master, as they have for thousands of years.
Land of Mine
Land of Mine, a 2017 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, exposes the previously hidden story of Denmark’s darkest hour.
You’re Killing Me Susana
Gael García Bernal is effortlessly charming in this hilarious culture-shock comedy from Mexico about a womanizing televnovela actor whose wife abandons him and sends his life into a tailspin.
The Void
Officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby hospital only to discover that the patients and personnel are transforming into something inhuman.
Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started it All
Documentary on the life of Srila Prabhupada, who ignited the worldwide spiritual phenomenon.
Wilson
Woody Harrelson stars as Wilson, a lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle-aged misanthropic dog lover who reunites with his estranged wife (Laura Dern) and discovers a teenage daughter he has never met.
Free Outdoor Screening!
Pollock
Directed by and starring Best Actor Oscar-nominee Ed Harris, Pollock is an intense, beautifully-crafted drama about the legendary American painter.
Personal Shopper
Olivier Assayas, the internationally-acclaimed director of Clouds of Sils Maria and Summer Hours, returns with this ethereal and mysterious ghost story starring Kristen Stewart (Clouds of Sils Maria, Twilight).
Your Name
From director Makoto Shinkai, the innovative mind behind Voices of a Distant Star and 5 Centimeters per Second, comes a beautifully animated tale about time, the thread of fate, and the hearts of two young souls.
Cézanne and I
Cézanne and I follows the lives, careers and passionate friendship/rivalry of post-impressionist painter Paul Cezanne and politically-engaged novelist Emile Zola.
Dunkirk
Don’t miss Christopher Nolan’s highly-anticipated action epic, Dunkirk!
Presented by Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists
Blood Road
A powerful new documentary following ultra-endurance mountain bike athlete Rebecca Rusch on her journey along the Ho Chi Minh Trail to find the final resting place of her father.
Whose Streets?
Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising.
Tucson Birthday Month Screening in 35mm
Can’t Buy Me Love
Celebrate Tucson’s birthday month with a special 35mm screening of the totally awesome ‘80s comedy Can’t Buy Me Love, filmed right here in Tucson!
Their Finest
A charming comedy set in England’s film industry during World War II. Catrin (Gemma Arterton) is hired by the British Ministry of Information as a “slop” scriptwriter charged with bringing “a woman’s touch” to morale-boosting propaganda films.
Colossal
In the wildly original, audacious and darkly comic sci-fi film Colossal, Gloria (Anne Hathaway) loses her job and is kicked out of her boyfriend’s apartment.
Kingdom of Spiders
Two-fisted macho man William Shatner battles eight-legged invaders trying to spin a web of terror over a small Arizona town in the ultimate man vs. spider B-movie showdown!
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
The definitive documentary about jazz legend John Coltrane, an outside-the-box thinker whose boundary-shattering music continues to impact and influence people around the world.
Slugs
Good old-fashioned toxic waste in the water supply creates an army of gut-munching, slime-spewing mutant slugs (with teeth!), and they’re not gonna stay down in the sewers any longer!
Squirm
A freak rainstorm and a few downed power lines cause millions of slithering, carnivorous worms to rise from the dirt, ready to chow down and worm their way into the hearts – literally!
Book release show!
Best of FST! Female StoryTellers Anthology Volume 1 Release Show
Join FST! Female Storytellers to celebrate the release of their first book!
Ticks
A bunch of troubled city kids are shipped off to the woods to get down with nature, only to run smack dab into the middle of mutant tick party!
Presented by The University of Arizona Poetry Center
A Late Style of Fire
Director Michele Poulos’ feature documentary on the life of poet Larry Levis.
Frogs
Things go “environ-mental” when a crotchety millionaire hosts a party and thousands of vindictive frogs whip every bug and slimy creature into a toxic frenzy!
With director Michael Almereyda in person!
Escapes
Meet acclaimed filmmaker Michael Almereyda at a Q&A following this special screening of his new documentary, Escapes, about actor and Blade Runner screenwriter/producer Hampton Fancher!
Beyond the Gates
Following their father’s mysterious disappearance, two estranged brothers (Chase Williamson and Graham Skipper) reunite to liquidate his business, a video store specializing in horror movies.
The Love Witch
A devilishly clever tribute to the Technicolor melodramas and sexploitation horror flicks of the ‘60s and early ‘70s, writer/director Anna Biller’s tale of a murderous, love-starved , spell-casting witch is wicked feminist fun.
The Handmaiden
From Park Chan-wook, the celebrated director of Oldboy, Lady Vengeance and Thirst, comes a ravishing new crime thriller filled with kinky twists and devilish surprises.
Loving
In Loving, writer/director Jeff Nichols celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple who fought for nine years for the right to live as a family in their hometown.
Things to Come
The new film from acclaimed director Mia Hansen-Løve answers the question: What happens when the life you’ve worked so hard to build falls apart all at once?
Evolution
This eerily seductive mind-bender is a dark, dreamlike descent into the depths of the unknown from Lucile Hadžihalilović, the acclaimed director of Innocence.
Fire at Sea
Gianfranco Rosi’s beautifully-crafted documentary observes Europe’s migrant crisis from the vantage point of the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
The director of Troll Hunter returns with his first English language film, a shocking gothic horror thriller starring Brian Cox and Emile Hirsh as father and son coroners caught up in a terrifying mystery.
Harry Benson: Shoot First
Shoot First charts the illustrious career of the renowned photographer who initially rose to fame alongside The Beatles after being assigned to cover their inaugural trip to the U.S. in 1964.
The Brand New Testament
The Brand New Testament is a bold, brash, blasphemous comedy that begins with one simple conceit: God exists!
Seasons
Seasons, with its exceptional footage of animals in the wild, is the awe-inspiring and thought-provoking tale of the long and tumultuous shared history that inextricably binds humankind with the natural world.
Aquarius
Sonia Braga (Kiss of the Spider Woman) delivers a mesmerizing performance as Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, who loves – and refuses to leave – her beachfront apartment in the grand old Aquarius building.
Jackie
Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (Oscar-nominee Natalie Portman).
Elle
Michèle (Isabelle Huppert, in an unforgettable, Academy Award nominated performance) is a rich and powerful woman forced to face her own powerlessness when she is attacked in her home, changing her life forever.
Toni Erdmann
The audaciously entertaining Toni Erdmann is an alternately hilarious and mortifying comedy following the fraught relationship between a repressed corporate consultant and her incessantly prank-playing father.
Julieta
Spanish maestro Pedro Almodóvar adapts three short stories by renowned Canadian author Alice Munro for this time-tripping tale about the tangled relationship between a Madrid teacher and her beloved daughter.
The Salesman
Celebrated director Asghar Farhadi spins a suspenseful story of one couple’s struggle with the aftermath of an assault, set against the backdrop of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
The Red Turtle
This haunting and magical tale, presented by Studio Ghibli, is a simple fable of a man shipwrecked on a tropical island, and his efforts to survive, wrestling with nature.
Boxing Helena
A hilariously misguided erotic thriller from writer/director Jennifer Lynch (daughter of David Lynch) featuring Sherilyn Fenn, aka Audrey Horne in Twin Peaks!
Catfight
Let’s get ready to rumble! An unexpected reunion between two old school friends (Sandra Oh and Anne Heche) sparks a no-holds-barred war of attrition, in this outrageously madcap black comedy.
Moonlight
A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight is a groundbreaking piece of cinema that reverberates with deep compassion and universal truths.
The Lure
A weird, wild, 1980s-set musical horror film about two mermaid sisters, and the jealousy that arises when one of them enters a romantic relationship.
Neruda
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
THIS FILM WILL BE SHOWN AT THE JCC
Spaceballs
The “Schwartz” will definitely be with you in this epic, uproarious space spoof to end all space spoofs, written and directed by the one-and-only Mel Brooks!
35mm print!
Bamboozled
As relevant and urgent today as when the film was originally released in 2000, Bamboozled is a brave and shockingly funny satire taking vicious aim at a range of issues facing the black community.
My Life as a Zucchini
Brought to life through memorable character designs and expressive stop-motion animation, the story soars with laughter, sorrow, and joy, and stands as a testament to the resilience of the human heart.
THIS FILM WILL BE SHOWN AT THE JCC
High Anxiety
Mel Brooks takes on the Master of Suspense in the gloriously goofy psycho comedy High Anxiety, running rampant through a treasure trove of classic Hitchcock thrillers, including Vertigo, The Birds and Spellbound, to name just a few!
Brand New Digital Restoration!
Dekalog: Nine & Ten
Episodes Nine and Ten of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s masterwork.
Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee’s incendiary, groundbreaking look at race relations in America is a colorful, exuberant and finally devastating modern masterpiece.
Kings of the Road
Two men, each running from his past, bond over cinema and loneliness in Wim Wenders’ meditative, mesmerizingly beautiful road movie, winner of the International Critics’ Prize at Cannes.
New Digital Restoration!
The American Friend
Wim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with The American Friend, an audacious adaption of Patricia Highsmith’s classic novel, Ripley’s Game.
Wings of Desire
Angels perched atop the buildings of Berlin listen in on the innermost thoughts of mere mortals in Wim Wenders’s lovely, lyrical Wings of Desire.
Buena Vista Social Club
From Havana to Carnegie Hall, Wim Wenders’ revelatory documentary captures a forgotten generation of Cuba’s brightest musical talents as they enjoy an unexpected brush with world fame.
New Digital Restoration!
Paris, Texas
Wim Wenders won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and had a major arthouse hit with this moody existential odyssey across the epic landscapes of the American Southwest.
free admission
The Master
Don’t miss Paul Thomas Anderson’s stunning, Oscar-nominated drama The Master on the big screen in glorious 70mm!
THIS FILM WILL BE SHOWN AT THE JCC
Young Frankenstein
Mel Brooks’ hilariously “abby-normal” homage to 1930s monster movies is one of the strangest, funniest, most brilliantly conceived comedies to escape from Hollywood.
The Killing Fields
See the Oscar-winning 1984 drama, The Killing Fields, starring Sam Waterston and John Malkovich, followed by an onstage discussion with former New York Times reporter, foreign correspondent and editor, Craig Whitney!
Lost in Translation
With her dreamy, seductive cinematic valentine Lost in Translation, writer/director Sofia Coppola became the third woman in history to be nominated for the Best Director Academy Award.
THIS FILM WILL BE SHOWN AT THE JCC
Blazing Saddles
Brooks’ hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, race relations and common decency, co-written by Richard Pryor, features the first black sheriff of an all-white frontier town scheduled for demolition by the railroad.
Marie Antoinette
Inspired by the thorough (and thoroughly engrossing) biography by Antonia Fraser, Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette takes a luscious look at the misunderstood Queen of France.
The Bling Ring
Sofia Coppola’s disturbingly funny pop culture comedy The Bling Ring, based on true events, expertly captures a moment when the lines separating anonymity, fame and notoriety are finer, and more ludicrous, than ever.
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2017: Documentary
Catch all of this year’s Oscar nominated short films on the big screen before the 89th Annual Academy Awards! Predict the winners and you could win free passes to The Loft!
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2017: Live Action
Catch all of this year’s Oscar nominated short films on the big screen! Predict the winners and you could win free passes to The Loft!
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2017: Animated
Catch all of this year’s Oscar nominated short films on the big screen! Predict the winners and you could win free passes to The Loft!
Malcolm X
Denzel Washington gives an electrifying, Oscar-nominated performance as the iconic civil rights leader in Spike Lee’s sweeping, passionate biopic.
Jungle Fever
Spike Lee forcefully explores the topic of interracial relationships with his signature provocateur style in this moving, award-winning drama.
The Death of Louis XIV
Back from a hunting trip, Louis XIV – magisterially interpreted by French New Wave icon and honorary Palme d’Or recipient, Jean-Pierre Léaud (The 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses) – feels pain in his leg.
Shin Godzilla
Make way for the ultimate homage to one of the most enduring legends of the big screen – Godzilla – back in Tokyo for an all-new, city-crushing crusade that speaks to the very roots of the world-renowned franchise.
New 30th Anniversary Restoration!
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
One of the most harrowing American horror films of all-time returns to cinemas in a stunning new restoration that’s sure to send shivers of mortal dread through a whole new generation of filmgoers.
Under the Shadow
A deliriously frightening supernatural thriller where a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the war-torn, post-revolution Tehran of the 1980s, while a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
In a Valley of Violence
A lone gunman (Hawke) and his devoted collie at odds with the hostile marshal (Travolta) of a small border town in this dark-humored and bloody homage to classic Westerns from director Ti West (House of the Devil).
American Honey
In the epic and exhilarating road movie American Honey, newcomer Sasha Lane plays Star, a teenage girl from a troubled home who runs away with a travelling sales crew selling magazine subscriptions door to door.
Harry and Snowman
Harry and Snowman tells the remarkable true story of a poor Dutch immigrant and the broken down horse who beat all the odds to become world-famous champions on the show jumping circuit.
Miss Hokusai
From award-winning director Keiichi Hara and Japanese animation powerhouse Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell) comes the remarkable story of a blossoming young artist, daughter of Katsushika Hokusai.
The Dressmaker
In the quirky dark comedy The Dressmaker, a beautiful and talented dressmaker (Oscar-winner Kate Winslet) returns to her small Australian hometown to seek revenge on the locals who did her wrong.
Gimme Danger
Acclaimed filmmaker Jim Jarmusch’s cinematic offering to the punk gods of Ann Arbor traces the always raucous and frequently calamitous history of The Stooges from inception to the present.
A Man Called Ove
From best-selling novel comes Ove, an ill-tempered retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife’s grave. He has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.
Certain Women
Kelly Reichardt directs a remarkable ensemble cast led by Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, and Laura Dern in this stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest.
New 25th Anniversary Restoration!
Howards End
One of Merchant Ivory’s undisputed masterpieces, this Oscar-winning adaptation of E.M. Forster’s classic 1910 novel is a powerful, absorbing saga of class relations and changing times in Edwardian England.
Ixcanul
A mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable – a poetic, yet unadorned, look at the life and loves of a young girl living in the heart of a Kaqchikel Mayan community in the Guatemalan highlands.
Antibirth
Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne, “Orange is the New Black”) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny, “Big Love”) spend their days adrift in a druggy, junk food-fueled haze.
The Greasy Strangler
A masterpiece of bad taste, this grotesquely hilarious exercise in juvenile depravity and cheesy gore follows the adventures of a pair of disco tour guides whose town is terrorized by a slimy maniac covered in grease.
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
The new documentary from Oscar-winning director Ron Howard, based on The Beatles’ early career (1962-1966) when they toured and captured the world’s acclaim.
Yoga Hosers
15-year-olds Colleen Collette and Colleen McKenzie love their smartphones, their yoga classes and their fledgling rock band, but they hate their after school job at a Manitoban convenience store.
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
That highly glamorous, hilariously self-indulgent duo, Edina and Patsy, are on the run and looking fabulous in the glitzy, gloriously over-the-top big screen version of the hit British TV series.
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
An in-depth look at the life and work of avant-garde musician Frank Zappa, whose music never became “popular,” but who had an enthusiastic worldwide following.
New Restoration!
Multiple Maniacs
Restored! Reviled! Revolting! John Waters’ gloriously grotesque, unavailable-for-decades second feature comes to theaters at long last.
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble
A diverse group of musicians, artists and storytellers explore the power of music to preserve tradition, shape cultural evolution and inspire hope.
Life, Animated
The inspirational story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered a unique way to communicate – by immersing themselves in the world of classic Disney animated films.
Our Little Sister
Acclaimed filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest subtle and moving exploration of family ties centers on three twenty-something sisters who live together in their grandmother’s house.
Miss Sharon Jones!
Two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple (Shut Up and Sing) shines a powerful spotlight on the legendary, Grammy-nominated R&B dynamo Sharon Jones during the most tumultuous year of her life.
Phantom Boy
A stylishly animated noir caper from the Academy Award-nominated writers and directors of A Cat In Paris.
Captain Fantastic
A charmingly eccentric, sweet and funny look at an unconventional family living deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
The Innocents
Based on an incredible true story, the latest film from acclaimed director Anne Fontaine is set in Poland at the end of World War II, where a young doctor discovers an order of Benedictine nuns facing an unprecedented crisis of faith.
Little Men
Acclaimed filmmaker Ira Sachs (Love is Strange, Forty Shades of Blue) returns to the big screen with this moving family drama brimming with his trademark humanism and insight.
Morris from America
A heartwarming coming-of-age comedy with a unique spin about a 13-year-old budding hip-hop star who has just relocated with his single father, Curtis (Craig Robinson, “The Office”), to Heidelberg, Germany.
Indignation
Based on Philip Roth’s acclaimed novel, this haunting drama takes place in 1951, as a brilliant working class Jewish boy from New Jersey travels on scholarship to a small college in Ohio, thus exempting him from being drafted into the Korean War.
The Intervention
A sharp-witted ensemble of thirty-something couples takes a beautiful lakefront vacation, but the relaxing weekend filled with hidden agendas soon boils over into comedic chaos.
Don’t Think Twice
From acclaimed actor/director Mike Birbiglia and the creators of This American Life comes this funny and authentic look at the wild world of New York improv comedy.
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Celebrated filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man) chronicles the virtual world from its origins to its outermost reacher.
Complete Unknown
Alice (Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener) has disappeared for 15 years. But this bridge-burning approach to life leaves embers in its wake when she is recognized at a birthday party, and a fire reignites.
Demon
A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration in this unsettling and darkly funny Polish horror tale, winner of the Best Picture award at Fantastic Fest.
Mia Madre
A revisiting of the themes of life, cinema, family ties and guilt that drive much of his work, celebrated filmmaker Nanni Moretti’s (We Have a Pope) latest comedy/drama is a major return to form for the Italian director.
Train to Busan
In this fast, fun and freaky zombie-fueled thriller from South Korea, a group of terrified passengers fight their way through a viral outbreak while trapped on board a blood-drenched bullet train ride.
White Girl
Girls go wild and wilder in the course of the reckless summer of two slumming NYC college girls who flaunt privilege even as they tempt the Queens gangbangers they cozy up to for sex and drugs.
Cinema Paradiso: The Theatrical Cut
In this newly-restored version of the theatrical cut, a young Sicilian boy named Salvatore loses his father to war and strikes up a friendship with Alfredo, the aging projectionist at his local theatre.
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Written, directed by and starring Natalie Portman, A Tale of Love and Darkness is based on the memories of Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood.
Phantasm: Remastered
Don Coscarelli’s 1979 horror classic returns to the big screen in a gorgeous new digital restoration, courtesy of J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot Productions.
A Town Called Panic: The Specials
Come visit A Town Called Panic, with two new, award-winning animated specials from the Academy Award-nominated directors of Ernest & Celestine.
Author: The JT Leroy Story
One of the greatest scandals ever to envelop the literary world, the unmasking of mysterious “it boy” author JT Leroy by the New York Times in 2006 is the type of stranger than fiction story tailor-made for the movies.
Max Rose
Max Rose, featuring the legendary Jerry Lewis in his first starring role in over two decades, is a deeply moving drama about a retired jazz musician whose beloved wife of nearly sixty years has just passed away.
Men & Chicken
A darkly hilarious slapstick comedy about a pair of socially-challenged siblings who discover they are adopted half-brothers in their late father’s videotaped will.
Long Way North
Artfully combining action, arctic exploration and female empowerment, this gorgeously-drawn animated adventure from France tells the story of a young aristocrat, Sasha, growing up in Saint Petersburg in the late 19th century.
Phantasm: Ravager
The fifth and final film in the classic Phantasm series brings this beloved sci-fi/horror franchise to an epic end, as our intrepid everyman hero Reggie battles the sinister Tall Man one last time!
The Rocketeer
The Rocketeer is an action-packed, retro-styled throwback to the pulp serials of the 1930s – a simpler time when the bad guys sported villainous mustaches and the good guys flew through the sky with cool rocket packs!
April and the Extraordinary World
A riveting and dazzling sci-fi adventure set in an alternate steampunk universe from the producers of Persepolis and the mind of renowned graphic novelist Jacques Tardi.
Miles Ahead
Inspired by events in the life of Miles Davis, this is a wildly entertaining, impressionistic, no-holds barred portrait of one of 20th century music’s creative geniuses.
Neon Bull
A rodeo movie unlike any other, Gabriel Mascaro’s Venice and Toronto prize-winning Neon Bull tracks handsome cowboy Iremar (Juliano Cazarré) as he travels around to work at vaquejada rodeo.
The Invitation
The tension is palpable in this taut psychological thriller when Will shows up to his ex-wife Eden and new husband, David’s dinner party.
Francofonia
A fascinating portrait of real-life characters Jacques Jaujard and Count Franziskus Wolff-Metternich and their compulsory collaboration at the Louvre Museum under the Nazi Occupation.
Dough
An old Jewish baker struggles to keep his business afloat until his young Muslim apprentice drops cannabis in the dough and sends sales sky high.
High-Rise
High-Rise stars Tom Hiddleston as Dr. Robert Laing, the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class.
Everybody Wants Some!!
From writer/director Richard Linklater (Boyhood), comes a new “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused set in the world of 80s college life.
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Oscar-winner Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel star in the inspiring drama The Man Who Knew Infinity, based on the true story of a friendship that forever changed mathematics.
The Meddler
The hilarious and moving dramedy The Meddler is a charming ode to the complicated, often comical, state of being known as “motherhood.”
Gurukulam
In vivid and sensuous detail, Gurukulam follows a group of students and their teacher as they confront fundamental questions about the nature of reality and self-identity at a remote forest ashram in southern India.
Love & Friendship
Set in the opulent drawing rooms of eighteenth-century English society, Love & Friendship focuses on the comical machinations of a beautiful widow who takes up temporary residence at her in-laws’ estate.
Dark Horse
This thrilling, inspirational documentary tells the story of a group of working-class friends in a small Welsh mining town who pool their modest resources and take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ by breeding themselves a racehorse.
The Idol
The incredible true story of Palestine’s first pop celebrity, Mohammed Assaf, and his stellar rise to fame following his stirring victory in the 201 season of “Arab Idol.”
Dheepan
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Dheepan is a gripping immigrant drama from acclaimed filmmaker Jacques Audiard (A Prophet).
Genius
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins (Colin Firth), literary editor at Scribner’s Sons, is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway (Dominic West) and F. Scott Fitzgerald (Guy Pearce).
Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
This is the true, decades-spanning tale of the greatest fan film ever made, an epic adventure story to rival any Hollywood blockbuster.
Weiner
Sexts, lies and Carlos Danger: watch the wildest political meltdown in recent history as it unfolds.
Last Cab to Darwin
Rex (Michael Caton, The Castle) is a stubborn seventy-year-old taxi driver who has never traveled anywhere outside his dusty outback hometown of Broken Hill, New South Wales.
Maximum Overdrive
A passing comet causes all the machines on Earth to turn against their makers in a full throttle, hot mess orgy of grinding metal and blaring AC/DC music from director/writer Stephen King!
The Wailing
The latest from South Korean genre master Na Hong-jin (The Chaser, The Yellow Sea) is a mesmerizing, boundary-pushing horror-thriller unlike any in recent memory.
The Lobster
Colin Farrell stars in this deliciously dark comedy about a curious hotel where the residents are charged with finding a new mate within 45 days – under penalty of being turned into an animal should they fail.
Tickled
A mysterious online “tickling video” leads a reporter on an increasingly strange and dangerous hunt for the truth in the jaw-dropping documentary, Tickled.
The Fits
Filmmaker Anna Rose Holmer’s visually striking debut feature is a delightfully enigmatic coming-of-age story about a young girl’s transition out of childhood and the anxiety around growing up.
Uninvited
When a poisonous mutant cat stows away on board a yacht headed for the Cayman Islands and proceeds to spread carnage and kitty litter over everyone on board, it leads to some of the most hilariously awful bad movie hijinks you’ve ever seen!
The Dark Crystal
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and so restore order to his world.
They’re Watching
When an American home improvement TV show visits a remote Eastern European village in Moldova, the young crew thinks the lack of mocha lattés and free wifi will be the worst of their problems.
As You Like It
Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love and change comes to the National Theatre for the first time in over 30 years!
Zoltan: Hound of Dracula
While any old dog can bite, it takes a very special breed to bite and suck, and such is the case with the bloodthirsty vampire pooch at the center of this infamously awful ‘70s horror flick that somehow turns Benji into Bela Lugosi!
Strays
When a dopey city family moves into an old country house, they’ve got to battle it out with the house’s other tenants – a horde of meowing, murderous kitty cats who want the house all to themselves!
Baskin
What should be a routine night on patrol becomes a journey into Hell for a squad of unsuspecting cops in this ferociously terrifying, tour-de-force horror thriller from Turkish director Can Evrenol.
Free Admission!
The Mighty Ducks
Walt Disney’s The Mighty Ducks is a funny, feel-good, slap shot comedy that definitely scores a goal!
The Boy and the Beast
In this fantastic animated adventure from award-winning writer/director Mamoru Hosoda, a young boy discovers a secret world of beastly warriors in the back alleys of contemporary Tokyo.
Embrace of the Serpent
Tracking two parallel odysseys through the Amazon three decades apart, this visionary adventure epic offers a heart-rending depiction of colonialism laying waste to indigenous culture.
Paprika
Based on a novel by Japanese science fiction writer Yashutaka Tsutsui, Paprika explores the space where dreams and reality collide in a kaleidoscopic mindscape.
Requiem for the American Dream
The definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky on the defining characteristic of our time – the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few.
Creative Control
Creative Control is a smart, stylish sci-fi comedy that redefines meaningful human interaction in the 21st century. The setting is New York, five minutes in the future.
Marguerite
Wealthy would-be opera diva Marguerite Dumont loves to sing passionately for an avid crowd of friends and devotees. The only problem is, despite her vast resources, she is completely lacking in talent.
Chimes at Midnight
The crowning achievement of Orson Welles’s later film career, Chimes at Midnight at last returns to the big screen in a beautifully restored new edition, after being unavailable for decades.
Knight of Cups
Terrence Malick’s visually dazzling, philosophically daring Knight of Cups follows writer Rick (Christian Bale) on an odyssey through the playgrounds of Los Angeles and Las Vegas as he undertakes a search for love and self.
Man’s Best Friend
If you ever wished that someone would cross Cujo and Old Yeller with The Terminator and throw in one of the stars of The Breakfast Club for extra seasoning, look no further, because Man’s Best Friend is on the prowl!
Remember
Academy Award-winner Christopher Plummer is a retiree who flees his nursing home to complete a secret mission of revenge some seventy years in the making — so long as he can remember his goal.
Hello, My Name is Doris
Hello, My Name Is Doris, starring two-time Oscar winner Sally Field, is a witty and compassionate late-life coming-of-age-comedy which proves that it’s never too late to grow up.
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Downton Abbey: The Series Finale
Arizona Public Media invites you to a special sneak preview of the series finale of Downtown Abbey, featuring opening commentary by Jerrold E. Hogle Ph.D.
Krisha
Gripping from start to finish, Trey Edward Shults’ award-winning debut feature plunges viewers deep into the disoriented world of its title character, Krisha, a troubled woman who begins to unravel while trying to reconnect with her family.
Hardcore Henry
One of the most unflinchingly original wild-rides to hit the big screen in years, Hardcore Henry is also the world’s first action film to be completely shot from the hero’s perspective.
Born to be Blue
Ethan Hawke (Boyhood) lights up the screen as jazz legend Chet Baker, whose tumultuous life is thrillingly reimagined with wit, verve and style to burn.
My Golden Days
An epic yet intimate portrait of youth in all its terrifying beauty, starring Mathieu Amalric as Paul Dédalus, an anthropologist who reflects on his life as he prepares to leave Tajikistan.
City of Gold
Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold shows us a Los Angeles where ethnic cooking is a kaleidoscopic portal to the mysteries of an unwieldy city and the soul of America.
Wiener-Dog
In Wiener-Dog, celebrated filmmaker Todd Solondz continues his career-long journey into the depths of human dysfunction, casting new light on the grotesque suburban landscape through the eyes of man’s best friend.
nominated for 6 academy awards
Carol
Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress nominees Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara are mesmerizing as two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves feeling a forbidden attraction in 1950s Manhattan.
Ip Man 3
Hong Kong action star Donnie Yen (Hero) ignites the screen in a return to his iconic role of Ip Man, the real-life Wing Chun Kung Fu master who mentored Bruce Lee.
I Knew Her Well
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alexander Payne presents a brand-new restoration of Antonio Pietrangeli’s little-know 1965 Italian masterpiece, I Knew Her Well, never before released in the US!
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Son of Saul
Winner of four prizes at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, including the Grand Prix, Son of Saul doesn’t tell the story of the Holocaust, but of one man caught in a dreadful situation.
The Wave
In this pulse-pounding, fearsomely vivid thriller, a tenacious geologist tries to prevent a cataclysm when a mountain overlooking a popular Norwegian tourist destination begins to collapse into the ocean.
Rabin: The Last Day
Celebrated filmmaker Amos Gitai (Kippur) delves into the prelude and aftermath of the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yithak Rabin in this gripping and inventive docu-drama.
Academy Award for Best Actress
Room
Based on the best-selling novel by Emma Donoghue, Room is a remarkable and touching exploration of the boundless love between a mother and her child.
oscar nomination for best actress
45 Years
Best Actress Academy Award nominee Charlotte Rampling (Under the Sand) and Tom Courtenay (Dr. Zhivago) star as Kate and Geoff Mercer, a couple preparing to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary.
Embrace of the Serpent
Tracking two parallel odysseys through the Amazon three decades apart, this visionary adventure epic offers a heart-rending depiction of colonialism laying waste to indigenous culture.
Nick Cave: One More Time With Feeling
Andrew Dominik’s Nick Cave: One More Time with Feeling is a remarkable black-and-white documentary detailing the creation of the new Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds album, Skeleton Tree.
Arabian Nights: Volume Three, The Enchanted One
The concluding volume of Miguel Gomes’ majestic, mutating modern-day folk tale finally sees our intrepid narrator, the winsome Scheherazade, emerge in resplendent physical form.
Johnny Guitar
Joan Crawford saddles up and rides the range as a tough-talking, gun-toting saloon owner in director Nicholas Ray’s deliciously offbeat Western Melodrama extravaganza, Johnny Guitar!
An Autumn Afternoon
The last film by Yasujirô Ozu was also his final masterpiece, a gently heartbreaking story about a man’s dignifed resignation to life’s shifting currents and society’s modernization.
Galaxy Quest
A team of intrepid adventurers travels through the outer reaches of space, each week finding excitement and adventure on Galaxy Quest!
Extraordinary Tales
Five of Edgar Allan Poe’s best-known stories are brought to vivid life in this visually stunning, heart-pounding animated anthology.
Raising Arizona
The Coen Brothers hit the comedy jackpot with their second film, a certifiably bonkers live action cartoon about crime, redemption and questionable family planning.
"Pay What You Want" Preview Screening!
The Invitation
The tension is palpable in this taut psychological thriller when Will shows up to his ex-wife Eden and new husband, David’s dinner party.
Mo’ Better Blues
Spike Lee’s knockout ode to music, love and blazing artistry showcases a magnetic performance from Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington.
Tucson Juneteenth Festival Spoken Word Celebration
A night of live spoken word entertainment featuring talented artists from the Tucson community.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Star Trek franchise at this special big screen presentation of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan!
Celeste and Jesse Forever
Celeste and Jesse are high school sweethearts who married young. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple. But now, at the age of thirty, they find themselves at a crossroads.
Night and the City
One of the most baroque and bleak of all film noirs, stars iconic tough guy Richard Widmark (Panic in the Streets) and Laura beauty Gene Tierney, under the hard-edged direction of Oscar-nominated Jules Dassin.
Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil
In 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum held an exhibition of Hieronymus Bosch, who died 500 years ago. In preparation a team of art historians attempts to unravel the secrets of his art.
Pickup on South Street
This luridly gripping thriller is a leading exemplar of pulp-fiction maestro Sam Fuller’s brutally kinetic cinema.
The Killers
One of noir’s essential works, The Killers elaborates on an existential Ernest Hemingway short story about a man who offers no resistance when hired killers come to gun him down.
Equinox Flower
Ozu’s gorgeously detailed first color film, a comedy about an old-fashioned father and his newfangled daughter.
Late Spring
Late Spring tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter, who is reluctant to leave home.
35mm print!
The Last Metro
Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu star in one of Francois Truffaut’s most commercially successful films, a romantic and suspenseful drama focusing on a Parisian theatre troupe during the German occupation
35mm Print!
Repulsion
Roman Polanski’s chilling psychological suspense thriller starring Catherine Deneuve as a young woman spiraling into madness.
35mm Print!
Belle de Jour
In this boundary-pushing classic from legendary filmmaker Luis Buñuel, Catherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior, in one of the actress’s most iconic roles.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
An angelic young Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling, one-of-a-kind musical heart-tugger from French New Wave director Jacques Demy.
Mystery Train
Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of dreams – which, in the case of Jim Jarumusch’s Mystery Train, happens to be Memphis.
Tucson Lunafest 2016
Annual nationally-touring film festival featuring the best short films made by, for and about women from around the world!
Nosferatu with live music score by The Invincible Czars
Don’t miss this special screening featuring an original live score by the highly-acclaimed Austin music ensemble, The Invincible Czars!
The Confirmation
See the new comedy The Confirmation before its national theatrical release at this special New York Film Critics Series preview screening.
Harvey
Celebrate Easter with Jimmy Stewart and his pal Harvey in the heartwarming comedy classic that’s guaranteed to have you hopping down the bunny trail! Free Easter candy while supplies last!
The Wild Bunch / 70mm print!
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the “traditional” American West is disappearing around them.
35mm print!
Gold Diggers of 1933
Billed by Warner Brothers as “The Show of a Thousand Wonders!,” the smash hit Gold Diggers of 1933 is one of the most iconic showbiz musicals of the 1930s, fueled by that unforgettable Busby Berkeley magic!
35mm print!
Footlight Parade
In Footlight Parade, James Cagney stars as a Broadway producer on his way out due to the Depression-era public’s preference for talking pictures over stage musicals.
35mm print!
42nd Street
The film that inaugurated Busby Berkeley’s sensationally successful career with Warner Brothers and established him as one the major figures in Hollywood musicals.
Brand New Digital Restoration!
Dekalog: One & Two
Episodes One and Two of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s masterwork.
Brand New Digital Restoration!
Dekalog: Three & Four
Episodes Three and Four of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s masterwork.
Brand New Digital Restoration!
Dekalog: Five & Six
Episodes Five and Six of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s masterwork.
Brand New Digital Restoration!
Dekalog: Seven & Eight
Episodes Seven and Eight of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s masterwork.
Theory of Obscurity: A Film about The Residents
Director Don Hardy tells the colorful, stranger-than-fiction story of multimedia collective known as The Residents.
Birth Happens: An International Look at Birth
Three unique documentaries take a look at what it means to be born in different parts of the world.
Stroszek
Herzog’s fascination with strange characters adrift in strange environments takes a turn toward the humorously absurd in this comically deadpan, decidedly oddball road trip adventure.
Fitzcarraldo
One of cinema’s grandest and most jaw-dropping epic adventures, Herzog’s stunning tale of obsession, madness and opera houses blurs the lines between fiction and reality to unleash a spectacle unlike any other.
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Herzog’s long-term fascination with misfits living outside the boundaries of “normal” society achieved full flower with this strange, haunting and uniquely moving drama inspired by a true story.
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Once seen, never forgotten, this hallucinatory epic of unhinged Spanish conquistadors lost in the Amazon is the definitive Werner Herzog expedition to the edge.
35mm Print!
Stranger than Paradise
A self-described “neo-realistic black comedy in the style of an imaginary Eastern European director obsessed with Ozu and The Honeymooners.”
35mm Print!
Down by Law
Jim Jarmusch followed up his brilliant breakthrough film Stranger than Paradise with this pitch-perfect Louisiana-set comic odyssey that re-teamed him with Stranger star John Lurie.
35mm Print!
Night on Earth
Five cities. Five taxicabs. A multitude of strangers in the night. A hilarious quintet of taxi-based tales of urban displacement and existential angst , spanning time zones, continents and languages.
35mm Print!
Dead Man
Jim Jarmusch’s hypnotic, visionary Western, hailed as ‘the best movie of the end of the 20th century,” is a haunting parable of spiritual rebirth and a radical twist on the traditional myth of the American West.
35mm Print!
Con-Air
Buckle up, because it’s going to be a bumpy ride when a buffed up Nicolas Cage takes to the skies and kicks some serious butt in the all-star, mega-massive action flick, Con-Air!
35mm Print!
Face/Off
Nicolas Cage and John Travolta “face off” (both literally and figuratively) in one of the most brilliantly absurd and thrillingly over-the-top action extravaganzas ever made.
Sudden Fear
Film Noir meets High Melodrama when Joan Crawford falls in love with the sinister Jack Palance and experiences a nasty case of Sudden Fear!
Queen Bee
The ads for Queen Bee screamed “She’s so excitingly good … when she’s so wonderfully bad,” and there has perhaps never been more truth in the history of movie advertising.
Branded to Kill
A delirious fever dream of a film noir, Seijun Suzuki’s fractured thriller Branded to Kill is an anarchic send-up of B-movie clichés that transforms a standard crime drama into something outrageously bizarre and unexpectedly poetic.
The Humanoid
An evil emperor joins forces with an insane scientist and a voluptuous villainess to conquer the universe…
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GRADUATE VIDEO SHOW 2015
A celebration of the multiple uses of video art formats including mise-en-scène, the long shot, performance, collage and montage.
Dark Side of the Full Moon
Dark Side of the Full Moon delves into the unseen world of maternal mental health in the U.S.
Space Mutiny
“Space Mutiny is a film so completely and absolutely awful that it leaves one breathless.”
An American in Paris
Join Patricia Ward Kelly, Gene Kelly’s widow, for this very special screening of the Oscar-winning 1951 musical, An American in Paris, starring the one-and-only Gene Kelly!
Dante’s Peak
Join University of Arizona Geoscientist George Davis as he explains the volcanic rockin’ and rollin’ goin’ on in the thrilling disaster epic, Dante’s Peak!
The Resurrection of Jake the Snake
A powerfully moving documentary chronicling one man’s fall from the heights of fame and his inspiring journey back.
Robo Vampire
A narcotics agent is resurrected as a crime-fighting robot and is forced to battle drug smugglers, gorilla-faced hopping vampires, a sexy ghost and all rules of logic in this utterly insane whatchamacallit from Hong Kong.
Eliminators
A time-traveling, revenge-seeking half man/half robot tracks down a mad dictator hiding out in the jungle
Robot Monster
The hilarious sci-fi anti-classic that gives bad movies a good name.
Cherry 2000
Melanie Griffith stars in this mega-cheesy, post-apocalyptic action flick that’s every bit as enjoyably ludicrous as it sounds.
R.O.T.O.R.
A crazed cyborg motorcycle cop with a bad attitude and a bushy mustache is on the loose in Texas and only a handful of terrible actors without a script can hope to stop him.
Free Outdoor Screening at Trail Dust Town!
The Addams Family
Celebrate Halloween with a free outdoor screening of the creepy and kooky, mysterious and ooky 1991 comedy The Addams Family at Trail Dust Town!
Free Flight Film Festival
Ever dream that you can fly? Join local hang glider and paraglider pilots for this dazzling collection of short films showcasing free flight at its best.
BRAND: A Second Coming
Russell Brand transforms from addict, self-proclaimed narcissist and Hollywood star to his current, and unexpected, role as political disruptor and newfound hero to the underserved.
Yakuza Apocalypse
To wild to be described and too fun to be missed, Yakuza Apocalypse is Takashi Miike at his triumphantly unhinged best.
Goodnight Mommy
Arthouse elegance and grindhouse gruesomeness collide in this twisted, nerve-wracking psychological horror film.
Coming Home
A massive hit in mainland China, the enthralling and emotional historical drama Coming Home is the latest film from director Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers).
Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant, Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
Comedy got a sharper edge when a newly minted magazine stuck its middle finger up at the establishment.
The Second Mother
The Second Mother is a winning look at class, social status and the meaning of family. Brazil’s official selection for this year’s Best Foreign Language Academy Award!
Blood Feast
Hershell Gordon Lewis’ infamous splatter flick/unintentional comedy will have you gagging and laughing at the same time.
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
A vibrant, human, living and breathing chronicle of this pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture.
Tucson Premiere!
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Peter Greenaway’s film explores the mind of a creative genius facing the desires and fears of love, sex and death through ten passionate days that helped shape the rest of his career.
Meet the Patels
A laugh-out-loud, real-life romantic comedy about Ravi Patel, an almost-30-year-old Indian-American who enters a love triangle between the woman of his dreams … and his parents.
Arizona Premiere!
Horse Money
A visionary masterwork from the renowned director of Colossal Youth, Pedro Costa’s Horse Money is a piercingly beautiful work of modern cinema.
Like Water for Chocolate
See the award-winning, crowd-pleasing romantic drama Like Water for Chocolate on the big screen, featuring a post-film Q&A with director Alfonso Arau!
18+ Only!
Love 3D
French provocateur Gaspar Noé (Irreversible, Enter the Void) continues to push the envelope with this 3D melodrama full of references to his cinematic influences.
Unbranded
Unbranded is a soaring tale of resilience and adventure that will make you laugh, cry and develop a newfound understanding of these emblematic Western creatures.
Tucson Premiere!
Finders Keepers
The so-weird-it-must-be-true story of two men, a severed leg found in a grill, and the media firestorm that ensued and changed their lives forever.
Director & Star in person!
Right Footed
Born without arms as the result of a severe birth defect, Jessica Cox never allowed herself to believe that she couldn’t accomplish her dreams.
3D Rarities
To commemorate the 3D Centennial, the 3D Film Archive presents 3D Rarities, an eye-popping collection of brilliantly-restored 3D films.
Late Night Shorts
Short films worth staying up late for! Films include performances by Dominque Pinon (City of Lost Children) and Kathleen Hanna (Le Tigre, Bikini Kill)!
The Hallow
The Hallow cleverly toys with horror conventions while unleashing some of the most nightmarishly terrifying creatures in years.
Bone Tomahawk
Kurt Russell stars in this thrilling, character-driven Horror/Western about a group of men who set out to rescue a local woman and a young deputy who have fallen prey to a tribe of savage cannibals!
Arizona Premiere!
Beaver Trilogy Part IV
Brad Besser dives deep into the mystique of this cult classic, unraveling the mystery of Trent Harris’s original inspiration.
10th Anniversary Screening / 35mm print!
Brokeback Mountain
Special 10th Anniversary screening of the groundbreaking classic featuring an introduction by the film’s Oscar-winning screenwriters/producers Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana!
Tucson Premiere!
Entertainment
In this hallucinatory fugue, Gregg Turkington (aka Neil Hamburger) stars as The Comedian, caught in a struggle between being the center of attention and the object of alienation.
Narrative Shorts #2
One of two programs featuring a diverse selection of incredible short films from around the world.
The Crush
A pre-Clueless Alicia Silverstone goes completely, totally … “whatever” as a psychotic teenybopper with a major Fatal Attraction for dim-witted older man Cary Elwes.
free admission!
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
A delightful claymation comedy/adventure filled with fun, scares and endless imagination.
The Final Girls
Filled with clever scares, abundant ‘80s cheesiness and laugh-out-loud goofiness, The Final Girls is a hilarious horror comedy and an affectionate ode to the slasher movies of yore.
Coraline
Coraline is a delightfully twisted, visually stunning stop-motion animated adventure from Henry Selick, the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas!
Lee Marvin Maverick Award Screening!
Call Me Lucky
The incredible story of comedian Barry Crimmins’s transformation from a rage-fueled funnyman into an acclaimed proponent of justice. With director Bobcat Goldthwait in person!
Dangerous Men
A pulse-pounding, heart-stopping, brain-devouring onslaught of ‘80s thunder, ‘90s lighting, and pure filmmaking confusion from another time and/or dimension.
Arizona Premiere!
Fiddlesticks
Fiddlesticks is a fantastical, wild, candy-coated film, as endlessly inventive and charming as its main characters, the kids of the Coati Gang.
U.S. Premiere! Director in Person!
Hand Gestures (Il Gesto Delle Mani)
Director Francesco Clerici has made a fine-tuned, carefully-observed study of a glorious thing to watch: artisans practicing their craft on film.
Jafar Panahi’s Taxi
Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Taxi is another modern classic from master director Jafar Panahi.
Victoria
Victoria, a stunning romantic thriller shot in one continuous take, is a groundbreaking achievement offering intoxicating doses of passion, adrenaline and sheer cinematic bravura.
The Assassin
An assassin accepts a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in 7th century China in this visually ravishing martial arts epic by Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-Hsien.
Spider Baby
A demented clan of depraved degenerates get their kicks from murder, cannibalism and other wholesome activities in this hilariously bonkers ode to wacko family values.
Steve Jobs
In this entertainingly provocative and bracingly untraditional biopic, we get a dazzlingly-executed, cross-hatched portrait of a complex and contradictory man.
Presented by NAMI Southern Arizona
No Kidding, Me 2!
This empowering documentary sheds light on what nearly 100 million Americans suffer in isolation.
Arizona Premiere!
Nasty Baby
Nasty Baby is an occasionally hilarious, constantly morphing critique of the blithe self-absorption of modern bohemia starring Kristen Wiig and TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe.
The Last Starfighter
In this totally awesome ‘80s outer space adventure, a video game-loving nerd is called upon to save the galaxy by using all of his gaming skills and turning himself into The Last Starfighter!
Stonewall
Director Roland Emmerich’s passionate drama tells the incredible true story of the 1969 Stonewall riots that started America’s modern LGBT rights movement.
Rosenwald
Rosenwald, the new film from award-winning filmmaker Aviva Kempner (Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg) tells the incredible and inspiring true story of Julius Rosenwald.
Arizona Premiere!
Applesauce
Onur Tukel (Summer of Blood) serves up a blend of dark comedy with a dash of noir, horror, and relationship drama in this story of a man who better pull his life together ASAP.
Freeheld
Freeheld tells the true love story of Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore) and Stacie Andree (Ellen Page) and their fight for justice.
Arizona Premiere!
In Transit
Albert Maysles’ final film captures a journey through the hearts and minds of passengers aboard The Empire Builder, America’s busiest long-distance train route.
Rita Moreno Reception
Meet the legendary Rita Moreno at an intimate reception just before our gala screening of West Side Story.
With international film star Kalpana Pandit in person!
Jo Jo Laali: A Heartbreaking Lullaby
A special U.S. premiere of the short film Jo Jo Laali. All proceeds benefit the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation!
Kickboxer
Some major Van Dammage is on the menu when the “Muscles from Brussels” seeks revenge on an evil Thai kickboxer in this crazed action avalanche of busted heads, skimpy loincloths and utterly ridiculous leg splits.
Don Verdean
From Jared Hess, director of Napoleon Dynamite, comes this hilariously biting satire that explores the fine line between faith and fabrication.
The World of Kanako
The World of Kanako is an astonishing tour de force of mystery, beauty and boundary-pushing violence.
Arizona Premiere!
Chuck Norris vs Communism
A documentary about the magic of film and the power it has to change lives.
Southwest Premiere! Director in Person!
Double Digits: The Story of a Neighborhood Movie Star
Welcome to the inspiring, imaginative, and often handmade world of Ultra-DIY filmmaker Richard ‘R.G.’ Miller.
35mm Print!
City of Lost Children
Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro take a walk on the weird side with this fantastical dark fairy tale for adults.
Co-Presented by the Tucson International Jewish Film Festival
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT
Offers a rare look into Peggy Guggenheim’s world.
Arizona Premiere! 18+ Only!
In the Basement
Using his familiar tableaux style, Ulrich Seidl’s stunning, hilarious, and outrageous new documentary explores the underground of the Austrian soul.
Arizona Premiere!
The Forbidden Room
Guy Maddin’s rampant, anarchic film, co-directed by Evan Johnson, resembles an apparently chaotic, yet always significant eroto-claustrophobic nightmare.
Free with Special Guests in person!
Dreamcatcher
Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, Dreamcatcher is an inspiring look at one woman’s efforts to make a difference in the lives of women in need.
Jules and Jim
Fall in love all over again with Francois Truffaut’s French New Wave classic at this special under the stars screening!
Hercules in New York
The brain-melting bad movie extravaganza that first unleashed a confused (and dubbed!) Arnold Schwarzenegger on unsuspecting moviegoers.
Western U.S. Premiere! Director in person!
Florence, Arizona
Florence, Arizona weaves together the stories of four key residents of Florence, whose lives have all been shadowed in some way by the surrounding prison industrial complex.
Chi-Raq
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
Bring It On
Get your spirit sticks ready for the cheer-tastic comedy that proved to the world cheerleaders are never afraid to Bring It On!
Native Eyes Film Showcase
The Daughter of Dawn
This recently rediscovered 1920 film was shot in Oklahoma entirely with members of the Comanche and Kiowa Tribes.
Narrative Shorts #1
One of two programs featuring a diverse selection of incredible short films from around the world.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo spent three years in Annawadi recording the lives of its residents. From her uncompromising book, David Hare has fashioned a tumultuous play on an epic scale.
Tucson Premiere!
The New Girlfriend
Francois Ozon’s humorous psychological thriller starring rising French actress Anaïs Demoustier and Romain Duris.
Arizona Premiere!
Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play
Bounce explores the little-known origins of our favorite sports.
Silent Rage
Chuck Norris uses his amazing mustache and martial arts skills to battle an indestructible, genetically-engineered ax murderer.
Arizona Premiere!
Paulette
A crowd-pleasing comedy, Paulette tells the story of an older woman living in the projects on the outskirts of Paris who decides to start selling cannabis to make ends meet.
Presented by Startup Tucson!
Startup Shark Tank
Startup Weekend is a weekend long startup competition that culminates with Startup Shark Tank, an event similar to the popular television show.
Free Admission!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie
Cowabunga, dude! The world’s most beloved sewer-dwelling, kung fu-fighting reptiles are on the loose and hungry for pizza!
Wet Hot American Summer
Wet Hot American Summer is a laugh-filled comedy classic that’s truly hot … and wet … and American.
Hell Comes to Frogtown
This just might be the best movie ever made featuring “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, giant mutant frogs and radioactive nookie.
Turbo Kid
Turbo Kid is a raucous retro-futuristic action comedy that pays homage to ’80s genre movies while adding it’s own flair with inventive and exuberant violence and gore.
Jimmy’s Hall
A heartfelt drama based on a true story, Jimmy’s Hall is the latest film from internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Ken Loach.
Beach Blanket Bingo
A gloriously goofy ode to bikinis, bouffants and Beach Party madness starring the King and Queen of ‘60s teen movies, Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello!
Ghost World
Two socially maladjusted teenage girls spend their summer after high school graduation learning about love, loneliness and 78 rpm records.
Alleluia
This smart and gory shocker breathes new life into the lovesick horror genre to serve up a chilling tale of white-hot desperation and terrifying devotion.
Blood Beach
Sun-worshipping beach-goers are being mutilated by an unseen creature with an obvious taste for Coppertone and cheap wine coolers in this highly-implausible, highly-WTF? horror flick.
35mm Print!
Donnie Darko (Original Version)
Richard Kelly’s strangely hypnotic and defiantly uncategorizable cult classic.
Surf II
A crazed nerd seeks revenge on a group of popular surfer dudes by turning them into garbage-eating punk rock zombies.
Great White
A 35 foot plastic shark with a taste for inept drama terrorizes innocent swimmers at a coastal resort in this hilariously trashy, infamously awful Jaws retread.
The Lego Brickumentary – Sensory-friendly Screening
Sensory-friendly screenings provide a more comfortable movie viewing experience for people on the autism spectrum.
free admission!
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Flint Lockwood and a brainy weathergirl attempt to discover why the rain has stopped, and food is falling in its place.
Dr. Giggles
Health care becomes a real scream when a nut-job M.D. (Medical Deviant) with a murderous bedside manner starts making house calls.
free admission!
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Cancelled due to rain. Screens tomorrow at 10am at The Loft for free.
The Horror of Party Beach
All the local teens are surfing and screaming when a bunch of radioactive fish monsters hit the beach in this cheezy bad movie classic set to a totally boss surf rock beat!
Clue
Clue proves that turning a board game into a film isn’t necessarily a terrible idea, provided it’s done with this much style.
At the Earth’s Core
Murderous monsters, scantily clad prehistoric playmates and telepathic pterodactyls reign supreme in this very rubbery and wonderfully kooky adaptation of an Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy novel.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
A flamboyant comedy guaranteed to change the way you think, the way you feel, and most importantly… the way you dress.
Carnosaur 2
A gory, Roger Corman-produced monster mash which manages to simultaneously rip-off both Jurassic Park and Aliens.
The Land Unknown
An Antarctic expedition comprised of three square-jawed he-men and one sexy female journalist stumbles across a lost colony of prehistoric beasties and carnivorous plants.
free admission!
The Muppet Movie Sing-A-Long!
A totally “gonzo” interactive screening of the one-and-only original Muppet Movie, featuring onscreen lyrics to all the film’s classic songs!
Planet of Dinosaurs
A spaceship full of ‘70s swingers crash lands on a mysterious planet inhabited by cranky stop-motion dinosaurs.
The Team America: World Police Sing-A-Long & Curse-A-Thon
Join your fellow fun-loving Americans as we put the “F” back in freedom!
Mac and Me
An ugly Mysterious Alien Creature crash lands on Earth, where it befriends a lonely boy in a wheelchair and develops an unhealthy obsession with McDonald’s.
Creature
It’s been sleeping peacefully on a moon of Saturn for 2,000 centuries … until now!
Queen of Outer Space
Mankind’s first fantastic flight to Venus – the female planet!
Local Film Premiere!
Blessed Encounters
Join us for a special screening of the new local production, with director Alberto C. Ojeda and other special guests in person!
Kung Fu Panda
A clumsy panda bear becomes an unlikely kung fu hero when a treacherous enemy spreads chaos throughout the land.
Bridesmaids
A maid of honor’s life unravels as she leads her best friend and a group of colorful bridesmaids on a wild ride down the road to matrimony.
The Hard Problem
Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard returns to the National Theatre with his highly-anticipated new play, The Hard Problem, directed by Nicholas Hytner.
Battle Beyond the Stars
Roger Corman takes on Star Wars in this immensely fun, laser-happy rip-off set in a galaxy not all that far, far away.
Doomsdays
A pre-apocalyptic comedy that follows the misadventures of a pair of free-wheeling squatters with a taste for unoccupied vacation homes in the Catskills.
Félix and Meira
Félix and Meira is a touching story of an unconventional romance between two people living vastly different realities mere blocks away from one another.
Charlie’s Country
Director Rolf de Heer (Ten Canoes) and David Gulpilil (Walkabout) return to the screen in this moving drama about an aged Aborigine who journeys into the Outback to live in the traditional ways of his ancestors.
Flesh Gordon
The Space Age Sex Spoof that is out of this world!
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
From master Swedish director Roy Andersson comes this utterly unique existential comedy, winner of the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 2014 Venice Film Festival.
Batman
In 1989, director Tim Burton gave birth to what would become the modern superhero genre with his blockbusters smash, Batman.
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
The Ramones star in one of the all-time greatest teen-sploitation rock ‘n’ roll flicks ever made!
We Are Still Here
In the cold, wintery fields of New England, a lonely old house wakes up every thirty years – and demands a sacrifice.
A View from the Bridge
A stellar cast brings to life the Young Vic’s production of A View from the Bridge – the Evening Standard, Guardian and Independent’s top theatre pick of 2014.
INHABIT: A Permaculture Perspective
Explores the many issues facing us today and examines solutions that are being applied using the ecological design process called ‘Permaculture’.
The Overnight
Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family “playdate” becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on.
Angel
High school honor student by day, Hollywood hooker by night.
Not Your Usual Bedtime Story
Join us for the debut of Not Your Usual Bedtime Story, a short film exploring teen sexual health, created by and for youth.
Saint Laurent
This dazzlingly stylish biopic looks at Yves Saint Laurent’s life from 1967 to 1976, during which time the famed fashion designer was at the peak of his career.
Taxi Driver
“All the animals come out at night” – and one of them is a NY cabbie about to snap in Martin Scorsese’s savage psychological horror classic.
The Wolfpack
Locked away from society, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch and spend their childhood re-enacting their favorites using elaborate homemade props and costumes.
free admission!
Y Tu Mamá También
Alfonso Cuarón directed this arthouse smash hit about a pair of randy buddies on a road trip – a film that helped spark the Mexican Cinema Renaissance of the new millennium.
The Audience
Captured live on stage in London’s West End in 2013, The Audience, starring 2015 Tony Award-winner Helen Mirren, returns to cinemas by popular demand!
Aloft
Artful and enigmatic, this first English language feature from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Claudia Llosa (The Milk of Sorrow) brings a ravishing dream to the screen.
Graduation Day
A group of sexy and stupid high school seniors on the verge of graduation are literally losing their heads.
The Muppet Movie Sing-A-Long!
Free outdoor interactive screening at Trail Dust Town!
PlantPure Nation
The new film from the producer and writer of the hit documentary Forks Over Knives, PlantPure Nation answers the question people ask when informed of the greatest health truth ever: “Why haven’t I heard this before?”
Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain.
A Little Chaos
Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet plays a revolutionary landscape designer commissioned to construct King Louis XIV’s garden at Versailles in actor/director Alan Rickman’s sumptuous historical drama, A Little Chaos.
A LEGO Brickumentary
A LEGO Brickumentary takes us on a journey through the LEGO universe like we’ve never seen before.
Amy
Amy tells the incredible story of six-time Grammy winner Amy Winehouse — in her own words.
The Jerk
Steve Martin stars in this hilarious, gag-filled comedy classic, a rags-to-riches-to-rags tale about one optimistic imbecile’s journey through the American Dream.
Batkid Begins
On one day, in one city, the world comes together to grant one 5-year-old cancer patient his wish, and an unprecedented phenomenon is born.
Cop Car
A small town sheriff (Kevin Bacon) sets out to find the two kids who have taken his car on a joy ride.
FILE>EXPORT / COMMAND Z
FILE>EXPORT / COMMAND Z is a collection of video art created by nine artists enrolled at the University of Arizona School of Art.
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
Experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the first fully authorized portrait of the famed rock music icon.
Cartel Land
Cartel Land is a riveting, on-the-ground look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy – the murderous Mexican drug cartels.
Gemma Bovery
This clever adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel Gemma Bovery is at once a cheeky literary mash-up, a sensuous romance, a witty feminist commentary and a heady celebration of French provincial life.
Dark Places
Dark Places is an ingeniously twisted thriller based on the best-selling novel by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl).
Z for Zachariah
In the wake of a disaster that wipes out most of civilization, two men and a young woman find themselves in an emotionally charged love triangle as the last known survivors.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
An intense, visceral and eye-opening drama about the dangers of power that plays to both chilling and exhilarating effect.
Jellyfish Eyes
The directorial debut from acclaimed artist Takashi Murakami, Jellyfish Eyes is a must-see for film lovers of all ages.
Mr. Holmes
Mr. Holmes, starring two-time Oscar nominee Ian McKellan, is a new twist on the world’s most famous detective.
High School Hellcats
Hold on to your bullet bras when the new girl in town runs afoul of the meanest, nastiest, and all-around trashiest girl gang to ever terrorize a gym class.
The Deafhood Monologues
The Deafhood Monologues is an episodic play of Deaf experiences, chronicles and reflections delivered through poetry, stories, and presentations in American Sign Language.
Irrational Man
Woody Allen’s Irrational Man is dark comedy about a tormented philosophy professor who finds a will to live when he commits an existential act.
Mad Max
The future is now, and it ain’t pretty in this nihilistic road-rage sci-fi action flick that turned the world on to the pleasures of life after the apocalypse.
Tangerine
A decidedly modern Christmas tale told on the streets of L.A., Tangerine is a charmingly offbeat comedy/drama that defies expectation at every turn to deliver a true cinematic jolt.
Featuring a Skype with director Andy Abrahams Wilson!
Under Our Skin 2: Emergence
The stirring sequel to the original shocking Lyme disease expose!
Step Up, Speak Out, End Bullying: PSA Showcase and Awards Event
A free community event highlighting student-produced, 30-second public service announcements based on the theme “Creating a Safe Space for All.”
Costume contest before the film
The Breakfast Club
Join the Brat Pack for this 30th Anniversary celebration of The Breakfast Club!
Planet of the Apes
It’s Charlton Heston vs. the Damn Dirty Apes in the original sci-fi classic that had the whole planet going bananas!
Spring
A beautiful, fluid genre-bender, Spring is an unforgettable romance of mythical, malevolent proportions.
Bug Buster
A small town faces the ultimate horror when it’s invaded not only by killer cockroaches, but by Randy Quaid as well, in this towering pile of ‘90s monster movie crud.
Presented by The Sierra Club
Green Fire
Green Fire is the first feature documentary about legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold’s life and contemporary legacy.
Best of Enemies
A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr.
The End of the Tour
The End of the Tour tells the story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and celebrated novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel).
Cooties
The delightfully gross horror/comedy Cooties