We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
This singular feature debut from director Jane Schoebrun combines indie drama and horror film aesthetics to offer up a haunting depiction of living online.
Hatching
Driven by grotesque practical SFX, this fractured fairy tale is part body horror, part creature feature and part coming of age nightmare.
Hit the Road
Panah Panahi—son of Iranian New Wave legend Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon, Offside)— makes a striking feature debut with this charming, sharp-witted and ultimately deeply moving comic drama.
Petite Maman
Céline Sciamma continues to prove herself as one of the most accomplished and unpredictable contemporary French filmmakers with her follow up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire, the uniquely emotional Petite Maman.
New York Ninja
Restored in 4K from the original camera elements, New York Ninja is finally available in all of its ridiculous, over-the-top ‘80s trash glory for the first time ever after spending nearly four decades in film obscurity.
The Rose Maker
Celebrated French star Catherine Frot takes center stage in this charmingly good-natured comedy as a once-successful rose farmer on the brink of losing her business until she forms an unlikely friendship with three new apprentices.
✅ PASSES ACCEPTED
The Portrait of a Lady
Campion’s daring adaptation of one of the greatest of all novels is a lavish, tough-minded epic of seduction, betrayal and hopeful triumph.
✅ Passes ACCEPTED
You Won’t Be Alone
Set in an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, You Won’t Be Alone follows a young girl who is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit.
❌ PASSES NOT ACCEPTED
50th Anniversary Restoration!
The Godfather
Accept an offer you can’t refuse by experiencing the 1972 Oscar-winning classic The Godfather on the big screen, in a newly restored edition overseen by Francis Ford Coppola!
✅ PASSES ACCEPTED
Animated Oscar Shorts 2022
Don’t miss your chance to experience this year’s best short films the way they were meant to be seen – on the big screen!
❌ PASSES NOT ACCEPTED
Memoria
From Apichatpong Weerasethakul and starring Tilda Swinton, comes a drama about a woman, who, after hearing a loud “bang”, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.
❌ PASSES NOT ACCEPTED
The Northman
From visionary director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father’s murder.
❌ PASSES NOT ACCEPTED
Compartment No. 6
Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, an unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face truths about human connection.
✅ PASSES ACCEPTED
2 Academy Award Nominations!
The Worst Person in the World
In this delightfully charming comedy/drama, Julie is experiencing an existential crisis. Framed around her chronic indecisiveness, the film follows four years of ups and downs.
✅ PASSES ACCEPTED
2 Academy Award Nominations!
Parallel Mothers
Pedro Almodóvar surprises us again with a lively and tender melodrama about two women, Janis (Penélope Cruz) and Ana (Milena Smit), whose lives intersect profoundly thanks to a casual encounter in a hospital.
✅ PASSES ACCEPTED
4 Academy Award Nominations!
Drive My Car
Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is a haunting road movie traveling a path of love, loss, acceptance, and peace.
✅ Passes Accepted
Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson’s offbeat Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds, Sam and Suzy, who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness.
✅ Passes Accepted
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, and interviews, criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a timeline of anti-Black racism in the US.
✅ Passes Accepted
1 Academy Award Nomination!
Cyrano
Acclaimed filmmaker Joe Wright envelops moviegoers in a symphony of emotions with music, romance, and beauty in Cyrano, a bold re-imagining of the timeless tale of a heartbreaking love triangle.
✅ PASSES ARE ACCEPTED
Master
In writer/director Mariama Diallo’s debut feature Master, three women strive to find their place at a prestigious New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill.
✅ PASSES ACCEPTED
The Velvet Queen
In the heart of the Tibetan highlands, multi-award-winning nature photographer Vincent Munier guides writer Sylvain Tesson on his quest to document the infamously elusive snow leopard.
✅ PASSES ACCEPTED
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Life Aquatic is a wildly original, wonderfully odd underwater comedy/adventure with a melancholy edge, propelled by Bill Murray’s hilarious, go-for-broke performance.
✅ Passes Accepted
Catch the Fair One
In this absorbing, edge-of-our-seat thriller, an Indigenous woman embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.
✅ Passes Accepted
3 Academy Award Nominations!
Licorice Pizza
Celebrated filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson offers a humorous and visually hypnotic portrait of unlikely first love in this freewheeling coming-of-age story set in Southern California, circa 1973.
✅ Passes Accepted
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Oscar-winner Joel Coen’s boldly inventive visualization of Macbeth is an anguished film that stares, mouth agape, at a sorrowful world undone by blind greed and thoughtless ambition.
✅ PASSES ACCEPTED
A Hero
Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, whose intricate dramas A Separation and The Salesman both won Oscars, returns with another gripping, incisive study of human frailty.
❌ Passes NOT Accepted
Belle
From Academy Award-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu, creators of Mirai, Wolf Children, Summer Wars, and more, comes a fantastical, heartfelt story of growing up in the age of social media.
❌ Passes NOT Accepted
3 Academy Award Nominations!
Flee
Marrying striking animation and archival footage to breathtaking effect, Flee retraces one man’s harrowing experiences escaping life under Taliban rule.
✅ Passes Accepted
12 Academy Award Nominations!
The Power of the Dog
Jane Campion reaffirms her status as one of the greatest—and gratifyingly eccentric—filmmakers with this mesmerizing, psychologically rich variation on the American western.
✅ PASSES ACCEPTED
New 4K Restoration!
Breathless (1960)
Godard’s French New Wave classic starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg returns to the big screen in a “breathtaking” new 4K restoration in honor of its 60th anniversary!
✅ Passes Accepted
Streaming Exclusives
Virtual Cinema
The Loft Cinema brings the Arthouse Cinema experience to the comfort of your home! These streamings titles are arthouse exclusives, and not available on other streaming platforms. Click below to view all of the current titles being offered!
Red Rocket
Acclaimed director Sean Baker (Tangerine, The Florida Project) once again trains his restless camera on an unforgettable protagonist in this biting dark comedy.
Warren Miller’s Winter Starts Now
Warren Miller is back with our 72nd annual film Winter Starts Now featuring the best snowriding from the mom and pop ski hill down the street to the highest peak on the horizon.
5 Days Only!
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Decades in the making, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time is a dazzling, in-depth look at the celebrated writer of classic novels such as Slaughterhouse Five and Breakfast of Champions.
5 Days Only!
Passing
Adapted from the celebrated 1929 novel, Passing, from writer/director Rebecca Hall, tells the story of two Black women who can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance.
Arizona Premiere!
Simple Passion
In this adaptation of Annie Arneaux’s best-selling 1992 novel, French filmmaker Danielle Arbid vividly captures the feverish experience of an all-consuming love affair.
Tucson Premiere!
Hive
Hive is a searing drama based on the true story of beekeeper Fahrije Hoti, who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo.
Arizona Premiere!
The Schoolgirls (LAS NIÑAS)
The directing debut of Pilar Palomero not only tells the story of her own life, but also of the many Spanish women who grew up during the 1990s, torn between a traditional way of life and a modern, emancipated one.
Arizona Premiere!
Faya Dayi
In her hypnotic documentary feature, Ethiopian-Mexican filmmaker Jessica Beshir explores the coexistence of everyday life and its mythical undercurrents.
Arizona Premiere!
The Neutral Ground
Turning a sharp eye to the tangled thread between past and present, The Neutral Ground targets necessary change centuries in the making that might—finally—be catching up to itself.
Open Air Screening! (AZ Premiere)
Silent Land
Deliciously tense and profoundly observant, Silent Land follows the Italian vacation of a wealthy Polish couple as it falls perfectly to pieces.
Tucson Premiere!
Little Girl
Little Girl is a profound and heartrending portrait of Sasha’s everyday struggles to be recognized by her school, her peers, and her small community in Northeastern France, as well as a larger look at gender identity and the power of family.
Arizona Premiere!
Vortex
Gaspar Noé guides us through a handful of days in the lives of an elderly couple in Paris: a retired psychiatrist (Françoise Lebrun) and a writer (Dario Argento), working on a book about the intersection of cinema and dreams.
Arizona Premiere!
We Burn Like This
Inspired by true events, this powerful debut feature from Alana Waksman is a coming-of-age story showing the inherited effects of historical trauma and the strength of survival and healing.
Arizona Premiere!
Cicada
Sensitively made and beautifully crafted, this surprising feature untangles the myriad ways in which childhood traumas can manifest themselves in adult life, particularly for that of queer men.
Tucson Premiere!
Beans
In the summer of 1990, a twelve-year- old Mohawk girl in Kanehsatà:ke is forced to grow up fast and find her own inner warrior during an armed stand-off between her community and the government.
Tucson Premiere!
After Love
Following her husband’s unexpected death, Mary suddenly finds herself a widow. A day after the burial, she discovers that Ahmed had a secret life just twenty-one miles away from their home, across the English Channel in Calais.
Arizona Premiere!
Clara Sola
Costa Rican-Swedish director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s feature debut is a powerful meditation on female empowerment and the fine line between the physical and the mystical.
Documentary Shorts 2021
Previous iterations of the Loft Film Fest’s Documentary Shorts have highlighted eventual Oscar-nominated short films. This year’s collection of offers a diverse range of films, with windows into the way people live across the world.
Arizona Premiere!
Cocoon (Kokon)
For 14-year-old Nora, the summer of 2018 is one she’ll never forget. The hottest ever recorded in Berlin’s history, it’s also the summer she breaks her finger, gets her first period in the most embarrassing way possible, and falls in love.
Arizona Premiere!
Ninjababy
Rakel, a young cartoonist with a messy room and an even messier social life, is surprised when her best friend Ingrid points out the obvious cause of Rakel’s recent body changes: She’s pregnant.
Arizona Premiere!
Writing With Fire
The women reporters of India’s Khabar Lahariya newspaper are a formidable group. Cooperatively running India’s only all-female news service, the women are all of Dalit (“Untouchable”) caste, or India’s lowest class.
Tucson Premiere!
Nudo Mixteco
Mexican actor-turned-director Ángeles Cruz (I Carry You With Me) crafts a powerful and poignant feature debut with this triptych of intertwining stories set in the Mixtec Oaxaca village of San Mateo during the annual celebration of the town’s patron saint.
w/ Live Music Score!
Sherlock Jr.
Buster Keaton’s hilarious 1924 silent comedy, Sherlock Jr., hits the Loft Cinema’s big screen with a brand-new original score performed live on stage by Tucson musicians from the American Harp Society & Arizona Friends of Chamber Music!
Open Air Screening! (AZ Premiere)
Freeland
In this spellbinding drama, an off-the-grid California cannabis farmer approaching her twilight years faces a threat to her livelihood after the drug’s legalization.
Arizona Premiere!
Imperfect
Imperfect is a story of artists who live and perform with the uniqueness of disability, and therefore have historically been denied their place in the spotlight.
Arizona Premiere!
Ahed’s Knee
A film of radical style and splenetic anger, Ahed’s Knee, from Nadav Lapid (Synonyms), follows a celebrated but increasingly dissociated director to a small town in the desert region of Arava for a screening of his latest film.
Tucson Theatrical Premiere!
Kubrick by Kubrick
A treasure trove of never-before-heard audio recordings forms the spine of this thrilling cinematic essay on the methods and madness of iconic director Stanley Kubrick.
Arizona Premiere!
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
In this altogether delightful triptych of stories, director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Happy Hour); proves he’s one of contemporary cinema’s most agile dramatists of modern love and obsession.
Tucson Premiere!
The Humans
An adaptation of his own Tony-winning play, Stephen Karam’s directorial debut from A24 is a Thanksgiving dinner invitation you won’t want to turn down.
Arizona Premiere!
Luchadoras
The riveting documentary Luchadoras is an intimate portrait of female wrestlers from Ciudad Juárez who, despite being surrounded by machismo and constant danger, fight to redefine the image of women in Mexico.
Late Night Shorts 2021
This program is filled with edginess, attitude and plenty of “OMG” moments, so get ready to take a walk on the wild side!
Arizona Premiere!
In Front of Your Face
After years of living abroad, a middle-aged former actress (Lee Hye-young) has returned to South Korea to reconnect with her past and perhaps make amends.
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.
Loft Film Fest Preview Event
Join us for an exciting FREE preview of this year’s Loft Film Fest, which runs Wednesday, November 10 – Thursday, November 18!
Frankenstein (1931)
“It’s alive!” The great Boris Karloff stars as the screen’s most memorable monster in the gruesome granddaddy of all horror films, directed by James Whale and based on Mary Shelly’s classic novel.
Stuff The Bus
Support survivors by helping Emerge Stuff-the-Bus with starting over supplies this October for Domestic Violence Awareness Month!
Lesbian Looks Presents
Fanny: The Right to Rock
With Fanny drummer Alice de Buhr in person for a post-screening Q&A! Fanny celebrates the untold story of one of the most important rock bands you’ve never heard of.
New 4K Restoration!
In The Mood For Love
With its aching musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past decade of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.
New 4K Restoration!
Amarcord
Amarcord is Federico Fellini’s funny, nostalgic and frequently bawdy fantasy vision of his own boyhood growing up in a small Italian village during the reign of Mussolini.
Free Films & Fun Everyday!
Loft Kids Fest at Home 2021
Join us for some hot fun in the summertime with a wild weekend of great family-friendly movies that you can stream for free at home, along with our own cool crafting videos and super cinematic surprises!
National Theatre Live / Virtual Event Cinema
42nd Street: The Musical
Captured live from the London stage and directed by the original author of the show, Mark Bramble, 42nd Street is one of Broadway’s most classic and beloved tales.
Free Streaming Release!
I DREAM IN WIDESCREEN 2021
UArizona’s School of Theatre, Film & Television presents the showcase of undergraduate thesis films celebrating a range of new filmmaking voices graduating from the School’s nationally ranked Film & Television program.
Dream Horse
Oscar-nominee Toni Collette stars in this inspiring comedy/drama, based on the true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse that brings a small South Wales community together in unexpected ways.
A Quiet Place: Part II
Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence.
Undine
Acclaimed director Christian Petzold (Phoenix, Transit) boldly reimagines the ancient myth of Undine in this suspenseful tale of romance and betrayal in modern day Berlin.
The Sparks Brothers
Edgar Wright’s debut documentary takes audiences on a musical odyssey through five weird & wonderful decades with Ron and Russell Mael celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band!
Streaming Release!
Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
The illuminating documentary Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography.
In The Heights
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of Hamilton, and Jon M. Chu, the director of Crazy Rich Asians, invite you to a cinematic event, where the streets are made of music and little dreams become big … In the Heights!
Werewolves Within
Werewolves run wild in a small town with hilariously horrific results in this delightfully macabre whodunit/monster movie, based on the popular VR game of the same name!
Streaming Release!
The County
Set in a small Icelandic farming community, the powerful drama The County, from award-winning director Grímur Hákonarson (Rams), tells the story of Inga, a middle-aged dairy farmer who rebels against the all-powerful local Cooperative.
Streaming Release!
In Silico
The provocative new film In Silico follows a young filmmaker who embarks on a wildly ambitious 10-year project documenting a visionary neuroscientist’s quest to digitally recreate a functional human brain on supercomputers.
Streaming Release!
About Endlessness
The latest unclassifiable cinematic creation from filmmaker Roy Andersson (A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence) weaves together multiple visually arresting vignettes into a powerful and infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.
Zola
From A24, acclaimed writer/director Janicza Bravo (Lemon), and co-writer Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play), Zola’s stranger than fiction saga, which she first told in a now iconic series of viral, uproarious tweets, comes to dazzling cinematic life.
Streaming Release!
Paris Calligrammes
German avant-garde filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger immerses us in her Paris of the 1960s – a vibrant community of European artists, writers, philosophers, and activists.
Streaming Release!
Duty Free
After a 75-year-old immigrant mother gets fired from her job, her son takes her on a bucket-list adventure to reclaim her life.
The Truffle Hunters
Deep in the forest of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years young, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle – which to date has resisted all of modern science’s efforts at cultivation.
The Green Knight
From A24 and visionary filmmaker David Lowery (A Ghost Story) comes The Green Knight starring Dev Patel, a fresh and bold spin on a classic tale from the knights of the round table.
Riders of Justice
Mads Mikkelsen stars in this pitch-black Danish screwball comedy of revenge, starring as a heartbroken man whose wife’s suspicious death in a train crash leads to outlandish conspiracy theories and gangland bloodshed.
Summer of 85
Awash in sun-kissed pastels and period-appropriate tracks, Summer of 85 is a sexy, nostalgic reverie of first love and its consequences – a romance in the key of Rimbaud that pulls apart the comforts of nostalgia in the heat of the present.
Pig
A truffle hunter (Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage) who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville explores the uncommon life of the late storyteller, explorer and chef in the powerful new documentary.
Mandibles
A hilariously odd mash-up of a buddy-comedy and road movie with a sci-fi twist, Mandibles is a wild, surreal film about friendship, dreaming big, and crashing down to Earth.
New 4K Restoration!
La Piscine
A paragon of 1960s modernist cool thanks to effortlessly chic clothes and a loungy Michel Legrand score, La piscine dives deep to reveal sinister undercurrents roiling beneath its seductive surfaces.
Swan Song
Legendary actor Udo Kier stars as flamboyant retired hairdresser Pat Pitsenbarger, who escapes the confines of this small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing home after learning of his former client’s dying wish for him to style her final hairdo.
Annette
The latest provocation from celebrated filmmaker Leos Carax (Holy Motors) is a stunningly cinematic rock opera written by Ron and Russell Mael, aka Sparks.
Eyimofe (This is My Desire)
A triumph at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival, the revelatory debut feature from co-directors (and twin brothers) Arie and Chuko Esiri is a heartrending and hopeful portrait of everyday human endurance in Lagos, Nigeria.
Cryptozoo
A fantastical animated feature following cryptozookeepers through a richly-drawn hallucinatory world as they struggle to capture a legendary dream-eating creature and begin to wonder if they should display these rare beasts in a zoo.
New 4K Restoration!
Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro
Celebrated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki made his feature film debut in 1979 with this beloved chapter of the Lupin the 3rd anime saga – a precursor to his legendary work at Studio Ghibli.
Ema
Dancer Ema (Mariana Di Girolamo) and choreographer Gastón (Gael García Bernal) are a married couple and artistic free spirits in an experimental dance troupe whose lives are thrown into chaos after a shocking incident.
Candyman (2021)
Producer Jordan Peele and director Nia DaCosta (Little Woods) unleash this fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend that inspired the original 1992 cult classic!
Ailey
Ailey traces the full contours of a brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty.
Mogul Mowgli
Fresh off his riveting, Oscar-nominated performance in Sound of Metal, Riz Ahmed stars in and co-writes this fierce, hallucinatory “true fiction”– playing Zed, a tetchy British Pakistani rapper whose lyrics fulminate on immigrant identity and politics.
The Lost Leonardo
The Lost Leonardo tells the inside story behind the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million, claimed to be a long-lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci.
Prisoners of the Ghostland
In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber (Nicolas Cage) is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor (Bill Moseley), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (Sofia Boutella) has gone missing.
My Name is Pauli Murray
From the Oscar-nominated co-directors of RBG, Julie Cohen and Betsy West, comes another triumphant portrait of a titan of progressive history.
Wild Indian
This acclaimed debut feature from director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr., a 2021 Sundance Film Festival premiere, is a gripping, deeply American story of crime and remorse.
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Featuring seven new stories from seven of today’s most vital filmmakers, The Year of the Everlasting Storm chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.
Blue Bayou
From award-winning writer/director Justin Chon (Gook, Ms. Purple), Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future.
The Nowhere Inn
From real-life friends St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein comes the comical, meta-fictional account of two creative forces banding together to make a documentary about St. Vincent’s music, touring life, and on-stage persona.
Missing in Brooks County
Missing in Brooks County follows the stories of two families searching for their loved ones who went missing in the fields of Brooks County, Texas after crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.
The Rescue
The new film from the Academy Award-winning directors of Free Solo, The Rescue chronicles the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground shows just how the group became a cultural touchstone representing a range of contradictions: the band is both of their time, yet timeless; literary yet realistic; rooted in high art and street culture.
Bergman Island
The new film from acclaimed director Mia Hansen-Løve (Goodbye First Love), follows a couple of American filmmakers, Chris (Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread) and Tony (Tim Roth, The Hateful Eight), who retreat to the mythical Fårö island for the summer.
The French Dispatch
Acclaimed filmmaker Wes Anderson pays homage to the literary world and brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city.
Last Night In Soho
Drawing inspiration from the psychotronic cinema of the 1960s and ‘70s, and featuring clever appearances from actual ‘60s film icons, Edgar Wright’s first full-on foray into horror is a dazzling and dizzying ride into the macabre.
Julia
Attention all foodies: you’ll want to get a snack before watching this sumptuous four-course meal of a documentary on iconic chef Julia Child. Julia tells the story of the cookbook author who changed the way Americans think about food, television, and women.
C’Mon C’Mon
Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix, in a remarkably warm, sympathetic performance, plays Johnny, a restless radio documentary producer who flies across the country to visit his sister in hopes of reconnecting with his family.
Benedetta
Forgoing the hallmarks of prestige cinema, this delirious, erotic, and violent melodrama from Paul Verhoeven is told with a boundless spirit for scandal, and unabashedly courts blasphemy as it unfolds its tale of religious hypocrisy.
The Novice
Winner of the top prize at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, The Novice is an intense psychological thriller that grips the viewer until its very last frame.
Don’t Look Up
Written and Directed by Adam McKay, Don’t Look Up tells the story of two low-level astronomers who must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.
Let the Right One In
It seems that Oskar has finally found a soulmate when Eli moves in next door. She’s a strange young girl, who only comes out at night … and whose arrival coincides with a series of inexplicable disappearances and murders.
Guns Akimbo
Daniel Radcliffe and Samara Weaving star in this loopy, turbo-charged sci-fi action flick about a crazed “future” that could be happening right now!
Women In Horror Month Blood Drive
American Red Cross Blood Drive
We’ll be hosting an onsite American Red Cross Blood Drive out in front of the theatre.
2020 Oscar Nominated Short Films: LIVE ACTION SHORTS
Don’t miss your chance to experience this year’s best short films!
The Woman Who Loves Giraffes
In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild.
The Assistant
The Assistant follows one day in the life of Jane, a recent graduate who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul.
Jockey
This Open Air Cinema screening is part of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Bring Your Own Brigade
This Open Air Cinema screening is part of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Color Out Of Space
After a meteorite lands on their farm, Nathan Gardner (Nicolas Cage) and his family find themselves battling an extraterrestrial organism as it infects their bodies, transforming their quiet rural life into a living nightmare.
Digital Screenings (CC&AD)
Little Women
Oscar-nominated writer/director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott.
Select CC&AD
Weathering With You
GKIDS proudly presents the highly-anticipated new film from director Makoto Shinkai and producer Genki Kawamura, the creative team behind the critically-acclaimed, global smash hit, Your Name.
Closed Captions & Audio Description
The Traitor
From acclaimed writer/director Marco Bellocchio, the gripping drama The Traitor tells the true story of Tommaso Buscetta, the man who brought down the Cosa Nostra.
Varda by Agnès
The final film from the late, beloved Agnès Varda is a characteristically playful, profound, and personal summation of the Oscar-winning director’s own brilliant career.
Midnight Family
In Mexico City, the Ochoas run a family-owned ambulance service, one of many private paramedic outfits addressing the massive civic void left when there are just 45 municipal ambulances in a population of 9 million.
OSCAR NOMINATED!
Les Misérables
In his astonishing, assured feature film debut, Ladj Ly stages an unconventional police procedural in Montfermeil, the same Parisian district where Victor Hugo set his classic novel.
SUBTITLES (CC&AD)
Pain and Glory
In celebrated writer/director Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory, Antonio Banderas plays Salvador Mallo, a film director in physical decline who reflects on his past as his present comes crashing down around him.
Come to Daddy
Come to Daddy is a jaw-dropping, darkly hilarious, blood-soaked barrel of fun from New Zealand writer/director Ant Timpson, producer of Turbo Kid and Greasy Strangler!
OSCAR Winner!
Little Women in 35mm
Oscar-nominated writer/director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott.
Closed Captions & Audio Description
Invisible Life
A gorgeously photographed, emotionally bracing tropical melodrama from Karim Aïnouz, the director of Madame Satã, Invisible Life won the Un Certain Regard Award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
Closed Captions & Audio Description
The Song of Names
Constructed like a detective mystery on a grand scale, The Song of Names is an emotionally devastating tale of family, obligation, ambition, and friendship, driven by exquisite music.
Closed Captions
Clemency
A rare, sensitive, and deeply observant drama, Clemency offers a penetrating character study that pulls into deep focus the various ways in which people facing impossible ethical circumstances strive to achieve some state of grace.
2020 Oscar Nominated Short Films: ANIMATED SHORTS
Don’t miss your chance to experience this year’s best short films!
2020 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS: DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
Don’t miss your chance to experience this year’s best short films!
Closed Captions
The Kingmaker
Centered on the unquenchable, larger-than-life character of Imelda Marcos, The Kingmaker examines, with intimate access, the Marcos family’s improbable return to power in the Philippines.
Closed Captions & Audio Description
In Fabric
A haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a department store that follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.
Closed Captions & Audio Description
The Lighthouse
From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes a hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island.
Paradise Hills
Paradise Hills, the directorial debut of visionary fashion designer Alice Waddington, is a totally unique vision of femininity and oppression – a beguiling fantasy confection with a dark horror center.
The Heart
The Heart is a fresh, compelling portrait of a new generation of young adults wrestling with intimacy, sexuality and great expectations.
White Snake
A prequel to one of the most enduring stories in Chinese history, White Snake presents a sumptuous tale of trickster demons, deadly mythical beasts, assassins, and the promise of eternal love.
Windows on the World
An immigrant’s son takes an epic journey from Mexico to New York City as he searches for his father, who was an undocumented worker in the World Trade Center, and has disappeared after 9/11.
Falls Around Her
In this compelling drama, legendary singer, Mary Birchbark (Tantoo Cardinal, in a heart-wrenching performance), abandons a life of fame and fortune to follow the instinctual pull that calls her home to her First Nation.
I Was at Home, But
The award-winning feature hinges on the mysterious disappearance (and reappearance) of a 13-year-old boy.
Always in Season
Narrated by Danny Glover and featuring Osei Essed’s haunting score, Always in Season is a forceful, unforgettable investigative documentary that shatters the notion that racism is a thing of the past.
Britt-Marie Was Here
Based on the novel by Fredrik Backman, this comedy/drama finds Britt-Marie reconsidering her purpose in life after she discovers her husband of 40 years has been cheating on her.
Mickey and the Bear
Filmmaker Annabelle Attanasio‘s feature debut is a riveting and poignant chamber piece that enthralls and heralds an impressive new directorial talent.
Queen of Hearts
A riveting and provocative film, Queen of Hearts is a portrait of a woman who manages to lose everything and nothing at the same time.
The Chambermaid
Pulls back the curtain on an area of labor taken for granted, and offers an empathetic look into one woman’s place within a world defined by haves and have-nots.
Words from a Bear
Words from a Bear reveals the inspiring beauty of Momaday’s work while also guiding audiences through the grave historical struggles that Native American communities have faced.
American Dharma
Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris’ unnerving new film is a probing portrait of controversial Breitbart honcho, Trump advisor, “populist” warrior and long-time cinephile, Steven K. Bannon.
With Special Guest
American Factory
This acclaimed doc takes a deep dive into a post-industrial Ohio, where a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in an abandoned General Motors plant and hires two thousand blue-collar Americans.
With Special Guests
Grace of My Heart
Starring Illeana Douglas, Grace of My Heart is acclaimed writer/director Allison Ander’s unabashed love letter to three decades of popular music.
Atlantics
Backed by an eerie synth score and stunning cinematography, director Mati Diop presents an enchanting, hallucinatory drama steeped both in timeless myth and the urgently topical stories of the current refugee crisis.
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Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Chronicles the origin story behind one of Broadway’s most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, when “tradition” was on the wane as gender roles, sexuality, race relations and religion were evolving.
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Depraved
A complex, emotionally shattering tale about what it means to be human, Depraved brings Mary Shelley’s immortal fable fully into the 21st century.
Corporate Animals
In this wicked workplace comedy featuring light cannibalism, a business retreat intended to boost staff morale goes horribly and hilariously wrong, leading to some highly unprofessional behavior.
free outdoor screening in Patagonia, AZ
The Guardians
A visually dazzling meditation on the delicate balance between human and nature, The Guardians elegantly interweaves the lives of the iconic monarch butterfly with an indigenous community in Mexico.
Agave: The Spirit of a Nation
Part of Agave Heritage Festival 2019, this expressive documentary explores the phenomenon of the fastest trending alcohol spirit in the world, Tequila and Mezcal.
Alive Inside
Alive Inside is a joyous cinematic exploration of music’s capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity.
The Final Alliance
Combine David Hasselhoff, a biker gang, and a well-trained puma and what do you get? The Final Alliance!
FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING IN DRAGOON, AZ!
Awake: A Dream From Standing Rock
Standing Rock became one of the most watched places on earth when the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe captured world attention through their peaceful resistance.
Methods of Addressing Substance Abuse
The Haven is proud to present an event FREE to the public and to professionals who are interested in learning more about a new, transformational approach to rewiring the brain and releasing trauma.
Night of the Kickfighters
When a millionaire has his daughter kidnapped by terrorists who want to trade her in for his new laser weapon, he has no choice but to call a bargain basement James Bond and “kickfighting” enthusiast!
FREE ADMISSION
The Unafraid
Three High School seniors are eager to go to college. However, their home state of Georgia bans them from attending the top five public universities, and deems them ineligible for in-state tuition at public colleges due to their status as DACA recipients.
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Ruben Brandt, Collector
Fizzing with originality and nonstop cinema and art in-jokes, with terrific visual design, Ruben Brandt, Collector is a fantasy opus mixing thriller, film noir and heist action-adventure.
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Everybody Knows
From Oscar-winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi (The Salesman, A Separation) comes a gripping thriller about the fissures and fault lines that can tear a family apart.
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Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration
Don’t miss this special one-night-only musical celebration of the legendary Joni Mitchell, featuring performances by James Taylor, Emmylou Harris, Los Lobos and more!
PRESENTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Keeping Tabs on a Mad World
A Correspondent’s Guide to Global News That Matters. This news-literacy course will help you make sense of a world that is fast overheating, figuratively and literally.
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Wrinkles the Clown
With incredible access to the mastermind behind the mask, Wrinkles the Clown is a cryptic and playful exploration of myth-building and the unpredictable spread of imagination in the Internet age.
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Teaching In Arizona
A Tucson Values Teachers documentary short film, follows three Tucson educators to deliver an intimate portrait of what it’s really like to be a teacher today.
World Premiere!
Three Nights in Hell
After the murder of their brother, three sisters cut a swath of death and destruction in a vendetta against a drug lord while two detectives race against the clock to stop the steadily growing pile of bodies.
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Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
With performance footage and appearances by friends & collaborators, this film celebrates an artist whose desire to share the music she loved, made generations of fans fall in love with her.
End of the Century
In his alluring debut feature, writer/director Lucio Castro offers both a sun-soaked European travelogue and an epic, decades-spanning romance.
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Frankie
Unfolding over the course of a late summer’s day in the fabled resort town of Sintra, Portugal, Frankie follows three generations who have gathered for a vacation organized by the family matriarch (Isabelle Huppert).
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If Beale Street Could Talk
Director Barry Jenkins’s carefully wrought adaptation of James Baldwin’s acclaimed novel – a timeless and searing love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s.
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Jimmie dreams of reclaiming the home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend, he searches for belonging in a changing city that’s left them behind.
Free Preview Screening
Victoria, Season 3: Episode 1
Arizona Public Media celebrates the return of the acclaimed PBS Masterpiece series, Victoria, with a special sneak preview of the Season 3 premiere episode!
Shoplifters
The latest beautifully heartrending drama from Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda (Nobody Knows) follows a poor family committing petty crimes to survive.
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Pavarotti
From the filmmaking team behind the highly-acclaimed documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years, Pavarotti is a riveting film that lifts the curtain on the icon who brought opera to the people.
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Maiden
Maiden is the true story of how Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook in charter boats, became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World in 1989.
Monos
Monos, Alejandro Landes’ awe-inspiring third feature, is a breathtaking survivalist saga set on a remote mountain in Latin America.
Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace transcends the decades that have passed since its unreleased 1972 filming, transporting viewers into the pews of that church in South Central Los Angeles, where The Queen of Soul brought down the house.
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Joker
Oscar-nominee Joaquin Phoenix stars in the title role of Todd Phillips’ Joker, alongside Oscar-winner Robert De Niro.
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The House That Jack Built
Boundary-pushing cinematic visionary Lars von Trier (Antichrist; Melancholia) returns with one of his most daring, masterfully provocative works yet.
The Field Guide to Evil
A devilish new collection of short but terrifying tales from around the globe, featuring nine of the most talented genre filmmakers reinventing a classic folktale from their homeland.
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The Wife
The Wife interweaves the story of the couple’s youthful passion and ambition with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later—a lifetime’s shared compromises, secrets, betrayals and mutual love.
Space Mutiny
Rogue starship pilot Dave Ryder (played by Yor: Hunter from the Future himself, Reb Brown) does his best to try and stop a mutiny … in space.
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Capernaum
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Capernaum (“Chaos”) is a gripping new drama about the journey of a clever, gutsy 12-year-old boy, Zain, who survives the dangers of the city streets by his wits.
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The Irishman
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the 20th century.
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Cold War
Academy Award–winning director Paweł Pawlikowski follows up his box-office sensation Ida with this bittersweet, exquisitely crafted tale of an impossible love.
Synonyms
Winner of the Golden Bear at Berlinale, the latest from Nadav Lapid (The Kindergarten Teacher) features a dynamic lead performance from newcomer Tom Mercier, whose feral intensity practically bursts out of the frame.
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Marriage Story
Marriage Story is Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Noah Baumbach’s incisive and compassionate portrait of a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.
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Judy
With a jaw-dropping performance from Renée Zellweger at its pulsing, neurotic heart, the film is funny, warm and satisfyingly self-aware.
Shadow
Zhang Yimou (Hero; House of Flying Daggers) pushes the boundaries of wuxia action to create a film like no other, masterfully painting a canvas of blacks and greys punctuated with bursts of color from the blood of the defeated.
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The White Crow
The White Crow tells the gripping true story of legendary Soviet ballet star Rudolf Nureyev’s dramatic defection to the West.
One Cut of the Dead
A cast of relative unknowns, a brilliantly disguised low budget and an epic, 37-minute opening single take makes Shin’ichirô Ueda’s feature debut a bright, breezy and laugh-out-loud hilarious zombie comedy.
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The Aftermath
Set in postwar Germany in 1946, Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) arrives in the ruins of Hamburg to be reunited with her husband, a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city.
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Climax
From celebrated director Gaspar Noé (Irreversible; Enter the Void; Love) comes a hypnotic, hallucinatory, and ultimately hair-raising depiction of a party that descends into delirium over the course of one wintry night.
Hunter x Hunter: The Last Mission
Hunter x Hunter: The Last Mission comes to theatres across the U.S. and Canada. The action-packed movie is based on the popular anime series, which reboots the popular manga originally created by Yoshihiro Togashi!
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Photograph
The new film from writer/director Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox), tells the tale of a struggling Mumbai street photographer who, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée during a family visit.
Roma
The semi-autobiographical Roma is Cuarón’s most personal film to date – an immersive, technically masterful, compassionate work that, though set in the 1970s, speaks directly to contemporary Mexican society.
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Ode to Joy
Based on a true story originally featured on This American Life, Ode to Joy is a hilarious and touching look at what happens when we stop being afraid and let ourselves truly live.
Let My People Go
Captures the relentless spirit of the broad coalition of South Dakotans that took on the firmly entrenched and well-financed predatory lending industry – and won.
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The Two Popes
From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener) comes this highly-acclaimed new drama starring Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce.
The Guilty
When police officer Asger Holm is demoted to desk work, he expects a sleepy beat as a dispatcher. That all changes when he answers a phone call from a kidnapped woman who abruptly disconnects.
63 UP
Legendary filmmaker Michael Apted (Coal Miner’s Daughter) returns with the latest installment of his groundbreaking documentary series, unmatched in the history of cinema for its astonishing and revelatory longevity.
This One’s for the Ladies
Every Thursday night, hundreds of women gather for a potluck celebration and the chance to throw singles at the hottest dancers in New Jersey, The Nasty Boyz
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A Hidden Life
Based on real events, from visionary writer/director Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life; The Thin Red Line), A Hidden Life is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
Hail Satan?
What is the Satanic Temple? Is it religion? A cult? Performance art? Hail Satan? explores the Temple’s fight for equality, its focus on community, and its devilish sense of humor.
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The Wind
Masterfully blending haunting visuals with pulse-pounding sound design, director Emma Tammi’s frightening foray into dread-soaked frontier horror evokes a godforsaken world in which the forces of nature come alive with quivering menace.
Ip Man 4: The Finale
Donnie Yen reprises his role as the legendary Wing Chun master in the grand finale of the revolutionary martial arts series.
Master Z: IP Man Legacy
Legendary action director Yuen Woo-Ping (Drunken Master) draws on a stellar cast (Michelle Yeoh, Dave Bautista, & Tony Jaa) to create a hard-hitting martial arts blast worthy of its place in the celebrated IP Man universe.
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The Souvenir
At once enrapturing and mysteriously unsettling—and featuring a profoundly layered breakout performance by Honor Swinton Byrne—The Souvenir is an essential and enduring film from one of our most distinctive and exciting filmmakers.
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Wild Nights with Emily
In this laugh-out-loud, emotionally-engaging period piece that’s part sketch comedy, part historical burlesque, Molly Shannon transforms into Emily Dickinson.
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Gloria Bell
From director Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman; Disobedience) comes a romantic comedy that shows love can strike at any time, relationships are never simple, and nothing can get you down as long as you keep dancing.
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Lords of Chaos
Based on an astonishingly true story, Lords of Chaos recounts the exploits of the Norwegian black metal movement’s most notorious band: Mayhem.
First Love
Celebrated auteur Takashi Miike (Blade of the Immortal, 13 Assassins, Ichi the Killer, Audition) returns with one of his most fun, action-packed films, marked by high-energy mayhem and breakneck pacing.
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Them That Follow
Pastor Lemuel Childs (Walton Goggins) presides over an isolated community of serpent handlers, an obscure sect of Pentecostals who willingly take up venomous snakes to prove themselves before God.
Tigers Are Not Afraid
A town held hostage to a brutal drug war is the setting for a sublimely creepy del Toro-esque fairytale of real life horrors about a young girl whose supernatural intuition leads her to form an alliance with a gang of orphaned boys.
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Red Joan
Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest.
Apocalypse Now Final Cut
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Oscar-winning epic, Apocalypse Now is returning to the big screen in a never-before-seen “Final Cut” restored with breathtaking realism by director Frances Ford Coppola.
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Apollo 11
Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission.
Nightmare Cinema
In this horror anthology featuring five ghoulish tales of terror from some of the horror genre’s best, five strangers are drawn to an abandoned movie theater and forced to watch their deepest and darkest fears play out before them.
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The Fall of the American Empire
This provocative crime caper, from Academy Award-winning writer/director Denys Arcand, takes a witty yet touching look at the predominance of money in a society where all other values seem to have crumbled.
Presented in 3D (CC)
They Shall Not Grow Old
Applying state-of-the-art restoration and colorization technologies to century-old footage, Peter Jackson has created an intensely gripping, immersive and authentic cinematic experience.
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Bathtubs Over Broadway
A fascinating and hilarious homage to Steve Young’s unique obsession, Bathtubs Over Broadway opens up a seat alongside Young as he takes the audience into a previously unknown world of corporate song and dance!
Nureyev
This striking new documentary traces the extraordinary life of Rudolf Nureyev, who transcended fame in the dance world to become a pop culture icon of his time.
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At Eternity’s Gate
At Eternity’s Gate is a journey inside the world and mind of a man who, despite skepticism, ridicule and illness, created some of the world’s most beloved and stunning works of art.
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Cunningham
Merce Cunningham is profiled in this 3D documentary – an explosion of music, dance and never-before-seen archive material woven together to create an experiential tribute to one of the world’s greatest modern dance artists.
Non-Fiction
Juliette Binoche and Guillame Canet reunite with acclaimed director Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper, The Clouds of Sils Maria) for this wry, slyly seductive tale of sex, lies and literature.
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Her Smell
Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) gives a blistering, tour-de-force performance in this searing portrait of a self-destructive rock star.
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Sunset
From László Nemes, the Academy Award-winning writer/director of Son of Saul, comes the sumptuous new drama, Sunset.
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Charlie Says
Boundary-pushing filmmaker Mary Harron (American Psycho; I Shot Andy Warhol) and screenwriter Guinevere Turner (American Psycho; Go Fish) present a provocative new perspective on one of the most notorious crimes of the 20th century.
Brand New Digital Restoration!
Wings of Desire
Angels listen in on the innermost thoughts of mortals in Wim Wenders’s lovely, lyrical Wings of Desire, a soaring high-point of the director’s cinema and a moving, melancholic elegy to a divided Berlin.
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High Life
High Life is a provocative, dazzling and haunting science fiction drama from acclaimed French filmmaker Claire Denis (White Material, Beau Travail), making her English-language debut.
Transit
Transit, evoking shades of Hitchcock and Casablanca, is an unlikely, wrenching love story as much as a sly, unsettling thriller about ghosts, memory, and historical trauma.
National Theatre Live
Fleabag
See Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s hilarious one-woman show that inspired the multiple Emmy Award-winning TV series, Fleabag, captured live on stage in London’s West End and shown on the big screen!
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Where’s My Roy Cohn?
Matt Tyrnauer’s Where’s My Roy Cohn? lays out who Roy Cohn was and how his lessons to his apprentice Donald Trump have shaped contemporary American politics.
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Pledge
Three friends get the chance to live the college dream when they’re invited to join an elite fraternity – but first they’ll have to survive the hazing from hell!
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The Wedding Guest
This propulsive, globetrotting thriller from acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom (The Trip) is a breathless tour through the shadowy underworlds and hidden realms of Pakistan and India.
Knife + Heart
The wildly wicked Giallo-style thriller Knife + Heart is an ultra-stylish, blood-soaked cinematic adrenaline shot set in the world of gay porn in disco-era Paris
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Wild Rose
Jessie Buckley (Beast) delivers a star-making performance as Rose-Lynn, a would-be country singer who dreams of leaving her rough life in Glasgow, Scotland for the bright lights of Nashville.
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
An astounding documentary about the first female filmmaker, who achieved heights of fame and financial success before she was shut out from the very industry she helped create.
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David Crosby: Remember My Name
An honest portrait of David Crosby, framed around a multi-day interview with the controversial legend about his career & troubled personal life.
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The Mustang
Matthias Schoenaerts (The Danish Girl) gives an intense powerhouse performance as a troubled man prone to violence, struggling to overcome his past, who finds hope in an unexpected direction.
Luz
In this audacious, psychotropic and mesmerizing horror film, the standard formulas for demonic possession tales are turned upside down and transformed into something new and deeply frightening.
Limited Engagement!
Roma in 70mm
For a limited time only, experience Alfonso Cuarón’s award-winning Roma on glorious 70mm film, exclusively in Tucson at The Loft Cinema!
Tel Aviv On Fire
Writer/director Sameh Zoabi’s award-winning satire follows Salam, a winsome slacker, as he fails upwards at his job on a sudsy Palestinian TV soap opera, “Tel Aviv on Fire,” popular with both Israelis and Palestinians.
In the Aisles
A bittersweet glimpse into the connections of a motley group of workers, it quietly celebrates the beauty in the day-to-day and the collective pride we take in our jobs with dark humor and bittersweet nuance.
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Bi Gan follows up his knockout debut, Kaili Blues, with this noir-tinged stunner about a lost soul (Jue Huang) on a quest to find a missing woman from his past (Wei Tang, Lust, Caution).
Iyengar: The Man, Yoga and the Student’s Journey
Iyengar Yoga is well respected and practiced worldwide, but because its founder B. K. S. Iyengar is famously reclusive, little is known about the man who invented this powerful practice… until now!
Birds of Passage
From the Oscar-nominated team behind the genre-defying Embrace of the Serpent, comes an equally audacious saga centered on the Wayúu indigenous people during a crucial period in recent Colombian history.
Ash is Purest White
Ash Is Purest White, the latest from acclaimed Chinese director Zhangke Jia (A Touch of Sin), is an epic saga of a woman whose knack for crime carries her through a rapidly changing China over the course of two decades.
Promare
This super-lit-mega-action-rescue-human-drama from beloved anime studio TRIGGER (creators of the hit series KILL la KILL) brings their stunning visual stylings to their first feature film.
The Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf
The hot ‘n hairy Howling hijinks continue in this bizarre sequel that sends Reb Brown and horror legend Christopher Lee on a trip to Transylvania to track down a vicious werewolf queen!
Never Look Away
The latest work from acclaimed filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is a sweeping romantic historical drama following thirty years in the life of a great artist – loosely based on Gerhard Richter.
The Heiresses
The feature film debut of director Marcello Martinessi (who describes the film as “a coming-of-age film for a 60-year-old woman”), The Heiresses was selected as Paraguay’s official entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.
Q&A & PERFORMANCE!
Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final Symphony
The inspirational stories of lives transformed by Beethoven’s message in his celebrated Ninth Symphony.
Harold and Maude
A 19-year-old man with a death wish and a 79-year-old woman high on life find love, much to the shock of the rest of the world, in Hal Ashby’s beloved black comedy.
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The Farewell
In this funny, uplifting tale, Billi (Awkwafina) returns home to find that, although the family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself.
Fight Club
Based on the cult novel by Chuck Palahniuk and directed by David Fincher, Fight Club is a shocking, hilarious and thought-provoking kick in the head.
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Woman at War
A woman with a mission to save the planet gets in over her head when she takes on big industry and the unscrupulous politicians out to ruin her beloved natural landscape.
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Knives and Skin
Surreal forces lurk behind the fluorescent facade of an unassuming Midwestern town in writer/director Jennifer Reeder’s hyper-stylized Knives and Skin.
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American Woman
Following the disappearance of her teenage daughter, a woman must raise her infant grandson and find some answers, in this gripping, decade-spanning drama starring Sienna Miller.
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Ask Dr. Ruth
The crowd-pleasing documentary Ask Dr. Ruth chronicles the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America’s most famous sex therapist.
2019 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action Shorts
Don’t miss your chance to experience this year’s best short films the way they were meant to be seen – on the big screen!
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Get Out
Writer/director Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning Get Out is a zeitgeist-zapping horror/comedy/thriller, as frighteningly unnerving as it is uncomfortably satirical.
Q&A with filmmakers
Something Like Home
Documentary film on the impact of language and education on the lives of four Syrian refugees in Turkey and Jordan.
Free For Members! (CC&AD)
Bathtubs Over Broadway
A fascinating and hilarious homage to Steve Young’s unique obsession, Bathtubs Over Broadway opens up a seat alongside Young as he takes the audience into a previously unknown world of corporate song and dance!
FREE ADMISSION
The Lavender Scare
Narrated by Glenn Close, The Lavender Scare documents the vicious “witch hunt” begun in the ’50’s (and lasting for decades) to purge the federal government of workers suspected of being homosexual.
Digital Screenings (CC&AD)
The Aeronauts
In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones) teams up with meteorologist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history.
Free outdoor screening in Himmel Park!
Matilda
Based on the classic children’s novel by Roald Dahl, Matilda is a modern day fairytale that mixes hilarious humor, magical hijinks and whole lot of kid power!
Omega Cop
What exactly IS an Omega Cop? According to this brain-fried post-apocalyptic action flick, he’s the last (and thus, the best) cop alive – a cop who drives a Jeep, lives in a baseball dugout, and takes orders from a profusely sweating Adam West!
Naqoyqatsi (Life as War)
Godfrey Reggio takes on the digital revolution in the final chapter of his Qatsi Trilogy, sculpting a frenetic portrait of an era in which the cacophony of “communication” has rendered humankind post-language.
Outdoor Screening at Old Tucson
Tombstone
Get ready for a cinematic showdown at this special outdoor screening of the 1993 Shot at Old Tucson classic, Tombstone, shown on the actual “North End” movie set where the film was made!
New Digital Restoration!
Memories of Murder
Memories of Murder, based on an infamous real-life serial murder case that rocked the Korean peninsula in 1986, is the second feature from acclaimed filmmaker Bong Joon-ho.
Furious 7
Director James Wan (The Conjuring; Aquaman) jumps in the driver’s seat for this high-octane seventh installment of the unstoppable mega-franchise built on speed!
Free Admission!
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Just when you thought they couldn’t get any cooler … your favorite prehistoric pals from Ice Age are getting themselves involved in a ginormous animated adventure for the ages!
Bigfoot
It’s saggy, baggy monster movie mayhem when a colony of goofy-looking Sasquatches in ill-fitting creature suits kidnap some bikini-clad women!
An Evening with Joe Bob Briggs: How Rednecks Saved Hollywood!
Spend a hilarious evening with Joe Bob Briggs as he reviews the history of rednecks in America as told through classic movies!
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2019 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animated Shorts
Don’t miss your chance to experience this year’s best short films the way they were meant to be seen – on the big screen!
Free Admission!
The Prince of Egypt
Featuring stunning animation and Oscar-winning songs sung by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, The Prince of Egypt is a classic tale for all audiences.
2019 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary Shorts
Don’t miss your chance to experience this year’s best short films on the big screen!
Free Admission! (CC&AD)
Paddington 2
This much-anticipated sequel finds Paddington the Bear happily settled with the Brown family in London, where he has become a popular member of the local community, spreading joy and marmalade wherever he goes.
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.
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
The cheerleading squad at Aloha High is out for revenge … or something …and David Hasselhoff and the rest of America’s stoned teenagers will never be the same!
Roller Boogie
Can a fun-loving classical flautist and a roller-skating dude in short-shorts find true love in the California sun while boogying on skates to non-stop ‘70s disco tunes? One guess!
Chained Heat
Linda Blair ends up in the slammer and finds out that life behind bars is no picnic in the park thanks to all the sadistic socializing that happens when you’re part of Chained Heat!
Savage Streets
When a gang of punks mess with her sister, Linda Blair fights back the only way she knows how – with a leather bodysuit and crossbow – leading to a perfect storm of Death Wish-in-stiletto-heels ‘80s vigilante action!
Free Admission!
Babe
Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Babe is a charming, funny and inspirational ode to dreamers of any species!
A benefit screening for Ballet Tucson!
I Am a Dancer
Ballet Tucson presents Rudolph Nureyev’s film I Am a Dancer. This film is a must see for dancers or fans of classical dance.
School of Rock
Jack Black turns it up to “11” as a substitute teacher out to let his kids rock in this hilarious musical comedy from Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater.
Presented by Lesbian Looks
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
The first-ever feature documentary about Lorraine Hansberry, the visionary playwright who authored the groundbreaking A Raisin in the Sun.
Wanda
With her first and only feature film—a drama she wrote, directed, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen.
Free For Members!
Ash is Purest White
Ash Is Purest White, the latest from acclaimed Chinese director Zhangke Jia (A Touch of Sin), is an epic saga of a woman whose knack for crime carries her through a rapidly changing China over the course of two decades.
Astrofilm Extravaganza: Making Sense of Our Connection to the Universe
Science and art unite in this thought-provoking, family-friendly event featuring astronomy documentaries and live performance.
The Post
See Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated drama, The Post, followed by an onstage discussion with First Amendment lawyer George Freeman, former Assistant General Counsel for The New York Times and current head of the Media Law Resource Center.
FREE ADMISSION
Maria en tierra de nadie
Marcela Zamora’s film Maria en la tierra de nadie (Maria in Nobody’s Land), a documentary film that follows a group of three Central American women who travel through Mexico to the United States border.
Zombie Nightmare
A buff dude is killed in a hit-and-run by a gang of dumb teenagers, only to be resurrected by a wild-eyed voodoo priestess as a buff, baseball bat-wielding zombie out for revenge!
Insignificance
The outer reaches of Roeg’s cinematic cosmos are arrived at in Insignificance, the director’s deliriously metaphysical screen adaptation of Terry Johnson’s satirical play.
One Dark Night
A trio of girls is forced to spend the night in a mausoleum as part of an initiation rite for a high school gang called “The Sisters,” and wouldn’t you know it, one of the mausoleum’s residents – a prune-faced, telekinetic cult leader named Raymar – has just woken up!
Witnesses to Democracy: The Journey of a Mother and a Photographer
The story of three people brought together by the killing of the student who’s death propelled the South Korean Democracy Movement.
Director’s Cut
The Man Who Fell to Earth
This beautiful anniversary restoration contains Roeg’s full uncut version of the film, bringing this sci-fi masterpiece back to its original glory as “the most intellectually provocative genre film of the ‘70s.
35mm print!
Walkabout
Featuring gorgeous cinematography by Roeg himself, his first solo directing credit is one of cinema’s most original coming-of-age movies, as well as a haunting portrait of cross-cultural experience and sexual awakening.
35mm Print!
Performance
Made at the height of the Psychedelic Sixties, Roeg’s extraordinary directorial debut is a wild, hallucinatory psychological melodrama that ranks among the most complex and compelling visual mosaics of the decade.
To Sleep With Anger
A slow-burning masterwork of the early 1990s, this third feature by acclaimed filmmaker Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep) is a singular piece of American mythmaking.
Burlesque
Celestial pop stars collide in an explosion of glitter, glamour and glitz when Cher and Christina Aguilera team up and belt it out in the camp musical extravaganza, Burlesque!
Encore Screenings!
Salvador Dalí: In Search of Immortality
This new documentary takes viewers on an eye-opening journey through the life and work of the great Salvador Dalí.
Dykes, Camera, Action!
Lesbians didn’t always get to see themselves on screen. But between Stonewall, the feminist movement, and the experimental cinema of the 1970s, they built visibility, and transformed the social imagination about queerness.
35mm Print!
Practical Magic
Oscar-winners Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman play a pair of witch sisters out to put a spell on you in the wicked dark comedy, Practical Magic!
Free For Members! (CC & AD)
The Wedding Guest
This propulsive, globetrotting thriller from acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom (The Trip) is a breathless tour through the shadowy underworlds and hidden realms of Pakistan and India.
What We Do In The Shadows
What We Do In The Shadows chronicles the adventures of four vampire roommates trying to get by in a modern world that’s not always hospitable to the undead.
Who Will Write Our History?
A 90-minute documentary film about Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret archive he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto
Strike Commando
It’s time for non-stop muscles, machine guns and bad movie mayhem in this insanely violent, ridiculously over-the-top Rambo rip-off starring Reb Brown and a bunch of dead people.
Cage
Reb Brown plus Lou Ferrigno, plus a ridiculous script, divided by illegal cage fighting, multiplied by teary eyes and bloody knuckles, equals fun for the whole family!
Lunafest 2019
Films, feminism, and fun—it’s a winning combination! JOIN US for WOSAC’s 14th Annual LUNAFEST!
The Paper Chase
Based on the bestselling novel by John Jay Osborn, Jr., The Paper Chase is a smart, funny, literate drama about the trials and tribulations of law school.
Tucson Premiere!
You Racist, Sexist Bigot
This film shares a rainbow of amazing humans in order to tear down the walls that prevent us from seeing that we are far more similar than we are different and that it is the differences which give us our own unique beauty.
Arizona Beer Week Screening!
The World’s End
Celebrate Arizona Beer Week with a refreshing, full-bodied screening of the “pub-tastic” Edgar Wright sci-fi comedy, The World’s End!
The Heiresses
The feature film debut of director Marcello Martinessi (who describes the film as “a coming-of-age film for a 60-year-old woman”), The Heiresses was selected as Paraguay’s official entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.
35mm Print!
Buster Keaton’s The Cameraman
Don’t miss this special family-friendly Essential Cinema screening of Buster Keaton’s classic 1928 silent comedy, The Cameraman, presented on 35mm!
Boy
Set during the summer of 1984 in a rural Maori community on the coast of New Zealand, Waititi’s charming and heartfelt Boy follows the adventures of eleven-year-old pop culture fanatic.
Closed Captions & Audio Description
Thor: Ragnarok
Waititi’s goofy, high-energy action flick, heavily-influenced by comic book legend Jack Kirby, is a rocking and rolling adventure across the universe, filled with fun and excitement!
Presented by Lesbian Looks
The Rest I Make Up
The Lesbian Looks film series concludes its 25th anniversary season with The Rest I Make Up, an intimate portrait of Cuban-born playwright Irene Fornes. With filmmaker Michelle Memran in person!
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.
Free Outdoor Screening in Himmel Park!
A League of their Own
Celebrate the career of the late filmmaker Penny Marshall at this special outdoor screening of the 1992 comedy, A League of their Own! And remember, there’s no crying in baseball!
A New Society
The crisis of democracy and capitalism has generated a decline of hope for a just society. Yet, social scientists have never been so well equipped to provide an answer, thanks to developments in economics, sociology, legal theory & philosophy.
The Bad News Bears (1976)
Oscar-winning Walter Matthau (The Odd Couple) is Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic former minor league baseball player tasked with coaching the worst little league team in all of Southern California, The Bears.
60th Anniversary / Outdoor Screening at Old Tucson!
Rio Bravo
See how the west was won at this special 60th anniversary outdoor screening of the 1959 Shot at Old Tucson classic, Rio Bravo, shown on The Loft Cinema’s giant inflatable screen near the adobe ruins used in the film!
The Aeronauts in 70mm
In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones) teams up with meteorologist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history.
Legally Blonde
In this knockout comedy with a heart of gold (and hair to match!), Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) is a California blonde with couture clothes, fabulous friends and the hottest boyfriend on campus.
The Blue Angel
A scandalous revelation to 1930s audiences, challenging the limits of screen sexuality and launching Dietrich into the stratosphere of superstardom.
Morocco
In her Oscar-nominated performance, Dietrich made her debut before American audiences and unveiled the enthralling persona that would define her collaboration with director Josef von Sternberg.
Brand-New Digital Restoration!
Shanghai Express
An intoxicating mix of adventure, romance, and pre-Code salaciousness, Shanghai Express marks the commercial peak of an iconic collaboration.
The Scarlet Empress
A lavish spectacle in which von Sternberg’s visual genius reaches new heights of extravagance, The Scarlet Empress is a portrait of a woman capable of bringing legions to heel.
Angel’s Revenge
A squadron of semi-trained female avengers in form-fitting jumpsuits and feathered hair battle a syndicate of ruthless drug pushers in this enjoyably idiotic action flick!
Free Admission!
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis’ timeless and beloved story comes to the big screen in this magically spectacular adventure from Walt Disney Pictures!
Administrative Professionals’ Day Screening!
9 to 5
Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen, pour yourself a cup of ambition and celebrate Administrative Professionals’ Day with Dolly, Lily and Jane in the office comedy classic, 9 to 5!
King Lear starring Ian McKellen
See Ian McKellen’s ‘extraordinarily moving portrayal’ of King Lear as Jonathan Munby directs this contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s shocking play.
Thunder Run
A geriatric truck driver and his grandson somehow end up transporting a shipment of plutonium through the Arizona desert in a tricked-out, flame-throwing 18-wheeler targeted for hijacking by a team of vicious international terrorists!
Truck Stop Women
A tough-trucking mother/daughter duo run a successful brothel out of their truck stop and are forced to fight for their right to promote crime and debauchery when the Mob tries to take over!
Free Outdoor Screening in Phoenix, AZ!
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.
2019: After the Fall of New York
In the far-flung future of 2019, nuclear war has rendered the entire human race sterile, so it’s up to a Bon Jovi-esque mercenary to infiltrate the deadly ruins of NYC to rescue the last fertile woman on Earth!
CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap
CODE exposes the dearth of American female and minority software engineers and explores the reasons for this gender gap and digital divide.
Burial Ground
A cursed country estate filled with horny, jet-setting socialites is besieged by flesh-ripping, gut-munching zombies unleashed by a nutty professor in this jaw-dropping Italian horror flick filled with sex, gore and depravity!
The Raiders of Atlantis
An ultra-gory, disco-themed, mystical, post-apocalyptic sci-fi, action, jungle, horror adventure like no other, The Raiders of Atlantis is hilariously chaotic Italian sleaze cinema done right!
Hide and Go Shriek
A group of dazed and confused teens spend the night “getting it on” in a local department store after hours, but little do they know their night of retail raunch is about to be put out of business by a blood-thirsty maniac!
Free Outdoor Screening in Bisbee, AZ!
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Janis Joplin is one of the most revered and iconic rock & roll singers of all time, a tragic and misunderstood figure who thrilled millions of listeners and blazed new creative trails before her death in 1970 at age 27.
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
A gang of sorority girls breaks into a shopping mall bowling alley as part of an initiation prank, only to find themselves bowled over by a sadistic little rubber demon named The Imp!
Chopping Mall
A bunch of teens learn what “shop till you drop” means when their after-hours party at the local shopping mall is crashed by murderously malfunctioning robots who have been programmed to drill, kill and spill!
Killer Party
Sorority girls just want to have fun, except when they’re attending a dance party at a haunted frat house and battling for their lives against a dead frat boy who’s looking to possess the living to do his evil bidding!
Welcome to Spring Break aka Nightmare Beach
Two college bro’s head to Miami for Spring Break, hoping to soak up some hot sun and cold booze, only to find that a motorcycle-riding maniac is electrocuting anyone in a bikini!
Border
Scandinavian mythology makes for a visceral fantastical drama on the mystery of identity in this adaptation of a story by Let the Right One In writer John Ajvide Lindqvist.
Pledge Night
A gaggle of obnoxious frat boys spend Hell Night facing off against a melty-faced supernatural killer named Acid Sid in this extremely trashy trainwreck of a horror flick!
Closed Captions & Audio Description
Maria by Callas
Forty years after her death, the most famous opera singer ever tells her own story – completely in her own words.
Burning
Expanded from Haruki Murakami’s short story, Burning begins by tracing a romantic triangle of sorts: an aspiring writer, becomes involved with a woman he knew from childhood, who is about to embark on a trip to Africa.
The House on Sorority Row
The fun-loving girls of Theta Pi sorority are throwing one last blow-out bash before graduation, but they’re about to learn that a college diploma means nothing if you’re six feet under!
Presented by Backyard Healthcare Project with Rupa Ayurveda
The Doctor from India
A meditative and immersive portrait of the life and work of Dr. Vasant Lad, the holistic pioneer who brought the ancient medical practice of Ayurveda to the west in the late 70s.
Closed Captions & Audio Descriptions
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Melissa McCarthy stars as Lee Israel, the biographer and forger whose tale of deception speaks volumes about our obsessions with celebrity and authenticity.
Warlock
An evil, ponytailed warlock flees from 17th century Boston to late 20th century Los Angeles with an obsessed witch-hunter in hot pursuit, and only a valley girl stands between them and total B-movie Armageddon!
The Time Travelers
A group of scientists step through a time portal and are flung 107 years into the future, where they encounter atomic war, underground cities, and weird mutants!
Trancers
A hard-boiled detective from the future chases his nemesis back in time to ‘80s L.A., where the battle to stop a zombie mystic from changing history!
Yor: The Hunter from the Future
Yor, a smug, loincloth-clad caveman, romps through a hilarious series of silly prehistoric mishaps before eventually stumbling head-first into a WTF? Star Wars rip-off.
Closed Captions & Audio Description
The Seagull
An all-star cast, led by Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird) and Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale), brings Anton Chekhov’s classic play to life in this stunning adaptation directed by Tony-winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening).
The Crater Lake Monster
The Loch Ness Monster’s socially awkward cousin, a giant, stop-motion animated dino-creature, is unleashed from the bottom of Crater Lake thanks to a crashing meteorite!
Decriminalizing Mental Illness Film Screening
Pima County, in collaboration with local sponsors, hosts a film screening related to the issues faced by individuals with mental health challenges in the criminal justice system.
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!
A Benefit for The Loft Cinema’s Marquee Restoration
Woodstock – The Director’s Cut
Help us Light Up The Loft and raise funds to restore our iconic marquee back to its original glory while celebrating 50 years of Peace and Music!
Animated Shorts
Don’t miss this eye-popping program of 12 animated short films, offering up an entire universe of styles and techniques that will take you into the future of animation … and beyond!
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!
New 50th Anniversary Restoration!
Yellow Submarine
A classic of psychedelic pop culture, a colorful musical spectacle and an exhilaratingly joyful cinematic experience for all ages, filled with visual invention, optical illusions, word play and of course, glorious Beatles music.
Closed Captions
RBG
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s vigorous dissenting opinions and ferocious 20-push-up workouts have earned this tiny, soft-spoken intellectual giant the status of rock star and the title “Notorious RBG.”
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
Boundaries
An endearing comedy/drama, Boundaries shows how the most dysfunctional families can find new ways to heal, even if they’re all traveling in opposite directions.
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.
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.
Chasing The Dragon
Stark first-person accounts told by individuals who have abused opioids or whose children have abused opioids, with tragic consequences.
Closed Captions
Three Identical Strangers
Three strangers are reunited by astonishing coincidence after being born identical triplets, separated at birth, and adopted by three different families.
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.
Closed Captions & Audio Description
Sorry to Bother You
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, which propels him into a macabre universe of “power-calling” that leads to material glory.
Free Outdoor Screening in Phoenix, 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.
Daisies
A landmark of feminist cinema and the most daring film of the Czech New Wave movement, Vera Chytilova’s masterpiece Daisies is a surreal trip into a “spoiled” world.
Julie
Award-winning actress Vanessa Kirby and Eric Kofi Abrefa star in this new version of August Strindberg’s play Miss Julie, which remains shocking and fiercely relevant in its new setting of contemporary London.
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.
Museo
Inspired by true events, and shot on never-before-filmed locations in Mexico, Museo is a sardonic cautionary tale that underscores the old adage: you don’t know what you have until you lose it.
The Wild Boys
In this hypnotically nightmarish adventure, five well-bred teenage boys (played by women), are enamored by the arts, but drawn to crime.
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!”
Closed Captions
Tea with the Dames
Tea with the Dames is a unique celebration of the lives and careers of four of England’s most iconic actresses: Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Joan Plowright and Dame Eileen Atkins.
Skid Row Marathon
In this gripping and uplifting documentary, winner of 21 film festival awards, a criminal court judge starts a long-distance running club out of the Midnight Mission on L.A.’s notorious Skid Row.
Closed Captions
Kusama – Infinity
This fascinating portrait of Yayoi Kusama, now the top-selling female artist in the world, traces her turbulent quest from humble beginnings, overcoming countless obstacles, to bring her radical artistic vision to the world stage.
Diamantino
When the world’s leading soccer star loses his touch and ends his career in disgrace, he goes on a delirious odyssey where he confronts neo-fascism, the refugee crisis and genetic modification.
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!
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!
Buy Me A Gun
Mad Max: Fury Road meets The Florida Project in director Julio Hernández Cordón’s stunning dystopian coming-of-age tale.
Zama
Lucrecia Martel (La Ciénaga) ventures into the realm of historical fiction and makes the genre entirely her own in this stunning and hypnotic adaptation of Antonio di Benedetto’s 1956 classic of Argentinean literature.
Relaxer
From indie director Joel Potrykus (Buzzard), Relaxer is a skuzzy ‘90s nostalgia flashback that’s both absurdly funny and grossly disturbing in its portrayal of the cultural detritus of the turn of the millennium.
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.
Mountain
Narrated by Willem Dafoe, Mountain is a dazzling cinematic and musical experience; an odyssey through the Earth’s most awesome landscapes, showcasing their spellbinding force, and power to shape our lives and dreams.
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!
Ghostbox Cowboy
Befuddled Texan Jimmy Van Horn arrives in China brimming with optimism, only to realize that acquiring a share of the country’s rapidly growing riches is not as easy as it appeared.
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.
Closed Captions
First Reformed
From celebrated filmmaker Paul Schrader comes a gripping thriller about a crisis of faith that is at once personal, political and planetary.
Distant Constellation
Venture into a Turkish retirement home, where the mischievous, wistful, and life-hardened residents live out an almost absurdly cyclical existence, a place where time seems to hang still.
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.
Liyana
Liyana, a brave young Swazi heroine, undertakes an epic adventure to rescue her stolen brothers, outsmarting many a dangerous animal and even more dangerous humans along the way.
Closed Captions
Damsel
Samuel Alabaster (Robert Pattinson, Good Time), a dapper, well-to-do pioneer, is undertaking a journey across the American Frontier to marry the love of his life, Penelope (Mia Wasikowska, Crimson Peak).
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!
Closed Captions & Audio Description
Whitney
The new documentary Whitney is an intimate, unflinching portrait of Houston and her family that probes beyond familiar tabloid headlines and sheds new light on the spellbinding trajectory of Houston’s life.
The Waldheim Waltz
A timely work of activist filmmaking—one whose questions about collective complicity, memory, and historical responsibility are as important to ask today as they were more than 30 years ago.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
A humanist exploration of the community of Hale County, Alabama, where working-class families work, dream, celebrate and struggle together.
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.
Closed Captions
Prospect
On a remote moon, a teenage girl and her father search for elusive alien gems. But they aren’t the only ones roaming the moon’s toxic forest in this gripping sci-fi western about survival and wanting to get home.
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!
3 Faces
Acclaimed director Jafar Panahi’s fourth outing since the Iranian government sentenced him to a 20-year filmmaking ban has Panahi and actress Behnaz Jafari playing themselves in a road movie of sorts.
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
With Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts, Indonesian director Mouly Surya has created a dark, wickedly funny, feminist western.
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!
Killing Jesus
In this youthful revenge saga based on true events, an idealistic Colombian student witnesses her father’s murder and is aghast at the ineptitude and apathy of the local police force.
¡Las Sandinistas!
Reveals the untold stories of Nicaraguan women warriors and social revolutionaries who shattered barriers to lead combat and social reform during Nicaragua’s 1979 Sandinista Revolution.
Perfect Blue
Perfect Blue, the groundbreaking and rarely screened first film from the legendary director Satoshi Kon (Paprika), returns to theatres for its 20 anniversary in a brand-new digital transfer.
Too Late to Die Young
The year 1990 was when Chile transitioned to democracy, but all of that seems a world away for 16-year-old Sofía, who lives far off the grid.
Chained for Life
In this original and deeply felt creation, Jess Wexler plays Mabel, a movie star “slumming it” in an outré art-horror film inspired by Tod Browning’s Freaks and being shot in a semi-abandoned hospital.
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!
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Tyrel
In this disquieting drama punctuated with flashes of squirm-inducing comedy, a young man spirals out of control when he realizes he’s the only black person attending a weekend birthday party in a secluded cabin.
Special Guests in Person!
Cinematic Labyrinths
The Kissinger Twins mix digital technologies with film, music and literature to create new forms of storytelling.
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.
Prototype in 3D
Blake Williams’ experimental 3D film immerses us in the aftermath in the deadliest natural disaster in US history, at every minute represented by remarkable and mysterious sights.
sold out
Apollo 13
Featuring a pre-show Q&A with Astronaut Fred Haise, Apollo 13 Flight Directors and Controllers Gerry Griffin and Jerry Bostick, and the man who saved the Apollo 13 crew from asphyxiating by building the “scrubber,” Sy Liebergot!
House of Sweat and Tears
Director Sonia Escolano’s mesmerizing exploration of religion, faith, and belief marries the aesthetics of European art cinema with the language of horror films.
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!
Mapplethorpe
Matt Smith (The Crown, Doctor Who) plays Robert Mapplethorpe in this compelling biopic about arguably one of the most controversial photographers in American history.
Blue My Mind
A mysterious young woman dives headfirst into the hell that is high school, all while undergoing a radical and uncontrollable transformation of her own.
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.
Becoming Astrid
This compelling biopic chronicles a character-defining period in the young life of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the much-beloved author of the classic children’s book, Pippi Longstocking.
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!
Pulsebeat
Feel the burn with the sweaty, silly and downright sleazy ‘80s “aerobic-sploitation” classic, Pulsebeat!
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.
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.
Crime + Punishment
Over five years of access allowed filmmaker Stephen Maing to document the efforts of a small group of New York City police officers who decided to sue the department over racially discriminatory policing practices.
Director Penelope Spheeris in person
Wayne’s World
It’s party time, excellent, with director Penelope Spheeris’ hilariously goofy pop culture comedy that still ranks as the best and highest-grossing Saturday Night Live spin-off in history.
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.
Closed Captions & Audio Description
Beautiful Boy
Beautiful Boy is a deeply moving portrait of a family’s unwavering love and commitment to each other in the face of their son’s addiction and his attempts at recovery
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Eighth Grade
The everyday humiliations and triumphs of a modern-day thirteen-year-old making her way through the last week of her thus far disastrous eighth grade.
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
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.
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.
American Animals
American Animals is an unbelievable but true story of four college students who are determined to transcend their boring middle class existence.
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.
Brand New Digital Restoration
The Virgin Spring
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden.
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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.
The Day Time Ended
A family moves from the big city into a futuristic solar home, only to find that their peaceful, rural utopian lifestyle comes equipped with a stupid cosmic time vortex that constantly spits out obnoxious monsters!
Deconstructing The Birth of The Beatles
Scott Freiman explores the path that brought four teenagers to superstardom as The Beatles and the many characters who helped them along their journey.
Mothers of Bedford
The story of five women, mapping the experience of motherhood through the lens of mass incarceration.
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.
Mystery Men
In this hilariously oddball all-star comedy, based on Dark Horse’s “Flaming Carrot Comics,” the strangest superhero group in history is assembled to strike down evil with the mighty sword of teamwork and the hammer of not bickering!
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!
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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.
Bisbee ’17
An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.
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!
CLOSED CAPTIONS & AUDIO DESCRIPTION
Puzzle
In this charming romantic drama, a whole new world opens up for suburban housewife Agnes when she discovers an unexpected talent for solving jigsaw puzzles, unlocking passions she had never before imagined.
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Suspiria (2018)
With this eagerly-awaited re-imagining of Dario Argento’s 1977 classic, Oscar-nominated Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) unleashes an audacious, frightening, gorgeously-designed fantasia of visceral arthouse horror.
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.
MFKZ
The Tekkonkinkreet dream team reunite to bring to life this dark and stunningly animated sci-fi vision mixing anime, film noir and Lucha Libre in an orgy of video game-inspired mayhem.
Dial Code Santa Claus
The holidays will never be the same thanks to the outrageous, long-unavailable “Home Alone meets ‘80s slasher flick” Christmas-time slayride, Dial Code Santa Claus!
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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.
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Blaze
Blaze, the new film from director/co-writer Ethan Hawke, is inspired by the life of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw music movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson.
Summer of 84
Every serial killer is somebody’s neighbor, and that’s the irresistibly creepy hook of this scary/funny throwback thriller steeped in the nostalgic vibes of such ’80s classics as The ‘Burbs and The Monster Squad.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
When a small town teenager is caught with another girl in the back seat of a car, she is shipped off to a middle-of-nowhere treatment center to undergo conversion therapy for “teens struggling with same-sex attraction.”
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Skate Kitchen
Skate Kitchen precisely captures the experience of women in male-dominated spaces and tells a compelling story of a girl who learns the importance of camaraderie and self-discovery.
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.
The Eyeslicer Halloween Special!
Taking viewers on a chaotic journey through the liminal space of the Halloween season, The Eyeslicer Halloween Special is like an acid trip down the Halloween aisle at Party City.
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.
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Love, Gilda
Love, Gilda opens up a unique window into the honest and whimsical world of a beloved performer whose greatest role was sharing her story.
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BORG VS. MCENROE
The story of the 1980s tennis rivalry between the placid Björn Borg and the volatile John McEnroe.
Vox Lux
The provocative musical drama Vox Lux follows the meteoric rise of Celeste (Natalie Portman) from the ashes of a major national tragedy to global pop superstardom.
Closed Captions & Audio Description
The Children Act
Smart, elegant, and deeply moving, The Children Act stars Emma Thompson in a riveting performance as Fiona Maye, a British High Court judge who, in the midst of a marital crisis, must rule on a life-changing legal case concerning the survival of a teenage boy.
The Great Buster: A Celebration
The Great Buster, from Oscar-winning director Peter Bogdanovich, celebrates the life, career and unmatched comedic genius of one of Buster Keaton.
En el Séptimo Día
En el Séptimo Día (On the Seventh Day), the new feature from acclaimed director Jim McKay (Girls Town), follows a group of undocumented Mexican immigrants living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn over the course of seven days.
1945
Shot in elegant black-and-white with an eye for exquisite composition and a minimal evocative score, 1945 is a subtle and nuanced study in the collective guilt and enduring anti-Semitism of postwar Hungary.
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MCQUEEN
Through exclusive interviews with his closest friends and family, recovered archives, exquisite visuals and music, McQueen creates an authentic celebration and thrilling portrait of an inspired yet tortured artistic visionary.
Let The Corpses Tan
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani trade in the velvet and shadows of their giallo-worshiping first films for blistering sun, creaking leather and raining bullets in this glorious homage to 1970s Italian crime films.
Heavy Trip
In this offbeat comedy from Finland, 25-year-old musician Turo is stuck in a rut in his small village. The only source of enjoyment in his life is being the lead vocalist for his amateur heavy metal band.
The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
From the visionary mind of director Masaaki Yuasa (Mind Game) comes The Night is Short, Walk on Girl, a wildly inventive and visually dazzling animated comedy about one epic night in Kyoto.
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
This is the story of Scotty Bowers, an ex-Marine who landed in Hollywood after WWII and became confidante, aide de camp & lover to many of Hollywood’s greatest stars.
Free For Members!
Three Identical Strangers
Three strangers are reunited by astonishing coincidence after being born identical triplets, separated at birth, and adopted by three different families.
Speed Racer
Based on the classic 1960s anime, Speed Racer is a hyperkinetic, ultra-stylized live-action cartoon come to rip-roaring life, courtesy of The Wachowskis, creators of The Matrix!
Five Fingers for Marseilles
Five Fingers for Marseilles fuses western influences—from classic John Ford to “spaghetti” to revisionist eras—into a contemporary South African crime drama with a local flavor.
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The World Before Your Feet
There are 8,000 miles of roads and paths in New York City, and for the past six years Matt Green has been walking them all – every street, park, cemetery, beach, and bridge.
I Am Not a Witch
A darkly comic fable set in contemporary Zambia, Rungano Nyoni’s acclaimed debut feature is a bold satire of the often contradictory nature of traditional beliefs and modern culture.
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Monsters and Men
When a father witnesses the police shooting of an unarmed black man, the community of Bed-Stuy is pushed to the brink in writer/director Reinaldo Marcus Green’s award-winning portrait of race, family and consequence.
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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.
Studio 54
Studio 54 transports viewers back in time into the legendarily decadent night spot where celebrities, socialites, and the beautiful danced, drank, got high, hooked up, and, most importantly, got seen … until it all came crashing down.
23 Bruises: The Lisa King Story
Emerge is celebrating our 10-year “Emergerversary” and we’re holding an event to thank the community for supporting our work in ending domestic abuse in Pima County.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Celebrate Star Trek Day weekend with Cult Classics screenings of one of the USS Enterprise crew’s greatest big screen adventures – a film so epic, it’s guaranteed to make you scream KHAAAAAANN!
Presented by Reveille Men's Chorus
Sister Act Sing-a-Long
Come join Reveille, Southern Arizona’s largest LGBT tenor-bass chorus, to be a part of the “holiest” sing-a-long chorus The Loft Cinema has heard!
93Queen
Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, 93Queen follows a group of Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy by creating the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City.
Troll 2
Goblins and witches and popcorn, oh my! It’s the Crown Jewel of Crap Cinema, the one-and-only Troll 2!
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Joan Jett: Bad Reputation
Don’t miss this rocking one-night-only event, featuring the new documentary, Bad Reputation, and an exclusive, brand-new solo performance by Joan Jett that can only be seen in theatres!
Naked Lunch
A part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict plunges into the nightmarish Interzone, a netherworld of sinister cabals, giant talking bugs and sex-crazed monsters called Mugwumps.
Breaker! Breaker!
Real American Hero Chuck Norris stars as a sensitive Southern California martial arts trucker out to save his little brother from the clutches of a gang of evil rednecks who lure wayward truckers into their town in order to do them bodily harm!
Spellbound
When the mysterious Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck) becomes the new chief of staff, the detached Constance plummets into a whirlwind of tangled identities and feverish psychoanalysis, where the greatest risk is to fall in love.
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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).
Macbeth
Directed by the National Theatre’s Artistic Director Rufus Norris, this brutal and visually stunning production features theatre legends Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff as Macbeth & Lady Macbeth.
35mm Print!
Napoleon Dynamite
Napoleon Dynamite, everyone’s favorite Idaho-based coming-of-age comedy, has only gotten better – and funnier – with time. In fact, it’s still pretty flippin’ sweet.
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW CAST REUNION
We’re celebrating over 40 years of live “shadow cast” performances of Rocky Horror by bringing back cast members who have performed along to the film as far back as 1979!
3100: Run and Become
What if the simple act of running could lead to profound enlightenment? Join an unassuming Finnish paperboy as he attempts to complete the Self-Transcendence 3100 Miler.
One Night Only!
Öngtupqa
Öngtupqa is equal parts art film, cultural anthropology study, music video, native ceremony, and one-on-one with a Hopi elder talking about one of the natural wonders of the world.
W/ Director Kirby Dick in Person!
The Bleeding Edge
Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering turn their sights on the $400 billion medical device industry, examining lax regulations, corporate cover-ups, and profit –driven incentives that put patients at risk daily.
Stand By Me
One of the most classic and quotable coming-of-age films ever made, Rob Reiner’s adaptation of Stephen King’s short story The Body is at once hilarious and heartbreaking.
The Barbarians
A pair of greased-up, wise-cracking twin lunkheads in loincloths seek revenge on the evil wizard who enslaved them as children, battling hordes of confused extras, giant rubber dragons and a script sent from bad movie heaven!
Rats: The Night of Terror
A gang of punked-out, post-apocalyptic bikers battle hordes of super-smart mutant rodents with a ravenous appetite for human flesh in this laughably awful, seriously unhinged Italian shocker!
We The Animals
We the Animals is a touching, lyrical and intimate portrait of blue-collar family life, and of three boys who tear through their childhood in the midst of their young parents’ volatile love.
Candidate Forum
The issue of access to justice and gender based violence is a topic that is in the news on a regular basis. Join us on Monday, October 8th for a candidate forum in which we explore the many facets of the issue.
Hobgoblins
In this bizarre, bottom-of-the-bad-movie-barrel Gremlins//Ghoulies/Critters rip-off, a rookie security guard opens a sealed film vault and unwittingly unleashes a pack of unconvincingly terrifying creatures called “hobgoblins”!
The Ranger
Horror producer Jenn Wexler makes her directorial debut with this bloody, manic, punk-rock take on the ‘80s slasher flick that may just scare you out of the woods for good!
Closed Captions & Audio Description
Wildlife
With precise details and textures of its specific time and place, Wildlife (Paul Dano’s filmmaking debut) commits to the viewpoint of a teenage boy observing the gradual dissolution of his parents’ marriage.
Brand-New Digital Restoration!
John Carpenter’s The Fog
This atmospheric fright classic, is a spine-tingling ghost story filled with evil secrets, undead pirates, and lots and lots of billowing, brutalizing fog banks!
Step Brothers
Calling all best buds, dueling siblings and casual frenemies – the Step Brothers are here to show you the true meaning of “family.”
SOLD OUT - Presented by Tucson Baha'is
Bahá’í Film Festival
Join us for a special screening of two documentary films focused on the Bahá’í Faith.
Madeline’s Madeline
Madeline is a teenage girl who joins an experimental improv theater group, where she soon begins to shine. However, things get carried away, and the lines between performance and reality begin to blur.
Brand New Digital Restoration!
The Seventh Seal
Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess.
Brand New Digital Restoration!
Wild Strawberries
Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death.
Free for Members!
We The Animals
We the Animals is a touching, lyrical and intimate portrait of blue-collar family life, and of three boys who tear through their childhood in the midst of their young parents’ volatile love.
Brand New Digital Restoration!
Through a Glass Darkly
While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family’s already fragile ties are tested when daughter Karin (Harriet Andersson) discovers her father has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary means.
Brand New Digital Restoration!
Persona
In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman, Liv Ullmann plays a stage actor who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi Andersson is the garrulous nurse caring for her on a remote island.
Brand New Digital Restoration!
Scenes from a Marriage / Theatrical Cut
Chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne and Johan through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners.
Brand New Digital Restoration!
Fanny & Alexander / Theatrical Cut
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
Tokyo Godfathers
This heartfelt, oddball holiday adventure from celebrated anime director Satoshi Kon (Paprika; Perfect Blue) is a one-of-a-kind Christmas tale filled with laughs, action and gorgeous animation.
Free Outdoor Screening on the UA Mall!
Avengers: Infinity War
Get ready to save the world, Marvel-style, at this outdoor screening of the super-sized blockbuster, Avengers: Infinity War, on the UA mall, projected on the Loft Cinema’s giant inflatable!
Free For Members!
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
When a small town teenager is caught with another girl in the back seat of a car, she is shipped off to a middle-of-nowhere treatment center to undergo conversion therapy for “teens struggling with same-sex attraction.”
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!
Free Outdoor Screening!
Trolls
To celebrate the kick-off of this year’s Loft Kids Fest, we’re taking over Himmel Park with free festivities, live music, games and an outdoor screening of the 2017 animated comedy, TROLLS!
New Digital Restoration!
Man with a Movie Camera
In this entertaining and provocative slice of silent cinema, Vertov’s ultimate concern is the relation between film and reality – and the revolutionary power of the former to transform the latter.
Free Admission!
Home
When Oh lands on Earth and finds himself on the run from his own people, he forms an unlikely friendship with an adventurous girl named Tip who is on a quest of her own.
Free Admission!
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The thrilling second chapter of the epic How to Train Your Dragon trilogy returns to the fantastical world of the heroic Viking Hiccup and his faithful dragon Toothless!
The S Word
The S Word, a feature-length documentary, tackles one of the most unfathomable issues of our time by telling the stories of suicide attempt survivors, along with the families and loved ones of those who have died by suicide.
Don’t Look Now
Roeg’s atmospheric adaptation of Daphne DuMaurier’s story is a haunting mediation on grief, love and loss, told through a lens of supernatural terror that makes this one of the most effective horror films of all-time.
Free Admission!
Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes
This film takes classic fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and Cinderella, then mixes them together and serves them up with a mischievous twist.
Free Admission!
The Last Unicorn
Based on the classic novel by Peter S. Beagle, the animated fantasy The Last Unicorn spins the tale of a lone unicorn and her search for others like herself.
In the Intense Now
Archival footage, newsreel clips and home movies from the 1960s showcase uprisings in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the Cultural Revolution in China.
Free Admission!
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is a thrilling live-action re-telling of the studio’s 1991 animated classic, staying true to the original story and music while updating the score with several new songs.
Something in the Air
Olivier Assayas’ Something in the Air is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film set just after the events of May 1968 in France.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
A coming-of-age story with a twist, the musical celebrates acceptance and diversity, and how good life is when everyone is the best they can be.
With Greg Sestero in person!
The Entire Bloody Friendship: Best F(r)iends Volumes 1 & 2 Double Feature
Don’t miss the most twisted double feature of the year when Greg Sestero returns to The Loft Cinema!
35mm Print!
Near Dark
One of Bigelow’s earliest films, Near Dark is an eerily stylish, frequently brutal and hypnotically-scored deconstruction of the classic vampire tale that still holds up today as one of the finest examples of ’80s horror.
Free Admission!
ParaNorman
A ghoulishly grand comedy/thriller from the makers of Coraline, it’s wicked fun for the whole family, served up with eye-popping stop-motion animation.
Free Admission!
Kirikou and the Sorceress
A fanciful, award-winning animated feature from French writer/director Michel Ocelot (Azur and Asmar: The Prince’s Quest) based on a popular folk tale from West Africa.
35mm Print!
Return to Oz
Legendary film editor and sound designer Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Godfather Part II) directs this delightfully bizarre sequel to the 1939 Hollywood classic, The Wizard of Oz, spinning a tale of the dark aftermath of Dorothy’s journey to the magical land.
Burt Reynolds Tribute!
Smokey and the Bandit
We’re Eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin’ as we pay tribute to movie legend and cultural icon Burt Reynolds with a special big screen presentation of his classic 1977 action/comedy, Smokey and the Bandit!
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Bisbee ’17 Opening Night Screening
An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Shot on location at Empire Ranch and other areas throughout Arizona, this Oscar-nominated hit features Western icon Eastwood as Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer who seeks revenge for the murder of his family.
An Evening with Michael Twitty
James Beard Award Winner Michael Twitty will speak about gastronomy, the social justice reality of food, and his memoir The Cooking Gene.
Free Admission!
The Jungle Book (2016)
A thrilling, live-action epic adventure about Mowgli (Neel Sethi), a man-cub who’s been raised by a family of wolves.
The Trial
The Trial offers a behind-the-scenes look at the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female President.
Deconstructing The Beatles 1963: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Traces The Beatles’ remarkable story through the pivotal year of 1963, as they create their first hit singles and albums
Tucson Salvage
Forged by adversity and united by humanity, this documentary allow us to witness those we might never approach and hear them tell their stories. Joined by musical guest Lawrence Zubia, this Tucson launch party promises to be unforgettable.
PRESENTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
To Boldly Think: The Philosophical Conundrums of Star Trek
In this course, we will wrangle with a range of philosophical questions prompted by both classic and recent stories from Star Trek.
Presented by the Center for Biological Diversity and Population Connection
Mother: Caring for 7 Billion
An award-winning film featuring experts exploring how population growth intersects with gender equity, religion, reproductive health, economic inequality and the environment.
The Winning Score: The Special Magic of Music for Film
Join former Tucson Symphony Orchestra Music Director Bob Bernhardt for a chronological overview of music for film from the 1930s to present day.
Children of Men
Adapted from a 1992 P.D. James novel of the same name, Children of Men is set in a dystopian future Britain on the brink of bleak demise.
Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers and Tides
A vision of the natural world molded by currents, driftwood, ice, mud, leaves, and stones, and modified with human hands.
Closed Captions
The Gospel According to André
Kate Novack’s portrait takes viewers on a journey from André’s roots growing up in the Jim Crow South to become one of the most influential tastemakers & fashion curators of our times.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. A mash-up of genre, archetype, and iconography, its influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave.
Andrei Rublev
Threading together several self-contained episodes, Tarkovsky traces the renowned icon painter Andrei Rublev through the harsh realities of fifteenth-century Russian life, vividly conjuring the dark and otherworldly atmosphere of the age.
35mm Print!
Baby Driver
In this utterly original musical disguised as a stylish, action-packed crime drama, a talented young getaway driver called Baby (Ansel Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game.
The Found Footage Festival: Cherished Gems
The Found Footage guys are coming back to Tucson to unleash their CHERISHED GEMS show, a crazed classics collection featuring their all-time favorite VHS finds from across America!
Hot Fuzz
In their hilarious follow-up to Shaun of the Dead, Edgar Wright and co-writer Simon Pegg set their sights on the Hollywood Buddy Cop Blockbusters and life in an eccentric English village.
European Art Cinema Day 2018!
Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la bête)
Cocteau’s folktale strives, through use of poetic imagery and a minimum of astonishing special effects, to achieve what the filmmaker called a “realism of the unreal.”
Free Admission!
Smithereens
Filmmaker Susan Seidelman established her distinctive vision of New York City with this crackling debut feature, the lo-fi original for her vibrant portraits of women reinventing themselves.
The Halloween & Poltergeist Double Feature Terror-Thon!
Spend the scariest night of the year at The Loft Cinema as we unleash a spine-tingling twofer of terror!
Hispanic Heritage Month Screening!
La Bamba
Get ready to rock and roll at this special Hispanic Heritage Month screening of La Bamba, starring Lou Diamond Phillips as legendary Chicano Rock superstar Ritchie Valens!
Aretha Franklin Tribute!
The Blues Brothers
Celebrate The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, at a special screening of the hilarious 1980 musical comedy, The Blues Brothers, and get into a soulful groove with a collection of vintage Aretha music videos before the movie!
Brand-new digital restoration!
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t
Agnès Varda’s unsung feminist anthem is both a buoyant chronicle of a transformative friendship and an empowering vision of universal sisterhood.
Dark Money
Told through the lives of real people, the political thriller Dark Money examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of a flood of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials.
Gravity
Gravity, winner of the 2014 Best Director Academy Award for Alfonso Cuarón, is a visually stunning, breathtaking outer space thriller mixing blockbuster action with gripping humanity.
35mm Print!
For a Few Dollars More
The second film in the “Man With No Name” trilogy, Eastwood’s mysterious loner reluctantly joins forces with rival bounty hunter Lee Van Cleef in an effort to capture drug-addled bandit Gian Maria Volonté.
Lost
Celebrate the work of filmmaker and composer Jessica Grace Wing at a special 10th anniversary screening of her acclaimed stage musical/pop opera, captured live by Arizona Onstage Productions!
Outlaw of Gor
In this god-awful, yet strangely compelling, sequel to the sci-fi train wreck Gor, a dumb blonde college professor is whisked away to a magical planet of swords, sorcery and Jack Palance, where he must learn to love, fight and save the day!
New Digital Restoration
Requiescant
Directed by Carlo Lizzani (Wake Up and Kill) and featuring a superbly haunting soundtrack by Riz Ortolani (Day of Anger), Requiescant – Latin for “Rest in Peace” – ranks among the finest, most overtly allegorical of the non-Zapata Spaghetti Westerns.
New Digital Restoration
Django, Kill!
Director Giulio Questi (Death Laid an Egg) and co-writer/editor Franco Arcalli (co-writer of Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America) shocked the world with this gothic, hallucinatory tale of greed, corruption, perversion and beyond!
New 50th Anniversary Digital Restoration
The Great Silence
For the first-time ever, the legendary 1968 Spaghetti Western The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio) comes to North American theaters in a newly-restored 50th anniversary edition!
Kinky Boots
The Loft Cinema along with local non-profit organization, The Colby Olsen Foundation invites you to join them for an evening of enchantment, as they partner to screen the film version of Kinky Boots (2005).
Free For Members!
Kusama – Infinity
This fascinating portrait of Yayoi Kusama, now the top-selling female artist in the world, traces her turbulent quest from humble beginnings, overcoming countless obstacles, to bring her radical artistic vision to the world stage.
Resilience
Resilience reveals, toxic stress can trigger hormones that wreak havoc on the brains and bodies of children, putting them at a greater risk for disease, homelessness, prison time, and early death.
Presented by Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists
North of Nightfall
Hidden among the glaciers high in the Arctic Circle are mountain bike lines too incredible to ignore.
10 Things I Hate About You
This classic teen comedy that launched the careers of Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles offers up a million things to love while putting a ‘90s spin on the work of William Shakespeare.
Closed Captions
Eating Animals
Based on the bestselling book by Jonathan Safran Foer and narrated by co-producer Natalie Portman, Eating Animals is an urgent, eye-opening look at the environmental, economic, and public health consequences of factory farming.
Deconstructing The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour
Don’t miss this latest installment in the Deconstructing The Beatles series of captured-live events!
35MM PRINT!
Shaft (1971)
Richard Roundtree is John Shaft, a leather-clad NYC private eye in this groundbreaking cinematic ode to a new kind of urban hero, a box-office smash and the first major Hollywood studio film to feature a black crime fighter character in the leading role
Free For Members! (Closed Captions)
The World Before Your Feet
There are 8,000 miles of roads and paths in New York City, and for the past six years Matt Green has been walking them all – every street, park, cemetery, beach, and bridge.
Free For Members!
Studio 54
Studio 54 transports viewers back in time into the legendarily decadent night spot where celebrities, socialites, and the beautiful danced, drank, got high, hooked up, and, most importantly, got seen … until it all came crashing down.
Free Admission!
Whale Rider
This crowd-pleasing, Oscar-nominated family film from New Zealand is a magical and deeply moving story of one young girl’s struggle to fulfill her destiny.
The Broadway Musical
An American in Paris
This Tony-Award-winning Broadway musical, inspired by the 1951 film starring Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron, tells the impassioned story of discovering love in the City of Light.
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.
Female Trouble
Glamour has never been more grotesque than in John Waters’ hilarious trash epic Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence.
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!
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!
Edward Scissorhands
Tim Burton crafted this delicate and beloved modern day fairytale about an artificial man, soulfully played by frequent Burton star Johnny Depp, in the film that launched his career.
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.
Iced
It’s The Big Chill meets Friday the 13th, with a bargain basement budget and serious case of brain freeze!
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.
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.
Death Becomes Her
Eternal frenemies, Madeline Ashton (Streep) and Helen Sharp (Hawn) have always been rivals in success, love and appearance. Now, they’re in a battle to see who can keep the other one dead!
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.
Sólo con tu pareja
Before Cuarón helmed the international hit Y tu mamá también, he made his mark on Mexican cinema with the ribald and lightning-quick contemporary social satire Sólo con tu pareja.
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.
New Digital Restoration!
Liquid Sky
Androgynous fashion models, heroin-craving UFOs, and literally killer orgasms are just a few of the daring delights that made the neon-drenched New Wave Sci-Fi flick Liquid Sky an instant cult classic upon its release in 1982.
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!
Free Outdoor Screening in Bisbee, AZ!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brand New Digital Restoration!
Smiles of a Summer Night
Smiles of a Summer Night at last ushered in an international audience for Ingmar Bergman. In turn-of-the-century Sweden, four men and four women attempt to navigate the laws of attraction.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Presented by Indivisible Arizona and Tucson Jews for Justice
Why a Free Press is Essential to Democracy
Is the First Amendment Freedom of the Press under attack? Or is the media simply engaged in ‘fake news’ that’s finally being called out for the bias it represents?
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
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.
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 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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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 Scree