October 2013 Salt Lake Film Society

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OCTOBER 2013 calendar

PARKLAND Starring Zac Efron, Paul Giamatti, and Marcia Gay Harden Page 6

Meet MARCUS SALEM, Tower Theatre manager (See page 3 inside.)

Help keep us shining!

Our campaign ends Oct. 7!

OCTOBER 2013

October is BEEHIVE

Make your donation to SLFS in October and our generous Digital Deadline Sponsor, Beehive Broadband, will match it dollar for dollar up to $25,000.

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10/4 - 10/6 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre $5

BROADBAND

10/11 - 10/13 Halloween $5

10/18 X-96 Double Dead Feature with Dawn of the Dead & Return of the Living Dead $10 10/19 - 10/20 Dawn of the Dead $5

TOWER THEATRE

Tower Theatre - 900 E. 900 S. Showtimes at SLFS.org

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All Salt Lake Film Society dates and locations are subject to change.

10/25 - 10/26 & 10/31 The Rocky Horror Picture Show $10

Please call 801.321.0310 or log onto www.SLFS.org for showtimes.

OCTOBER 2013

Explore the Culture @SLFS MARCUS SALEM , Tower Theatre Manager How long have you worked here?

Any cool facts about The Tower you want to share?

Have you always been interested in film?

Thoughts, feelings, opinions on digital conversion?

Roughly five years, started as a volunteer for four months, working for free, then hired on as a runner, then worked my way to the top!

A few moments with

Yes. [Long pause] One of my earliest memories of film was sitting and watching The Gold Rush on a 16mm print when I was in grade school.

MARCUS

Favorite thing about working here?

Fixing up the venue, first of all, making the Tower look better, because when I first came here it was a sad state of affairs.

But it’s also bringing films to people who would not have found them on their own. Like walking them over and saying “This is one of my favorite movies.” And they’re like, “Well I’ve never heard of it before.” And then they come back and say “I loved it, what else did this guy do?”

by Annie Jenkins

What would you want people to take away from their experience at Broadway or Tower?

Whatever they left behind. [Laughs] I want them to leave with an appreciation with the art itself, of cinema. That it’s more than just a movie, it can be an experience. That it can evoke an emotion that they didn’t think could otherwise be reached.

What are your hopes for SLFS?

To fully live up to our potential, and stand by our mission statement and follow through with every word of it. And that we can truly do what we set out to do which is to bring art and cinema to the masses and to educate people and to be able to do it without running ourselves ragged.

photo by Annie Jenkins

Yeah, the Tower Theatre opened January 10, 1928. It’s been here for 86 years and it’s always been a movie theater and there’s not a lot of places in Utah that can say that.

Torn. Sad. Happy. As much as I hate that film is dying, I’m resigned to the fact that it is and that nothing is going to save it or bring it back, much like artists felt in the 20s when film moved from silent to sound and they hated it. We’re resigned to it; things change. So the sadness obviously lies in the death of film, but happiness comes in knowing that we’re now converting to a format that’s competitive with other theaters and what customers have come to expect from a digital cinema.

We’ll be able to offer everyone a full cinematic experience.

What are your hobbies; what do you do for fun?

Long walks on the beach, staring at sunsets, playing acoustic guitar. I own six guitars and a ukulele. I have a keyboard too.

I like music.

What is your favorite movie and why?

My favorite silent feature is The Gold Rush because it’s the first movie that I remember seeing as a child. I wanted to imitate Charlie Chaplin and I’ve seen it more than any other silent film.

My favorite talking picture is It Happened One Night by Frank Capra . . . [Interviewer questions his taste; Marcus continues with more enthusiasm than before] . . . which was an amazing picture that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences dubbed the best feature of 1934. [The U.S. Mail carrier comes in.] Even the mail lady would agree with that!

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Kickstarter campaign ends October 7!

Help SLFS beat the Digital Deadline and meet our $50,000 kickstarter goal. (If we don’t make our goal we can’t keep the cash.)

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SEE THESE WHILE YOU CAN!

BLUE JASMINE

SALINGER

IN A WORLD...

Directed by Woody Allen USA | PG-13 | 98 min. | Drama, Comedy

Directed by Shane Salerno USA | Not Rated | 120 min | Doc.

Directed by Lake Bell USA | Rated R | 93 min. | Comedy

Starring Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Peter Sarsgaard, Sally Hawkins From the director of MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA

A feature documentary on the formative personal and professional experiences of the reclusive author J.D. Salinger.

Starring Lake Bell, Ken Marino, Fred Melamed, Rob Corddry, Demetri Martin

All Salt Lake Film Society dates and locations are subject to change.

Please call 801.321.0310 or log onto www.SLFS.org for showtimes.

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OCTOBER 2013

ENOUGH SAID

WADJDA

PARKLAND

Directed by Nicole Holofcener USA | PG-13 | 91 min. | Comedy Starts September 27 @Broadway Centre

Directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour Saudi Arabia/Germany | PG | 98 min. | Drama Starts October 4 @Broadway Centre

Directed by Peter Landesman USA | PG-13 | 93 min. | Drama Starts October 4 @Broadway Centre

In Arabic with English subtitles

A divorced woman who decides to pursue the man she’s interested in learns he’s her new friend’s exhusband.

Starring James Gandolfini, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Toni Collette and Catherine Keener From the director of PLEASE GIVE, FRIENDS WITH MONEY, LOVELY AND AMAZING

An enterprising Saudi girl signs off for her school’s Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

BEST FILM

VENICE

FILM FESTIVAL

DUBAI

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

A recounting of the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital on the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Starring Zac Efron, Tom Welling, Paul Giamatti, and Marcia Gay Harden

@tower

ROMEO AND JULIET

WE ARE WHAT WE ARE

ALL IS LOST

Directed by Carlo Carlei UK/Italy/Switzerland | PG-13 | Drama

Directed by Jim Mickle USA | Rated R | 105 min. | Horror

Directed by J.C. Chandor USA | PG-13 | 106 min. | Action

Starts October 11 @Broadway Centre

Starts October 18 @Tower Theatre

Starts October 25 @Broadway Centre

Romeo and Juliet finds the innocent young lovers caught up in a bitter feud between their warring families, the Montagues and Capulets. Determined not to let the sins of their families’ turbulent pasts stand in the path of true love, Romeo and Juliet run away to wed in secrecy and tragedy ensues.

A remake of the Mexican film of the same title, the movie revolves around a reclusive family intent on following ancient customs, whose secrets start to become public during a torrential downpour.

After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.

Starring Ambyr Childers, Odeya Rush, and Kelly McGillis

Starring Robert Redford

Starring Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth

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All Salt Lake Film Society dates and locations are subject to change.

From the director of MARGIN CALL

Please call 801.321.0310 or log onto www.SLFS.org for showtimes.

OCTOBER 2013

THE SUMMIT

THE PATIENCE STONE

12 YEARS A SLAVE

Directed by Nick Ryan Ireland/UK/Switzerland/USA | R | 95 min | Doc.

Directed by David Gordon Green USA | R | 94 min | Comedy

Directed by Steve McQueen USA | Rated R | 133 min | Drama

Starts October 11 @Broadway Centre

Starts October 25 @Broadway Centre

@Broadway Centre

In Persian with English subtitles

On August 2008, twenty-four climbers from several international expeditions converged on High Camp of K2.

BEST ADVENTURE FILM BOULDER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY

EDITING AWARD SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Adapted from the best-selling novel by Atiq Rahimi, The Patience Stone captures the reality of everyday life for an intelligent woman under the oppressive weight of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

BEST ACTRESS

From the director of EARTH AND ASHES

GIJÓN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man living in upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery.

Starring Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Paulson, Paul Dano, Quvenzhané Wallis, and Paul Giamatti

@tower

INEQUALITY FOR ALL

HAUTE CUISINE

POPULAIRE

Directed by Jacob Kornbluth USA | PG | 89 min | Documentary

Directed by Christian Vincent France | PG-13 | 95 min. | Comedy

Directed by Régis Roinsard France | Rated R | 111 min. | Comedy

@Broadway Center

Les saveurs du Palais @Broadway Centre

@Broadway Centre

In French with English subtitles

A documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country’s widening economic gap.

From the director of HAIKU TUNNEL and THE BEST THIEF IN THE WORLD

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Hortense is a small town chef and restaurantowner whose life changes when she becomes the personal chef to the President of France.

Starring Catherine Frot, Arthur Dupont, and Jean d’Ormesson

BEST ACTRESS NOMINÉE

CÉSAR AWARDS

Living with her widowed father and dreary husband, Rose seems destined to remain a bored housewife, but her life changes when her charismatic boss insists she compete in a speed typing competition.

NOMINATED FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY PRODUCTION DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN

In French with English subtitles

All Salt Lake Film Society dates and locations are subject to change.

Please call 801.321.0310 or log onto www.SLFS.org for showtimes.

CÉSAR AWARDS

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