This Week at The Loft

• Vegucated / Presented by Consuming for Change, Lovin' Spoonfuls, and Healthy You Network

  Part sociological experiment and part adventure comedy, Vegucated is an award-winning, guerrilla-style documentary that follows three New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks.

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• The Tin Drum / Newly Restored Director’s Cut! / Essential Cinema

  Just before the start of WWII, Oskar Matzerath is born with an intellect beyond his infancy. As he witnesses the hypocrisy of adulthood and society, he rejects both, and, at his third birthday, decides to stop growing — and succeeds! — then finds that playing his favorite toy, a tin drum, is useful for tuning out things that annoy him, like his mother’s dallying with their Polish boarder, the Nazi rallies his father attends, or even the advent of war itself.

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• The Angels’ Share

  Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives in this comedy from award-winning filmmaker Ken Loach.

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• The Company You Keep

  The new political thriller from director/star Robert Redford, co-starring Julie Christie, Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon!

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• Wrong

  The wild new comedy from Quentin Dupieux, director of Rubber!

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• It’s A Disaster

  The hilarious new doomsday disaster comedy starring David Cross, Julia Stiles and America Ferrera!

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• Reservoir Dogs / Late Night Cult Classics

  Quentin Tarantino’s game-changing gangster flick Reservoir Dogs not only influenced an entire generation of filmmakers with its unique mash-up of brutal violence and pop culture cool, it also made a star out of its movie-obsessed creator, who went on to box-office success and Oscar glory with blockbuster films like Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained.

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• In the House

  The new provocative psychological thriller/black comedy from director Francois Ozon (Potiche), starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Emmanuelle Seigner!

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• From Up on Poppy Hill

  From the iconic and highly celebrated Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro) comes From Up on Poppy Hill, written by legendary studio founder and Oscar-winner Hayao Miyazaki and directed by Goro Miyazaki. This uniquely inspired and highly anticipated coming-of-age story marks the first feature film collaboration between father and son, and the results are stunning.

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• Starbuck

  Starbuck follows lovable middle-aged underachiever David Wozniak, who finds that his frequent visits to the local sperm bank over the years have unexpectedly made him the father of over 500 children! Director Ken Scott's charming and heartwarming comedy is a bona-fide crowd-pleaser that has already been slated for a big budget Hollywood remake starring Vince Vaughn.

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• Room 237

  Room 237 explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining. The film may be over 30 years old but it continues to inspire debate, speculation, and mystery. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments. Together they’ll draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends, many ways in, but no way out.

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• Quartet

  Dustin Hoffman makes his directorial debut with Quartet, a charming dramatic comedy about four aging opera singers who stage a comeback concert at their retirement home.

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• Never Too Young to Die / Mondo Mondays

  Yes, it’s another one of those ‘80s teen/spy/punk/gymnastics/musical action flicks, starring Full House’s John Stamos, Vanity and Gene Simmons!

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• Viva la Viral / Happy Tuesdays

  Comedian, author and scene maker Henry Barajas will be joined this month for by the editor of the Tucson Weekly, Dan Gibson. We'll get to know Dan and enjoy some of his favorite online sites and video clips.

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• The Silence / Loft Film Fest Showcase

  Acclaimed German filmmaker Baran bo Odar’s moody, twisty crime thriller The Silence is at once a nerve-wracking mystery and a metaphysical investigation of grief, guilt and suspicion.

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• Full Metal Jacket / A Kubrick Odyssey: The Films of Stanley Kubrick

  "What is your major malfunction, numbnuts?" is one of the more printable epithets hurled by Marine sergeant R. Lee Ermey at new recruits (i.e., "maggots") Matthew Modine, Arliss Howard and primary whipping boy Vincent D'Onofrio in Stanley Kubrick's terrifically intense exploration of the nightmarish realities and psychological toll of modern warfare.

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