Coming Soon
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The Room
Friday, May 31st 2013 at 10:00pm and Saturday, Jun 1st 2013 at 10:00pm
Have yourself a “Silent Night, Denny Night” when The Room returns to The Loft for the holidays! Ring in the New Year with Johnny, Lisa, Mark, Denny and the whole Room gang … but please leave your stupid comments in your pocket!
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Frances Ha
Starts on Friday, May 31st 2013
The charming new comedy from acclaimed director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) starring Greta Gerwig (Damsels in Distress)!
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
Starts on Friday, May 31st 2013
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Venus and Serena
Starts on Friday, May 31st 2013
An unfiltered look into the remarkable and controversial lives of the greatest sister-act professional tennis has ever seen.
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Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure / Late Night Cult Classics
Starts on Friday, May 31st 2013
Hitch a ride with the one-and-only Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) as he sets out on the cross country road trip to end all cross country roads trips, encountering action, danger and an overload of wacky characters in his thrilling quest to reclaim his stolen bicycle.
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Mahler 3rd Symphony Ballet / Ballet in HD
Starts on Sunday, Jun 2nd 2013
Captured live at the Opera de Paris on April 18th, 2013
Mahler's 3rd Symphony, written as "a great hymn to the glory of all creation," combined with John Neumeier's lyrical and powerful choreography, creates an elegant and inspired evening of dance from the Paris Opera Ballet.
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Only Yesterday / The Studio Ghibli Collection
Starts on Sunday, Jun 2nd 2013
Directed by Isao Takahata and produced by Hayao Miyazaki, Only Yesterday is a double period piece that beautifully evokes both the 1960s and the 1980s, and is the quintessential drama of Japanese school-day nostalgia.
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Behind The Screens / Happy Tuesdays
One showing only! Tuesday, Jun 4th 2013
Join comedy troupe Slow Clap for Behind The Screens and witness something spontaneous as they improvise commentary tracks as if they were the director and actors from the film themselves!
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Pom Poko / The Studio Ghibli Collection
Starts on Thursday, Jun 6th 2013
In this brilliant and often overlooked Studio Ghibli masterpiece, the forests are filled with groups of magical tanuki, mischievous raccoon-like animals from Japanese folklore that are capable of shape-shifting from their standard raccoon form to practically any object.
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First Friday Shorts
One showing only! Friday, Jun 7th 2013
On the first Friday of each month Red Meat’s Max Cannon hosts the biggest, baddest short film contest in town - just bring us your short films and we’ll play them on the largest movie screen in Southern Arizona!
$200 Monthly Prize!
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / Late Night Cult Classics
Starts on Friday, Jun 7th 2013
Gonzo guru Hunter S. Thompson’s drug-addled dissection of the American Dream finally made it to the big screen in this wiggy, whacked-out 1998 comedy from offbeat auteur Terry Gilliam (Brazil).
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Scatter my Ashes at Bergdorf’s
Starts on Friday, Jun 7th 2013
Get a rare chance to peek behind the backroom doors of Bergdorf Goodman and into the reality of the fascinating inner workings and fabulous untold stories from the luxury department store's iconic 111 year history.
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Stories We Tell
Starts on Friday, Jun 7th 2013
Oscar-nominated writer/director/actress Sarah Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers.
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Something in the Air
Starts on Friday, Jun 7th 2013
The new film from celebrated filmmaker Olivier Assayas (Carlos, Summer Hours)!
In the months after the heady weeks of May '68, a group of young Europeans search for a way to continue the revolution believed to be just beginning.
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Safety Last / New 90th Anniversary Digital Restoration! / Essential Cinema
Starts on Sunday, Jun 9th 2013
Along with Chaplin and Keaton, Harold Lloyd was one of the silent era’s clown princes. Lloyd was dubbed “The King of Daredevil Comedy” due in large part to his most famous film, Safety Last, and after decades of chases, explosions and CGI shenanigans, the film’s mind-boggling, jaw-dropping stunts still have the power to send audiences reeling.
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Whisper of the Heart / The Studio Ghibli Collection
Starts on Sunday, Jun 9th 2013
A masterpiece about the awakening of creative talent, Whisper of the Heart was the first and only full-length feature by Hayao Miyazaki’s protégé Yoshifumi Kondo before his sudden death at the age of 47. It remains one of the classics of Japanese animation.
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The Magic Flute
Tuesday, Jun 11th 2013 at 11:00am and Thursday, Jun 13th 2013 at 7:00pm
Don’t miss this lavish big-screen adaptation of Mozart’s classic opera The Magic Flute, directed by Oscar-nominated actor/filmmaker Kenneth Branagh (Henry V) and featuring a new libretto by actor/comedian Stephen Fry (Wilde)!
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Tell Me Something Good / Happy Tuesdays
One showing only! Tuesday, Jun 11th 2013
Local jokeslingers Mike Sterner and Terry Owen host this monthly audience-fueled event, Tell Me Something Good. They'll get the ball rolling every month with their own stories before turning the microphone around for yours.
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An Evening with Edmund White
One showing only! Wednesday, Jun 12th 2013
Don’t miss this free event featuring celebrated writer Edmund White (A Boy’s Own Story) reading and signing his latest novel, Jack Holmes and His Friend! Copies of the book will be available for sale at this event, courtesy of Antigone Books.
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Ocean Waves / The Studio Ghibli Collection
Starts on Thursday, Jun 13th 2013
Rarely seen outside of Japan, Ocean Waves is a subtle, poignant and wonderfully detailed story of adolescence and teenage isolation. Full of shots bathed in a palette of pleasingly soft pastel colors and rich in the unexpected visual details typical of Studio Ghibli’s most revered works, Ocean Waves is an accomplished teenage drama and a true discovery.
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Birdemic 2: The Resurrection
One showing only! Friday, Jun 14th 2013
You asked for it, and now the birds are back in this jaw-dropping, feather-brained sequel filled with all the camp, craziness and B-movie madness of the original Birdemic, but now with that added bad movie follow-up punch!
Q&A with First Assistant Director (and former Loft staffer) Lizzie Sam!
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Inception / Late Night Cult Classics
Starts on Friday, Jun 14th 2013
In between Dark Knight gigs, the fearlessly ambitious writer/director Christopher Nolan unleashed this mind-bending sci-fi action film about a thief who possesses the power to enter into the dreams of others, and in the process created that rare Hollywood thriller with the heart of a blockbuster and the brain of a philosophical jigsaw puzzle.
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Sightseers
Starts on Friday, Jun 14th 2013
A country caravan tour spins horribly out of control when a very English couple embarks on a romantic getaway that gradually escalates into all-out killing spree in this pitch-black new comedy from the makers of Hot Fuzz, Paul, and Shaun of the Dead.
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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Starts on Friday, Jun 14th 2013
Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney launches a no-holds-barred investigation into one of the most unusual phenomena of early 21st century media, telling the gripping story of the rise and fall of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, its mysterious and charismatic founder Julian Assange, and US Army Private Bradley Manning, the man responsible for the largest leak of classified documents ever released to the public.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
One showing only! Saturday, Jun 15th 2013
Pull up your fishnets and get ready to become a creature of the night at the strangest, sexiest "science fiction double feature" of all-time, a Loft tradition for 34 years and counting!
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My Neighbors The Yamadas / The Studio Ghibli Collection
Starts on Sunday, Jun 16th 2013
In a break from the frequently mythical storytelling of Studio Ghibli, director Isao Takahata wryly tweaks the everyday activities of family life with his depiction of the irresponsible, slovenly, and lazy Yamada family and their unassuming way of life.
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Forks Over Knives / Presented by Consuming for Change, Lovin' Spoonfuls, and Healthy You Network
One showing only! Tuesday, Jun 18th 2013
A fascinating documentary that examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.
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Viva la Viral / Happy Tuesdays
One showing only! Tuesday, Jun 18th 2013
Comedian, author and scene maker Henry Barajas will be joined by a special guest and we'll get to enjoy some of their favorite online sites and video clips. Come on down with your own favorites and maybe Henry will play your request. VIVA LA VIRAL!
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Where the Trail Ends / One Hit Wonders
One showing only! Wednesday, Jun 19th 2013
Where the Trail Ends is an eye-popping, heart-stopping documentary that follows the world’s best freeride mountain bikers as they take on the harshest, most remote and most dangerous terrain in the world.
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The Cat Returns / The Studio Ghibli Collection
Starts on Thursday, Jun 20th 2013
In this sequel to Whisper of the Heart, a quiet suburban schoolgirl, Haru, is pitched into a fantastical feline world and must find her inner strength to make her way back home.
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Lost Highway / Late Night Cult Classics
Starts on Friday, Jun 21st 2013
Following Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, director David Lynch returned to the big screen with all his feverish obsessions in tow for this nightmarishly cryptic, noir-influenced thriller about confused identities and deviant behavior.
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Tattoo Nation
Starts on Friday, Jun 21st 2013
A new documentary about the ink revolution, starring Danny Trejo, Travis Barker, Ed Hardy, Freddy Negrete and more!
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The East
Starts on Friday, Jun 21st 2013
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This House / National Theatre Live
Starts on Sunday, Jun 23rd 2013
The National Theatre presents James Graham’s biting and energetic new play about the mother of all Parliaments!
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Grave of the Fireflies / The Studio Ghibli Collection
Starts on Sunday, Jun 23rd 2013
Two children, Seita and his little sister Setsuko, are at the centre of this deeply moving anime classic from Studio Ghibli, set in Japan during World War II. Director Isao Takahata creates a visually stunning and emotionally powerful film that meditates on the devastating consequences of war.
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Ponyo, directed by Hayao Miyazaki! / The Studio Ghibli Collection
Starts on Thursday, Jun 27th 2013
Perfect for audiences of all ages, Ponyo centers on the friendship between five-year-old Sosuke and a magical goldfish named Ponyo, the young daughter of a sorcerer father and a sea-goddess mother. After a chance encounter, Ponyo yearns to become a human so she can be with Sosuke.
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World / Late Night Cult Classics
Starts on Friday, Jun 28th 2013
Genre-smashing filmmaker Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) tells the amazing story of one romantic slacker's epic quest to power up with love in the video game-inspired action/comedy Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
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100 Bloody Acres
Starts on Friday, Jun 28th 2013
In the high-spirited Australian horror/comedy 100 Bloody Acres, humor, gore and a grisly “down under” sense of the absurd give the concept of “recycling” a whole new meaning – one that can be downright deadly!
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Shadow Dancer
Friday, Jun 28th 2013
The new gripping conspiracy thriller from Oscar-winning filmmaker James Marsh (Man on Wire), starring Clive Owen and Gillian Anderson!
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Dirty Wars
Starts on Friday, Jun 28th 2013
Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill traces the rise of the Joint Special Operations Command, the most secret fighting force in US history, exposing operations carried out by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress. No target is off-limits for the JSOC “kill list,” even a US citizen.
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Slaughterhouse-Five / The Loft Cinema Book Club
One showing only! Sunday, Jun 30th 2013
Based on Kurt Vonnegut’s classic absurdist novel Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade, this celebrated film version follows the adventures of Billy Pilgrim, a young man who becomes unstuck in time after being abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore.
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The Team America: World Police Sing-A-Long & Curse-A-Thon
One showing only! Thursday, Jul 4th 2013
Join your fellow Americans as we once again put the “F” back in freedom by singing and cursing along to the world’s greatest, funniest and filthiest foul-mouthed American marionette musical of all time - Team America: World Police ... The Unrated Edition, from those evil geniuses Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls
Starts on Friday, Jul 5th 2013
The new My Little Pony movie gallops into The Loft! If you love the TV show, you’ll love the movie, featuring all your favorite ponies: Crystal Empire, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy!
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Twenty Feet from Stardom
Starts on Friday, Jul 5th 2013
Award-winning director Morgan Neville (Troubadours) shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century.
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La Sylphide / Ballet in HD
Starts on Sunday, Jul 7th 2013
Captured live at the Opera de Paris in July, 2004
A beautiful fairy disappears into the mist - how will the amorous farmer find her again? And what will his fiancee think of all this? La Sylphide, one of the oldest surviving Romantic ballets, features an all-star cast including Aurelie Dupont and Mathieu Ganio in this lavish production from the Paris Opera Ballet.
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Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days, with Dr. Gabriel Cousens in Person! / Presented by Plant Based Nation
One showing only! Thursday, Jul 11th 2013
The film Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days was released independently in 2009 and shockingly revealed the effects that a diet consisting entirely of vegan, organic, uncooked food had on 6 American diabetics in just 30 days.
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Dont Look Back / Essential Cinema
Starts on Sunday, Jul 14th 2013
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The Tucson International Children’s Film Festival
Starts on Saturday, Jul 20th 2013
Super summer excitement returns to The Loft with our seventh annual Tucson International Children’s Film Festival!
Free Admission and Free Popcorn!
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The Audience starring Helen Mirren / National Theatre Live
Starts on Thursday, Aug 1st 2013
Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award-winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in the highly-anticipated West End production of The Audience, captured live at London’s Gielgud Theatre as part of National Theatre Live. Directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours).
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The Exterminating Angel / Essential Cinema
Starts on Sunday, Aug 18th 2013
Luis Buñuel’s final Mexican feature is a brilliantly savage, hilariously droll and hypnotically surreal assault on bourgeois mores, set on one of the filmmaker’s favorite social stages: the dinner party.
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Like Water For Chocolate / The Loft Cinema Book Club
One showing only! Sunday, Aug 25th 2013
Laura Esquivel’s whimsical magical realist novel (with recipes!) of family life in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Mexico, focusing on the romantic pursuits and sensuous cooking habits of a young woman named Tita, became a wildly popular and instantly classic “food film”.
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Lord of the Flies / The Loft Cinema Book Club
One showing only! Sunday, Sep 29th 2013
Special “Banned Book Month” Screening!
William Golding’s startling and perennially best-selling portrait of human nature run amuck was first brought to the screen in director Peter Brook’s (Marat/Sade) stunningly beautiful and highly disturbing film version from 1963.
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In Cold Blood / The Loft Cinema Book Club
One showing only! Sunday, Oct 20th 2013
Legendary writer Truman Capote stunned the world with this chilling true story of murder and madness in the sleepy small town of Holcomb, Kansas – an influential and controversial literary classic, part fact and part fiction, that offered terrifying insight into the dark nature of American violence.
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Little Women / The Loft Cinema Book Club
One showing only! Sunday, Dec 15th 2013
Louisa May Alcott’s beloved and enduring young adult classic (a semi-autobiographical account of her own childhood) tells the moving story of the four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy – who must learn the hard lessons of life growing up poor in New England during the Civil War.
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Bill W.
One showing only! Monday, Jun 10th 2013
A new documentary about the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, featuring music by Yo-Yo Ma.
A special screening honoring the 78th anniversary of AA
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