THE UNITED ARTISTS 90TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

AUGUST 1ST - SEPTEMBER 4TH!

All through the month of August, The Loft Cinema is celebrating the 90th Anniversary of United Artists with new 35 mm prints of some of Hollywood's greatest film classics!

NEW 35 MM FILM PRINTS!
EVERY FILM SCREENS ONCE A DAY FOR A WEEK! (Times TBA) / ADMISSION TO EVERY FILM: $5.00
On opening night of each film, enter our free raffle to win fabulous DVDs from the United Artists library!

“The inmates are taking over the asylum,” sneered a crusty studio head when Hollywood titans Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith formed United Artists in 1919. Evolving into the first “studio without a studio,” thus eschewing crushing overhead expenses, UA would eventually forge partnerships with such independently-minded filmmakers as Buster Keaton, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Robert Altman, John Huston, Richard Lester, John Schlesinger, Martin Scorsese, etc. – while cleaning up at the box-office with its hugely successful James Bond and Pink Panther franchises - resulting in some of the most entertaining, adventurous, and Oscar-laden Hollywood (and foreign) movies of the last nine decades.
All through the month of August, we're celebrating the studio’s 90th Anniversary with some of the amazing United Artist films that have helped stoke the world’s love affair with the movies.
**All United Artist films in this celebration are distributed by MGM, except A Hard Day's Night, which is included courtesy of Miramax Films.**

August 1st – August 7th:
MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
John Schlesinger’s riveting look at the underbelly of New York City lowlifes stars Dustin Hoffman as the unforgettable Ratso Rizzo, and Jon Voight as innocent (but not for long) hustler Joe Buck. Winner of the Best Picture Oscar in 1969 (as well as Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay), MIDNIGHT COWBOY also holds its place in the film history books as the first X-rated film to win an Oscar (since then, the film has been re-rated R). Also features the hit pop song, “Everybody’s Talking,” by Harry Nilsson.
(John Schlesinger, 1969, 113 mins., rated R)

August 8th – August 14th:
ANNIE HALL (1977)
Arguably Woody Allen’s most widely-praised film, and perhaps the world’s most perfect romantic comedy. Allen’s fast-talking nebbish (was he ever any other kind of nebbish?) Alvy Singer loves and loses Diane Keaton’s Annie Hall over the years between screenings of The Sorrow and the Pity. Featuring a “meet-cute” between Alvy and Annie that is helpfully subtitled with unspoken subtext and media visionary Marshall McLuhan popping up to silence an arthouse pontificator. Pure comedy bliss. ANNIE HALL snagged Oscars for Best Picture, Actress, Director, and Screenplay (by Allen & Marshall Brickman).
(Woody Allen, 1977, 94 mins., rated PG)

August 15th – 21st:
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (1964)
**This film is sponsored by BROADWAY IN TUCSON**
“Q: Are you a mod or a rocker? Ringo: I’m a mocker.” Just another day in the life of the world’s most famous British pop group: fleeing from screaming fans at a train station, contending with a “very clean” grandfather, jamming in a baggage car, cavorting in a field, wandering by a river, freaking out perplexed reporters with absurdist comebacks, wowing crowds at an orgasmic final concert—the Beatles’ insanely infectious movie debut rocketed them to another level of superstardom, and even squarely middle-aged critics were charmed and disarmed by the slapstick antics of the Liverpool lads.
(Richard Lester, 1964, 85 mins., Not Rated)

August 22nd – August 28th:
GOLDFINGER (1964)
“Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger?” “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!” Bobbing up from under a stuffed seagull, a frogman strips to reveal an impeccably white dinner jacket — Sean Connery as James Bond, of course. In GOLDFINGER, after Shirley Bassey belts the chart-busting title tune, 007 squares off against Gert Frobe’s eponymous master criminal and his fiendish plot to corner the world’s gold reserves, with Fort Knox (Kentucky) the prize; all the while dodging torture by laser beam and that steel-belted hat from Japanese sidekick “Oddjob” — and NOT dodging Honor Blackman’s Pussy Galore or the tragically golden-hued Bond-girl Shirley Eaton.
This third installment in the James Bond film franchise was the first blockbuster of the series, and helped cement 007 (and Sean Connery) as the world’s favorite super spy.
(Guy Hamilton, 1964, 111 mins., Not Rated)

August 29th – September 4th:
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960)
“We deal in lead, friend.” Bum, bump-a-bump… Elmer Bernstein's iconic, Oscar-nominated theme underscores one of the screen's greatest Western adventures, as gunslingers Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, et al., team up to protect a Mexican village from Eli Wallach's bandit horde. This intense action flick, full of colorful characters and breathtaking cinematography, was adapted from Akira Kurosawa's Japanese masterpiece Seven Samurai, but remains a genuine classic in its own right.
"They were seven ... they fought like seven hundred!"
(John Sturges, 1960, 126 mins., Not Rated)