Annual Report 2024
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SLFS Annual Report 2024
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Summer Showdown
Starts May 30
Films compete each weekend to be crowned the Champion Of Summer.
SLFS SUMMER SHOWDOWN will pit two films against one another each weekend to see what films are the champion of summer!
Cult Cinema at its best. How it works.
Friday and Saturday nights at Broadway we will present cult, indie, and summer cinema goodness. Screenings will include a limited edition swag, merchandise, and surprise give-aways. Collect them all!
We will announce the winning film each week on our social media, so follow us!
At the end of summer only ONE film will be crowned CHAMPION OF SUMMER.
How do YOU help determine the winner?
Each weekend your favorite films will gain ranking on our leader board according to:
1) Audience Attendance (bring all your friends!) (1 point per dollar on the day of screening)
2) Donations attributed to the film or received day of screening (2 points per dollar)
3) Join our Red Carpet Club! Each membership dollar can be used toward any film.
Have a favorite film? Be sure to attend in-person, donate for double the points, or join the Red Carpet Club to affect the rankings each weekend.
*Eligibility audience members must have purchased a ticket through slfs.org online ticketing systems and must have provided their email and telephone number at the time of purchase for our Audience Awards program. SLFS is not responsible for lost or misdirected emails, send errors, or junk email capture, and recommends all audiences check their junk after the winning film is announced in September. Non-Transferable. Restrictions apply. No guarantees will be given and gifts may be first-come, first-served if some items are limited in quantity.
Stanley Kubrick & Akira Kurosawa
Masters of cinema! KUBRICK & KUROSAWA. March 2024. Every Friday and Saturday. See these classics on the big screen. Get tix now -> www.slfstix.org
MARCH 1: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
MARCH 2: YOJIMBO
MARCH 8: RAN
MARCH 9: FULL METAL JACKET
MARCH 15: DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB
MARCH 16: SEVEN SAMURAI
MARCH 22: STRAY DOGS
MARCH 23: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
MARCH 29: THE KILLING
MARCH 30: RASHOMON
Presenting Black Cinema
Presenting Black Cinema is a series in February to spotlight the unique and varied experience of black cinema.
During February we will have films opening on Sunday for limited runs throughout the week. These films include such varied genres as documentaries, dramas, romance, and horror.
Check out the schedule below. Showtimes May Vary. Tickets will be on sale soon at www.slfstix.org.
Feb 4: I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
FEB 11: TIME
FEB 18: LOVE AND BASKETBALL
FEB 25: GANJA AND HESS
Music May starts May 5
Join us at SLFS in May 2023 for our Music May retrospective series is curated by musician John Doe from the band “X” every weekend on Fridays and Saturdays starting May 5.
John Doe is a founding member of the legendary punk rock band X, who released ALPHABETLAND in April 2020. His eleventh solo record, Fables in a Foreign Land (Fat Possum Records) was released in May of 2022. He has appeared in over 60 films and television productions, some of his most notable roles have been in Road House, Georgia, Roadside Prophets, Great Balls of Fire, Pure Country and Roswell. His most recent film effort is playing the lead, Frank Bigelow, in a period correct, re-imagined version of the film noir, D.O.A. So far it has won several film festival awards including Best Picture & Best Actor. He currently lives in Austin, Texas.
Showtimes may vary. Tickets will be on sale at www.slfstix.org.
MAY 5: CHULAS FROTERAS
MAY 6: X: THE UNHEARD MUSIC
MAY 12: I’M NOT HERE
MAY 13: BIRD (1988)
MAY 19: BLACK ORPHEUS
MAY 20: SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN
MAY 26: THE GIRL CAN’T HELP IT
MAY 27: THE HARDER THEY COME
In The Can with Doug Fabrizio starts April 20
Salt Lake Film Society partners with University of Utah department of Film and Media Arts and KUER’s RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio to bring you a conversation about THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS. This month’s special guest will be University of Utah Associate Professor of Film Studies Sarah Sinwell. Admission includes a screening of the film followed by a live panel discussion.
Join us for this one night only special event! Tickets are now available here.
Anderson and Anderson in April 2023
Join us at SLFS in April 2023 for a retrospective series featuring the films of P.T. Anderson and Wes Anderson every weekend on Friday and Saturday starting March 31st.
Paul Thomas Anderson (known as P.T.) grew up in the San Fernando Valley in the ’70s and 80’s. At an early age, he decided that directing was all he wanted to do and started making short films with his friends. As a senior in high school he wrote, produced, and directed a 30 minute short film “The Dirk Diggler Story”. (This became the basis for his film Boogie Nights.) While at the Sundance Feature Film program he developed the film “Sydney” which became the acclaimed film Hard Eight. After struggles with his distributor, he took his own version of “Sydney” to Cannes where it screened in the Un Certain Regard section. Eventually “Sydney” was released as Hard Eight in 1996, of which film critic Roger Ebert wrote “Movies like Hard Eight remind me of what original, compelling characters the movies can sometimes give us.”
Wes Anderson was born in Houston, Texas in 1969. Also at a young age he was driven to become a filmmaker making silent films with his brothers and friends. Later working as a projectionist at the University of Texas at Austin he met writer/actor Owen Wilson who he collaborated with in his early films such as Bottle Rocket. His signature post-modern style and subversion of main-stream storytelling stands out amidst commercial filmmaking today. Big star-studded casts, fast paced humor, and a nostalgia mark his films which are never quite what you expected.
These popular directors, who happen to share a last name, represent a new wave of stylistic directing that always surprises. Their way of telling stories is unique in a world of short attention spans and easy endings.
Showtimes may vary. Tickets will be on sale at www.slfstix.org.
Mar 31: The Fantastic Mr. Fox
April 1: Boogie Nights
April 7: Punch Drunk Love
April 8: The Grand Budapest Hotel
April 14: Hard Eight
April 15: Bottle Rocket
April 21: There Will Be Blood
April 22: The Royal Tenenbaums
April 28: Magnolia
April 29: Rushmore
Holiday Hours 2022
It’s the holiday season! We have some changes in our hours at the Broadway:
- Christmas Eve 12/24 & New Year’s Eve 12/31 the Broadway will close early at 8 pm.
- We will have regular hours on both Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
- Tickets are on sale for all films at SLFStix.org.
Happy Holidays to Everyone from SLFS!
The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
Join us for this special marathon screening of Peter Jackson's epic, Academy-Award winning The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
One Marathon to rule them all…August 13th at Broadway.
$35 for all three films! Tickets will include swag, food, and trivia for an amazing one day event.
Your journey begins with The Fellowship of the Ring at Noon. There will be a 30 minute break before The Two Towers at roughly 3:00 pm. Following that film, there will be a 60 minute break for dinner at 6:30 pm before The Return of the King at 7:30 pm. The full program should exit by 11:00 pm.
The Lord of the Rings is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential film series ever made. Each film was critically acclaimed, with high praise for their innovative special effects, acting, set design, musical score and emotional depth, and heavily awarded, the series winning 17 Academy Awards.
Set in the fictional world of Middle-earth, the trilogy follows the hobbit Frodo Baggins as he and the Fellowship embark on a quest to destroy the One Ring, to ensure the destruction of its maker, the Dark Lord Sauron. The Fellowship eventually splits up and Frodo continues the quest with his loyal companion Sam and the treacherous Gollum. Meanwhile, Aragorn, heir in exile to the throne of Gondor, along with Legolas, Gimli, Boromir, Merry, Pippin and the wizard Gandalf, unite to save the Free Peoples of Middle-earth from the forces of Sauron and rally them in the War of the Ring to aid Frodo by distracting Sauron’s attention.
Cool Upcoming Films For Summer 2022
Coming Soon at Broadway
At SLFS we are trying to beat the heat with cinema. Here’s some upcoming films for the month of August 2022:
NOPE – July 22
FIRE OF LOVE – July 22
VENGEANCE – July 29
HALLELUJAH – August 5
BULLET TRAIN – August 5
BODIES BODIES BODIES – August 12
Of course, nothing is certain in these times and dates may change.
So keep an eye on this space or at slfstix.org for any new additions to the schedule. We still have some surprise announcements coming soon…
And don’t forget Summer Showdown every Friday and Saturday night! We will be finishing up with some classics that you don’t want to miss on the big screen.
