| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | | Music Movie Screening | Park City Chamber Music Society | 08/01/10 | Salt Lake City |
Mid-August LunchPresented by Salt Lake City Film Center at The City Library August 2, 2010 As the Italian holiday of Pranzo di Ferragosto approaches, cash-strapped Gianni (Gianni Di Gregorio) gets help from his landlord, his friend and his doctor, who offer financial relief in exchange for Gianni looking after their elderly relatives over the holiday. Four mismatched Italian mamas at the same table make for an awkward, hilarious and touching mid-August lunch in this film festival favorite from Di Gregorio, who also writes and directs. | Salt Lake City Film Center | 08/02/10 | Salt Lake City |
Mid-August LunchPresented by Salt Lake City Film Center at SLC Film Center August 2, 2010 Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. His only outlet from her and the increasing debt into which they are sinking, are the increasingly frequent quiet sessions at the local tavern. As an Oriental saying goes, 'Moments of crisis are moments of opportunities'. These appear during the celebration of the holiday of Ferragosto on 15 August. That's when everybody leaves town to have fun. Opportunity knocks on Gianni's door in the most unexpected... | Salt Lake City Film Center | 08/02/10 | Salt Lake City |
| Film Screening: I'll See You in My Dreams | Orem Public Library | 08/02/10 | Orem |
Countdown to ZeroPresented by Salt Lake City Film Center at SLC Film Center August 5, 2010 Since the first atomic bomb exploded in 1945, scientists and world leaders have grappled with the apocalyptic dangers and paradoxes posed by nuclear weapons. This Documentary presents an unblinking look at humanity's lethal predicament. | Salt Lake City Film Center | 08/05/10 | Salt Lake City |
| The World's Fastest Indian | Utah State Capitol Building | 08/05/10 | Salt Lake City |
| Countdown to Zero | Salt Lake Film Society | 08/05/10 | Salt Lake City |
| Back to the Eighties Karaoke with Back to the Future II | Midvale City Arts Council | 08/06/10 | Midvale |
Soul PowerPresented by Salt Lake City Film Center at Pioneer Park August 6, 2010 In 1974, the most celebrated American R and B acts of the time came together with the most renowned musical groups in Africa for a 12-hour, three-night long concert held in Kinshasa, Zaire. Featuring performances from James Brown, Bill Withers, and B.B. King amongst others. | Salt Lake City Film Center | 08/06/10 | Salt Lake City |
Soul PowerPresented by Salt Lake City Film Center at SLC Film Center August 6, 2010 In 1974 the most celebrated American R&B acts of the time came together with the most renowned musical groups in Africa for a 12-hour, three-night long concert held in Kinshasa, Zaire. Featuring performances from James Brown, Bill Withers, and B.B. King amongst others. | Salt Lake City Film Center | 08/06/10 | Salt Lake City |
| Film Screening: I'll See You in My Dreams | Orem Public Library | 08/06/10 | Orem |
?Que Viva Mexico! (1931)Presented by Utah Museum of Fine Arts at Utah Museum of Fine Arts August 7, 2010 Famed Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein emigrated west in hopes of testing the capabilities of the American film industry. Quickly ostracized from Hollywood, Eisenstein wandered south of the border and began filming a highly stylized documentary on the volatile social climate of Mexico. Unfortunately, a lack of funds prohibited the film's completion. In 1979, by referring to Eisenstein's extensive notes and sketches, Grigory Alexandrov assembled the most definitive version of the film ? as... | Utah Museum of Fine Arts | 08/07/10 | Salt Lake City |
THX 1138Presented by Salt Lake Film Society at Tower Theatre August 6-August 8, 2010 Set in the 25th century, the story centers around a man and a woman who rebel against their rigidly controlled society. | Salt Lake Film Society | 08/06/10-
08/08/10 | Salt Lake City |
| Film Screening: The Man Who Knew Too Much | Orem Public Library | 08/09/10 | Orem |
| Celebrating American Roots Music Film Festival | Utah State Parks | 08/03/10-
08/10/10 | Cedar City |
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon | Utah State Capitol Building | 08/12/10 | Salt Lake City |
Strange Powers: Stephin Merrit and the Magnetic FieldsPresented by Salt Lake City Film Center at Pioneer Park August 13, 2010 Stephin Merritt is known as "the Cole Porter of his generation" for his memorable melodies, lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings. Shot over a period of 10 years, this film explores his friendship recording and songwriting process. | Salt Lake City Film Center | 08/13/10 | Salt Lake City |
Friday the13thPresented by Salt Lake Film Society at Tower Theatre August 13, 2010 A group of young adults discover a boarded up Camp Crystal Lake, where they soon encounter Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions. | Salt Lake Film Society | 08/13/10 | Salt Lake City |
Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic FieldsPresented by Salt Lake City Film Center at SLC Film Center August 13, 2010 Stephin Merritt is known as "the Cole Porter of his generation" for his memorable melodies, lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings. Shot over a period of 10 years, this film explores his recording and songwriting process, tracing a 20-year career that has yielded one of the most engaging bodies of work in the contemporary American songbook. | Salt Lake City Film Center | 08/13/10 | Salt Lake City |
| Film Screening: The Man Who Knew Too Much | Orem Public Library | 08/13/10 | Orem |
| Family Movie | Salt Lake County Library System | 08/14/10 | Salt Lake City |
Movie in the Park: Planet 51Presented by Bluffdale City at Bluffdale City Park August 14, 2010 American astronaut Captain Charles "Chuck" Baker lands on Planet 51 thinking he's the first person to step foot on it. To his surprise, he finds that this planet is inhabited by little green people who are happily living in a white picket fence world reminiscent of a cheerfully innocent 1950s America, and whose only fear is that it will be overrun by alien invaders?like Chuck! Directed by Jorge Blanco | Bluffdale City | 08/14/10 | Riverton |
Gone with the PopePresented by Salt Lake Film Society at Tower Theatre August 14, 2010 A renowned nightclub entertainer, singer and movie actor known as "Mr. Palm Springs," Mitchell directs and stars in Gone with the Pope as an ex-con who hatches a plan to kidnap the Pope in exchange for the ransom of "a dollar from every Catholic in the world." The movie has been described as "the holy grail for lovers of B-movies" and "a true gem from the American underground." | Salt Lake Film Society | 08/14/10 | Salt Lake City |
Los Olvidados (1950)Presented by Utah Museum of Fine Arts at Utah Museum of Fine Arts August 14, 2010 The winner of two Cannes Film Festival awards, Luis Bu?uel's Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones) was the director's first international box-office success. Set in the slums of Mexico City, this haunting, fascinating film follows a gang of juvenile delinquents who cause misery to those less fortunate. Throughout, Bu?uel maintains an objective tone; it is their responsibility, not his, to judge the gang members. (Excerpt by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide) | Utah Museum of Fine Arts | 08/14/10 | Salt Lake City |
FreshPresented by Salt Lake Film Society at Copper Moose Farm August 15, 2010 Copper Moose hosts a wine tasting and five course food tasting with Fresh Director Ana Joanes, followed by a screening of Fresh as part of the Whole Foods and Salt Lake City Film Center Fresh Week showcasing local farmers and restaurants that showcase farm to table cooking. | Salt Lake Film Society | 08/15/10 | Park City |
Salt Lake City Film Festival 2010Presented by Salt Lake City Film Festival at Tower Theatre August 12-August 15, 2010 The Second Annual Salt Lake City Film Festival will screen over 30 films from all over the world. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance for Question and Answer sessions and panel discussions. Don't miss this opportunity to enjoy long weekend of film during the dog days of summer. | Salt Lake City Film Festival | 08/12/10-
08/15/10 | Salt Lake City |
No Impact ManPresented by Salt Lake City Film Center at SLC Film Center August 16, 2010 Colin Beavan decides to completely eliminate his personal impact on the environment for the next year. It means eating vegetarian, buying only local food, and turning off the refrigerator. It also means no elevators, no television, no cars, busses, or airplanes, no toxic cleaning products, no electricity, no material consumption, and no garbage. No problem ? at least for Colin ? but he and his family live in Manhattan. So when his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their... | Salt Lake City Film Center | 08/16/10 | Salt Lake City |
| Film Screening: Pillow Talk | Orem Public Library | 08/16/10 | Orem |
FreshPresented by Salt Lake City Film Center at The City Library August 17, 2010 Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. | Salt Lake City Film Center | 08/17/10 | Salt Lake City |
FreshPresented by Salt Lake City Film Center at SLC Film Center August 17, 2010 This film celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing the food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. | Salt Lake City Film Center | 08/17/10 | Salt Lake City |
| Monsters vs. Aliens | Utah State Capitol Building | 08/19/10 | Salt Lake City |
Heavy Metal in BaghdadPresented by Salt Lake City Film Center at Pioneer Park August 20, 2010 In the late summer of 2006, in the middle of the insurgency, filmmakers Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi traveled to Baghdad to meet and interview the only heavy metal band in Iraq, Acrassicauda, as they try to stay together and stay alive. | Salt Lake City Film Center | 08/20/10 | Salt Lake City |
Heavy Metal in BaghdadPresented by Salt Lake City Film Center at SLC Film Center August 20, 2010 In the late summer of 2006, in the middle of the insurgency, filmmakers Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi traveled to Baghdad to meet and interview the only heavy metal band in Iraq, Acrassicauda. Heavy Metal in Baghdad is the story of the band and its members, young Iraqis whose lives have been distorted and displaced by years of continual warfare in their homeland. The filmmakers have collected glimpses into the struggles of Acrassicauda as they try to stay together and stay alive. Their... | Salt Lake City Film Center | 08/20/10 | Salt Lake City |
| Film Screening: Pillow Talk | Orem Public Library | 08/20/10 | Orem |
Macario (1960)Presented by Utah Museum of Fine Arts at Main Library August 21, 2010 The first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film in a Foreign Language, Macario is based on a novel by B. Traven entitled The Third Guest. Set in Colonial Mexico, the film tells the tale of an enraged peasant at the edge of starvation. His wife steals a turkey, but before Macario can eat it, he is visited by the Devil, God, and Death, all in the guise of different men. | Utah Museum of Fine Arts | 08/21/10 | Salt Lake City |
| Scarface | Salt Lake Film Society | 08/20/10-
08/22/10 | Salt Lake City |
| Film Screening: That Touch of Mink | Orem Public Library | 08/23/10 | Orem |
The Motorcycle DiariesPresented by Sundance Institute at Red Butte Garden and Arboretum August 25, 2010 The Motorcycle Diaries is a beautifully wrought account of the awakening of one of the 20th century's most romanticized revolutionaries. The film recounts the odyssey undertaken by a young "Che" Guevara and his friend Granado in 1952, when Guevara was a 23-year-old medical student. A summer road movie like no other, The Motorcycle Diaries transports you to a unique moment of time and place where myth is born. | Sundance Institute | 08/25/10 | Salt Lake City |
Danz?n (1991)Presented by Utah Museum of Fine Arts at Utah Museum of Fine Arts August 25, 2010 Spending the bulk of her time working and raising her child alone, Julia's life is filled with mundane grays. The only color in her life comes from her Wednesday night trips to Mexico City where she dances the Danzon with her long-time partner, Carmelo. But one night, she goes to dance and Carmelo is not there. At first puzzled, and then obsessed, she embarks upon a search that not only solves the mystery of his disappearance, but also leads her down a path of personal discovery and renewal.... | Utah Museum of Fine Arts | 08/25/10 | Salt Lake City |
| The Blindside | Utah State Capitol Building | 08/26/10 | Salt Lake City |
| Back to Country with Back to the Future III | Midvale City Arts Council | 08/27/10 | Midvale |
| Film Screening: That Touch of Mink | Orem Public Library | 08/27/10 | Orem |
John Hughes TributePresented by Salt Lake Film Society at Tower Theatre August 27-August 29, 2010 Ferris Bueller's Day Off In this 1986 John Hughes film, Matthew Broderick came to fame as a high school wise guy determined to have a day off from school, despite of what the principal thinks of that.
Sixteen Candles(Hughes 1984). A young girl's "sweet sixteenth" birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible. | Salt Lake Film Society | 08/27/10-
08/29/10 | Salt Lake City |
Dominik Dunne: After the PartyPresented by Salt Lake City Film Center at The City Library August 30, 2010 This film examines the life and career of storied Vanity Fair writer Dominick Dunne, from his service in World War II to his fall from grace in Hollywood society and his late-career renaissance covering the legal troubles of the rich and famous. Dunne himself offers a host of revealing anecdotes and insights about his experiences hobnobbing with celebrities, covering the murder trials of O.J. Simpson and Phil Spector and more. | Salt Lake City Film Center | 08/30/10 | Salt Lake City |
Dominick Dunne: After the PartyPresented by Salt Lake City Film Center at SLC Film Center August 30, 2010 This film examines the life and career of storied Vanity Fair writer Dominick Dunne, from his service in World War II to his fall from grace in Hollywood society and his late-career renaissance covering the legal troubles of the rich and famous. Dunne himself offers a host of revealing anecdotes and insights about his experiences hobnobbing with celebrities, covering the murder trials of O.J. Simpson and Phil Spector and more. | Salt Lake City Film Center | 08/30/10 | Salt Lake City |
| Film Screening: Move Over Darling | Orem Public Library | 08/30/10 | Orem |
The Gangrene Film Festival Goes to 11Presented by MediaRif at Ed Kenley Centennial Amphitheater September 3, 2010 The Gangrene Film Festival Goes to 11 (featuring MiniKiss) is going to be a rocking good time, complete with spandex pants, electric guitars, and great big hair. It is an Utah Original - there isn't anything like it anywhere else. | MediaRif | 09/03/10 | Layton |
Movie in the Park: G-ForcePresented by Bluffdale City at Bluffdale City Park September 11, 2010 In this hilarious animated feature, a team of trained secret agent guinea pigs work for a government agency. The team is asked to prevent a diabolical billionaire from taking over the world. Directed by Hoyt Yeatmen. | Bluffdale City | 09/11/10 | Riverton |
Banff Film FestivalPresented by Kingsbury Hall - University of Utah at Kingsbury Hall - University of Utah February 22-February 24, 2011 Bringing the best in outdoor films to Salt Lake, the annual Banff Mountain Film Festival tour is an adrenaline-fueled thrill ride of adventurous skiing, snowboarding, kayaking, hiking, mountain biking and more! If you are one of the many who attend each year, you don't need convincing that it's among the most exciting events on their season! | Kingsbury Hall - University of Utah | 02/22/11-
02/24/11 | Salt Lake City |
Dinosaurs 3D: Giants of PatagoniaPresented by Clark Planetarium at Clark Planetarium February 24, 2009 - Ongoing Food for thought: If it weren't for a series of cataclysmic events; a comet impact being first on the list, our planet could well still be the domain of dinosaurs. Explore this idea and more in Dinosaurs 3D: Giants of Patagonia.
| Clark Planetarium | 02/24/09-
Ongoing | Salt Lake City |
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