The Loft Cinema

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Celebrating its sixteenth year in 2026, The Loft Film Fest (located in beautiful Tucson, Arizona) is dedicated to showcasing the best independent, foreign and classic films, as well as celebrating the work of established and emerging directors, writers, producers and actors.

Regular Deadline: June 27, 2026
Extended Deadline: July 18, 2026

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Coming Soon to The Loft Cinema ...

Join us for a very special evening this Friday, June 19th with Mark himself, Greg Sestero – star of The Room and author of the New York Times best-selling memoir The Disaster Artist – in person!

And don't miss The Addams Family this Saturday! Before the movie, enjoy a live musical performance from the cast of Saguaro City Music Theatre’s production of The Addams Family, running June 26-28 at the Berger Performing Arts Center!

Finally, celebrate Father’s Day with whip-cracking hero Indiana Jones at a special 45th anniversary big screen presentation of one of cinema’s greatest adventures, Raiders of the Lost Ark! Enter our FREE RAFFLE for fantastic Indy prizes, and we promise… no snakes!

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The Awful Truth - THURSDAY, JUNE 18 AT 11:00AM

In this Oscar-winning screwball farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other’s infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. But try as they might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can’t help meddling in Lucy’s ill-matched engagement to a corn-fed Oklahoma businessman (Ralph Bellamy), and a mortified Lucy begins to realize that she may be saying goodbye to the only dance partner capable of following her lead. Directed by the versatile Leo McCarey (Duck Soup, Going My Way), a master of improvisation and slapstick as well as a keen and sympathetic observer of human folly, The Awful Truth is a warm but unsparing comedy about two people whose flaws only make them more irresistible.

(Dir. by Leo McCarey, 1937,USA, 91 mins., Not Rated)

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The Lost Boys - FRIDAY, JUNE 19 – SUNDAY, JUNE 21 🕶

“Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire.”

When a single mom (Diane Wiest) and her teen sons (Jason Patrick and Corey Haim) move from the Midwest to hip and happening Santa Carla, California, the boys find that they have a hard time fitting in – not because they’re not cool enough (come on, it’s Jason Patrick and Corey Haim!), but because, as it turns out, the “in-crowd” is actually comprised of a gaggle of leather-clad, blood-thirsty teen vampires (led by a sinister, punked-out Kiefer Sutherland) with nothing to do but suck down the red stuff and listen to New Wave classics by INXS and Echo and the Bunnymen. And when Jason P. falls under the spell of a bewitching vampira (Jamie Gertz) and is accidentally turned into a vampire himself, it’s up to young Corey Haim and his new nerd pals The Frog Brothers (Jamison Newlander and Corey Feldman) to save him from an eternity of wearing sunglasses at night.

(Dir. by Joel Schumacher, 1987, USA, 97 mins., Rated R)

TICKETS: https://loftcinema.org/film/the-lost-boys/

My Own Private Idaho - TUESDAY, JUNE 23 AT 7:30PM

Co-Presented by Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation - 35th Anniversary Screening!

Gus Van Sant’s powerful, visually dazzling tale of unrequited love and life on society’s margins stars River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves as two young street hustlers searching for an elusive place called “home.” For My Own Private Idaho, Van Sant combined two screenplays he was working on – one a modern version of Shakespeare’s Henry IV— with an original short story to create the dreamlike tale of two wayward hustlers who drift through the coffee houses and wide open spaces of the Pacific Northwest, the Italian countryside and back again, navigating a volatile world of junkies, thieves and johns on their grungy journey of discovery. Mike Waters (Phoenix, in one of his most iconic roles) is a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott Favor (Reeves) is the wayward son of the mayor of Portland who waits for his 21st birthday and the sizable inheritance that will come with it. He is also the ambivalent object of Mike’s desire. Separately and together, they entertain a host of eccentric male and female clients, as street urchins (led by the Falstaff-like Bob Pigeon, memorably played by William Richert) spout lines from the Bard and barns fall mysteriously from the sky. We’re definitely not in Kansas anymore.

(Dir. by Gus Van Sant, 1991, USA, 104 mins., Rated R)

TICKETS: https://loftcinema.org/film/my-own-private-idaho/