Wake up, drink some coffee, then head on down with the whole family to The Loft this Saturday, August 20 at 10 a.m. for a screening of Labyrinth! The flick is a part of The Loft's Saturday Morning Cinema. Plus, it's just a chance to see David Bowie in some funky, tight black pants. General admission is $6/$5 for Loft members.

For more information, call 795-0844, or visit the Loft's website.

There are three Jeff Buckley biopics filming in the near future (including one that doesn't have the rights to his music and stars a guy from Gossip Girl who doesn't appear to be able to sing, of all things), but the most prominent one found someone who looks a lot like Buckley, but might be cursed by believing that he can actually sound like him.

Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark star Reeve Carney has signed on to play Jeff Buckley in the untitled film about the late musician that Welcome to the Rileys helmer Jake Scott is putting together for a November shoot. Carney, who performed the Bono/The Edge-penned Spider-Man single Rise Above 1 at the American Idol finale, will do all the singing to bring to life the music of Buckley, who was just getting started as a solo artist when he drowned at age 30.

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Carney will star in what Scott hopes will be a definitive film about Jeff Buckley's life, and WME is raising funding. They have exclusive rights to Buckley’s music and personal archives, including the nod from Sony to use Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, which is perhaps Buckley's best-known tune from his first album Grace. A second album, Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk, was released after Buckley died. Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert, has also thrown in with Scott’s project and is executive producer. The script by Ryan Jaffe (The Rocker) was informed by the David Browne book Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley.

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The Tucson stop of the Wild & Scenic Film Festival hits the Loft Cinema on August 17th and we have two pair of tickets to give away.

Featuring three films discussing our relationship with the environment and the world around us, the traveling festival has a selection of the movies from the annual festival in Nevada City, California.

We'll draw names on Tuesday the 16th and email the winners.

Discounted tickets are available at Summit Hut, Antigone Books, and the Tucson Audubon Nature Shop or on the festival's site.

More information about the films, courtesy of the festival website, below the cut.

For a certain generation, the moment when Lloyd Dobler stood outside Diane Court's window and played Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" on a boombox held over his head. Now you can corrupt that touching moment of cinematic history with LloydTube, a site that allows you to express your deepest sentiments via a Lloyd Dobler illustration (as long as those sentiments are contained in a YouTube video. Click on Lloyd for my special (totally safe for work, I promise) musical gift to you, reader of The Range.

With absolute sincerity, I can say that seeing Tucson, Arizona, on the list of cities on the schedule for Being Elmo just made my day. It's almost like my blog post in January willed the movie to town.

According to Awards Season, Being Elmo opens at the Loft Cinema on November 25. A long time to wait, for sure, but based on everything I've seen, the movie looks like it's worth waiting for.

The Eckstrom-Columbus library will be having a free showing of "Bronx Princess" Aug. 13 at 2 p.m. The film is the coming-of-age tale of Bronx born Ghanaian, Rocky Otoo.

Run, don't walk, to see this flick. One show only! Come out to The Loft this Wednesday, August 10, at 7:30 p.m. to see The Robber, part of The Loft Film Fest Showcase. This fast-paced thriller—about a marathon runner who also leads a double life as a serial bank robber—is not to be missed. Check it out before it runs away. Okay, okay. Enough with the bad running puns. Watch the trailer for yourself and see what you think:

Here's what the critics have to say:

"Powerful stuff! A dark, taut Austrian thriller, THE ROBBER is exhilarating ... and filled with a sense of existential dread." - Steven Rea, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

"If you like the 'Bourne' movies but wish they were more cerebral...you might be the perfect audience for 'The Robber.'" - Mike Hale, THE NEW YORK TIMES

For more information, visit the Loft's website.

Filmed in Mexico, Which Way Home follows the children who are left behind when their parents look for work in the US. Watch this Oscar nominated documentary for free at Grace St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The one time showing is 6:30 p.m., August 12.

It feels like the car used in the film version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas should be selling for more than $3,050, but then again, there are still three days left in the auction, so there's plenty of time for you to pawn all of your personal belongings* to purchase this 1971 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible. It comes with a red typewriter and a briefcase that you can take with you to Bat Country, although I don't believe it comes with the "two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls" you'll really need to replicated the experience.

[* - This is my plan, you might have your own.]

The Loft continues its series of films based on Tennessee Williams' work with the 1951 classic A Streetcar Named Desire.

More from the Loft website:

"A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" / Southern Discomfort: The Films of Tennessee Williams
Thursday, August 4th at 7:00 p.m.
Regular admission prices
Featuring a free prize raffle and Mint Julep drink specials!

In acclaimed director Elia Kazan's juicy, hothouse movie version of his own Broadway smash (which garnered author Tennessee Williams his first Pulitzer Prize), faded Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) drifts into New Orleans with a head full of fantasies and delusions, and is destroyed by her brutish, sexually-charged brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) — “two of the greatest performances ever put on film” (Pauline Kael).

A landmark Hollywood film in terms of its overwhelmingly seedy and sexual atmosphere and Brando's animalistic, peel-the-paint-off-the-walls performance (the likes of which had never before been seen on the screen), STREETCAR brilliantly evokes the claustrophobic passion and bruised psychology of William's stage classic, effectively raising the bar for all future onscreen depictions of sweat-soaked madness. Winner of five Oscars, including Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), Best Supporting Actress (Kim Hunter), and Best Supporting Actor (Karl Malden) ... although Brando walked away empty-handed, in one of Hollywood's most notorious examples of "just not getting it."