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Show C-4 Sat/Sun/Mon, December 28-30, 2019 The Park Record PARK CITY FILM.ORG CREATING COMMUNITY THROUGH FILM WINTER BREAK FILM SERIES ETHEL PARASITE Rated R DEC 28 Sat 8pm DEC 29 Sun 6pm Wine & beer available for purchase. Underwritten by Ed Orschel, Premiere Builders, Inc. Not Rated DEC 30 Mon 4pm DEC 30 Mon 7pm - TOY STORY 4, PG Post-film Q&A with director Rory Kennedy. Part of the Reel Community Series, presented in partnership with Women's Giving Fund. Wine & beer available for purchase. Admission is free. Presented in partnership with Park City Library. Admission is free. JIM SANTY AUDITORIUM 1255 PARK AVE PARK CITY • 435.615.8291 Continued from C-2 Lab projects announced course of the investigation, she confronts an impenetrable bureaucracy but also rediscovers herself. Xixi Wang, a Chinese writer and director, graduated from Beijing Film Academy with a B.A. in Screenwriting and received an MFA in Directing from Columbia University. • The Spirit Guest (South Africa)/Fanyana Hlabangane, writer/director Estranged brothers Tito and Kgabane struggle to make a life on the fringes of Johannesburg. During a mercilessly dry winter, their dead mother suddenly arrives in the flesh, bringing childhood pain to the surface and forcing the brothers to confront the trauma that pulled them apart. Screenwriter, director, and photographer Fanyana Hlabangane was born and raised in Alexandra, Johannesburg’s oldest township. Having written episodic content professionally for Mnet, Africa’s main Pay TV channel, his shorts have also screened at numerous inter- Continued from C-2 Author stirs up ‘Chaos’ after coming into his own in Matheson’s third book, “Heatwave,” which hit the bookstores in 2017, is settling into his detective promotion and acclimated to the small-town vibe. “He is, however, still socially awkward, because I when I created him I didn’t want to make him out to be a tough-guy cop who knows everything and always get the bad guy in a clean, Hollywood way,” Matheson said. The third storyline in “Recipe for Chaos” is the book’s antagonists — a group of Russian Mafioso — who were inspired by a two incidents Matheson experienced while working at the Utah State Liquor Store a few years ago at Kimball Junction. “This group of Russian guys would come into the store, and even though they were dressed in tracksuits, they had the fullon, jail-house tattoos and wore all of these gold chains,” he DOWN FOR THE COUNT 1 2 3 4 5 national film festivals such as Durban and Shnit. He developed his debut feature script “The Spirit Guest” through Realness, and producer Mmabatho Kau will attend 2020 IFFR PRO with the project. • Tiger Girl (U.S.A.)/Andrew Thomas Huang, writer/director Set in 1966 Los Angeles, Tiger Girl is a coming of age fantasy about a repressed Chinese American teenage girl haunted by a tiger lurking in her attic. When pressured by her immigrant mother’s rigid social expectations, the girl must learn that the beast upstairs is the tiger within that will set her free. With a background in fine art, visual effects, animation and puppetry, Andrew Thomas Huang is a visual artist and filmmaker whose collaborators include Björk, FKA twigs and Thom Yorke among others. Huang served as creative director for the immersive traveling VR exhibit Bjork Digital and his work has been shown at The Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, the Sydney Opera House and The Museum of Contemporary Art, LA. Huang is an IFP filmmaker, a Cinereach fellow, a participant in the Film Independent Screenwriters & Directors Labs, and a recipient of the K Period Media Grant. • Welcome (United Kingdom)/Nadia Latif, co-writer/ director, and Omar El-Khairy, co-writer Documentarian Melissa feels compelled to invite Tarek, a Yemeni asylum-seeker and the subject of her latest film, into her London home. As Tarek brings the outside world crashing into these close quarters, it is Melissa’s trauma that begins to surface in unexpected and terrifying ways. Nadia Latif is a theatre maker and film director, originally from Sudan. She has worked at theatres including the Almeida, Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal Court. She was Associate Director of the Young Vic from 2018-2020, where she most recently directed the sold out production of the Pulitzer-prize winning “Fairview.” Omar El-Khairy is a former Leverhulme Associate Playwright at the Bush Theatre and an alumnus of The Old Vic 12. His plays include “Burst,” “Sour Lips,” “The Keepers of Infinite Space,” “The Chaplain: or, a short tale of how we learned to love good Muslims whilst torturing bad ones,” “Homegrown” and “The Mob Reformers.” His first short film, “No Exit,” received its world premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival 2014. “White Girl,” his latest short, supported by BFI NETWORK, premiered in competition for the Short Film Award at the BFI London Film Festival 2019. For information, visit sundance.org. said. “They looked straight out of ‘Eastern Promises,’ and each time they came in, they went directly to the front case, where the high-end booze was kept and they bought everything.” When Matheson first saw the group, the thought they might have been affiliated with the Russian Olympic team. “The more he thought about them, that theory didn’t feel right, because I didn’t know any team, Olympic or otherwise, who looked like them,” he said. A few weeks later, Matheson, who is now the assistant manager of Bangkok Thai on Main Street, caught a newscast about Russian mob ties in Utah, and his brain began to work things out. “My first thought was how scary that was, but then I began wanting to have a little fun with that idea,” he said. Matheson began creating a story about the Russian Mafia, who people would call ‘The Track Suits because of how they dressed. “I thought of how funny it would be if the mafia had a presence in tiny, little Park City, and bought an existing ski resort,” Matheson said. “Then I thought it would be really funny if the resort turned into this absolute eyesore that the locals hated, and the tourists loved. “ Matheson ran with that idea, but wanted to make certain readers knew putting the Russian mob into his book was not a commentary of the alleged ties between Russia and President Donald Trump. “I just wanted people to read about these guys and know that they are out there and pretty scary,” he said. Matheson tries to make his characters as “off-the-wall” as possible. “At the same time, I still make them believable,” he said. “Even as cartoony as I make the Russians, there is still a real element of danger about them.” “Recipe for Chaos,” like his other books, including his 2014 debut, “Island of Lost Souls,” took about two years to write. “All my books are meant to be entertaining,” he said. “They aren’t meant to be serious, although I do bring up some real local issues,” he said. His last book, “Heatwave,” published in 2017, looked at Park City’s housing situation and developers’ environmental impact, which he continues in the new book, he said. “Even though there is an order to the book, what I like about them is that you don’t really have to read them in order,” he said. “They are written to stand alone.” 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 61 62 92 93 BY LAURA TAYLOR KINNEL / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ 13 Laura Taylor Kinnel, of Newtown, Pa., teaches math and is the director of studies at a Friends boarding school near Philadelphia. She got her interest in crosswords at a young age through her grandmother, who used to solve the Sunday Times puzzle and ask for Laura’s ‘‘help.’’ The first crossword Laura made was a year-in-review puzzle for a 2018 Christmas letter. This puzzle is her debut in The Times. — W.S. 48 Where fans are often placed on high? 1 TV-screen inits. 50 Org. whose 4 Steinful academy’s motto in 7 Cut (off) English is “The sea 10 “Nope” yields to knowledge” 13 Lucky strikes? 52 One who might give 15 Massage target you a shot 17 Capital of Belarus 53 Miss 19 Spa amenity 54 Food that Marge Simpson once served 20 1/x, for x with “a whisper of 24 Top type MSG” 25 Hay-fever irritant 58 Big name in denim 26 Online payment 59 Collected $200, say option 27 Record holder for the 63 “Te ____” 64 Former superstore most Indianapolis chain selling 500 laps led (644) diapers and 29 Lowly workers strollers 30 Mythical being 67 “Egads!” depicted in bronze in Copenhagen Harbor 68 Quite a tale 70 Spirit 31 Followers of dos 71 Charitable offering 32 Home of the N.C.A.A.’s Rhody the 73 Film character who says, “Kiss me as if Ram, for short it were the last time” 34 Director DuVernay 74 It postulates a space36 Govt. org. often time fabric impersonated on 80 Congressional budget scam calls directives 37 Picked a card 81 San Francisco’s ____ 39 Abstainers … Valley or the central 82 Radio medium column’s answers vis-à-vis 20-, 39-, 83 Renaissance-themed festival 74- and 101-Across, respectively 84 Tears to pieces 44 One in a pocketful 86 Who once had all 10 of the top 10 Billboard 45 Has finished hits simultaneously 47 Speed that would enable a 23-minute 87 “The Gift of the Magi” author D.C.-to-L.A. flight 89 “Seriously?” Online subscriptions: Today’s 91 Gobbles (down) puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, 94 Doze (off) nytimes.com/crosswords 95 Mr. Incredible’s actual ($39.95 a year). surname AC R O S S 96 College town of George Washington Carver 98 Hither’s partner 99 “Absolutely!” 101 Little Richard hit with “the most inspired rock lyric ever recorded,” per Rolling Stone 104 Sea eagle 105 Many-time N.H.L. All-Star Jagr 107 Sheepish 108 Fashionable 110 Nonbinary identity 111 Focus of an egoist’s gaze 112 Magazine with annual Women of the Year Awards 113 President Ford and others 114 Traditional, if bulky, presents in Santa’s bag 115 Opening words? 11 The 1 in (1,2), in math 12 Work times, typically 14 Phaser setting 15 Admiral Graf ____ (German W.W. II ship) 16 Leaf (through) 17 Bearing 18 One might be taken in protest 19 Longtime NPR host Diane 21 Satellite inhabited continuously since 2000: Abbr. 22 Complement of turtledoves in a Christmas song 23 Obsolescent TV companion 28 Paris’s ____ La Fayette 30 Disfigure 33 ____ sleep 35 Perturb 38 “The Caine Mutiny” author 39 End of some school names, for short DOWN 40 Orbicularis ____ 1 Super Bowl trophy (eyelid-closing eponym muscle) 2 Deep-fried doughy 41 “We ____ Kings” treats 42 What fools might 3 Picked nits make of themselves 4 ____ tear (athlete’s 43 “Je ne ____ quoi” injury) 44 Joint winner of 5 Thieves’ place FIFA’s Player of the Century award in 6 Yosemite attraction 2000 7 Hides one’s true nature 46 Top-level foreign8 Group with the 2012 policy grp. chart-topping album 49 Monopoly quartet: “Up All Night,” to Abbr. fans 51 Fold 9 It’s pitchfork-shaped 53 Fuel line 10 “Why do you ask?” 54 Wallop response 14 20 15 16 21 28 31 32 37 38 45 29 33 34 40 51 56 63 66 76 77 86 90 95 96 101 91 97 102 108 110 111 112 113 114 115 69 Universal self, in Hinduism 70 Preserves something? 72 Houston A.L.’ers 73 Trump who wrote 2017’s “Raising Trump” 75 Tiny margin of victory 76 When one usually goes through customs 77 Purple pool ball 78 Brushed up on 79 Lucky-ticket-holder’s cry 98 103 107 55 1935 Triple Crown winner 56 Top-ranked professional tennis player for a record 237 consecutive weeks 57 Ark contents 59 ____ fast one 60 Labor-day setting? 61 “Beau ____” 62 Signs off on 65 “I tell ya!” 66 Charlotte of “The Facts of Life” 73 79 85 89 106 72 82 84 100 67 78 81 94 60 71 75 49 59 70 88 44 53 65 83 105 43 58 80 99 36 42 52 64 74 41 35 48 57 69 30 47 50 68 26 39 46 55 19 23 25 27 87 18 22 24 54 17 84 Famed Chicago steakhouse 85 A couple of Bible books 87 Completely unrestrained 88 Tribute 89 Swollen, as a lip 90 Drain, as blood 92 Swiss dish 93 Derisive expressions 95 Runs smoothly 97 They can’t do without does 104 109 100 Prefix for a polygon with 140° interior angles 101 Headed for overtime 102 A short rest, so to speak 103 He: Lat. 104 Top female baby name of 2014-18 106 Year that Michelangelo’s “The Crucifixion of St. Peter” was completed 109 Things the Energizer bunny may need |