Northwest Film Forum

Wheedle's Groove

Sponsored by KBCS 91.3 FM and Vera Project
Special guests almost every night!

Sep 03 - Sep 09

(Jennifer Maas, Seattle, 2009, DigiBeta, 87 min)

Seattle, get ready for some Soul searching! Jennifer Maas' Wheedle's Groove provides a look back some thirty years before grunge music put Seattle on the map, when late 1960s groups like Black on White Affair, The Soul Swingers and Cold, Bold & Together filled airwaves and packed clubs every night of the week.

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Our Beloved Month of August

Director in attendance!

Sep 14

(Miguel Gomes, 2008, Portugal, 35mm, 150 min)

Ravishingly photographed and brilliantly assembled, Our Beloved Month of August is a travelogue to get lost in, an indigenous film created by tourists. It’s also a window into a fascinating filmmaking process that continues to unravel long after the credits roll. 

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Miguel Gomes Shorts

Seattle Premiere

Sep 16

(Miguel Gomes/1999-2006)

A collection of five short films by Miguel Gomes.

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The Face You Deserve

West Coast Premiere

Sep 15

(Miguel Gomes, Portugal, 2004, 35mm, 108 min)

Gomes' first feature is a beautiful musical comedy. Francisco is a teacher who, while helping with his school's production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, contracts the measles and dreams his own version of the famous fairytale. 

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Ghost Bird

Director in attendance!

Oct 15

(Scott Crocker, 2009, USA, DigiBeta, 85 min)

This is the true story of an extinct giant woodpecker, a small town in Arkansas hoping to reverse its misfortunes and the tireless odyssey of bird watchers and scientists searching for the holy grail of birds, the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker.

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The Anchorage

Oct 22 - Oct 28

(Anders Edström & CW Winter, USA/Sweden, 2009, 35mm, 87 min)

Winner of the Filmmakers of the Present Award at the Locarno Film Festival, The Anchorage begins with an elderly woman about to take an early morning swim in the cold waters off the Stockholm Islands, where she lives alone except for the occasional visit from her daughter. But the sudden appearance of a deer hunter disturbs her peaceful and quiet life.

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Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century

Nov 12 - Nov 13

(Richard Kegler, USA/France, 2005, 16mm, 103 min)

This fascinating design documentary captures the personality and work process of the late Canadian graphic artist Jim Rimmer (1931-2010). In 2008, P22 type foundry commissioned Rimmer to create a new type design (Stern) that became the first-ever simultaneous release of a digital font and hand-set metal font.

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Styx: Kilroy Was Here

Oct 15

In 1983, Styx returned to the record charts with Kilroy Was Here, the most ambitious of the band's concept albums, which focused on a renegade leading a rebellion in a totalitarian future by bringing rock and roll to the people. This rock classic is a half-amusing, half-menacing parable of technology, the rock culture and modern demagoguery. In other words its just plain awesome!

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Do it Again

Nov 04

(Robert Patton Spruill, USA, 2010, DigiBeta, 90 min)

Every serious music fan has a favorite band—but it’s a very rare fan that single-handedly attempts to reunite that band years after they’ve packed it in. In order to conquer his midlife crisis, the committed pop journalist Geoff Edgers’ dream is to bring back together The Kinks.

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Empathy

Nov 19

(Amie Siegel, 2003, USA, 35mm, 92 min)

The postmodern Empathy explores the practice of psychoanalysis, reversing its traditional power structure, and putting psychoanalysts on the couch. It’s much more than a traditional documentary, with interviews of practicing psychoanalysts dispersed throughout, resulting in an ultimate collapse of the genres of fiction, screen test and documentary. 

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DDR/DDR

Nov 20

(Amie Siegel, 2008, USA, HD, 135 min)

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