Northwest Film Forum

Northwest Film Forum hosts a special celebration of and fitting tribute to the great entertainer and popular music icon Donna Summer, who passed away in May this year at age 63.  She worked hard for her money, with the success for her career-defining, 17-minute orgasmic disco epic "Love to Love You Baby" crowning her "The Sex Queen of the 70s."  

We'll screen Summer in 35mm, in her one and only big-screen role, as Nicole Sims, a feisty, aspiring disco star in the 1978 ensemble saga Thank God Its Friday.  Set in the fictional Los Angeles nightclub The Zoo, the film follows several characters over the course of one wild night. Boasting appearances by Jeff Goldblum as the club's sleazy owner, and Debra Winger as a sheltered girl agog at the hedonism around her, Thank God Its Friday is probably most well-known for Summer's introduction of the smash hit "Last Dance," which won the Academy Award for best original song that year. 

Summer stands out in this film with her soulful delivery that expanded her star appeal beyond the dance floor. She scored her greatest successes with anthems of self-reliance and personal strength, her voice equally capable of fragility and defiant power.  With this screening, we'll remember her.