Calendar
Hitchcock Masterpieces
November 23rd class has been postponed due to weather. (Class will now go an extra week to make up the missed date.)
Nov 02 - Dec 14, 2010
As a detailed investigation into one of cinema's landmark directors, this class will look at films from three periods of Hitchcock's remarkable career: The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes, which crowned his early British period; Notorious, which culminated his American work of the 1940s; and his astonishing succession of classics from 1956 through 1964, Vertigo, North By Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds.
Nightfall
Nov 05 - Nov 11, 2010
(Jacques Tourneur, USA/France, 1956, 35mm, 78 min)
This 1957 noir masterpiece by Jacques Tourneur stars Aldo Ray as a man fleeing a private investigator and Anne Bancroft as the barroom acquaintance who agrees to help him. Ray plays an artist whose life goes permanently haywire when fate interrupts a winter hunting trip. From then on it’s life on the run, complete with dozens of double-crosses, psychotic killers on his trail, lots of flashbacks, and a young Anne Bancroft decked out in sequins and lace.
"[Columbia Pictures] made some authentically hard-boiled crime pictures on those back lots, of which Nightfall was one of the best." —Seattle PostGlobe
"SW Pick: Worthy of Hitchcock...Aspiring filmmakers should take notes." —Seattle Weekly
Breakaway: Films by Bruce Conner
Co-presented by The Film Forum and Third Eye Cinema
Nov 11, 2010
(16mm and DigiBeta, 92 min)
We are proud to present a sampling of Bruce Conner’s greatest films, celebrating what would have been his 77th birthday. A painter, sculptor and collagist, Conner is perhaps best remembered as among the most important—and delightful—experimental filmmakers of the late 20th century.
Boxing Gym
Q&A with local boxing gym owner Cappy after Friday 9pm show!
Nov 12 - Nov 18, 2010
(Fredrick Wiseman, USA, 2010, HD, 91 min)
Boxing is a sport of contradictions. It can be bloody, hurtful and cruel, but at the same time it requires dedication, discipline, focus, a grueling work ethic, sacrifice, conditioning and ferocious demands on the body and mind. It’s no wonder then that pioneering verité filmmaker Fredrick Wiseman (La Danse) turns his lens on the subject.
"A knockout of a documentary!" —Seattle Times
Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century
Nov 12 - Nov 13, 2010
(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.
Colony
Nov 19 - Nov 24, 2010
(Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell, Ireland, 2009, 35mm, 87 min)
The Seppi family has recently set up an apiary business in the lush orchards of California. Yet the outlook for their business isn’t good: all across America bees are vanishing. This gorgeously shot film contemplates the tiny but powerful industry at the heart of modern farming, and how its failure could mean the collapse of food production as we know it.
"A spectacular little picture that reminds us of how inter-connected are the various forms of life on this planet." —Seattle Post Globe
"Elegant...[director and cinematographer] McDonnell finds beauty in every frame" —Seattle Times
Empathy
Nov 19, 2010
(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.
DDR/DDR
Nov 20, 2010
(Amie Siegel, 2008, USA, HD, 135 min)
Regina Spektor Live In London
Tickets just $3/Film Forum members, $5/general
Nov 21, 2010
(Adria Petty, 2010, USA/UK, DigiBeta, 70 min)
Live in London is the first live recording and concert film from acclaimed artist Regina Spektor. Captured mainly at London’s famed Hammersmith Apollo Theatre, Live in London features 22 remarkable performances that span Spektor’s brilliant catalog of music, including three new songs that have only been performed live
Pocket Film Challenge Screenings
Nov 22, 2010
Northwest Film Forum's latest obstruction for the frisky filmmaker was The Pocket Film Challenge—a small screen, big picture experience.
Kings of Pastry
Seattle premiere!
Nov 26 - Dec 02, 2010
(DA Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, 2010, USA, DigiBeta, 87 min)
Co-directed by esteemed documentarians D.A Pennebaker (Don’t Look Back, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars) and Chris Hegedus, this film follows some of the greatest pastry chefs in the world as they compete for the classification of Meilleur Ouvrier de France (Best Craftsman in France).
Psycho
New 35mm Print!
50th Anniversary!
Nov 26 - Dec 02, 2010
(Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1960, 35mm, 109 min)
Hitchcock’s legendary, blackly comic shocker vaulted its title into the mainstream and forever turned comfy shower stalls into places of terror—a feat greatly aided by Bernard Herrmann’s infamously shrieking all-strings score and a slashing opening credits sequence designed by Saul Bass. Endlessly parodied, imitated and analyzed, Psycho still retains its terrifying power fifty years after it first stunned the world.
The Portuguese Nun
Seattle premiere!
(Please note updated showtimes)
Dec 03 - Dec 09, 2010
(Eugene Green, Portugal/France, 2009, 35mm, 127 min)
In this highly stylized, subtly funny and gradually mesmerizing composition, director Eugene Green (Pont des Arts) presents Julie de Hauranne (Leonor Baldaque), a young French actress of Portuguese descent. She comes to Lisbon to shoot a movie adaptation of the 17th-century epistolary novel Letters from a Portuguese Nun, and to learn about life, love and the possibility of choosing one’s destiny.
"An unconventional, engrossing odyssey of self-discovery" —Seattle Times
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
Sponsored by Easy Street Records
Seattle premiere!
Dec 03 - Dec 09, 2010
(Vikram Jayanti, USA/UK, 2009, DigiBeta, 102 min)
Partly an ode to what Spector called his "Wagnerian approach to rock & roll: little symphonies for kids," and partly a stage for megalomania that alternates between charming and creepy, Agony is an always-riveting inquiry into a man and his music.
"A Top-40 opera" —Seattle Weekly
Youth Film Happy Hour
Dec 05, 2010
Join Northwest Film Forum, the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) and NFFTY for a film networking event exclusively for young filmmakers.
Next Dance Cinema
Dec 06, 2010
Velocity Dance Center once again brings Next Dance Cinema to our screens, the fourth year of this showcase of dance films from Pacific Northwest artists. The evening promises to enchant and engage audiences of dance lovers and film lovers alike.
Deleuze and Cinema: An Introduction
Dec 08, 2010
The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze is perhaps one of the most important but least understood syntheses of cinema history and philosophy in the last forty years. In this two-hour discussion session, Joe Milutis will give a general introduction to Gilles Deleuze’s major books.
Interview Me
A Sound Installation by Artists Curry/Dillon
Dec 09 - Jan 31
Throughout the months of December and January, Northwest Film Forum will host a sound installation entitled Interview Me (excerpt) by artists Laura Curry and Lori Dillon. Interview Me – which will be installed in the two bathrooms at the Film Forum – presents the interviewees’ unedited responses.