Calendar
National Gallery
Seattle premiere!
Dec 05 - Dec 18, 2014
(Frederick Wiseman, 2014, France/United States, 181 min)
Frederick Wiseman’s latest in-depth documentary takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. National Gallery is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings. In a perpetual and dizzying game of mirrors, film watches painting watches film.
Umiak: Pulling To The Beat
Dec 19, 2014
A short film story about the lives touched by the construction of an Umiaq at the Evergreen State Longhouse Carving Shed. With support of art and culture programs and a lot of heart, the Umiak came into being. Despite being far from Alaska’s Arctic region, culture carries on through the dedicated individuals coming together with the desire to give to the future.
Hoop Dreams
20th anniversary screening!
New digital restoration!
With exclusive video introduction and post-screening "20 Years Later" update by director Steve James, recorded at Northwest Film Forum!
Dec 19 - Dec 21, 2014
(Steve James, 1994, United States, DCP, 170 min)
Roger Ebert said it best: Hoop Dreams’ depiction of two high school ball players trying to make it in the prejudiced cauldron of Chicago in the ‘90s is “the great American documentary” (the Oscars snubbed it entirely). Steve James’ vision of the pipeline of poor, black basketball talent brings to mind the Windy City from Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. In high school, black athletes are still cheap enough to treat like penny stocks, and we watch as two of them brave the ringer of all-white private schools, poverty and the constant risk of injury for a shot at a scholarship.
Screen Shots at Capitol Hill Art Walk
Free event, 5pm - 8pm!
Happy hour drink prices!
Curated by Vera Petukhova!
Jul 10 - Mar 12, 2015
Join Northwest Film Forum for Screen Shots, a monthly series during Capitol Hill Art Walk. A new program every month features happy hour, video art, and sometimes special guests and lobby installations!
Visiting filmmaker Kevin T. Allen presents EAR AS OTHER
Kevin will also be teaching Expanded Recording Techniques for Nonfiction Sound from 5-7pm.
Jan 09, 2016
Kevin T. Allen is a filmmaker, sound artist and radio producer whose practice ranges from the ethnographic to the experimental. He has exhibited at numerous venues, including MoMA, Ethnographic Terminalia, Flaherty NYC, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Berlin Directors Lounge and Ann Arbor Film Festival. His sound work has been featured at museums and festivals, including the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Third Coast International Audio Festival and Deep Wireless Festival of Radio Art.
Stop, Look and Listen
Children's Film Festival Seattle 2015 Preview!
Free admission for Festival 2015 Passholders!
Jan 10, 2015
(63 min)
Treat yourself to a preview of Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2015, featuring some of our best animated shorts. These stop motion animators use innovative methods and materials to tell their stories, from puppets and miniatures to computer parts, frosting, and even toes! Local animator and puppeteer Bill Jarcho will introduce the show and stick around to discuss animation afterwards!
My Last Year with the Nuns
Filmmakers in attendance nightly!
Extended run by popular demand!
Jan 09 - Jan 19, 2015
(Bret Fetzer, 2014, United States, 75 min)
The quintessential Capitol Hill coming-of-age story is an adaptation of local thespian Matt Smith’s popular one-man show. Through his animated recollections, Matt brings to life 1960s Capitol Hill, when Roy Street divided populations, nuns ruled with righteous anger, bullies trolled the schoolhouse and the newspaper shack represented the center of adolescent Matt’s social universe.
Adieu Au Langage
Screening held at the Cinerama, 2100 4th Avenue, in 3D!
Co-presented by Northwest Film Forum, Cinerama and the Seattle Art Museum!
Second screening added by popular demand!
Jan 12 - Jan 13, 2015
“The idea,” in Godard’s own words, “is simple. A married woman and a single man meet. They love, they argue, fists fly. A dog strays between town and country. The seasons pass. A second film begins…” But the result, in the cinema master’s radical, joyously lo-def 3D tale, is something else entirely—a glorious, dizzying meditation on love and history, nature and meaning, as fresh and innovative as anything the 83-year-old legend has ever made.
The Homestretch
Co-presented with the Committee to End Homelessness
Introduction by Megan Gibbard, Homeless Youth & Young Adult Initiative
Jan 12, 2015
(Anne de Mare, Kristen Kelly, 2014, United States, 89 min)
Three homeless teens fight to stay in school, graduate and build a future. Each of these smart, ambitious teenagers—Kasey, Anthony and Roque—will surprise, inspire and challenge you to rethink stereotypes of homelessness, as their stories connect with larger policy issues of juvenile justice, immigration, foster care and LGBTQIA rights.
Children of the Civil Rights
Seattle premiere! Filmmakers in attendance for Q&A and post-screening reception
Jan 16, 2016
(Julia Clifford, 2014, United States, 53 min)
No one knew that a group of children in Oklahoma City were heroes; not even the children themselves. For six years, a group of kids went into restaurants and asked for service. It never got violent; it never made national news; but, together, they turned around every restaurant, except one, before the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
A Tale of Winter
New HD digital restoration!
Jan 16 - Jan 18, 2015
(Eric Rohmer, 1992, France, DCP, 114 min)
A Tale of Winter, one of Eric Rohmer's most genial and audacious films, displays his characteristic delight in surprise and paradox. Winter, not spring, is seen as the season of rebirth and renewal, and its tale begins on a sunny beach.