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Happy Holidays from Northwest Film Forum
Dec 21 - Jan 02, 2014
Happy Holidays from all of us here at Northwest Film Forum! Our cinemas are closed December 21 - January 2, and we look forward to seeing you in 2014 for more great films and classes.
A Touch of Sin
Jan 03 - Jan 09, 2014
(Jia Zhangke, 2013, China, 125 min)
Internationally acclaimed Chinese master Jia Zhangke (Platform, The World) won the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes for this startling — and violent — modern wuxia tale of four outcasts on the margins of a rapidly changing China who channel their underclass rage into a bloody and murderous rampage.
Faust
Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2014
(Aleksandr Sokurov, 2011, Russia/Germany, 135 min)
There have been more than thirty film productions based on the legend of Faust, dating from the earliest days of cinema (in the 1890s), up to Aleksandr Sokurov's contemporary re-working, which features his trademark poetic imagery, spiritual allusions, large-canvas themes, and long takes.
Pig Death Machine
Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2014
(Jon Moritsugu & Amy Davis, 2013. United States, 84 min)
After eating rotten meat, a brainless brunette is transformed into a dangerous genius, while in a Doctor Doolittle twist, a misanthropic-punk-rock-botanist-babe gains the power to "talk to plants." Dreams become nightmares as they choke on the sweet nectar of envy and desire.
The Selfish Giant
Seattle premiere!
Jan 17 - Jan 22, 2014
(Clio Barnard, United Kingdom, 2013, DCP, 91 min)
A global recession-era take on an Oscar Wilde fable, The Selfish Giant tells the tale of two adolescent boys who get by in their rural central England town by pilfering scrap metal and racing horses. Thirteen year-old Arbor and his best friend Swifty are outsiders, literally living on the outskirts of lavish estates.
Fire in the Blood
Sponsored by the Western Regional International Health Conference, organized by the Global Health Resource Center at the University of Washington.
Post-screening conversation with James Love of Knowledge Ecology International, moderated by Jeffrey Lane, University of Washington!
Jan 18 - Jan 19, 2014
(Dylan Mohan Gray, United Kingdom/India, 2013, 87 min)
In this much-needed critique of Big Pharma (narrated by William Hurt), activists and intellectuals expose how Western pharmaceutical companies, in pursuit of higher profits, systematically block access to life-saving AIDS drugs in the global south.