Calendar
Every Man for Himself
New 35mm Print!
Jan 07 - Jan 12, 2011
(Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1980, 35mm, 87 min)
Godard called Every Man For Himself "my second first film." Every Man For Himself focuses on recognizable urban types grappling with midlife crises and existential ennui: Jacques Dutronc (as “Paul Godard!”) and Nathalie Baye play TV producers stuck in a dissatisfying affair.
"Godard finally gets it right...Don't be afraid to go inside. It is not boring." —Seattle Post Globe
"Godard is to cinema what Ornette Coleman is to jazz." —The Stranger
Guy & Madeline on a Park Bench
Sponsored by KBCS 91.3FM
Jan 07 - Jan 13, 2011
(Damien Chazelle, USA, 2009, DigiBeta, 82 min)
Godard meets Cassavetes with a little Miles Davis thrown in for good measure in this fresh take on the musical, by first time director Damien Chazelle.
"SW Pick: Delightful...At once fresh and retro. No movie I saw last year has given me more joy." —Seattle Weekly
Silver Bullets
Jan 10, 2012
(Joe Swanberg, 2011, USA, Blu-ray, 70 min)
Director Joe Swanberg stars as a struggling filmmaker in Silver Bullets, a meta-film that took him nearly two and a half years to create. Loosely based around the creation of a werewolf flick, Swanberg’s film-without-a-script comes out fully formed. Silver Bullets addresses previous criticism of Swanberg’s work and his personal struggle as an artist. The improvised dialogue, the bold score by Orange Mighty Trio and the mixture of HD and super-8 footage cause Silver Bullets to erupt beyond Swanberg’s reputation as a realist filmmaker and into a new realm of innovation.
Sunrise
Live Score by Lori Goldston
New 35mm print!
Jan 13 - Jan 14, 2011
(F.W. Murnau, USA, 1928, 35mm, 95 min)
The great German director F.W. Murnau handpicked Janet Gaynor to star in his first Hollywood feature, a masterpiece of silent cinema widely considered among the greatest films ever made.
Hiroshima
Seattle Premiere!
Jan 14 - Jan 20, 2011
(Pablo Stoll, Uruguay, 2010, DigiBeta, 79 min)
Pablo Stoll’s debut solo feature quickly morphs into one of the most pleasantly quixotic works of cinema in recent memory. A silent musical based on real facts, Stoll delivers an absurdist journey through the mundane day of a slacker, where all spoken dialogue is replaced by intertitles.
"Pure joy...the anticipation of each new image engages us more completely than any hackneyed storyline. Visually addictive" —Seattle PostGlobe
"A long and delightful music video that has successfully risen to the condition of cinema. Pablo Stoll's movie has a lot in common with Kanye West's Runaway." —The Stranger
"Cinematically ambitious yet divertingly entertaining" —Seattle Times
The 20/20 Awards: The Flaws & Failures of Year One
Presented by Korby Sears
Jan 15, 2011
The 20/20 Awards started with a simple mission: a live, annual event where we go back 20 years, re-voting on the Academy Awards with 20 year of hindsight, using the clarifying element of Time and Perspective to sort out what cinematic art continues to be relevant and resonate.
Craneway Event
Jan 19, 2011
Screening as part of Seattle’s year of Merce, a celebration of the life’s work of choreographer Merce Cunningham, Craneway Event is a feature length portrait by one of Britain’s most accomplished visual artists, 1998 Turner Prize nominee Tacita Dean.
Enemies of the People
Seattle Premiere!
Sponsored by KBCS 91.3FM
Jan 21 - Jan 27, 2011
(Rob Lemkin & Thet Sambath, 2010, UK/Cambodia, 35mm, 94 min)
One of the most harrowing and compelling personal documentaries of our time, Enemies of The People exposes for the first time the truth about the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge who were behind Cambodia’s genocide.
"Four stars - A film that everybody should watch." —NW Asian Weekly
"An extraordinary historical testimonial...a Cambodian Shoah" —Seattle Weekly
It is Fine! Everything is Fine
A limited number of tickets will be available for purchase at the door before each screening (please arrive early!)
Jan 21 - Jan 23, 2011
(David Brothers, Crispin Hellion Glover, USA, 2006, 35mm, 74 min)
Crispin Hellion Glover returns with What Is It? and It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine, the first two installments of a nearly completed trilogy, for an intimate screening of the two in the comforts of our big cinema.
What Is It?
A limited number of tickets will be available for purchase at the door before each screening (please arrive early!) Preceded by Crispin Hellion Glover's Big Slide Show Part 1
Jan 22 - Jan 24, 2011
(Crispin Hellion Glover, USA, 2006, 35mm, 72 min)
Crispin Hellion Glover returns with What Is It? and It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine, the first two installments of a nearly completed trilogy, for an intimate screening of the two in the comforts of our big cinema.
Flaherty Seminar Shorts: The Artist and the Process— Works by Lillian F. Schwartz and Frank Scheffer
Jan 26, 2012
(Various directors, Various years, Various countries, DigiBeta, 78 min)
Join us for a program of highlights from this year's Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Sonic Truth, curated by Dan Streible. The touring program features three short videos: The Artist and the Computer (1980), Pixillations (1970) and U.F.O.s (1971), by computer art pioneer Lillian Schwartz, who has experimented at the intersection of art and technology since working at Bell Labs four decades ago. Followed by a newly edited version of Dutch documentary maker Frank Scheffer's From Zero (2011, 60 min), featuring never-before-seen footage of American composer John Cage.
Children's Film Festival Seattle
Jan 28 - Feb 06
Northwest Film Forum rolls out the red carpet for Children's Film Festival Seattle—the largest international festival of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. This year's 10-day extravaganza will include more than 100 films from 25 countries—a mind-blowing blend of live performances, animation, features, shorts, historical films and fantastic hands-on workshops, all crafted with care to appeal to the next generation of movie lovers.
My Uncle
Rare, restored English-language version!
New 35mm print!
Jan 28 - Feb 03, 2011
(Jacques Tati, France, 1958, 35mm, 110 min)
My Uncle remains a delightful satire of mechanized living. This version is not on video and has been rarely seen since the 1950s.
"In whatever language it is shown, “My Uncle” will take you as close to euphoria as film comedy can go." —Seattle Post Globe
Lemmy
Seattle premiere!
Feb 04 - Feb 10, 2011
(Greg Olliver, Wes Orshoski, USA, 2010, HD, 117 min)
A documentary as distinctive and uncompromising as the grizzled subject it details, Lemmy casts new light into the life and works of one of the longest and hardest-rocking lead singers in the history of heavy metal: Ian 'Lemmy' Kilmister.