Calendar
Selected Experimental Short Films - DVD Release Party with Jon Behrens
Dec 19, 2008
Free. For more than 25 years Jon Behrens has worked completely outside of the mainstream conception of what filmmaking is. The films on this disc have all been digitally remasterd from newly minted 16 & 35mm prints. This collection of films have been hand picked by Behrens’ long time companion and muse Barbara Evans.
Humpdance Benefit
Dec 20, 2008
Northwest Film Forum will host a benefit for Lynn Shelton's 3rd feature film Humpday, which has been invited to have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009! Money raised at the party will help to defray the costs of publicity and housing at the prestigious festival.
Happy Holidays!
Dec 22 - Dec 25, 2008
Northwest Film Forum is closed through December 25. Happy Holidays, and we'll see you December 26 for Day of Wrath.
Day Of Wrath
Newly Restored 35mm Print
65th Anniversary
Dec 26 - Jan 01, 2009
(Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark, 1943, 35mm, 97 min)
In honor of the film’s 65th anniversary we’re pleased to unearth this under-recognized Dreyer classic, complete with a brand-new restoration (each frame of the original negative was cleaned and digitally scanned to create a new 35mm print!).
21 Landings
Jan 02 - Jan 22, 2009
Installation on display at NWFF. 21 Landings is a looping video installation of multiple attempted landings by the legs of a bird-like creature onto an icy, futuristic surface. The stop motion animated actions of the creature and following movements of the camera reveal a relationship between an imaginary photographer and subject.
"The Stranger Suggests: This is a singular opportunity to wander into a movie theater—it plays all day, for free—and sit in the dark with a few other people and contemplate something not of this world." -The Stranger
20 Seconds Of Joy
Jan 02 - Jan 08, 2009
(Jens Hoffmann, Germany, 2007, Beta-SP, 60 min)
In Jens Hoffmann's breathtaking documentary, the filmmaker follows the elusive extreme sport athlete for five years through spectacular landscapes in some of the most remote corners of the world. Is the high worth the price when one wrong move means certain death?
"Offers thrilling footage of people parachuting off some of the world's most dangerous cliffs, but the main attraction is Hollekim herself, a beautiful and mysterious figure..." -Seattle PI
The Feature
Sponsored by Henry Art Gallery
Jan 02 - Jan 08, 2009
(Michel Auder, Andrew Neel, USA, 2008, DigiBeta, 184 min)
For Michel Auder the truth is certainly stranger than fiction. He was part of the heart of the Warhol Factory and the Soho art explosion, and was one of the first to compulsively exploit the diaristic potential of the Sony Portapak. This fictionalized biography of Auder draws on his vast archive of videotapes, connecting them with a distanced narration and new footage shot by co-director Andrew Neel.
Channeling
Jan 08, 2009
Channeling is an entryway into the spirit realm and the queer body politic: a loose catalogue of experimental moving image work that calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. The intent of the program is to re-imagine film and video as occult technologies that allow us to connect with the bodies, experiences and emotions that are often invisible—ghostly, even—in everyday life.
Easy Rider
Sponsored by the Vera Project
Jan 09 - Jan 15, 2009
(Dennis Hopper, USA, 1969, 35mm, 94 min) New 35mm Print!
This low-budget road movie directed by then-unknown weirdo Dennis Hopper and featuring rock music as its score (mostly songs from Hopper’s record collection) turned out to be a huge success that turned Hollywood on its ear.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
New 35mm Print!
Jan 09 - Jan 15, 2009
(George Roy Hill, USA, 1969, 35mm, 110 min)
Paul Newman and Robert Redford star as loveable outlaws Butch and Sundance in George Roy Hill’s funny take on the Western genre. Based on real turn-of-the-century thieves, the train robbers are forced to escape a pursuing posse and flee the shrinking American West.
HUMPDAY Extravaganza II: “The Humpening”
Jan 10, 2009
Lynn Shelton’s latest opus, “HUMPDAY”, is premiering in competition at Sundance and we need your help to get it there…
Come by for
• A re-enactment of the unveiling of the beautiful HUMPDAY trailer!
• An Exclusive 3-minute Sneak Peak of HUMPDAY gems!
• A reprise of "HUMPUNCH"! Along with our signature drink: "The Swordfight"!
• The ever-popular "DJ HUMP"! (For reals this time!)
• A new, fabulous HUMPDAY raffle!
$5 at the door
The Milky Way
Jan 14 - Jan 15, 2009
(Luis Buñuel, France/West Germany/Italy, 1969, 35mm, 105 min)
Luis Buñuel’s entertaining, absurdist spoof on religion daringly deconstructs contemporary and traditional views on Catholicism.
Alice’s Restaurant
Jan 16 - Jan 22, 2009
(Arthur Penn, USA, 1969, 35mm, 111 min)
Following his 1967 breakout hit film Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn co-wrote and directed this relaxed portrait of hippie culture and gentle lament to the end of the counterculture revolution.
Oh! What A Lovely War
Jan 16 - Jan 22, 2009
(Richard Attenborough, UK, 1969, 35mm, 114 min)
Based on Joan Littlewood’s stage play about World War I and featuring an all-star cast (including Laurence Olivier), Richard Attenborough’s directorial debut employs song, satire and absurdist humor to deliver a potent critique of the senselessness of war and how a generation of young British men were killed.