Calendar
The Graduate
New 35mm print!
45th Anniversary!
Jul 27 - Aug 02, 2012
(Mike Nichols, USA, 1967, 35mm, 106 min)
Glamorous, sexy and sad, The Graduate is an emotional touchstone for an entire generation. Benjamin Braddock is a recent college graduate in search of life direction, who soon starts an affair with the wife of his father's partner, Mrs. Robinson. The film darkly and humorously captures the restlessness and ennui of the era and remains a glorious classic of the American screen.
Confluence
Jul 27 - Aug 02, 2012
(Vernon Lott & Jennifer Anderson, USA, 2011, 53 min)
Special Jury winner at our Local Sightings Festival in 2011, Confluence documents a series of disappearances on the Idaho/Washington state line. As we hear from victims’ families and law enforcement officers, the story twists into an even more gruesome tale as the methods and motivations of a serial killer begin to take shape. The landscape is an ever-present character as Philip Bloom’s immaculate cinematography underlines the eeriness by seducing us with a portrait of vast open hills and a limitless sky.
Rare Films from the Baseball Hall of Fame
Aug 02, 2012
(Approx. program time 120 min)
As baseball season heads into the home stretch, we celebrate with cinematic treasures from the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Clips include Hank Aaron and Mickey Mantle, home movie footage of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, a promotional film starring Bob Hope and Humphrey Bogart and much more! Special thanks to Jim Gates, National Baseball Hall of Fame Library.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
New 35mm Print!
Aug 03 - Aug 09, 2012
(Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1943, 35mm, 163 min)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp traces the history of British Major General Clive Wynne Candy, a World War II military man who seems nothing but a stubborn windbag to his younger officers. Made in 1942 at the peak of the Nazi threat to Great Britain, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a rare look at war and soliers that reveals a pigheaded old man as a one-time idealist and romantic.
Sound It Out
Sponsored by Easy Street Records
Aug 03 - Aug 05, 2012
(Jeanie Finlay, United Kingdom, 2011, Bluray, 74 min)
The film industry isn’t the only medium taking fire from the digital war on analog. Jeanie Finlay’s portrait of the last surviving record store in her hometown of Teesside, England, Sound It Out is an elegy, a love letter to music and a homage to community as it documents a place thriving against the odds.
I Walked With A Zombie Drag Queen
Tickets: $10 advance/$12 door
Aug 05, 2012
(Kelly Hughes, USA, 2012, 90 min)
Before YouTube, before Facebook, it was DIY ‘zines, VHS video, and public access TV. From 1991 to 1993, Kelly Hughes wrote, directed and edited Heart Attack Theatre, a weekly suspense anthology for local cable TV in Seattle (all in his spare time while working a full-time job). In his upcoming book Videoteur: An Analog Account of a No Budget Media Mogul in the DIY 90s, Hughes exposes the indie film counterpoint to Seattle's grunge rock scene in the early 1990s, and describes his quest for artistic recognition, from B-movie Hollywood, to Baltimore, Berlin, and beyond. I Walked With A Zombie Drag Queen is the video companion, featuring vivid footage and interviews with the larger-than-life actors who gave their all for fifteen minutes of filthy fame.
Funny Ha Ha
10th Anniversary Screening!
Actor Myles Paige in attendance Tuesday!
Aug 07 - Aug 08, 2012
(Andrew Bujalski, USA, 2002, 35mm, 89 min)
Ten years ago, the mumble that changed the world of American filmmaking was shot on 16mm. Andrew Bujalski's Funny Ha Ha is a film whose reputation precedes it, as it follows the exploits of recently-graduated protagonist Marnie who tries to find a temporary job and win the attentions of her college friend Alex.
Machotaildrop
Co-presented with Sub Pop Records
Aug 08, 2012
(Corey Adams, Alex Craig, Canada, 2009, Blu-ray, 91 min)
The regal and grand sport of skateboarding has thrived for many generations, with amateur riders playing an outsized role in its history. Machotaildrop takes us on a highly visual and fantastical journey, as amateur skateboarder Walter Rhum realizes his dream of turning pro and riding for the world's greatest skateboard company.
I Am Bruce Lee
Q&A with co-producer Shannon Lee following 7pm screening!
Aug 09, 2012
(Pete McCormack, USA, 2011, Blu-ray, 90 min)
Feast your eyes on a famous Seattleite in I Am Bruce Lee, a compelling look at Bruce’s life and ever-expanding legacy in the world of martial arts and entertainment. The film features interviews with people who knew Bruce intimately, along with an array of international icons including basketball superstar Kobe Bryant and pop music super group Black Eyed Peas.
On the Sly
AGES 10 AND UP
Aug 10 - Aug 16, 2012
(Olivier Ringer, Belgium/France, 2011, Bluray, 77 min)
This spellbinding film tells the story of a six-year-old girl who slips away from her parents to live in the woods. Her journey back—told completely from the child’s point of view—is in turns harrowing and humorous. In French with English subtitles.
The Long Day Closes
New 35mm Print! 20th Anniversary!
Aug 10 - Aug 16, 2012
(Terence Davies, UK, 1992, 35mm, 85 min)
The Long Day Closes continues Terence Davies' autobiographical exploration of working-class family life in northern England in the mid-1950s. Lush images give viewers a look through the imagination of Bud, the film's 11-year-old protagonist, who remains a solitary pubescent figure experiencing his first moments of homosexual desire in conflict with the weight of his Catholic guilt.
Around the World with Children's Film Festival Seattle 2012
Aug 11 - Aug 12, 2012
(Various directors and countries, 66 min)
This program of live-action and animated shorts from Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2012 is a passport to a world of imagination. You’ll meet magical characters, laugh at funny stories and learn how friendship makes the planet go ‘round. These short films charmed audiences at our 2012 Festival - now it’s your turn to snuggle with your little ones and enjoy the show.
Splinters
Aug 17 - Aug 23, 2012
(Adam Pesce, USA, 2011, Blu-ray, 95 min)
Praised by ESPN for “reviving the surf film genre,” Splinters combines great on-wave action with high drama. In the 1980s, a pilot left behind a surfboard in remote Papua New Guinea. Twenty years later, surfing is splintering the community. As culture clash engulfs their village, four local surfers compete in the country’s first-ever national surfing title in the hopes of a better life.
The Devil Probably
New 35mm print! 35th Anniversary!
Aug 17 - Aug 23, 2012
(Robert Bresson, France, 1977, 35mm, 93 min)
In the late 1970s, an aging director set out to complicate his society's unsympathetic portrait of cynical French youth. In The Devil Probably, although the lives of the protagonist Charles and his peers are not without moral inconsistencies, Bresson brings a fresh sensibility to their surly despair through his signature commitment to ordinary moments in everyday life.
Walk Away Renee
Seattle Premiere!
Aug 24 - Aug 30, 2012
(Jonathan Caouette, France, 2011, Blu-ray, 88 min)
Eight years after the making of Jonathan Caouette’s Tarnation, a documentary tribute to the director’s relationship with his mentally ill mother, Jonathan and Renée return in a sequel—and proper ending—to that film. Walk Away Renée chronicles Caouette’s road trip with his mother from Houston to New York, after he realizes that she must be moved to a new living facility, and explores the director’s relationship with his family in a more thoughtful, less raucous, but equally beautiful light. Renée is already being called last year's most original and evocative American independent film.
7th Annual Seattle Bike-In
at Cal Anderson Park, Capitol Hill presented in association with The Vera Project sponsored by Bike Works, Hub and Bespoke, The Stranger and Swift Industries
Aug 25, 2012
Free!
Northwest Film Forum's 7th annual Bike-In is a free, outdoor celebration of sustainable transportation, community and the arts, co-presented with the Vera Project. Held in Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill, the event includes live music and DJs, film, and a fair from local cycling organizations and merchants. This year's program features a screening of Rad, the 1986 extreme BMX movie classic with a live vinyl soundtrack, live music from Spaceneedles, Glitterbang and Vox Mod, and more. Summer nights never felt so right to be on two wheels!