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Seattle premiere!
Apr 08 - Apr 11, 2016
(Ross Lipman, USA, 2015, DCP, 128 min)
Youth of the Beast
Apr 13, 2016
(Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1963, 35mm, Japanese with English subtitles, 91 min)
Suzuki himself claims that 1963 was the year when he truly came into his own, and Youth of the Beast is one of his breakthroughs. In his second collaboration with the director, Jo Shishido rampages through the movie, playing a disgraced ex-cop pitting two yakuza gangs against each other to avenge the death of a fellow officer.
A Space Program
Tom Sachs in attendance!
Seattle premiere!
Apr 14, 2016
(Van Neistat & Tom Sachs, United States, 2015, DCP, 72 min)
Tom Sachs’s A Space Program takes DIY to another level with the meticulous simulation of a NASA mission to Mars. Using found objects and available materials like plywood and Tyvek, the “astronauts” construct everything from their space suits to the mission control console to the ship itself. Yet alongside the project’s earnestness is a charmingly oddball sense of humor.
The Land of Many Palaces
Seattle premiere!
Apr 15, 2016
(Song Ting, Adam James Smith, China, 2015, 61 min)
After vast coal deposits were found in Ordos, China, the region went from being one of the country’s poorest areas to one of the wealthiest. The Chinese government used the money to build a new metropolis, but with no one to populate Ordos City, it soon became known as China’s largest ghost town. To remedy this, the government is relocating thousands of farmers from rural Ordos to the empty city.
Heartworn Highways
Presented in collaboration with Light in the Attic Records and Everyday Music in celebration of Record Store Day
Apr 15, 2016
(James Szalapski, USA, 1976, 92 min)
In the mid-1970's, as country music became increasingly defined by the Nashville circuit ladder, a group of artists including Steve Earle, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, David Allan Coe, Rodney Crowell and SteveYoung busted out of the confines of commercialism to create the outlaw country scene in Texas and Tennessee.
Beyond Metabolism
Seattle premiere!
Apr 16, 2016
(Stefanie Gaus & Volker Sattel, Germany, 2014, 41min)
First triangles, then hexagons – the hexagon as the geometric DNA of an erratic structure with an eerie lack of scale. Slowly, in the succession of hallways, apertures, views, and spaces, an enormous construction is disclosed. Already in its first images, Beyond Metabolism conveys a fascination for a utopia of architecture that imagines life in future societies in flexible, large structures, expandable at will.
Strange and Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island
Apr 16, 2016
(Marcia Connolly & Katherine Knight, Canada, 2014, 55min)
Architect Todd Saunders’ sculpture-like artist studios perched on the rocky shores of Fogo Island created a buzz among worldwide architecture fans when the first images were released. Since then, the four artists studios and the new Fogo Island Inn have been documented in more than 80 international magazines and blogs ranging from the New York Times Magazine, to fashion arbiter Wallpaper to architectural magazines such as Domus.
Following Kina
Apr 16, 2016
(Sonia Goldenberg, Peru/Bolivia/USA, 2015, DCP, 63 mins)
Inspired by the only Peruvian World Boxing Champion, two young women from some of the most forsaken places on earth fight against all odds to become the next champion.
Getting Frank Gehry
Seattle premiere!
Apr 17, 2016
(Sally Aitken, Australia, 2015, 60 min)
Drawing on a life's work defined by controversial and ground-breaking ideas, the world's greatest architect creates his first Australian building in Sydney - where debate already rages over whether it will be eyesore or icon.
My Brooklyn
Apr 18, 2016
Film Screening and Organizer Panel: A Social Justice Fund Benefit for Housing Justice Organizing in the NW
Please join Social Justice Fund Northwest's Momentum Giving Project on Housing Justice for a special screening of My Brooklyn: The real story behind the takeover of America's hippest city.
Puget Soundtrack: Corespondents present House
Live score! Rare 35mm screening!
Apr 20, 2016
The Gala Will Not Be Televised
*TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT!* Oola Distillery, The Mayor's Office of Film and Music - City of Seattle, Blue Danube, Naked City Brewery
Apr 22, 2016
Northwest Film Forum's 15th Annual Gala is April 22nd!
My Golden Days
Seattle premiere!
Apr 22 - May 05, 2016
(Arnaud Desplechin, France, 2015, DCP, 123 min)
Prolific French writer/director and five-time Cannes contender Arnaud Desplechin’s (My Sex Life… Or How I Got Into an Argument, Hitchcock/Truffaut,) latest film is an uncommonly resonant coming-of-age story that mines the breadth of human emotion and explores the power of the past to define our present.
As You Like It
Free screening!
Apr 23, 2016
(Michael Elliott, Ronald Eyre, United Kingdom, 1963, 140 min)
Vanessa Redgrave made her breakout performance in this Royal Shakespeare Company production filmed for the BBC in 1963. The Guardian recently called her performance “a gold standard for the role of Rosalind.” Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Richardson, Max Adrian, Patrick Wymark
Seattle Composers Alliance Derby Contest
Apr 24, 2016
Composers: The SCA is hosting a contest at Northwest Film Forum as part of our monthly Composer Derby program. This contest and the event are free and open to anyone who wants to participate. Submissions are due by April 17th. They must be uploaded to youtube and the link sent to SCA board member and host of the composer derbies Aaron Cadam Samuels.
The Taming of the Shrew
Free screening!
Apr 24, 2016
(David Richards, United Kingdom, 2005, 90 min)
In this modern retelling of Shakespeare's comedy called “deliciously far-fetched” by The New York Times, Katherine Minola (Shirley Henderson, Trainspotting, Bridget Jones’s Diary) is a temperamental yet successful politician, and everyone, from her party chairman to her sister, wants her to get married. Is passionate eccentric Petruchio (Rufus Sewell, The Man in the High Castle, Zen) the answer to her prayers? Starring Shirley Henderson, Rufus Sewell, Twiggy Lawson and David Mitchell.
April Open House: 1-Year Comprehensive Filmmaking Program
Apr 26, 2016
We invite you to learn more about our 1-Year Comprehensive program before submitting your application for our Fall 2016 cohort. Hear from current students about their experience and learn details about our curriculum, opportunities beyond the classroom, payment plans and more.
RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/518953141640692/
Elephant
35mm film!
Discussion at 7pm with Professor Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH
Screening at 8pm
Apr 26, 2016
(Gus Van Sant, United States, 2003, 35mm)
This month marks the 17th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre and the 9th anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting. The first post-Columbine film to directly engage with the trauma of the event, Elephant is a quietly tense film that follows outcasts Alex and Eric as they prepare and carry out a mass shooting at their school. In this special screening, we will be examining in depth through both panel discussion and audience Q&A the context of both the film's style and social ideas.
Tattooed Life
Apr 27, 2016
(Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1965, 35mm, Japanese with English subtitles, 87 min)
Set in the 1930s, Tattooed Life is the story of two brothers: Kenji, an art student, and Tetsu, who is working as a yakuza to help pay for Kenji’s tuition. When a hit job goes horribly wrong, the brothers flee. They end up finding work in a mine—and falling in love with the owner’s wife and daughter.
David Domingo: A Super 8 Odyssey
Filmmaker in attendance!
Sponsored by Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)
Co-presented with ExCinema
Co-presented with the Seattle Latino Film Festival
Apr 28, 2016
Spanish filmmaker David Domingo began making Super 8 films when he was twenty years old, and specializes in super 8mm and 16mm film. Northwest Film Forum is one of five film institutions across the U.S. to host Domingo on a tour that includes Los Angeles FilmForum, San Francisco Cinematheque, Cinema Project (Portland, Oregon), and Anthology Film Archive in New York.
Gueros
Co-presented with the Seattle Latino Film Festival
Apr 29, 2016
(Alonzo Ruiz Palacios, Mexico, 2015, DCP, 106 min)
Our Last Tango
Apr 29 - May 02, 2016
(German Kral, Germany/Argentina, 2015, DCP, 85 min)
Tango dancers María Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes met as teenagers nearly seventy years ago, when their magnetic chemistry made them one of tango’s most beloved duos. They would continue to dance, love and hate together for decades. Our Last Tango reveals a fiery love story that burned hot both on the dance floor and off.
Chantal Akerman, From Here
West Coast Premiere!
Co-presented with SIFF: Cinema of Chantal Akerman, April 22-28
*SIFF and NWFF members receive member discounts at both venues for this special program*
Apr 30, 2016
(Gustavo Beck & Leonardo Luiz Ferreira, 2012, 62 min)
In Chantal Akerman, From Here, the renowned Belgian filmmaker sits down for an hour-long conversation about her entire body of work.
Throughout, the camera holds steady from outside an open door. The long, unbroken shot, and the frame-within-a-frame pay homage to Akerman's own unmistakable style ("I need a corridor. I need doors. Otherwise, I can't work", she says). But by shooting her in profile, the filmmakers provide a contrast to the signature frontality of her compositions (one of the many subjects covered in the wide-ranging interview) - an acknowledgement of this portrait's contingency also underlined by the title.
From the East
Co-presented with SIFF: Cinema of Chantal Akerman, April 22-28
*SIFF and NWFF members receive member discounts at both venues for this special program*
May 01, 2016
(Chantal Akerman, 1993, 110 min)
Open Screenings at the Film Forum
Feb 09 - Feb 06
* FEB. 6th OPEN SCREENING CANCELED FOR INCLEMENT WEATHER *
Are you a local filmmaker looking to share your work? Seeking feedback on your film? Want to see what other people are currently working on? Come join us for our monthly opening screening! Hang out with new and established filmmakers and experience films being made right here in our community.
Down There
West Coast premiere!
Co-presented with SIFF: Cinema of Chantal Akerman, April 22-28
*SIFF and NWFF members receive member discounts at both venues for this special program*
May 02, 2016
(Chantal Akerman, 2016, 78 min)
According to director Chantal Akerman, she never planned to make a film in Israel. She was convinced that neutrality does not exist and that her subjectivity would get in her way. She was sure she would only be able to reflect on 'the Israel question' while she was outside the country.
Project Fukushima
May 02, 2016
(Hikaru Fuji, Japan, 2012, 90 min)
Tokyo Drifter
May 04, 2016
(Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1966, DCP, Japanese with English subtitles, 83 min)
Tasked with making a vehicle for actor/singer Tetsuya Watari to croon the title song, Suzuki concocted this crazy yarn about a reformed yakuza on the run from his former comrades. The film is mainly an excuse to stage an escalating series of goofy musical numbers and over-the-top fight scenes.
Carmen from Kawachi
May 04, 2016
(Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1966, B&W, 35mm, Japanese with English subtitles, 89 min)
A 1960s riff on the opera Carmen (including a rock version of its famous aria “Habanero”), this picaresque tale sends its heroine from the countryside to Osaka and Tokyo in search of success as a singer.
Weekend Warriors Happy Hour & Screening
May 05, 2016
My Best Girl
Restored 35mm print!
May 06, 2016
(Sam Taylor, United States, 1927, 35mm, 90 min)
After nearly 15 years as the silver screen’s reigning “Queen of the Movies,” Mary Pickford lovingly concluded her silent movie career with one of her best films—the utterly charming romantic comedy, My Best Girl. Featuring future husband Charles “Buddy” Rogers as her leading man, Pickford shines as a department store Cinderella who falls in love with the owner’s son, once again exhibiting the wide-ranging talent that had made her a sensation the world over.
Puget Soundtrack: Erin Jorgensen presents Daisies
May 07, 2016
(Věra Chytilová, Czech Republic, 1966, 35mm)
Office Hours + Happy Hour
May 09, 2016