Calendar
Chasing Legends
Aug 11, 2010
(Jason Berry, 2009, USA, DV, 90 min)
Join us as we get some of our post Tour de France cycling fix on with Chasing Legends, a spectacular new cycling documentary. The film takes viewers on an absolutely epic ride into the race action using a multitude of high tech, high def cameras mounted on bikes, motorcycles, helicopters and team cars.
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Aug 06 - Aug 12, 2010
(Tamra Davis, USA, 2009, DigiBeta, 88 min)
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child is about the artist and phenomenon who became notorious for his graffiti art under the moniker Samo in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene. Appreciated by both the art cognoscenti and the public, Basquiat was launched into international stardom. Soon, however, his cult status began to override the art that had made him famous in the first place.
"[See it] for what it unintentionally reveals about art, celebrity, and race in contemporary America." —The Stranger
"Davis' homage—tender, never hagiographic—also contains some biting analysis of the racism, both overt and insidious, that Basquiat was up against." —Seattle Weekly
En Attendant Godard
US Premiere!
Aug 12, 2010
(William Brown, UK, 2009, DigiBeta, 95 min)
Director William Brown pays tribute to (and corrects) his master Jean Luc Godard in this debut feature film, made with an impressive zero budget. En Attendant Godard is a funny homage to a filmmaking genius and revolutionary; it also is a witty example of how to use film as film criticism, without being hyper-intellectual.
The Secret to a Happy Ending
Seattle Premiere
Aug 13 - Aug 15, 2010
(Barr Weissman, USA, 2009, DVCAM, 101 min)
This is a film about the redemptive power of rock-and-roll. It’s also a film about the American South, where rock was born, and a band straddling the borders of rock, punk and country. It’s about making art, making love and making a living. In short, it’s about the Drive-By Truckers.
The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle
Director David Russo expected to attend all screenings!
Aug 13 - Aug 19, 2010
(David Russo, USA, 2009, DigiBeta, 100 min)
David Russo’s witty and imaginative film debut explores key issues of today, including corporate malfeasance, the search for religion and, of course, male pregnancy. As overheard on a bus at the Sundance Film Festival, "You have to see this!"
"The most imaginative, disturbing, hilarious, and transcendent underground movie since Eraserhead." —Seattle Post Globe
"With its freak-out visuals and eclectic musical score, [Dizzle] has 'cult movie' written all over it." —Seattle Times
"Packed with Russo’s inventive animation and time-lapse cinematography (as well as his omnipresent rage against the machine" —The Stranger
Dressed to the Nines Film Challenge Screenings
We're sorry! This event has been cancelled!
Aug 18, 2010
This summer, Northwest Film Forum’s quarterly Film Challenge asked Seattleites to forgo the fleece sweaters and sandals for a day to make a film showing off their most stylish clothes.
Francois Truffaut, An Autobiography
*Update! This film has been replaced by Truffaut: 25 Years, 25 Films. Please read below for more details.
Aug 19, 2010
(Anne Andreu, France, 2004, DigiBeta, 78 min)
***UPDATE: Sadly Francois Truffaut: An Autobiography got stuck somewhere in a customs office between France and the US. As a result we won't be screening that title as originally planned. In its place we'll be showing Truffaut: 25 Years, 25 Films.
This is also a documentary look at Francois Truffaut, who was once one of the most influential critic of the French New Wave and went on to become a brilliant, prolific and uncompromising director, creating 25 films in 25 years.
Two in the Wave
Seattle Premiere
Aug 20 - Aug 26, 2010
(Emmanuel Laurent, France, 2010, 35mm, 91 min)
Cinema’s most notorious friendship—and falling out—is chronicled in film critic Antoine de Baecque and filmmaker Emmanuel Laurent's documentary of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.
"Must not be missed by anyone who admires this important period in world cinema, and also by those who want to get a good idea about this moment, this movement, and its leading figures." —The Stranger
"An anniversary present for the French New Wave, this doc gives the gift of received wisdom" —Seattle Weekly
Cheap Magic Inside
Aug 20, 2010
(Vincent Moon, Chryde, France, 2007, HD, 60 min)
Co-directing with Chryde, Vincent went to New York to film the band Beirut play all the tracks from their album Flying Club Cup in bars, rooms, parks and even in an ice-cream truck garage.
Weaving Worlds
Co-presented by Longhouse Media and National Geographic All Roads Film Project
Aug 21, 2010
(Bennie Klain, USA, 2008, DigiBeta, 57 min)
Weaving Worlds highlights the untold stories of the personalities and characters involved in the making and selling of Navajo rugs. The film presents a compelling and intimate portrait of economic and cultural survival through the art of weaving in the face of increased globalization.
Miroir Noir: Arcade Fire
Please note updated showtime!
Aug 21, 2010
(Vincent Morisset, Canada/France, 2008, HD, 70 min)
Moon gives us an alternative to the traditional 'making-of' documentary and concert film with Miroir Noir, which follows Arcade Fire on their world tour.
Take Away Shows: Expanded Cinema
Aug 22, 2010
At a time when MTV has reduced music to a lonely M, Vincent Moon deconstructs the music film and breathes a new lease of life into the genre. His Take Away Shows continue to impress music fans, who, via the internet, experience some of music’s biggest names playing in the streets of Paris, narrow staircases, mine shafts and even on the can!
"If you've never seen them, they're amazing intimate musical fragments of famous artists taken from Vincent Moon's handheld camera" —The Stranger
Burning
screens with: Adelia I Want To Love
Aug 23, 2010
(Vincent Moon, Nathanaël Le Scouarnec, 2009, HD, 50 min)
The Scottish band Mogwai performs a luminous show in front of a stunned crowd. As if time stood still, the audience is transported along by musical waves, both poetic and violent. Directors Vincent Moon and Nathanaël Le Scouarnec guide us into the Glaswegian dream that Mogwai’s music invokes.
Adelia I Want To Love
screens with: Burning
Aug 23, 2010
(Teresa Eggers, Vincent Moon, France, 2009, HD, 25 min)
Adelia is two stories in one: The first is about 90-year-old Adelie, who has never been to a real concert. The other is about the frontman of the band Mogwai, who has played scores of concerts.
REM 6 Days
Aug 24, 2010
(Vincent Moon, Jeremiah, USA/France, 2009, 60 min)
In REM 6 Days we follow lead singer Michael Stipe on stage and off, in performances and interviews. Stipe calls the experience "an experiment in terror," and with his digitally distorted, black-and-white and dry-as-dust images, Moon provides the contents with its right experimental form.
Little Blue Nothing
Aug 25, 2010
(Vincent Moon, Antoine Viviani, France, 2009, HD, 51 min)
Everything quivers with sensuality in this touching love story about Czech cellists Irena and Vojtech Havel, who, over 15 years, lived together in a fascinating symbiotic partnership. In addition to a long lineup of brilliant neoclassical works (evoking memories of Arvo Pärt's minimalism, ECM's new jazz, Eastern European folk music and Indian ragas), the duo—performing under the name The Havels—has worked in theatre, film, pictorial arts and poetry.
La Faute des Fleurs
Aug 26, 2010
(Vincent Moon, France, 2008, HD, 70 min)
After having been told by a fan about an incredible tale, Viincent Moon traveled to Japan to meet a 59-year-old Japanese folk singer and cult figure Kazuki Tomokawa, better known as "the screaming philosopher." This deeply moving portrait brings to life the flawed Tomokawa, bungled relationships, gambling habit and all.
Looking For Eric
Aug 27 - Sep 02, 2010
(Ken Loach, UK, 2009, 116 min)
Cannes crowd-pleaser Looking for Eric is a tender, life-affirming, and hilarious nod to the possibility of second chances. When down-and-out postal worker Eric Bishop (Steve Evets) reaches the end of his rope—his two layabout stepsons are set on driving him to an early grave, his second marriage is in ruins, and that's just the start of his troubles±he finds some unexpected motivation to turn his life around and win back the love of his life from none other than his idol, the legendary footballer Eric Cantona of Manchester United.
"Genuinely heartwarming" —Seattle Times
"Mixing light magical realism with a more familiar brand of working-class gloom, Loach's warm comic touch elevates the story of an aging man cracking up in plain sight." —Seattle Weekly
Around a Small Mountain
Aug 27 - Sep 02, 2010
(Jacques Rivette, France/Italy, 2009, 35mm, 84 min)
The French New Wave titan (and subject of our 2007 retrospective) Jacques Rivette is back with this winning depiction of a chance encounter on a mountain road. Vittorio (Sergio Castellitto) is compelled to tag along with Kate (Jane Birkin) as she returns to the circus community she left years ago.
"Marvelous to contemplate and changing slightly every time you see it." —NY Times
The 5th Annual Seattle Bike-In
Co-Presented by CapitolHillSeattle.com Free!
Sponsored by The Stranger, The VERA Project, 2020 Cycle, The Bikery, KBCS 91.3FM and EcoMetro's Chinook Book
Aug 28, 2010
The Bike-In is a celebration of green transportation, our urban community and summer nights! Grab your bike, grab your friends—we'll see you for our annual event in Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill!
Mamma Roma
Sep 03 - Sep 09, 2010
(Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy, 1962, 35mm, 105 min)
Perhaps Pasolini’s greatest film, Mamma Roma packs an emotional wallop. Anna Magnani’s Mamma is a prostitute who tries to go respectable, bundling her troubled teenaged son off to Rome to tend a produce stand. The return of her pimp thwarts her new life.
"Suggested: Draws its inspiration from the poetry of thought, philosophy" —The Stranger
"SW Pick: Very much a transitional work for Pier Paulo Pasolini, his 1962 Mamma Roma is also about a woman (Anna Magnani) and nation in transition." —Seattle Weekly
Wheedle's Groove
Sponsored by KBCS 91.3 FM and the Vera Project Special guests every night!
Sep 03 - Sep 09, 2010
(Jennifer Maas, Seattle, 2009, DigiBeta, 87 min)
Seattle, get ready for some Soul searching! Jennifer Maas' Wheedle's Groove provides a look back some thirty years before grunge music put Seattle on the map, when late 1960s groups like Black on White Affair, The Soul Swingers and Cold, Bold & Together filled airwaves and packed clubs every night of the week.
"Four stars: the best expression of the city's zeitgeist in recent memory" —Seattle Times
"Don't miss: Sheds light on several of the musicians, producers, and managers who fostered that exciting, fleeting moment in Seattle music history." —The Stranger