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Charles Lloyd: Arrows Into Infinity
Director Jeffery Morse in attendance Thursday!
Oct 21 - Oct 24, 2013
(Dorothy Darr, Jeffrey Morse, 2012, USA, 120 min)
Arrows Into Infinity is a journey in sound through the unusual life and career of jazz legend Charles Lloyd, one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 1960s, whose music crossed traditional boundaries and explored new territories. Lloyd was catapulted into worldwide fame in his 20s, and by his early 30, he abandoned his life of touring and recording and went into seclusion in Big Sur, CA. Here, Lloyd and those who worked with him over the last five decades help us better understand this enigmatic man and his spiritual pursuits through music.
The Institute
Seattle premiere!
Oct 18 - Oct 24, 2013
(Spencer McCall, United States, 2012, Digital, 92 min)
Enigma, wonder and mystery can be yours, courtesy of The Jejune Institute, who created a sprawling urban adventure/role-playing game that spanned not hours, but years. Thousands of participants in a San Francisco-based alternate reality game ended up getting more than they bargained for. Told from the players’ perspectives, The Institute looks over a precipice at an emergent new art form, where real world and fictional narratives merge to create unforeseen and often unsettling consequences.
Flower Boy Drama Club
Co-presented with JK Pop!
Sep 26 - Nov 21, 2013
Handsome playboy Han-gyul hires hardworking Eun-chan to pretend to be his gay lover (to sabotage his family's attempts to marry him off). What starts as a screwball comedy becomes a moving portrait of a man and woman falling deeply in love.
Tiger Eyes
Seattle premiere!
Oct 25 - Oct 31, 2013
(Lawrence Blume, United States, 2012, DCP, 92 min)
Despite Judy Blume's 40 years of writing bestsellers for children and young adults, Tiger Eyes is the first major motion picture to be made from any of her 28 books. Appropriately, it's a family affair. Directed by her son, Lawrence Blume, the film is a coming-of-age story about Davey, a 17 year-old girl whose life is upended by personal tragedy.
The Last Time I Saw Macao
Seattle premiere!
Oct 25 - Oct 31, 2013
(João Rui Guerra da Mata and João Pedro Rodrigues, 2013, Portugal/France, DCP, 85 min)
Rarely since the brooding noir films of the 1940s has a leading man been so captivating as in The Last Time I Saw Macao, a 2013 cult favorite in which an unseen narrator returns to his childhood home of Macao to track down a friend who has fallen into dangerous company.
The Lesser Blessed
Seattle premiere!
Oct 26, 2013
(Anita Doron, 2012, United States, Digital, 86 min)
Based on the celebrated novel by Richard Van Camp, The Lesser Blessed is an eye‐opening depiction of what it's like to be a vulnerable teenager in today’s modern world. Through the eyes of Larry Sole, a First Nation teenager, we meet three unlikely friends isolated in a small rural town who discover what they can of life and love amid racial tensions and the recklessness of youth.
Music Craft: Nine Inch Nails
Sponsored by Easy Street Records
Oct 31, 2013
This Portland stop was near the 2008 tour's end for Nine Inch Nails. Reznor’s 2007-2008 albums supplied the majority of the set at the Rose Garden, where NIN played a vast musical vocabulary with transfixing lighting and set design. Part of Music Craft, our ongoing series featuring rare concert footage from music legends.
Viola
Friday 7pm film introduction from KUOW/Everett Herald film critic Robert Horton!
Nov 01 - Nov 07, 2013
(Matías Piñeiro, 2012, Argentina, DCP, 63 min)
From Argentina’s youngest narrative visionary comes a new spin on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, a film so visually rapid and lively that you’ll forget the script was ever written for a stage. In Viola, set in the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Piñeiro combines his own storytelling signatures—rollercoaster cinematography and a boggling tangle of character plotlines—with one or two of Shakespeare’s own, blurring the line between classic tales, make-believe notions and the film’s own reality. Watch out: there may even be a play within a play.
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
Director in attendance! Special pre-screening poetry reading on Sunday, 7pm, from poet Thomas Pruiksma!
Nov 01 - Nov 07, 2013
(Stephen Silha/Eric Slade/Dawn Logsdon, 2013, United States, Digital, 83 min)
When artist James Broughton came on the scene in the 1940s, he struck with a personality so big and joyous that the film community could not help but follow. In the spirit of Broughton himself, Big Joy’s celebration of an experimental filmmaker’s life is a lively collage of movie clips, diary entries and unreserved conversations with the people who knew him best (including former lover Pauline Kael).
Small Joys From James Broughton
Nov 02 - Nov 03, 2013
A poet, author and filmmaker, James Broughton (christened the "great and wise master of the American avant-garde" by critic Amos Vogel) attempted to use cinema as a poetic statement. He took as his subject matter love, sex, the human body and dream imagery, rendered with a playful, whimsical and sometimes erotic touch. This program features a selection of some of Broughton’s best short work.
Gun Crazy
Part of our Forbidden Love Double Feature!
Nov 08, 2013
(Joseph H. Lewis, USA, 1950, 35mm, 86 min)
When two sharpshooters fall in love while in a traveling show, will their good natures survive run-ins with a lecherous boss and a heartless police force—much less their own obsession with each other?
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Nov 08 - Nov 14, 2013
(Sophie Huber, 2012, Switzerland, 77 min)
This mesmerizing, impressionistic portrait of an iconic actor is comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films, and his own heart-breaking renditions of American folk songs. Stunningly lensed in both color and black and white by Seamus McGarvey, Harry Dean Stanton explores the actor’s enigmatic outlook on life and his unexploited talents as a musician, while including candid reminiscences from David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard, Kris Kristofferson and Debbie Harry.
The Chase
Part of our Forbidden Love Double Feature!
Nov 08, 2013
(Arthur D. Ripley, USA, 1946, 35mm, 86 min)
A chauffeur, working for a wealthy sadist, makes the mistake of falling in love with his boss’s suicidal wife. Combining an original setting and timely story elements, Arthur D. Ripley crafts a highly original film noir in The Chase.
Mantrap
Part of our Silent Starlet Double Feature!
Live music from Lovecitylove!
Nov 09, 2013
(Victor Fleming, USA, 1926, 35mm, 75 min)
When two city slickers decide to get away for a relaxing camping trip in Mantrap, their plans are turned inside out by Alverna, a bored local housewife, who quickly awakens her husband’s jealousy by flirting with the visitors. But when the men fighting for her begin to fight over her future, who—or what—will Alverna finally choose?
Midnight Madness
Part of our Silent Starlet Double Feature! Live music from Lovecitylove!
Nov 09, 2013
(F. Harmon Weight, USA, 1928, 35mm, 65 min)
Midnight Madness is a 1928 retelling of The Taming of the Shrew in the most unlikely of settings: a South African diamond mine, where a bitter husband brings his wife after discovering that she married him for money. Far away from the familiar world, however, this husband and wife discover the last thing they thought they’d ever find.
Thirty Day Princess
Part of our Comedy Gold Double Feature!
Nov 10, 2013
(Marion Gering, 1934, USA, 35mm, 74 min)
In Thirty Day Princess, the offer of big money bribes an actress to impersonate royalty while engaging with a handsome businessman, played by Cary Grant.
International House + Busy Bodies
Part of our Comedy Gold Double Feature!
Nov 10, 2013
Featuring a cast that Film Daily described in 1933 as “a fortune in marquee material,” International House rides high on dizzy turns by W.C. Fields, George Burns, Gracie Allen and Peggy Hopkins Joyce, making her sound film debut. Following International House, cleanse your palate with a glimpse of Laurel and Hardy’s battle against the fiends of capitalism in Busy Bodies—fiends like grumpy coworkers, unwieldy machinery and their own questionable intellects.
Supernatural
Part of our Thrills and Chills Double Feature!
Nov 11, 2013
(Victor Halperin, USA, 1933, 35mm, 65 min)
In a role that proves she was more than the queen of comedy, Carole Lombard stars in Supernatural, where a quack spiritualist allows a very real phantom to invade her mind.
Double Door
Part of our Thrills and Chills Double Feature!
Nov 11, 2013
(Charles Vidor, USA, 1934, 35mm, 75 min)
Mary Morris gives a bone-chilling performance as an avaricious spinster in Double Door: when a new sister-in-law comes to visit, she learns that the house contains a secret vault with a family treasure—if only she can escape being locked in with it.
That Cold Day in the Park
Nov 12, 2013
(Robert Altman, 1969, United States, 35mm, 112 min)
Even enthusiastic Robert Altman fans may have missed the film that scored the (then-young) director a contract for M*A*S*H—only in recent years has this strangely poetic psychological thriller gained acclaim as an overlooked masterpiece. In That Cold Day in the Park, Altman dives into the cloistered world of Frances, a lonely spinster, who rescues a young man from the rain, only to reveal how far she will go to keep him as her own.
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
Part of our Folk Heroes Double Feature!
Nov 13, 2013
(Thom Andersen, USA, 1975, 35mm 59 min)
One hundred years after his invention of the zoopraxiscope—the world’s first motion picture projector—Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer tells the story of Muybridge’s life and work during an explosive turning point in photographic history.
Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel With the World
Part of our Folk Heroes Double Feature!
Nov 13, 2013
(Shirley Clarke, Robert Hughes, USA, 35mm, 1963, 51 min)
Shirley Clarke’s Academy-Award-winning portrait of Robert Frost is a film that sprang from the root of a surprising friendship between the director and poet, two of the 20th century’s most celebrated nonconformists. Filmed in the year before Frost’s death, the film reveals a man who, despite resisting definition as romantic or modernist, carved a foothold in American poetry that would immortalize his work.
Music Craft: David Bowie
Sponsored by Easy Street Records
Nov 14, 2013
David Bowie and the Story of Ziggy Stardust is the unseen BBC documentary that tracks the beginnings of Ziggy and how he transformed art into fashion. Many new and unforgettable interviews from the original Spiders personnel are included in the film. As it documented this formative process for Bowie, the BBC hit on the key to his genius. Part of Music Craft, our ongoing series featuring rare concert footage from music legends.
Framing Pictures
Free event!
Feb 28 - Jul 20, 2014
Join us for a free, lively monthly discussion led by long-time Seattle film critics (and occasional guests) who have much to say on the subject of cinephilia past, present and future. The July conversation includes former Film Comment editor Richard Jameson, Everett Herald/KUOW critic Robert Horton and Bruce Reid.
Nostalghia
New 35mm print!
Nov 15 - Nov 20, 2013
(Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983, Russia, 35mm, 120 min)
A metaphysical exploration of spiritual isolation and Russian identity, Tarkovsky’s (Solaris, Stalker) penultimate film Nostalghia follows Russian expatriate and misanthropic poet Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror) as he travels to Italy to conduct research on an 18th-century composer. In the course of his study, he is overcome by melancholy and a longing for his home country—a sentiment reflective of the exiled Tarkovsky’s own struggle with displacement.
Bastards
Nov 15 - Nov 21, 2013
(Claire Denis, France, 2013, 83 min)
Four years is too long between films, especially when we're talking about director Claire Denis. Denis' latest foray into the gritty underside of human desire, Bastards, is an enthralling, elliptical drama of familial betrayal and revenge. Taut, shocking and possessed with a stark beauty, this is a film that will leave you hypnotised and guessing all the way until the devastating final shot.
E Haku Inoa
Co-presented with Longhouse Media Director in attendance! Seattle premiere! 5:30pm reception with eats from Marination Station!
Nov 16 - Nov 17, 2013
(Christen Hepuakoa Marquez, 2013, United States, Digital, 57 min)
A young, multi-racial Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) woman, filmmaker Christen Hepuakoa Marquez, sets out to discover the meaning of her incredibly lengthy Hawaiian name from her estranged mother (whose diagnosis as schizophrenic in the 80′s caused their family separation). Christen discovers not only her self within the name, but gains a whole new perspective on the idea of sanity and how cultural differences can sometimes muddle its definition.
The Haumana
Co-presented with Longhouse Media Seattle premiere!
Actor Saitia Faaifo in attendance!
Nov 16, 2013
(Keo Woolford 2013, United States, Digital, 90 min)
In the hula tradition, haumana is the Hawaiian term for students and a kumu is the master teacher. The haumana, Hawaiian-born artist Keo Woolford’s directorial debut chronicles the challenges of an unlikely candidate appointed as the new kumu of a high school boys’ hula class.
Autumn Members Party
Free member event!
Nov 21, 2013
Join us for open bar, mingling, and a sneak peak at our newest Live at the Film Forum show, created by local writer Rebecca Brown. All current Film Forum members are welcome to attend.
Punk In Africa
Nov 22 - Nov 24, 2013
(Keith Jones and Deon Maas, 2012, South Africa/Czech Republic/Zimbabwe/Mozambique, 82 min)
Punk music and politics were bedfellows from the beginning: the Sex Pistols’ anthem, “God Save the Queen,” set down a manifesto for angry youth and their power, and though punk’s flame burned quickly, its imprint remained. Punk in Africa tells an unexpected and mostly hidden (even secret and banned) part of the story, the impact that punk had on southern African nations.
Le Joli Mai
New restoration! 50th anniversary Back by popular demand!
Special film introduction and post-screening discussion with writer/programmer Philip Wohlstetter!
Nov 22, 2013
(Pierre Lhomme and Chris Marker, 1963, France, DCP, 145 min)
Exactly half a century ago, a small film crew took to the streets of Paris and conducted casual interviews with random people that evolved into a groundbreaking work of nonfiction collage. If you have ever wondered whether an hour or two is enough to capture a society at a fleeting moment in its history, come celebrate this film’s return on its 50th birthday.