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Kubo and the Two Strings
FALL CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
Hands-On Learning for Creatives & Community Members Art of Filmmaking I
Mastering the Interview
Starts September 26 (12 weeks)
Starts October 2 (six weeks)
The 101 of digital filmmaking
Record and weave together real stories
Art of Filmmaking II
Scratch, Paint, Animate!
Starts September 27 (12 weeks)
October 15 or November 12 (half day)
The 201 of digital filmmaking
Animation fun for all ages
Basic Lighting
Screenwriting: Fundamentals
October 15 (half day)
Starts September 26 (ten weeks)
Primer on our rental light kits
Basics of dramatic scriptwriting
Botanicollage Filmmaking
Screenwriting: Advanced
September 23 (one day)
Starts September 28 (ten weeks)
Animate flowers, plants, and more
Take your work-in-progress home
Camera Operation: Arri Alexa
Sound Recording
August 26 (half day)
September 30 & October 7 (two days)
Primer on our primo rental camera
How to record high-quality audio
Camera Operation: Bolex
Stop Motion Animation
October 7 (half day)
Starts December 18 (five days)
16mm loading, metering, and film stocks
Winter Break camp for kids
Camera Operation: Canon XA-10
Super8mm Camera Operation
October 15 (half day)
September 16 (half day)
Primer on our intro-level rental camera
Shoot in the analog home movie format
Digital Cinematography
Super8mm Hand Processing
Starts September 28 (nine weeks)
September 30 (half day)
In-depth camera techniques
How to process and handle S8 negative
Digital Editing
Throw A Six Pack Over It
October 13–14 (two days)
November 4 (half day)
The basics with Final Cut Pro X
Hand process film using a beer brew
Digital Filmmaking for K-12 Teachers
Working With Actors for Women
October 13 (one day)
Starts October 2 (four weeks)
How filmmaking can enhance the curriculum
Direct talent with confidence
The Holy Mountain
Genrified! Cult & Other Curiosities (G!) Saturday, September 16, 9:30 pm The Holy Mountain, Mexico, 1973
dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky (114 mins., cult/fantasy, 35mm) An alchemist undertakes a journey with a messianic man and seven other totemic representatives to a holy site in Jordorowsky's crowning achievement.
Friday, October 27, 9:30 pm Near Dark, US, 1987
dir. Kathryn Bigelow, (94 mins., horror/western, 35mm)
A pack of road-tested vampires initiate a farm boy into their crew, perpetrating mayhem at night and driving from town to town by day.
Saturday, October 28, 9:30 pm Cat People, US, 1942
Friday Film Club (FFC)
$5 general admission with post-film discussion in the PAM galleries Friday, September 22, 5:30 pm City Lights, US, 1931
dir. Charlie Chaplin (87 mins., silent comedy, 35mm)
Chaplin’s last true silent, made well after the introduction of sound, follows his legendary Tramp’s relationship with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). As is characteristic, Chaplin also has much to say about modern life.
Friday, October 20, 5:30 pm The Exterminating Angel, Mexico, 1962
dir. Luis Buñuel (95 mins., comedy/drama, DCP)
Buñuel’s excoriating vision, skewering ruling-class mores, takes place in one room and features some of the Surrealist master’s most daring experiments with narrative.
dir. Jacques Tourneur, (73 mins., psychological horror, DCP) Produced by psychological horror visionary Val Lewton, Tourneur's Cat People stars Simone Simon as a Serbian immigrant whose old country fears point towards a terrible truth.
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Northwest Tracking (NWT)
The Film Center’s Northwest Tracking program showcases the work of independent filmmakers living and working in the Northwest—Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington—whose work reflects the vibrant cinematic culture of the region. Whether presenting single artist retrospectives, new features, documentaries, or inspired collections of short works, Northwest Tracking offers testimony to the creativity and talent in our flourishing media arts community. Mark your calendar for the 44th Northwest Filmmaker’ Festival, November 1–5, which will showcase more outstanding new work by regional filmmakers.
Animated Worlds: Stop-Motion Classics (AW)
Stop-motion animation has a history as long as cinema itself and a tremendous body of accomplished work by animators from throughout the world. While the bar has been set high, it hasn’t stopped Portland’s LAIKA—with four remarkable features completed—from raising that bar with each release. In conjunction with Animating Life: the Art, Science and Wonder of LAIKA, on view at the Portland Art Museum October 14–May 20, 2018, the Film Center will show their work and some of the classics of the genre on Sundays throughout the run. Along with the screenings, look for a range of family and adult production activities that will enhance appreciation of the magic of animation. The screenings are free with admission to the Museum. Sunday, October 15, 4 pm Kubo and the Two Strings, US, 2016 dir. Travis Knight (101 mins., stop-motion animation, DCP)
With the help of his shamisen—a magical musical instrument— Kubo must battle gods and monsters, including the vengeful Moon King and the evil twin sisters, to unlock the secret of his legacy, reunite his family, and fulfill his heroic destiny.
Sunday, October 22, 2 pm Chicken Run, US, 2000
dir. Nick Park and Peter Lord (84 mins., stop-motion animation, DCP)
The feature debut from the Academy Award-winning team behind the much-loved Wallace and Gromit shorts is a charming adventure set on a Yorkshire chicken farm. In the prison-like conditions, any chicken who doesn’t make her egg quota can meet a “fowl” fate.
Sunday, November 19, 2 pm Coraline, US, 2009
dir. Henry Selick (100 mins., stop-motion animation, DCP) Based on Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling novel, Coraline’s heroine is an adventurous girl (Dakota Fanning) who discovers a doorway to a parallel world in her home. LAIKA’s first feature film earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Animated Film. preceded by
Moongirl, US, 2005
dir. Henry Sellick (9 mins., stop-motion animation, DCP) A young boy out fishing when the moon goes dark is magically transported to restore its light.
Sunday, November 26, 2 pm Fantastic Mr. Fox, US, 2009
dir. Wes Anderson (87 mins., stop-motion animation, DCP)
Sunday, October 29, 4 pm Corpse Bride, US, 2005
Adapted from a story by children’s author Roald Dahl, Anderson’s only animated film is a stop-motion thrill ride through the secret world of animals by way of the terror that is factory farming.
Part merry and part macabre, this Academy Award nominee for the Best Animated Feature is a darkly enchanting musical fantasy offering a great mix of Halloween humor and horror.
Sunday, December 3, 2 pm Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the WereRabbit, UK/US, 2005
dir. Mike Johnson and Tim Burton (74 mins., stop-motion animation, 35mm)
dir. Steve Box and Nick Park (85 mins., stop-motion Sunday, November 5, 1 pm animation, DCP) The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Germany, 1926 Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, set out to discover the dir. Lotte Reiniger and Carl Koch (67 mins., stop-motion animation, DCP)
Climb aboard a flying horse and soar away to the kaleidoscopic world of The Arabian Nights and the story of an Arabian prince, an evil sorcerer, and a captured princess. This silhouetteanimation film is the oldest existing animated feature.
mystery (rabbits!) behind the garden destruction that plagues their village and threatens the annual giant vegetable growing contest.
All screenings will feature a visiting artist
Thursday, September 14, 7 pm Memory Wave Sediments: Films and Projection Performance by Colin Manning, Oregon, 1996–2017
dir. Colin Manning (70 mins., expanded cinema/ animation, 16mm/digital)
Animator Colin Manning presents an expanded cinema event featuring multiple 16mm projectors combined with handmade slides and live music followed by a selection of collage, optically printed, and direct animated films.
Tuesday, September 19, 7 pm Women in Film Portland: Member & Open Screening, Oregon, 2016–17 Various directors (65 mins, narrative/documentary, digital)
Women in Film Portland presents a program of new films from their members and hosts an NWFC Open Screening. Come early for a reception, learn more about the group, and submit your film for screening.
Thursday, September 21, 7 pm Caryn Cline: Organic Films, Washington,
2000–17 dir. Caryn Cline (70 mins., experimental, 16mm/digital)
Seattle filmmaker Caryn Cline presents an evening of her work focusing on material, biological processes, found footage, and documentary. Caryn will also present a workshop on Botanicollage on Saturday, September 23.
Tuesday, September 26, 7 pm Poetic Migrations, Oregon, 2016–17
dirs. Roland Dahwen Wu, Stacey Tran, Jonathan Raissi, Kalimah Abioto, Samiya Bashir (60 mins., documentary/experimental, digital) Poetry, science fiction, and the immigrant experience collide in three films by Portland filmmakers.
dir. Henry Selick (79 mins., stop-motion and live action, 35mm)
Chicken Run
dir. Reed Lindsay (78 mins., documentary, DCP)
Charlie Hardy, a 75-year old former Catholic priest, runs a self-financed grassroots campaign for the Senate in Wyoming against the powerful GOP machine. A timely tale of politics and examination of who serves who in our nation’s government.
Wednesday, October 11, 7 pm Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean They’re Not After You: Short Films by Bryan Hiltner, Oregon, 2012–17 dir. Bryan Hiltner (72 mins., narrative, digital)
Bryan Hiltner’s short films salute horror, suspense, mystery, and dark comedy.
Thursday, October 19, 7 pm Citizen Blue: The Life and Art of Cinema Master James Blue, Oregon, 2017 dir. Dan Miller (60 mins., documentary, DCP)
In conjunction with the James Blue Alliance, we present University of Oregon film professor Dan Miller’s documentary about Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, educator, and historian James Blue. Following the screening will be a panel discussing Blue’s role in helping pave the way for regional film organizations like the Northwest Film Center. Reception before the film.
Wednesday, October 25, 6 pm Best of the 43rd Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival, Oregon, Washington, Montana, B.C., 2016 Various directors (72 mins., documentary/narrative/ animation/experimental, DCP)
The Best of the 43rd Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival features a few of the best short films from 2016. Come celebrate last year as we look forward to the 44th Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival, kicking off on November 1. Charlie Vs. Goliath
Sunday, November 12, 2 pm James and the Giant Peach, UK/US, 1996
Based on Roald Dahl's delightfully dark children's story, Selick’s (Coraline) imaginative film tells the tale of an unhappy orphaned boy who makes friends with some insects inside an enchanted peach and finds a world of adventure.
Thursday, September 28, 7 pm Charlie Vs. Goliath, Idaho, 2017
Poetic Migrations
By the Time it Gets Dark
Weekend Engagements (WE) Friday, September 8, 7 pm Sunday, September 10, 4 pm PICA and NWFC present Bight of the Twin, US/Benin, 2016
Friday, October 13, 7 pm Saturday, October 14, 5 pm Sunday, October 15, 6:30 pm Ex Libris—New York Public Library, US, 2017
Bight of the Twin, an experimental visual and musical journey, tells the story of musician and artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and filmmaker Hazel Hill McCarthy III's journey to Benin to explore the origins of the Vodoun (Voodoo) religion. Presented in conjunction with TBA 17.
Wiseman’s 42nd film offers a behind-the-scenes portrait of one of the world’s great institutions of learning as it works to sustain traditional services while adapting to the digital age.
dir. Hazel Hill McCarthy III (55 mins., documentary, DCP)
Saturday, September 9, 4:30 & 7 pm Sunday, September 10, 7 pm Blow-Up, UK/Italy, 1966
Case of the Mondays (M)
This revolving, ongoing series of classic films and cutting-edge new work will get you moving into the week. CLASSIC AMERICAN CINEMA FIRST MONDAYS
Sunday, September 3, 7 pm Monday, September 4, 7 pm Double Indemnity, US, 1944
dir. Billy Wilder (107 mins., film noir, 35mm)
Wilder’s atmospheric masterpiece is perhaps the greatest film noir of them all, in which a bored housewife (Barbara Stanwyck) and a smooth-talking life insurance man (Fred MacMurray) plot the murder of her husband.
Monday, October 2, 7 pm Killer of Sheep, US, 1978
dir. Charles Burnett (80 mins., drama, DCP)
A piercing yet tender look, in glorious black-and-white 16mm cinematography, into African American life in post-’65 Watts through the lives of a slaughterhouse worker and his family.
EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA SECOND MONDAYS
Friday, September 15, 7 pm Saturday, September 16, 7 pm Dawson City: Frozen Time, US, 2016
dir. Bill Morrison (120 mins., documentary, DCP)
Fashioned mainly from a cache of old nitrate films found frozen and forgotten in a once booming gold-rust outpost in the Yukon, the story of the town and cinema history unfold through Morrison’s collage of otherworldly images. “An instantaneously recognizable masterpiece.”—New York Times.
Friday, September 22, 8 pm Sunday, September 24, 4:30 & 7 pm No Man’s Land, US, 2017
dir. David Byars (82 mins., documentary, DCP)
A riveting chronicle of the standoff when a well-armed band of anti-government militants led by the sons of renegade rancher Cliven Bundy took control of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
Friday, September 29, 7 pm Saturday, September 30, 4:30 & 7 pm Dolores, US, 2017 dir. Peter Bratt (95 mins, documentary, DCP)
Though icon Cesar Chavez has gotten most of the credit, United Farmworkers Union co-founder Dolores Huerta played an equally important role in the Union’s decades-long struggle for civil and labor rights.
A deeply meditative and fractured remembrance of the Thammasat University Massacre of 1976, by turns a personal, collective, and aesthetic adventure.
Sunday, October 1, 7pm The Illinois Parables, Xenoi, & Second Sighted, US, 2014-2016
Monday, October 9, 7 pm Sixty Six, US, 2015
dir. Lewis Klahr (90 mins., experimental animation, DCP) Klahr’s mysterious, atmospheric collage animations, developed over a 13-year period and episodically unfolding, evoke the number 66 in all its various mythologically American meanings.
ESSENTIAL FOREIGN CINEMA THIRD MONDAYS
Monday, September 18, 7 pm La chinoise, France, 1967
dir. Jean-Luc Godard (96 mins., Godard, DCP)
One of Godard’s most thrilling experiments portraying radical politics stars Jean-Pierre Léaud (The 400 Blows) and Anne Wiazemsky (Au Hasard Balthazar) as young Parisian devotees of Mao in search of revolution.
Monday, October 16, 7 pm Playtime, France, 1967
Friday, October 20, 8 pm Saturday, October 21, 4:30 pm Sunday, October 22, 7 pm Nocturama, France, 2016
dir. Bertrand Bonello (130 mins., thriller, DCP)
dir. Michelangelo Antonioni (111 mins., thriller, DCP) French director Bertrand Bonello imagines Paris in a state Antonioni’s landmark film set a new course for the cinema of siege in this provocative, troubling response to the with its stylistic flourishes, jazzy score, and existential probing contemporary age of terror. of the relationship between image, representation, and reality in modern culture. Saturday, October 21, 7 pm
Monday, September 11, 7 pm By the Time it Gets Dark, Thailand/France/
Qatar/Netherlands, 2016 dir. Anocha Suwichakornpong (105 mins., drama, DCP)
dir. Frederick Wiseman (197 mins., documentary, DCP)
dir. Deborah Stratman (81 mins., experimental documentary, DCP)
Stratman’s recent work displays an intense focus on landscape. In The Illinois Parables, landscape is decoded as a structuring element for the abuse of power in the face of resistance; in Xenoi and Second Sighted, it’s deployed as a mythical force, mysterious in both origin and meaning.
Friday, October 6, 7 pm Saturday, October 7, 7 pm Sunday, October 8, 4:30 pm The Reagan Show, US, 2017
dir. Pacho Velez, Sierra Pettengill (75 mins., documentary, DCP)
Our current president wasn’t the first to ride media and celebrity fame to the White House. Trading on his celebrity and canny understanding of political theater, Ronald Reagan transitioned from Hollywood actor to politician to finally become the 40th POTUS.
Sunday, October 22, 4:30 pm Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, US, 2016 dir.Steve James (88 mins., documentary, DCP)
As the giant banks that caused the mortgage crisis in 2008 went free of prosecution, only one institution, a tiny New York Chinatown bank called Abacus, ever faced criminal charges. A suspenseful story of justice and America on trial.
Thursday, October 26, 7 pm Score: A Film Music Documentary, US, 2016 dir. Matt Schrader (93 mins., documentary, DCP)
Tracing key developments in the evolution of film music, and exploring some of cinema’s most iconic soundtracks and practitioners, Score celebrates the creative process that make film soundtracks unforgettable.
Friday, October 27, 7 pm Monday, October 30, 7 pm Rat Film, US, 2016
dir. Theo Anthony (82 mins., documentary, DCP)
Tackling twin issues of rat infestation and racially-motivated red lining practices in Baltimore is no easy task, but Anthony's work—acutely observed, poetic, imaginative in scope and method—is no traditional, staid documentary.
Saturday, October 28, 2 pm When the Mountains Tremble, US, 1983
dir. Pamela Yates, Newton Thomas Sigel (90 mins., documentary, DCP)
A compelling testimony to the struggle of the largely Mayan Indian population in Guatemala. Focusing especially on the narrative of Rigoberta Menchú, the controversial Mayan rights and peace advocate who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992.
Saturday, October 28, 4 pm Granito: How To Nail A Dictator, US, 2011
Kid Flicks (KF) Saturday, September 16, 2 pm The Secret Garden, UK, 1993
dir. Agnieszka Holland (101 mins., family drama, 35mm) Wandering among the countless rooms and expansive grounds of her uncle’s mansion, a young girl finds a locked door in the garden. Where it leads will become her own secret world.
Sunday, September 24, 2 pm Singin’ in the Rain, US 1952
dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen (102 mins., musical comedy, 35 mm)
The greatest musical ever made? Many would vote for this exuberant valentine to the days when movies learned to talk.
Saturday, September 30, 2 pm Heidi, Germany, Germany/Switzerland, 2016 dir. Alain Gsponer (105 mins., drama, DCP)
Heidi is sent to live with her cantankerous grandfather in the glorious mountains of Switzerland, only to have her world turn upside down once more when she’s dispatched to Frankfurt by her aunt.
Sunday, October 8, 2 pm Bugsy Malone, US, 1976
dir. Alan Parker (90 mins., comedy musical, 35 mm) In a nostalgic, prohibition-set gangster musical cast entirely with children, every crime cliché imaginable generate equal measure of charm and laughs.
Saturday, October 14, 2 pm Ernest and Celestine, France, 2012
dir. Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner (80 mins, animated, DCP) The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine.
Saturday, October 21, 2 pm The Secret of Roan Inish, Ireland, 1994
dir. John Sayles (103 mins, dramatic fable, DCP)
In the late 1940s, ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland, the beginning of a search to uncover the serets imbedded in her family's folklore.
Sunday, October 29, 2 pm The Gold Rush, US, 1925
dir. Charlie Chaplin (72 mins., silent comedy, 35mm)
In search of gold in turn-of-the-century Alaska, Charlie takes refuge with a fellow prospector in an isolated, comically imbalanced cabin where hunger forces him to eat that famous boiled shoe. Singin' in the Rain
dir. Pamela Yates (100 mins., documentary, DCP)
Sometimes a film doesn’t just document history, it makes history. Part political thriller, part memoir, Granito tells a haunting tale of genocide and justice in Guatemala that spans four decades, and became evidence in an international war crimes trial.
Saturday, October 28, 6:30 pm Sunday, October 29, 7 pm 500 Years, US, 2017
The Square
dir. Pamela Yates (105 mins., documentary, DCP)
Completing her epic trilogy about Guatemala, which launched with When the Mountains Tremble (1983), 500 Years portrays a sweeping chronicle of a new age of hope.
Blow-Up
dir. Jacques Tati (115 mins., comedy, 35mm)
One of the most subtly hilarious films of all time, Tati’s crystalline vision of modern life—rife with absurdity and inconsistency—is as profoundly unsettling now as it was 50 years ago.
SILVER SCREEN CLUB PREVIEW
DOC NIGHT FOURTH MONDAYS
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the year’s Cannes Film Festival, Östlund’s biting social satire is centered on a Swedish art museum curator, a stolen cell phone, and a PR stunt that goes horribly wrong. Admission to Silver Screen Club members only.
Sunday, October 8, 7 pm The Square, Sweden/Germany, 2017
dir. Ruben Östlund (142 mins., satire/drama, DCP)
Sunday, September 17, 7 pm Monday, October 23, 7 pm Night School, US, 2016
500 Years
dir. Andrew Cohn (85 mins., documentary, DCP)
Cohn’s tender, empathetic film follows three adult students—Melissa, Shynika, and Greg—seeking their high school diplomas in Indianapolis. With many students facing dwindling employment prospects and the lure of the streets, the program, many of which are starting nationwide, offers a bridge to a better life.
MISSION. The Northwest Film Center is a regional media arts resource and service organization founded to encourage the study, appreciation and utilization of the moving image arts; to foster their artistic and professional excellence; and to help build a climate in which they flourish. WATCH. Through year-round LEARN. Individuals find and cultivate MAKE. Regional filmmakers are exhibition programs surveying cinema past their personal voices as storytellers through supported as artists, educators, mentors, and present, audiences and filmmakers education programs and innovative connectors, and leaders, strengthening come together to explore our region and the collaborations which advance media literacy cinema's place in the creative, social and world through the moving image arts. and engage the next generation. economic sectors of the community.
Monday, September 25, 7 pm In Pursuit of Silence, US et al., 2015
dir. Patrick Shen (81 mins., documentary, DCP)
The Northwest Film Center is funded in part by the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, Regional Arts & Culture Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Oregon Arts Commission, The Ted R. Gamble Film Fund, the Citizens of Portland through the Arts and Education Access Fund, and the support of numerous sponsors, members, and friends.
Shen’s ruminative, hypnotic portrait of several silenceseekers throughout the world delves deep into the thinking about silence and its fraught existence in our increasingly deafening modern world. The Reagan Show
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