JANUARY/MARCH 2018
Reel Music 35 Animated Worlds: Stop-Motion Classics Genrified! Cult & Other Curiosities Case of the Mondays Kid Flicks Carl Theodor Dreyer Robert Frank: Frank Perspectives PLUS... SPECIAL SCREENINGS NORTHWEST TRACKING
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Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba
CLASSES & WORKSHOPS JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018
Genrified! Cult & Other Curiosities (G!)
Art of Filmmaking I
Digital Cinematography for Teens
Saturday, January 13, 9:30 pm Altered States, US, 1980
Starts the week of January 23 (12 weeks)
Starts the week of February 10 (5 weeks)
The 101 of digital filmmaking
Develop your creative eye
Art of Filmmaking II
Digital Editing: Final Cut Pro X
Starts the week of January 24 (12 weeks)
Starts the week of February 8 (5 weeks)
The 201 of digital filmmaking
The basics using pro software
Basic Lighting
Digital Editing: iMovie
February 17 (half day)
Starts the week of January 27 (half day)
Use a light kit to create various effects
The basics using consumer software
Breaking In at the Entry Level
Screenwriting: Fundamentals
January 20 (half day)
Starts the week of January 25 (10 weeks)
How to secure entry level film opportunities
Basics of dramatic scriptwriting
Camera Operation: Arri Alexa
Sound Recording
February 3 (half day)
Starts March 3 (two days)
Primer on our digital cinema rental camera
How to record high quality audio
Camera Operation: Bolex
Stop Motion Animation
February 3 (half day)
Starts the week of January 22 (9 weeks)
Primer on our 16mm rental camera
Camera Operation: Canon XA-10
2D storytelling with Dragonframe
Stop Motion Animation Intensive
dir. Ken Russell (102 mins., sci-fi, 35mm)
Based on the novel by Paddy Chayefsky, William Hurt stars as Edward Jessup, a psychologist who dabbles into research involving psychedelic substances and sensory deprivation tanks.
In this audacious Technicolor fantasy (newly restored), WWII airman David Niven finds himself summoned to heaven after surviving a plane crash that should have killed him.
Sex and violence bleed together in Claire Denis' erotic horror tale of an American scientist (Vincent Gallo) on honeymoon in Paris whose ulterior motives bring him into the orbit of a mysteriously seductive and dangerous woman (Béatrice Dalle).
Monday, January 15, 7:30 pm Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, US, 2017
dir. Claire Denis (101 mins., horror/thriller, 35mm)
Saturday, March 10, 9:30 pm Rubin and Ed, United Kingdom, 1991
dir. Trent Harris (82 mins., cult/comedy, 35mm)
Down on his luck salesman Ed (WKRP in Cincinnati's Howard Hesseman) is peddling spots in a get-rich-quick real estate seminar when he meets eccentric recluse Rubin (Crispin Glover), who convinces him to hit the road to the desert to bury his beloved (and currently frozen) cat.
February 17 (half day)
Saturday, March 24, 9:30 pm Videodrome, Canada, 1983
Digital Cinematography
Write Your Own Web Series
Starts the week of January 24 (9 weeks)
Starts January 23 (10 weeks)
Cable television broadcaster Max Renn (James Woods) discovers a transgressive pirate TV station that behaves like an opiate capable of rending both mind and flesh.
In-depth camera techniques
Writing in the episodic style for your web channel
dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (104 mins., comedy/drama, DCP)
Saturday, January 20, 9:30 pm Trouble Every Day, France, 2001
3D character animation with the founder of Claymation—Starts June 23 (5 days)
Primer on our intro level HD rental camera
Friday, January 7, 7 pm Saturday, January 8, 4:30 & 7 pm Sunday, January 9, 4:30 & 7 pm new digital restoration! A Matter of Life & Death, UK, 1946
dir. David Cronenberg (87 mins., sci-fi/horror, 35mm)
dir. Tracy Heather Strain (118 mins., documentary, DCP) A moving account of the life of Black playwright, communist, feminist, lesbian, and outspoken trailblazer Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun. Free.
Sunday, January 28, 4 pm a portland jewish flm festival event
Shattered: Journey into a Silent Past,
Austria, 2016 dir. Walter Wehmeyer (94 mins., documentary, digital)
In 1937, Britta Franz’s Jewish family fled Nazi Germany and was forced to sell the family business to the filmmaker’s grandfather. In an era of quick transactions made by many fleeing to safety in America, what actually happened and how were stringent Jewish property laws overcome?
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Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead
Reel Music (RM)
Welcome to our 35th Reel Music. Whether your passion is jazz, blues, folk, rock, electronic, world, classical—or anything between—we hope you find something to discover and inspire in this eclectic mix of films that celebrate great artists, sound and image, and music and culture. As always, our special thanks go to Marmoset, Music Millennium, Willamette Week, Music Fest NW, All Classical Portland, PDX Jazz, XRAY.FM, KBOO, and Oregon Music News. Friday, January 12, 7 pm Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars, UK, 2017
Thursday, January 18, 7 pm Bill Frisell: A Portrait, Australia, 2017
dir. Emma Franz (114 mins., documentary, DCP)
Thursday, January 25, 7 pm The Big Beat: Fats Domino and the Birth of Rock and Roll, US, 2015
Thursday, January 18, 7 pm Skype Live Lounge, 1210 SW 6th Ave Reel Music: Northwest Music Video Showcase
Friday, January 26, 7:30 pm @ The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
“Frisell plays the guitar like Miles Davis played the trumpet: dir. Joe Lauro (90 mins., documentary, DCP) in the hands of such radical thinkers, instruments simply From New Orleans to Blueberry Hill, the teaming of become different animals.”—The New Yorker Antoine “Fats” Domino Jr. and Dave Bartholomew changed the course of mid-century American music.
dir. Various (70 min, music video, digital)
Join us as we present a new installment of our annual showcase great new locally made music videos.
Friday, January 19, 7 pm dir: Lili Fini Zanuck (134 mins., documentary, DCP) Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Drawing on Clapton’s extensive personal archive, including Grateful Dead, US, 2017 performances, backstage, and home movie footage, a portrait emerges of raw talent and ambition blighted by personal tragedy, sacrifice, and addiction.
Saturday, January 13, 7 pm Straight into a Storm—Deer Tick, US, 2016 dir. William Miller (110 mins., documentary, DCP)
A portrait of a hard-rocking band known for their substance-fuelled live performances on their journey to become one of the great cult rock bands of our time
Sunday, January 14, 4:30 pm Chavela, US, 2017
dirs. Catherine Gund & Daresha Kyi (96 mins., documentary, DCP)
Daring to sing traditionally male-crooned rancheras, perform in ponchos, and destroy senorita stereotypes, Chavela Vargas became a national rebel, queer icon, and international star.
Sunday, January 14, 7 pm a portland jewish flm festival event
Itzhak, US/Israel, 2017
dir. Alison Chernick (82 mins., documentary, DCP)
Israeli conductor and musician Itzhak Perlman, widely considered to be the greatest living violinist, takes us on a journey through his music and life.
Monday, January 15, 5:15 pm Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba, Germany/South Africa/Finland, 2011 dir: Mika Kaurismäki (90 mins., documentary, DCP)
With her unique blend of Afro-pop, world music, and jazz, Makeba won international stardom, travelling the world to spread her music and political message to fight racism and poverty and promote justice and peace.
For Dear Life
dir. Amir Bar-Levy (238 mins., documentary, DCP)
“It’s both a love letter to the band and its lifer fans, and a peerless glimpse into the mindset of musicians who risked it all to find transcendence in camaraderie and the right improvised chord progression.”—David Fear, Rolling Stone.
Saturday, January 20, 7 pm The Last Hot Lick, US, 2017
dir. Mahalia Cohen (88 mins., narrative, DCP)
An aging musician (Short Stories band leader Jaime Leopold) tries to recapture his past success while gigging through Eastern Oregon.
Sunday, January 21, 6:30 pm Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog, US, 1997 dir. Don McGlynn (78 mins., documentary, digital)
Rare performance clips, radio broadcasts, photographs, and interviews fashion an indelible portrait of an artist of unparalleled talent and complex, paradoxical temperament.
Sunday, January 21, 8:30 pm Trouble No More, US, 2017
dir. Jennifer Lebeau (59 mins., documentary, DCP)
Voices of Light: The Passion of Joan of Arc, France, 1928 dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer (82 mins., drama, DCP)
“One of the most staggeringly intense films ever made… Magisterial cinema…Almost unbearably moving.”—Time Out Film Guide.
Saturday, January 27, 2 pm Buena Vista Social Club: Adios, US/Cuba, 2017 dir. Lucy Walker (111 mins., documentary, DCP)
Drawing on archival footage and outtakes from Wim Wenders’s original film, we follow the now vastly changed Cuban ensemble as they embark on their farewell tour.
Saturday, January 27, 4:30 pm Mr. Handy’s Blues, US, 2017
dir. Joanna Fish (86 mins., documentary, DCP)
Know as the father of the blues, W.C. Handy (1873–1958) is credited with transforming African-American folk music that was handed down only through oral tradition into a purely American genre of music.
Tuesday, January 30, 7 pm A Life in Waves, US, 2017
dir. Brett Whitcomb (74 mins., documentary, DCP)
The life and innovations of composer and electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani. Trouble No More
Tuesday, January 23, 7 pm Sammy Davis Jr: I’ve Gotta Be Me, US, 2017
Terminal cancer patient James Pollard rallies his family and friends to turn death on its head and stretch his final years into an unconventional preservation project.
Thursday, January 18, 7 pm Skype Live Lounge, 1210 SW 6th Ave Reel Music: Northwest Music Video Showcase dir. Various (70 min, music video, digital)
Join us as we present a new Reel Music installment of our annual showcase great new music videos being made by Portland and Northwest filmmakers.
Saturday, January 20, 7 pm The Last Hot Lick, US, 2017
dir. Mahalia Cohen (88 mins., narrative, DCP)
An aging musician (Short Stories band leader Jaime Leopold) tries to recapture his past success while gigging through Eastern Oregon.
Friday, January 26, 7:30 pm @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Voices of Light: The Passion of Joan of Arc, Denmark, 1928 dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer (89 mins., drama, digital)
Dreyer’s silent masterpiece depicting the trial of Joan of Arc lights up the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall with Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light score, performed by Camerata PYP with vocals by In Mulieribus, three Portland State University ensembles, Chamber Choir, Vox Femina, and Man Choir, and vocal soloists Catherine van der Salm, Hannah Penn, Brian Tierney, and Anton Belov.
Dreyer’s silent feminist tale follows a tyrannical husband and his long-suffering wife, who longs for balance in the home—to get there, she’s aided by their outspoken nanny.
Singer, dancer, and actor; “Rat Pack” legend; civil rights activist; Jewish convert; and Nixon supporter—a life that defies expectations and easy categorization.
dir. Carmen Pollard (74 mins., documentary)
Carl Theodor Dreyer (1899–1968) was one of world cinema’s great directors, responsible for a 40-year succession of masterpieces. Following a tumultuous childhood, Dreyer worked as a hot-air-balloon supervisor at Danish studio Nordisk before working his way up to director. Austere in their design, his films are meticulous in their charting of internal emotion and crises of faith (he was deeply non-religious) and vibrant portraits of individuals at odds with themselves and society. Characterized by shimmering black-and-white cinematography and committed performances by his actors, this series of his best-known works, including a live score performance of his legendary silent The Passion of Joan of Arc, offers the opportunity to delve into his startlingly beautiful films.
dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer (111 mins., drama, digital)
dir. Sam Pollard (104 mins., documentary DCP)
Northwest Tracking (NWT)
Carl Theodor Dreyer (CTD)
Saturday, January 27, 7 pm Master of the House, Denmark, 1925
a portland jewish flm festival event
Thursday, January 11, 7 pm For Dear Life, B.C., 2017
The Last Hot Lick
nwfc and portland youth philharmonic present
Electrifying performances thought lost for years showcase Bob Dylan’s creative and spiritual mindset during his “born again” gospel era.
Northwest Tracking programs showcase 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.
Reel Music: Northwest Music Video Showcase
Voices of Light: The Passion of Joan of Arc
Thursday, February 8, 7 pm Karl Lind: Videos, Collaborations & Unclassifiable Video Based Ephemera, Oregon, 2002–17 dir. Karl Lind (70 mins., experimental, documentary)
With an eye and taste for the uncanny, Portland based director Karl Lind’s short videos expound upon the bizarre.
Thursday, March 15, 7 pm Struggles to Connect: Short Films by Jason Rosenblatt, Oregon, 2015–18 dir. Jason Rosenblatt (60 mins., narrative)
Portland filmmaker Jason Rosenblatt has a body of compelling short films ranging in theme from dysfunctional romantic relationships to failed attempts at connectivity.
Thursday, March 22, 7pm Chronic Means Forever, Washington, 2017
Sunday, January 28, 7 pm Vampyr, Germany/France, 1932
dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer (83 mins., horror, digital)
One of the most atmospherically beautiful horror films in cinema history, Vampyr follows Allan Gray—a young student of the occult—as he enters the village of Courtempierre, France, which has been cursed by a vampire.
Friday, February 2, 7 pm Day of Wrath, Denmark, 1943
dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer (97 mins., drama, 35mm)
In Dreyer’s austere telling of a loveless, forced marriage set against the backdrop of 17th-century Danish witch hunts, a tense, unsettling atmosphere pervades every action.
Saturday, February 3, 7 pm Ordet, Denmark, 1955
dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer (126 mins., drama, DCP)
dir. Kadazia Allen-Perry (99 mins., documentary)
How does someone with a terminal illness push forth to pursue her dream of becoming of filmmaker?
This late work by Dreyer follows the Borgen family through a series of crises of faith, resulting in one of the most influential works in cinema.
Thursday, March 29, 7 pm BCCTV on the Big Screen 3, Oregon, 2017
Sunday, February 4, 7 pm Gertrud, Denmark, 1964
An anthology of short works created at the Bud Clark Commons Houseless Service Center.
Dreyer’s final film, also widely considered to be among the greats of cinema history, charts the loves of Gertrud (Nina Pens Rode), a strong-willed, independent former opera singer, as she looks back on her life.
dir. Various (60 mins., documentary, animation, narrative)
All screenings will feature a visiting artist
dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer (116 mins., drama, 35mm)
Me and My Brother
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Phantom Lady
Robert Frank: Frank Perspectives (RF)
Best known for his documentary photography, Swiss-born Robert Frank gained worldwide attention in the 1950s with his book The Americans, which recorded his candid reactions to peculiarly American versions of poverty and racism. Today it remains a classic work that helped define the off-the-cuff, idiosyncratic elegance that are hallmarks of Frank’s artistry. Frank began filmmaking in 1959, when he codirected Pull My Daisy with Alfred Leslie, the now-seminal film featuring narration by Jack Kerouac and a cast including Beat poets Allen Ginsburg, Peter Orlovsky, and Gregory Corso. Like his photographs, Frank’s restlessly inventive films have a deceptively spontaneous quality, capturing fragments of everyday existence that reveal volumes. This selected survey of his films is presented in conjunction with Blue Sky Gallery’s exhibition “Robert Frank, Books and Films 1947–2018,” an exhibition of images reproduced on rolls of newsprint nailed to the wall that considers the artistic value of Frank’s images, not their worth as physical objects. Thanks to Jim & Susan Winkler for their support of this series.
The Flying Sneaker
Animated Worlds: Stop-Motion Classics (AW)
Wednesday, January 10, 7 pm Don’t Blink—Robert Frank, US, 2015
Wednesday, January 31, 7 pm Keep Busy, Canada, 1975
In conjunction with Animating Life: the Art, Science and Wonder of LAIKA, on view at the Portland Art Museum through May 20, some of the classics of the genre. Free with admission to the Museum.
A portrait of photographer and filmmaker Frank made by his long-time editor.
A spontaneous, improvised story about a group of people living on an island off Nova Scotia.
Sunday, January 7, 2 pm Animated Worlds: Stop-Motion Shorts
dir. Laura Israel (82 mins., documentary, DCP)
Wednesday, January 17, 7 pm Pull My Daisy, US, 1959
dir. Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie (28 mins., experimental, digital)
A classic look at the soul of the beat generation, made with writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and painters Alfred Leslie, Larry Rivers, and Alice Neel. with
The Sin of Jesus, US, 1961
dir. Robert Frank (40 mins., experimental, digital)
Based on a short story by Isaac Babel, this parable finds Jesus refusing mercy to a young woman, instead giving her a guardian angel that she seduces. with
O.K. End Here, US, 1963
dir. Robert Frank (30 mins., documentary, digital)
A day in the lives of a man and woman who live together in New York City.
dir. Robert Frank, Rudy Wurlitzer (30 mins., narrative, digital) with
Life Dances On, US, 1980
dir. Robert Frank (30 mins., documentary essay, digital) Dedicated to his daughter Andrea and friend and collaborator Danny Seymour, both deceased, intuitive moments reflect a personal sense of loss for two people close to him. with
Energy and How to Get It, US, 1981
dir. Robert Frank, Rudy Wurlitzer, Gary Hill (28 min., narrative, digital)
A spoof on the documentary form, inserting fictional characters into the story such as the Energy Czar (William Burroughs), and a Hollywood agent (filmmaker Robert Downey).
Sunday, February 4, 4:30 pm Me and My Brother, US 1965–68, re-edited 1997 dir. Robert Frank (91 mins., narrative, digital)
Case of the Mondays (M)
This ongoing series of classic films and cutting-edge new work will get you moving into the week.
LAIKA’s Mark Shapiro travels the world of animation film festivals, sharing the studio’s work and viewing work by artists from around the world.
CLASSIC AMERICAN CINEMA FIRST MONDAYS
Sunday, January 14, 2 pm My Life as a Zucchini, France, 2016
dir. Robert Siodmak (87 mins., film noir, 35mm)
dir. Claude Barras (66 mins., stop-motion animation, DCP)
Monday, January 8, 7 pm Phantom Lady, US, 1944
After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love. Oscar Nominee.
Siodmak’s vision of the New York City underground circa 1944 is a woman-led murder mystery in which a headstrong secretary must clear her boss, who has been convicted of murdering his wife.
Sunday, January 21, 2 pm The Boxtrolls, Oregon, 2014
EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA SECOND MONDAYS
dirs. Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi (96 mins., stopmotion animation, DCP) Deep below the streets of Cheesebridge lies a cavernous underground world—a community of quirky, mischievous trash collectors known as the Boxtrolls.
Sunday, January 28, 2 pm King Kong, US, 1933
Monday, March 12, 7 pm The Inextinguishable Fire, West Germany, 1969 dir. Harun Farocki (25 mins., experimental documentary, digital)
Images of the World and the Inscription of War, West Germany, 1989 dir. Harun Farocki (75 mins., experimental
Wednesday, January 24, 7 pm Conversations in Vermont, US, 1969
Poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Peter’s brother Julius in a fictional exploration of Julius’s life as a catatonic silently observing the world around him.
In this autobiographical search for answers about his children’s lives, Frank questions his own world.
Wednesday, February 7, 7 pm I Remember, US, 1998
The first major feature film to star an animated character tells an exciting, haunting story of the conflict between the powerful and the innocent.
A profound examination of the deployment of napalm in Vietnam, and a probing visual analysis of aerial photographs, taken late during WWII, of the IG Farben industrial plant and its neighbor, Auschwitz.
Life-Raft Earth, US, 1969
Frank narrates a charming re-enactment of his visit to the home of photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Whole Earth Catalog editor Stewart Brand and his friend Hugh Romney (Wavy Gravy) asked Robert Frank to document “The Hunger Show,” a week-long fast staged by the Portola Institute in California.
with
Saturday, February 3, 2 pm Sunday, February 4, 2 pm The Adventures of Mark Twain, Oregon, 1986
ESSENTIAL FOREIGN CINEMA THIRD MONDAYS
dir. Robert Frank (26 mins., documentary, digital) with
dir. Robert Frank (37 mins., documentary, digital)
with
About Me: A Musical, US, 1971
dir. Robert Frank (35 mins., experimental documentary, digital)
An actress (Lynn Reyner) plays Frank, examining his life symbolically, questioning the personal toll his work has taken and the value of his contribution as a photographer
Kid Flicks (KF)
Sponsored by Imperfect Produce. Saturday, January 6, 2 pm Oliver!, UK, 1972
dir. Carol Reed (143 mins., musical, DCP)
In this adaptation of the Broadway musical based on Charles Dickens’s novel, orphan Oliver Twist falls in with a group of street-urchin pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and masterminded by the criminal Fagin.
Saturday, January 13, 2 pm The Red Turtle, France/Belgium/Japan, 2015
dir. Michaël Dudok de Wit (80 mins., animation, DCP)
Told with wordless elegance, a fable about a man washed ashore on an island and learning to live with nature.
Saturday, January 20, 2 pm The Eagle Huntress, UK/Mongolia/US, 2016 dir. Otto Bell (87 mins., documentary, DCP)
A 13-year-old girl in Mongolia trains to become the first female in 12 generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter.
Saturday, March 10, 4:30 pm Microcosmos, France, 1996
dir. Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou (80 mins., documentary, digital) Using specially designed cameras and powerful magnifying lenses, an astonishing dive into a meadow to explore the fascinating, otherworldly behavior of insects.
dir. Robert Frank (7 mins., narrative, digital)
Paper Route, US/Switzerland, 2002
dir. Robert Frank (23 mins., documentary, digital)
The artist joins a friend on his daily route delivering newspapers in the rural Nova Scotia community where Frank has had a second home for many years. with
True Story, US, 2004/2008
dir. Robert Frank (26 mins., documentary essay, digital)
Alternately poignant, reflective, self-mocking, and angry, this candid autobiography reveals Frank’s late career preoccupations.
dir. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack (100 mins. stop-motion animation, 35mm)
dir. Will Vinton (86 mins., stop-motion animation, digital)
The world's first Claymation feature and the first animated feature made in the Northwest chronicles Twain's fantastic voyage in a magical airship with Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher to rendezvous with Halley’s Comet.
Sunday, March 11, 5 pm Mary and Max, Australia, 2009
dir. Adam Elliot (92 mins., stop-motion animation, 35mm)
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, 8-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a 40-something, severely obese man living in New York.
Saturday, March 17, 2 pm Mary Poppins, US, 1964
Sunday, March 18, 2 pm Kubo & The Two Strings, Oregon, 2016
When the mysterious and magical Mary Poppins is hired to look after his neglected children, she immediately turns the kids’ lives upside down “in a most delightful way.”
In LAIKA’s most recent film, kindhearted Kubo's quiet existence is shattered when he accidentally summons a spirit from his past.
dir. Robert Stevenson (139 mins., musical, DCP)
Saturday, March 24, 2 pm When Marnie Was There, Japan, 2014
dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi (104 mins., animation, DCP)
Sent to live with relatives in Hokkaido, Anna becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there, who may or may not be real.
Saturday, March 31, 2 pm The Secret of the Kells, Ireland/France/Belgium,
2009 dir. Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey (75 mins., animated, DCP)
Magic, fantasy and Celtic mythology come together in an enchanting story about the power of imagination and faith to carry humanity through dark times.
dir. Travis Knight (101 mins., stop-motion animation, DCP)
Sunday, March 25, 2 pm Alice, Czechoslovakia, 1988
dir. Jan Švankmajer (86 mins., stop-motion animation, digital)
In Švankmajer’s surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland, Alice is both the protagonist and the narrator, in line with his stated belief that his own childhood thoughts are the source of his creativity.
Sunday, April 1, 2 pm The Flying Sneaker, Canada/Czechoslovakia, 1990
dir. Bretislav Pojar (94 mins., stop-motion animation, Beta SP) One day an ordinary boy gets a gift from his father—cocoons of exotic butterflies. One of them, quite unexpectedly, hatches a tiny fairy that can fulfill his every wish.
documentary, digital)
Monday, January 22, 7 pm Time to Die, Mexico, 1966
dir. Arturo Ripstein (90 mins., Western, DCP)
Mexican cinema legend Arturo Ripstein’s directorial debut, with a script co-written by Gabriel García Márquez, is a neglected Western following an exconvict home as he deals with his legacy of violence.
Monday, March 19, 7 pm Marcel Proust’s Time Regained, France/ Italy/Portugal, 1999 dir. Raoul Ruiz (169 mins., drama, DCP)
Ruiz’s adaption of Marcel Proust’s magnum opus In Search of Lost Time weaves together the many storylines of Proust’s memory-world.
DOC NIGHT FOURTH MONDAYS
Monday, January 29, 7 pm The Departure, US, 2016
dir. Lana Wilson (87 mins., documentary, DCP)
Wilson’s tender, loving portrait of a man at a crossroads—a former punk turned Zen buddhist advisor to the suicidal—is a stripped down, elemental film about love, loss, and what it means to be alive in the modern world.
Monday, March 26, 7 pm Railway Sleepers, Thailand, 2016
dir. Sompot Chidgasornpongse (102 mins., documentary, DCP)
Traveling through the Thai countryside via rail, Chidgasornpongse fashions an insightful look at a Thai society rife with inequality and strained communication.
Microcosmos
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2 pm My Life as a Zucchini (AW) 4:30 pm Chavela (RM) 7 pm Itzhak (RM)
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7 pm For Dear Life (NWT)
7 pm Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (RM)
2 pm The Red Turtle (KF) 4 pm Fall Term Student Screening—FREE! 7 pm Straight Into a Storm— Deer Tick (RM) 9:30 pm Altered States (G!)
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5:15 pm Mama Africa: Miriam 7 pm The Final Year (Silver 7 pm Pull My Daisy with The Makeba (RM) Screen Club Members Preview, Sin of Jesus with O.K. End 7:30 pm Sighted Eyes/ see nwfilm.org for details) Here (RF) Feeling Heart (SS)
7 pm Bill Frisell: A Portrait (RM) 7 pm @ Skype Live Lounge Northwest Music Video Showcase (RM/NWT)
7 pm Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead (RM)
2 pm The Eagle Huntress (KF) 7 pm The Last Hot Lick (RM/ NWT) 9:30 pm Trouble Every Day (G!)
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2 pm The Boxtrolls (AW)
7 pm Time to Die (M)
7 pm Sammy Davis Jr: I've Gotta Be Me (RM)
7 pm Conversations in Vermont with Life Raft Earth with About Me: A Musical (RF)
7 pm The Big Beat: Fats 7:30 pm @ The Arlene Schnitzer Domino and the Birth of Rock Concert Hall Voices of Light: and Roll (RM) The Passion of Joan of Arc (RM/CTD)
2 pm Buena Vista Social Club: Adios (RM) 4:30 pm Mr. Handy's Blues (RM) 7 pm Master of the House (CTD)
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7 pm The Departure (M) 2 pm King Kong (AW) 4 pm Shattered: Journey into a Silent Past (SS) 7 pm Vampyr (CTD)
7 pm A Life in Waves (RM)
7 pm Keep Busy with Life Dances On with Energy and How to Get It (RF)
7 pm Day of Wrath (CTD)
2 pm The Adventures of Mark Twain (KF) 7 pm Ordet (CTD)
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7 pm I Remember with Paper 7 pm Karl Lind: Videos, Route with True Story (RF) Collaborations & Unclassifiable Video Based Ephemera (NWT)
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