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SUMMER ADULT CLASSES & WORKSHOPS Hands-On Learning for Creatives & Community Members REGISTRATION NOW OPEN Directing Intensive
Super8mm Camera Operation
Starts June 12 (5 days)
July 13 (half day)
Working with actors and leading a crew
Shoot in the analog home movie format
International Screenwriters’ Association (free)
Basic Lighting
June 20, July 18, August 15 (evening)
July 20 (half day)
Third Thursday gathering of Portland Chapter
Use a light kit to create various effects
Digital Cinematography
Bolex Camera Operation
Starts June 25 (10 weeks)
July 20 (1 day)
In-depth camera techniques
16mm loading, metering and film stocks
Digital Editing
Arri Alexa Camera Operation
Starts June 25 (5 weeks)
July 20 (half day)
Basics of editing with Adobe Premiere
Primer on our professional rental camera
Pickathon Camera Crew
Super 8 and 16mm Processing and Handling
Starts June 26 (6 weeks)
July 27 (half day)
Learn to shoot live music events in real time
How to process and handle S8 and 16mm negative
Screenwriting Fundamentals
Cyanotype Filmaking on 16mm
Starts June 26 (9 weeks)
August 10 (full day)
Basics of dramatic scriptwriting
Collage and textures to create cyan images
Sound Recording
Collage Editing with Archival Footage
June 29 (full day)
August 23 (half day)
How to record high quality audio
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Explore editing techniques with visiting filmmaker
SUMMER FILM CAMPS FOR KIDS + TEENS Exploration, Enrichment and Fun! REGISTRATION NOW OPEN Grades 4–6
Digital Moviemaking Stop Motion Animation
Grades 6–8
Digital Moviemaking Stop Motion Animation Computer Animation
Grades 8–10
Computer Animation Cinematography Digital Editing Digital Motion Graphics
Grades 10–12
Screenwriting Explorations in 16mm Filmmaking Media Arts Academy
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FROM MONEY TO MARKET Understanding Your Options for Fundraising & Distribution Thursday, June 20 & Friday, June 21 9 am–4 pm Location: Trustee Room of the Portland Art Museum’s North Wing (Mark Building) Fee: $85 (both days) Travel and Financial Assistance available - inquire at info@nwfilm.org Fundraising and distribution have never been more interwoven (and more interdependent) ecosystems than in today’s independent filmmaking universe. This seminar brings the film community together for shared learning and best practices related to private investors, crowdfunding, tax incentives, selling to new and emerging markets, and marketing the project at every stage of development. Presentations by those in the know—accompanied by case studies of active projects—will lay out the challenges and opportunities. Whether you have a project in mind or are already considering your options for a work-in-progress, this is a conversation and community-building moment you do not want to miss. Q&A will be extensive. Presenters include attorney John Cones, producer Nick Maniatis, Jon Betz of Collective Eye Films, Liz Cook Mowe of Kickstarter, and distribution strategist Mia Bruno, and Directors and Producers Gary and Anne Lundgren. For complete details and to register visit nwfilm.org/classes Thanks to Oregon Film and the Portland Film Office for their support.
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Thursday, July 25 — Laura 40S murder mystery
Food, Drinks, & games! All ages welcome.
Friday, July 26 - Boy Directed by Taika Waititi Saturday, July 27 - Night of the Comet 80S Cult Classic Sunday, July 28 - Wayne’s World Directed by Penelope Spheeris
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Northwest Tracking
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. Thursday, June 13, 7 pm Best of the BendFilm Festival, Oregon, 2019
Thursday, July 11, 7 pm Portland Circuit: Canopy Stories, Oregon, 2019
A Best Of program from the 15th annual BendFilm Festival, which takes place every October, showcasing short and feature-length films from around the globe.
Presented as part of the Portland Circuit, a partnership between the Oregon Made Creative Foundation and local independent theaters, Canopy Stories is an anthology film project about the story of Portland’s trees, put together by NW Documentary. Join us for a reception prior to the screening.
dir. various (85 mins., documentary/animation/drama, DCP)
dir. various (90 mins., documentary, DCP)
Wednesday, July 17, 7 pm Mary Janes: The Women of Weed, Oregon, 2018 dir. Windy Borman (85 mins., documentary, DCP)
Friday, June 21, 7 pm Phoenix, Oregon, Oregon, 2019
dir. Gary Lundgren (112 mins., drama, DCP)
As delusions of aliens controlling his life begin to take root amidst a mid-life crisis, graphic artist Bobby Hoffman puts his life savings on the line to purchase an abandoned bowling alley. In conjunction with From Money to Market workshop. See pg. 4 6
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Director Windy Borman looks at the cannabis industry, in which 36% of leadership positions—much higher than the national average—are held by women, lovingly nicknamed “puffragettes.” Join us for a reception prior to the screening. Portland Circuit: Canopy Stories
Thursday, August 22, 7 pm Nostalgia, Post-Memory and Autobiographical: The Films of Syndey Southam, British Columbia, 2010 – 2019 dir. Sydney Southam (65 mins., experimental, DCP)
Black Pool
Thursday, August 1, 7 pm Black Pool, Oregon, 2018
dir. Dustin Morrow (85 mins., drama, DCP)
Set over the course of a single night, Michael, an Irishman living in the United States, believes he has found the man responsible for his father’s murder in Northern Ireland in the 1980s.
Monday, August 5, 7 pm Undertones II, Oregon 2019
dir. various (100 mins., performance, 16mm/digital)
An evening of live video and analog projections in the Whitsell Auditorium and the Portland Art Museum sculpture court, paired with musicians working in field recordings, minimalist tones, and laptop choirs. Join us for a reception prior to the event.
Thursday, August 15, 7 pm La Chunta, OR, 2018
dir. Genevieve Roudané (61 mins., documentary, DCP)
In a small town in Mexico, once a year, men transform into women and become the Chuntá. Follow two genderbending gangs of dancers as they face off in a struggle between queer identity and powerful traditions. La Chunta
Co-founding member of the illustrious Iris Film Collective in Vancouver, B.C., Southam’s work explores themes of nostalgia, death, memory, and identity while incorporating archival 16mm film and constructs of the documentary format. Sydney will conduct a workshop the following day.
Thursday, August 29, 7 pm Internal Review: Films by Northwest Film Center Staff, Oregon, 2015 – 2019
dir. various (90 mins., narrative/music video/experimental/ documentary, digital) Join us for a showcase of work by filmmakers on staff at the Northwest Film Center and a reception prior to the screening. Mary Janes: The Women of Weed
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Founded in 1992, the Portland Jewish Film Festival, produced by the Northwest Film Center and copresented with the Institute for Judaic Studies, celebrates the diversity of Jewish history, culture, and identity while speaking to the universal experiences and issues that confront all humanity. Supported in part by the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Family Fund of OJCF, the Schwartz Charitable Foundation, the Leonard & Lois Schnitzer Charitable Supporting Foundation of OJCF, the Diane Solomon Family Fund of JCF San Diego, Ruben & Liz Menashe, the Oregon/Israel Fund of OJCF, and the Jerry & Helen Stern Grandchildren’s Fund of OJCF.
Sunday, June 16, 7 pm The Light of Hope, Spain, 2018
Tuesday, June 18, 7 pm Dear Fredy, Israel, 2017
A gripping film about perseverance in the face of extremity, The Light of Hope focuses on Elisabeth Eidenbenz, a young nurse at a maternity home in the South of France who became its director during the 1930s and 40s, saving over 600 infants of mothers fleeing the Vichy and Franco regimes.
In this beautiful and heart-wrenching documentary, we’re introduced to Fredy Hirsch, an openly gay German Jew who became both head of the youth department in the Terezin Ghetto and built a daycare in Auschwitz before being tragically killed in the Holocaust.
dir. Silvia Quer (96 mins., drama, DCP)
Monday, June 17, 7 pm Budapest Noir, Hungary, 2018
dir. Éva Gárdos (95 mins., film noir, DCP)
This breakneck film noir thriller mines Budapest circa 1936 as a site of intrigue and geopolitical upheaval. The fascist prime minister turns up dead, but he’s not the only one— crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon (Krisztián Kolovratnik) burrows always deeper to find out who killed a mysterious, beautiful young woman.
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dir. Rubi Gat (74 mins., documentary, DCP)
Wednesday, June 19, 7 pm Fig Tree, Israel/Germany/France/Ethiopia, 2018 dir. Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian (93 mins., drama, DCP)
Ethiopian-Israeli filmmaker Davidian tells the gripping story of Mina, a 16-year-old Jewish girl from Addis Ababa who must protect her Christian boyfriend, Eli, from being drafted into the brutal army of murderous dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam—with many obstacles in front of them. Fig Tree
Thursday, June 20, 7 pm Red Cow, Israel, 2018
dir. Tsivia Barkai Yacov (90 mins., drama, DCP)
Yacov’s debut feature poignantly tackles the uncertainty and confusion of youth in its story of Benny (Avigayil Koevary), a 17-year-old who becomes critical of her father’s faith while exploring her newfound sexuality. The Interpreter
A Fortunate Man
Sunday, June 23, 7 pm The Interpreter, Slovakia/Czech Republic, 2018 dir. Martin Šulík (113 mins., comedy/drama, DCP)
Saturday, June 22, 8 pm A Fortunate Man, Denmark, 2018 dir. Bille August (162 mins., drama, DCP)
Academy Award-winning director Bille August’s latest follows Per (Esben Smed), a young but driven man from rural 19th-century Denmark who moves to Copenhagen in search of a new life—and meets a charming Jewish woman, integrating himself into her family. Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel
Legendary Czech filmmaker Jiří Menzel (Closely Watched Trains) and seasoned actor Peter Simonsichek (Toni Erdmann) star in this odd-couple road movie that asks: can the son of Holocaust victims bring himself to translate for the son of a Nazi murderer while they travel together through Eastern Europe?
Monday, June 24, 7 pm The City Without Jews, Austria, 1924
dir. H.K. Breslauer (80 mins., silent drama, DCP)
This prescient work, which follows the expulsion of Jews from Austria and the aftermath, was considered lost for many decades. Over the past several years, the film has been pieced together and restored by Filmarchiv Austria.
Wednesday, June 26, 7 pm Redemption, Israel, 2018
dir. Joseph Madmony & Boaz Yehonatan Yacov (104 mins., drama, DCP)
Sunday, June 23, 4:30 pm Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel, US/
Soft-spoken single father Menachem (Moshe Folkenflick) watches over his young daughter Geula (Emily Granin) after she’s diagnosed with cancer. Menachem has a past as a lead singer, and he needs money for Geula’s treatments— can getting the band back together answer his prayers?
Israeli national baseball team finally qualified for the World Baseball Classic, fielding a team of players with a mostly tenuous connection to their Judaism. Banding together, the team represents Israel in the tournament while discovering the pride in playing for their country.
In the Hasidic neighborhood of Borough Park, Brooklyn, a group of women—led by the charismatic Rachel “Ruchie” Freier—band together to create their own EMT service, since the wives of the neighborhood can’t be touched by men who aren’t their husbands.
Israel, 2018 dir. Seth Kramer, Daniel Miller, & Jeremy Newberger (87 mins., Thursday, June 27, 7 pm 93Queen, US, 2018 documentary, DCP) dir. Paula Eiselt (90 mins., documentary, DCP) Following years of middling performances, in 2017 the
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Moulin Rouge
Working Woman
Saturday, June 29, 8 pm Working Woman, Israel, 2018
dir. Michal Aviad (93 mins., drama, DCP)
Presented as an impossible choice, Aviad’s piercing, staunchly feminist film follows Orna (Liron Ben Shlush), a working mother newly inaugurated into the world of highend real estate. She faces a boss not shy about his sexual advances and a husband desperate for financial stability.
Sunday, June 30, 4:30 pm Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz, Canada, 2018 dir. Barry Avrich (83 mins., documentary, DCP)
Still going strong at 98, Ben Ferencz is famous worldwide for his role as chief prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen trial at Nuremberg. Avrich’s documentary paints a tender portrait of this great man and all that he’s seen in his remarkable life.
Sunday, June 30, 7 pm Promise at Dawn, France, 2017
dir. Eric Barbier (131 mins., biopic, DCP)
Barbier’s touching film, based on the author’s autobiography, follows famed Jewish novelist Romain Gary from his hardscrabble childhood through his military service in WWII and beyond—with the love for his devoted mother (played by Charlotte Gainsbourg) at the center of everything.
Paris 1900
The Parisian Belle Époque period (roughly 1871–1914) was one of great innovation and pure entertainment, leaving an artistic legacy that included the Moulin Rouge and perhaps more importantly, the birth of popular cinema. Taking inspiration from the Portland Art Museum’s Paris 1900 exhibition (on view June 8-September 8), we are pleased to present a cinematic exploration of this most thrilling period, both through films made contemporaneously and through those looking back for inspiration and nostalgia. All screenings are free to Portland Art Museum members. Supported in part by TV5 Monde. Saturday, June 15, 4:30 pm Sunday, June 16, 2 pm Paris 1900 (Paris mil neuf cent), France, 1947 dir. Nicole Védrès & Pierre Braunberger (71 mins., documentary, DCP)
A masterpiece of editing, this documentary plunges us headlong into Belle Époque Paris via the moving image, and is entirely made up of footage shot during the period, introducing us to the issues and celebrities of the day.
Promise at Dawn
Paris 1900 (Paris mil neuf cent)
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Sunday, August 4, 4:30 pm Georges Méliès Shorts, France, 1900s
dir. Georges Méliès (approximately 90 mins., comedy/drama/ fantasy, DCP) One of the fathers of the motion pictures, Méliès made hundreds of films with an often fantastic bent, in sharp contrast to the documentary realism of the Lumiére Brothers. Here we screen a selection of Méliès’ finest works—including but going far beyond his most famous work, A Trip to the Moon.
Saturday, June 22, 4:30 pm Moulin Rouge, US, 1952
dir. John Huston (119 mins., biopic/drama, DCP)
Winner of two Oscars, Huston’s version of the Moulin Rouge story takes a prismatic approach in its biopic focus on the famed graphic artist Toulouse-Lautrec—but there’s still plenty of time for the national dance. Newly restored!
Sunday, June 30, 2 pm French Cancan, France, 1955
dir. Jean Renoir (102 mins., musical/drama/comedy, 35mm)
In this utter masterpiece, Renoir memorably tracks the birth of a café-concert in Paris, modeled after the Moulin Rouge, deploying luminescent colors and lively acting (including the legendary Jean Gabin) to paint this unforgettable portrait of artists at work. Imported 35mm print!
Saturday, July 13, 4:30 pm Workers Leaving the Factory
dir. various (approximately 70 mins., documentary/ experimental, 16mm/DCP)
The Lumiére Brothers’ 1895 Workers Leaving the Lumiére Factory—considered the first motion picture—forms the basis for this shorts program in which filmmakers such as Harun Farocki, Ben Russell, Kevin Jerome Everson, and others explore and expand upon the birth of cinema.
Sunday, July 14, 4:30 pm Alice Guy-Blaché Solax Shorts, US, 1910s
dir. Alice Guy-Blaché (approximately 90 mins., comedy/drama, DCP)
The first female filmmaker, Alice Guy-Blaché started during the early days of Parisian cinema, but caught her stride in Fort Lee, New Jersey through her Solax Film Company where she produced her most accomplished work—a diverse selection of which will screen in this program.
Also screening: Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché. July 12–14. See p.13 for more!
The Earrings of Madame De…
Sunday, August 25, 2 pm The Earrings of Madame De…, France, 1953 dir. Max Ophüls (105 mins., drama, 35mm)
Ophüls’ masterpiece skewers upper-class mores, following an aristocratic woman (Danielle Darrieux) who has fallen on hard times and becomes forced to settle her many debts— all imbued with Ophüls’ uncanny sense of grandeur and trademark flowing camera moves.
Sunday, September 1, 2 pm Jules & Jim, France, 1962
dir. François Truffaut (105 mins., drama, 35mm)
One of the foremost films of the French New Wave, with Jules & Jim Truffaut fashions a love triangle nearly unmatched in cinema, as two friends vie for the love of a carefree woman (Jeanne Moreau) during and after the Belle Époque period—with WWI providing an ominous backdrop to their thrillingly alive antics. Jules & Jim
Weekend Engagements and Special Screenings Tribute to Agnès Varda (1928–2019)
Terrence Malick’s First Films
Friday, June 28, 7 pm Mur Murs, France/US, 1981
Friday, July 5, 7 pm Badlands, US, 1973
dir. Agnès Varda (85 mins., documentary, DCP)
In the early 1980s, legendary filmmaker Varda visited Los Angeles, coming away with several films including the deeply charming Mur Murs, which documents vernacular murals painted all over the city—and the diverse communities in which they’re central expressions of life. Screens with Black Panthers (1968, Agnés Varda). Sponsored by MUBI and TV5 Monde.
dir. Terrence Malick (94 mins., drama, 35mm)
Malick’s New American Cinema gem, a legendary film in its own time that’s only grown in stature, follows lovers Kit (Martin Sheen) and Holly (Sissy Spacek) on a killing spree through South Dakota.
Three Films by Joan Micklin Silver June 7–9 Between the Lines, US, 1977
dir. Joan Micklin Silver (101 mins., comedy/drama, DCP)
The bonds of a Boston alt-weekly newspaper staff are put to the test after a corporate buyout threatens their editorial independence in this extremely prescient film for the contemporary moment in which newsrooms across the country are similarly under fire. Newly restored!
Saturday, June 8, 7 pm Chilly Scenes of Winter, US, 1979
Days of Heaven
Saturday, July 6, 7 pm Days of Heaven, US, 1979
dir. Terrence Malick (94 mins., drama, 35mm)
Malick plumbs the Depression-era Midwest for Greek tragedy in this tale of itinerant workers (Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, and an unforgettable Linda Manz) who become close to a soft-spoken farm owner (Sam Shepard).
dir. Joan Micklin Silver (92 mins., drama, 35mm)
Sunday, July 7, 6 pm The Thin Red Line, US, 1998
Sunday, June 9, 4:30 pm Crossing Delancey, US, 1988
One of the most caustic yet stunningly beautiful war films, WWII drama The Thin Red Line displays Malick’s twin obsessions most clearly: the corrosive effect of societal structure on men, and the unflappable beauty and perseverance of nature in the face of human-wrought destruction. Content warning: Graphic depictions of war.
Micklin Silver’s deeply perceptive film examines lost love and missed opportunities through the story of Charles (John Heard) and Laura (Mary Beth Hurt), lovers who can’t quite seem to stay together—due to his negligence and her All-American husband.
dir. Terrence Malick (170 mins., war drama, 35mm)
dir. Joan Micklin Silver (97 mins., comedy, 35mm)
In this charming rom-com, Manhattan bookseller Isabelle (Amy Irving) must choose between the literary life and a simpler existence when her grandmother sets her up with a pickle seller, all the while pining for a hotshot writer.
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The Thin Red Line
June 14–16 Buddy, Netherlands, 2018
Thursday, July 18, 7 pm, Reception at 6:30 pm Northwest Film Center Student Screening
For those in relationships with them, service dogs are unerringly faithful and often miracle-working. Longstanding documentarian Honigmann follows six dogs and their owners through daily life, illuminating and making palpable the close bonds with these amazing companions.
dir. Various Celebrate the many short films and projects created by our students during the 2019 Spring Term, including Art of Filmmaking I and Digital Cinematography, plus live scene reads from our Screenwriting Fundamentals course, and more. Free and open to the public.
dir. Heddy Honigmann (86 mins., documentary, DCP)
July 12–14 Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, US, 2018
US, 2019,
Diamantino
dir. Pamela B. Green (103 mins., documentary, DCP)
Narrated by Jodie Foster, this thriller-like portrait of first woman filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché pulls back the curtain on an era—and trailblazer—of film history long assumed to be dominated by men.
July 19–21 Diamantino, Portugal/France/Brazil, 2018
dir. Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt (96 mins., comedy/ fantasy, DCP)
Diamantino is the world’s most famous soccer player, but abruptly loses his goal-scoring touch and thus enters a period of spiritual crisis, becoming embroiled in a shadowy plot to subvert the EU in this film already considered a cult classic.
The Feature Films of Djibril Diop Mambéty August 9–11 Hyenas, Senegal/Switzerland/France/UK, 1992
dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty (110 mins., comedy/drama, DCP)
Legendary Senegalese director Mambéty’s second film takes aim at Western capitalism’s encroachment on Africa when a now-wealthy village woman returns as a financial savior—only to request the murder of her former lover, one of the village’s most beloved residents. Newly restored!
August 2–4 A Bigger Splash, UK, 1973
dir. Jack Hazan (106 mins., docu-drama, DCP)
World-renowned painter David Hockney stars in this gritty dramatization of a crucial period in his own life, after lover Peter Schlesinger leaves him—his ennui leading to the creation of Hockney’s most famous work, “A Bigger Splash.” Newly restored!
August 10–11 Touki-Bouki, Senegal, 1973
dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty (85 mins., drama, DCP)
Mambéty’s debut feature, a unique stylistic triumph, follows two young lovers longing to leave Senegal in favor of Paris and who, despite doing everything in their power to make their dreams come true, face obstacles they couldn’t have foreseen.
A Bigger Splash
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Weekend Engagements continued August 16–18 The Raft, Sweden/Denmark/US/Germany, 2018 dir. Marcus Lindeen (97 mins., documentary, DCP)
In summer 1973, a raft set out across the Atlantic Ocean with six women and five men on board. Quickly dubbed “the sex raft” in the press, the experiment was instead a misguided attempt to understand the roots of interpersonal violence.
August 23–25 What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire?, Italy/US/France, 2018 dir. Roberto Minervini (123 mins., documentary, DCP)
An incendiary, visceral portrait of four characters in the American South, Minervini follows a Black Panthers chapter as they investigate a recent murder and protest police inaction, two young brothers navigating life on the streets, an aging Mardi Gras Indian, and an entrepreneurial woman trying to make ends meet. What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire?
A co-presentation of the Northwest Film Center and in partnership with NW Documentary, Peace of the City is a summer documentary film series co-directed by Film Sprout founder Caitlin Boyle and Jill Schnitzer Edelson. A forum for true stories that can entertain as they educate and inspire, Peace of the City showcases the best work of the worldwide social-issue documentary film community, which upholds a tradition of investigating, observing, and translating the most pressing social issues of our time. Tuesday, July 9, 7 pm Thank You for Coming, US, 2017
dir. Sara Lamm (88 mins., documentary, DCP)
Filmmaker Sara Lamm goes on a long and winding search for her biological father after she learns she was conceived via sperm donor in this funny, touching tale of family and identity.
Tuesday, July 30, 7 pm Bending the Arc, US, 2017
dir. Kief Davidson & Pedro Kos (102 mins., documentary, DCP)
August 30–September 1 For Sama, UK/Syria, 2019
dir. Waad Al-Khateab & Edward Watts (95 mins., documentary, DCP)
One of recent cinema’s most viscerally powerful films, For Sama documents the incessant shelling of Aleppo through the eyes of journalist Al-Khateab and her doctor husband, as they bring a child into this chaotic world. Content warning: Graphic scenes of war. For Sama
In the early 1980s, as the AIDS/HIV epidemic raged, three young people began a healthcare revolution that envisioned and enacted a novel system of community health that eventually took hold at the highest levels. Bending the Arc tells their story from the beginning.
Tuesday, August 13, 7 pm The Cleaners, Germany, 2018
dir. Hans Block & Moritz Riesewieck (88 mins., documentary, DCP)
The sub-Internet is at the heart of this thriller-like documentary, which uncovers the vast systems of questionable content removal happening without our knowledge as we scroll, swipe, and click our way through life.
Head Cleaner: Cult & Genre Oddities Monday, July 8, 7 pm Demons, Italy, 1985
Showgirls
dir. Lamberto Bava (88 mins., horror, 35mm)
Lamberto Bava’s 1985 horror about a cursed film screening is an exercise in the boundaries of meta-terror. After being mysteriously invited to a horror film screening, a group of college students find that the movie has some uncanny similarities to their own lives. Content warning: graphic depictions of violence and gore.
Sunday, August 11, 7 pm Showgirls, US, 1995
dir. Paul Verhoeven (128 mins., drama, 35mm)
Demons
Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) is determined to crawl her way up the Las Vegas stripper pole and onto the showgirl stage, but she’ll have to do everything in her power to fend off the misogynistic swamp life that surrounds her. Content warning: graphic depictions of sexual assault.
Sunday, July 14, 7 pm Phantom of the Paradise, US, 1974
Sunday, August 18, 7 pm American Movie, US, 1999
De Palma’s rock-opera revisualization of Phantom of the Opera (with nods to and inspirations from a variety of other classic narratives, from Psycho to Faust) follows singer/ songwriter hopeful Winslow Leach through betrayal and angst on his path to gain revenge for his stolen music and fame as the Phantom of the Paradise. Content warning: depictions of violence and gore.
Chris Smith’s classic 1999 documentary follows Wisconsin raconteur and aspiring filmmaker Mark Borchardt as he struggles to corral his goofball friends into making the short horror-thriller film Coven, in hopes it’ll allow him to make his “slice of life” dream project.
dir. Brian De Palma (91 mins., musical/comedy/horror, DCP)
Sunday, July 21, 7 pm UHF, US, 1989
dir. Jay Levey (97 mins., comedy, 35mm)
Celebrate the 30th anniversary of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s alloddballs-in feature debut with us! When George Newman (Yankovic) is saddled with managing a failing TV station that his gambler uncle won in a bet, he has the station’s eccentric staff and surrounding community take over the airwaves to tell their stories.
Sunday, August 4, 7 pm Black Sunday, Italy, 1960
dir. Mario Bava (87 mins., horror, DCP)
Italian Horror Master Mario Bava’s official directorial debut follows a murdered witch’s curse on her treacherous brother’s descendants. Content Warning: violence and grotesque imagery.
dir. Chris Smith (107 mins., documentary/comedy, 35mm)
Sunday, August 25, 7 pm Society, US, 1989
dir. Brian Yuzna (99 mins., horror/comedy, DCP)
Bill Whitney (Billy Warlock), a Beverly Hills high school jock-type, seems to have ithis future all lined up, but something about his well off family, friends, and the highsociety life he’s destined for just seems off. Brian Yuzna’s body-horror filled critique of upper crust society is as appropriate today as it was at the end of the Reagan era.
Sunday, September 1, 7 pm Return to Oz, UK/US, 1985
dir. Walter Murch (113 mins., drama, 35mm)
Often seen as too frightening to be a children’s film, Walter Murch’s 1985 Return To Oz picks up where the Oz story left off, with Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) back in Kansas; after evading (or not) the horror that was early 20th century electroshock therapy she makes it back to Oz only to find that the Emerald City is yet again in trouble. JUN/JUL/AUG 2019 NWFC
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Angels are Made of Light
Case of the Mondays Essential Cinema
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Monday, June 10, 7 pm La Religieuse, France, 1966
dir. Jacques Rivette (140 mins., drama, DCP)
Rivette’s eviscerating film follows a young woman (Anna Karina) entering an 18th-century monastery under mysterious pretenses—a terrifying and controversial allegory of French society. Newly restored!
Variety
Monday, July 1, 7 pm Queen of Diamonds, US, 1991
Monday, August 12, 7 pm Variety, US, 1983
A smoldering, crystalline portrait of an anonymous woman adrift in Las Vegas, Menkes’ film questions the magnetic lure of the desert oasis, pulling back the curtain to reveal a shimmering nightmare. Newly restored!
From a screenplay by Kathy Acker, Gordon turns the grimy erotic thriller on its head with Variety, in which a woman selling tickets to adult films becomes uncomfortably entangled with a frequent theater-goer who may be involved with the mafia.
dir. Nina Menkes (77 mins., drama, DCP)
Monday, July 15, 7 pm Kiss Me Deadly, US, 1955
dir. Robert Aldrich (106 mins., film noir, DCP)
One of the most shocking films noir of all time, Aldrich’s atomic-scare vision follows private dick Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) as he tracks mysterious woman—with a mysterious box—down a treacherous and deadly path. International version with original ending!
Monday, July 22, 7 pm The Wandering Soap Opera, Chile, 1982/2017 dir. Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento (80 mins., comedy/ fantasy, DCP)
Left unfinished after its initial shoot and only completed by Ruiz’s wife and collaborator Valeria Sarmiento in 2017, this comic masterpiece takes the conventions of the telenovela and turns them on their head, to riotous effect. 16
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dir. Bette Gordon (97 mins., thriller, DCP)
Monday, August 26, 7 pm Angels are Made of Light, US/Afghanistan, 2018 dir. James Longley (117 mins., documentary, DCP)
By the director of Iraq in Fragments, this beautifully-shot and lyrical portrait of Afghan children and their teachers shows the peaceful daily life in Kabul, far different from the fighting that has embroiled the country since 9/11. The Wandering Soap Opera
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7 pm The City Without Jews (p.9)
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4:30 pm Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel (p.9) 7 pm The Interpreter (p.9)
25 7 pm Redemption (p.9)
26
7 pm 93 Queen (p.9)
27
7 pm Mur Murs & Black Panthers (p.12)
8 pm Working Woman (p.10)
29
4:30 pm Moulin Rouge (p.11) 8 pm A Fortunate Man (p.9)
28
22
7 pm Red Cow (p.9)
20
7 pm Phoenix, Oregon (p.6)
7 pm Fig Tree (p.8)
19
21
7 pm Dear Fredy (p.8)
18
4:30 pm Paris 1900 (p.10)
7 pm Budapest Noir (p.8)
7 pm Buddy (p.13)
15
4:30 pm Between the Lines (p.12) 7 pm Chilly Scenes of Winter (p.12)
7 pm Between the Lines (p.12)
14
SATURDAY 8
FRIDAY 7
17
7 pm Best of the BendFilm Festival (p.6)
13
THURSDAY 6
2 pm Paris 1900 (p.10) 4:30 pm Buddy (p.13) 7 pm The Light of Hope (p.8)
12
Between the Lines—June 7
WEDNESDAY 5
16
11
TUESDAY 4
7 pm Buddy (p.13)
10
Crossing Delancey—June 9
MONDAY 3
watch film all year round . join the silver screen club .
4:30 pm Crossing Delancey 7 pm La Religieuse (p.16) (p.12) 7 pm Between the Lines (p.12)
9
JUNE 2
SUNDAY
JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 2019
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28
8 pm Wayne’s World (p.5)
7 pm UHF (p.15)
7 pm The Wandering Soap Opera (p.16)
4:30 pm Diamantino (p.13)
7 pm Bending the Arc (p.14)
30
18
7 pm Portland Circuit: Canopy Stories (p.6)
11
THURSDAY 4
24
31
7 pm Black Pool (p.7)
AUGUST 1
8 pm Laura (p.5)
25
7 pm Mary Janes: The Women 7 pm NWFC Student of Weed (p.6) Screening
17
10
WEDNESDAY 3
7 pm A Bigger Splash (p.13)
2
8 pm Boy (p.5)
26
7 pm Diamantino (p.13)
19
7 pm Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (p.13)
4:30 & 7 pm A Bigger Splash (p.13)
3
8 pm Night of the Comet (p.5)
27
4:30 & 7 pm Diamantino (p.13)
20
4:30 pm Workers Leaving the Factory (p.11) 7 pm Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (p.13)
13
7 pm Days of Heaven (p.12)
7 pm Badlands (p.12)
12
SATURDAY 6
FRIDAY 5
watch film all year round . join the silver screen club .
The Wandering Soap Opera—July 22
2 pm Be Natural (p.13) 4:30 pm Alice Guy-Blaché Solax Shorts (p.11) 7 pm Phantom of the Paradise (p.15)
23
7 pm Kiss Me Deadly (p.16)
22
16
15
14
21
7 pm Thank You for Coming (p.14)
9
Queen of Diamonds—July 1
TUESDAY 2
6 pm The Thin Red Line (p.12) 7 pm Demons (p.15)
7
8
JULY 1 7 pm Queen of Diamonds (p.16)
30
2 pm French Cancan (p.11) 4:30 pm Prosecuting Evil (p.10) 7 pm Promise at Dawn(p.10)
MONDAY
SUNDAY
JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 2019
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2 pm Touki-Bouki (p.13) 4:30 pm Hyenas (p.13) 7 pm Showgirls (p.15)
18
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The Raft—August 16–18
2 pm Jules & Jim (p.11) 4:30 pm For Sama (p.14) 7 pm Return to Oz (p.15)
SEPTEMBER 1
28
21
14
Hyenas—August 9–11
7
23
7 pm The Raft (p.14)
16
7 pm Hyenas (p.13)
9
7 pm For Sama (p.14)
30
$5 Silver Screen Club Friends, New Wave & Children
7 pm Internal Review: Films by Northwest Film Center Staff (p.7)
29
7 pm Nostalgia, Post-Memory 7 pm What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire? and Autobiographical: The (p.14) Films of Sydney Southam (p.7)
22
7 pm La Chunta (p.7)
15
8
Unless otherwise noted, all films screen at the Northwest Film Center—Whitsell Auditorium located inside the Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue
$8 PAM Members, Students, Seniors
For Sama—August 30–September 1
27
$10 General Admission
2 pm The Earrings of Madame 7 pm Angels Are Made of De... (p.11) Light (p.16) 4:30 pm What You Gonna Do when the World...? (p.14) 7 pm Society (p.15)
25
Sunday, July 28 - Wayne’s World Directed by Penelope Spheeris
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4:30 pm The Raft (p.14) Saturday, July 27 - Night of the Comet 807 Cult pmClassic American Movie (p.15)
Friday, July 26 - Boy Directed by Taika Waititi
20
7 pm Variety (p.16)
19
7 pm The Cleaners (p.14)
12
11
Thursday, July 25 — Laura 40S murder mystery
13
7 pm Undertones II (p.7)
2 pm A Bigger Splash (p.13) 4:30 pm Georges Méliès Shorts (p.11) 7 pm Black Sunday (p.15)
6
5
4
visiting artist
subtitles
4:30 & 7 pm For Sama (p.14)
31
4:30 & 7 pm What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire? (p.14)
24
4:30 & 7 pm The Raft (p.14)
17
4:30 pm Hyenas (p.13) 7 pm Touki-Bouki (p.13)
10
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Paris 1900
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