NWFC November/December Schedule

from Northwest Film Center - November/December 2019 Schedule

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019

Atlantics

Cinema Unbound With the 50th anniversary of the Northwest Film Center on the horizon in 2021—I am thrilled to be here at this critical time to help lead us into the future of storytelling. Even in the short amount of time I’ve been in Portland, being a part of this community has inspired me. Film and new media—like visual, experiential, audio, and sensory storytelling—are constantly changing. Even the way we look at these media as art forms changes as cinema becomes unbound. As the world constantly evolves, so do our notions of media arts and how they can be seen, created, and curated. With your support, the Film Center will continue to evolve and grow. In 2020, we’ll be focused on building unexpected collaborations, encouraging interdisciplinary storytelling, and creating greater opportunities for makers and audiences to interact with something—or someone—new. For example, the recent melding of the Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival and Portland International Film Festival will bring greater opportunities for the wider world to come to Portland and the talents of Northwest artists to be further recognized and shared. Education will highlight new opportunities in a cross-section of film, animation, editorial, and screenwriting. Vital partnerships with local collaborators like the Jupiter Hotel and Literary Arts will continue to blend cinema, music, literature, and more.

The Film Center has always been a pioneer. When folks ask me about what that future holds, I usually say that there’s no crystal ball. The future is in the making. But if we did have one, I would hope to see ongoing access for our members and audiences to experience timeless cinema colliding with what’s next. I would glean from the universe that diversified curation and education programs are on the way, with a focus on creating and sharing stories across myriad mediums and viewpoints to create vital change-making connections both locally and globally. And I hope we can all encourage each other to open the doors wider to include new voices, encourage new audiences, and make space to include new forms of storytelling in the mix. As the Portland Art Museum’s first Curator of Film & New Media, I also wanted to encourage you to attend the cross-disciplinary program created around the groundbreaking exhibition Hank Willis Thomas: All things being equal..., where Hank— in conjunction with Programmer Morgen Ruff—curated a four-month series of films that influence his life and work. Hank’s selection of classic horror, Old Hollywood favorites, documentary, and experimental cinema transcends the big screen and becomes a portal into the mind of a truly modern artist. The past informs the future, but the future has a mind of its own. The fall season challenges us to be bold and face the winds of change. I look forward to seeing you soon and talking more about building a bright future together, as well as how the Film Center and the Museum can continue to come together as catalysts for culture, collaboration, and change.

Amy Dotson Director, Northwest Film Center Curator, Film & New Media, Portland Art Museum

The Portland Art Museum is honored to present the first major retrospective of work by one of the most important conceptual artists working today. Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal… features more than 90 bold, skillfully crafted works illuminating topics that Thomas has treated with sensitivity throughout his career, such as the human toll of gun violence, the impact of corporate branding, and the systems that dehumanize people by turning them into commodities. Through photographs, sculpture, video, and collaborative public art projects, he invites viewers to consider the role of popular culture in instituting discrimination and how art can be a tool for social justice in the fight for civil rights. A monumental immersive installation in the entrance courtyard, 14,719 (2018), addresses lives lost to gun violence in America. On view through January 12, 2020.

TOP: Hank Willis Thomas (American, born 1976), Guernica, 2016. Mixed media, including sport jerseys, 131 × 281 inches. Private Collection. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. © Hank Willis Thomas; RIGHT: Hank Willis Thomas (American, born 1976), Branded Head, from the series B®anded, 2003. Chromogenic print, 99 × 52 × 3 inches. Private Collection. Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. © Hank Willis Thomas

Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal… Presented in conjunction with Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal..., a major solo exhibition at the Portland Art Museum on view October 12-January 12, artist Hank Willis Thomas has selected a wide-ranging series of films that grapple with mass media, race, and representation in the contemporary United States. “These films impacted my life and whole understanding of the power of art to shape our notions of the truth and therefore reality.”—Hank Willis Thomas.

Sunday, November 3, 2 pm A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde, US, 1995 dir. Ada Gay Griffin & Michelle Parkerson (80 mins., documentary, 16mm) This incisive portrait-doc about the radical black lesbian poet and activist Audre Lorde traces her involvement in and leadership of myriad social justice movements of the late 20th century. Followed by In Dialogue, a post-film discussion moderated by Lisa Jarrett—see nwfilm.org for details.

Sunday, November 10, 1:30 pm The Corporation, US, 2003 dir. Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott (145 mins., documentary, 35mm) Based on a book with the revealing subtitle “the pathological pursuit of profit and power,” this chilling and never-irrelevant doc goes behind the scenes of contemporary corporate culture, exposing a wasteland of broken dreams and rampant abuse.

Sunday, November 17, 2 pm Koyaanisqatsi, US, 1982 dir. Godfrey Reggio (86 mins., visual essay, DCP) Reggio’s must-see visual symphony—set to an unforgettable Philip Glass score—juxtaposes urban environments with the natural world, linking structures together through montage sequences of great beauty. Koyaanisqatsi

Sunday, December 1, 2 pm Life and Debt, US, 2001 dir. Stephanie Black (80 mins., documentary, 35mm) Chronicling the impacts of International Monetary Fund and World Bank policies on the Caribbean island of Jamaica, this incisive documentary is based on a text by Jamaica Kincaid with rollicking soundtrack of reggae classics. Followed by In Dialogue, a post-film discussion moderated by Roberta Hunte—see nwfilm.org for details.

Life and Debt

Saturday, December 14, 1:30pm Malcolm X: Make It Plain, US, 1994 dir. Orlando Bagwell (150 mins., documentary, digital) Produced for PBS’s American Experience series and narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eyeopening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood, through his rise in the ranks of the Nation of Islam, to his 1965 assassination.

Sunday, December 15, 2 pm American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, US, 2013 dir. Grace Lee (82 mins., documentary, digital) American Revolutionary poignantly charts the life and legacy of Asian-American activist and writer Grace Lee Boggs, noted for her barrier-breaking academic career and longstanding engagement with gender and class struggle.

January screenings: Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (1/5) and Terence Nance’s An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (1/12).

Visiting Artists An ongoing program spotlighting leading filmmakers and artists, all featuring postfilm discussions or Q&As.

Toronto-based filmmaker/scholar Brett Story screens The Hottest August on December 7 at 7 pm.

The Hottest August

Orlando-based author Kristen Arnett (Mostly Dead Things) and Portland-based writer Fiona McCann (Portland Monthly) screen and discuss Drop Dead Gorgeous on November 8 at 7 pm.

Vancouver-born, Boston-based filmmaker Kathryn Ramey screens a program of her films called Techniques of Observation: Experimental Ethnography and Recent Abstractions on November 7 at 7 pm. Los Angelesbased author Morgan Parker (Magical Negro) and Portlandbased author Jon Raymond (Wendy and Lucy) screen and discuss Rushmore on November 9 at 7 pm.

Portland-based filmmaker Ezekiel Brown screens The Lyric Project: How to Say Goodbye on November 6 at 7 pm (6 pm reception). Portland-based filmmaker Ilana Sol screens Samurai in the Oregon Sky on November 14 at 7pm (6 pm reception). Portland-based filmmaker Scott Braucht screens a preview of Dear Doris on November 17 at 7pm (following Vegas in Space). As part of the Portland Circuit, Portland-based filmmaker Tara JohnsonMedinger screens My Summer as a Goth on November 21 at 7 pm (6 pm reception).

Seattle-based filmmaker Neely Goniodsky screens a program of animated shorts, Visual Fluidity, on December 5 at 7 pm. Filmmakers Matt McCormick (Spokane, WA), Fuschia Lin, Kurtis Hough, Dicky Dahl, Jenny Waters, Derek Ewell, Darian Slayton Fleming, and Suzanne Moulton (all Portland-based) screen Works-in-Progress on December 16 at 7 pm (6 pm reception).

Diary Filmmaking: Blurring the Boundary Between Art & Life with visiting artist Julie Perini Saturday, November 2 / 9:30 am–4:30 pm Inspired by our fall exhibition series, Jonas Mekas In His Own Images, Sounds and Words, screening November 16-December 15, this workshop provides the opportunity to create your own one-minute diary film with the progenitor of the Minute Movies self-archiving project. The session will introduce concepts and techniques associated with diary film, and engage you in a filming/editing activity assignment using text, voice-over, music, and effects. Sound Recording with visiting artist Pam Minty Saturday, November 16 / 10 am–5 pm This full-day workshop covers the tools and techniques of industry-standard audio recording. Learn the protocols of setting up and conducting recording sessions for dialogue, interviews, narration and effects. Learn about microphone types and uses from lavaliers to shotguns. Explore audio recorder operation (702+MixPre3, Zoom H4N), and field mixer operation (MixPre).Tuition includes a 48-hour sound kit rental (value $112 NWFC Artist Rental Rate). Certificate Student Screening dir. Colin Cortes, Nathan Hoss, Katie Burger, Brandy Machado (60 mins., drama/documentary, DCP) Tuesday, November 19, 7:30 pm The Film Center’s Certificate Program matriculating students present their thesis films: Colin Cortes’ Soul Box, Nathan Hoss’ Something in the Night, Katie Burger’s Let Them Eat Cake, and Brandy Machado’s Happenstance: The Funeral. Join in celebrating their achievements and the community that has supported them! Free reception, 6:30 pm, Andrée Stevens Room, adjacent to the Whitsell Auditorium.

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.

Wednesday, November 6, 7 pm (Reception at 6 pm) The Lyric Project Season 2: How to Say Goodbye, OR, 2018 dir. Ezekiel Brown (113 mins., music/drama/documentary, DCP) “What is one’s strongest connection to a particular song, and why?” Ezekiel Brown presents ten unique visual narratives to answer this question, highlighting personal audial relationships to ten different song lyrics. The Lyric Project

Thursday, November 7, 7 pm TECHNIQUES OF OBSERVATION: Experimental Ethnography and Recent Abstractions by Kathryn Ramey, WA/MA, 2009–2019 dir. Kathryn Ramey (72 mins., experimental/documentary, 16mm/DCP) Kathryn Ramey comes home to the Northwest on a film tour, presenting a four-film program that utilizes handprocessing, time-lapse photography, and ray-o-grams to investigate themes of expansionism, familial ties, and perceptions of being in spaces.

Thursday November 14, 7 pm (Reception at 6 pm) Samurai in the Oregon Sky, OR, 2019 dir. Ilana Sol (48 mins., documentary, DCP) Presented in partnership with the World Affairs Council of Oregon, Ilana Sol’s documentary tells the story of Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita, who was the only pilot to bomb the US mainland during WWII—and, two decades later, was invited back as a friend. Post-film panel with local historians.

Thursday, November 21, 7 pm (Reception at 6 pm) My Summer as a Goth, OR, 2018 dir. Tara Johnson-Medinger (90 mins., dark comedy/comingof-age, DCP) Tara Johnson-Medinger’s premiere feature is a coming-ofage story about social alienation in adolescence and that first bittersweet summer heartbreak—albeit draped in black. Presented as part of the Portland Circuit, a partnership between the Oregon Made Creative Foundation and local independent theaters.

Thursday, December 5, 7 pm Visual Fluidity: The Animated Films of Neely Goniodsky, WA, 2006–2019 dir. Neely Goniodsky (60 mins., animation, DCP) Neely Goniodsky’s dream-like animations, spanning 13 years, incorporate ink, paint, and cut-out animation while swirling through stories of meaning-searching, finding love, losing love, fears, joys, hopes, and so much more. Come early to experience a pre-film installation in the Stevens room adjacent to the theater.

Monday December 16, 7 pm (Reception at 6 pm) Works in Progress Film Screening, OR/WA, 2019 dir. Derek Ewell, Jenny Watters, Darian Slayton Fleming, Fuchsia Lin, Kurtis Hough, Dicky Dahl, Suzanne Moulton, Matt McCormick (90 mins., documentary/animation/dance, DCP) Join us for an evening of works-in-progress by Oregon- and Washington-based filmmakers who are seeking feedback from audiences as they work toward completing their newest projects.

Empress Flying

Weekend Engagements New and exciting first-run films. November 1–3 Streetwise, US, 1984 dir. Martin Bell (91 mins., documentary, DCP) This landmark documentary, based on the reportagephotography of the legendary Mary Ellen Mark for Life magazine, follows several troubled youths, all with huge personalities, on the harsh streets of early-80s Seattle. New restoration! Sunday, November 3, 7 pm Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell, US, 2016 dir. Martin Bell (87 mins., documentary, DCP) Thirty years later, this unofficial sequel to Streetwise catches up with one of that film’s most unforgettable subjects, Erin “Tiny” Blackwell. An irrepressibly wild, magnetic figure as a youth, she has embraced her new role as a mother. November 15–18 Always in Season, US, 2019 dir. Jacqueline Olive (89 mins., documentary, DCP) This deeply emotional documentary follows a Georgia mother’s search for justice after her 17-year-old son, Lennon Lacy, is found hanging from a swing set in a suspected lynching. Winner of the Special Jury Award for Moral Urgency at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. December 6–9 The Hottest August, US, 2019 dir. Brett Story (94 mins., documentary, DCP) August 2017, New York City: tensions from the still-fresh election, the looming climate crisis, and many other social and ecological issues pile up as ordinary people devise coping mechanisms. This story sensitively charts collective consciousness at this precarious juncture. Q&A with Brett Story on December 7! December 20–23 Varda by Agnès, France, 2019 dir. Agnès Varda (120 mins., documentary, DCP) Agnès Varda’s final film, released posthumously after a 60- year career, sees the unclassifiable filmmaker looking back over her life’s work, telling charming behind-the-scenes stories and inventing novel ways to tell them—as expected! Sponsored in part by TV5 Monde. Coming February 2020: Varda—A Retrospective Varda by Agnès

November 23–24 Sátántangó, Hungary, 1994 dir. Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky (439 mins., drama/black comedy, DCP) Routinely voted amongst the greatest films ever made, Tarr and Hranitzky’s visionary work follows a post-Communist Hungarian village whose residents set to leave after a large amount of money lands at their feet—but the return of a long-thought-dead villager threatens their newfound freedom. New 4K restoration!

November 29–December 2 Atlantics, France/Senegal/Belgium, 2019 dir. Mati Diop (104 mins., drama, DCP) Diop’s feature debut is an atmospheric, genre-hopping ghost story that follows star-crossed lovers longing for a better life—although many obstacles stand in their way. Winner of the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival after being the first film by a black woman in competition in its 70+ year history. Sponsored in part by TV5 Monde.

PORTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL— FILM TO PAGE

Friday, November 8, 7 pm Drop Dead Gorgeous, US, 1999 dir. Michael Patrick Jann (97 mins., comedy, 35mm) Modest-living Amber (Kirsten Dunst) and full-of-it rich-girl Becky (Denise Richards) square off in a lurid Minnesota teen beauty pageant in this riotous mockumentary. Selected by Kristen Arnett.

Saturday, November 9, 7 pm Rushmore, US, 1998 dir. Wes Anderson (93 mins., comedy/drama, 35mm) Wes Anderson’s funny, tender ode to being a little too smart for one’s own good features Jason Schwartzman in the breakout role of private-school go-getter (of sorts) Max Fischer—one of 90s cinema’s most unforgettable characters. Selected by Morgan Parker.

Directed by Elaine May One of American comedy’s great (and relatively unheralded) voices, Elaine May has forged a long and successful career in show business—still going strong on Broadway today. May directed four feature films in Hollywood, some misunderstood at their time of release, others buried and left to languish in obscurity. With hindsight, May is one of the key directors of the New Hollywood period.

Friday, December 13, 7 pm A New Leaf, US, 1971 dir. Elaine May (102 mins., comedy, 35mm) Elaine May stars in and directs this side-splitting absurdist comedy, in which ridiculously wealthy yet fully aloof bachelor Walter Matthau falls on hard times, deciding to find a rich wife instead of working for a living.

Saturday, December 14, 4:30 pm The Heartbreak Kid, US, 1972 dir. Elaine May (106 mins., comedy, 35mm) From a screenplay by Neil Simon, May fashions this hilarious send-up of male potency: the beguiling Cybil Shepherd lures a hapless Charles Grodin away from his new bride while on Floridian honeymoon. Imported 35mm print!

Saturday, December 14, 7 pm Mikey & Nicky, US, 1976 dir. Elaine May (119 mins., crime drama, DCP) New Hollywood icons John Cassavetes and Peter Falk star as low-level criminal friends evading a hit man sent by their former boss—a sharp departure for May from her earlier (and later) comedy work. New restoration!

Sunday, December 15, 7 pm Ishtar, US, 1987 dir. Elaine May (107 mins., comedy, DCP) One of the most fabled “failed films” in Hollywood history, May’s revived final feature stars Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty as a pair of bumbling songwriters embroiled in international intrigue in the deserts of Morocco. New restoration!

Jacques Demy’s Romantic Trilogy Jacques Demy, the famed filmmaker (and beloved husband of Agnès Varda) who sat somewhat uneasily between prestige cinema and the rupture of the New Wave, was deeply influenced by Hollywood musicals. Demy’s earlycareer “romantic trilogy,” set in three different French beachfront cities, revolves around the lives of ordinary citizens dealing with extraordinary issues. Sponsored in part by TV5 Monde.

Friday, December 27, 7 pm Lola, France, 1961 dir. Jacques Demy (90 mins., drama, DCP) Demy’s feature debut, which he provocatively dubbed a “musical without music,” stars pop icon Anouk Aimée as a cabaret dancer besieged by potential suitors—captured in crisp B&W photography by French New Wave legend Raoul Coutard.

Saturday, December 28, 7 pm The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, France, 1964 dir. Jacques Demy (91 mins., musical, DCP) The film that shot Catherine Deneuve to stardom, this charming color-saturated musical follows a young couple (Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo) whose lives drift apart following his conscription into the Algerian War.

Sunday, December 29, 4:30 pm The Young Girls of Rochefort, France, 1967 dir. Jacques Demy (120 mins., musical, DCP) Real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac star in Demy’s bright, exceedingly colorful musical about small-town sisters longing for love—and dreaming of life in the big city.

Jonas Mekas In His Own Images, Sounds, and Words Pioneering 16mm filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who lived a long and fruitful life, died on January 23, 2019 at the age of 96. Mekas, a leading light of not only filmmaking, but of living as an artist in the contemporary world, forged a career from his own experiences, often filming his immediate surroundings, friends, family, and acquaintances. With this series, we pay tribute to Mekas through his diary films—a major body of work full of beauty and wisdom. “We need less perfect but more free films.” —Jonas Mekas.

Saturday, November 16, 1 pm He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life, US, 1985 dir. Jonas Mekas (150 mins., experimental, 16mm) Covering the years 1969-1984 and featuring a huge number of New York art-world luminaries, Mekas described He Stands in a Desert as “nothing spectacular”—although the raw material of life, which makes up the film, provides remarkable experiences and visions at every turn.

Sunday, December 8, 5 pm As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, US, 2000 dir. Jonas Mekas (320 mins., experimental, 16mm) Mekas’s magnum opus diary film, comprised of footage from his early life, is one of the most beautiful films ever made—a monumental testimony to the importance of love, solidarity, and the recognition of beauty into one’s life.

Sunday, December 15, 4:30 pm Out-Takes from the Life of Happy Man, US, 2012 dir. Jonas Mekas (68 mins., experimental, digital) Mekas’s final diary film, after nearly 50 years of his integration of life and art making with a camera always in hand, is a collection of scenes from 1960-2000 which illustrate the broad experience of his happy life.

Reel Music in the Jupiter Hotel DreamTENT A brand new collaboration with community stalwart The Jupiter Hotel, this November we inaugurate a series of monthly screenings of great music films, operating as an extension of our annual Reel Music film festival. Every 3rd Wednesday in the Jupiter’s beautiful DreamTENT— Free Admission!

Wednesday, November 20, 7 pm Stop Making Sense, US, 1984 dir. Jonathan Demme (88 mins., concert film, digital) This legendary concert film, spanning the Talking Heads’ career up to 1983 and documenting their Speaking in Tongues tour features frontman David Byrne at his captivating best and the full band totally locked in.

Wednesday, December 18, 7 pm The Hunger, US, 1983 dir. Tony Scott (97 mins., vampire movie, digital) Starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon, this dripping-with-atmosphere vampire flick has stood the test of time thanks to its innovative visuals and punk attitude.

Underscan A thematic review of cult & genre films with an eye towards the margins. November and December 2019 focuses on New Utopias.

Born in Flames

Sunday, November 10, 7 pm Silent Running, US, 1972 dir. Douglas Trumbull (89 mins., sci-fi, 35mm) A lone ecologist must defend the last of dystopian Earth’s flora and fauna when they are threatened by the demands of human greed.

Sunday, November 17, 7 pm Vegas in Space, US, 1991 dir. Phillip R. Ford (85 mins., sci-fi/comedy, digital) A crew of male astronauts must change their sex in order to investigate a crime on the all-female planet Clitoris, in this DIY, drag-in-space adventure. Followed by a teaser for the upcoming documentary Dear Doris with a Q&A by filmmaker Scott Braught.

Sunday, December 1, 7 pm Born in Flames, US, 1983 dir. Lizzie Borden (90 mins., sci-fi, 35mm) After a marginally successful socialist revolution, women band together, utilizing pirate radio to push back against the lingering sexism, racism, and classism around them.

Sunday, December 22, 7 pm The Sticky Fingers of Time, US, 1997 dir. Hilary Brougher (81 mins., Sci-fi, digital) When an A-bomb test gives a journalist the ability to travel through time, she finds uncanny and ominous connections in the future.

Sunday, December 29, 7 pm Earth Girls Are Easy, US, 1988 dir. Julien Temple (100 mins., sci-fi/comedy/musical, 35mm) Three aliens seeking love crash land on Earth and are escorted about Los Angeles by a newly broken-hearted hair stylist Valley girl. Musical numbers abound.

Sunday, November 10, 4:30 pm Ball of Fire, US, 1941 dir. Howard Hawks (111 mins., comedy, 35mm) Silver screen icons Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper star in this oddball slang-comedy in which a group of stuffy academics, struggling to write a modern encyclopedia, consult with a lounge singer for her effervescent take on the latest lingo. Saturday, November 30, 4:30 pm Fargo, US, 1996 dir. Joel & Ethan Coen (98 mins., comedy/thriller, DCP) One of the great films of the 1990s, the Coen Brothers’ taut, darkly funny thriller follows small-town Minnesota cop Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) as she investigates a murder/kidnapping scheme with used-car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) at its center.

Saturday, November 16, 4:30 pm Ikarie XB-1, Czechoslovakia, 1963 dir. Jindřich Polák (86 mins., sci-fi, DCP) A remarkable precursor to films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris, this Iron-Curtain space voyage film sees a ship’s crew fighting for their lives while searching for a remote planet, unclear if they are in a dystopian or utopian situation. Ball of Fire

Friday, November 22, 7 pm Margaret, US, 2011 dir. Kenneth Lonergan (150 mins., drama, DCP) Writer/director Kenneth Lonergan’s supremely neglected masterpiece, one of the best films of the nascent 21st Century, follows a young woman’s (Anna Paquin) development after she witnesses a terrible accident.

Fargo

Saturday, December 7, 4:30 pm Duet for Cannibals, Sweden, 1969 dir. Susan Sontag (105 mins., psychodrama, DCP) Famed writer-of-all-trades Susan Sontag’s long-neglected exploration of the sexual dynamics between two couples—a fascinating and disturbing interplay of individual wills— arrives newly restored and ready for reappraisal.

Saturday, December 21, 4:30 pm Christmas in Connecticut, US, 1945 dir. Peter Godfrey (101 mins., comedy, 35mm) This prototypical holiday-season rom-com stars the incomparable Barbara Stanwyck as a New York food writer who masquerades as a down-home housewife as she searches for love.

SATURDAY 2 8 PM Streetwise

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1 8 PM Streetwise

THURSDAY

WEDNESDAY

9 7 PM Rushmore

16 1 PM He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life 4:30 PM Ikarie XB-1 7 PM Always in Season 23 NOON Sátántangó

6 7 8 7 PM The Lyric Project Season 2: How to Say Goodbye 7 PM TECHNIQUES OF OBSERVATION: Experimental Ethnography and Recent Abstractions by Kathryn Ramey 7 PM Drop Dead Gorgeous Streetwise

15 7 PM Always in Season

14 7 PM Samurai in the Oregon Sky

22 7 PM Margaret

20 21 7 PM My Summer as a Goth Samurai in the Oregon Sky

30 4:30 PM Fargo 7:00 PM Atlantics

29 7 PM Atlantics

TUESDAY

MONDAY

5 A Litany for Survival

19 7:30 PM Certificate Student Screening

18 7 PM Always in Season

3 2 PM A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde 4:30 PM Streetwise 7 PM Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell 10 1:30 PM The Corporation 4:30 PM Ball of Fire 7:00 PM Silent Running

17 2 PM Koyaanisqatsi 4:30 PM Always in Season 7 PM Vegas in Space

24 NOON Sátántangó

7 4:30 PM Duet for Cannibals

7 PM The Hottest August

6 7 PM The Hottest August

5 7 PM Visual Fluidity: The Animated Films of Neely Goniodsky

14 1:30 PM Malcolm X: Make It Plain 4:30 PM The Heartbreak Kid 7 PM Mikey & Nicky

13 7 PM A New Leaf

21 4:30 PM Christmas in Connecticut 7 PM Varda by Agnès

20 7 PM Varda by Agnès

11 A New Leaf

28 7 PM The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

27 7 PM Lola

26 Varda by Agnès

subtitles visiting artist

$5 Silver Screen Club Friends, New Wave & Children

$8 PAM Members, Students, Seniors

$10 General Admission

U nless otherwise noted, all films screen at the Northwest Film Center—Whitsell Auditorium located inside the Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue

2 7 PM Atlantics

DECEMBER 1 2 PM Life and Debt 4:30 PM Atlantics 7 PM Born in Flames

8 9 5 PM As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 7 PM The Hottest August

15 16 2 PM American Revolutionary 4:30 PM Outtakes from the Life of a Happy Man 7 PM Ishtar 7 PM Works in Progress

23 7 PM Varda by Agnès

22 4:30 PM Varda by Agnès 7 PM The Sticky Fingers of Time

29 4:30 PM The Young Girls of Rochefort 7 PM Earth Girls are Easy

Hank Willis Thomas

Visiting Artists

Elaine May

Jonas Mekas

Reel Music at the Jupiter Hotel

Portland Book Festival

PLUS... NORTHWEST TRACKING WEEKEND ENGAGEMENTS ESSENTIAL CINEMA UNDERSCAN: CULT & GENRE REFRAMED SPECIAL SCREENINGS

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$10 General Admission $8 PAM Members, Students, Seniors $5 Silver Screen Club Friends, New Wave & Children Unless otherwise noted, all films screen at the Northwest Film Center—Whitsell Auditorium located inside the Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue

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