Calendar
The Feature
Sponsored by Henry Art Gallery
Jan 02 - Jan 08
(Michel Auder, Andrew Neel, USA, 2008, DigiBeta, 184 min)
For Michel Auder the truth is certainly stranger than fiction. He was part of the heart of the Warhol Factory and the Soho art explosion, and was one of the first to compulsively exploit the diaristic potential of the Sony Portapak. This fictionalized biography of Auder draws on his vast archive of videotapes, connecting them with a distanced narration and new footage shot by co-director Andrew Neel.
20 Seconds Of Joy
Jan 02 - Jan 08
(Jens Hoffmann, Germany, 2007, Beta-SP, 60 min)
In Jens Hoffmann's breathtaking documentary, the filmmaker follows the elusive extreme sport athlete for five years through spectacular landscapes in some of the most remote corners of the world. Is the high worth the price when one wrong move means certain death?
"Offers thrilling footage of people parachuting off some of the world's most dangerous cliffs, but the main attraction is Hollekim herself, a beautiful and mysterious figure..." -Seattle PI
Channeling
Jan 08
Channeling is an entryway into the spirit realm and the queer body politic: a loose catalogue of experimental moving image work that calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. The intent of the program is to re-imagine film and video as occult technologies that allow us to connect with the bodies, experiences and emotions that are often invisible—ghostly, even—in everyday life.
Easy Rider
Sponsored by the Vera Project
Jan 09 - Jan 15
(Dennis Hopper, USA, 1969, 35mm, 94 min) New 35mm Print!
This low-budget road movie directed by then-unknown weirdo Dennis Hopper and featuring rock music as its score (mostly songs from Hopper’s record collection) turned out to be a huge success that turned Hollywood on its ear.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
New 35mm Print!
Jan 09 - Jan 15
(George Roy Hill, USA, 1969, 35mm, 110 min)
Paul Newman and Robert Redford star as loveable outlaws Butch and Sundance in George Roy Hill’s funny take on the Western genre. Based on real turn-of-the-century thieves, the train robbers are forced to escape a pursuing posse and flee the shrinking American West.
HUMPDAY Extravaganza II: “The Humpening”
Jan 11
Lynn Shelton’s latest opus, “HUMPDAY”, is premiering in competition at Sundance and we need your help to get it there…
Come by for
• A re-enactment of the unveiling of the beautiful HUMPDAY trailer!
• An Exclusive 3-minute Sneak Peak of HUMPDAY gems!
• A reprise of "HUMPUNCH"! Along with our signature drink: "The Swordfight"!
• The ever-popular "DJ HUMP"! (For reals this time!)
• A new, fabulous HUMPDAY raffle!
$5 at the door
The Milky Way
Jan 14 - Jan 15
(Luis Buñuel, France/West Germany/Italy, 1969, 35mm, 105 min)
Luis Buñuel’s entertaining, absurdist spoof on religion daringly deconstructs contemporary and traditional views on Catholicism.
Alice’s Restaurant
Jan 16 - Jan 22
(Arthur Penn, USA, 1969, 35mm, 111 min)
Following his 1967 breakout hit film Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn co-wrote and directed this relaxed portrait of hippie culture and gentle lament to the end of the counterculture revolution.
Oh! What A Lovely War
Jan 16 - Jan 22
(Richard Attenborough, UK, 1969, 35mm, 114 min)
Based on Joan Littlewood’s stage play about World War I and featuring an all-star cast (including Laurence Olivier), Richard Attenborough’s directorial debut employs song, satire and absurdist humor to deliver a potent critique of the senselessness of war and how a generation of young British men were killed.
21 Landings
Jan 02 - Jan 22
Installation on display at NWFF. 21 Landings is a looping video installation of multiple attempted landings by the legs of a bird-like creature onto an icy, futuristic surface. The stop motion animated actions of the creature and following movements of the camera reveal a relationship between an imaginary photographer and subject.
"The Stranger Suggests: This is a singular opportunity to wander into a movie theater—it plays all day, for free—and sit in the dark with a few other people and contemplate something not of this world." -The Stranger
Stereo
Jan 21 - Jan 22
(David Cronenberg, Canada, 1969, 35mm, 65 min)
David Cronenberg’s first feature film is a truly original take on humankind’s schizophrenic nature and the obsessive introversion of science.
2009 Children's Film Festival Seattle
Jan 23 - Feb 01
Now in its 4th year, Children’s Film Festival Seattle is pulling out all the stops with its boldest and brightest celebration of international children’s cinema ever. We’ve searched the globe and come up with a treasure trove of 76 films from 25 countries, full of adventure, surprises, belly laughs and stories that are sure to make kids think and see the world in a brand new way.
Hoppity Goes To Town
Jan 30 - Feb 05
(Dave Fleischer, USA, 1941, 35mm, 78 min) New 35mm Print!
Made some sixty years before A Bug’s Life and Antz, Hoppity is an early attempt to show life from a bug’s perspective. What resulted is a wonderful little musical fable about urban development, made by Max and Dave Fleischer (Popeye, Betty Boop).
Soul Nite!
Feb 05
Don't miss our quarterly celebration of 60s and 70s soul music, featuring vintage performance footage on the big screen and djs and drinks in the cinema! Dancing in the aisles is encouraged!
17th Annual Seattle Human Rights Film Festival
Feb 06 - Feb 08
SHRFF "09 will feature a powerful selection of human rights documentaries from across the globe, which aim to educate, spread awareness and inspire action through their compelling stories. Come show your support for cinema with a social conscience!
Back To Normandy
Feb 06 - Feb 12
(Nicolas Philibert, France, 2006, 35mm, 113 min)
In 1975, Philibert assisted director René Allio on a film inspired by Michel Foucault's book, Moi, Pierre Rivière…, about a murder that took place in the 1830s; his work included finding and persuading local farming folk to act in the film. Three decades on, he returned to Normandy to catch up with those people.
I, Pierre Riviere…
Feb 06 - Feb 12
(René Allio, France, 1976, DigiBeta, 130 min)
I, Pierre Rivière, Having Butchered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother… carefully assembles multiple perspectives on the infamous countryside murders that it re-enacts, an unusual approach that illustrates the ways that narrative produces truth. Allio shot the film entirely on location, using farmers from the Normandy region where the violence occurred.
Bust A Move Film Challenge
Feb 10
To freak or not to freak? This quarter's film challenge asks you to create a film in which there is an unusual or inappropriate outbreak of dance. Make us a film about any subject you'd like, but somewhere in the piece make sure there's a little out of place dance. Whether it's a little funk at the funeral, the worm in the women's room or some freakin' at the fair, all we ask is for a little boogie.
Learn From Our Mistakes: Filmmaking Disaster Stories From Noble Efforts
Feb 12
This quarter, we invite accomplished, local filmmakers to share with us some of their disaster stories from behind the camera. As a filmmaker starting out, it's easy to get discouraged by setbacks and snafus, but even the best directors need to perfect their skills with a little trial and error. Our panelists have experienced it all: prop car failure in the high desert, misplaced bribes in India, fogged film from the airport x-ray machine, and even more hair-raising tales! Participate in the discussion and share some of your own horror stories from on the set. Beverages in which to drown your sorrows will be served in plentiful quantities.
The Model Shop
Feb 13 - Feb 19
(Jacques Demy, USA/France, 1969, 35mm, 95 min)
The first and only Hollywood movie from French director Jacques Demy is a poetic tale of human disarray, transient happiness and love lost. A semi-sequel to Lola, which also stars Anouk Amiée, Model Shop focuses on a directionless young architect who quits his job and bums off his friends.
Me And My Brother
Sponsored by the Hideout Bar
Feb 18 - Feb 19
(Robert Frank, USA, 1969, 35mm, 91 min)
The first feature film by photographer/filmmaker Robert Frank is a bold experimental hybrid of documentary and fiction. Catatonic schizophrenic Julius Orlovsky is taken by his brother, poet Peter Orlovsky, and Allen Ginsberg across the country on their reading tour.
Lion’s Love
Feb 13 - Feb 19
(Agnes Varda, USA/France, 1969, 35mm, 110 min)
Lion’s Love is an imaginative, cinema verité-like fiction film starring Gerome Ragnai, James Rado (the composers of Hair) and Warhol superstar Viva as a ménage-à-trois looking for a future in LA.
Medicine For Melancholy
Sponsored by KBCS 91.3 FM
Feb 20 - Feb 26
(Barry Jenkins, USA, 2008, DigiBeta, 87 min)
Barry Jenkins' debut feature begins one morning in San Francisco, in the awkward aftermath of a one-night stand between two African-American twenty-somethings (The Daily Show’s Wyatt Cenac and newcomer Tracey Heggins). After a sobering cup of coffee, they part, but within hours, the guy contrives to track the girl down. His ingenuity and charm pay off when he convinces her to spend the rest of the day with him.
Ballast
Feb 20 - Feb 26
(Lance Hammer, USA, 2008, 35mm, 96 min)
A young boy drifts through the spare flatlands of a wintry Mississippi township and a middle-aged man sits in his rural home, frozen in grief after his brother’s suicide. These striking images set in motion a riveting story of three people trying to reposition their lives after experiencing a traumatic loss.
They Shoot Horses Don’t They?
Sponsored by the Century Ballroom
Feb 27 - Mar 05
(Sydney Pollack, USA, 1969, 35mm, 120 min)
Director Sydney Pollack’s dark and impassioned adaptation of Horace McCoy's novel reflects the dreams, ideals and overwhelming feeling of disenchantment of the 1930s (and the late 60s).
Midnight Cowboy
Feb 27 - Mar 05
(John Schlesinger, USA, 35mm, 113 min)
This New York story of dreams, friendship and male prostitution introduced two unforgettable drifters into our collective consciousness. Naïve Texan stud Joe Buck (Jon Voight) and the cynical and seedy Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) become unlikely pals in the grubby underside of Times Square.
Funeral Parade Of Roses
Mar 04 - Mar 05
(Toshio Matsumoto, Japan, 1969, 16mm, 105 min)
Matsumoto’s first feature, a masterful drag-queen melodrama, was the most formally complex film to emerge from the Japanese New Wave and the first Japanese film to deal unabashedly with gay culture.
The Wild Bunch
Mar 13 - Mar 19
(Sam Peckinpah, USA, 1969, 35mm, 145 min)
Master director Sam Peckinpah’s classic tale of aging desperados determined to forge one last stand is a feat of technical and artistic genius.
Paint Your Wagon
Mar 13 - Mar 19
(Joshua Logan, USA, 1969, 35mm, 166 min)
This big-budget Western musical starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood and Jean Seberg in a ménage-à-trois was the last blast from director Joshua Logan (South Pacific).
Rain People
Mar 18 - Mar 19
(Francis Ford Coppola, USA, 1969, Beta-SP, 102 min)
Starring Shirley Knight, James Caan and Robert Duvall, Coppola’s Rain People tells the story of a pregnant Long Island housewife who journeys across America.
Castaway Vacation—2008 Screenplay Competition Reading
Oct 31 - Feb 09
Join us for a reading of Debbie Kellogg's winning script from our 2008 Washington State Screenplay Competition. In Castaway Vacation, a bossy sister and her stubborn brother get lost canoeing in the fog while on vacation on the coast of British Columbia. When picked up by imbecile smugglers, they outsmart them, escape with supplies, land on a remote island, and discover that they have mistakenly taken the smugglers drugs and must now plan both their defense and their rescue.