Northwest Film Forum

Looking For Eric

Aug 27 - Sep 02

(Ken Loach, UK, 2009, 116 min)

Cannes crowd-pleaser Looking for Eric is a tender, life-affirming, and hilarious nod to the possibility of second chances. When down-and-out postal worker Eric Bishop (Steve Evets) reaches the end of his rope—his two layabout stepsons are set on driving him to an early grave, his second marriage is in ruins, and that's just the start of his troubles±he finds some unexpected motivation to turn his life around and win back the love of his life from none other than his idol, the legendary footballer Eric Cantona of Manchester United.

"Genuinely heartwarming" —Seattle Times

"Mixing light magical realism with a more familiar brand of working-class gloom, Loach's warm comic touch elevates the story of an aging man cracking up in plain sight." —Seattle Weekly

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Around a Small Mountain

Aug 27 - Sep 02

(Jacques Rivette, France/Italy, 2009, 35mm, 84 min)

The French New Wave titan (and subject of our 2007 retrospective) Jacques Rivette is back with this winning depiction of a chance encounter on a mountain road. Vittorio (Sergio Castellitto) is compelled to tag along with Kate (Jane Birkin) as she returns to the circus community she left years ago. 

"Marvelous to contemplate and changing slightly every time you see it." —NY Times

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Mamma Roma

Sep 03 - Sep 09

(Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy, 1962, 35mm, 105 min)

Perhaps Pasolini’s greatest film, Mamma Roma packs an emotional wallop. Anna Magnani’s Mamma is a prostitute who tries to go respectable, bundling her troubled teenaged son off to Rome to tend a produce stand. The return of her pimp thwarts her new life.

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Wheedle's Groove

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Sep 03 - Sep 09

(Jennifer Maas, Seattle, 2009, DigiBeta, 87 min)

Seattle, get ready for some Soul searching! Jennifer Maas' Wheedle's Groove provides a look back some thirty years before grunge music put Seattle on the map, when late 1960s groups like Black on White Affair, The Soul Swingers and Cold, Bold & Together filled airwaves and packed clubs every night of the week.

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