http://www.nwfilm.org/ There's always something going on at the Northwest Film Center! Check out our upcoming events. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:36:10 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/calendar/2010/03/14/familysunday10/ Enjoy free admission to an afternoon of family activities presented by the Northwest Film Center. This blockbuster event will reel in the family fun with do-it-yourself animation, interactive play spaces, improvisational theater games, kid-friendly food, and film screenings. Northwest Film Center faculty will teach kids of all ages the principles of motion using zoetropes and thaumatropes, which spin and whirl simple drawings into animated moving images. Visitors can also make their own flipbook, play with digitally projected butterflies, and help create the soundtrack for a 1960s Japanese monster movie, live on stage, with the group Filmusik. Museum admission on March 14 and participation in Museum Family Day is free for all visitors. ScheduleSunday, March 14, 2010, 12-5 p.m. Animate Your Artwork12-5 p.m. - Third FloorSpin and twirl your drawings into animated moving images with Northwest Film Center faculty. Interactive Playspace12-5 p.m. - Third FloorDigital butterflies land on your shadow in this interactive environment provided by Mine-Control. Make Your Own Flipbook12-5 p.m. - Third FloorRecord and take home "seven seconds of your life in a book," presented by Fliptography. Soundtrack Serenade1-5 p.m. - Third FloorHelp create the soundtrack to a 1960s Japanese monster movie live on stage with the group Filmusik. Zip Zap Zop!1, 2, 3 & 4 p.m. - Marion Miller Gallery, Mark Building, First FloorA half hour of high energy interactive theatre games with professional actors from Oregon Childrens Theatre. Family Time Cinema12-5 p.m. - Fields Ballroom, Mark Building, First FloorA program of kid-created films and shorts by local filmmakers, curated by the Northwest Film Center. Popcorn provided by Hollywood Video. Beer provided by Laurelwood Pizza. Act Out in the Gallery12-5 p.m. - Jubitz Center, Third FloorWorking with film artists, create your own puppet-theatre skit. Act it out using paintings as your back drop. Food12-5 p.m. - Outdoor CourtyardSuperDog hot dogs and sausages, and Tastebud wood-fired pizza.     Museum Family Days are supported by the Gordon D. Sondland and Katherine J. Durant Foundation, Sharon L. Miller and family, and the Lamb Baldwin Foundation. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/calendar/2010/03/14/familysunday10/ http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/217/#1496 Kazan and screenwriter Budd Schulberg’s unacknowledged apologia for their participation as “friendly witnesses” at the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings, ON THE WATERFRONT is a blunt portrayal of life on New York’s docks and the role of gangsters in the union. Marlon Brando is ex-boxer Terry Malloy, who must choose whether or not to become a “stool pigeon.” Shot with stark realism by Boris Kaufman, this gritty depiction of power and extortion creates a potent allegory for the times, and is brought to life with a superb cast. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/217/#1496 http://www.nwfilm.org/calendar/2010/03/15/scholarshipdeadline10/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/calendar/2010/03/15/scholarshipdeadline10/ http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1506 VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away last year, captured the work of modern architects since the 1930s, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, and Pierre Koenig. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California’s modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public. Bricker’s film is both a testament to the evolution of modern architecture and a joyful portrait of the magnetic, whip-smart gentleman who chronicled it with his unforgettable images. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1506 http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/216/#1492 David Rivinus never intended to be a maverick as a viola maker. It began as an effort to solve the physical problems that arise when violists repeatedly play instruments that are simply too big. Players have had to leave the profession because of carpal tunnel syndrome, back, shoulder, and left arm injuries. So Rivinus set out to redesign the viola—to sound, work, and feel better for the player. Though the traditional appearance of the viola had remained unchanged for 400 years, his radically shaped “Pelligrina” violas became so popular among career string players that in 2005 Rivinus was commissioned to build one for the National Music Museum’s collection. This film tells the story of his extraordinary innovations and of the crafting of that very special instrument. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/216/#1492 http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/217/#1497 Whether interpreted as a liberating spiritual journey, a philosophical meditation, or an outright condemnation of the nature of mankind, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY remains a cinematic milestone. Kubrick collaborated with respected science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke to articulate a futuristic vision of human experience that spans the millennia. With groundbreaking visual effects, a haunting musical score by György Ligeti, and sublimated performances by Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, and Douglas Rain as the voice of HAL 9000, Kubrick explores the evolution of man’s relationship to his machines. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/217/#1497 http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1507 Forty years in the making, THE PAINTER SAM FRANCIS is Perkins’ intimate portrait of a friend, mentor, and leading light of American abstract art. He retraces Francis’ life (1923-1994) and career from his childhood in California to his artistic maturation in post-war Paris, his time spent in Japan, and his return to the United States. Interviews with friends, family, and fellow artists—including Ed Ruscha, James Turrell, Bruce Conner, Alfred Leslie, and others—illuminate a mysterious and complex personality and its reflection in a body of work that is simultaneously diverse and singular. “Perkins asks us to bask silently in the majesty of an artist in his element; in one unforgettable shot, Francis stands atop a newly finished canvas, utterly transfixed. It’s a stirring snapshot of that strange space where the act of creating can be a religious experience.”—Time Out. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1507 http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/217/#1498 When a gang of scavenging, bloodthirsty outlaws threatens a small peasant village, guns-for-hire Chris and Vin (Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen) are recruited to gather a team of worthy triggermen to mount a defense. Boldly drawing on Akira Kurosawa’s revered masterpiece THE SEVEN SAMURAI, Sturges transforms the traditional Western into the perfect vessel for Kurosawa’s themes of honor and savagery, played out in suitably tense action set pieces. Co-starring Eli Wallach, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, and James Coburn. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/217/#1498 http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1507 Forty years in the making, THE PAINTER SAM FRANCIS is Perkins’ intimate portrait of a friend, mentor, and leading light of American abstract art. He retraces Francis’ life (1923-1994) and career from his childhood in California to his artistic maturation in post-war Paris, his time spent in Japan, and his return to the United States. Interviews with friends, family, and fellow artists—including Ed Ruscha, James Turrell, Bruce Conner, Alfred Leslie, and others—illuminate a mysterious and complex personality and its reflection in a body of work that is simultaneously diverse and singular. “Perkins asks us to bask silently in the majesty of an artist in his element; in one unforgettable shot, Francis stands atop a newly finished canvas, utterly transfixed. It’s a stirring snapshot of that strange space where the act of creating can be a religious experience.”—Time Out. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:30:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1507 http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1508 Rarely has an architect caused as much sensation outside of the architecture community as Rem Koolhaas. His outstanding creations—from his house in Bordeaux to our own Seattle Public Library—are working examples of his visionary theories about design and urban society. Yet for Koolhaas, provocation through a wide range of activities is more important than individual masterpieces. This playful and visually inventive new documentary takes the Dutch architect’s ideas and approach to heart. Koolhaas discusses his life and work, including his early experiments with filmmaking and his seminal 1978 publication “Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan.” Including interviews with friends and colleagues, among them architects Joshua Ramus and Richard Meier, and a lively discussion between Koolhaas and German sociologist Dirk Baecker, A KIND OF ARCHITECT is a thought-provoking portrait of a true visionary. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:30:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1508 http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/217/#1499 Ed Begley, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, and Lee J. Cobb are part of a jury. Henry Fonda is desperately trying to convince them not to go for the obvious verdict in the murder trial of a young boy. The jury holds the life of the accused in one hand, and a responsibility to the victim in the other. Whom will justice serve? The camera never leaves the jury room in one of the best realist films of the 1950s. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/217/#1499 http://www.nwfilm.org/calendar/2010/03/22/springbreak10/ Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/calendar/2010/03/22/springbreak10/ http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1508 Rarely has an architect caused as much sensation outside of the architecture community as Rem Koolhaas. His outstanding creations—from his house in Bordeaux to our own Seattle Public Library—are working examples of his visionary theories about design and urban society. Yet for Koolhaas, provocation through a wide range of activities is more important than individual masterpieces. This playful and visually inventive new documentary takes the Dutch architect’s ideas and approach to heart. Koolhaas discusses his life and work, including his early experiments with filmmaking and his seminal 1978 publication “Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan.” Including interviews with friends and colleagues, among them architects Joshua Ramus and Richard Meier, and a lively discussion between Koolhaas and German sociologist Dirk Baecker, A KIND OF ARCHITECT is a thought-provoking portrait of a true visionary. Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1508 http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/216/#1493 Will Vinton’s first feature-length Claymation film—and the world's first—took his studio three and a half years to make and is an extraordinary display of dazzling animation technique. James Whitmore is the voice of the famous writer, chronicling Twain's fantastic voyage with Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher to rendezvous with Haley’s Comet. “The most original and audacious animated feature since FANTASIA.”—PBS’s Sneak Preview. “In paying tribute to a man of originality, compassion, and intelligence, Vinton has adopted those very qualities himself.”—Time Out. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/216/#1493 http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/217/#1500 Howard Hawkes created a metaphor for expansionist greed in this epic drama of one man’s relentless search for command of the environment. John Wayne stars as the cattle baron who turns a vast area of wasteland into a beef empire, only to find himself stymied by the untenable frontier. His push to get his cattle to market in Missouri causes friction in his personal relationships and ultimately precipitates a clash with his son, played by Montgomery Clift in his first screen role. Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/217/#1500 http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1509 In 1957, photographer Robert Frank’s groundbreaking book “The Americans” generated both acclaim and derision for its unvarnished images of a country where significant poverty, racism, and conservatism were counterpoints to the official image of moderate, middle-class affluence. In AN AMERICAN JOURNEY, Seclier travels back to the small towns and rural communities the photographer immortalized—exploring the world as Frank saw it and as it survives today. Artist Edward Ruscha, publisher Barney Rosset, photographers John Cohen and Raymond Depardon, and curators/critics Vicky Goldberg, Sarah Greenaugh, and Peter Galassi explore the feelings of anger and alienation which fueled the Swiss-born Frank in his American journey. (60 mins.) FOLLOWED BY FIRE IN THE EAST: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANKDIRECTOR: PHILIP BROOKMANUS, 1986 An intimate view of four decades of Frank's life, films, and photography featuring Allen Ginsberg, Emile de Antonio, Jonas Mekas, and Rudy Wurlitzer. (28 mins.) Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1509 http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/217/#1501 James Dickey’s novel about four Southern businessmen who get more than they bargained for on a weekend canoe trip is given disarmingly powerful treatment in Boorman’s film. Exploring man’s inhumanity to man in a context of wild nature, he exacts excellent performances from Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight, not to mention two of the most terrifying villains in screen history, Billy McKinney and Herbert “Cowboy” Coward. “A magnificent visual experience and an assault on the senses fully as brutal as the river trip.”—Time Magazine. Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/217/#1501 http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1509 In 1957, photographer Robert Frank’s groundbreaking book “The Americans” generated both acclaim and derision for its unvarnished images of a country where significant poverty, racism, and conservatism were counterpoints to the official image of moderate, middle-class affluence. In AN AMERICAN JOURNEY, Seclier travels back to the small towns and rural communities the photographer immortalized—exploring the world as Frank saw it and as it survives today. Artist Edward Ruscha, publisher Barney Rosset, photographers John Cohen and Raymond Depardon, and curators/critics Vicky Goldberg, Sarah Greenaugh, and Peter Galassi explore the feelings of anger and alienation which fueled the Swiss-born Frank in his American journey. (60 mins.) FOLLOWED BY FIRE IN THE EAST: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANKDIRECTOR: PHILIP BROOKMANUS, 1986 An intimate view of four decades of Frank's life, films, and photography featuring Allen Ginsberg, Emile de Antonio, Jonas Mekas, and Rudy Wurlitzer. (28 mins.) Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1509 http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1510 "The purpose of architecture is to create timeless, free, joyous spaces for all activities in life." That was visionary genius John Lautner's credo, and the guiding principle of this stunning tribute. After breaking with his mentor Frank Lloyd Wright, Lautner went on to build an amazing legacy of his own, substantially influencing Frank Gehry and others. His life was marked by innovation and inspiration, endless battles with building codes, an accidental leap into the epicenter of pop culture, bitterness at lost opportunities, and finally, by monumental achievement. Lautner was idolized by young modernists, criticized by academics, and beloved by the clients who worked side by side with him to build their houses. Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1510 http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/217/#1502 Rich with opposing moods and forces—comic and brutal, realistic and fanciful, simple and complex—Penn’s legendary film features winsome performances by Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Estelle Parsons, Michael J. Pollard, and Gene Hackman. Together they rhapsodize the Barrow Gang—a bumbling bunch of real-life bank robbers that terrorized the rural South in the 1930s, gaining an unlikely public following as well as the fury of the law. Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/217/#1502 http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1510 "The purpose of architecture is to create timeless, free, joyous spaces for all activities in life." That was visionary genius John Lautner's credo, and the guiding principle of this stunning tribute. After breaking with his mentor Frank Lloyd Wright, Lautner went on to build an amazing legacy of his own, substantially influencing Frank Gehry and others. His life was marked by innovation and inspiration, endless battles with building codes, an accidental leap into the epicenter of pop culture, bitterness at lost opportunities, and finally, by monumental achievement. Lautner was idolized by young modernists, criticized by academics, and beloved by the clients who worked side by side with him to build their houses. Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/23/218/#1510 http://www.nwfilm.org/calendar/2010/04/19/summertermreg10/ Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/calendar/2010/04/19/summertermreg10/ http://www.nwfilm.org/calendar/2010/06/21/summerterm10/ Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/calendar/2010/06/21/summerterm10/ http://www.nwfilm.org/calendar/2010/08/27/summertermends10/ Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.nwfilm.org/calendar/2010/08/27/summertermends10/