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HOOP DREAMS As We Count Down to 2015, and Our 20Th Skype Intro by Author Richard D 2014/2015 SEASON CALENDAR DEC /JAN MAKE YOUR OWN DSLR LENS with Dave Hanagan January 18, 11am–3pm WATCH LEARN MAKE 1515 12TH AVENUE SEATTLE, WA 98122 NWFILMFORUM.ORG LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR This winter, new films by two cinematic lions will #@20 premiere at the Film Forum: Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery, a three-hour immersion in the London art institution, arrives in December, while Jean-Luc Godard’s 3-D film, Goodbye to Language, winner of critical accolades and the Jury Prize at Cannes, comes on January 12. In a kind of YEARS Godardian flourish we will present the film along with Seattle Art Museum and Cinerama, as a special event on a single night. CINEMA Both masters have had their work screened at the Film Forum over our history, which, with this calendar, amazingly, rounds to 20 years. In two FROM OUR START AS A decades, film has evolved dizzyingly as an art and SMALL PRODUCTION a practice; in 1995, filmmaking was still about WELCOME film, and practices were not far from those of the COLLECTIVE, WE’VE 1960s. Godard, it’s true, began using video in the TO THE GROWN INTO SEATTLE’S 1970s, but that was the departure of a true radical. When we opened our doors in 1995 we W MOST COMPREHENSIVE kept film in a fridge, for filmmakers. Either of our FUTURE OF FILM ARTS CENTER. two lions would have been able to make work as CELEBRATE OUR visiting filmmakers, on one of our commissions of work. FILM: ANNIVERSARY YEAR Film In STARTING THIS DECEMBER, By the time I came on board, in 2008, we were showing a dizzying spectrum of moving picture NORTHWEST WITH A LOOK BACK AT stories, from classic 35mm and 16mm to work that sometimes came to us on thumb drives. In CINEMA CLASSICS, FESTIVAL our two decades, we have watched filmmaking FILM FORUM EXPERTS FROM FILM evolve from a “fine art” to a “humanity” at someI N FORUM HISTORY LEADING of our top universities. But film also belongs, more than ever, to the people: legitimate movies IS 20 YEARS OUR CLASSES, THE 10TH can be made now (they have been) with pocket BIRTHDAY OF OUR cameras, with the cameras on smart phones. YOUNG IN ANNUAL FAMILY FILM So what if you still love film, love its living, FESTIVAL AND A CHANCE biochemical properties, its reds and blacks and TO LAUNCH THE NEXT 20 autumn leaves, its smell? Hope that it will return 2015, A N D one day, like vinyl? It could: film’s capacity for YEARS OF INDEPENDENT holding visions is infinite, and, as National Gallery FILM IN SEATTLE AT OUR invites you to see, the infinite belongs in the WE HAVE hands of the everyday and the living:TER us. And as ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY for Northwest Film Forum, we will support the A YEAR OF ON DEC 12. making of films and filmmaking, for as long as it is with us, even as we also screen, teach and support the making of great new stories on any CELEBRATION medium, in any format, on any data streaming Lyall Bush from any Cloud. Executive Director AHEAD. CLASSES CINEMA/HIGHLIGHTS nwfilmforum.org / 206.329.2629 6OTH ANNIVERSARY 1OOTH ANNIVERSARY 2OTH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING! SCREENING—TO THE DAY! SCREENING! DRUMROLL December 4 December 7 December 19 –21 SEVEN SAMURAI IN THE LAND OF New digital restoration! PLEASE… 16MM PRINT! THE HOOP DREAMS As we count down to 2015, and our 20th Skype intro by author Richard D. Pepperman! HEAD HUNTERS Steve James, 1994, United States, DCP, 170 min Anniversary! Sponsored by the Seattle Film Institute! Edward S. Curtis, 1914, United States/Canada, 65 min Roger Ebert said it best: Hoop Dreams’ depiction of two Akira Kurosawa, 1954, Japan, 16mm, 207 min In 1911, famed Northwest photographer Edward S. high school ball players trying to make it in the preju- One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Curtis travelled to Vancouver Island to visit the diced cauldron of Chicago in the ‘90s is “the great IN THE YEAR TO COME, Kwakwaka'wakw, and decided to make one of the first Samurai tells the story of a sixteenth-century village American documentary” (the Oscars snubbed it please join us in looking back over the last whose desperate inhabitants hire warriors to protect motion pictures while documenting their way of life. entirely). Steve James’ vision of the pipeline of poor, two decades, and—if you’ll pardon the them from invading bandits. This three-hour ride from It look three years of preparation for Head Hunters to black basketball talent brings to mind the Windy City Akira Kurosawa—featuring legendary actors Toshiro come to life on a grand scale, including the weaving of from Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. In high school, black pun—projecting into the future. 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