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1416 Cornwall Ave. | Bellingham, WA | Tickets, times & trailers: & times Tickets, | WA Bellingham, | Ave. Cornwall 1416 Cinema Limelight | St. Bay 1318 Center Film Pickford www.pickfordfilmcenter.org 2 More Than Movies | APRIL / MAY 2019 | 360.738.0735 | pickfordfilmcenter.org ABOUT PFC Admission Pickford Film Center & Limelight Cinema Pricing: • PFC Members, every day – $8.00 • Tuesday–Sunday General Admission – $11.25 • Students, Military & Kids under 12 – $8.50 • Mondays and Matinees* – $9.00 *Matinees are Monday–Friday before 5pm Saturday–Sunday before 3:30pm Tickets for free shows are not available online, but Dear Bellingham, can be claimed in advance at the box office only. Every year, Pickford Film Center has been publishing our annual report in our spring calendar. It is our Movie Times 1. Visit www.pickfordfilmcenter.org for current way of letting our members and supporters know how things are going. Last year was a great year showtimes, news, advance tickets, and trailers for PFC, it surpassed all others in ticket sales, memberships and most other ways we can measure 2. Sign up for our weekly mailing list and get the performance. Take a look and be proud of your local arthouse cinema! times delivered to your inbox Become a PFC Member, renew your free popcorn on mondays 3. See our ad each week in the Cascadia Weekly membership,If you come or giveto the the PFC gift ofAnnual Meeting on Monday, April 8, you can get the report live with discounted admission 4. Call our movie hotline: 360-738-0735 membershipexplanations to a andfriend also between enjoy a free (for members) screening of the Charlie Chaplin classic, Modern PFC Staff MayTimes 1 and. We June hold 30 andour youannual will bemeeting on the same date as the birthday of our namesake, Mary Pickford. that warm fuzzy feeling Susie Purves, Executive Director enteredShe was into ana drawing acclaimed to win actress, a innovator, and business whiz. Pickford, along with (the now disgraced) [email protected] covetedD.W. Griffith,Goldfinger Card.Chaplin That’a and a Douglas Fairbanks founded the film studio United Artists, and United Artists Michael Falter, Program Director full year of free movies for you and a [email protected] produced Modern Times. It is smart, it is funny, touching, and a history lesson all in one. Modern friend at Pickford and the Limelight! Ryan Uhlhorn, Operations Manager Times is full of instantly recognizable images and music, composed by Chaplin, that has gone on to be [email protected] Joinrecognized or renew online, as great all on its own. Lindsey Gerhard, Marketing Manager at the box office, or by mail [email protected] Keep an eye out in the month of April for both our spring appeal letter, asking your support for all the Ariel Brownstein, amazing things Pickford Film Center does as well as the spring membership appeal. If you renew during Membership & Development Manager [email protected] the appeal you get a chance to win a Goldfinger Card, your ticket to free films for you and a friend for Ariana Dorshkind, Assistant Operations Manager an entire year. That is a lot of films! The annual report tells me we screened 379 last year. [email protected] Hayley McVay, Volunteer Coordinator Also coming up is the Bellingham Music Film Festival, a visually audible event that is fun for filmmakers [email protected] and film watchers alike. We also have some fantastic dance performance films on the docket including Mikayla Nicholson, Education Outreach Coordinator Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, April 28. I don’t have enough superlatives for this Sadler Wells [email protected] production of a gender bending, completely captivating version of the classic ballet – where all the Winnie Griffith, Pickford Art Studios Manager [email protected] swans are men. And these guys can dance way better than Natalie Portman. Darcy Ruppert, Adminstrative Assistant [email protected] Projectionists: Lots of great cinema coming up! Steve Meyers, Carey Ross, Michael Barone Mikayla Nicholson, Cole Wilder, Meghan Schilling Consider making a contribution to our spring donation appeal. All funds raised will go to support Doc-ED, to extend the program to over 5,000 Whatcom County public and tribal middle school

PFC Board / MAY 2019 | APRIL Movies | 360.738.0735 Than More | pickfordfilmcenter.org students. We only have $10,000 left to raise in order to fully fund the program for Fall 2017. Gennie Clawson, President Susie Purves, Executive Director Christina Kobdish, Vice President Please help us make our goal a reality by making a donation today. Meg Weber, Treasurer Nabil Kamel, Secretary Please help us reach our goal by making a donation online, at the box office, or by mail today. Becca Shew, James Willson, Dawn Dietrich Gary Washington, Janet Ott Parking The Commercial Street Parking Garage, located at 1300 Commercial St., is one block behind PFC and one block from the Limelight. There is hourly paid parking during the day, and it's free after 5pm and on the weekends. Metered street parking is available downtown Mon-Fri until 5pm, but after helvetica 57 condensed roman size 10 hours and weekend parking is free.

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Anna Seghers Anna ) and a baby ababy ) and Juliette Juliette , BIGGEST LITTLE FARM HAIL SATAN? Dir: John Chester Cast: John Chester, Molly Chester Dir: Penny Lane Cast: Leaders of the Satanic Revolution After adopting a rescue dog radically shifts their plan of minimizing their eco-footprint Few movie posters that have hung in the Pickford’s lobby have piqued the level of from “someday” to “now,” married couple Molly and John Chester pull up their Los Angeles interest as the one for this documentary that traces the rise of the six-year-old Satanic stakes, buy 200 acres of land an hour away and found a farm with a crop rotation defined Temple. The organization’s enigmatic and impish leader Lucien Greaves first found by the mantra of “diversity, diversity, diversity.” That they did it on nutrient-stripped land notoriety for publicly supporting a Florida prayer-in-schools bill on the auspices that if during an historic drought speaks to their lack of knowledge and experience, and tests people should be able to pray to God in class, they should also be able to freely worship their problem-solving skills with results that range from ingenious to humorous. Great Satan. Predictably, Christians did not handle it well, and the Satanic Temple found its documentary fodder for people wishing to explore questions of individual environmental core strategy of underscoring the necessity of the separation of church and state by responsibility as well as those harboring overly romantic back-to-the-land fantasies. Even encouraging unfettered religious freedom--even for those who worship the Dark Lord. when it’s all it’s cracked up to be, buying the farm can be a real goat show. 2019. United Nimble and clever, Greaves and his followers are part merry pranksters, part force to be States. In English. 1 hr. 31 min. PG. reckoned with and the perfect subjects for an hilarious documentary that is definitely in on the joke. 2019. United States. In English. 1 hr. 35 min. MEETING GORBACHEV Dir: Werner Herzog, Andre Singer Cast: Mikhail Gorbachev Sure, a documentary concerning the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the final head of the Soviet Union, would be interesting stuff. After all, the former Soviet ruler oversaw the end of the Cold War and ushered in an era of unprecedented reform and openness before a growing nationalist movement toppled him and dissolved the Soviet Union. However, far more fascinating would be to hear prolific filmmakerWerner Herzog narrate a short and darkly comic history of Russian leaders before sitting down to a series of interviews with Gorbachev. The filmmaker and the former leader obviously have great rapport, and Gorbachev opens up about his work, his legacy and the often too-fleeting nature of progressive reform, in what could be construed as a warning from a man in the rarefied position of having lost his country and lived to tell about it.2019. United States/United Kingdom/Germany. In English & Russian/German/Polish w/English subtitles. 1 hr. 30 min. Unrated.

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Ruth Westheimer, the Holocaust survivor who became one of the world’s most famous sex therapists. The diminutive woman with the thick German accent became a household name by naming names--specifically the body parts associated with sex--with great acceptance and good humor, which was as valuable as her no-nonsense advice. And in focusing on female pleasure and refusing to stigmatize what people do in their bedrooms--no matter where on the sexuality spectrum they may fall--her viewpoint was not only refreshingly forward, it was groundbreaking. She joins RBG as a worthy candidate for induction into our Ruth Hall of Fame. 2019. United States. In English. 1 hr. 40 min. Unrated.

Photograph PHOTOGRAPH Dir: Ritesh Batra Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, Akash Sinha One thing Pickford audiences can always be counted on to do is spread the word about movies they’ve seen at the theater and loved. So it went for Ritesh Batra’s charming, delightful debut The Lunchbox. After making a couple of English-language films, Batra proves you can go home again, returning to India to bring us the story of street photographer Rafi Lunchbox( alum Nawazuddin Siddiqui) and Miloni, an introverted student of a higher social class. Marriage-minded meddling on the part of both of their families causes the virtual strangers to fake an engagement, a decision that will change both of their lives as these opposites find the kind of gentle, slow-burning attraction that makes Batra’s films so delightful to watch. But don’t take our word for it. See

Ask Dr. Ruth it--and then tell your friends. 2019. India/Germany/United States. In English & Hindi/ Gujarati w/English subtitles. 1 hr. 50 min. PG-13.

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2018 ANNUAL REPORT MAKING IT OURMOSTHIGHLY ATTENDED YEARBYFAR! • BellinghamMusicFilmFestivalshowcasedfiveprogramsto589people, • BellinghamChildren’sFilmFestivalfeaturednineprograms,with696children • FESTIVALS 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. TOP 5FILMSOF2018 • WestofWhat?! • ThirdEyeCinema • Storyteller’sSeasonal • ScienceonScreen • RooftopCinema • RocketSci-FiMatinees • RetroNightmares • TheQueens’Vernacular • PickfordFamilyMatinees • MastersofAsianCinema • IdaLupino:TheDirector • IndieLensPop-Up • ExhibitionOnScreen • CinemaThyme • Beauty,BrainsandKnow-How • 20thAnniversaryRetrospective FILM SERIES ON THESCREEN Doctober featured57films,with12,697ticketssoldduringthefestival(14,818 filmmaker breakfastforindependentfilmmakersinattendance including localmusic,local/national/internationalfilmsubmissions,anda (and peoplejustlikethem)attending including fullrunofFreeSolo)a77%increaseinattendanceover2017 • Attendeescamefrom162differentcitiesand31statesacrossthe • The ShapeofWater RBG Won’t YouBeMyNeighbor Free Solo BlacKkKlansman 215 peoplecompletedtheDoctoberChallengebyseeing8docsormore US andCanada 376 FILMSSHOWNIN2018 102,990 TICKETS SOLD PERFORMING ARTSSERIES • 2015:81,043 • 2016:89,762 • 2017:87,853 • 2018:102,990 FILM TICKETSSOLD • RoyalShakespeareCompany • RoyalOperaandBallet • NationalTheatreLive • BolshoiBallet • • BEHIND THECOUNTER 12,663 localconcessionsitems We sold2.75tonsofnon-GMO businesses were sold,supportinglocal and servedwith popcorn, poppedwithcoconutoil real butter

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The Impossible Dream NORTHWEST LIFE BRIAN OF TH w/ Michael Barrettw/ DOUBLE FEATURE! and see the hard work in action. Free admission. , and with Q+A the directors. Foreign Language Films and the Oscar Loving Vincent BEFORE THEBEFORE FLOOD BEST THE OF 45 RASHOMON TOMORROW NEVERTOMORROW KNOWS THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM MONTY PYTHON'S ROCKET SHORTS SOUL EVENING Keys to Life Life of Brian LOVING VINCENT LOVING w/ Directorw/ Adam Sekular 4.24 The postwar Japanese film that made director Akira Kurosawa worldwidea cinematic demonstrates phenom different how witnesses might interpret the same physical action with contradictions—known Psychology in the as Rashomon Effect. In his book Barrett calls the Oscar 1952 winner “one of the great films of all times.” Barrett will be on hand to sign books. 4.25 The reality of death is faced by Shar and Cynthia who, after a diagnosis with early-onset Alzheimer’s, make a brave and difficult decision: she will undertake a conscious death, fully experiencing the end of her life. Instead of ominous, taboo or frightening depictions, this doc raises the question of what we really mean when we say someone has gone. How do we prepare? And what happens when the diagnosis comes soon aftera decision to start a gender transition? 4.27 + This new documentary details the journey it took two passionate filmmakers to achieve their impossible dream, creating the world's first fully painted feature film. Stay after to watch 4.18 Returning to cinemas for it's 40th anniversary, in glorious standard definition and mono-sound, enjoy this legendary much-loved cult classic on the big screen once more! 4.22 Episcopal Church Paul's St Presented by Actor Leonardo DiCaprio meets with scientists, activists and world leaders to discuss the dangers of climate change and possible solutions. 4.23 FILMMAKERS' FESTIVAL A showcase of new work by leading regional filmmakers, programmed by the Northwest Film Center in Portland, OR. 4.15 Featuring two locally produced short films: and

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EVENTS APRIL + MAY APRIL around Bellingham including Pickford Film Center, Mount Baker Theater, and Western Washington University. Visit www.cascadiafilmfest.org WOMEN'S FILMWOMEN'S FESTIVAL Featuring films directed by women, this annual festival is comprised of many events taking place at various locations questionable feature films. It's time they emerge. 4.11-4.14 It’s been years 2 1/2 since Trailer Wars ended with its 50th edition. Since then, the great Warriors Trailer of Bellingham lurkedhave the in shadows with unrealized dreams of would later be adopted as Jerry Lewis' signature tune. 4.10 Enjoy complimentary refreshments before the film. the complimentary before refreshments Enjoy additionIn to producing, directing, writing, starring and in Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin (Mary Pickford's fellow United Artists member) also composed its theme song, 4.8 meeting! member annual + our Eagle) who asks him to write a book about his perspective. After a blundering false start, he is all but kidnapped and sucked into a road trip through the heart of the contemporary Native American landscape. 4.7 Shown in celebration of Dave Bald Eagle's birthday. A white author is summoned by a Lakota Elder (Dave Bald in U.S. history, four survivors return to Columbine High School to share their experiences journey and toward healing. propaganda, not with guns or fists but with pen and paper. 4.3 Nearly years 20 after one of the deadliestschool shootings scholars and community leaders decide to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this group vows to defeat Nazi lies and 4.2 In November days 1940, after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, a secret band of journalists, SPECIAL MUSIC-INSPIRED FILMS + LIVE MUSIC APRIL 4 -6 2019

TICKETS Opening Night Feature Film Saturday $10.75 General $7.50 PFC Members $5 admission once $8.00 Students Come and go as you please Music Video Night Saturday After Party Free! $6 or $5 with festival admission stamp

APR SATURDAY, THURSDAY, 4 APR 6 PICKFORD FILM CENTER PICKFORD FILM CENTER PAY ONCE ALL DAY 6:00P OPENING NIGHT | FEATURE FILM + SHORTS 3:00P | ANIMATION PRESENTATION STRANGE NEGOTIATIONS 4:00P | REGIONAL SHOWCASE by Brandon Vedder, 91min A documentary exploring the spiritual, artistic, and personal turmoil of 5:00P | INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION musician David Bazan (from the band Pedro The Lion), set against America’s own crisis of faith highlighted by the 2016 presidential election. 6:00P | RACE, GENDER, & MUSIC

FRIDAY, APR 5 MAKE.SHIFT ART SPACE 7:30P | AFTER PARTY + LIVE MUSIC MAKE.SHIFT ART SPACE FREE—ART WALK 6-9:00P | MUSIC VIDEO NIGHT THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS...