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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 | DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018 | 360.738.0735 | pickfordfilmcenter.org ABOUT PFC Admission A LETTER FROM OUR DIRECTOR Pickford Film Center & Limelight Cinema Pricing: • PFC Members, every day – $7.50 • Tuesday–Sunday General Admission – $10.75 • Students & Kids under 12 – $8.00 • Mondays and Matinees* – $8.50 DEAR BELLINGHAM, *Matinees are Monday through Friday before 5pm, and Saturday–Sunday before 3:30pm It is dark. It is going to stay dark for weeks. Don’t despair, go to the movies. Tickets for free shows are not available online, but can be claimed in advance at the box office only. In the moments you are not at the movies, consider this: Pickford Film Center will turn 20 in 2018. Movie Times 1. Visit www.pickfordfilmcenter.org for current For those of you who have been along for the ride since 1998, this may be a jarring fact — but instead of fixating on your own showtimes, news, advance tickets, and trailers. mortality, reflect on the thousands of titles and performances, obscure documentaries and Oscar contenders, humble Sci-Fi 2. Sign up for our weekly mailing list and get the B-movies, Japanese classics and family matinees that have shone on our screens in twenty years. Think about what you would times delivered to your inbox. have missed if the Pickford was not here, whole acting careers coming to bloom and the early work of those who have gone on to 3. See our ad each week in the Cascadia Weekly. become household names, not to mention a big blank on Bay Street where PFC is now. It is a lot and it was conceived of, built, 4. Call our movie hotline: 360-738-0735. and nurtured right here in Bellingham. Be proud.

PFC Staff As your heart swells, plan on some hullabaloo beginning in February. Here is what we have on tap so far: A twenty-film series, Susie Purves, Executive Director [email protected] culled from the vaults, of films that stand out in our history as a cinema as well as cinema history. Our staff has assembled a list Michael Falter, Program Director of hundreds of films and because this is an expensive endeavor, we are seeking 20 donors who wish to give $250 (the cost of [email protected] most repertory film rentals) in exchange for picking a title off of the list. These folks not only get to pick their favorite title, they Ryan Uhlhorn, Operations Manager get to introduce the film if desired. A few spots are left; contact me if you are interested. [email protected] Lindsey Gerhard, Marketing Manager In November 2018, we will have a big shindig, and in between there will be plenty of opportunities to reflect. We will have written [email protected] memories from some of our movers and shakers and we’re working on a bunch of other ideas from a time capsule to a memory Ariel Brownstein, booth. Let me know if you have any ideas that we should consider; not everything is possible but if it crackles with the spark of Membership & Development Manager genius, it’s worth considering. [email protected] Ariana Dorshkind, Assistant Operations Manager [email protected] Stay warm, stay dry, and bring the whole family on December 16 or 17 for Te Ata, a feature film based on Hayley McVay, Volunteer Coordinator the heart-warming and inspirational true story of Mary Thompson Fisher, a woman who traversed [email protected] cultural barriers to become one of the greatest Native American performers of the 20th Lucas Holtgeerts, Century. It stars Graham Greene and the fabulous Q’orianka Kilcher in the title role. Education Outreach Coordinator Then come back for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone December 22 through [email protected] Christmas. Catch Wonderstruck during it's theatrical run, join us on January 13 Winnie Griffith, Pickford Art Studios Manager

for the Family Matinee screening of Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and come 2017 | DECEMBER Movies Than 2018 / JANUARY More | 360.738.0735 | pickfordfilmcenter.org [email protected] back again on January 20 for the third annual Treaty Day Film Festival. Projectionists: Steve Meyers, Carey Ross, Kevin Ledford, Michael Barone, Kristen Stanovich It is always a lot and I'm looking forward to twenty more years of it. Mikayla Nicholson, Cole Wilder Warm wishes, PFC Board Becca Shew, President Christina Kobdish, Vice President James Willson, Treasurer Gennie Clawson, Secretary Susie Purves Angela Anderson Brian Sibley Meg Weber Dawn Dietrich Gary Washington Janet Ott Nabil Kamel

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. Metered street parking is available downtown Mon-Fri until 5pm, but after hours and weekend parking is free!

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Dir: Aki Kaurismäki Cast: Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Janne Hyytiäinen It has been six years since Aki Kaurismäki’s last feature film,Le Havre. The subject bringing Finland’s most well-known director back to the big screen is the world’s refugee crisis, but this is no harsh documentary or preachy polemic. Instead, it tells a deeply human—and deeply funny, in Kaurismäki’s understated fashion—story of a Syrian refugee seeking asylum in Finland, the restaurant owner in the midst of what appears to be a midlife crisis that he encounters and befriends, and the cast of misfits and oddballs that populate this fable of struggle, resilience and faith in humanity. 2017. Finland/Ger- many. In English & Finnish/Arabic/Swedish w/English subtitles. 1 hr. 40 min. Unrated. WONDERSTRUCK

Dir: Todd Haynes Cast: Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, Oakes Fegley Few directors can create worlds that are familiar and yet somehow fanciful quite like Todd Haynes. His previous films—Far From Heaven, Carol, I’m Not There—focus on adults, but this one is firmly centered on children thanks to a story by Brian Selznick (Hugo). The plot unfolds in parallel eras in New York City and follows two deaf children—Ben, in 1977, is on a search to find his father, while Rose, back in 1927, is on a quest to meet an actress she idolizes. Their side-by-side narratives are underpinned by their mutual longing for human connection and the wonder they experience as they discover the world around them. That their destinies are somehow linked is a given, but we won’t divulge any spoilers here. 2017. United States. In English. 1 hr. 56 min. PG. NOVITIATE 2017 | DECEMBER Movies Than 2018 / JANUARY More | 360.738.0735 | pickfordfilmcenter.org

Dir: Margaret Betts Cast: Dianna Agron, Melissa Leo, Margaret Qualley The year is 1964, and Cathleen (Margaret Qualley), the daughter of a nonreligious single mother, has decided she wants to be a nun. The unusually severe and cloistered order she wishes to join is presided over by the Reverend Mother (Melissa Leo, in a performance both marvelous and chilling), who is responsible for turning her charges into “brides of God” using methods that range from questionable to sadistic. If this were merely a study of religious devotion and a glimpse of life inside a cloistered convent, it would be interesting enough. Instead, the movie takes place during the arrival of the “Vatican II” church reforms, causing faith to collide with feminism, testing a center—and a Reverend Mother—that might not hold. 2017. United States. In English. 2 hrs. 3 min. R.

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Dir: Jessica M. Thompson Cast: Stephanie Beatriz, Catherine Curtin, Michael Stahl-David Jessica M. Thompson’s directorial debut (she’s an Aussie relocated to NYC) deserves the many awards it has received on the festival circuit—including the important Audience Award at SXSW. Thompson’s sensitive treatment of a painful topic is complemented by an astonishing performance from Stephanie Beatriz. She’s incredibly funny on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, but that barely scratches the surface—here she is a successful architect out for an evening in Williamsburg when she is accosted on her way home. Her affected world and relationships, including the central bond with her boyfriend (played with deep empathy by Michael Stahl-David), and returning to life from that devastating event is the main story here. Her journey is clear-eyed, compelling and presents the reality of a survivor dealing with trauma. 2017. United States. In English. 1 hr. 30 min. Unrated.

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NEW ONE-TO-ONE TECHNOLOGY ONE-TO-ONE NEW Pickford Film Center and Bellingham Youth Media Project want to help teachers expand their digital technology skills for the classroom. Producing video texts can be a powerful literacy activity for students in of any age and any content area. During this workshop, you will learn some basic video editing capabilities of the new HP devices that teachers and students will receive as a result of the Bellingham School District'smove to a one-to-one technology model. Come with an open mind and a sense of adventure to plan, shoot and edit your very own short video! Sat, Jan at 9:00am 27 TEACHER WORKSHOP TEACHER VIDEO PRODUCTION FOR THE 8 More Than Movies | DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018 | 360.738.0735 | pickfordfilmcenter.org MONTHLY FILM SERIES Introduction by David Introduction Curley CHARULATA 1.9 $7.50 /$10.75 Price: Students Regular /$8 Members PFC General educators. and artists, professors, local including speakers select from an introduction features film Each Cinema. in World best very the represent always selections Purdue’s Jeff Curator but genres, and decades span Series Cinema Asian of Masters the in offered films –the series loved most running, longest our of One CINEMA ASIAN OF MASTERS 1.20 MASTER OF THE WORLD THE OF MASTER 1.20 BLACK THE SCORPION12.16 Meyers. Steve academic, film resident by our introduced and Curated past. Sci-Fi from Bmovies excellent most The MATINEES SCI-FI ROCKET (Satyajit Ray, 1964) Tuesdays at 6:30. 6:30. at Tuesdays Saturdays at Noon. $3 Admission. (1957) (1961) (Beats Per Minute) Per (Beats BPM 1.23 $3Only Admission. Vargas Youmans Chris and Greg by curated series film queer A monthly VERNACULAR THE QUEENS' WAR THE OF LAND THE IN (1914) CANOES 2.4 Western. the of understanding anew to us guide help can that peoples Native of presence profound the discover wecan missing, is what for looking By presume. histories Hollywood traditional than ways revolutionary more far and new in genre the Western within films at looking for framework by Roger TribalIntroduced Educator, Fernandes, Storyteller, Historian. WHAT?! OF WEST 2.10 1.13 Pacific ofthe Bank by Sponsored $1 Admission. Only 1:00. at Saturdays movies. the after cinema the in discussions optional with films family classic enjoy and afriend or adate bring parents, your bring kids, your Bring FAMILY MATINEES

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for for the Mt. Baker Ski Area. currency in Earth science is necessary to understand the scale of future changes. This talk willthe necessary explore solutions this in emergent paradigm rapid of climate change. Followed by a screening of Ice Age: The Meltdown Sara Myhre isclimate a scientist, science writer Climate change is not just about weather – it’s about changing the identity of this entire planet. Earth history can seem like an impenetrable, irrelevant field, and yet, all of our lives and the climate of our homes are directly connected to Earth history. are We living in a changing world, where fluency and ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN AGE: ICE Monday, January 15 - with an introduction Sara by Myhre: Ice Sheets, Earth History, and Talk How We About Climate Change SCIENCE ON SCREEN ON SCIENCE + 1.17 1.14 Tickets: $16 PFCTickets: Members $16 General / $20 Admission Students / $10 12.31 + 1.3 Straight from the London stage, carefully placed cameras capture of all the emotion performed onstage accomplished by actors so it feels as though you are watching the live play from your seat. NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE THEATRE NATIONAL ART FREE PRESENTATIONS 1.28 + 1.31 DAVID HOCKNEY1.28 + 1.31 DAVID Now entering his 9th decade, Hockney shows absolutely no evidence of slowing down or losing his trademark boldness. Sunday and at 11:00am Wednesday General at PFC 6:00. Members / $8 Regular Students Price: / $10.75 $7.50 Widely considered Britain’s most popular artist, David Hockney is a global sensation with exhibitions around the world EXHIBITION ON SCREEN COMING UP More Than Movies | DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018 | 360.738.0735 | pickfordfilmcenter.org | 360.738.0735 More / JANUARY 2018 Than Movies | DECEMBER 2017

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