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staFF establishing s h ot Director: Bill Foster Education Director: Ellen Thomas Public Relations & Marketing Manager: Jessica Lyness filmmaker Services manager: Harry & Rose Moyer thomas phillipson Administrative Offices & education program Manager: Northwest Film center pamela minty School of film 934 SW salmon STREET operations & event development manager: russ gage

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Y PREPS C Head Projectionist: Miller Foundation K M Melinda Kowalska theatre staff: Jason Longwell producing sponsors Erik McClanahan Helmy Membreno Arika Oglesbee MOrgen ruff ILANA SOL Michael Steen Veronica Vichit-Vadakan Joe Von Appen DRIVEN: THE FILMS OF Larisa Zimmerman office & education interns: ALASKA AIRLINES AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS page 3 Caroline Blair Darrell Brett 20TH PORTLAND JEWISH Nick Caiazza ALMANYA—WELCOME TO GERMANY / Germany / Yasemin Samdereli *Best Narrative Feature Award FILM FESTIVAL Sambaran Chatterjee Jeremy Cropf FIRST POSITION / United States / Bess Kargman *Best Documentary Feature Award and Best New Directors Award page 4 Payne Fulcher Richard Hernandez RAJU / Germany / Max Zähle *Best Short Film Award Special screenings Weston Lyon page 6, 26 Abigail Press TREEVERSE / United States /John Waller *Best Oregon Short Film Award Brittney Reaume SCHOOL OF FILM Lisa Waldo page 7 volunteers: An expanded list of Awards available at: http://festivals.nwfilm.org/piff35/awards/ NORTHWEST TRACKING Jean Bellinger page 22, 23 Lis Cooper Jeanne Devon FABLE AND FANTASY: THE Gabrielle Foulkes Andrew Gaines MASTERS OF STUDIO GHIBLI Connie Guist The Northwest Film Center is a non-profit regional media arts resource and service organiza- page 24, 25 Douglas Hanes tion founded to encourage the study, appreciation, and utilization of the moving image arts, to fos- Pat Holmes Jesse Iiams-Hauser ter their artistic and professional excellence, and to help create a climate in which they may flourish. Kay Olsen ADMission Nandini Ranganathan $9 General Hannah Van Loon AND MANY MORE! presenting film $8 PAM Members, Students, Seniors WHITSELL AUDITORIUM—Located inside the Portland Art Museum, the Whitsell Auditorium serves as the primary $6 Silver Screen CLUB friends PORTLAND ART MUSEUM Board of venue for Film Center programs. Each year, the Film Center presents over 500 programs to over 65,000 people. Trustees CHAIR: all programs are single admis- jim winkler sion, unless otherwise noted. vice chairs: FILM FESTIVALS—Annual film festivals include the Portland International Film Festival (February), Portland Silver screen CLUB directors, richard brown Jewish Film Festival (April), Reel Music (October), Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival (November), and Young producers, BENEFACTORS & SUSTAIN- janet geary ERS receive free admission to People’s Film Festival (September). all REGULAR admission programs, nw film center committee: Y PREPS C including festivals. K M don van wart, chairman alice wiewel teaching film Seats for advance ticket and SIL- dick rubinstein VER SCREEN CLUB MEMBERS are held SCHOOL OF FILM—One of the largest community-based film arts programs in the country, the Film Center’s mary hinckley until 10 minutes before showtime, david margulis AT WHICH POINT any unfilled seats School of Film offers intensive hands-on classes and workshops in film production to 1,500 emerging artists, LINDA ANDREWS are released to the public. teachers, avocational adult learners, kids, and teens annually. Faculty members are award-winning media artists. box office opens one-half PORTLAND ART MUSEUM Partnering higher education institutions co-offer college credit options in addition to the School’s Certificate hour before showtime. Marilyn h. & dr. robert B. pamplin, jr. director: in Film. scrip books (10 tickets): Brian Ferriso $80 general NW FILM CENTER YOUNG FILMMAKERS OUTREACH—In K-12 classrooms, after-school settings, School of Film facilities, and on CORRESPONDENCE TO: location in the community, the Young Filmmakers Outreach Program promotes media literacy as a core skill for $70 POrtland Art Museum members Northwest Film Center the next generation. Over 2,500 students are served annually—half of them low-income, minority, and/or under- 1219 SW Park Avenue served communities. Portland, OR 97205 Identification Statement Publication Title: EMAIL: [email protected] supporting filmmakers Northwest Film Center phone: 503-221-1156 fax: 503-294-0874 FILMMAKER SERVICES—In addition to its exhibition and teaching opportunities for regional artists, the Film Issue Date: Center circulates traveling exhibition programs featuring work by regional artists, administers media arts fel- March 2012 www.nwfilm.org lowship programs, conducts the regional jurying of the Academy Student Film Awards, serves as a fiscal agent for Statement of frequency: Published 6 times per year independent producers in need of non-profit sponsorship, and offers low-cost equipment access and consulting

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DRIvEN: THE FILmS OF NICOLAS WINDING REFN M K DRIve C PREPS Y MAR 9 10 FRI 9 PM, SAT 7 PM MAR 16 18 FRI 9 PM, SUN 5 PM BRONSON II: WITH BLOOD ON MY HANDS UK 2008 DeNmArK/UK 2004 DirECTor: niColAS winDing rEfn DirECTor: niColAS winDing rEfn A run-in with a baseball bat has left Tonny, a small-time crook from the Copenhagen underworld, with in 1974, a misguided 19-year-old named his brain scrambled and a bit unreliable. Just released from prison, he tries to bring order to his life michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a and gain the respect of his father, the Duke—a notorious gangster who appears to have only con- name for himself and, with a homemade sawn- tempt for his son—but nothing in life is coming easy. Trying to repay a debt, misstep after misstep off shotgun and a head full of dreams, attempted puts him further afoul of the Duke, and on top of it all, Tonny faces the responsibility of supporting to rob a post office. Swiftly apprehended and a baby that may or may not be his own. Battling the scorn of all around him, as well as his own drug- originally sentenced to seven years in prison, fueled delirium, Tonny must find the path to redemption or die trying. “Each film in refn’s mesmer- Peterson has been behind bars for 34 years, izing, brutal PUSHEr trilogy can stand on its own, but it’s fun to see all three and observe the way the 30 of which have been spent in solitary confine- bad guys in one become the sympathetic heroes (or anti-heroes) in another.”—, new ment. Based on Peterson’s real story, BronSon, with an intelligent, provocative, and stylized nicolas winding refn turned down a place York magazine. (100 mins.) approach, follows the metamorphosis of mickey at the prestigious national Danish film MAR 10 11 SAT 9 PM, SUN 7 PM Peterson into Britain’s most dangerous prisoner, School in order to write and direct his 1996 Charles Bronson. “Jaw dropping. Awesome...a pUSHER III: I’M THE ANGEL OF DEATH stylish thrill ride.”—Time out new York. feature film debut, PUSHEr. Violent, edgy, DeNmArK 2005 “BronSon owes a little or a lot to Kubrick’s DirECTor: niColAS winDing rEfn yet emotionally gripping, it established him A CloCKworK orAngE, but if that’s a crime, i PUSHEr iii takes place over the course of a single day, with the now middle-aged milo struggling to as an uncompromising new talent. over the wish more people would commit it.”—Andrew prepare his daughter’s 25th birthday party. As milo fights his own personal demons in the form of a oheir, Salon. (92 mins.) next fifteen years, films such as BronSon, smack addiction he’s trying to kick, his business day proves equally challenging once a shipment of VAlHAllA riSing, and the PUSHEr trilogy ecstasy arrives in place of the heroin he was expecting. forced to contend with a new order of young MAR 17 18 SAT 7 PM, SUN 7 PM demonstrated a mastery of intense, visceral hoods in order to move this designer drug he knows little about and feeling the squeeze he himself has put on so many before him, milo must find a way to maintain his place of dominance atop the DRIVE Us 2011 tales that explored haunted characters Copenhagen underworld. To do so, he will have to survive one of the most harrowing episodes of his navigating the consequences of their own long, illustrious career. “given an appetite for grisly crime flicks, [the PUSHEr films] make for a DirECTor: niColAS winDing rEfn refn combines a slick, neon-lit aesthetic with a immorality. with his latest film, DriVE—winner delectably nasty epic.”—nathan lee, new York Times. (100 mins.) pulsating synth score and a bad-ass swagger, of the Best Director Prize at last year’s Cannes MAR 11 14 SUN 5 PM, WED 7 PM paying homage to Euro-crime icon Jean-Pierre film festival—refn has reached a new level melville and auteurs of lA noir like michael of international recognition, where future DeNmArK/UK/BrAZil/cANADA 2003 mann and william friedkin, but in service of M K

something uniquely his own. ryan gosling turns C PREPS Y DirECTor: niColAS winDing rEfn projects are eagerly awaited and past works in an electrifying performance as the Driver: mall security guard Harry Cain’s wife is mysteriously murdered in wisconsin. Compelled to find out invite reappraisal and discovery. Hollywood stuntman by day, getaway driver by why, he begins his own bizarre investigation, obtaining information that leads him to montana in night. His world is upended when he meets search of the supposed murderer. But he soon learns that things are seldom what they appear to be. irene (Carey mulligan) and her young son, MAR 8 9 THURS 7 PM, FRI 7 PM refn’s first English language film stars John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger, and James remar in a who represent an alternative to his otherwise “thriller ingeniously woven with motifs suggesting the difficulty of seeing and understanding truth pUSHER stoic existence. featuring great supporting DeNmArK 1996 and substituting psychological chills for commonplace gore.”—David Sterritt, Christian Science turns from Albert Brooks and ron Perlman as DirECTor: niColAS winDing rEfn monitor. “grimly austere barely begins to describe the atmosphere of dread that seeps through fEAr Hollywood mobsters, DriVE is a lean, mean frank, a small-time drug dealer, is about to experience X like a toxic mist.”—Steven Holden, new York Times. (91 mins.) machine with no time for the sort of baggage the worst week of his life. After a complicated heroin that might slow its exhilarating forward momen- deal goes wrong and he loses both the money and the MAR 16 17 FRI 7 PM, SAT 9 PM tum. “As the film accrues intensity and awakes merchandise, frank finds himself massively in debt to VALHALLA RISING the demon lurking inside its protagonist, you the Balkan drug baron milo. The squeeze is on, and DeNmArK/UK 2009 can see it as something more than a retro-cool as the week passes, the pressure mounts, with frank DirECTor: niColAS winDing rEfn crime story. rather, it’s a parable of good and trying to repay the money in the face of milo’s increas- for years, the fearsome proto-Viking figure known only as one Eye (, PUSHEr) evil and the nature of man.”—Shawn levy, The ing frustration and his own latent self-destructiveness. has defeated everyone he has encountered, but he’s treated more like an animal than a war- oregonian. “Here is a movie with respect for frank launches one last desperate push to raise the rior. The only person he has any relationship with is the young boy who brings him food and writing, acting, and craft. it has respect for missing funds, but it appears less and less likely he water daily. Constantly caged and shackled, one Eye has drawn the attention of a new force now knowledgeable moviegoers.”—roger Ebert, will emerge from this hellish week unscathed. “The sweeping the countryside and displacing the society’s leaders: Christians. VAlHAllA riSing is Chicago Sun-Times. (100 mins.) film practically vibrates with youthful aggression, sly a visual tour-de-force that mediates violent intensity with subtle introspection. “refn, the prank- humor, and gathering tension, hurling itself forward ster of last year’s BronSon, has never reduced his craft to such a sledgehammer of minimal- like a junkie toward the next fix.”—los Angeles Times. ism. Electric guitars drone on the soundtrack, bones crunch, and a mystical religiosity gathers (105 mins.) around one Eye; there’s a midnight cult here for those who yearn for one.”—Joshua rothkopf, Time out new York. (93 mins.)

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Welcome to the 20th Annual Portland Jewish Film Festival, Y PREPS C APR 17 TUES 7 PM APR 22 SUN 4 PM K M produced by the Northwest Film Center and co-presented TORN MY ARCHITECT with the Institute for Judaic Studies. While the Festival spe- ISRAEL 2011 US 2003 cifically celebrates the diversity of Jewish history, culture, DIRECTOR: RONIT KERTSNER DIRECTOR: NATHANIEL KAHN and identity, we hope that these films and the stories they Can a person be a practicing Jew and a Catholic priest at the same Louis I. Kahn, a giant among modernist 20th-century architects, left a tell resonate beyond their settings and speak to experienc- time? Raised by a gentile family and ordained as a Polish Catholic legacy of brilliantly designed and engineered buildings—including the es and issues that confront our common humanity. Special priest, Father Romuald Waszkinel discovers years later that he was Salk Institute, Kimball Art Museum, Yale Center for British Art—which thanks to our sponsors: Cedar Sinai Park, Jewish Federation born Jacob Weksler to Jewish biological parents who were murdered challenges us to discover new relationships between light, space, tex- of Greater Portland, Mittleman Jewish Community Center, in the Holocaust. TORN follows his extraordinary transformation from ture, and the spirit of the creator. Kahn’s personal life was even more Oregon/Israel Fund of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation, Jewish Academy, J Street Portland, Consulate conducting mass in Poland to life as an observant Jew on an Israeli mysterious than his work’s inspiration, and his death—alone, broke, General of Israel, and Carolyn Weinstein. Thanks to our kibbutz. The deeply spiritual Waszkinel is torn between conflicting iden- and anonymous in a Penn Station bathroom in 1974—revealed that he media sponsor Oregon Jewish Life Magazine. tities, unable to renounce Catholicism or his newfound Judaism and led not a double but a triple life, shuttling between his legitimate family therefore rejected by both. In the meantime, his request to be granted and two different women and the children they had. One of those, his son APR 15 SUN 7 PM Israeli citizenship is mired in a bureaucratic labyrinth of immigration Nathaniel, age 11 at the time of his father’s death, takes us on a personal MABUL (THE FLOOD) law. Filmmaker Ronit Kertsner raises profound questions about what it journey to consider the contradictions of this complicated genius and ISRAEL 2011 means to be Jewish in this soul-searching, cruelly ironic documentary eccentric parent. While revealing the haunting beauty of his father’s DIRECTOR: GUY NATTIV about identity. (72 mins.) monumental creations—from Philadelphia to far-flung parts of the United Yoni’s life is complicated. He’s almost 13 and obsessed States, Israel, India, and Bangladesh—Kahn takes us deep within his with becoming bigger, taller, and stronger. His class- APR 19 THURS 7 PM own divided family and on a universal investigation of identity, art, and mates bully him every chance they get, and his parents DAVID ultimately life itself. (116 mins.) barely say a word to each other. When his autistic brother US 2011 Tomer, locked away for years in an institution, returns to DIRECTOR: JOEL FENDELMAN APR 22 SUN 7 PM live at home with them right before Yoni’s Bar Mitzvah, A charming coming-of-age tale of tolerance and cross-cultural under- KADDISH FOR A FRIEND the already unstable family threatens to crumble. Yoni standing, DAVID questions the boundaries of cultures and religions and GERMANY 2011 has no choice but to “become a man” and learn to deal how static, yet sometimes fluid, they can be. Daud is a lonely 11-year- DIRECTOR: LEO KHASIN on his own with this strange brother he hasn’t seen in old Muslim boy growing up in Brooklyn. The only son of a devout Imam, Khasin tells a warm tale about an unlikely friendship between two lonely, 10 years. The entire family has to face painful truths as he juggles the high expectations of his father against feelings of loneli- displaced characters. Alexander is an 84-year-old Jewish war veteran mistakes of the past and sorrows of the present are con- ness and isolation. There is no time for playmates, until one day when desperate to remain living independently in his Berlin apartment. Among fronted in this beautifully acted and rendered film about he is mistaken for a yeshiva student and befriended by a group of his neighbors is a Palestinian family newly arrived from a refugee camp perseverance and the redemptive power of love. Winner Jewish boys. Unable to resist a newfound camaraderie and freedom, in Lebanon that includes teenage son Ali. To gain acceptance from his of the Best Supporting Actor “Ophir” Award at the Israel Daud becomes David to his newfound friends. The ruse soon unravels, new peers, Ali agrees to break in to Alexander’s flat, which becomes ran- Film Academy and the Special Mention Crystal Bear at the however, leaving the conflicted boy struggling to find his place in a sacked in the process. When Alexander returns to his flat, he recognizes Berlin International Film Festival. (101 mins.) Followed by A complicated world. 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K M REUBEN BY ANY OTHER NAME (US 2010, dir. Jeremy Dylan and Jewish actors, DAVID won the Brooklyn International Film Festival damage. As they work side by side, the relationship between the feisty Lanni), which takes a humorous look at the differences between Audience Award and the Montreal World Film Festival’s Ecumenical pair flits between mutual dislike, understanding, and finally friendship, Orthodox and Reform Judaism played out in terms of the dif- Prize. (80 mins.) Followed by STARRING DAVID (Netherlands 2010, dir. when they realize that the fragile existence of each depends in a large ferences between the New York and Los Angeles versions of the Ester Gould), a funny, sweet portrait of 12-year-old David and his path to Bar part on the other. Inspired by a true story, Moscow-born German director Reuben sandwich. (4 mins.) Mitzvahood. (19 mins.) Leo Khasin offers a stirring coming-of-age story that shows just how hard unlearning prejudice can be. (93 mins.) APR 16 MON 7 PM APR 21 SAT 8:30 PM COUNSELLOR AT LAW THE RABBI’S CAT APR 23 MON 7 PM US 1933 FRANCE 2011 THE QUEEN HAS NO CROWN DIRECTOR: WILLIAM WYLER DIRECTORS: JOANN SFAR, ANTOINE DELESVAUX ISRAEL 2011 John Barrymore, in one of his best roles, plays George Winner of the Best Feature Award at the Annecy International Animation DIRECTOR: TOMER HEYMANN Simon, a high-powered Jewish lawyer who has worked his Festival as well as the French César for Best Animated Film, THE “Tomer Heymann’s poignant meditation on family, loss, and the mental way up from the tenements to a lofty perch in the Empire State RABBI’S CAT is based on Safar’s own hit comic book series about a maps of homelessness. The film navigates the intimate lives of five broth- Building by defending accused murderesses, powerful politi- talking cat. Rabbi Sfar lives a quiet life by the sea with his beautiful ers and their mother, as they experience the pains of exile and the joys of cians, and hard-luck cases from the old neighborhood while daughter Zlabya and her pet cat in 1920s Algeria, a country full of family bonding. Three of the Heymann sons take their families and leave discreetly bleeding wealthy clients. When an enemy uncov- Arab, Jewish, and European inhabitants. After swallowing his archrival Israel for ‘better’ lives in America. Their mother, a divorcee, is left alone ers a legal indiscretion and begins disbarment proceedings, the family parrot, the cat receives the miraculous gift of speech, with in Israel with her two bachelor sons, one straight and the other, Tomer, it drives Simon’s spoiled socialite wife (Doris Kenyon) into no intention of ever shutting up! This irreverent, quick-witted feline gay. Exploring the politics of belonging, displacement, and sexuality, the the arms of another man (Melvyn Douglas). With the unflag- loves discussing philosophy and Jewish law and demands to have a Bar film examines the hard decisions one family has to make and the intrac- ging support of his faithful secretary (Bebe Daniels), Simon Mitzvah. When a mysterious stranger arrives in the city, the Rabbi, his table bonds that unite them. Throughout, Tomer frames this quest in terms attempts to exercise his legalistic wizardry to defend his cat, and an array of motley characters set off on a fantastical Indiana of its greater social and political significance. Combining 8mm and 16mm reputation and protect those who rely upon him for justice. Jones-style adventure into the unknown heart of Africa. (100 mins.) footage with his own work of a decade, Tomer shows how the strength of (82 mins.) Marat Grinberg, assistant professor of Russian and the Heymann family depends on forces greater than the nuclear family Humanities at Reed College, will introduce the film. itself. The result is a powerful and intimate portrait of one man, his family, and the world surrounding them.”—UK Jewish Film Festival. (85 mins.) PAGE 04 NORTHWEST FILM CENTER MARCH/APRIL/MAY 2012 503-221-1156 WWW.NWFILM.ORG M K C PREPS Y M K C PREPS Y M K C PREPS Y

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APR 25 WED 7 PM FOLLOW ME: THE YONI NETANYAHU STORY US 2011 DIRECTORS: JONATHAN GRUBER, ARI DANIEL PINCHOT The famed Operation Entebbe—the high-risk mission to save Israeli hostages held by Arab terrorists at the Entebbe, Uganda, airport in 1976—was an almost miraculous success, but sometimes forgotten is that the mission was not without casualties. Gruber and Pinchot’s riveting telling of the event is cast through the eyes of 30-year-old squad leader Yoni Netanyahu, older brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who lost his life that day. The filmmakers masterfully tell the parallel narratives of the planning and execution of the raid and Yoni’s life story in the context of Israeli history. Personal testimonials from family members, Israeli leaders, and comrades add context to the gripping FOLLOW ME archival footage, but it is the words of Netanyahu himself, taken from his poems and letters to family and the women he loved, that give the story a poetic beauty APR 29 SUN 7 PM and enduring power. (84 mins.) APR 29 SUN 2 PM THE RESCUERS REMEMBRANCE US 2011 GERMANY 2011 APR 26 THURS 7 PM DIRECTOR: MICHAEL KING DIRECTOR: ANNA JUSTICE FIVE BROKEN CAMERAS A Holocaust historian and anti-genocide activist search the REMEMBRANCE is the true story of two lovers who meet in a PALESTINE/ISRAEL/FRANCE 2011 past for solutions to current ethnic persecutions in THE concentration camp in 1944. Tomasz, a Polish prisoner, pulls DIRECTORS: EMAD BURNAT, GUY DAVIDI RESCUERS. Globetrotting across 15 countries, Sir Martin off a daring rescue escaping from the camp with his Jewish “Five broken cameras—and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in Gilbert and Rwandan native Stephanie Nyombayire meet with lover Hannah Silberstein. Hiding her at the home of his sister- the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a survivors and descendants of diplomats who interceded to in-law, Tomasz returns to his work in the Polish resistance, farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, which famously chose nonviolent save Jews from Nazi death camps. Combining fascinating promising to return for her. As the war comes to an end, each resistance when the Israeli army encroached upon its land to make room for interviews, archival footage, and dramatic reenactments, believes the other has died. Hannah is married and living in Jewish colonists. Emad buys his first camera in 2005 to document the birth of Emmy-winning filmmaker Michael King presents such well- New York with her husband and daughter when she discovers his fourth son, Gibreel. Over the course of the film, he becomes the peaceful documented cases as the Swedish businessman who saved that after more than 30 years, Tomasz is indeed alive. Now archivist of an escalating struggle as olive trees are bulldozed, lives are lost, 120,000 Budapest Jews and the more obscure acts of a she must decide what to do. “I tend to believe in coincidence, and a wall is built to segregate burgeoning Israeli settlements. Gibreel’s loss of Japanese attaché, a German Nazi Party member, and British that the course of our lives is led by accidental incidents and M K innocence and the destruction of each camera are potent metaphors in a deeply C PREPS Y royalty as relayed in a story by Prince Charles. Having lost the decisions we make as a result of these incidents.”—Anna personal documentary that vividly portrays a conflict many of us think we know. family in the Rwandan genocide, Nyombayire faces painful Justice. (105 mins.) Followed by CALIFORNIA SHMEER (US 2006, Emad Burnat, a Palestinian, joins forces with Guy Davidi, an Israeli, and—from truths about her country and seeks an end to ongoing massa- dir. Alan H. Rosenberg), which explores the role Jewish food plays in the wreckage of five broken cameras—two filmmakers create one extraordinary the American culinary experience. (25 mins.) cres in Darfur and elsewhere. Best of the Fest Award winner work of art.”—Sundance Film Festival, where FIVE BROKEN CAMERAS won the at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. (94 mins.) World Cinema Documentary Directing Award. (90 mins.) APR 28 SAT 8:30 PM APR 29 SUN 4:30 PM NICKY’S FAMILY SALLAH CZECH REPUBLIC 2011 ISRAEL 1964 DIRECTOR: MATEJ MINAC DIRECTOR: EPHRAIM KISHON Nicholas Winton was just an everyday Englishman looking Sallah Shabati (Topol), a Yemenite Jew, arrives with his family in Israel in 1949, to make himself useful before the dawn of World War II. among 49,000 in a secretly organized immigration influx. Broke and lazy by Without a real plan, he somehow managed to organize the nature, he devises various comic schemes to get money, such as selling his rescue of 669 Jewish Czech and Slovak children during the vote to each of several political parties. Habbubah, Sallah’s beautiful daughter, outbreak of the war. Afterwards, for more than half a century, falls in love with Ziggi, a handsome member of a kibbutz, and Sallah tricks an Winton never discussed his efforts. Fifty years later, his fam- admiring taxi driver into buying his daughter for Ziggi. Meanwhile, Sallah’s son ily stumbled upon a suitcase in the attic, full of documents Shimon has fallen in love with kibbutznik Bathsheva, thus prompting the kibbutz and transport plans. His amazing story touched his nation in director to demand reimbursement. Through his antics, Sallah not only exposes unexpected ways. The film depicts the ripple effect that his the struggles in a young Israeli society but also succeeds in forcing the hous- heroism has had on the descendants of the children he saved, ing authorities to move his family out of the ramshackle transit camp and into most of whom never knew the “British Schindler” who saved a new apartment. Kishon’s zany satire won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign them. Winner of the Audience Awards for Best Documentary at Language Film and was Israel’s first submission for the Best Foreign Language the Montreal Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and UK Film Oscar. (105 mins.) Jewish Film Festival. (96 mins.)

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The interrupters Y PREPS C K M MAR 23 24 25 FRI 7 PM, SAT 7 PM, SUN 4 PM APR 6 7 FRI 7 PM, SAT 4:30 & 7 PM ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING ITALY 1960 GERMANY 2011 DIRECTOR: LUCHINO VISCONTI DIRECTOR: CORINNA BELZ A chronicle of family loyalty and disintegration, Visconti’s epic master- “Corinna Belz’s documentary is an unprecedented and APR 18 WED 8 PM—VISITING ARTIST piece is one of the most powerful and emotionally charged movies ever oddly dangerous journey into the studios of Gerhard THE BUS PROJECT AND THE NWFC PRESENT made. Rosaria Parondi and her five sons journey north to Milan to seek Richter, widely considered to be among the world’s most THE INTERRUPTERS a better life, but the industrial north proves just as unforgiving as the important living painters. Famously cranky and iconoclas- US 2011 desolation in Sicily. Simone (Renato Salvatori) becomes the first broth- tic, Richter is an ideal subject to illuminate the deep fis- DIRECTOR: STEVE JAMES er to find success—but his career as a boxer flounders when he meets sures in the contemporary art world. His career has been From the director of HOOP DREAMS and Alex Kotlowitz, the author of THERE Nadia (Annie Girardot), a beautiful prostitute. When Simone’s posses- a high-wire balancing act between eye-popping, colorful ARE NO CHILDREN HERE, THE INTERRUPTERS is a gripping portrait of mod- siveness drives Nadia away, she falls in love with his younger brother, abstractions—seen in construction throughout much of ern-day heroes. In Chicago’s CeaseFire organization, reformed gang mem- Rocco (Alain Delon). The lovers set in motion a shattering chain of the film—and enormously famous photorealist portraiture. bers protect their community from harm through a unique, dangerous, and events for which the family’s traditional values leave them unprepared. He has also been an influential essayist on art-making and controversial method—by insinuating themselves personally into conflicts. The most dramatic and spectacular film of Visconti’s career, its sweep- its place in the world. Though we see the 79-year-old art- Using lessons from their own complicated pasts, they gain access and ing operatic style, Nino Rota score, and striking Giuseppe Rotunno cin- ist talking with his legendary gallerist Marian Goodman, credibility within stricken neighborhoods, forming personal bonds to break ematography influenced the work of directors Martin Scorsese (MEAN being feted at London’s National Portrait Gallery, and the deadly cycle of violence. “Mighty and heartwrenching.”—Roger Ebert. STREETS), Francis Ford Coppola (THE GODFATHER), and a generation speaking with critics and collaborators, the film lives in “An exemplary piece of both reportage and nonfiction filmmaking. One of of other filmmakers. “Newly restored to its glory, ROCCO is a film of his places of work: giant studios with taciturn assistants the most engaging films you’ll see this year, full of vibrant, complex real- extraordinary range and ambition... The operatic magnitude of the emo- preparing toxic brews and giant canvasses for Richter to life characters whose troubles and joys will stay with you long after the mov- tions is dazzling.”—. (180 mins.) attack.”—Toronto International Film Festival. (97 mins.) ie’s done.”—Dana Stevens, Slate. (125 mins.) Producer Alex Kotlowitz will be in attendance. Tonight’s screening is presented in conjunction with Rebooting Democracy: A Festival of Ideas, Innovation, & Democracy, a program of the Bus MAR 29 30 31 Apr 1 Thurs 7 PM, FRI 7 PM, SAT 7 PM, Sun 7 PM APR 12 THURS 7 PM—VISITING ARTISTS Project Foundation. For the full week of activities,visit rebootingdemocracy.org. THE ALLOY ORCHESTRA LIVE RED DESERT Special thanks to the University of Oregon School of Journalism and ITALY 1964 METROPOLIS Communication’s George S. Turnbull Center, presenting Kotlowitz’s lecture “My DIRECTOR: MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI GERMANY 1927 new life as a multimedia storyteller” on April 18 from 6-7 PM. Visit journalism. “As L’ECLISSE anticipates Godard’s ALPHAVILLE in its use of a ‘found’ DIRECTOR: FRITZ LANG uoregon.edu/turnbull for more information. Flash Gordon landscape, Antonioni’s first color film, RED DESERT, is Perhaps the most famous and influential of all silent films, almost pure science fiction. Nature has been supplanted, and everything METROPOLIS is set in a now not-so-far-away 2026, when APR 24 TUES 6 PM exudes a chemical glow. (Antonioni painted the grass to make it even the populace is divided between workers who must live in 39TH ANNUAL STUDENT ACADEMY more voluptuously tainted.) A factory worthy of METROPOLIS spews the dark underground and a rich techno-oligarchy which AWARDS: REGION ONE FINALS out toxic clouds of yellow vapor, driving the movie’s agitated heroine enjoys a futuristic city of splendor. Much of the overwhelm- Each year, the Northwest Film Center conducts the regional jurying of ing impact of Lang’s precedent-setting futuristic vision Y PREPS C (Monica Vitti), who is married to its manager, well past distraction into entries submitted for the annual Academy of Motion Picture Arts and K M lucid madness. She realizes, ‘There’s something terrible about reality, was due to the magnificent design, intended at the time Sciences® Student Academy Awards. Students from colleges and universi- and I don’t know what.’ Positing a protagonist who is allergic to the to beat Hollywood at its own game and presaging such ties in California, Oregon, Washington, and other western states vie for a world, this gorgeous movie is the prototype for ’ SAFE.”— sci-fi landmarks as 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and BLADE regional award this evening, thereby earning advancement to the national Jacques Boyreau. (118 mins.) New 35mm print. RUNNER. The political allegory—exploring 21st-century finalists’ competition in Los Angeles juried by Academy members. This is a industrialism, a robot-inspired worker mutiny, and the unique opportunity to assess the quality of work coming out of some of the APR 5 THURS 7:30 PM—VISITING ARTIST reconciliation between labor and capital—still inspires top film schools in the nation; whether you’re a student, parent, filmmaker, TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES’ ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD TOUR heated controversy, but the bold theatricality of the produc- or film lover, the night is always full of surprises and discovery. (120 AND THE NWFC PRESENT tion remains as stirring as ever. “A glorious symphony of mins.) Free admission. MARTY movement...the rhythmic progression...of hitherto unimag- US 1955 ined mechanical shapes.”—Luis Buñuel. (140 mins.) The APR 20 21 FRI 7 PM, SAT 8:30 PM DIRECTOR: DELBERT MANN score performed live by Cambridge’s Alloy Orchestra—fea- turing Roger C. Miller on synthesizer; Terry Donahue on junk THE RABBI’S CAT Mann’s Academy Award-winning film version of Paddy Chayefsky’s percussion, accordion, saw, and banjo; and Ken Winokur on FRANCE 2011 lauded television drama is one of the screen’s most poignant portraits junk percussion and clarinet—heightens and propels the ten- DIRECTORS: JOANN SFAR, ANTOINE DELESVAUX of loneliness, insecurity, and self-doubt. A burly, good-natured Bronx sion in fitting fashion. The Alloy has been performing its origi- Winner of the Best Feature Award at the Annecy International Animation butcher, Marty (Ernest Borgnine) is insecure about his appearance nal scores for restored silent films since the early ’90s and is Festival as well as the French César for Best Animated Film, THE RABBI’S and has resigned himself to a lifetime of solitude—until he meets counted among the top silent film accompanists in the world. Special thanks to our co-sponsors, Portland State University’s CAT is based on Safar’s own hit comic book series about a talking cat. shy schoolteacher Clara (Betsy Blair), who draws him out of his self- School of Fine and Performing Arts, Department of Theater & Rabbi Sfar lives a quiet life by the sea with his beautiful daughter Zlabya imposed shell. Tenderly depicting the plight of social outcasts and their Film, Department of Art, and Department of Music, and Reed and her pet cat in 1920s Algeria, a country full of Arab, Jewish, and ability to rise above their outward appearances, Borgnine’s eloquent College’s Division of Literature and Languages. ADMISSION: European inhabitants. After swallowing his archrival the family parrot, the turn as Marty earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor, with the $15 general; $12 Silver Screen Club members and students. cat receives the miraculous gift of speech, with no intention of ever shut-

film also winning Best Film, Director, and Screenplay Oscars. (90 mins.) ting up! This irreverent, quick-witted feline loves discussing philosophy Tonight’s screening is hosted by TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz, with special guest and Jewish law and demands to have a Bar Mitzvah. When a mysterious Ernest Borgnine in attendance. Admission is free. Tickets available beginning stranger arrives in the city, the Rabbi, his cat, and an array of motley March 22 at tcm.com/2012/roadtohollywood. characters set off on a fantastical Indiana Jones-style adventure into the unknown heart of Africa. (110 mins.) PAGE 06 Northwest Film center March/April/May 2012 503-221-1156 www.nwfilm.org M K C PREPS Y M K C PREPS Y M K C PREPS Y

444 CUTS BEST OF 38TH NORTHWEST FEST: STRANDS, A M K NORTHWEST C PREPS Y TRACKING ESSENTIAL NORTHWEST contribution at the door. Our Northwest Tracking programs showcase the work of independent filmmakers living and working in the Northwest—Alaska, British MAR 22 MAY 16 THURS 7 PM, WED 7 PM APR 8 SUN 4:30 PM WHAT’S WRONG WITH Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington—whose work OPEN SCREENING DIRECTOR: YOU THIS PICTURE? reflects the vibrant cinematic culture of the region. Whether presenting Tonight the screen is yours. We throw open the doors Seattle film guru Warren Etheredge loves short films. Through single artist retrospectives, new features, documentaries, or inspired of the Whitsell Auditorium and invite you to show your programming hundreds of works for such showcases as One collections of short works, Northwest Tracking offers testimony to the new short work. If you have something you’re proud Reel Film Festival at Bumbershoot, teaching at The Film School in Seattle, and hosting the television interview series “The High creativity and talent in our flourishing media arts community. of, sign up by contacting Thomas Phillipson by March 15/May 9 at [email protected]. First come, first Bar,” he knows a thing or two about what makes films work. In celebration of the Film Center’s 40th anniversary, we also served as time allows, with preference given to works As at our past Northwest Filmmakers’ Festivals, tonight he’ll deliver his insightful and sometimes hilarious commentary on present Essential Northwest, an ongoing series featuring vintage under ten minutes. Invite your friends—admission is free! short films offered up for appraisal by brave filmmakers. After works by Northwest filmmakers. If you want to know what Northwest a look at the first five minutes or so of each work submitted, filmmaking is all about and what has come before, these are films, APR 2 MON 7 PM—VISITING ARTIST Etheredge will offer his wickedly honest insights—with quick filmmakers, and history you need to know. Thanks to media sponsor wit and good will—then solicit audience response to the cases ESSENTIAL NORTHWEST at hand. For filmmakers who want to make their films better, Orlo/Bear Deluxe Magazine. CUTS gain honest insight into what real audiences (and film festival SEATTLE 1981 programmers) see that they might not, this is a unique feedback MAR 5 MON 7 PM—VISITING ARTIST DIRECTOR: CHARLES GUSTAFSON forum. Even if you are not a filmmaker, you’ll enjoy and learn ESSENTIAL NORTHWEST CUTS is a sensitive, probing investigation of the from the conversation. Submit your film by contacting Regional ONLY A BUCK interlocking relationships between man’s need to Services Manager Thomas Phillipson at [email protected], or produce, his technologies, and the earth from which US 1986 just come for the entertaining and illuminating show. (120 mins.) he takes his resources. Set in the mill communities DIRECTOR: JERRY COOK Free admission. This Spokane-made first feature by Jerry Cook retains the charm and wit that made of the Pacific Northwest, it is the workers’ voices

it a standout among regionally made films in the 1980s. The film depicts J. Jordan, that carry the narrative; the furious pace of men and M K APR 13 14 FRI 7 PM, SAT 7 PM—VISITING ARTISTS C PREPS Y a sort of ’80s Maynard G. Krebs/Rube Goldberg gadget-loving guy who quits his job machines that power the film; the ever-present reality BEST OF THE 38TH NORTHWEST as a bored and hassled local television news photographer to make a movie about of the blade, the inevitability of injury, that provide its a guy who quits his job to make a movie. Cook describes his film as “the TV dinner somber power. Controlled and understated, the inter- FILMMAKERS’ FESTIVAL of movies...it didn’t cost a lot, but it’s still pretty good.” Technically assured and views and portrayals of working conditions, homes, DIRECTORS: VARIOUS full of heart, laugh-out-loud ambience and humor, and off-the-wall hipness, Cook’s and taverns project a powerful sadness and bitter- Each year, following the Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival, the Film debut will warm the hearts of anyone who has made, or dreams of making, a movie. ness. Featured at the 8th Northwest Film & Video Center assembles a program of Festival highlights—award win- ners, audience and critical favorites—and sends it out on tour “A clever comedy, well worth seeing.”—Ted Mahar, . “The film’s Festival in 1981. (38 mins.) across the region and beyond to find new audiences. Tonight the delightful atmosphere wins you over.”—D.K. Holm, Willamette Week. (95 mins.) Jerry tour stops in Portland—a chance to see these great films again Cook will be in attendance. ADMISSION: PAY WHAT YOU WILL—by contribution at the FOLLOWED BY door. or for the first time if you missed their Festival screenings. The NATURAL TIMBER program includes Kurtis Hough’s MOSSGROVE, which looks like COUNTRY MAR 15 THURS 7 PM—VISITING ARTIST the National Geographic on LSD; Jin Ryu and Yi-Fan’s CAMERON’S EUGENE 1972 BOOKS, an ode to the legendary independent bookseller; Rob FADED: GIRLS + BINGE DRINKING DIRECTOR: RON FINNE US 2011 Tyler’s STRANDS, A MUSIC VIDEO, a visual celebration of the Tracing the history of logging in the Pacific Northwest ghosts of mix tapes past; David Geiss’ BASIN, a portrait of the DIRECTOR: JANET MCINTYRE from the second half of the 19th century to the com- Raw and unflinching, FADED:profiles the heartbreak and struggles of four young women pristine landscape of northern Alberta scarred by industrializa- ing of the diesel engine, Ron Finne’s film explores the tion; Barbara Tetenbaum and Marilyn Zornado’s OLD-TIME FILM, battling the allure and grip of binge drinking. Holly skates with the Rose City Rollers, a relationship of old-time loggers to the woods, to their semi-pro girls’ skating team. She plays hard and parties harder, bouncing from one job featuring antique letterpress engravings set to a fiddle tune; communities, and to each other. Through interviews, Antoine Bourges’ WOMAN WAITING, a portrait of a middle-aged to another, including a stint at an X-rated bakery that ended when she broke in after- recordings, tales, and songs, the film provides insight hours to decorate her friend’s ass—a rather spectacular Barbie doll-themed creation woman on the edge of homelessness; Ben Popp’s LÁSZLÓ LASSÚ, into the changing culture and environmental values an animated love story across space; John Waller’s TREEVERSE, in pink and white icing. Other stories are more serious, such as that of Cassidy, a of people for whom the forest was home, playground, drama major and honor student, who has vowed to stop drinking after a girlfriend is which follows a canopy trek through an old growth Oregon white and workplace. (50 mins.) Ron Finne will be in atten- oak forest; and Don Hamilton’s THE BIG SAYONARA, in which a date-raped at a party. “Heartbreaking, disturbing and at times comical.”—Kelly House, dance. Professor Stephen Beckman of Lewis and Clark former Wall Street employee hits rock bottom in rural Rosalia, The Oregonian. (58 mins.) Janet McIntyre will be in attendance. College will discuss the film and talk about life in the early logging camps. ADMISSION: PAY WHAT YOU WILL—by Washington. (80 mins.) Several of the films’ directors will be PAGE 22 NORTHWEST FILM CENTER MARCH/APRIL/MAY 2012 503-221-1156 WWW.NWFILM.ORG 31761 NW Film Center.p0001_impo Mar-01-2012 12:29 Sig:1-B Yellow Magenta Cyan Black M K C PREPS Y Y PREPS C K M 31761 NW Film Center.p0001_impo Mar-01-2012 12:29 Sig:1-C Yellow Magenta Cyan Black Y PREPS C K M Y PREPS C K M Y PREPS C K M

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MAY 2 3 WED 7 PM, THURS 7 PM—VISITING ARTIST MAY 17 THURS 7 PM—VISITING ARTIST THE GREAT NORTHWEST INTER-ACTION: PORTLAND 2012 ANIMATED SHORTS DIRECTOR: MATT MCCORMICK DIRECTORS: VARIOUS Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick’s new film is inspired by—and recre- Tonight we welcome Seattle filmmaker Tess Martin to pres- ates—a 3,200-mile road trip made in 1958 by four Seattle women who record- ent a collection of short animated films that explore inter- ed their journey in an elaborate scrapbook of photos, postcards, brochures, actions—actions between each frame of motion as well as and receipts. Fifty years later, McCormick found the scrapbook in a thrift store between each subject onscreen. Made individually by twelve an evening with chel white: bird of flames and, charmed, set out to re-trace their route, searching out every stop that the members of SEAT (Seattle Experimental Animation Team), ladies had so lovingly documented five decades earlier. The resulting film these thought-provoking films explore themes of love, faith, JUN 7 THURS 7 PM—VISITING ARTIST juxtaposes the land and landmarks then and now, a double portrait capturing and murder. The program includes: Britta Johnson’s TWO AN EVENING WITH CHEL WHITE the eternal and the new. “Like McCormick’s other quasi-documentary film DOTS, in which marbles illustrate the subtle math of a rela- For 25 years, Portland filmmaker Chel White’s work has been projects, THE GREAT NORTHWEST is notable for the sheer visual pleasure that tionship; Drew Christie’s THE MAN WHO SHOT THE MAN strongly influenced by dreams and the subconscious. Tonight we it offers viewers. McCormick is very patient with his camera, and he draws on a WHO SHOT LINCOLN, an interpretation of the bizarre life present a cross-section of his award-winning shorts (we recently talented photographic eye to deliver prolonged shots that can’t be described as of the man who killed John Wilkes Booth; Aaron Wendel’s screened his first feature, BUCKSVILLE, in the 38th Northwest anything other than lovely.”—Megan Driscoll, Portlandart.net. (70 mins.) Matt DWELLINGS, in which two houses slowly destroy each other; Filmmakers’ Festival) accompanied by his personal insights McCormick will be in attendance. Tess Martin’s PLAIN FACE, in which a stranger arrives and into building a film career in Portland. The program includes: is the subject of prejudice, violence, and love; Amanda CHOREOGRAPHY FOR COPY MACHINE a.k.a. PHOTOCOPY CHA CHA MAY 7 MON 7 PM—VISITING ARTISTS Moore’s BRIDGING WOUNDS, a whimsical exploration of the (1991), in which body parts merge and disperse in a dance maca- ESSENTIAL NORTHWEST lives of strangers told through silhouette puppet animation; bre performed on/by a copy machine; DIRT (1998), in which a Davis Limnbach’s LOOPFORMS, in which a dance of energy CYCLING THROUGH CHINA man’s obsession with dirt starts as a game and enters the surreal; PORTLAND 1983 of spirit is expressed in “maximized loops”; Sara Jane SOULMATE (2000), a bold and unsettling confrontation with sexual DIRECTOR: JOHN RIPPER Lapp’s CHRONICLES OF A PROFESSIONAL EULOGIST, the loneliness; PASSAGE (2001), which involves haunting underwa- The first Portland-produced television entertainment special, CYCLING story of a professional eulogist in training; Clyde Peterson’s ter portraits juxtaposed with archival films; ECLIPSE (2003), an THROUGH CHINA took a host of American entertainers—among them televi- DIRTY STREET, featuring recut footage projected and re- enigmatic meditation on grief; MAGDA (2004), the story of a love sion stars Kate Jackson, Ben Vereen, Lindsay Bloom, Mayf Nutter, and Lorne photographed using the “Hipstamatic” app for iPhone; affair turned sour between a contortionist and her devoted fan; A Green—on a three-week bicycle trip through China. Cycling and performing Stefan Gruber’s BOTH WORLDS, featuring cartoon deities PAINFUL GLIMPSE INTO MY WRITING PROCESS (2005), a noir-ish their way through the countryside, the troupe provided many of the delighted who offer gardening tips; Salise Hughes’ SOMEWHERE, ode to a prose writer’s problems; HARROWDOWN HILL (2006), a Chinese with their first contact with Westerners and in the process afforded a in which two lovers meet in a world somewhere between music video for Thom Yorke; WIND (2007), a short film on cli- rare glimpse into a country of increasing fascination. Harry Dawson’s beautiful a sock hop and the Wild West; and Bruce Bickford’s THE mate change; and BIRD OF FLAMES (2012), the premiere of a new Y PREPS C cinematography and Paul Horn’s exotic soundtrack enhance the excitement (74

K M COMIC THAT FRENCHES YOUR MIND, your mind on eggs. experimental music video for and Chrysta Bell. (80 and discovery of a most unusual journey. Produced by World Pacific Pictures mins.) Tess Martin will present the program. mins.) Chel White will be in attendance. in association with Guang Dong Television of China, this pioneering effort by

Oregon producers was the first contemporary American television program JUN 4 MON 7 PM—VISITING ARTIST JUN 14 THURS 7 PM—VISITING ARTIST to be broadcast in China and premiered at our 10th Northwest Film & Video ESSENTIAL NORTHWEST Festival in 1983. (90 mins.) Director John Ripper, producer Charles Jennings, and THE LOVE OF BEER PORTLAND 2011 special guests will be in attendance. ADMISSION: PAY WHAT YOU WILL—by contri- MY AMERICAN bution at the door. COUSIN DIRECTOR: ALISON GRAYSON VANCOUVER, BC 1985 In 2010, there were 1,759 breweries in America—1,716 of them MAY 9 WED 7 PM—VISITING ARTIST DIRECTOR: SANDY WILSON small craft producers. Yet despite the explosion, brewing is still Sandy Wilson won six Canadian Genies (Oscars), includ- largely a man’s world. In the Northwest, however, women are fight- BOOK SIGNING AND SOUND ADVICE FROM KELLEY BAKER ing Best Picture and Best Director, for her first feature, ing their way toward being some of the most influential people in drawn from her experiences growing up on Paradise Ranch the brewing community. From the farm to the consumer, Northwest Tonight we welcome Portland filmmaker Kelley Baker for an evening of film on the shores of Lake Okanagan. Set in the summer of women are setting new standards for brewing and changing the clips, conversation, and a book signing celebrating his new book THE ANGRY 1959, an era of rock and roll, Brylcreem and bobby sox, way the nation looks at women and beer. Featuring Sarah Pederson, FILMMAKER SURVIVAL GUIDE PART TWO: SOUND CONVERSATIONS WITH (un) about-to-be-teenage Sandy comes of age with the arriv- owner of Saraveza; Tonya Cornett, brew master at Bend Brewing; SOUND PEOPLE. The book debunks many production myths and gives filmmak- al of her American cousin Butch, sixteen and behind the and many other pioneers, THE LOVE OF BEER tells the inspiring ers and audiences a rare behind-the-scenes look at what goes into making wheel of a bright red Cadillac convertible. Her unforget- stories of women who have had to fight discrimination and make a great audio track. In addition to directing many features (BIRDDOG, THE table summer provides a story full of charm and universal sacrifices for the sake of their craft. While their struggles are GAS CAFE, KICKING BIRD) and shorts, Baker has worked as a sound designer recognition. Featured at the 12th Northwest Film & Video opening doors for females everywhere, we learn that they are not on films such as , GOOD WILL HUNTING, FINDING Festival in 1985. (95 mins). Sandy Wilson will be in atten- doing it for feminism or equality so much as for the love of beer. FORRESTER, FAR FROM HEAVEN, and THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN. Along dance. ADMISSION: PAY WHAT YOU WILL—by contribution (72 mins.) Alison Grayson will be in attendance. with excerpts from his own films, the evening will feature clips from classic at the door. works by Hitchcock, Welles, Spielberg, and many others that illustrate the importance of the relationship between sound and image. (80 mins.) With Kelley Baker in attendance. www.nwfilm.org 503-221-1156 MARCH/APRIL/MAY 2012 Northwest Film center PAGE 23 M K C PREPS Y M K C PREPS Y M K C PREPS Y

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Studio Ghibli, founded in Tokyo in 1985 by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, is one of the most successful and well-respected anima- tion studios in the world. Cultivating a creative force of talented directors, animators, and storytellers under the revered brilliance of Miyazaki and Takahata, Studio Ghibli’s films have been critically praised for their originality, dazzling animation, and epic storytell- ing and loved by audiences of all ages throughout the world. We are pleased to present this opportunity to see these great films on the big screen on new 35mm prints made especially for this retrospective. All films are in Japanese with English subtitles unless otherwise noted. only yesterday MAY 4 5 6 FRI 7 PM, SAT 1 PM, SUN 4:15 PM MAY 5 8 SAT 7 PM, TUES 7 PM MAY 12 13 SAT 4 PM, SUN 7 PM NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY CASTLE IN THE SKY ONLY YESTERDAY OF THE WIND JAPAN 1986 JAPAN 1991 JAPAN 1984 DIRECTOR: HAYAO MIYAZAKI DIRECTOR: ISAO TAKAHATA DIRECTOR: HAYAO MIYAZAKI A rare opportunity to see one of Miyazaki’s most Realizing that she is at a crossroads in her life, bored twenty-something Taeko This first of many triumphs for Studio Ghibli is set a thousand years stunningly beautiful, exciting, and infrequently heads for the countryside. The trip dredges up forgotten childhood memories after a nuclear holocaust has gutted the globe. After the death of her screened films. A young girl with a mysterious crys- which unfold in flashback to younger years: the first immature stirrings of father and an attack from the hostile Tormekia, Princess Nausicaä tal pendant falls out of the sky into the arms and romance, the onset of puberty, and the frustrations of math and boys. In lyrical must use her uncanny ability to communicate with the giant crusta- life of young Pazu. Together they search for a float- switches between the present and the past, Taeko wonders if she has been cean Ohmu to unite her people against the threat of annihilation. ing island in the sky, site of a long-dead civiliza- true to the dreams of her childhood self. A double period piece that beautifully M K Based on the manga of the same name and using Miyazaki’s distinc- tion promising enormous wealth and power to those evokes both the 1960s and 1980s and a quintessential drama of Japanese C PREPS Y tive stylistic flare for the dreamlike and fantastical, the film also who can unlock its secrets. CASTLE IN THE SKY is school-day nostalgia, ONLY YESTERDAY delves deeper into the real emotional inaugurates Miyazaki’s enduring collaboration and friendship with an early masterpiece of storytelling and filmmak- experiences of girls and women than perhaps any animated film before or composer Joe Hisaishi. Visually breathtaking, with truly dexterous ing whose imaginative and ornately detailed vision since. (118 mins.) Not available in any North American home viewing formats. image making, the film introduced an original and lasting talent to presaged later films like PRINCESS MONONOKE and Dubbed in English from Japanese. SPIRITED AWAY. (124 mins.) the world of animation. (116 mins.) MAY 12 13 14 SAT 7 PM, SUN 4 PM, MON 7 PM MAY 5 6 SAT 4 PM, SUN 7 PM MAY 11 12 13 FRI 7 PM, SAT 1 PM, SUN 1 PM PRINCESS MONONOKE MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE JAPAN 1997 JAPAN 1988 JAPAN 1989 DIRECTOR: HAYAO MIYAZAKI DIRECTOR: HAYAO MIYAZAKI DIRECTOR: HAYAO MIYAZAKI A landmark of animation and a film of unsurpassed power and beauty, Miyazaki’s The third Studio Ghibli feature tells the story of two young sisters, One of Miyazaki’s most beloved films, KIKI’S DELIVERY epic story of conflict and balance between humans, God, and nature has been Satsuki and Mei Kusakabe, who move into a new house with their SERVICE tells the story of a resourceful young witch universally acclaimed by critics and broke the box office record on its original father near a vast forest to be closer to their ailing, hospitalized who uses her broom to create a delivery service, only release in Japan. While defending his village from a demonic boar-god, the mother. Discovering wondrous forest spirits and dust bunnies, they to lose her gift of flight in a moment of self-doubt. young warrior Ashitaka becomes afflicted with a deadly curse that grants him also encounter Totoro, a giant lumbering bunny-esque creature. It is tradition for all young witches to leave their superhuman power in battle but will eventually take his life. Traveling west to “Here is a children’s film made for the world we should live in, families on the night of a full moon and set out into find a cure and meet his destiny, he journeys deep into the sacred depths of the rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight the wide world to learn their craft. When that night Great Forest where he meets San (Princess Mononoke), a girl raised by wolf- scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary comes for Kiki, she embarks on her life journey with gods. Mononoke is a force of nature, riding bareback on a great white wolf and monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A her chatty black cat Jiji, landing the next morning in terrorizing the human outpost of Iron Town on the edge of the forest. (134 mins.) world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, a seaside village where a bakery owner hires her to you curl up on its tummy and have a nap. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO make deliveries. Rarely has the animator’s art been has become one of the most beloved of all family films without ever so brilliantly rendered as in this delightfully imagina- having been much promoted or advertised.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago tive film—a beautiful and timeless story of a young Sun-Times. (86 mins.) girl finding her way in the world. (102 mins.) 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MAY 18 20 FRI 7 PM, SUN 5 PM MAY 19 20 SAT 4:30 PM, SUN 7 PM MAY 26 27 SAT 7 PM, SUN 4:30 PM OCEAN WAVES MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE JAPAN 1993 JAPAN 1999 JAPAN 2004 DirECTor: Tomomi moCHiZUKi DirECTor: iSAo TAKAHATA DirECTor: HAYAo miYAZAKi This subtle, poignant, and wonderfully detailed story in a break from the frequently mythical storytelling of Studio ghibli, director isao Sophie, an average teenage girl working in a hat shop, finds of adolescence and teenage isolation is rarely seen Takahata wryly tweaks the everyday activities of family life with his depiction of the her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her outside of Japan. Taku and his best friend Yutaka are irresponsible, slovenly, and lazy Yamada family and their unassuming way of life. with feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl. After headed back to school for what looks like another cartoon-like characters (the film is based on a newspaper comic strip) and visual this chance meeting, the young girl is turned into a 90-year- uneventful year. But they soon find their friendship design unlike anything else in the ghibli canon, the film is illustrated in a series of old woman by the vain and conniving witch of the waste. tested by the arrival of rikako, a beautiful new trans- rough sketches and outlines, which are then filled with soft colors that evoke water- Embarking on an incredible adventure to lift the curse, she fer student from Tokyo whose attitude vacillates wildly color painting. (104 mins.) finds refuge in Howl’s magical moving castle. As the true from flirty and flippant to melancholic. when Taku power of Howl’s wizardry is revealed and his relationship with joins rikako on a trip to Tokyo, the school erupts with MAY 24 26 THURS 7 PM, SAT 1:30 PM Sophie deepens, our young grey heroine finds herself fight- rumors, and the three friends are forced to come SpIRITED AWAY ing to protect them both from a dangerous war of sorcery to terms with their changing relationships. The first JAPAN 2001 that threatens their world. Howl’S moVing CASTlE was the Studio ghibli film directed by someone other than DirECTor: HAYAo miYAZAKi second Studio ghibli film to be nominated for Best Animated studio founders Hayao miyazaki and isao Takahata, miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning masterpiece was the biggest box office hit of feature at the Academy Awards. (119 mins.) Dubbed in English

Y PREPS C this adaptation of Saeko Himuro’s bestselling novel all time in Japan and a film that helped redefine the possibilities of animation for from Japanese. K M is an accomplished teenage drama and a true discov- American audiences and a generation of new filmmakers. wandering through an aban- ery. (72 mins.) Not available in any North American home doned carnival site, 10-year-old Chichiro is separated from her parents and stumbles MAY 26 27 SAT 4:30 PM, SUN 7 PM viewing formats. into a dreamlike spirit world where she is put to work in a bathhouse for the gods, a WHISpER OF THE HEART place where all kinds of nonhuman beings come to refresh, relax, and recharge. Here JAPAN 1995 MAY 18 19 22 FRI 8:45 PM, SAT 7 PM, TUES 7 PM she encounters a vast menagerie of impossibly inventive characters—shape-shifting DirECTor: YoSHifUmi KonDo pORCO ROSSO phantoms and spirits, some friendly, some less so—and must find the inner strength wHiSPEr of THE HEArT is a gentle coming-of-age drama JAPAN 1992 to outsmart her captors and return to her family. Combining Japanese mythology with scripted, produced, and storyboarded by miyazaki and then DirECTor: HAYAo miYAZAKi THroUgH THE looKing glASS-type whimsy, SPiriTED AwAY cemented miyazaki’s rep- directed by Yoshifumi Kondo (later the animation director on This unsung miyazaki treasure nestles a tale of utation as an icon of inspired animation and wondrous, lyrical storytelling. (125 mins.) PrinCESS mononoKE), whom miyazaki hoped would introduce morality and identity inside a soaring airborne adven- new blood into his Studio ghibli. Adapted from the manga by ture—a tribute to early aviation and the reckless MAY 25 27 FRI 7 PM, SUN 2 PM Aoi Hiragi, the film tells the story of Shizuku, a shy student with flyboys whose home was the open sky. Set in a mid- pOM pOKO high school entrance exam worries and inchoate aspirations world war ii italy swept by fascism, the film follows JAPAN 1994 who meets a magical cat on a commuter bus and follows it to marco, a world-weary flying ace turned bounty hunter DirECTor: iSAo TAKAHATA a boutique where significant objects abound, each with a story who plies his trade above the waters of the Adriatic. in this brilliant and often overlooked Studio ghibli masterpiece, the forests are filled of its own. The story of a young girl finding her voice both Somewhere along the way a curse has transformed with groups of magical tanuki, mischievous raccoon-like animals from Japanese folk- literally and figuratively, “miyazaki’s script suggests that a marco’s head into that of a pig, reflecting his loss of lore that are capable of shape-shifting from their standard raccoon form to practically sense of magic can exist, even in everyday Tokyo.”—Charles faith in humanity. marco meets his polar opposite in any object. The tanuki spend their days playing idly in the hillsides and squabbling Solomon. (111 mins.) the innocent and energetic 17-year-old fio, an aspir- over food—until the construction of a huge new Tokyo suburb clears the nearby forest ing airplane designer, and the two are catapulted and threatens their way of life. in an effort to defend their home, the tanuki learn to into an airborne adventure pursued by air pirates, the transform into humans and start playing tricks to make the workers think the construc- italian army, and an egotistical American flying ace. tion site is haunted, ending in a spectacular night-time spirit parade, with thousands (94 mins.) of ghosts, dragons, and other magical creatures descending on the city. (119 mins.) Dubbed in English from Japanese. www.nwfilm.org 503-221-1156 MARCH/APRIL/MAY 2012 Northwest Film ceNter PAGE 25 M K C PREPS Y M K C PREPS Y M K C PREPS Y

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JUN 3 SUN 6:30 PM—VISITING ARTIST M K THE LONG SHADOW C PREPS Y (LA LUNGA OMBRA) itAlY/Us 2006 MAY 6 SUN 2 PM—VISITING ARTISTS MAY 31 THURS 7 PM—VISITING ARTIST DirECTor: Jon JoST ARTISTS IN LAST CHANTS FOR A SLOW DANCE “Three professional women go to the seaside, two of them to comfort CONVERSATION: (DEAD END) the other, who has been left by her husband. in the process of attempt- BLURRING BOUNDARIES Us 1977 ing to console, the other two are dragged into the maelstrom of her sadness. This work is more a tone poem than a narrative, in which the How are artists working across boundaries in DirECTor: Jon JoST real subject, the impact of 9/11 on European and italian intelligensia, film, video, animation, and sculpture to create A terminal “road movie,” lAST CHAnTS single-mindedly follows the path of its is never mentioned but lays in the background invisibly distorting the hybrid art practices? Today, an informed panel central character, Tom Bates, through an unspecified period of time as he talks characters. lA lUngA omBrA was made in five days in an improvised comes together to think out loud about the cur- to a hitchhiker and then throws him out of his truck, visits his wife and has a manner with no script whatsoever—only a vague thought to address rent landscape of experimental cinema/anima- fierce argument with her, talks to a man in a breakfast cafe, picks up a woman in the disquiet which pervades, a disturbance which works unacknowl- tion and the multiple ways that artists and col- a bar and has a one-night stand with her, leaves the woman, and finally, cruising edged and of which little is ever said.”—Jon Jost. (77 mins.) Jon Jost lectives are independently realizing ambitious in his truck on a backroad, pulls over to help a man with his broken-down car will introduce his film. He will also teach a workshop on digital produc- projects both large and small. The conversa- and, for a few dollars, shoots and kills the man. “lAST CHAnTS does what virtu- tion on June 2 and 3. See School of Film page 12 for details. tion is held in conjunction with the Portland ally no other film made in the US in the ’70s does—it exemplifies the possibility Art museum’s exhibition “John frame: Three of a radical alternative cinema, radical and alternative in economic, aesthetic, fragments of a lost Tale,” on view through and political terms—which does not inevitably condemn itself in advance to an SINGLE OR DOUBLE FEATURE WITH may 27. frame is a California-based sculptor avant-garde elitist or otherwise narrow audience.”—Jim Hillier. (90 mins.) Jon who since 2006 has been working towards Jost will introduce his film. He will also teach a workshop on digital production on June JUN 3 SUN 8:15 PM the creation of a stop-motion animated drama 2 and 3. See School of Film page 12 for details. IMAGES OF A LOST CITY featuring an eclectic cast of fully articulated itAlY 2011 characters composed of found materials and SINGLE OR DOUBLE FEATURE WITH DirECTor: Jon JoST meticulously carved wood. Joining frame in “imAgES is a portrait of an old area of lisbon, primarily the Alfama this discussion panel are rose Bond, artist MAY 31 THURS 9 PM—VISITING ARTIST but also other central areas—Castello Sao Jorge, graca, Bairro Alto, and elsewhere. it was shot in 1997-98, over the span of more than a and chair of the Contemporary Animated Arts pARABLE Department, PnCA; laura Heit, artist and pro- Us 2008 year. like those places, its pace is languid, and it wears the sense of fessor of Experimental Animation, Cal Arts; and DirECTor: Jon JoST ‘saudade’ (nostalgic longing for the lost) which defines lisbon and curators from Portland’s Cinema Project. (75 “PArABlE works on a visual and visceral level for which a synoptic summary is impos- Portugal. Having no narrative, it was in a sense difficult to edit—hence mins.) Co-presented with the portland Art Museum sible. it is a reflection of ‘The Time of Bush in America,’ a squalid period of corruption the long period between the shooting and the completion of it. Such and pNCA. Free with Museum admission. equal to our country’s worst, or, if possible, even the worst. The film tackles this era work requires a completely different sense of rhythm, time, attentive- with a mélange of genres typical of our culture, a culture which distills reality down to ness to ambient sound, and figuring out how to orchestrate it through

time without the easy hooks of ‘a story’ or some ‘topic.’”—Jon Jost. M K

MAY 29 TUES 7 PM—VISITING ARTIST cartoons and in which a trajectory from domestic melodrama leads axiomatically to Abu C PREPS Y BRIAN KELLOW ON ghraib. PArABlE is history as farce, an American tragedy limned by The flintstones (92 mins.) Jon Jost will introduce his film. He will also teach a workshop pAULINE KAEL: and The Simpsons, where seriousness has been subsumed by ‘reality TV’ and the on digital production on June 2 and 3. See School of Film page 12 for A LIFE IN THE DARK populace has been reduced to zombie-like consumers busy eating themselves.”—Jon details. Jost. (72 mins.) Jon Jost will introduce his film. He will also teach a workshop on digital Tonight we welcome opera news features edi- production on June 2 and 3. See School of Film page 12 for details. tor and author Brian Kellow. Kellow will discuss JUN 8 9 10 FRI 7 & 8:45 PM; SAT 5, 7, & 8:45 PM; SUN 3 & 5 PM and sign copies of his new biography, PAUlinE A CAT IN pARIS KAEl: A lifE in THE DArK, a richly detailed JUN 1 2 3 FRI 7 & 9 PM; SAT 5, 7, & 9 PM; SUN 4:30 PM FrANce 2011 look into the life of one of cinema’s legendary THE COLOR WHEEL DirECTorS: JEAn-loUP fEliCioli, AlAin gAgnol Us 2011 film critics and tastemakers. for movie lovers An enchanting fable about looking past appearances and cultivat- DirECTor: (not to mention critics) of a certain age, the ing unlikely loyalties in times of need, A CAT in PAriS turns the Topping indiewire’s 2011 Critics’ Poll of “Best Undistributed films” (since remedied), name Pauline Kael—who almost singlehand- streets of Paris into a delicately animated watercolor study. Dino, THE Color wHEEl—self-described as an “objectionable comedy about disappoint- edly raised film criticism to the level of popular a cat, lives a double life. By day he lives with Zoe, whose mother is ment and forgiveness”—introduces us to Jr just as her relationship with her profes- conversation, if not art—is a hallowed one. on a police detective; by night he sneaks out the window to work with sor has come to an unpleasant end. Jr calls on her sometimes brash, sometimes paper, her razor-sharp insights, endless wit, nico, a slinky cat burglar. Dino’s two worlds collide when he has bashful younger brother Colin (director Perry) to help her move out of the professor’s and willingness to take on sacred filmmaking to team up with nico to save Zoe from a team of bumbling thieves apartment, so the siblings pack into her ragged car for a road trip—only to rediscov- cows endeared her to millions of readers who plotting to steal the so-called Colossus of nairobi. A humorous love er why neither of them can stand the other. Along the way, they encounter a world full read her weekly column (from 1967 to 1991) in letter to classic noir films and the stylized wit of “Pink Panther” of people whose opinion of the duo is equally low. “Perry picks up the baton of shame The new Yorker and her many film collections. cartoons, children of all ages will root for the undercats in this droll and self-loathing from the novels of , mixes it with the films of Vincent gallo Kael reigned during a creative, halcyon period thriller, while the moody cityscape and cool retro jazz soundtrack and , and drives it down the psychosexual American highway, reveling in in American movies, and a rave from her was will appeal to their elders. nominated for Best Animated feature film awkwardness and embarrassment.”—Vancouver film festival. “A harsh, sarcastic strong enough to help kickstart the success of at the Academy Awards, french Cesar Awards, and European film twist to the intimate rivalry of siblings... Perry directs these uproarious rapid-fire Awards. (70 mins.) many a troubled or overlooked film. (80 mins.) flareups with exquisite comic timing and incisive comic framing.”—richard Brody, The new Yorker. (83 mins.) PAGE 26 Northwest Film ceNter MARCH/APRIL/MAY 2012 503-221-1156 www.nwfilm.org 31761 NW Film Center.p0001_impo Mar-01-2012 12:29 Sig:1-C Yellow Magenta Cyan Black M K C PREPS Y Y PREPS C K M 31761 NW Film Center.p0001_impo Mar-01-2012 12:29 Sig:1-B Yellow Magenta Cyan Black Y PREPS C K M Y PREPS C K M Y PREPS C K M

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$9 General SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT $8 PAM Members, Students, Seniors 7 PM 7 PM 7 PM 7 PM 4 5 ONLY A 6 7 8 PUSHER (P.3) 9 PUSHER (P.3) 10 PUSHER II: WITH BLOOD $6 Silver Screenfriends, children under 12 BUCK (P.22) 9 PM ON MY HANDS (P.3) PUSHER II: WITH 9 PM THE BOX OFFICE OPENS BLOOD ON MY HANDS PUSHER III: I’M THE 30 mins. before showtime. (P.3) ANGEL OF DEATH (P.3) ADVANCE TICKETS are available online at MARCH5 PM 7 PM 7 PM 7 PM 7 PM www.nwfilm.org 11 FEAR X (P.3) 12 13 14 FEAR X (P.3) 15 FADED: GIRLS + 16 VALHALLA RISING 17 DRIVE (P.3) SILVER SCREEN CLUB 7 PM BINGE DRINKING (P.3) 9 PM Directors, Producers, PUSHER III: I’M THE (P.22) 9 PM VALHALLA RISING (P.3) Benefactors & Sustainers ANGEL OF DEATH (P.3) BRONSON (P.3) receive free admission to all REGULAR ADMISSION programs. 5 PM 7 PM 7 PM 7 PM 18 BRONSON (P.3) 19 20 21 22 OPEN SCREENING 23 ROCCO AND HIS 24 ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS 7 PM (P.22) BROTHERS (P.6) (P.6) DRIVE (P.3) support the 4 PM 7 PM 7 PM 7 PM NW Film 25 ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS 26 27 28 29 RED DESERT (P.6) 30 RED DESERT (P.6) 31 RED DESERT (P.6) (P.6) Center! 7 PM 7 PM 7:30 PM 7 PM 4:30 PM

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2 PM 7 PM 7 PM 7 PM 7 PM 1 PM 6 ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION: 7 CYCLING MAY8 CASTLE IN 9 BOOK 10 11 KIKI’S DELIVERY 12 KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (P.24) BLURRING BOUNDARIES THROUGH THE SKY SIGNINg/ SERVICE (P.24) (P.26) CHINA (P.23) (P.24) SOUND ADVICE 4 PM 4:15 PM FROM KELLEY Only Yesterday (P.24) NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF BAKER (P.23) THE WIND (P.24) 7 PM 7 PM PRINCESS MONONOKE (P.24) MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (P.24) 1 PM 7 PM 7 PM 7 PM 7 PM 4:30 PM 13 KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE 14 PRINCESS 15 16 OPEN SCREEN- 17 INTER-ACTION: 18 OCEAN WAVES (P.25) 19 MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (P.24) MONONOKE ING (P.22) ANIMATED SHORTS (P.25) 4 PM (P.24) (P.23) 8:45 PM

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