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PAGE 02 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 valhalla RISING bRONSON lIla The POll DIaRIeS 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 PUSHER 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.”—David Edelstein, 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.