Northwest Film Center April/May 2018 schedule

APRIL/MAY 2018 Japanese Currents New Czech Cinema Oscilloscope at Ten 2018 UCLA Festival of Preservation PLUS...

ANIMATED WORLDS: STOP-MOTION CLASSICS CASE OF THE MONDAYS FRIDAY FILM CLUB GENRIFIED! CULT & OTHER CURIOSITIES KID FLICKS NORTHWEST TRACKING SPECIAL SCREENINGS

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Before We Vanish

SPRING 2018 CLASSES & WORKSHOPS Hands-On Learning for Creatives & Community Members Adapting For the Screen

Turn a novel, short story, comic book, into a screenplay

Directing Intensive

Working with actors and leading a crew

Starts June 13 (5 days)

Documentary Production

Documentary as character-driven storytelling

Starts April 11 (9 weeks)

Starts April 12 (10 weeks)

Film Composing Studio

Arri Alexa Camera Operation

Starts May 5 (4 days)

Primer on our digital cinema rental camera

For musicians! Composing for the screen

April 14 (half day)

Music Video Production

Basic Lighting

Starts April 11 (9 weeks)

Use a light kit to create various effects

Create an energetic video for indie band Typhoon

April 21 (half day)

Screenwriting Fundamentals

Bolex Camera Operation

Starts April 10 (10 weeks)

Primer on our 16mm rental camera

Basics of dramatic scriptwriting

April 14 (half day)

Sound Recording

Character Animation Intensive

Starts April 26 (5 weeks)

Animate with the founder of Claymation

How to record high quality audio

Starts June 13 (5 days)

Super 8 Camera Operation

Digital Cinematography

April 21 (half day)

In-depth camera techniques

Film in the classic home movie format

Starts April 10 (9 weeks)

Super 8 Processing & Handling

Digital Editing: Final Cut Pro X

April 28 (half day)

The basics using professional software

Starts May 1 (4 weeks)

GENRIFIED! Cult & Other Curiosities

Hausu

Saturdays, 9:30 pm

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Hausu—April 7 Yakuza Apocalypse—April 21 The Untamed—May 5 All You Can Eat Buddha—May 19 The Love Witch—May 26

Friday Film Club

Le Quattro Volte

Fridays, 5:30 pm Post-film discussion Special $5 Admission featuring...

Le Quattro Volte—April 7 Umberto D.—May 4

The magic of analog and DIY processing

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2018 UCLA Festival of Preservation (UCLA)

Trouble in Paradise

The UCLA Film & Television Archive is, after the Library of Congress, the largest collection of media materials in the United States and among the premier film preservation institutions in the world.

The Archive’s annual preservation efforts—an ambitious, eclectic range of everything from lost silents to at-risk mid-century features, shorts, and documentaries—find new audiences in each year’s Festival of Preservation in Los Angeles and in the works selected for this touring program. A surprisefilled treasure trove sure to delight cinema lovers of many persuasions.

Full program notes from the 2018 Festival catalogue, available at nwfilm.org, include additional information about the films and complete restoration credits.

Japanese Currents (JC)

This year’s 11th annual Japanese Currents series highlights recent noteworthy Nipponese films, ranging from anime to jidaigeki, documentary to comedy, all while exploring issues important to contemporary Japanese society. Collectively, these selections offer a fresh take on Japanese culture and showcase the wealth of creative invention at work in Japan today.

All screenings have English subtitles.

Saturday, April 14, 7 pm Tokyo Idols, Japan, 2017

Sunday, April 1, 7 pm Trouble In Paradise, US, 1932

Tokyo schoolgirls vie for the attentions and adoration of their dedicated fan base of older men as they pursue dreams of becoming singers, dancers, and performers.

A playboy/thief and a pickpocket meet, fall in love and team up for the ultimate con in Lubitsch’s delightfully ironic, preCode romantic comedy set on the Riviera. Restored with funding from the George Lucas Family Foundation, the Film Foundation, and the International Animated Film Society.

dir: Kyoko Miyake (90 mins., documentary, DCP)

Friday, April 20, 7 pm Suffering of Ninko, Japan, 2016

dir. Norihiro Niwatsukino (70 mins., comedy/erotic fantasy, DCP)

Friday, April 6, 7 pm Parks, Japan, 2017

A Buddhist monk, living during the Edo period, whose vows of chastity are constantly tested due to his mere presence whipping up sexual desire in those around him.

Mature audiences.

Three young friends discover a reel-to-reel tape containing a fragment of a love song written and recorded in the 1960s and try to finish the song.

Saturday, April 21, 4:30 pm Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High, Japan, 2017

Saturday, April 7, 4:30 pm Neko Ninja, Japan, 2017

A riotous comedy only the Japanese film industry could produce, and a strangely addictive lesson in mass politics, played out at a boys-only high school.

As he takes on rival warriors, a ninja carries a cat that he believes to be his long gone, shape-shifting father.

dir. Natsuki Seta (118 mins., drama/comedy, DCP)

dir. Takeshi Watanabe (95 mins., comedy, DCP)

Saturday, April 7, 7 pm Before We Vanish, Japan, 2017

dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa (129 mins., sci-fi, DCP)

In Kurosawa's post-modern riff on The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a trio of extraterrestrials that have assumed human form robs the minds of Earthlings of basic concepts of life, paving the way for an invasion from beyond.

Wednesday, April 18, 7 pm Los Tallos Amargos, Argentina, 1956

Friday, April 27, 7 pm Antiporno, Japan, 2016

Director Compton stars in her radically progressive debut feature as a young woman traveling through Greece partaking in affairs and rejecting marriage offers for no other reason than because she wants to. Restored with funding from Century Arts Foundation.

dir: Sion Sono (76 mins., drama, DCP)

dir. Akira Kurosawa (180 mins., jidaigeki, 35mm)

Saturday, April 14, 4 pm Woman in the Dunes, Japan, 1964

dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara (123 mins., drama, 35mm)

In this Academy Award-nominated film, a young entomologist is forced to live and work with a strange widow who lives in a shack being swallowed up by sand.

Sponsored by Imperfect Produce.

Saturday, May 12, 2 pm The Short Adventures of Wallace and Gromit,

UK, 2008 Greek hero Jason and the crew of the Argo set out to recover dir. Nick Park (113 mins., stop-motion animation, DCP)

The classic tales of Beatrix Potter come to life with music performed by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera and dance performances by the Royal Ballet.

dir. Juleen Compton (90 mins., drama, 35mm)

double feature

Sunday, April 8, 6:45 pm The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean, US, 1966 Compton tells the story of a clairvoyant teenage girl exploited by a Beatles-esque boy band as part of a hoax revival.

Restored with funding from Century Arts Foundation.

Wednesday, April 11, 7 pm The Murder of Fred Hampton, US, 1971

dir. Howard Alk (88 mins., documentary, 35mm)

A portrait of the influential 20-year-old leader of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panthers, and offers a shocking exposé of a government conspiracy to eliminate radical activists.

Restored with funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation and the Packard Humanities Institute.

New Czech Cinema (NCC) Woman in the Dunes

dir. Reginald Mills (90 mins,. ballet film, DCP)

dir. William A. Seiter (65 mins. comedy, 35mm)

dir. Juleen Compton (82 mins., drama, 35mm)

One of Kurosawa’s most famous late works is a nearly unparalleled war epic, expansive in scope yet intimate in emotional resonance and visual beauty. Join us in the dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi (102 mins., animation/ Stevens room at 5:30 pm for an introduction to Japanese adventure/family, DCP) teas and a tasting, in collaboration with Jugetsudo A young girl is transported to a world of magic and Japanese tea company and the Consular Office of Japan adventure where she discovers a mysterious flower whose in Portland. seeds grant her powers beyond her wildest dreams.

Saturday, April 28, 2 pm Tales of Beatrix Potter, UK, 1971

dir. Martin Gabel (89 mins. drama, 35mm)

Sunday, April 8, 5 pm Stranded, US, 1965

Saturday, April 14, 1 pm Mary and the Witch's Flower, Japan, 2017

the legendary Golden Fleece in this mythological Greek epic brought to life by stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen.

Saturday, April 7, 2 pm Sons of the Desert, US, 1933

A defense attorney begins to doubt his client, an accused murderer, as the man's explanations for his deeds shift again and again.

dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda (125 mins., drama/thriller, DCP)

Saturday, April 28, 7 pm Kagemusha, Japan, 1980

dir. Don Chaffey (104 mins., adventure/fantasy, DCP)

In 1959, straight-laced professor Vivian (Helen Shaver) finds herself falling for a younger woman (Patricia Charbonneau).

He Walked By Night Digitally restored by the Criterion Collection/Janus Films and UCLA Film & Television Archive in conjunction with Outfest Sunday, April 15, 7 pm UCLA Legacy Project and Sundance Institute.

The Lost Moment, US, 1947

Saturday, April 21, 7 pm The Third Murder, Japan, 2017

Kiyohara’s debut feature is a shape-shifting ghost story following two pairs of women who live in the same house without knowledge of each other.

Sunday, April 15, 2 pm Jason and the Argonauts, UK/US, 1963

dir. Donna Deitch (96 mins., romance, DCP)

In what is generally regarded as comic duo Laurel & Hardy’s best feature, Stan & Ollie sneak off from their wives to attend a fraternal convention. Restored with funding from the George Lucas Family Foundation, the Film Foundation, and the Packard Humanities Institute.

A woman’s oscillating meta-identities pointedly critique the Roman Porno genre and leave the viewer with questions about the nature of sexuality in and on film in Japan.

Kid Flicks (KF)

Wednesday, April 4, 7 pm Desert Hearts, US, 1985

An unscrupulous publisher (Robert Cummings) pursues the love letters of a Romantic poet guarded by a zealous centenarian (Agnes Moorehead) in her crumbling Venetian palazzo. Adapted from Henry James, The Lost Moment is Hollywood gothic at its finest. Preceded by Slavko Vorkapich and John Hoffman’s documentary Moods of the Sea (1941, 10 min.) Restored with funding from the Packard Humanities Institute and the National Film Preservation Foundation.

dir. Akira Nagai (118 mins., comedy, DCP)

Friday, April 13, 8 pm Our House, Japan, 2017

dir. Yui Kiyohara (80 mins., comedy, DCP)

Los Tallos Amargos

dir. Ernst Lubitsch (83 mins., romantic comedy, 35mm)

The outsized adventures of stodgy inventor/cheese enthusiast Wallace and his faithful and intellectually superior canine companion Gromit.

Saturday, May 19, 2 pm The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, UK/US, 1958

dir. Nathan Juran (88 mins., fantasy adventure, DCP)

When an evil sorcerer shrinks his bride-to-be, Sinbad must retrieve a magic lamp that will restore her, but it’s on an island home to formidable monsters that must be vanquished.

The Northwest Film Center is a regional media arts resource and service organization founded to encourage the study, appreciation and utilization of the moving image arts; to foster their artistic and professional excellence; and to help build a climate in which they flourish.

The Northwest Film Center is funded in part by the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, Henry H. Hillman Jr. Foundation, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Oregon Arts Commission, The Ted R. Gamble Film Fund, the Citizens of Portland through the Arts and Education Access Fund, and the support of numerous sponsors, members, and friends.

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The legacy of the Czech New Wave still resonates in a new generation of cinematic voices offering distinctive takes on diverse genres and Czech culture.

The sixth edition of the nationally touring program “Czech That Film” is organized by the Czech Center, New York; Consulate General of the Czech Republic, Los Angeles; Honorary Consul of the Czech Republic, Portland; Czech Society of Oregon; ELELEVEL, Jelínek, Milk & Honey Films and Prague Studios.

All screenings have English subtitles.

Friday, May 11, 7 pm Barefoot, Czech Republic, 2017

dir. Jan Svěrák (111 mins., comedy/drama, DCP)

This nostalgic coming-of-age story, set during the waning years of World War II, follows eight-year-old Eda, who relocates with his family from Prague to the small village of Slavonice.

dir. Fernando Ayala (88 mins., drama, 35mm)

With beautiful cinematography, Ayala cuts between dreams and a noirish reality to plumb the dark psyche of a journalist tortured by his conscience after he commits murder.

Restored with funding from Film Noir Foundation.

Sunday, April 22, 6:30 pm He Walked By Night, US, 1948

dir. Alfred Werker (79 mins., drama, 35mm)

This documentary-style noir thriller tells the converging narratives of a psychotically cunning cop killer and detectives hunting him through—and under—the streets of Los Angeles.

Restored with funding from the Packard Humanities Institute. double feature

Sunday, April 22, 8 pm Open Secret, US, 1948

dir. John Reinhardt (68 mins., drama, 35mm)

This recently rediscovered gem confronts post-war antiSemitism, couched in the language of film noir, when a newly married couple stumbles upon a secretive hate group in America. Restored with funding from the George Lucas Family Foundation and the Film Foundation.

Saturday, May 12, 7:30 pm Ice Mother, Czech Republic/France/Slovakia, 2017

dir. Bohdan Sláma (106 mins., comedy/drama/romance, DCP) A lonely widow’s world opens up to new possibilities when she joins a team of ice swimmers. Best Film, PIFF 2018.

Sunday, May 13, 4:30 pm Milada, Czech Republic, 2017

dir. David Mrnka (126 mins., historical drama, DCP)

Milada Horáková, a heroine fighting for democracy survived imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps only to be arrested and executed by the Communists in 1950.

Sunday, May 13, 7:30 pm The Quartette, Czech Republic, 2017

dir. Miroslav Krobot (93 mins., comedy/drama, DCP)

Four very different string players in a small Czech town find themselves with awkward misunderstandings and sexual tensions that threaten to pull them apart.

Saturday, May 12, 4:30 pm Accumulator 1, Czech Republic, 1994

dir. Jan Svěrák (102 , mins., comedy/sci-fi fantasy, DCP)

Olda, who lives life vicariously watching television, discovers that he has a vampiric “alter ego” in a parallel universe inside his TV that drains his energy as he watches.

Barefoot

Oscilloscope at Ten (O10)

Foreign and independent film distribution is a perilous business, surviving as it does in the space between art and commerce. Most companies don’t make it for long, so it is worth a moment of celebration to salute Oscilloscope Pictures, which over the last decade has brought nearly 100 American and foreign films to American screens, introduced nearly as many filmmakers to new audiences, and found success with interesting, adventurous choices. This year’s Portland International Film Festival featured three of their films—Summer 1993, Polina, and Beauty and the Dogs—and here we present seven more that hint at a library worth exploring. Here’s to another decade of success.

Friday, May 4, 8 pm Kedi, Turkey/US, 2016

dir. Ceyda Torun (80 mins., documentary, DCP)

Cats (“kedi”) have an exalted status in Turkish culture, and caring for them is a social and religious obligation, if not a pleasure.

Sunday, May 6, 7 pm Embrace of the Serpent, Colombia, 2015

Animated Worlds: Stop-Motion Classics (AW)

Wednesday, May 16, 7 pm Wendy & Lucy, US, 2008

dir. Kelly Reichardt (80 mins., drama, DCP)

In conjunction with Animating Life: the Art, Science and Wonder of LAIKA, on view at the Portland Art Museum through May 20, some of the classics of the genre. Free with admission to the Museum.

A young woman, and her beloved dog, finds herself in economic crisis in a small Oregon town.

Saturday, May 19, 7 pm Lost In Paris, France/Belgium, 2016

dirs. Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon (84 mins., comedy, DCP)

Sunday, April 1, 4:30 pm The Flying Sneaker, Canada/Czechoslavakia, 1990

A hapless Canadian librarian on her first trip to Paris encounters an avalanche of spectacular disasters in this warm tribute to slapstick comedy.

dir. Bretislav Pojar (94 mins., stop-motion animation, Beta SP)

Sunday, May 20, 7 pm Brimstone and Glory, Mexico, 2017

A lonely little boy learns about the beauty of doing for himself—after a fairy grants him his wishes—in this charming tale of growth and the joys and pains of love.

Ritual, danger and the absolute beauty of fireworks—the National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico.

Sunday, April 8, 2 pm The Short Films of the Brothers Quay, UK,

dir. Viktor Jakovleski (77 mins., documentary, DCP)

Saturday, May 26, 9:30 pm The Love Witch, US, 2016

dir. Anna Biller (120 mins., horror comedy, DCP)

A modern-day witch uses magic to get men to fall in love with her, in a vivid tribute to '60s Technicolor thrillers.

Guerra weaves parallel journeys set decades apart between a lone Amazonian shaman and Western scientists in search of ancestral knowledge deep into the Amazon.

Greek hero Jason and the crew of the Argo set out to recover the legendary Golden Fleece in this mythological epic brought to life by stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen.

Sunday, April 22, 4:30 pm Indie Visions In Stop Motion

dir. Ron Fricke (102 mins., documentary, DCP)

Various dirs. (80 mins., animation, digital) Kedi Riddles of the Sphinx

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Sunday, May 6, 4:30 pm The Fabulous World of Jules Verne, Czechoslovakia, 1958 dir. Karel Zeman (84 mins., live action and animation)

featuring...

Rancho Notorious—April 9 • The Gold Diggers—April 16 Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach —April 23 Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival—April 30 All That Heaven Allows—May 7 • Riddles of the Sphinx—May 14 Memories of Underdevelopment —May 21

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Special Screenings (SS)

dir. Jody Lee Lipes, Henry Joost (61 mins., performance documentary/performance, DCP)

New York City Ballet soloists Ellen Bar and Sean Suozzi reimagined Jerome Robbins’s 1958 “ballet in sneakers,” a companion piece to his legendary West Side Story. with

Never Stand Still: Dancing At Jacob’s Pillow, US, 2005 dir. Ron Honsa (74 mins., documentary, DCP)

Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Suzanne Farrell, Mark Morris, Judith Jamison, Bill Irwin, and other dancers and choreographers share their views of contemporary dance.

Saturday, April 21, 1 pm héroes magníficos

Oregon Latino Oral History Project, Oregon, 2017 Various directors (140 mins., documentary, HD)

Co-produced by Teatro Milagro and the Northwest Film Center. emerging Latino filmmakers have captured the stories of three of Oregon’s most celebrated Latino community leaders: Maria Caballero-Rubio, Gale Castillo, and Jose Romero. In English.

Saturday, May 5, 1 pm voices in action

Human Flow, Germany, 2017

Friday, May 18, 7 pm Portland Reel Abilities Film Festival

Organized by frequent BodyVox collaborator and Ohio State University Department of Dance professor Mitchell Rose, Dance@30FPS is a vibrant selection of recent works born of the marriage between dancer and filmmaker.

dir. Nick Park (113 mins., stop-motion animation, DCP) The outsized adventures of stodgy inventor/cheese enthusiast Wallace and his faithful and intellectually superior canine companion Gromit.

Sunday, May 20, 2 pm The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, UK/US, 1958

dir. Nathan Juran (88 mins., fantasy adventure, DCP) When an evil sorcerer shrinks his bride-to-be, Sinbad must retrieve a magic lamp that will restore her, but it’s on an island home to formidable monsters.

Northwest Tracking (NWT)

Northwest Tracking programs showcase the work of independent filmmakers living and working in the Northwest—Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

All screenings will feature a visiting artist

Tuesday, April 10, 7 pm Measure 11: The Law & Its Consequences, Portland, 1997 dir. Various (11 mins., documentary, DVD)

Students, led by Northwest Film Center Filmmakerin-residence Brian Lindstrom, explore the then newly enacted Measure 11, the State of Oregon’s law requiring mandatory sentencing for youth offenders. followed by

Perception: From Prison to Purpose,

Portland, 2017 dir. Garrett Guinn (40 mins., documentary, DCP)

Noah Schultz was arrested for attempted murder, sentenced to seven years in prison, and then turned his life around to graduate from college, write about his experience, and become a prison reform activist. Copresented with the Oregon Justice Resource Center.

Thursday, April 19, 7 pm Emotions, Life & the Collective Unconscious: Films by Jennifer Hardacker, Oregon, 1998– 2008

dir. Jennifer Hardacker (60 mins, experimental, 16mm and digital)

Hardacker’s films weave together pointed sound design, animation, video projection, and images shot on 16mm and video. Reception at 6 pm.

Thursday April 26, 7 pm Essays of a City, Oregon, 2018

dir. Stuart Eagon (85 mins., documentary, DCP)

Shot on super 16mm, Eagon’s black and white love letter to cinema and place is constructed of three parts, each framing an urban landscape. Reception at 6 pm.

Wednesday, May 2, 7 pm Mark Rothko, Portland, 2018

dir. Eric Cain (30 mins., documentary, DCP)

Produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Oregon Art Beat, Mark Rothko explores the legacy one of America’s most celebrated post-war painters. Free admission.

Thursday May 3, 7pm Thank You For Supporting The Arts, Oregon,

2017 dirs. W. Alexander Jones and Carolann Stoney (90 mins., documentary, DCP)

Liv Osthus (a.k.a. Viva Las Vegas) is one of the best-known artists working in Portland’s adult entertainment industry, is the daughter of a preacher, a published author, musician, breast cancer survivor, mother, and sex worker activist.

Thursday May 10, 7 pm The Cage Fighter, Washington, 2017

dir. Jeff Unay (81 mins., documentary, DCP)

Saturday, May 5, 6 pm Northwest Film Center Student Screening

The program includes Persecuta, The Lombard Twins, (Argentina); Ghost Story, Sarah Elgart (US); The Yellow Room, Kitty McNamee (US); and many more gems.

Various dir.

Sunday, May 13, 2 pm The Short Adventures of Wallace and Gromit, UK, 2008

Artist-activist Ai Weiwei filmed in 40 refugee camps in 23 countries to make this epic and empathetic chronicle of the staggering breadth of the global refugee crisis.

Thursday, April 12, 7:30 pm @ Bodyvox Saturday, April 14, 7:30 pm @ Bodyvox Dancing Over Borders

Friday, April 13, 7:30 pm @ Bodyvox Saturday, April 14, 4 pm @ Bodyvox Dance@30fps

A dazzling blend of live action and cut-out and puppet animation, its set pieces grow more astounding scene by scene as we dive into Verne’s fabulous world of flying machines, submarines, and mysterious creatures.

dir. Ai Weiwei (140 mins., documentary, DCP)

Celebrate short films created by our students during Winter Term 2018, including work from Art of Filmmaking I and II, Stop-Motion Animation, and live scene reads from our screenwriters. Reception to follow. A great opportunity to meet student filmmakers and our instructors. Free and open to the public!

Various dir.

Sunday, April 29, 2 pm The Tale of the Fox, France, 1929–30

Starewitch’s masterpiece follows the exploits of a devious fox who outwits his contemporaries—a blackbird, a wolf, and a rabbit—but angers the King.

Classic films and cuttingedge new work to get you moving into the week

Thursday, April 12, 7 pm @ NWFC Saturday, April 14, 9:15 pm @ NWFC NY Export: Opus Jazz, US, 2010

Portland visual artist and animator Rose Bond has selected this program of innovative short films by independent animators from throughout the world.

dir. Ladislas Starewitch (65 mins., stop-motion animation, DCP)

Mondays, 7 pm

The Northwest Film Center and BodyVox present our third Contact Dance Film Festival, featuring awardwinning collaborations between filmmakers, dancers, and choreographers and insightful contemporary dance documentaries.

The tiny sets of these masters of miniaturization create an unforgettable world, suggestive of a landscape of long-repressed childhood dreams.

dir. Don Chaffey (104 mins., adventure/fantasy, DCP)

Wednesday, May 9, 7 pm Samsara, US, 2011

Contact Dance

1984–2000 dirs. Stephen and Timothy Quay (80 mins., stopmotion animation, DCP)

Sunday, April 15, 2 pm Jason and the Argonauts, UK/US, 1963

dir. Ciro Guerra (125 mins. drama, DCP)

Filmed in 70mm over nearly five years in 25 countries, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and spectacular natural wonders.

Thank You For Supporting the Arts

The Flying Sneaker

Joe Carman is a 39-year-old mixed martial arts fighter, works in the boiler room of a ferry, and has four daughters, an angry ex-wife, an alcoholic father, and the threat of brain damage. Co-presented with Northwest Documentary. Reception at 6 pm.

Thursday May 17, 7 pm High Plains Films, Montana 2002–18

dirs. Doug Hawes-Davis, Drury Gunn Carr (89 mins., documentary, digital)

Co-founder of the Montana nonprofit film collective High Plains Films and the Big Sky Documentary Festival, filmmaker Doug Hawes-Davis present their ecological and social-themed documentaries.

The Real Abilities Film Festival is a national touring showcase promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories, and artistic expressions of people with different abilities, and a celebration of the diversity of our shared human experience.

The Film Center is pleased to partner with Disability Art and Culture Project, a Portland nonprofit dedicated to furthering the artistic expression of people with both apparent and nonapparent disabilities, in presenting a screening in this year’s Portland Reel Abilities program. Program details can be found at nwfilm.org or portland.reelabilitieslegacy.org.

Thursday, May 31, 7 pm White Ravens, Washington, 2018

dir. Georg Koszulinski (85 mins., documentary, DCP)

NY Export: Opus Jazz

The island of Haida Gwaii, off the coast of British Columbia, is home to the native Haida people, who have survived Western incursion and cultural genocide.

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2 pm Sons of the Desert (UCLA) 4:30 pm Neko Ninja (JC) 7 pm Before We Vanish (JC)

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2 pm The Short Films of the Brothers Quay (AW) 5 pm Stranded

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2 pm Jason and the Argonauts (AW) 7 pm The Lost Moment (UCLA)

7 pm The Gold Diggers (M)

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6:45 pm The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean (UCLA)

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7 pm Measure 11: The Law & 7 pm The Murder of Fred Its Consequences followed Hampton (UCLA)

by Perception: From Prison to Purpose (NWT)

7 pm NY Export: Opus Jazz with Never Stand Still: Dancing at Jacob's Pillow (SS) 7:30 pm @ Bodyvox Dancing over Borders (SS)

5:30 pm Le Quattro Volte (FFC) 7:30 pm @ Bodyvox Dance@30fps (SS) 8 pm Our House (JC)

1 pm Mary and the Witch's Flower (JC) 4 pm @ Bodyvox Dance@30fps (SS) 4 pm Woman in the Dunes (JC) 7 pm Tokyo Idols (JC) 7:30 pm @ Bodyvox Dancing over Borders (SS) 9:15 pm NY Export: Opus Jazz with Never Stand Still: Dancing at Jacob's Pillow (SS)

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7 pm Los Tallos Amargos (UCLA)

7 pm Emotions, Life & the 7 pm Suffering of Ninko (JC) Collective Unconscious: Films

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1 pm Oregon Latino Oral History Project (SS) 4:30 pm Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High (JC) 7 pm The Third Murder (JC) 9:30 pm Yakuza Apocalypse (G!)

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4:30 pm Indie Visions In Stop 7 pm Chronicle of Anna Motion (AW) Magdelena Bach (M) 6:30 pm He Walked By Night

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7 pm Essays of a City (NWT)

7 pm Antiporno (JC)

2 pm Tales of Beatrix Potter (KF) 7 pm Kagemusha (JC)

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7 pm Mark Rothko (NWT)

7 pm Thank You for Supporting The Arts (NWT)

5:30 pm Umberto D. (FFC) 8 pm Kedi (O10)

1 pm Human Flow (SS) 6 pm Northwest Film Center Student Screening (SS) 9:30 pm The Untamed (G!)

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4:30 pm The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (AW) 7 pm Embrace the Serpment (O10)

7 pm All That Heaven Allows (M)

7 pm Samsara (O10)

7 pm The Cage Fighter (NWT)

7 pm Barefoot (NCC)

2 pm The Short Adventures of Wallace and Gromit (KF) 4:30 pm Accumulator 1 (NCC)

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preview: RBG (2018)

7:30 pm Ice Mother (NCC)

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2 pm The Short Adventures 7 pm Riddles of the Sphinx of Wallace and Gromit (AW) (M) 4:30 pm Milada (NCC) 7:30 pm The Quartette (NCC)

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2 pm The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (AW) 7 pm Brimstone and Glory (O10)

7 pm Memories of Underdevelopment (M)

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7 pm Wendy & Lucy (O10)

7 pm High Plains Films (NWT)

7 pm Portland Reel Abilities Film Festival (SS)

2 pm The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (KF) 7 pm Lost in Paris (O10) 9:30 pm All You Can Eat Buddha (G!)

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7 pm White Ravens (NWT)

COMING THIS SUMMER Ingmar Bergman Centennial Portland Jewish Film Festival: June 10-24 Top Down: Rooftop Cinema

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5 03-221-115 6 • Visit nwf ilm.org f or t he screening schedule, d e s c ript io n s, an d t raile rs.