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  • 1969: Birthyear of the internet

    From BoingBoing.com: September 2, 1969: Forty years ago today, in Leonard Kleinrock’s UCLA lab, a group of computer scientists managed to pass bits of data from one computer to another over some some gray cable. In doing so, they created the first node of what we now call (long dramatic pause)… [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2009, 7:59am EDT
    by Ryan

  • MELVIN VAN PEEBLES IS HERE ON MONDAY!

    We’re pleased to welcome the great Melvin Van Peebles to our space this week where he’ll teach a master class and introduce his latest feature. Seriously people this is the master class of a lifetime and it’ll only happen just this once. One of America’s true mavericks, Van Peebles says [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 2:47pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Washington Grown at the Grand Illusion this weekend

    This week, The Grand Illusion Cinema begins a three-week long festival of local film with WASHINGTON GROWN. Blue-Tarp Campers, Roadside Wood Carvers and truly Northwest filmmakers: welcome to Washington! For the last several months, the staff of The Grand Illusion Cinema has been sifting through a spectacular amount of amazing [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 10:18am EDT
    by Ryan

  • “Something to Hold Onto” at Bumbershoot

    Something to Hold Onto, a documentary film made in workshop at the 2008 Children’s Film Festival Seattle, will be screened at Bumbershoot’s 1 Reel Film Festival on Monday! Meet a group of amazing young kids who tell the stories of the ragged and much-loved stuffed animals and dolls that have accompanied [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 4:49pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • In The Line Of Fire: RIP Christian Poveda

    I just received some very sad news from our friends at Wide Management about Christian Poveda, who was shot dead last night in El Salvador. His latest film LA VIDA LOCA is about the Maras, groups of youngsters who have modeled themselves on the Los Angeles youth gangs. They are [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 11:35am EDT
    by Adam

  • Local Sightings 2009 Poster Art

    Designed by festival director Dave Hanagan. [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 10:46am EDT
    by Ryan

  • MILESTONES

    “For its 40th anniversary, La quinzaine des réalisateurs organizes a special screening of Milestones, by Robert Kramer and John Douglas.This master piece is the third chapter of Kramer’s “American trilogy”. Shot in 1975 on 16mm, Milestones is a long journey through the United States during the 70’s, the picture of [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 4:00pm EDT
    by Adam

  • TIFF Excitement From NWFF Member Glenn Fox

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    Today we received this very excited email from our member Glenn Fox who will be attending the Toronto International Film Festival(TIFF) this year. Glenn will be acting as a de facto Hot Splice reporter this year, with this preview and a promise of a post-festival report as well. Here’s Glenn’s [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 5:19pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Seattle Magazine features Bao Tran

    Here’s a nice profile, well-timed as a lead up to the 12th Annual Local Sightings Film Festival (October 3-8), since Bao had an awesome short in last year’s fest, Bookie. Fall Arts Spotlight: Filmmaker Bao Tran By Brangien Davis Buzz up! // Filmmaker [...] [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 2:36pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • An Interview With Ink Director Jamin Winans

    Came across this interview with the director of INK which we screen tomorrow and Sunday. The film is something like DONNIE DARKO dipped into a corporate greed blender. A great genre film that we hope you’ll enjoy. Tuesday, January 20, 2009 Interview with ‘Ink’ Filmmaker Jamin Winans Jamin Winans has just completed [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 11:15am EDT
    by Adam

  • Viva VHS! Artwork

    Event details here. Poster designed by Marc “swellzombie” Palm. [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2009, 10:27am EDT
    by Ryan

  • NY Times’ Slide Show on 1969

    A pretty good slide show of the whole year of 1969 is up on The New York Times’s website now. Prompted by the anniversary of today’s moon landing, the slides capture most of the moments and highlights you would expect, though you might not have known before that all these [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2009, 8:22am EDT
    by Lyall Bush

  • Mark Cuban Cleared… For Now

    The lawsuit against Landmark Cinema owner Mark Cuban has been dropped. the SEC is weighing its options, “We are reviewing the court’s ruling and weighing our options,” Scott Friestad, associate director of the S.E.C.’s division of enforcement, said in a statement on Friday afternoon. Here’s the full word from the NY [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2009, 12:58pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Objectified to Return August 14!

    Good news, Seattle-based procrastinators: Objectified will return to Northwest Film Forum August 14th for a weekend engagement. Audiences have bee coming out en masse and tonights screening is nearly sold out! Glad we’re able to bring it back. We’ll post a ticket link once we have it. [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 2:17pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Original 1969 reviews of “Downhill Racer”

    For me, Robert Redford has become one of those actors whose off-screen persona has come to dominate his on-screen one. Similar to how I feel about Vincent Gallo, Redford’s films have a vanity project feel to them for me, and he never feels truly lost in the parts he plays, [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 11:11am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Original 1969 reviews of “Camille 2000″

    Best bit: “There’s nothing straight about this updated account of the amorous trials of the lady of the camellias, which undoubtedly would give the lovers of the standard Dumas and Verdi’s ‘La Traviata’ the megrims. But it should be a treat for every red-blooded voyeur and admirers of plastic decor, [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 10:55am EDT
    by Ryan

  • The film that spawned Sundance

    “Although Redford had been one of Hollywood’s leading box-office earners for a decade, when he looked around him at the end of the 1970s, he didn’t like what he saw. A decade earlier, the studios had been so desperate that directors like Scorsese and Robert Altman, who would have been [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 10:30am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Space Highway 69 Revisited

    July 20, 1969 took one small step into the final frontier with the landing of the Apollo Mission on the moon and Neil Artmstrong’s first steps. The New York Times has assembled a min-retrospective of their own, featuring articles, voices, and images from those who experienced the moon landing first [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 1:40pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Photos from the Volunteer Appreciation BBQ

    At our Flickr page. [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 12:35pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Humpday opens strong!

    Humpday is closing out its opening weekend with a per screen average (it is playing in only Seattle and New York City right now) of $14,500. Just to compare with other “indies” open right now, Moon had an opening weekend with a $17,600 per screen average (in 8 theaters), the Michelle [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2009, 9:55am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Now is the time to join your favorite arts organization

    This just in from WA State Arts Commission… Now’s the time to pony up and support what you love in Washington state! July 1 begins a new fiscal year for WSAC and the budget realities here aren’t good. Our state funding is down 26%, requiring the Commission to make tough choices to [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2009, 3:12pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Little Dizzle screening in Montreal, LA and New York

    Spread the word to your friends and relations in the Montreal, Los Angeles and New York City areas! Here’s The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle’s current summer screening slate: July 13 Fantasia Film Festival Montreal July 22 92Y Tribeca New York City August 12-22 (exact time TBA) Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles Find out more about the film here, and [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2009, 9:45am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Thank You, Chef

    Within the first ten minutes of the documentary Pressure Cooker, opening Friday at NWFF, I was a little bit in love with all four of its leading characters: a cranky yet caring high school Culinary Arts teacher and three of her best students, all struggling to escape their working class [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2009, 10:07pm EDT
    by Pam Inglesby

  • Play It Gay

    Before you get you gay cinema on this weekend at screenings of Lynn Shelton’s HUMPDAY in which Josh Leonard and Mark Duplass play it gay, or at BRUNO where Sacha Baron Cohen also plays it gay, check out our screening of the little known 1969 gem, GAY DECEIVERS.  With the [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 6:49pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Last chance to enter the Northwest Screenplay Competition

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    Today is the last day to enter the NW Screenplay Competition (unless you are registered with WithoutABox)! The NWSC has bounced around from home to home the past couple years, and was run by NWFF for a few rounds before finding a happy resting place with the NW Screenwriter’s Guild. [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 10:43am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Come out for HUMPDAY

    This just in from Team Humpday: The day has come at last…HUMPDAY, (aka “The Little Film That Could”) is opening theatrically this coming Friday July 10th! Its theatrical run starts in two cities on that date: NYC (at the Angelika Film Center) and in SEATTLE (at the Harvard Exit) and will roll [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 9:49am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Lynn Shelton in NY Times

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    This morning’s New York Times features a glowing portrait of Ms. Lynn Shelton. [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 11:27am EDT
    by Lyall Bush

  • The TIFF/NYFF buzz builds

    Someone sent me this blog post from the web site “The Playlist,” and I find all the conjecture and excitement infectious, so I’m going to share: 7/01/2009 More Fall Film Festival Speculation/Predix: Venice, Telluride & NYFF Alright, we already made our 2009 Toronto International Film Festival predix and then people asked, what [...]
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    Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:29am EDT
    by Ryan

  • July 4 with Jean-Luc Godard

    What better time to see the Seattle theatrical premiere of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1966 Made in USA than over July 4 weekend? Here’s what the critics are saying: “The Wire: Jean-Luc Godard’s Made in U.S.A. is not the celluloid holy grail, but it’s close enough…Made in U.S.A. is anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist, decrying miniskirts [...]
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    Posted: July 03, 2009, 10:14am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Another late addition to the calendar

    In addition to the Michael Jackson Tribute, we’ve also added a special late-night program: Family: A Webisodic Program Terisa Greenan, Seattle actress and filmmaker, has created Family, a comic web series on the topic of polyamory. Family is an episodic tale of alternative love. Set in Seattle, the show follows the lives [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 12:13pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • “I like the way he pops!” Michael Jackson Tribute

    In 1983, outside of the Los Angeles location shooting of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video, interviewers asked many among the throngs of young fans who’d shown up why they liked Michael Jackson so much. For the most part, the girls thought he was dreamy and the guys though he was [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 2:22am EDT
    by Peter Lucas

  • Keep in touch

    Did you know there are several ways to keep up-to-date with everything happening at NWFF? By Mail NWFF members get our printed quarterly calendar delivered to their home every quarter! For information on becoming a member and receiving our printed calendars every quarter, please click here. By Email Sign up for the NWFF DIGEST, [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 4:21pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Tonight and Tomorrow

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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 12:15pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Bjork this weekend

    Don’t forget! [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 12:26pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Bergman’s House and Belongings Auctioned Off

    Cineuropa has the story: Ingmar Bergman’s iconic home on the Baltic island of Färö and some of his personal belongings (including the famous magic lantern) are up for auction, in accordance to the Swedish legendary filmmaker’s last wishes. “This is my wish and no discussion or emotional tumult must come as a [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 11:38am EDT
    by Adam

  • Amin Maher, Actor in Abass Kiarostami’s “Ten” and Son of Mania Akbari Arrested

    This email just came across my desk from a colleague in Iran: Amin Maher, the actor in Abass Kiarostami’s movie “Ten” and son of Mania Akbari artist and director got arrested. Mania states:” It was Tuesday around ten in the evening, when I first heard of my son’s arrest. I got [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 10:29am EDT
    by Adam

  • Original 1969 reviews of “Duet for Cannibals”

    It was tough to find any straightforward reviews of Susan Sontag’s directorial debut, but there was certainly a lot written about the film in 1969. Here’s an interesting article in the NY Times previewing the film, and discussing it’s creation (click for a bigger image): The film itself is discussed in [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 10:14am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Toronto Unveils 26 Titles

    Toronto International Film Festival began disclosing its line-up today. As usual a number of titles perk my interest including new titles from Manoel de Oliveira, Alain Resnais, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Tsai Ming-liang, Hong Sang-soo, Corneliu Porumboiu, and Elia Suleiman. Here’s the announced line-up thus far. Masters Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl Manoel de [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 9:01am EDT
    by Adam

  • For Those Who Saw Rembrandt’s J’Accuse

    Can I recommend The New York Times piece today on Peter Greenaway’s series “Nine Classical Paintings Revisited”, a part of which Rembrandt’s J’Accuse screened this past weekend as part of SIFF’s best-of-the-fest. [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 8:32am EDT
    by Adam

  • Announcing “Live at the Film Forum”

    Northwest Film Forum proudly announces “Live at the Film Forum,” a season of collaborative art performances! Live at the Film Forum brings together artists from a variety of backgrounds, including dance, performance art, music and animation to create new work integrating the art of cinema “Live at the Film Forum” is a [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2009, 12:09pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Original 1969 review of “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice”

    Bob & Carol was one of several late 60s movies to tackle issues related to the “sexual revolution.” (My Night at Maud’s, which plays with Bob & Carol, also explores the subject.) Here’s a review from Film Quarterly that notes the interesting style in which the film was made and [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2009, 11:42am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Original 1969 reviews of “irresistible” My Night at Maud’s

    This one by Vincent Canby predicts My Night At Maud’s will “prove irresistible.” He even dared to call the film “civilized!” (but added a qualifier, of course). Full text here (click for larger image): As Canby mentions, Maud’s is the first of Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales to be released in the [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2009, 11:34am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Allan King Dead at 79

    One of the filmmakers who convinced me that the Canadian film industry deserves way more respect then it gets abroad was filmmaker Alan King, who over the weekend died of a brain tumor at the age of 79. A couple years back we featured King in our series on the [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2009, 10:53am EDT
    by Adam

  • “Little Dizzle” scheduled for encore in “Best of SIFF” series

    David Russo’s “The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle” will be back for a Seattle encore screening as part of SIFF’s “Best of SIFF” series. The film will screen June 21 at 8:30pm at SIFF Cinema. “Best of SIFF” gives audiences a chance to see the audience favorites that they might [...]
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    Posted: June 15, 2009, 9:17pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Filmmaker James Longley Temporarily Detained in Iran

    Just got this email about Iraq In Fragments filmmaker James Longley: Academy-Award nominated documentary filmmaker (Iraq In Fragments), James Longley, has been working on a film in Iran. Recently James traveled to Tehran to cover the elections. On the day after the elections (Sunday), James was detained and then later released. [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2009, 6:39pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Seattle Times calls Know Your Mushrooms “delicious”

    Movies | “Know Your Mushrooms”: A delicious exploration | Seattle Times Newspaper Shared via AddThis Know Your Mushrooms is at NWFF this week – June 13-18 [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2009, 11:45am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Spend your summer at NWFF

    Looking for an internship this summer? Why not learn the ins and outs of an arts non profit, help great movies get made and seen in Seattle, meet fellow film lovers and makers, and see free movies? NWFF is seeking an administrative intern for Summer 2009. This is as hands-on as [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2009, 11:59am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Great reviews for IN A DREAM

    Including this one from The Stranger: * In a Dream 80 min. | Dir. Jeremiah Zagar | Rated NR I’m going to be honest. The idea of a documentary about a septuagenarian artist who creates mosaic murals around his Philadelphia neighborhood sets off my folksy-charm-dar AND my old-people-have-the-darndest-resigned-melancholia alert AND my early-ZZZZZ-detection warning [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2009, 10:19am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Filmmakers Cooperative new home

    This is about a week overdue, but here’s a story from NY Times about the now resolved Filmmakers Coop situation. Avant-Garde Film Group Gets New Home, Cheap The Film-Makers’ Cooperative’s new home will include space designed to protect its archives. By LARRY ROHTER Published: May 27, 2009 After months of uncertainty, the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, whose [...]
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    Posted: June 10, 2009, 3:17pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Encouraging development in the Niger delta

    A (relatively) small but important victory for human rights today in Nigeria. (Ken Saro-Wiwa, a hugely influential activist for environmental justice in the oil rich Niger delta, was also profiled in Sandy Cioffi’s new documentary, Sweet Crude.) Shell pays out $15.5m over Saro-Wiwa killing * Ed Pilkington in New York [...][...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 7:44am EDT
    by Ryan

  • The ending of “World’s Greatest Dad”

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    If you were at the Egyptian yesterday when the lamp blew out during the final, climactic scene of WORLD’S GREATEST DAD, and had to leave in order to make your next movie and aren’t sure if they ever started the film up again, this post is for you. If you have [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2009, 12:43pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • “End of the Line” doc succeeds in gaining star power

    Here’s a story that will warm some hearts, and evoke some dubious eye rolls from others. In either case, those who caught “The End of the Line” at SIFF will certainly appreciate the speed with which the film has achieved this level of celebrity activism: Elle Macpherson and Stephen Fry condemn [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2009, 9:56am EDT
    by Ryan

  • STIFF at NWFF

    We are excited to come on board for the 5th annual Seattle True Independent Film Festival! The addition of NWFF also allows STIFF to show 35mm films, for I believe the first time in their festival. Check out the lineup at NWFF here: http://stiff.bside.com/2009/schedule/week/venue/Northwest+Film+Forum And purchase your tickets for any films in [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2009, 9:50am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Free SIFF tickets!

    But hurry! Send an to promotions@nwfilmforum.org before 1pm today to get your paws on tickets to these great films showing this weekend in SIFF: At West of Pluto Canada, Directors: Myriam Verreault, Henry Bernadet Reminiscent of Gus Van Sant’s high school movies, this film follows a handful of teenagers over the course of 24 [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2009, 9:35am EDT
    by Ryan

  • BJORK’s Concert Film VOLTAIC Coming to Northwest Film Forum

    Björk’s Voltaic: The Volta Tour concert film that featuring stops on her visually dazzling Volta tour in Paris and Reykjavik, will be screened on June 26 & 27 11pm at Northwest Film Forum. Tickets are on sale now. Being released in five different physical configurations, Voltaic is a celebration of the [...]
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    Posted: June 04, 2009, 3:24pm EDT
    by Adam

  • That Other Film Festival

    For those Seattlites who care to know what the results were of the recently completed Cannes, here’s a report from IFC Daily’s David Hudson. Hopefully some of the award winners will make there way stateside in the next 12 months. And the Palme d’Or goes to Michael Haneke’s “The White Ribbon.” The [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2009, 2:27am EDT
    by Adam

  • Come Hang Out In A Swedish Backyard

    I want to say watching the Swedish film Light Year, screening next week at NWFF as part of an Alternate Cinema series in partnership with SIFF, is like meditation. Then I wonder if it actually is meditation. During the 100-minute running time of this beautifully shot nature film that takes [...]
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    Posted: May 22, 2009, 5:52pm EDT
    by Pam Inglesby

  • Sunday Secret Matinee: Gangsters and Acid – final 2 shows

    Only 2 Sunday Secret Matinees left! Sundays @ 3pm @ Northwest Film Forum @ 1515 12th Ave. @ Cap Hill, between Pike & Pine This Sunday, May 17: THE TOUGH-GUY GANGSTER SHOW FEATURE: Here’s grapefruit in yer eye, pal. Jimmy Cagney kicks your sorry ass all up and down the street in his breakthrough [...]
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    Posted: May 16, 2009, 9:18am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Dispatch from China

    From NWFF Managing Director Susie Purves: True to what they say about my host country and the internet, I’m havng a hard time postng a blog to Hot Splce. And I also have a sticky I on this keyboard. If you want to post this for me, I will appreciate it. [...]
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    Posted: May 16, 2009, 9:16am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Coppola’s Tetro Gets Modest Reviews

    Coppola’s Tetro, which opened the Director’s Fortnight last night to modest reviews. Here’s an excerpt from Variety. Read the entire review here. Although markedly better than his previous small-scaled, self-financed film, “Youth Without Youth,” Francis Ford Coppola’s “Tetro” is still a work of modest ambition and appeal. Gloriously shot in mostly [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2009, 2:51pm EDT
    by Adam

  • A Helpful Guide To SIFF

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    If you haven’t made your selections yet for the city’s behemoth festival set to hit Seattle screens next week, this is my rough guide to the best of the nearly 400 strong program as well as a list of those to skip in favor of seeing them when they’re released [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2009, 12:35pm EDT
    by Adam

  • New book on director Hal Ashby

    Those of you who got to know the work of Hal Ashby in our Summer 2008 retrospective will be excited to hear there is finally a definitive book on the director. Says author Nick Dawson, “This book is is the first biography of Ashby — aka “the hippie director” — who [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2009, 11:47am EDT
    by Ryan

  • From SIFF to NWFF

    If you are like me, and have so many SIFF picks this year you can’t possibly make them all, here are a few you can relax about. The following three films will be opening at NWFF this summer, after their SIFF appearances: Know Your Mushrooms Jun 13 – Jun 18 (Ron Mann, Canada, [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2009, 10:59am EDT
    by Ryan

  • FIPRESCI’s Undercurrent

    Undercurrent #5 Special Section: John Ford Eighteen writers, eighteen Ford films. For the Love of Movies: An Interview with Gerald Peary Film critic Gerald Peary talks about his new film, a feature-length documentary about the heroic past, troubled present, and uncertain future of American film criticism. Scattered Shadowgraph in Counter-Glows of Marvel Dana Linssen rhapsodizes on [...]
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    Posted: May 10, 2009, 10:49am EDT
    by Adam

  • Want to start learning about filmmaking this summer?

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    We can help. Now is the time to finally learn how to use an HVX camera, figure out how to get music rights for your soundtracks, get the screenwriting basics or tackle 16mm filmmaking! Our classes are schedule friendly and affordable. And don’t forget our summer camps for kids and teens! [...][...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2009, 4:44pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Humpday Trailer Now On Line

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    Posted: May 06, 2009, 4:42pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Soul Nite next Wednesday!

    SOUL NITE! CELEBRATING STEVIE WONDER’S BIRTHDAY WEDNESDAY MAY 13 AT 8PM (DOORS AT 7:30) Hey everybody! I hope you’ll join us next Wednesday May 13th for a special SOUL NITE at the Film Forum celebrating Stevie Wonder’s birthday with vintage performance footage (1968-73) on the big screen, plus DJs Greasy and [...]
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    Posted: May 06, 2009, 1:46pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Seattle’s not Paris, but we’re not too bad either

    In The Front Row today: If Paris, as Ernest Hemingway said, is a moveable feast, the menus are published on Wednesdays: that’s when the weeklies Pariscope and L’Officiel des Spectacles, the competing booklet-sized magazines of cultural listings, come out. L’Officiel is more austere, Pariscope (which was founded in 1965 as a [...]
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    Posted: May 05, 2009, 1:49pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Seattle Production Dear Lemon Lima To Premier at LAFF

    Seattle is proving to be fertile this year on the festival circuit with accolades stacking up for HUMPDAY (SUNDANCE, SXSW, CANNES), IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF LITTLE DIZZLE (SUNDANCE, SXSW, MSPIFF, SFIFF),  WORLD’S GREATEST DAD (SUNDANCE) TRUE ADOLESCENTS (SXSW), ZMD (Film Fest DC, MSPIFF), SWEET CRUDE(FULL FRAME) and now Suzi Yooness’ DEAR [...]
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    Posted: May 05, 2009, 12:15pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Good advice from Manohla Dargis of the NY Times

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    To: The audience From: M.D. There’s no denying the easy pleasures of watching movies at home, but DVDs and downloads pale next to the big-screen experience. Audiences complain that there’s nothing to watch, and that may be true if you live near a multiplex that plays only the latest in schlock entertainment. [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2009, 7:43pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • It’s here! The Summer 2009 calendar at NWFF

    Check out all the cinematic madness that awaits you this summer… The complete Summer 2009 calendar is now online! Members, look for your very own printed copy in your mailbox next week. Summer workshop offerings coming soon! [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2009, 5:16pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • This Sunday at the Secret Sunday Matinee…!

    Hello again, everyone –  coming up this Sunday at 3:00 PM at the Northwest Film Forum: The Secret Sunday Matinee II – http://sprocketsociety.org/secret/ Episode 10:  SILENT MOVIE SHOW #2 – EXILE KINGDOMS FEATURING:  A rarely-shown epic from Fritz Lang — KRIEMHILD’S REVENGE (1924) The unjustly-ignored second half of Lang’s monumental Die Nibelungen, one [...]
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    Posted: May 01, 2009, 2:11pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Trailer For Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

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    Posted: April 30, 2009, 4:30pm EDT
    by Adam

  • NY Times on HUNGER: “Far from a conventional docudrama or issue movie”

    Read the full review below. Hunger plays NWFF April 10-16 at 7, 9:15pm. March 8, 2009 Film History Through an Unblinking Lens By DENNIS LIM “HUNGER,” the first feature film by the British artist Steve McQueen, recounts the final weeks of Bobby Sands, the imprisoned Irish nationalist who died in 1981, 66 days into a [...]
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    Posted: April 10, 2009, 12:13pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Secret Sunday Matinees update

    Hi everyone – The Secret Sunday Matinee II series is half over, and already we’ve featured films by/with:  Budd Boetticher, Orson Welles, Man Ray, WC Fields, Carol Reed, FW Murnau, Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Emil Jannings, Henri-Georges Clouzot, James Mason, DW Griffith, Siegmund Lubin, Yakima Canutt, Popeye the Sailor, all four [...]
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    Posted: April 10, 2009, 12:08pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Original Original Reviews for The Damned and Fellini Satyricon

    Opening this week at Northwest Film Forum are two 1969 epics from Italian masters Luchino Visconti (THE DAMNED) and Federico Fellini (FELLINI SATYRICON). Below you’ll find the original New York Times reviews by Vincent Canby. THE DAMNED By Vincent Canby Published: December 19, 1969 New York Times Luchino Visconti’s The Damned may be the [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2009, 6:17pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Toky Sonata Extended!

    If you haven’t seen TOKYO SONATA yet, we’ve extended its run one more week! Also, there was a great interview published with the director Kiyoshi Kurosawa today in Rumpus, an excerpt of which can be found below. Kiyoshi Kurosawa has directed movies at an extraordinary pace: some forty-two since 1973, averaging, [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 5:08pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Ramin Bahrani Interview

    Ramin Bahrani gives a fascinating interview today over at Greencine. He will also be at Northwest Film Forum April 28 & 29th to premiere his new film Goodbye Solo and to teach a workshop for local filmmakers. [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 12:29pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Carlos Reygadas on Cinema

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    Silent Light, on our screen this Friday, is one of the best films of the year if not the decade. Director Carlos Reygadas is an opinionated type, with fierce ideas about cinema’s responsibilities. We tracked down some recent interviews in which he espouses his cinematic approached. Here’s an excerpt from a [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 5:01pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Scott vs. Brody

    VS I smell something of the John Stewart/Jim Cramer debate emerging out of this weekends spat between New York Times critic A.O. Scott and The New Yorker’s Richard Brody regarding what Scott refers to as a Neo-neo-realism, present in the films of Raming Bahrani (Goodbye Solo, Chop Shop) Kelly Reichardt [...]
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    Posted: March 23, 2009, 5:22pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Short Subject: Manquér

    Hearkening back to the good ol’ days when movie theatres offered up short subjects before features, today we kick off our Short Exposure program with a beautiful stop action film by Matt Daniels.  Manquér is the first of several shorts by local filmmakers to screen before all of our new [...]
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    Posted: March 20, 2009, 12:01pm EDT
    by Adam

  • New Wilco doc - snuck in at the last minute

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    We are happy to announce a special addition to our Spring calendar! On April 10-11 we’ll be showing the new Wilco documentary, Ashes of American Flags. From the description: We’re pleased to present special premiere screenings of this excellent new Wilco concert documentary. Beautifully shot by directors Brendon Canty (of Fugazi) and [...]
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    Posted: March 20, 2009, 9:34am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Awesome deal reminder

    Just in case it has slipped anyone’s mind, please make note of NWFF’s Happy Mondays: all regularly priced tickets half price every Monday! Half-price Happy Monday tickets are available only at the NWFF box office and cannot be purchased in advance online. Cash strapped Seattle community, please spread the word. And in [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2009, 12:53pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Little Dizzle cast interview podcast

    Check out this interview from SxSWbaby.com featuring the Little Dizzle cast! Click here to listen [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2009, 12:15pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Toe Tactic- An Interview With Emily Hubley

    Director and animator Emily Hubley is embarking on a nationwide screening tour of her live-action/animation feature film debut The Toe Tactic. The film starts a two-day run at NWFF on Saturday.Here’s an excerpt from an e-mail interview with Emily Hubley: For people who haven’t heard of the film, tell us a [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2009, 12:02pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Special discount to The Rumpus launch event!

    Confidential to all Hot Splice readers: You can get your tickets to the March 24 launch party for The Rumpus for half price! Buy tickets here: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/57651 Just click “purchase tickets” and then putting in the password: Rumpus Here’s more on the event: Join us for the Seattle launch of The Rumpus, a new [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2009, 3:01pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Natasha Richardson Post Accident Status Unknown

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    Conflicting reports on actress Natasha Richardson’s condition after a skiing accident: From The Canadian Press Reports vary wildly regarding extent of injuries suffered by Natasha Richardson 2 hours ago MONTREAL — Actress Natasha Richardson’s injuries from a fall during a ski lesson at a Quebec resort were described Tuesday as anywhere from minor to [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2009, 2:37pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Paint Your Wagon, A Northwest Film

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    A little known fact about this week’s 69 film PAINT YOUR WAGON is a Northwest film. Convinced by production designer John Truscott director Joshua Logan shot in Baker County, Oregon in the Eagle Cap Mountains along East Eagle and Jack Creek.  The crew built two separate versions of the mining [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2009, 1:56pm EDT
    by Adam

  • $1 Off food and drinks at the Satellite

    Northwest Film Forum and the Satellite Lounge (right around the corner at 12th and Pike) have teamed up to bring you a special post-movie deal! Bring your NWFF movie stub in for $1 off drinks during the week, or $1 off food OR drinks on the weekends! http://www.satellitelounge.com/ [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2009, 12:32pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Little Dizzle cast interview

    Tania Raymonde, Vince Vielof, and Marshall Allman interview from SxSW. Check it out! [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2009, 12:23pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • It’s worse in Russia

    Russian movie industry in grips of big chill By Vladimir Kozlov Vladimir Kozlov – Sun Mar 15, 11:19 pm ET MOSCOW (Hollywood Reporter) – In a film world beset by economic upheaval, there might be no territory more upside down than Russia. At last month’s Berlin International Film Festival, movie sellers grumbled openly [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2009, 4:59pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Rain People’s 1969 review: “gratuitious poetry”

    Robert Greenspun, New York Times, August 1969: [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2009, 12:12pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Shot-by-shot analysis of PAINT YOUR WAGON’s opening sequence

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    After listening to Robert Horton’s introduction of PAINT YOUR WAGON on Friday night, and now reading Nathan William’s shot-by-shot analysis of the opening sequence of the film, I have to admit there’s a lot more going on in this western musical than I first imagined when I read the description. You [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2009, 10:11am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Soul Nite ‘69 A Blast!

    Thanks to everybody who came out to SOUL NITE at NW Film Forum this Thursday for our trip back to 1969 and Sly Stone birthday celebration. DJ David James played a ton of great 1969 soul records (he and his cohort DJ Greasy spin rare soul and funk at DUG, [...]
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    Posted: March 14, 2009, 5:50pm EDT
    by Peter Lucas

  • Sprocket Society update!

    Hello friends — if friends you truly be… This Sunday is March 15 — the Ides of March, in the Roman calendar.  “Idus Martias” in Latin, it was a holiday devoted to Mars, the god of war.  Most of us know of it thanks to Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar,” about [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2009, 2:59pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • More people angry over the death of VHS

    Angry workers hold French Sony boss hostage 13 Mar 2009 MONT-DE-MARSAN: Angry workers held the boss of Sony France hostage Friday to try to make the Japanese electronics giant give them a bigger pay-off when it shuts their factory, unions said. Serge Foucher had gone to the Pontonx-sur-l’Adour plant in southwest France on [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2009, 8:07am EDT
    by Ryan

  • More on the Wild Bunch

    Bob Cumbow has written an informative and personal reflection on THE WILD BUNCH over at Parallax View. Read it all here. [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2009, 3:07pm EDT
    by Ryan

  • Joe Swanberg’s One Shot

    On the eve of the SXSW premiere of Joe Swanberg’s latest film ALEXANDER THE LAST, we thought it would be a good time to roll out Swanberg’s one shot film, shot while he was attending our Local Sightings Film Festival as a juror. Local cinematographer extraordinaire Ben Kasulke (HUMPDAY, NIGHTS [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2009, 2:36pm EDT
    by Adam

  • Vincent Canby: “Paint Your Wagon” amiable and cool

    Read on: [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2009, 10:41am EDT
    by Ryan

  • Original 1969 WILD BUNCH review

    Unfortunately, this one got a little cut off, but you can read the bulk of the original review by downloading this PDF. Here’s a clipping: [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2009, 10:20am EDT
    by Ryan
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