MAY 26 Fri at 9:30pm and MAY 28 Sun at 5pm

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL @ NWFF

PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES

(Brothers Quay, UK/Germany/France, 2005,35mm, 99 min.)

An eye-popping fever dream of a film from the Brothers Quay, this enigmatic live-action followup to the prolific animators &apos INSTITUTA BENJAMINA sees a master piano tuner recruited for the task of tuning an elaborate series of automatons for a sinister doctor. In his isolated environment, certain things have a strange resonance he can not explain, and the ultimate purpose of his task is never clear. Plays with A HALF MAN (Firas Momani).

MAY 26 Fri at 5pm and MAY 31 Wed at 4:30pm

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL @ NWFF

WORLDLY DESIRES

(Apichatpong Weerasethakul, South Korea/Thailand, 2005, BetaSP, 42 min.)

Another gorgeous, mysteriously touching piece from one of Asia &apos s most promising young filmmakers, Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul &apos s (TROPICAL MALADY) foray into digital cinema leads the viewer onto the set of a film shoot. Like many of Joe &apos s films, the story being filmed seems to be some sort of jungle-set love story, but all we see are poetic bits and pieces � and several choreographed musical interludes.

Plays with

HOW LITTLE WE KNOW OF OUR NEIGHBOURS

(Rebecca Baron, UK/USA, 2005, BetaSP, 49 min.)

A revelatory history/analysis of the broad role of public photography and surveillance, HOW LITTLE WE KNOW OF OUR NEIGHBOURS takes as its primary subject the Mass Observation Movement - an ambitious anthropological effort to record the habits and social patterns of London and the rest of Britain. As the film relates, each new technological step carried with it a matching step allowing the photographer to take pictures secretly.

MAY 26 Fri at 7pm

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL @ NWFF

BEG, BORROW & STEAL

Reaching back through a century of film and media history, this program of short films ranging from the picturesque to the decaying, from the kinetic to the hilarious collects unique creations of found images and sound. Includes new films from Bill Morrison (DECASIA), Peter Tscherkassky, Kenneth Anger (SCORPIO RISING), Fred Worden, Jay Rosenblatt (PHANTOM LIMB), and others.

The Highwater Trilogy (Bill Morrison)
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (Peter Tscherkassky)
Here (Fred Worden)
Mouse Heaven (Kenneth Anger)
Last Supper (Mats Bigert)
Ringo (Dave Monahan)
Afraid So (Jay Rosenblat)
Wall of Sound Flowers (Francien van Everdingen)
Tidal Wave (Salise Hughes)

MAY 27 Sat at 7pm and MAY 31 Wed at 9:30pm

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL @ NWFF

CASE OF THE GRINNING CAT

(Chris Marker, France, 2004, BetaSP, 58 min.)

Influential filmmaker Chris Marker (SANS SOLEIL) chronicles the absurd, enlightening details within the unpredictable and passionate world of French political protest, particularly the curious graffiti image of a grinning cat that rapidly spreads through the country, in one of his most entertaining films to date. Plays with short films CHRONICLES OF APROFESSIONAL EULOGIST (Sarah Jane Lapp) and SOUVENIR (Stephen Rose).

MAY 27 Sat at 5pm and MAY 30 Tues at 9:30pm

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL @ NWFF

CONTAINER

(Lukas Moodysson, Sweden, 2006, 35mm, 74 min.)

Described by filmmaker Lukas Moodysson (LILYA 4-EVER) as " a film about the little darling that lives inside all of us," the formally radical CONTAINER follows a dreamy path into the life of a pudgy Swedish man and the slim Asian woman who may be the embodiment of his inner girl.

MAY 27 Sat at 9:30pm and MAY 29 Mon at 5pm

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL @ NWFF

COMBAT

(Patrick Carpentier, Belgium, 2006, DigiBeta, 57 min.)

In this Teddy Award-winning semi-fictional " filmed diary," the lines between brutality and desire are blurred when a hand-to-hand combat between two men in the woods becomes a ritual of sensuality, while the narrator relates a story about the renewal of a strange desire. Plays with short films HELLO, THANKS (Andrew Blubaugh) and SHAPE SHIFT (Scott Stark).

MAY 28 Sun at 9:30pm

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL @ NWFF

LUNACY

(Jan Svankmajer, Czech Republic/Slovakia, 2005, 35mm, 121 min.)

A joyously pessimistic masterpiece from Jan Svankmajer, the master of Czech surrealism, LUNACY introduces us to a man whose horrifying dreams make his nights unbearable. An offer of assistance from a sadistic nobleman leads the man into an asylum where the doctors are even more dangerous than the patients.

MAY 28 Sun at 7:30pm

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL @ NWFF

REFLECTIVE PROPERTIES

Meditations on landscapes, Las Vegas, natural disasters, family turmoil and one exceedingly talented drummer, among other things, can be found in this collection of short films. Includes new films from Bill Brown, Jennifer Reeder, Olivo Barbieri, deco dawson, Vanessa Renwick, and others.

The Other Side (Bill Brown)
A Heart and Other Small Shapes (Jennifer Reeder)
Site Specific Las Vegas 05 (Olivo Barbieri)
Dumb Angel deco dawsonr)
Portrait #1: Cascadia Terminal (Vanessa Renwick)
Flow (Scott Nyerges)
Boll Weevil Days Susan Simpsont)

MAY 29 Mon at 9pm and JUNE 1 Thurs at 7pm

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL @ NWFF

JACK SMITH AND THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS

(Mary Jordan, USA, 2006, BetaSP, 95 min.)

A defining influence on several generations of underground artists, performers and filmmakers, Jack Smith was an intensely charismatic, sometimes exasperating fixture of the New York art scene. This fascinating documentary explores the life and work of the inspiring artist who became the patron saint of the queer avant-garde.

MAY 29 Mon at 7pm and MAY 30 Tues at 5pm

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL @ NWFF

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WHEN YOU GET OUT OF HERE?

(Saso Podgorsek, Slovenia, 2005, 35mm, 52 min.)

Saso Podgorsek, one of the world &apos s foremost directors of dance films, teams up with the En-Knap dance company to create an exhilarating fusion of physical and photographic movement. Together they wind through a series of underground structures, incorporating everything they come across into their cinematic dance. Plays with YOUR LIGHTS ARE OUT OR BURNING BADLY (Gaelen Hansen), DUEL (Danielle Morgan), and DIESEL ENGINE (Dayna Hanson).

MAY 30 Tues at 7pm

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL @ NWFF

DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE!

DARKNESS SWALLOWED

(Betzy Bromberg, USA, 2005, 16mm, 78 min.)

Called " an instant classic" by VARIETY, veteran experimental filmmaker Betzy Bromberg &apos s abstract phantasmagoria is a uniquely sensual, tactile and narrative-free film experience. Ravishing images are captured � from minute explorations of spider-webs, dirt, resin and water to countless other subjects that Bromberg &apos s camera transforms into otherworldly explosions of light and color. Plays with short film CLOUDS.

MAY 31 Wed at 6:30pm and JUNE 1 Thurs at 9:30pm

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL @ NWFF

DIRECTORS IN ATTENDANCE!

APART FROM THAT

(Jennifer Shainin & Randy Walker, USA, 2006, DigiBeta,129 min.)

A Native American road striper, a student beautician, a Vietnamese banker, his adopted American son and an elderly exhibitionist attempt to find their footing in a world of miscommunication, denial and unmet expectations. APART FROM THAT explores the anatomy of love and vulnerability through three similarly dysfunctional relationships.

JUNE 2-4 Fri-Sun at 7, 9pm

>MUSIC FESTIVALS ON FILM

SEARCH AND RESCUE Rediscovers

The T.A.M.I. SHOW

(Steve Binder, USA, 1964, 16mm, 92 min.)

Not Available on video!

Sponsored by KEXP 90.3FM and Easy Street Records

How does one of rock &apos s greatest moments end up in a junk pile? SEARCH AND RESCUE Seattle teams up with its Minneapolis partners to rescue this 1964 rock masterpiece from the dustbins of history. A who &apos s who of early-1960s rock, THE T.A.M.I. SHOW features performances from original guitar hero Chuck Berry, Motown superstars Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and The Supremes, British Invasion acts Gerry and the Pacemakers and Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, garage rock legends The Barbarians, teen angst goddess Leslie Gore, surf music pioneers The Beach Boys and Jan & Dean, and a veritable "Battle of the Bands" between two of the most exciting stage acts in rock history, James Brown and his Famous Flames and The Rolling Stones.

" A classic and one of the best music relics of the period." �AUSTIN CHRONICLE

JUNE 2, Fri at 11pm

Post screening party at NWFF with DJ Chrispo & The Tangerine Tonic from Studio 66 - a special preview for the Studio 66 2nd Anniversary Bash at Lo-Fi. More info on Studio 66 at www.myspace.com/studio66.

JUNE 3-4, 10-11 Sat & Sun at 5pm

PIZZA

(Mark Christopher, USA, 2005, BETA SP, 90min.)

From those good people at InDigEnt (PIECES OF APRIL, TADPOLE) comes this pleasingly off-beat teen movie-of-sorts. On the eve of her 18th birthday, friendless Cara-Ethyl, is " burning to live," but instead is voicing guests at her own party for the benefit of her temporarily blinded mother. When Matt delivers the pizzas for her party, he takes pity on her. Pretty bored himself he invites her along on his delivery rounds and this odd couple spend the best part of the night riding around in his fairy-light adorned truck. After a night of oddball pizza stops, dancing, blunt conversation, and the kind of humiliations only teenagers can inflict, neither will ever be the same. Matt and Cara-Ethyl are a charming and natural pair of perennial outsiders. Directed with wry poignancy and a peculiar sense of humor, PIZZA celebrates their misfit status with the wisdom that it &apos s only from the outside that you can truly see what life &apos s all about.

JUNE 5-8 Mon-Thurs at 7, 9pm

MUSIC FESTIVALS ON FILM

FESTIVAL!

(Murray Lerner, USA, 1967, BetaSP, 95 min.)

Sponsored by KEXP 90.3FM and Easy Street Records

In the midst of Murray Lerner &apos s stunning landmark 1967 distillation of the Newport Folk Festival, somewhere between Bob Dylan tearing ragged, howling flesh off the limbs of MAGGIE &apos S FARM and Son House shuddering his way through some unfathomable torment, somewhere in the pauses between the sneers in Johnny Cash &apos s performance of �I Walk The Line,� it &apos s possible to catch a glimpse of Little Baby Punk Rock�the hint of a fetus darting across Odetta &apos s anguished eyes, the rumor of an umbilical chord winding amidst bearded, politicized, beat-spouting, draft-dodging transient youngsters. FESTIVAL! marks the birth of an era that has more resonance now than ever before

" Captures that singularly bizarre era when Spider John Koerner, Son House, Fiddler Beers and Judy Collins could play their songs to a bunch of Sixties pre-hippies in a field in Rhode Island." �ROLLING STONE

JUNE 9-15 Fri-Thurs at 7, 9:30pm

MUSIC FESTIVALS ON FILM

COACHELLA

(Drew Thomas, USA, 2006, 35mm 115 min.)

SEATTLE PREMIERE!

Sponsored by KEXP 90.3FM and Easy Street Records

America &apos s premiere showcase for cutting-edge music appears in a glorious 35mm film filled with one classic performance after another from the festival &apos s six-year history. COACHELLA features appearances by iconic headliners and a wide range of forward-looking artists, including The Arcade Fire, Belle & Sebastian, Bjork, Bright Eyes, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, The Flaming Lips, Iggy & The Stooges, Kool Keith, The Mars Volta, Morrissey, Nu- Mark & Cut, Chemist, Oasis, Pixies, The Polyphonic Spree, Prodigy, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Roni Size, Saul Williams, Spearhead, Squarepusher, The White Stripes and Zero 7 plus guest appearances by Beck and Josh Homme.

" An excellent overview of the ambiance and showcased talent at arguably the best annual U.S. rock festival." �VARIETY

JUNE 10-11 Sat-Sun at 4pm

ITVS Community Cinema and Northwest Film Forum present

LION IN THE HOUSE

(Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert, USA, 2006, DVD, 230 min.)

SEATTLE PREMIERE!

Directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert in attendance!

Cancer leaves an indelible mark on the life of a family. Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert &apos s staggering documentary offers an unprecedented look at the cancer journeys of five young people and their families and caregivers over a six-year period. A LION IN THE HOUSE raises many complex and difficult issues: while one family grapples with searing questions about when to stop fighting the disease, another faces the dilemma of how to feel �normal� again when treatment succeeds.

JUNE 16 Fri at 7pm

EXCAVATIONS IN THE FLOATING WORLD: JAPANESE-LANGUAGE CINEMAS IN SEATTLE

From the 1970s into the early 80s, Seattle was home to two cinemas, the Toyo and the Kokusai that ran Japanese language films. From obscure and classic samurai sagas (including regular screenings of the many Zatoichi movies) to forgotten melodramas, from genuine masterpieces to transient celluloid windows on passing Japanese culture, these theaters provided Seattle rich opportunities to see Japanese cinema. Join NWFF for an informal presentation, reminiscence, and chat on this nearly forgotten piece of Seattle &apos s cinema history. Panelists include: Terry Nakano, former owner of the Toyo Cinema; William Satake Blauvelt, musician, critic, and cinema-goer; and Stephen Sumida, cultural historian. Plus there will be a special musical performance by Aono Jikken Ensemble to clips from samurai movies. $5/Free Members, Seniors and Children.

JUNE 16-18 Fri-Sun at 7, 9:30pm (plus Sat, Sun at 4:30pm)

SUMMER OF SAMURAI

NEW 35MM PRINT!

SAMURAI REBELLION

(Masaki Kobayashi, Japan, 1967, 35mm, 121 min.)

Sponsored by East Asia Center and Scarecrow Video

Social critic Masaki Kobayashi (HUMAN CONDITION) makes a devastating attack on feudalism. A lord forces Isaburo &apos s (Toshiro Mifune) son to marry his discarded mistress, Ichi (Yoko Tsukasa). But then he demands her return. The tension explodes in Isaburo &apos s powerful rebellion. Winner of Japan &apos s Oscar equivalent for Best Film, Kobayashi &apos s film is a gripping story of a peaceful man who finally decides to take a stand against injustice.

" SAMURAI REBELLION is as extreme a samurai film as I &apos ve seen in both senses (the ethics and the violence), and one of the best." �Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

JUNE 19 Mon at 7, 9pm

SUMMER OF SAMURAI

Zatoichi Mondays!

NEW TALE OF ZATOICHI

(Tokuzo Tanaka, Japan, 1963, 35mm, 91 min.)

Sponsored by East Asia Center and Scarecrow Video

To start off our Zatoichi Mondays we begin with the first color film in the series. Zatoichi, the blind masseur and swordsman, has a chance meeting with swordsman Yajuro Banno, his former master. Delighted to see his former pupil, Banno invites him to visit the home he shares with his sister, Yayoi. Much to Banno &apos s chagrin, she quickly falls in love with the kind and gentle Ichi. Things turn out to be not what they seem as Banno is discovered to be involved in a kidnapping and extortion plot. Torn between love and justice, will Ichi &apos s plans of marriage succeed or must he risk all to challenge his old friend and teacher to a duel to the death?

JUNE 20-22 Tues & Thurs at 7pm, Wed. at 9:30pm

SUMMER OF SAMURAI

NEW 35MM PRINT!

THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI

(Hideo Gosha, Japan, 1964, 35mm, 95 min.)

Sponsored by East Asia Center and Scarecrow Video

Director Hideo Gosha &apos s first feature film is not only one of the most assured directorial debuts ever, it is also something of a holy grail for samurai movie aficionados, as it has been notoriously hard to see outside of Japan since its initial release. Wandering samurai Tetsuro Tanba is swayed into helping those who can &apos t fend for themselves, in this case starving farmers who have kidnapped a local lord &apos s daughter in protest over unfair taxes. In the process, much blood is shed, and two other swords-for-hire become reluctant draftees into Tanba &apos s band of rebels. Gosha &apos s use of the black-and-white Cinemascope frame is astonishing, with a down-to-earth, hardboiled ambience rarely seen in early 1960s samurai pictures.

JUNE 20-22 Tues & Thurs at 9pm, Wed at 7pm

SUMMER OF SAMURAI

THRONE OF BLOOD

(Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1957, 35mm, 110min.)

Sponsored by East Asia Center and Scarecrow Video

Director Akira Kurosawa &apos s savage, free-flowing adaptation of William Shakespeare &apos s MACBETH plunges viewers into an eerie, fog-shrouded world of madness and obsession set in medieval Japan during a period of feudal confl ict. Toshiro Mifune stars as the proud warrior who is destroyed by his wife &apos s murderous greed and his own all-consuming desire for power. From frenzied battle sequences to a brutal climax in which an entire forest seems to move against Mifune, Kurosawa &apos s masterwork combines the stylization of Noh theatre with the dynamic energy of an American Western.

" Unforgettable and passionate; just like Shakespeare ought to be." �Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

JUNE 23-25 Fri- Sun at 7, 9:30pm

SUMMER OF SAMURAI

NEW 35MM PRINT!

KILL!

(Kihachi Okamoto, Japan, 1968, 35mm, 114 min.)

Sponsored by East Asia Center and Scarecrow Video

In this pitch-black action comedy by director Kihachi Okamoto, a pair of down-on their-luck swordsmen (Tatsuya Nakadai, Etsushi Takahashi) come to a dusty, windblown town and get involved in a local clan dispute. Both amusing and violent, Okamoto &apos s skillful combination pits corrupt officials against idealistic retainers. Based on the same source novel as Akira Kurosawa &apos s SANJURO, KILL! playfully tweaks samurai film conventions, borrowing from established chambara classics and throwing in a little Spaghetti Western.

JUNE 23-29 Fri-Thurs at 7pm (plus Sat & Sun at 5pm) JULY 1-2 Sat-Sun at 5pm

Cinema K Presents

NEW 35MM PRINT!

THE MUPPET MOVIE

(James Frawley, USA, 1979, 35mm, 95min.)

The original is back! After being out of release for many years, THE MUPPET MOVIE has resurfaced in this brand new 35mm print. We can once again enjoy the onscreen evolution of one of the greatest performance troupes ever created. Jim Henson &apos s Muppets are beloved by millions and, in this charming musical fantasy, we follow Kermit The Frog as he sets out from the swamp to pursue a career in�what else�showbiz. Hooking up early with vaudevillian comedian Fozzie Bear, Kermit treks across the country, gathering new and interesting friends on his way to a date with destiny in Hollywood.

" The Muppet Movie is the last word in &apos road &apos pictures." �Vincent Canby, NEW YORK TIMES

JUNE 23-JUNE 29 Fri � Thurs at 9pm

Cinema K Presents

NEW 35MM PRINT!

LABYRINTH

(Jim Henson, USA, 1986, 35mm, 101 min.)

In this Henson gem too rarely seen on the big screen, teenaged Sarah (played dreamily by Jennifer Connelly) must save her baby brother after he is abducted by the glammed-out Goblin King (David Bowie) Produced by George Lucas, this fairytale features mind-bogglingly imaginative puppetry, eye-popping sets, dazzling Bowie-driven musical numbers, and a script by Terry Jones. Combining stunning effects, thrilling adventure, and a tender coming-of-age story, LABYRINTH brings the full range of Henson &apos s genius into sharp, unforgettable focus.

" A fabulous film...that uses futuristic technology to illuminate a mythic-style tale...a remarkable achievement." �Nina Darnton, NEW YORK TIMES

JUNE 26 Mon at 7, 9pm

SUMMER OF SAMURAI

Zatoichi Mondays!

ZATOICHI THE FUGITIVE

(Tokuzo Tanaka, Japan, 1963, 35mm, 86 min.)

Sponsored by East Asia Center and Scarecrow Video

Zatoichi seeks bloody vengeance on a powerful ronin and his ruthless gang. Arriving in the village of Shimonida, Ichi learns that a local gang has placed a bounty on his head. A powerful hired ronin attacks Ichi and nearly claims his life, but only when the assassin slays a defenseless woman can Ichi no longer control his rage. After laying waste to the entire gang, Ichi &apos s final duel becomes a deadly meeting of the samurai &apos s superior swordsmanship and the blind masseur &apos s unbridled rage.

JUNE 27-29 Tues-Thurs at 6:30pm

SUMMER OF SAMURAI

NEW 35MM PRINT!

THE SWORD OF DOOM

(Kihachi Okamoto, Japan, 1966, 35mm, 119 min.)

Sponsored by East Asia Center and Scarecrow Video

Tatsuya Nakadai stars in the story of a wandering samurai who exists in a maelstrom of violence. A gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, Ryunosuke Tsukue (Tatsuya Nakadai) kills without remorse, without mercy. It is a way of life that ultimately leads to madness, culminating in a climatic sequence of carnage in a house filled with assassins. Toshiro Mifune co-stars as the head of a fencing school.

" A brooding, powerful performance by Tatsuya Nakadai as a bloodthirsty master bladesman gives SWORD OF DOOM a cutting edge." � Howard Thompson, NEW YORK TIMES

JUNE 27-29 Tues-Thurs at 9pm

SUMMER OF SAMURAI

NEW 35MM PRINT!

BANDITS VS. SAMURAI SQUADRON

(Hideo Gosha, Japan, 1978, 35mm, 163 min.)

Sponsored by East Asia Center and Scarecrow Video

This big-budget grafting of STING-style chicanery onto the samurai tradition makes BANDITS VS. SAMURAI SQUADRON probably the top samurai film of the &apos 70s. Enigmatic bandit chieftain Kumokiri Nakaemon (Tatsuya Nakadai) uses con games and robberies to finance a revenge plot; Shogunate policeman Shikubu Abe (Somegoro Ichikawa) calls on double-crosses of his own to stop him.

JUNE 30-JULY 2 Fri-Sun at 7, 9:30pm

SUMMER OF SAMURAI

NEW 35MM PRINT!

HARAKIRI

(Masaki Kobayashi, Japan, 1963, 35mm, 121 min.)

Sponsored by East Asia Center and Scarecrow Video

Following the collapse of his clan, unemployed samurai Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to commit ritual suicide on his property. Iyi &apos s clansmen, believing the desperate ronin is merely angling for charity, try to force him to eviscerate himself�but they have underestimated his honor and his past. Winner of the 1963 Cannes Film Festival &apos s Special Jury Prize, director Masaki Kobayashi &apos s film is a scathing denouncement of feudal authority and hypocrisy.

JUNE 30-JULY 6 Fri-Thurs at 7, 9pm (plus Sat, Sun at 5pm) No show Tuesday

STOLEN

(Rebecca Dreyfus, USA, 2005, BetaSP, 85 min.)

SEATTLE PREMIERE!

Discover the dirt on the largest art heist in history a $300 million 1990 robbery at Boston &apos s palatial Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with tales of missing Rembrandts and Vermeer &apos s THE CONCERT (the world &apos s most valuable stolen painting), Irish gangsters, back-room politicians, eccentric collectors and a palazzo style private mansion-turned-museum with possibly the worst security system on record. At the heart of this fascinating whodunit is 75-year-old detective Harold J. Smith, famous for recovering millions in stolen art and antiquities. With filmmaker Rebecca Dreyfus and cameraman Albert Maysles in tow, the unstoppable Smith continues his lifelong obsession with solving one final crime, despite a clearly distressing battle with degenerative skin cancer.

" STOLEN provides a treasure trove of outrageous characters, rampant speculation, personal obsessions and a glimpse into the rarefied world of art collecting." � Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

JULY 3 Mon at 7, 9pm

SUMMER OF SAMURAI

Zatoichi Mondays!

ZATOICHI ON THE ROAD

(Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan, 1963, 35mm, 85min.)

Sponsored by East Asia Center and Scarecrow Video

Here we find the blind swordsman and his companion on their way to meet with a local gang leader who wants to hire Zatoichi as his bodyguard. A rival gang attacks them before they can reach their destination, but the clever swordsman and masseur negotiates safe passage. Things take a dramatic turn when he meets a servant girl fleeing the feudal lord who raped her. Zatoichi bravely agrees to help her get back to her family, knowing he will have to take on both gangs in order to succeed.

JULY 5-6 Wed-Thurs at 7pm

SUMMER OF SAMURAI

NEW 35MM PRINT WITH ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE!

SEVEN SAMURAI

(Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1954, 35mm, 206 min.)

Sponsored by East Asia Center and Scarecrow Video

What better way to close out the series than with the film that defined the samurai genre? In 16th-century Japan, seven unemployed swordsman are hired to defend a village against forty marauding bandits. One of international cinema &apos s undisputed masterworks, SEVEN SAMURAI has influenced scores of films�from the Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to the STAR WARS cycle�and was remade as THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN.

" Moves like hot mercury, and it draws a viewer so thoroughly into its world that real life can seem thick and dull when the lights come up." � Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE

JULY 7-13 Fri-Thurs at 7, 9:30pm (plus Sat, Sun at 4:30pm)

RUSSIAN DOLLS

(Cedric Klapisch, France, 2005, 35mm, 125min)

SEATTLE PREMIERE

The much-awaited follow-up to Cedric Klapisch &apos s L &apos AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE is set five years down the road, and the adventures, or misadventures in what makes the heart beat louder and faster continue. Working again with many of the same young actors who made original such a world-wide success including Audrey Tautou (AMELIE) and C�cile de France Ce�dric Klapisch (WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY) offers a perceptive state of a generation report. Here, in one of France &apos s biggest box-office successes of 2005, he captures with equal measures of sympathy and bemused attachment the personal and professional travails of Xavier and his friends as their youthful promise begins to fade or at least settle into the workaday world. Set in London, Paris and St Petersburg, RUSSIAN DOLLS is a more finely wrought, well-matured version of the film that inspired it. Nominated for 3 C�sar awards for Best Supporting Actress, for Cecile de France and Kelly Reilly, and for Best Editing. In French with English subtitles.

" Resonant with acute and accurate observations of people at that devastating stage in life where the glow and glory of youth is dimming into a dull realisation that fun spelt backwards is &apos nuf, RUSSIAN DOLLS is an achingly bitter sweet film." � URBAN CINEFILE

JULY 7-13 Fri-Thurs at 7, 9pm (plus Sat, Sun at 3, 5pm)

Busby Berkley's Brilliant Technicolor Spectacle

THE GANG &apos S ALL HERE

(Busby Berkeley, USA, 1943, 35mm, 103 min.)

NEW 35MM PRINT!

Alice Faye may get top billing, but this insane Busby Berkeley musical is famous for the chorines holding up giant bananas while Carmen Miranda sings The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat. There &apos s some sort of plot involving a soldier and a showgirl, but it &apos s Miranda &apos s Technicolor musical numbers that make this film memorable. Friday, July 7 screenings free to members of NWFF.

" GANG is the apotheosis of fruitiness: Miranda &apos s Dorita singing and samba-ing to THE LADY IN THE TUTTI FRUITI HAT, a chorus of curvy beauties performing a near obscene synchronized number with giant bananas, prissy perennial second-banana Edward Everett Horton cutting loose with Carmen." � Melissa Anderson, VILLAGE VOICE

JULY 14-16 Fri-Sun at 7, 9pm (plus Sat, Sun at 3, 5pm)

42nd STREET

(Lloyd Bacon, USA, 1933, 35mm, 89 min.)

The definitive Broadway backstage musical features great production numbers by Busby Berkeley, a sassy, hardboiled look at the New York theater world, gritty Depression-era optimism, and the famous line, You're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star. Friday, July 14 screenings free to NWFF members.

"Busby Berkeley's...choreography is singularly cinematic and still astonishing." - SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

JULY 14-20 Fri-Thurs at 7, 9:30pm (plus Sat, Sun at 4:30pm)

From the director of MILLENNIUM MAMBO and CAFE LUMIERE

THREE TIMES

(Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan, 2005, 35mm, 120 min.)

SEATTLE THEATRICAL PREMIERE!

Does anyone make more rapturously beautiful films than Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien? THREE TIMES is a collection of three love stories set in 1911, 1966, and 2005. In 1966, " A Time for Love," Chen (Chang Chen) meets May (Shu Qi) at the pool-hall he frequents. Their momentary relationship is interrupted when Chen enlists in the army. In 1911, " A Time for Freedom," the two now appear as client and courtesan. The client, political activist Mr. Chang, provides financial help to a young courtesan so that she may achieve the status of concubine. In 2005, " A Time for Youth," Jing is a female singer who is torn between her lesbian partner and her new male lover. THREE TIMES is Hou Hsiao-Hsien &apos s most seductive film, full of small, magical moments that capture fleeting pleasures and transient emotions. In Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles.

"Like Wong Kar-wai, Hou's interest in the unspoken nature of desire means his movie is sensually alive to the way love overwhelms and transforms one &apos s experience of the world." - TORONTO STAR

JULY 15 Sat at midnight

Internet Video Sensation Hits The Big Screen

YACHT ROCK SING-ALONG

(JD Ryznar, USA, 2005, DVD, 45 min.)

SEATTLE PREMIERE!

The time has come to praise Yacht Rock. Not the music itself although if you do have a secret hankering for sultans of smooth like Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald and Christopher Cross, we promise that your secret &apos s safe with us. No, we &apos re talking about Channel 101 &apos s online comedy series, which does for session-musician-driven soft rock what Saturday Night Live &apos s " Lazy Sunday " did for blue-eyed rap enthusiasts. The brainchild of JD Ryznar, Hunter Stair and Lane Farnham, Yacht Rock brilliantly juxtaposes blank parody with over-the-top slapstick as it skillfully skewers anyone who &apos s ever had a member of Toto play on their album. Northwest Film Forum brings you Yacht Rock Sing-Along, an up-to-the-episode history of Yacht Rock, on the big screen for the first time. We urge you to BYOB, bing your own boats (wink, wink). $5 Suggested Donation.

JULY 20-23, 27-30 Thurs-Sun at 8pm

KALEIDOSCOPE EYES: SONGS FOR BUSBY BERKELEY

Written and performed by Chris Jeffries. Directed by Ed Hawkins

WORLD PREMIERE LIVE PERFORMANCE!

Chris Jeffries, writer/ composer of beloved Seattle musicals VERA WILDE, THE FATTY ARBUCKLE SPOOKHOUSE REVUE, and I SEE LONDON, I SEE FRANCE brings the work of Busby Berkeley to life with a 75-minute live music performance featuring sixteen film sequences from the legendary Hollywood choreographer. Berkeley almost single-handedly defined the cinematic language of the Hollywood musical with his dazzling innovations in the design, scale, and presentation of production numbers as well as the revolutionary camera techniques employed to capture them on film. Jeffries and six vocalists will accompany the visual spectacles with live renditions of all-new songs. $15/ $12 NWFF members.

" With a wicked wit and a singular vision, composer Chris Jeffries creates alterna-musicals for a new millennium. Lucky us." � THE STRANGER

JULY 21-23 Fri, Sun at 7pm, Sat at 9pm (plus Sat, Sun at 5pm)

BRIGITTE AND BRIGITTE

(Luc Moullet, France, 1966, 35mm 71 min.)

Praised by Godard as " revolutionary," BRIGITTE AND BRIGITTE builds a loopy satire studded with sight-gags around the adventures of two young women just in from the sticks to study at the Sorbonne� on a blonde communist, the other a right-wing brunette. Directors Sam Fuller, Claude Chabrol, Andr Tchine and Eric Rohmer make cameo appearances.

Plays with

ATTEMPT AT AN OPENING

(Luc Moullet, France, 1988, 35mm, 15 min.)

A wicked, deadpan short detailing Moullet &apos s lifelong attempts to open a bottle of Coca-Cola.

" BAND OF OUTSIDERS may have come first, but BRIGITTE is a fresher, more inventive take on Parisian youth culture, liberated from Godard &apos s grumpy ambivalence." � Sam Adams, PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER

JULY 21-23 Fri, Sun at 9pm, Sat at 7pm

SEVEN WONDERS OF LUC MOULLET

THE SMUGGLERS

(Luc Moullet, France, 1967, 35mm 81 min.)

Set on �the Franco-Mexican border,� this defiantly amateurish non-adventure adventure film and chase comedy tracks two often scantily clad women as they scamper over rocks, smuggling packages and people between two warring nations. Though full of slapstick and silliness, this pre-1968 New Wave classic is a deadly serious film about the arbitrary nature of borders and countries.

" Maybe the best film not made by Godard." � Jean-Marie Straub

JULY 24-25 Mon, Tues at 7 & 9pm

SEVEN WONDERS OF LUC MOULLET

A GIRL IS A GUN aka AN ADVENTURE OF BILLY THE KID

(Luc Moullet, France, 1971, 35mm, 100 min.)

Jean-Pierre L�aud stars in the first French Western�a tale of lust and revenge that mixes slapstick and experimentation. Luc Moullet &apos s low-budget, movie-mad film was never released in France, but it was distributed in South America (and is shown here) in an English-dubbed version prepared by Moullet himself.

" Reminiscent of the finale of DUEL IN THE SUN, but pushed to the level of excruciating lunatic farce, with a touch of Fuller &apos s madness." � Jonathan Rosenbaum, FILM COMMENT

JULY 24-25 Mon, Tues at 7 & 9pm

SEVEN WONDERS OF LUC MOULLET

ANATOMY OF A RELATIONSHIP

(Luc Moullet, France,1976, 16mm, 82 min.)

Alternately funny and distressing, this brutally personal " sex film " blurs the line between fiction and autobiography. A couple (Moullet and Christine H�bert) work through a series of problems�intimate and otherwise �that have arisen in their relationship.

" One can bet this film will be a flop. That &apos s good for me; I &apos ll have the opportunity of stealing it one day. " - Jean Eustache

JULY 26-27 Wed at 7, Thurs at 9pm

COMEDY OF WORK

(Luc Moullet, France, 1987, 35mm 90 min.)

COMEDY OF WORK is actually a comedy of unemployment either the best or the worst thing to happen to a middle-aged loan officer, his successful wife, a mountain climber, and an employment agency professional. Luc Moullet &apos s offbeat film is a tale of potatoes, ditch-diggers, doomed lovers, and dueling employment agencies.

" A Marx to Marx dialogue, as if Karl had met Groucho." � CAHIERS DU CIN�MA

JULY 26-27 Wed at 9pm, Thurs at 7pm

SHIPWRECKED ON ROUTE D 17

(Luc Moullet, France, 2002, 35mm, 81 min.)

In Luc Moullet &apos s Gulf War comedy, a racecar driver stuck in a sinkhole in remote southern France turns for help to the eccentric locals, who range from farmers to filmmakers, from astrophysicists to soldiers hunting Saddam Hussein.

JULY 26, Wed at 7pm

I Have Quit/Am Quitting/Will Never Quit This Town!

Admission: $5 General Public, $3 Northwest Film Forum Members

NWFF &apos s quarterly Filmmakers Saloon is a panel discussion and socializing event for the local film community. Last quarter we took a wild ride on the subject of mediocrity. Tonight we concentrate hard on quitting. Is Seattle a realistic city to blossom in as a filmmaker? Cities smaller than Seattle have the distinction of being home to break out film directors who stayed local and have helped to shape a thriving film scene. Can Seattle play host to a similar vanguard, or is there a ceiling of success here, and if there is, has any filmmaker reached it? Can the industry, culture and audiences in Seattle sustain a real attempt at a worthwhile career in film? We &apos ll host a frank and sincere discussion with film people who see it from all sides. Filmmakers who have moved away from Seattle for greener pastures, at least one current Seattle resident who is dead set on getting the hell out of here, and a few who are determined to see their dreams fulfilled right here under emerald skies. Bring your thoughts and opinions about nesting and vacating, and join the discussion. Beverages will be served.

JULY 28-AUG 3 Fri-Thurs at 7, 9pm (plus Sat, Sun at 5pm)

From the director of HEAD-ON

CROSSING THE BRIDGE: THE SOUND OF ISTANBUL

(Fatih Akin, Germany/Turkey, 2005, 35mm, 92min.)

SEATTLE THEATRICAL PREMIERE!

Sponsored by KEXP 90.3FM, Easy Street Records and Turkish American Cultural Association Washington

A fascinating journey through the music of Istanbul, a city of female rappers and as much Turkish hip-hop, electronica and grunge rock as gypsy, Kurdish and traditional music. In addition to informative interviews with a wide variety of musicians, the film features fabulous performances from the hugely popular Sezen Aksu, who mixes pop with traditional Turkish music, Kurdish singer Anyar and 86-year-old diva, Muzeyyen Senar. A beautifully filmed portrait of the cultural life of the city that will be enjoyed not only by music fans but by anyone remotely interested in contemporary Turkey. East not only meets West but takes it on, tunes it up and spits it out. In English, German, and Turkish with English subtitles.

Friday 7pm screening introduced by DJ and radio host Darek Mazzone.

" Things get a lot more interesting as Akin delves deeper into popular Turkish music acts, taking in Roma barroom jams, movie star and saz virtuoso Orhan Gencebay, and a rather wonderful climactic song from Sezen Aksu, an authentic homegrown legend." � Andrew Pulver, THE GUARDIAN

AUGUST 1 Tues. at 8pm

NWFF & THIRD EYE CINEMA PRESENT

INTERKOSMOS

(Jim Finn, 2006, USA, 16mm, 71 min.)

Director Jim Finn in Attendence.

The East Germans started in the 1970s with their allies on an ambitious, secret project to colonise the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. You didn &apos t know that, did you? Experimental filmmaker Jim Finn reveals all: with beautiful archive material, swinging musical numbers in retro-socialist style, beautiful miniature sets, guinea pigs and a dramatic plot theory. All this in the week of Neal Armstrong &apos s birth! Official selection Rotterdam International Film Festival.

" What a delight! how charming and fantastic, so full of rare atmospheres." � Guy Maddin, director of THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD

" Finn &apos s deadpan is immaculately bone-dry, and his antiquarian fastidiousness is worthy of Guy Maddin." � VILLAGE VOICE

AUG 4-10 Fri-Thurs at 7, 9:30pm (plus Sat, Sun at 4:30pm)

Wim Wenders &apos

LAND OF PLENTY

(Wim Wenders, USA/Germany, 2004, 35mm, 119 min.)

SEATTLE THEATRICAL PREMIERE!

A quest through the fascinating landscapes of an America whose profound changes since 9/11 have altered director Wim Wenders. Paul (John Diehl) is a one-man homeland security force, driving around L.A. looking for terrorists. His niece, Lana (Michelle Williams), tries to bring him the peace he seeks. In a powerful film of redemption in post-9/11 America�the kind of film that only Wenders would appear able to make�the landscape speaks volumes and people speak by remaining silent.

" LAND OF PLENTY is the most outspoken political movie I have ever made. It deals with poverty in America - physical poverty and also cultural and political poverty. It explores a climate of paranoia and misguided patriotism." � Wim Wenders

AUG 4-10 Fri-Thurs at 7, 8:30pm

THROUGH THE EYES OF CHILD: 3 FROM IRAN

Cinema K presents

BAZI (THE PLAY)

(Gholamreza Remezani, Iran, 2005, 35mm. 60 min.)

US THEATRICAL PREMIERE!

Child &apos s play is serious business for the charming heroine of this film, a little girl named Saraya whose fondest dream is to find a playmate. She can hear children next door, and she begs to join them, but her mother says no for reasons no child should ever accept. Her persistence is rewarded when a bright blue beach ball comes flying over the courtyard wall. It is the beginning of a grand game that changes Soraya &apos s life for the better. Official selection, Berlin International Film Festival. In Farsi with English subtitles.

AUG 4-6 Fri-Sun at 5pm (plus Sat & Sun at 3pm)

THROUGH THE EYES OF CHILD: 3 FROM IRAN

Cinema K presents

THE WHITE BALLOON

(Jafar Panehi, Iran, 1995, 16mm, 85 min.)

Abbas Kiarostami wrote the screenplay for this directorial debut by Jafar Panehi, one of his most devoted students. In typical Kiarostami fashion, the plot is deceptively simple: a little girl sets out through the streets of Tehran to buy a goldfish, but when she loses her money, she must rely on strangers to help her. As this story unfolds in real time, it grows ever more spellbinding, thanks to stunning cinematography, brilliant direction, and an unforgettable performance by young Aida Mohammadkhani. Winner of the Camera d &apos Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. In Farsi with English subtitles

" Panehi brings film back to its elemental magic." � Tom Keogh, FILM.COM

AUG 11-13 Fri-Sun at 7, 9pm (plus Sat & Sun at 5pm)

THROUGH THE EYES OF CHILD: 3 FROM IRAN

Cinema K presents

WHERE IS THE FRIEND &apos S HOME?

(Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1987, 35mm, 83 min.)

The story of an 8-year-old boy &apos s journey to return a notebook to his friend in rural northern Iran provides the framework for this beloved masterpiece of Iranian cinema. It &apos s no wonder that filmmakers worldwide have declared it an inspiration, because Kiarostami &apos s cinematic alchemy transmutes the film &apos s seemingly simple plot into an intricate examination of the boy &apos s inner life, the unyielding adults and harsh landscape surrounding him, and the incredible obstacles he must overcome to complete one small act of human compassion. In Farsi with English subtitles

" Kiarostami makes masterful use out of a complex landscape and winds up with a great, moving film." � Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

AUG 11-17 Fri-Thurs at 7, 9pm

SIR! NO SIR!

(David Zeiger, USA, 2005, 35mm, 83 min.)

SEATTLE PREMIERE!

The American antiwar movement of the late &apos 60s and early &apos 70s took place not only on college campuses, but on military bases, in the towns that surrounded them, and on the battlefield overseas. The little-known GI movement against the Vietnam War, explained in part by the half-million �incidents of desertion� among U.S. soldiers in six years, is the subject of this impeccably researched, vividly annotated and galvanizing film, made by an accomplished antiwar activist of the time. Nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary

Thursday screening introduced by Vets for Peace.

" As it is, this one is compelling enough, a potent mix of outrage, residual anger, and sorrow that speaks not just to the legacy of our misadventures in Vietnam, but to the entire uncertain future of a nation at war." � VILLAGE VOICE

AUG 14 Mon at 8pm

NWFF & Three Dollar Bill Cinema Present

KARAOKE CHALLENGE

Make Your Own Karaoke Video

Ever wonder who &apos s behind those cheesy Karaoke videos you see at the bar on Friday nights? Well here &apos s your chance to become one of them. Grab a camera, pick a song, and leave your mark in Seattle &apos s first annual Karaoke challenge! Content is open to interpretation; each submission must have a designated singer for the screening. Rules: songs must be no longer than 5 minutes; formats: mini-DV, DVD, BetaSP, or if you &apos re feeling ambitious, Super-8 and 16mm; include title, filmmaker &apos s name and contact information with submission. The project is open to all levels of skills and experience. Submissions are due July 31 to: Northwest Film Forum, c/o Adam Sekuler, 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122. For more information, contact Adam Sekuler ,at adams@nwfilmforum.org. $10/$8 NWFF members (beer included in the price of admission). This is a 21 and over event.

AUG 15-17 Tues-Thurs at 7, 8:30pm

ALI FARKA TOURE: SPRINGING FROM THE ROOTS

(Yves Billon and Henry Lecomte, France, 2000, Beta-SP 60 min.)

Sponsored by KEXP 90.3FM and Easy Street Records

In honor of great Malian guitarist and songwriter Ali Farka Toure, who died at the age of 67 this spring, Northwest Film Forum presents special screenings of the award winning documentary, SPRINGING FROM THE ROOTS. Shot in Bamoko and Timbuktu, this intimate portrait finds the usually standoffish singer discussing his life and music with surprising openness as he guides us through the magnificent region formed by the Niger &apos s loop. Join us in celebrating the man and his music. In French and Bambara with English subtitles.

AUG 18-31 Fri-Thurs at 7, 9:00pm

CALLS OF THE WILD: WERNER HERZOG

TWO WEEKS!

WILD BLUE YONDER

(Werner Herzog, UK/USA/France/Germany, 2005, 35mm, 81 min.)

SEATTLE THEATRICAL PREMIERE!

Werner Herzog &apos s latest film is a typically inspired union of cinematic bravado and lunacy, a mockumentary ostensibly about a disgruntled alien &apos s reminiscences of the long journey from the Andromeda galaxy to earth. Although the alien is played with crazy- eyed conviction by Brad Dourif, the whole exercise is really an excuse to reinvent a series of ethereally beautiful zero-gravity sequences shot during a NASA space shuttle mission and some extraordinary Arctic underwater diving scenes, all set to a hypnotic score of Sardinian polyphonic harmonies.

" The director calls the film a &apos science-fiction fantasy, &apos but it &apos s really a languid meditation on human impermanence." � BOSTON GLOBE

AUG 18-21 Fri-Mon at 5, 7:15, 9:30pm

CALLS OF THE WILD: WERNER HERZOG

NEW 35MM PRINT!

COBRA VERDE

(Werner Herzog, Germany, 1987, 35mm, 111 min.)

SEATTLE PREMIERE!

This was the last of the legendary, combative collaborations between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski. Based on Bruce Chatwin &apos s novel THE VICEROY OF OUIDAH, the film stars Kinski as a farmer turned-bandit in 19th-century Brazil who is exiled to West Africa to revive the slave trade. Herzog once again focuses on an outcast with grand visions of an untamed world overwhelmed by a foreign environment. Kinski is, of course, Kinski�intense to the point of mania and a fascinating, furious center for the picture. In German with English subtitles

AUG 22-24 Tues-Thurs at 6:45, 8:15, 9:45pm

NEW 35MM PRINT!

LESSONS OF DARKNESS

(Werner Herzog, France/UK/Germany, 1992, 35mm, 50 min.)

Herzog prefers to think of this film as science fiction rather than documentary, as it depicts a tragically alien land: the flaming Kuwaiti oil fields post-Desert Storm. He deliberately avoided filming anything recognizable. Only someone with as passionate a view of the conflict between humanity and nature could make such a poetic and beautiful vision of utter madness and destruction. In German, English, and Arabic with English subtitles

" It &apos s a meditative, powerful, unique and strangely beautiful movie." � SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

AUG 25-27 Fri-Sun at 7, 9pm (plus Sat, Sun at 5pm)

WHEEL OF TIME

(Werner Herzog, Germany, 2003, 35mm, 80 min.)

Buddha found enlightenment sitting under a tree in Bodh Gaya, India, and today Buddhist monks are ordained in this holy place. Werner Herzog�who claimed to have once walked from Munich to Paris�takes the monks &apos lengthy pilgrimage, which can comprise more than 3000 miles for some, and their creation of the intricate �Wheel of Life� sand mandala as jumping-off points for a thoughtful, highly personal look at what Buddhism means to its most fervent adherents as well as to the rest of us. In English and Tibetan with English subtitles

" The assembly and eventual destruction...[of the Kalachakra sand mandala] is the cycle around which the German director Werner Herzog &apos s absorbing documentary is structured." � Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES

AUG 26 Sat

NWFF & CASCADE BICYCLE CLUB Present

SEATTLE &apos S BIKE-IN

Hop on your bike and make your way to Magnuson Park (Sand Point) for the Seattle Bike-In, an evening of outdoor film and music brought to you by Northwest Film Forum and the Cascade Bicycle Club. This unique outdoor event features live music and demonstrations about biking and the outdoors. At dusk, enjoy bicycle-themed films from local and national filmmakers on our big outdoor screen! For more info and updates go to nwfilmforum.org/bike nwfilmforum.org/bike.