http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/624 Brown Paper Tickets - Northwest Film Forum's Event Feed en-us http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226286 Alexia Anastasio, who's been making films since she was 11, trains her lens on Bill Plympton, the Oscar-nominated animator (for Your Face) whose frantically hilarious cartoons have been busting guts for over 40 years. 16 Mar 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/227896 Even ifor perhaps becausethe Greek economy is suffering tremendous stress during the great recession, its film industry continues to knock them out of the park. 04 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/227829 Battle Royale is a jarring, jaw-dropping look at a future Japan where a group of 42 largely delinquent ninth-graders are chosen through a governmental lottery to kill each other off. 02 Mar 2012 23:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226245 Over the past 125 years, dozens of corporations such as Occidental Petroleum, Sierra Pacific and Borax Energy have bought huge parcels of land to establish their private operations, which included stores, schools and homes for their workers. 02 Mar 2012 20:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/228181 Robert Altman's film concerns, as the title implies, two Jimmy Deans: the James Dean whose fans flocked to McCarthy, Texas in 1955, where he was filmingGiant; and one fan's son, Jimmy, who is 20 years old when the fan club reunites in 1975. 05 May 2012 17:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226285 Two years after the wonderful British crime series Red Riding Trilogy comes another trilogy of intersecting crime stories from overseas. This time we take you to Germany. 09 Mar 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/228192 Leatrice Joy functions as the heart and soul of this 1926 silent filmone of the first produced by Cecil B. DeMille in his own studio!though she would slip from the limelight when talking pictures began to take over Hollywood. 14 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/228188 Though he was given a modest budget for The Flower of Doom, Rex Ingram seized the chance to dig into his favorite settingthe shady urban junglewhich he worked into a Chinatown mystery. 12 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/227890 "A movie about the condition of being in love. It is shockingly beautifuland may well be Bresson's loveliest film" New York Times 09 May 2012 20:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226271 Deconstructing myths of the Utopian quality of alternative cultures, From the Back of the Room confronts punk patriarchy. 06 Mar 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226478 The French icon tells his own story in this new docudrama. Accompanied by interviews from former muses and lovers, a parallax portrait emerges. 23 Mar 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226482 Gerhard Richter Painting offers rare insights into the artist's process with a quiet, fly-on-the-wall perspective. 23 Mar 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226311 Hallelujah The Hills is a lighthearted surreal comedy in which two men vie for the love of Vera, played by two different actresses to capture the suitors' visions of the ideal woman. 23 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226198 Like a title weight bout, raucous music writer Chris Estey goes "toe to toe" with cagey music maverick Calvin Johnson about important subjects such as beards and other mysteries of life. 05 Mar 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226272 ) For those of us who love the sensuality of a physical book How to Make a Book with Steidl is a timely celebration of a fading art form 09 Mar 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/227854 This twice-annual program, co-curated by The Monktail Creative Music Concern and the Film Forum, presents an evening of live collaborative media experiments. 19 Apr 2012 20:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/205803 Making Up The Truth weaves stories together with the latest findings in contemporary brain science to answer the question, "Why do these things always happen to me?" 15 Mar 2012 20:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226479 Every year the Jeonju Digital Project, initiated in 2000 by the celebrated South Korean Jeonju International Festival, commissions three filmmakers to make a digital short. 21 Mar 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226737 For his first documentary feature, Robert Greene shares with us an intimate portrait of his half-sister Kati. 30 Mar 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/227886 "Stunningly beautiful, mesmerizing, exhausting, uplifting, amazingall the things you could possibly expect from a masterpiece" Time Out 08 May 2012 20:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/227838 Otto Preminger's first acknowledged feature (he disavows everything that came before) is a masterpiece of American movies. 06 Apr 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/207767 Writer, performer and comedian Lauren Weedman takes us to the world of Single Room Occupancy; a place of lawn care, electric guitars, the same dinner every night, old horror movies, and sex. 17 May 2012 20:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/227875 Shown with Bresson's legendary debut short, Les Affaires Publiques, a burlesque comedy (!) long thought to be lost. 01 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/227879 Critic David Thomson calls this "a landmark in cinema history." 02 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/227843 A 60-minute program of Frank Zappa in Stockholm in 1973, Talking Heads in Rome 1980 and The Kinks on BBC 1972 and on Rockpalast 1982. 13 Apr 2012 22:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/228030 A 60-minute program of Jimi Hendrix in Germany 1967 and London 1969, Fleetwood Mac in Santa Barbara 1979 and The Police in Germany 1980. 11 May 2012 22:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/221608 The film follows the renowned reincarnate Tibetan spiritual master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, as he struggles to save his spiritual tradition, and his Italian born son, Yeshi, who stubbornly refuses to follow in his father's footsteps. 24 Feb 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/228195 Native Land, which sought to expose the injustices perpetrated upon Americans by American capitalism, was released shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor to an unwelcoming public. 19 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/228201 In addition to countless newspapers, William Randolph Hearst turned out News of the Day, a series of newsreels keeping the public up to date on world affairs, for over 50 years! 26 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226744 Artist, writer and filmmaker Brian Butler presents a program that explores the occult as depicted in avant garde and experimental film. 05 Apr 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226194 A documentary sequel? You read correctly! Bradley Beesley follows up his beloved portrait of "noodling," the world's wildest sport, returning home to Oklahoma to see how the sport has evolved over the last decade. 26 Feb 2012 20:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226745 The plot of this co-winner of the 2011 Cannes Grand Prix is simple: a group of men search for a corpse. But the story is not so straightforward. 06 Apr 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/228194 Los Angeles's Outfest Legacy Project, which is dedicated to rescuing and preserving films about LGBTQ culture and its social significance and impact, is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2012! 18 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/228029 Following up his documentaries on Radiohead and Joy Division, director Grant Gee turns his lens on author W.G. Sebald. 11 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/228183 Seeking a dose and a half of absurdity? You can't do any better than Samuel Beckett's "Film" his only screenplay, clocking in at 20 minutes longfollowed by the television adaptation of Waiting For Godot with Zero Mostel. 07 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226739 This 90-minute program will delight nerds of all genders and possibly be worthy of taking notes. Trailers include Space Amoeba, Funky Forest: The First Contact, Xtro 2, Dark Breed, Screamers, Super Inframan and Alien Intruder. 30 Mar 2012 23:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226252 Lee Anne Schmitt's filmmaking falls into two categories, film essay and landscape cinema. Her work has been compared to that of James Benning and Thom Andersen. 02 Mar 2012 20:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226288 This special series commemorates the work of three notable experimental and underground filmmakers who left us in 2011. Films screen in their original 16mm format. 20 Mar 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/199448 Live At The Film Forum artists seem to be drinking some truth telling serum in our third commissioned series expanding the field of film and video art from the single screen to multi-screen, immersive, performance-based live-projections. 15 Sep 2011 20:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/227864 Like Werner Herzog, the Austrian filmmaker Michael Glawogger is a formal double-dipper. He's made both narratives (Slumming) and docs (State of the Nation) about his native Austria 24 Apr 2012 20:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/227873 We present in this series six of Bresson's harder-to-find features, as well as his only short film. 01 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/227868 Although husband and wife team Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas are relatively new to filmmaking, their first two features have made waves on the international festival circuit. 27 Apr 2012 17:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/228180 The biennial Festival of Preservation from the UCLA Film and Television Archive showcases their masterful restoration and preservation achievements with a broad sampling of the works they have rescued over the past few years. 05 May 2012 17:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226197 This is a documentary about domestic sex trafficking of minors and the modern-day abolitionist movement fighting to stop it. 01 Mar 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226253 Program includes: The Wash; Three; Bower's Cave; Las Vegas 03 Mar 2012 18:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226255 Program includes: Awake And Sing (Lee Anne Schmitt, 2003, 16mm, 42 min); Nightingale (Lee Anne Schmitt, 2002, 16 mm, 14 min). 03 Mar 2012 20:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/228200 Mary Pickford is most famous as an actress, but also produced nearly 40 films! Among them was Sleep, My Love, which stars Claudette Colbert as a socialite whose husband attempts to slowly drive her insane. 21 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/228187 In 1916, with only two feature films under his belt, director Rex Ingram moved to Hollywood at the invitation of the budding Universal Film Manufacturing Company to direct an adaptation of the play that had inspired Puccini's Tosca. 11 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226726 The film is loosely based on the real story of a man from the Polish provinces who, after operating as a criminal in his hometown, finds himself in Warsaw. 30 Mar 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226292 George Kuchar (Aug. 31, 1942Sept. 6, 2011), with his surviving twin brother, Mike, practically invented the campy, no-budget, anti-professional, tasteless, gender-bending underground style later embraced by John Waters and others. 20 Mar 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226195 In Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon, the first science fiction movie ever made, six academics undertake an expedition that will take them to the Moon. 28 Feb 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/228198 Westernization vs. Mexican village: not the subject matter you may expect from a 1941 documentary. But in directing The Forgotten Village Herbert Kline chose perhaps the greatest screenwriter for the job: John Steinbeck. 20 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/228191 Louise Dresser, who would go on to star in another of our featuresthe documentary series This Is Your Lifeheads the cast of this 1925 film based on a murder case in which the primary witness was an unpredictable "pig lady." 13 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226256 This documentary is the result of a five-year observation of the last wild buffalo herds in the south of Utah. 04 Mar 2012 20:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/227881 ) "Trial seems like a historical document from an era in which cinema doesn't exist" Jean Cocteau 03 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/227846 The story is based on the legend that philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed a man abusing a horse in Turin, Italy, which triggered the mental illness that disabled Nietzsche until his death. 20 Apr 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/227839 Smuggled out of Iran on a USB drive hidden inside a cake, This is Not a Film protests its nature for good reason. 13 Apr 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/228203 Ever wondered where reality TV got its start? It may have been with Ralph Edwards, the host of This Is Your Life, who every week featured a surprise guestcelebrity or unknownand told his or her compelling life story. 27 May 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226174 The story of a family that leaves the Umatilla Indian Reservation in pursuit of the American dream. 25 Feb 2012 17:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/223839 This inspiring documentary by Gayle Ferraro follows Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Yunus as he brings his unique and revolutionary microfinance program to the US. 29 Feb 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/227893 Adapted from a Dostoevsky short story. 10 May 2012 20:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226304 . This special program features 16 of Breer's short films, spanning his entire career and including award-winning and rarely-shown gems 18 Apr 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/228182 Director Barbara Loden, an actress long overshadowed by husband Elia Kazan, dared audiences to confront that question in her depiction of a washed-out single mother in rural Pennsylvania, who takes to the road with an abusive bank robber. 06 May 2012 17:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/226260 The realities of modern rural life, energy production and the environmental movement clash in unexpected ways. 02 Mar 2012 19:00 -0800 Seattle, WA United States