One of the most thrilling epics of the silent era and Douglas Fairbanks’s personal favorite, THE THIEF OF BAGDAD shows him at the top of his charming, acrobatic game. Adapted from ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, the story revolves around a thief (Fairbanks) who falls in love with the daughter (Julanne Johnston) of the Caliph of Bagdad. So overcome with love that he refuses to be deceptive about his true identity, Fairbanks’s thief still has the chance to win the fair maiden by bringing back the world’s rarest treasures. Thus begins a rousing fantasy replete with flying carpets, winged horses, and underwater sea monsters. Exquisite camerawork and lavish sets by William Cameron Menzies support early special effects to make a wildly entertaining spectacle. Inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996 and voted one of the top ten classic American films by the American Film Institute in 2008, the film’s new digital restoration and score by Carl Davis (NAPOLEON) make it look like yesterday. (149 mins.)

THE THIEF OF BAGDAD screens Thursday, May  23 through Saturday, May 25 at 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.

This week, Joe and Erik dig deep and try to figure out why some huge spectacle films work and some don’t. They disagree on Star Trek Into Darkness and also include Fast & Furious 6 in a chat about Spectacle Fatigue Syndrome. But they can’t help but gush over Noah Baumbach‘s latest film, Frances Ha (look for a special, interview edition with Baumbach later this week) which opens in Portland at Cinema 21 for a weeklong run. Also, don’t forget about the one-night only premiere screening for City Baby also at Cinema 21.

New episodes of Adjust Your Tracking are released every Thursday, so make sure to come back and check out what Joe and Erik are discussing every week. We’d love to hear your feedback in the comments section, or feel free to email adjustyourtracking@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @adjustyourtrack. We’re on iTunes now, so make sure to subscribe to the show by clicking the link below. Also, leaving reviews and rating the show on iTunes is really helpful in getting more attention and attracting more listeners, so please do so if you like what we do. You can stream the episode on the embedded player below.

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CREDITS

Producer  -- Drew Wallner

Co-Host, Segment Editor -- Joe von Appen

Co-Host, Audio Editor -- Erik McClanahan

Presented by -- The Northwest Film Center

We asked everyone who attended to share their thoughts with us after the event. Of the 255 people who came, 58% said the experience of coming and the film exceeded their expectations. 72% of the audience felt that homeless people can make powerful films and 84% thought that projects like this are of great value to the community.

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“Celebrated French writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, who wrote together under the nom de plume Boileau-Narcejac, are best known for such works as the novel D’ENTRE LES MORTS which inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO (1958), the adaptation of Jean Redon’s novel LES YEUX SANS VISAGE into Georges Franju’s EYES WITHOUT A FACE (1960), and the novel CELLE QUI N’ÉTAIT PLUS from which Henri-Georges Clouzot fashioned his cult classic DIABOLIQUE (1955). Chechik’s 1996 version of DIABOLIQUE, which recounts the story of the wife and mistress of a cruel schoolmaster who try to do him in, was a box office and critical disaster, despite the presence of actresses Sharon Stone and Isabelle Adjani and Chechik’s faithfulness to the original text. A case study in adaptation and remake; at the same time, perhaps due rehabilitation.”—PF (107 mins.)

DIABOLIQUE screens on Tuesday, May 21 at 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).  The film is being presented as part of our Literature Into Film series.

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.

Regular episodes of Adjust Your Tracking are released every Thursday, so make sure to come back and check out what Joe and Erik are discussing every week. We’d love to hear your feedback in the comments section, or feel free to email adjustyourtracking@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @adjustyourtrack. We’re on iTunes now, so make sure to subscribe to the show by clicking the link below. Also, leaving reviews and rating the show on iTunes is really helpful in getting more attention and attracting more listeners, so please do so if you like what we do. You can stream the episode on the embedded player below.

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Producer -- Oktay Ege Kozak, Anthony Brisson
Producer, Host, Editor -- Erik McClanahan

BASIC LIGHTING

Buñuel employs the beautiful Catherine Deneuve in a chilling surrealist horror story of individuals destroyed by the moral codes of a corrupt society. Set in Toledo, Spain in the 1920s, an innocent orphan girl is seduced by the aristocratic Don Lope, her Mephistophelean old guardian (Fernando Ray), whom she eventually comes to surpass in cynicism and perversity. Full of Freudian imagery and dark, outrageous humor, TRISTANA is “nothing less than the quintessential Buñuel film of all time … Never before has Deneuve’s beauty seemed more precise and enigmatic.”—Vincent Canby, The New York Times. “[The] scenes have an almost hypnotic power because Buñuel himself finds their images so fascinating … He is having at our subconscious like a surgeon.”—Roger Ebert (95 mins.)

Newly restored to its original glory by the Cohen Film Collection and Filmoteca Española, Madrid.

TRISTANA screens on Saturday, May  18 at 7p.m. and 9p.m. and Sunday May 19 at 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.

Global Classroom links Portland metro area high schools with the films and filmmakers of the Portland International Film Festival through free, school-day screenings during the Festival in February and during the academic year. Screenings take place in the Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium inside the Portland Art Museum and are offered free of charge. Through the films, students learn about topics related to foreign language, social studies, language arts, and other academic areas. Many screenings are presented by visiting filmmakers, who discuss how films are made, film careers, and film festivals.

Photos by Jason E. Kaplan

“Novelist David Ely is frequently cited as a science fiction writer. He should be listed instead as a metaphysical writer, a category that has few followers in America, which perhaps explains why this masterpiece was so little seen. Seeking to make an auteur film, Frankenheimer was attracted by Ely’s unusual Faustian story, which combined horror, suspense, science fiction, mythology, psychology, and more. Assisted by cinematographer James Wong Howe, screenwriter Lewis John Carlino, composer Jerry Goldsmith, and actors John Randolph and Rock Hudson, Frankenheimer creates an evocative atmosphere to tell the story of a disillusioned man who enlists a secret agency to help him fake his death and emerge with a new life.”—PF (106 mins.)

SECONDS screens on Tuesday, May 7 at 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).  The film is being presented as part of our Literature Into Film series.

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.

Isabelle Huppert plays Maria Vial, a white, coffee plantation owner in an unnamed central African country deep in the throes of political and social upheaval. Through a series of harrowing encounters, Maria is faced with a choice: to flee a populace, many of them young, who seek retribution and the expulsion of her and her family, or to stay and protect all that she knows, however fleeting that may prove. Employing the laconic observational style developed over her twenty-plus-year career, tensions mount until explosive inevitability. “With grave tenderness, Denis reminds us that these murderous, tragically lost boys and girls are still children, a gesture that doesn’t restore their humanity—which she has no right to restore—so much as remind you of the humanity that’s so easily forgotten.”—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times (106 mins.)

WHITE MATERIAL screens on Sunday, May  12 at 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).  The film is being presented as part of our Claire Denis retrospective, THE LYRICAL SPACE OF CLAIRE DENIS.

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.  Series passes are available here for $45 (an $109 value!).

Based on the autobiography of French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, with whom Denis has a close working relationship, THE INTRUDER follows Louis Trebor, a middle-aged man in need of a heart transplant. As Trebor traverses the globe, seemingly shopping the black market for a new heart, his son Sidney re-enters his life after years of estrangement. The specter of another son, conceived out of wedlock and possibly living in the Caribbean, threatens to interrupt their bond. While almost certainly Denis’s most oblique and elliptical film, the sensuousness provided by Agnès Godard’s images and the music of Stuart Staples (Tindersticks) make the film a remarkable sensory pleasure. “Exhilarating and exhausting, the kind of picture you don’t bounce back from immediately. Yet its elusiveness is the very source of its poetic energy.”—Stephanie Zacharek, Salon (130 mins.)

THE INTRUDER screens on Sunday, May  12 at 2p.m. and Monday, May 13 at 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).  The film is being presented as part of our Claire Denis retrospective, THE LYRICAL SPACE OF CLAIRE DENIS.

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.  Series passes are available here for $45 (an $109 value!).

STORYBOARDING

Saturday, May 11, 2013 from 10am to 3 PM
Taught by Dan Schaefer
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Concept artist Dan Schaefer, (“Grimm”, MILK) will be teaching storyboarding in a one-day workshop at the School of Film.

Topics: how storyboarding saves precious dollars; the role of the storyboard artist on a crew; the range of approaches used in working with a director; short hand instruction in figure drawing, composition, and perspective; standard blocking techniques, camera shots, and camera moves; participate in an in-class, hands-on exercise and receive instructor feedback; suitable for drawing novices as well as the highly skilled; open to filmmakers of all levels.

Prerequisites: None

The workshop will be this Saturday, May 11 from 10 – 3 PM at the Northwest Film Center School of Film (934 SW Salmon).

CLICK HERE for more information about the workshop, Dan Schaefer, and to register.

This week, Joe dodged a bullet and Erik rants about his deep displeasure for Baz Lahmurnn‘s latest glitzy spectacle, The Great Gatsby. Then it’s on to films actually worth seeing and talking about, as we dive in to the very exciting series at Cinema 21, Return to Noir Ville, which starts this friday and runs for two weeks. There’s a ton of great titles to check out, all in wonderful 35 mm. We’re taking next week off, but we’ll still have bonus content for you.

New episodes of Adjust Your Tracking are released every Thursday, so make sure to come back and check out what Joe and Erik are discussing every week. We’d love to hear your feedback in the comments section, or feel free to email adjustyourtracking@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @adjustyourtrack. We’re on iTunes now, so make sure to subscribe to the show by clicking the link below. Also, leaving reviews and rating the show on iTunes is really helpful in getting more attention and attracting more listeners, so please do so if you like what we do. You can stream the episode on the embedded player below.

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CREDITS

Producer  -- Drew Wallner

Co-Host, Segment Editor -- Joe von Appen

Co-Host, Audio Editor -- Erik McClanahan

Presented by -- The Northwest Film Center

Lionel, a metro conductor, lives with his daughter Josephine, a beautiful university student, in a bustling apartment complex outside Paris. They have been sharing the same space for many years and have grown accustomed to one another’s company. Lately, Josephine has started spending time with Noé, a handsome young neighbor, while Lionel finds himself drawn into a romance with Gabrielle, a close friend who also lives in the building. As their lives are pulled in different directions, father and daughter realize they must finally confront an aspect of their past in order to embrace their own destinies. 35 SHOTS OF RUM “is Denis’s warmest, most radiant work, honoring a family of two’s extreme closeness while suggesting its potential for suffocation.”—Melissa Anderson, The Village Voice (100 mins.)

35 SHOTS OF RUM screens on Saturday, May  11 at 7p.m. and Sunday, May 12 at 4:45p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).  The film is being presented as part of our Claire Denis retrospective, THE LYRICAL SPACE OF CLAIRE DENIS.

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.  Series passes are available here for $45 (an $109 value!).

A city symphony like few others, WINGS OF DESIRE is Wim Wenders’s love letter to Berlin, as told through the eyes of Damiel (Bruno Ganz), an angel in love with circus acrobat Marion (Solveig Dommartin). Damiel, faced with an existential crisis, is forced to choose between a lonely life in heaven spent watching those on Earth or one shot at mortal love. One of the most inventive films of the German New Wave’s “mature” period following its heyday of the ’60s and ’70s, WINGS OF DESIRE “is one of Wenders’s most stunning achievements.”—Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader (128 mins.)

Assistant direction by Claire Denis.

WINGS OF DESIRE screens on Saturday, May 11 at 2p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).  The film is being presented as part of our Claire Denis retrospective, THE LYRICAL SPACE OF CLAIRE DENIS.

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.  Series passes are available here for $45 (an $109 value!).

Inspired by Herman Melville’s BILLY BUDD, BEAU TRAVAIL focuses on the lives of men in a small French Foreign Legion outpost, emphasizing the banality and ritual of their days in the scorching sun. Sergeant Galoup seems the ideal Legionnaire: a brooding loner cut off from his past. He runs the troupe like a well-oiled machine until the arrival of a new recruit threatens to upset the delicate balance. “What is really remarkable about Denis’s film is the way she succeeds in fusing the real and the dreamlike, the naturalistic and the figurative, into one visual conceit. Never for one moment does this shimmering, simmering emotional desert storm of a film relax its grip on your senses.”—Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (93 mins.)

BEAU TRAVAIL screens on Thursday, May  9 at 7p.m. and Saturday, May 11 at 5p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).  The film is being presented as part of our Claire Denis retrospective, THE LYRICAL SPACE OF CLAIRE DENIS.

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.  Series passes are available here for $45 (an $109 value!).

A special bonus edition of the podcast, in which host Erik McClanahan interviews New York filmmaker Christopher Bell, whose short film Bridges premiered online last week over at The Playlist (part of Indiewire‘s Blog Network). Bell is also in post-production on his first full-length feature film, The Winds That Scatter. Chris, as a filmmaker, came to the attention of Erik after he found one of his previous short films online, Pilgrimage, a very funny, awkward and honest tale about two old friend reuniting in college for a night, only to find they have next to nothing in common anymore. Give that a watch below:

Regular episodes of Adjust Your Tracking are released every Thursday, so make sure to come back and check out what Joe and Erik are discussing every week. We’d love to hear your feedback in the comments section, or feel free to email adjustyourtracking@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/adjustyourtrack. We’re on iTunes now, so make sure to subscribe to the show by clicking the link below. Also, leaving reviews and rating the show on iTunes is really helpful in getting more attention and attracting more listeners, so please do so if you like what we do. You can stream the episode on the embedded player below.

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Producer, Host, Editor -- Erik McClanahan

FOOD STYLING

A new 4-week class beginning Tuesday, May 7, 6:30-9:30 PM
Taught by food stylist Dolores Custer
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The art of preparing food for the camera.

Topics: Selecting and working with different foods (which ones work, which ones don’t); learn to produce steam on demand, a chilled beverage with a splash, cheese melting over a hamburger, grill marks on meats, the perfect dollop, and much more; propping; working as a team with the cinematographer; working on location under minimum conditions; try out techniques and shoot them with basic cameras; last class is devoted to a small group project on a chosen food.

Qualifies for Avid discount.

Projects: Individual and collaborative
Allocated gear: Basic video cameras for in-class recording
Prerequisites: None
Related courses:CANON XA-10 CAMERA BASICS, BASIC LIGHTING

“Of Argentine writer Julio Cortázar’s short story ‘The Devil’s Drool,’ Antonioni opted to keep only the mechanism of magnification of the image hiding (perhaps) a suspicious reality, showing how far a film director can go to ‘render’ the ‘spirit’ of a literary work instead of transposing a mere plot. David Hemmings is a fashion photographer, Veruschka his favorite model, Vanessa Redgrave an elusive con woman, John Castle an abstract artist married to Vera Miles who tries to find sense in his paintings—among the many other characters all alienated from reality, all wanting to be somewhere or someone else. Both Cortázar and Antonioni chose the thriller’s style, but their search is not the whodunit but rather the ontological, the metaphysical.”—PF (111 mins.)

BLOW-UP screens on Tuesday, May 7 at 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).  The film is being presented as part of our Literature Into Film series.

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.

Regular episodes of Adjust Your Tracking are released every Thursday, so make sure to come back and check out what Joe and Erik are discussing every week. We’d love to hear your feedback in the comments section, or feel free to email adjustyourtracking@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/adjustyourtrack. We’re on iTunes now, so make sure to subscribe to the show by clicking the link below. Also, leaving reviews and rating the show on iTunes is really helpful in getting more attention and attracting more listeners, so please do so if you like what we do. You can stream the episode on the embedded player below.

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Boniface, “Boni” for short, is 19. He works at a pizza van on the Marseilles waterfront. Since his mother died, he’s fallen out with Felix, his dad, who’s in retail (lights and lampshades) and must watch out for his 15-year-old kid sister Nenette. Boni drifts along in his world: pizzas, the hood, daydreams, and an imaginary love interest that only makes him feel more alone. He idles around in his hot, sweaty apartment, waiting for desire to come along and sweep him away. But as Boni dreams, reality intrudes. Here comes Nenette, on the run from the boarding school she hates and about to have a baby she doesn’t want. Boni doesn’t want to know, but she moves in all the same, into the abandoned apartment he inherited from their mother—his den, his last line of defense. Marginalized from the world, the two must find the bonds of family to find their identities and overcome the struggle to survive. (103 mins.)

NENETTE AND BONI screens on Sunday, May  5 at 4:30p.m. and Friday, May 10 at 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).  The film is being presented as part of our Claire Denis retrospective, THE LYRICAL SPACE OF CLAIRE DENIS.

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.  Series passes are available here for $45 (an $109 value!).

“A hard-hitting mélange of science fiction, body horror, and AIDS allegory, TROUBLE EVERY DAY is perhaps Denis’s most underappreciated work. Although the film’s apparent coldness and glimpses of carnal savagery immediately marked it as a controversial aberration in Denis’s oeuvre, it is perhaps best understood as an important, albeit darker, variation of the restless, lonely searching for connection between people that remains the central theme of Denis’s work. While the film centers upon the relationship between an American and a French vampire, Denis’s real interest is not in the trappings of genre, whether mad-doctor imaginings or bloodshed, but in the limits of love, sex, and forgiveness.”—Harvard Film Archive (101 mins.)

TROUBLE EVERY DAY screens on Sunday, May  5 at 4:30p.m. and Friday, May 10 at 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).  The film is being presented as part of our Claire Denis retrospective, THE LYRICAL SPACE OF CLAIRE DENIS.

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.  Series passes are available here for $45 (an $109 value!).

Claire Denis weaves the true story of Thierry Paulin—a black, gay transvestite who, with his lover, killed at least 20 “little old ladies” in Paris during the 1980s—into a portrait of his extended family from Martinique and their encounter with a plucky young Lithuanian actress. “There are no heroes in I CAN’T SLEEP, but the city fights its own demons, ‘grannies’ take up martial arts to defend themselves, and those with any shred of humanity reach out to others, often in vain. Denis understands that people sin but knows that they also regret. The title may suggest that even the gravest offenders lose sleep over their transgressions.”—Indiewire (110 mins.)

I CAN’T SLEEP screens on Saturday, May  4 at 6:15p.m. and Friday, May 10 at 9:15p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).  The film is being presented as part of our Claire Denis retrospective, THE LYRICAL SPACE OF CLAIRE DENIS.

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.  Series passes are available here for $45 (an $109 value!).

This week, Joe and Erik review two new movies on each end of the Summer movie spectrum: Gimme The Loot and Iron Man 3. Then it’s on to their top 5 most anticipated Summer movies of 2013, big and small. Let us know what films you’re anticipating.

New episodes of Adjust Your Tracking are released every Thursday, so make sure to come back and check out what Joe and Erik are discussing every week. We’d love to hear your feedback in the comments section, or feel free to email adjustyourtracking@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/adjustyourtrack. We’re on iTunes now, so make sure to subscribe to the show by clicking the link below. Also, leaving reviews and rating the show on iTunes is really helpful in getting more attention and attracting more listeners, so please do so if you like what we do. You can stream the episode on the embedded player below.

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CREDITS

Producer  -- Drew Wallner

Co-Host, Segment Editor -- Joe von Appen

Co-Host, Audio Editor -- Erik McClanahan

Presented by -- The Northwest Film Center

“Jack (John Lurie) and Zack (Tom Waits), super-cool no-hopers, meet up in a New Orleans jail. Initially at odds with one another, they are soon distracted by the arrival of Roberto (Roberto Benigni), whose Pidgin English, memories of old movies, and quotations from Robert Frost in his native Italian keep them both irritated and amused. Finally, however, it is this garrulous and eternally optimistic little man who leads the two self-appointed tough guys to freedom. What makes this film accessible is the emphasis on humor; after the initial establishment of character and atmosphere, the laughs come thick and fast, most notably from the marvelous Benigni. For all the wit and style, however, the film’s most delightful triumph is to demonstrate that ‘Ees a sad an’ beautiful world.’”—Geoff Andrew, Time Out London (107 mins.)

Assistant direction by Claire Denis.

DOWN BY LAW screens on Friday, May  3 at 7p.m. and Sunday, May 5 at 2p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).  The film is being presented as part of our Claire Denis retrospective, THE LYRICAL SPACE OF CLAIRE DENIS.

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.  Series passes are available here for $45 (an $109 value!).

On Wednesday, May 1 at 6p.m., we celebrate the creative spirit and artistic achievements of a group of young adults who have spent the last several months participating in Project Viewfinder, a School of Film community outreach project conducted with the help of New Avenues for Youth, p:ear, Outside In, and the Bud Clark Commons Media Project. Mentored by lead faculty member Bushra Azzouz and supporting instructors, these youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to find their voices as media makers, sharing personal stories about the struggles of homelessness and the transitions they are now trying to make to lives of hope, joy, and self-sufficiency. Together, the works are a poignant reflection on an often overlooked and misunderstood aspect of community vitality and livability. (80 mins.)

DAVID: Reading (Project Viewfinder Excerpt) from NW Film Center School of Film on Vimeo.

Many of the youth filmmakers will be in attendance. Join us for a pre-film reception at 5 p.m. in the Andree Stevens Room, adjacent to the Whitsell Auditorium.  For more info, click here.

Free admission.

Denis’s first feature, intricately structured through flashback, follows France, a young woman reflecting on her childhood in a former colonial outpost in Cameroon. During France’s formative years, her mother Aimée spends days at home while her husband is off tending to official duties. It is quickly apparent that there is a mutual attraction between Aimée and Protée, a servant at the home. Luc, a drifter who takes up temporary residence at the house, sees this tension and decides to take matters into his own hands. Denis’s semi-autobiographical film, ostensibly about the workings of a family on the brink, thus transforms into a scathing comment on race relations in colonial Africa during the middle of the twentieth century. (105 mins.)

CHOCOLAT screens on Friday, May  3 at 7p.m. and Saturday, May 18 at 4:30p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).  The film is being presented as part of our Claire Denis retrospective, THE LYRICAL SPACE OF CLAIRE DENIS.

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.  Series passes are available here for $45 (an $109 value!).

On Wednesday, May 1 at 6p.m., we celebrate the creative spirit and artistic achievements of a group of young adults who have spent the last several months participating in Project Viewfinder, a School of Film community outreach project conducted with the help of New Avenues for Youth, p:ear, Outside In, and the Bud Clark Commons Media Project. Mentored by lead faculty member Bushra Azzouz and supporting instructors, these youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to find their voices as media makers, sharing personal stories about the struggles of homelessness and the transitions they are now trying to make to lives of hope, joy, and self-sufficiency. Together, the works are a poignant reflection on an often overlooked and misunderstood aspect of community vitality and livability. (80 mins.)

ANTWOINE: Two Men (Project Viewfinder Excerpt) from NW Film Center School of Film on Vimeo.

Many of the youth filmmakers will be in attendance. Join us for a pre-film reception at 5 p.m. in the Andree Stevens Room, adjacent to the Whitsell Auditorium.  For more info, click here.

Free admission.

PROJECT VIEWFINDER

Click here to meet all of the filmmakers.

Join us for an evening of poignant short films about the myths and realities of homelessness created by young adults transitioning from struggle to self-sufficiency.  Mentored by Northwest Film Center faculty for the last three months, the youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to tell these personal stories of struggle and hope for the future.  Many of the young filmmakers will be in attendance to reflect on their experience and take questions from the audience.

Wednesday, May 1, 6 p.m.
Whitsell Auditorium
FREE ADMISSION

Filmmaker and Portland State University professor Dustin Morrow’s first feature is a contemporary musical that tells the story of a young college professor who, crippled by numbing grief, has shut himself off from the world following the death of his wife. At the same time, a young singer-songwriter (popular indie rocker Kate Tucker), struggling to make a name for herself and bogged down by the pressures of turning her art into commerce, has lost sight of why she wanted to make music in the first place. The film chronicles the budding friendship between the professor and the singer, as the energy and beauty of her music begin to bring him back to life and the value of her songs to this man reawakens her to the merits of making music. (85 mins.)

Director Dustin Morrow will be in attendance for a post-film Q&A session.

To hear a special edition of our Adjust Your Tracking podcast, featuring an interview with Morrow, click here.

EVERYTHING WENT DOWN screens on Thursday, May  2 at 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).  The film is being presented as part of our ongoing Northwest Tracking series.

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.

PROJECT VIEWFINDER is an outreach effort of the School of Film that teaches the tools of filmmaking to young adults transitioning from homelessness to self-sufficiency. Working with lead faculty member Bushra Azzouz and supporting filmmakers, participants create short films to help educate the community about this timely issue.

Click here to meet all of the filmmakers.

Join us for an evening of poignant short films about the myths and realities of homelessness created by young adults transitioning from struggle to self-sufficiency.  Mentored by Northwest Film Center faculty for the last three months, the youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to tell these personal stories of struggle and hope for the future.  Many of the young filmmakers will be in attendance to reflect on their experience and take questions from the audience.

Wednesday, May 1, 6 p.m.
Whitsell Auditorium
FREE ADMISSION

“Whether or not Raymond Chandler will be included in the pantheon of great American literature, he is credited with creating one of literature and cinema’s most beloved heroes, private eye Phillip Marlowe (played here by Robert Montgomery; also by Dick Powell in MURDER, MY SWEET [1944] and Humphrey Bogart in THE BIG SLEEP [1946]). In this unusual film noir, screenwriter Steve Fisher and director/star Robert Montgomery have situated Marlowe as the camera itself, his image only seen reflected in mirrors (a stratagem employed by Fassbinder in his EFFI BRIEST). Marlowe is hired to investigate a woman’s disappearance, which ultimately conceals a crime. In his directorial debut, Montgomery portrays Marlowe, whose journey is complicated by two beauties, played by Jayne Meadows and Audrey Totter.”—PF (105 mins.)

LADY IN THE LAKE screens on Tuesday, April 30 at 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).  The film is being presented as part of our Literature Into Film series.

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.

PROJECT VIEWFINDER is an outreach effort of the School of Film that teaches the tools of filmmaking to young adults transitioning from homelessness to self-sufficiency. Working with lead faculty member Bushra Azzouz and supporting filmmakers, participants create short films to help educate the community about this timely issue.

Click here to meet all of the filmmakers.

Join us for an evening of poignant short films about the myths and realities of homelessness created by young adults transitioning from struggle to self-sufficiency.  Mentored by Northwest Film Center faculty for the last three months, the youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to tell these personal stories of struggle and hope for the future.  Many of the young filmmakers will be in attendance to reflect on their experience and take questions from the audience.

Wednesday, May 1, 6 p.m.
Whitsell Auditorium
FREE ADMISSION

Chicago’s “Louder than a Bomb” (LTAB) draws more than 600 high school students from 60 schools from all over the city’s diverse neighborhoods to compete in what is now the largest youth poetry slam competition in the world. Rather than emphasizing individual performances, however, LTAB is unique in judging teams, not individuals, forcing participants to work collaboratively with their peers. For many kids, being a part of such an environment is life-changing. In the tradition of SPELLBOUND and WORDPLAY, this irresistibly gripping film gives us an inside look at four teams (and their star “slammers”) as they compete for the top prize. But behind the engrossing competitive fervor lies the film’s true spirit: a warm celebration of a group of talented young poets finding their voice as they pour their angst, frustrations, hopes, and insecurities out through raw, unfiltered words. (99 mins.)

Content is suitable for ages 13 and up.

Slam poet Lamar Jorden, the star of the film and charismatic organizer of Chicago’s Louder Than a Bomb festival, will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A session.

LOUDER THAN A BOMB screens on Monday, April 29 at 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.

PROJECT VIEWFINDER

Click here to meet all of the filmmakers.

Join us for an evening of poignant short films about the myths and realities of homelessness created by young adults transitioning from struggle to self-sufficiency.  Mentored by Northwest Film Center faculty for the last three months, the youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to tell these personal stories of struggle and hope for the future.  Many of the young filmmakers will be in attendance to reflect on their experience and take questions from the audience.

Wednesday, May 1, 6 p.m.
Whitsell Auditorium
FREE ADMISSION

On Wednesday, May 1 at 6p.m., we celebrate the creative spirit and artistic achievements of a group of young adults who have spent the last several months participating in Project Viewfinder, a School of Film community outreach project conducted with the help of New Avenues for Youth, p:ear, Outside In, and the Bud Clark Commons Media Project. Mentored by lead faculty member Bushra Azzouz and supporting instructors, these youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to find their voices as media makers, sharing personal stories about the struggles of homelessness and the transitions they are now trying to make to lives of hope, joy, and self-sufficiency. Together, the works are a poignant reflection on an often overlooked and misunderstood aspect of community vitality and livability. (80 mins.)

JOHN: First 24 Hours (Project Viewfinder Excerpt) from NW Film Center School of Film on Vimeo.

Many of the youth filmmakers will be in attendance. Join us for a pre-film reception at 5 p.m. in the Andree Stevens Room, adjacent to the Whitsell Auditorium.  For more info, click here.

Free admission.

PROJECT VIEWFINDER

Click here to meet all of the filmmakers.

Join us for an evening of poignant short films about the myths and realities of homelessness created by young adults transitioning from struggle to self-sufficiency.  Mentored by Northwest Film Center faculty for the last three months, the youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to tell these personal stories of struggle and hope for the future.  Many of the young filmmakers will be in attendance to reflect on their experience and take questions from the audience.

Wednesday, May 1, 6 p.m.
Whitsell Auditorium
FREE ADMISSION

A special bonus edition of the podcast, in which host Erik McClanahan interviews Portland filmmaker Dustin Morrow, whose third feature Everything Went Down screens Thursday, May 2 at 7 p.m. at the Northwest Film Center‘s Whitsell Auditorium. Tickets and trailer for the film are available here.

Regular episodes of Adjust Your Tracking are released every Thursday, so make sure to come back and check out what Joe and Erik are discussing every week. We’d love to hear your feedback in the comments section, or feel free to email adjustyourtracking@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/adjustyourtrack. We’re on iTunes now, so make sure to subscribe to the show by clicking the link below. Also, leaving reviews and rating the show on iTunes is really helpful in getting more attention and attracting more listeners, so please do so if you like what we do. You can stream the episode on the embedded player below or you can download the podcast by right clicking the link below the player and selecting ‘Save Link As…’ Once saved, the show can be played in iTunes or any other mp3 player.

WARNING: Explicit language is used in this podcast.

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Producer, Host, Editor -- Erik McClanahan
Thanks -- Nick Bruno, Thomas Phillipson

On Wednesday, May 1 at 6p.m., we celebrate the creative spirit and artistic achievements of a group of young adults who have spent the last several months participating in Project Viewfinder, a School of Film community outreach project conducted with the help of New Avenues for Youth, p:ear, Outside In, and the Bud Clark Commons Media Project. Mentored by lead faculty member Bushra Azzouz and supporting instructors, these youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to find their voices as media makers, sharing personal stories about the struggles of homelessness and the transitions they are now trying to make to lives of hope, joy, and self-sufficiency. Together, the works are a poignant reflection on an often overlooked and misunderstood aspect of community vitality and livability. (80 mins.)

STONE: At Home (Project Viewfinder Excerpt) from NW Film Center School of Film on Vimeo.

Many of the youth filmmakers will be in attendance. Join us for a pre-film reception at 5 p.m. in the Andree Stevens Room, adjacent to the Whitsell Auditorium.  For more info, click here.

Free admission.

If you’ve been keeping up with us over the last six months, you’ve probably heard about Project Viewfinder, our latest community outreach program at the Northwest Film Center School of Film.  Working with a dedicated group of young adults transitioning from homelessness to self-sufficiency, our faculty and assistants have served as shepherds to these youth, teaching them how to use the tools of film to communicate their stories to the community and the world at large.

On May 1 at 6pm, these young filmmakers will present their work to an audience for the first time and we’d like you to come.  This is a special moment for us, them, and the community and we’d like to share it with a large audience.  We would also love it if you could help us spread the word about next Wednesday’s screening.  To that end, feel free to grab either the image above (sized for use as a Facebook banner) or the one below (custom fit for use as your Facebook profile picture) and let your friends know that you’re going to Project Viewfinder’s premiere.

Thanks so much for your support!

PROJECT VIEWFINDER is an outreach effort of the School of Film that teaches the tools of filmmaking to young adults transitioning from homelessness to self-sufficiency. Working with lead faculty member Bushra Azzouz and supporting filmmakers, participants create short films to help educate the community about this timely issue.

Click here to meet all of the filmmakers.

Join us for an evening of poignant short films about the myths and realities of homelessness created by young adults transitioning from struggle to self-sufficiency.  Mentored by Northwest Film Center faculty for the last three months, the youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to tell these personal stories of struggle and hope for the future.  Many of the young filmmakers will be in attendance to reflect on their experience and take questions from the audience.

Wednesday, May 1, 6 p.m.
Whitsell Auditorium
FREE ADMISSION

Adapting Stephen King’s best-selling horror novel, Kubrick cast Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, an out-of-work teacher who accepts employment as the winter caretaker of the haunted Overlook Hotel. After settling in with his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd), Jack slowly discovers that the hotel has its own terrifying agenda. Jack’s degeneration from begrudging husband/father to murderous animal allows Kubrick to deftly subvert preconceptions of masculinity and patrimony while crafting one of the scariest films ever made. (119 mins.)

From April 12-18, Cinema 21 is playing the new documentary ROOM 237, a dive into the world of THE SHINING’s ardent fans and scholars and their divergent claims of having decoded the film’s hidden symbolism and secret messages—genocide, government conspiracies, dark hidden history, and more. Perhaps time to take a fresh look at a Kubrick classic!

THE SHINING screens on Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27 at 7p.m. in our Whitsell Auditorium (located in the Portland Art Museum).

Advanced tickets are available for purchase here.

This week, Joe and Erik have mostly avoided the recent nice weather in their fair city of Portland, choosing instead to see a lot of the exciting releases of late and pack in four reviews in this show. They start with Jeff Nichols‘ new film starring Matthew McConaughey, Mud. Then it’s on to one of Erik’s most anticipated films of the year, Upstream Color (still showing at the Hollywood Theater in Portland for another week before soon going to VOD and DVD next month), a film that oddly shares a tonal and stylistic feel to the latest Terrence Malick film, To the Wonder, opening this Friday at Cinema 21. The last review is a brief one as Erik gives his thoughts on the latest Rob Zombie horror movie, Lords of Salem, which is tied in to another edition of Make It Stop.

New episodes of Adjust Your Tracking are released every Thursday, so make sure to come back and check out what Joe and Erik are discussing every week. We’d love to hear your feedback in the comments section, or feel free to email adjustyourtracking@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/adjustyourtrack. We’re on iTunes now, so make sure to subscribe to the show by clicking the link below. Also, leaving reviews and rating the show on iTunes is really helpful in getting more attention and attracting more listeners, so please do so if you like what we do. You can stream the episode on the embedded player below.

WARNING: Explicit language is used in this podcast.

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CREDITS

Producer  -- Drew Wallner

Co-Host, Segment Editor -- Joe von Appen

Co-Host, Audio Editor -- Erik McClanahan

Presented by -- The Northwest Film Center

PROJECT VIEWFINDER is an outreach effort of the School of Film that teaches the tools of filmmaking to young adults transitioning from homelessness to self-sufficiency. Working with lead faculty member Bushra Azzouz and supporting filmmakers, participants create short films to help educate the community about this timely issue.

Click here to meet all of the filmmakers.

Join us for an evening of poignant short films about the myths and realities of homelessness created by young adults transitioning from struggle to self-sufficiency.  Mentored by Northwest Film Center faculty for the last three months, the youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to tell these personal stories of struggle and hope for the future.  Many of the young filmmakers will be in attendance to reflect on their experience and take questions from the audience.

Wednesday, May 1, 6 p.m.
Whitsell Auditorium
FREE ADMISSION

On Wednesday, May 1 at 6p.m., we celebrate the creative spirit and artistic achievements of a group of young adults who have spent the last several months participating in Project Viewfinder, a School of Film community outreach project conducted with the help of New Avenues for Youth, p:ear, Outside In, and the Bud Clark Commons Media Project. Mentored by lead faculty member Bushra Azzouz and supporting instructors, these youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to find their voices as media makers, sharing personal stories about the struggles of homelessness and the transitions they are now trying to make to lives of hope, joy, and self-sufficiency. Together, the works are a poignant reflection on an often overlooked and misunderstood aspect of community vitality and livability. (80 mins.)

DAVID: Walking by (Project Viewfinder Excerpt) from NW Film Center School of Film on Vimeo.

Many of the youth filmmakers will be in attendance. Join us for a pre-film reception at 5 p.m. in the Andree Stevens Room, adjacent to the Whitsell Auditorium.  For more info, click here.

Free admission.

PROJECT VIEWFINDER is an outreach effort of the School of Film that teaches the tools of filmmaking to young adults transitioning from homelessness to self-sufficiency. Working with lead faculty member Bushra Azzouz and supporting filmmakers, participants create short films to help educate the community about this timely issue.

Click here to meet all of the filmmakers.

Join us for an evening of poignant short films about the myths and realities of homelessness created by young adults transitioning from struggle to self-sufficiency.  Mentored by Northwest Film Center faculty for the last three months, the youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to tell these personal stories of struggle and hope for the future.  Many of the young filmmakers will be in attendance to reflect on their experience and take questions from the audience.

Wednesday, May 1, 6 p.m.
Whitsell Auditorium
FREE ADMISSION

On Wednesday, May 1 at 6p.m., we celebrate the creative spirit and artistic achievements of a group of young adults who have spent the last several months participating in Project Viewfinder, a School of Film community outreach project conducted with the help of New Avenues for Youth, p:ear, Outside In, and the Bud Clark Commons Media Project. Mentored by lead faculty member Bushra Azzouz and supporting instructors, these youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to find their voices as media makers, sharing personal stories about the struggles of homelessness and the transitions they are now trying to make to lives of hope, joy, and self-sufficiency. Together, the works are a poignant reflection on an often overlooked and misunderstood aspect of community vitality and livability. (80 mins.)

REX: Underneath (Project Viewfinder Excerpt) from NW Film Center School of Film on Vimeo.

Many of the youth filmmakers will be in attendance. Join us for a pre-film reception at 5 p.m. in the Andree Stevens Room, adjacent to the Whitsell Auditorium.  For more info, click here.

Free admission.

PROJECT VIEWFINDER is an outreach effort of the School of Film that teaches the tools of filmmaking to young adults transitioning from homelessness to self-sufficiency. Working with lead faculty member Bushra Azzouz and supporting filmmakers, participants create short films to help educate the community about this timely issue.

Click here to meet all of the filmmakers.

Join us for an evening of poignant short films about the myths and realities of homelessness created by young adults transitioning from struggle to self-sufficiency.  Mentored by Northwest Film Center faculty for the last three months, the youth have worked in front of and behind the camera to tell these personal stories of struggle and hope for the future.  Many of the young filmmakers will be in attendance to reflect on their experience and take questions from the audience.

Wednesday, May 1, 6 p.m.
Whitsell Auditorium
FREE ADMISSION