Event

Donna Summer Tribute

JUNE 8 - 10, FRIDAY - SUNDAY AT 10PM

DONNA SUMMER TRIBUTE

Northwest Film Forum hosts a special celebration of and fitting tribute to the great entertainer and popular music icon Donna Summer who passed away on May 17th at the age of 63. She worked hard for her money, with the success of her career-defining, 17-minute orgasmic disco epic "Love to Love You Baby," Summer was once known as "The Sex Queen of the '70s." We'll screen Summer in her one and only big-screen role, as Nicole Sims, playing a feisty, aspiring disco star in the 1978 ensemble disco saga, THANK GOD ITS FRIDAY, a film released almost exactly 34 years ago, on May 19, 1978. Set in the fictional Los Angeles nightclub The Zoo, the film follows several characters over the course of one wild night. Boasting appearances by Jeff Goldblum, as the club's sleazy owner, and Debra Winger, as a sheltered girl agog at the hedonism around her, THANK GOD ITS FRIDAY is probably most well known for Summer's introduction of the smash hit "Last Dance," which that year won the Academy Award for best original song. Summer stood out for a soulful delivery that expanded her appeal beyond the dancefloor. She scored her greatest successes with anthems of self-reliance and personal strength, her voice equally capable of fragility and defiant power, with this screening we'll remember her.