Event

Spring 69 Series Pass

Northwest Film Forums year-long exploration of the films of 1969 continues this spring with thirteen features from the United States, Italy, France, Sweden and Cuba. These films, shown on screens 40 years ago, take a diversity of bold approaches in exploring love and sex, war and violence, morality and religion, and of course freedom and uncertainty. They are exercises in allegory and lyricism, strong in feelings and forms, concerned at once with images as well as ideas.

Revisions of the Western genre, adaptations of documentary form and completely new approaches are seen in the cinematic quests of directors Sam Peckinpah, Joshua Logan, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Downey, Frederico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Woody Allen, Anthony Newley, Paul Mazursky, Eric Rohmer, Philippe Garrel, Susan Sontag and Manuel Octavio Gmez.

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Directors Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival, were presenting special screenings of three rarely seen feature films that were shown in its inaugural program.

We hope youll continue to explore with us the variety of bold new directions taken in the cinema of 1969, and to think about the connections and juxtapositions between the films and between this cinematic landscape and our lives and cinema in 2009.