Event
To Sleep with Anger [In-Person Only]
Thu Feb 01: 6.00pm PT
Fri Feb 02: 7.30pm PT
Wed Feb 07: 7.00pm PT
Thu Feb 08: 7.00pm PT
Sun Feb 11: 4.30pm PT, 7.30pm PT
$14 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
*** Public safety notice ***
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NWFF is adapting to evolving recommendations to protect the public from COVID-19. Read more about their policies regarding cleaning, masks, and capacity limitations here.
** Local cineaste, thinker of thoughts, writer of words, and To Sleep with Anger superfan Charles Mudede will be in attendance on Feb. 8 to introduce the screening and discuss it afterwards! (Happy birthday, Charles!) **
About the film:
Charles Burnett's beautiful, poetic masterpiece is novelistic in its narrative density and richness of characterization. Harry Mention, an enigmatic drifter from the South, comes to visit an old acquaintance named Gideon, who now lives in South-Central Los Angeles. Harry's charming, down-home manner hides a malicious penchant for stirring up trouble, and he exerts a strange and powerful effect on Gideon and his thoroughly assimilated black, middle-class family. The household was already rife with conflict when the devilish guest arrived, and Harry's grab-bag of folktales, lucky charms and foul magic only deepens the family rift. Sickness and insanity gradually descend upon Gideon's home, and it soon becomes evident that something will have to give.
(Charles Burnett, US, 1990, 101 min, in English)
"There's no Moonlight without Charles Burnett, the auteur behind To Sleep With Anger, arguably the best performance of Danny Glover's career." - Soraya Nadia McDonald, The Undefeated
"One of the finest films to explore city versus country, old ways versus new, kin versus kin." - Melissa Anderson, Village Voice
"Burnett and his cast tap depths of mystery, soulfulness, and glee." - Michael Sragow, New Yorker
About Charles Mudede:
Charles Tonderai Mudede is a Zimbabwean-born cultural critic, urbanist, filmmaker, college lecturer, and writer. He is the Senior Staff writer of the Stranger, a lecturer at Cornish College, and has collaborated with the director Robinson Devor on three films, two of which Police Beat and Zoo, premiered at Sundance, and one of which, Zoo, screened at Cannes. Mudede, whose essays regularly appear in e-Flux, C-theory, and Tank Magazine, is also the director of Thin Skin.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum's ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. We have a limited number of assistive listening devices available for programs hosted in our larger theater, Cinema 1. These devices are maintained by the Technical Director, and can be requested at the ticketing and concessions counter.
The Forum does NOT have assistive devices for the visually impaired, and is not (yet) a scent-free venue. Our commitment to increasing access for our audiences is ongoing, and we welcome all public input on the subject!
If you have additional specific questions about accessibility at our venue, please contact our Patron Services Manager at maria@nwfilmforum.org
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