CLINTON ST. QUARTERLY Fourth Portland International Film Festival TICKETS Single Admission General: $3.50 Northwest Film Study Center members: $3 Our Hitler, May 24 and 25, $10 general, $8 members. Note: Each showing is a separate admission. A ticket for a 7 p.m. program does not include admission to the9 p.m. showing. Film Center, Moyer and Let’s Dine Out passes and complimentary admission tickets are not valid during the festival. Discount Passes A Patrons Pass, good for admission to all festival programs is $75. A pass good for 16 admissions is $40 ($2.50 per film) and a pass allowing 8 admissions is $24 ($3 per film). Admission to the opening night film and Our Hitler are not included with the 8 and 16 ticket passes. All seats are unreserved. Unused tickets and passes are not refundable. Passes afford one admission per performance. Angi Vera (Hungary, 1979) Pal Gabor Gabor’s subtle and intelligent film is the most stinging indictment to date of the dehumanizing influence of Stalinism on Eastern Europe. International Critics Prize, Cannes; Grand Prize, Chicago Film Festival. Showtimes: 5/10 and 5/11 at 7:30 p.m., NWFSC; 5/15 at 7p.m., 5th Avenue. Autumn Marathon (USSR, 1979) Gregory Danella A marvelous, contemporary satire which won the Grand Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Showtimes: 5/18 at 7p.m., 5th Ave., and 5/19 at 7:15 p.m., NWFSC. Best Boy (U.S.A., 1979) Ira Wohl It is about Philly, the filmmaker’s 52 year-old cousin with the emotional and intellectual age of an eight year old, and his elderly parents who decide for his own good that he should leave home. A deeply affecting film, and this year’s Academy Award winner in the Documentary category. Showtimes: 5/11 and 5/17 at 9 p.m., 5th Ave. and 5/21 at 7p.m., NWFSC. Best of the shorts Showing with features are some of the finest new short films made in the last year, including documentaries, animation and experimental films from throughout the world. Showtimes: 5/22 at 9:30 7 WED 8 THURS 9 FR, FestivalOpening 7 DonGiovanni i 7 Nosfernlii 8 Nosleratu 5th | 5th NWFSC ' 7 '5 Hot Tomorrows 730 PeepingTom NWFSC 1 NWFSC ' 9 15 TheTmDrum । 9 Nosferatu NWFSC 5th ' 9:30 SvenKlang's Combo■ NWFSC p.m. and 5/24 at Noon, NWFSC. Death of a Bureaucrat (Cuba, 1966) Tomas Aiea The theme of the little man versus the machine found its way into post-Castro filmmaking in this hilarious film by the Maker of Memories of Underdevelopment and The Last Supper. Showtimes: 5/13 and 5/20 at 7:30 p.m., NWFSC; 5/17 at 7p.m., 5th Avenue. Don Giovanni (Italy, 1979) Joseph Losey Mozart’s rich and powerful opera about the decadent nobleman obsessed by sexual conquest is filmed by Joseph Losey with cinematic flair. Showtimes: 5/8 at 7 p.m. and 5/11 at 2 p.m., 5th Ave. Fedora (USA/Germany, 1978) Billy Wilder Billy Wilder’s 25th feature distills his career long themes of masquerade, self-deception and showbiz mythmaking into a controversial meditation on fame and mortality. Showtimes: 5/10 at 9 p.m., 5th Ave. and 5/12 at 9:30 p.m., NWFSC. Fourteen Americans: Directions of the 70 ’s (USA, 1980) Michael Blackwood The artists featured in Fourteen Americans were selected as active, inventive and highly distinctive participants in an era of heterogeneity. Gal Young Un (USA, 1979) Victor Nunez Northwest Film Study Center, 1219 S.W. Park Ave., 221-1156 5th Avenue Cinema, 510 S.W. Hall, 224-6038 The Handmaidens Of God (1979) Diane Letourneau This small scale but stunning documentary is about the Little Sisters of the Holy Family, an unusual order of nuns in Quebec who have dedicated themselves exclusively to priests. Hot Tomorrows (USA, 1977) Martin Brest Brest wrote, produced, directed and edited the film, which is rather what Marty might have been like had it been directed by Luis Bunuel. Showtimes: 5/8 at 7:15 p.m., NWFSC, 5/14 at 9 p.m. and 5/18 at 2 p.m., 5th Avenue. Koko, A Talking Gorilla (USA/France, 1978) Barbet Schroeder Barbet Schroeder turned his camera to the subject of human vs. animal intelligence in this fascinating documentary about a six year old gorilla who has been taught the sign language of the deaf, by a young psychology graduate student at Stanford University. Showtimes: 5/10 7 p.m. 5th Ave., 5/13 at 9:30 p.m., NWFSC; 5/17 at 2 p.m., 5th Ave. Marjorie Kinan Rawlings wrote the story of a widow living in seclusion in the Florida pinewoods, who falls for a glib con man only to have him blackmail her into running his moonshine operation. Showtimes: 5/17 at 7:30 p.m., NWFSC and 5/19 at 9p.m., 5th Ave. Gates of Heaven (USA, 1978) Errol Morris Ostensibly a documentary about two California pet cemeteries, one that flops and one that makes it, Gates of Heaven becomes an obliquely analytical study of contemporary American standards. Showtimes: 5/12 at 9 p.m. 5th Ave. and 5/18 at 9:30 p.m., NWFSC. The Left Handed Woman (West Germany, 1978) Peter Handke In clear, painterly images captured by the cinematographer Robbie Muller, Handke evokes the moods and changes of a woman who decides to become unmarried and seek a life of her own. Showtimes: 5/10 at 9:30 p.m., NWFSC and 5/16 at 9p.m. 5th Ave. Man Of Marble (Poland, 1977) Andrzej Wadja Poland’s leading director won the International Critics Prize at Cannes for this political mystery some have compared to Citizen Kane for its intensity and focus on the power of media, as well as its dazzling inventory of cinematic devices. Showtimes: 5/20 at 9:15 p.m. at 5th Ave. and 5/23 a t9 p.m., NWFSC. The Meadow (Italy, 1979) Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Casablanca, Jules and Jim and Sleeper are invoked, as the makers of Padre Padrone explore a youthful threesome caught in the conflicting drives of revolution, social status, philanthropy, fantasy, and communal organization. Showtimes: 5/21 at 9:30 p.m. and 5/25 at Noon, NWFSC. Moliere (France, 1978) Ariane Mnouchkine Mnouchkine, is one of France’s leading stage directors, lends a theatrical flair to his intimate biography of the great French playwright. Showtimes: 5/13 at 7:00 p.m., 5th Ave. and 5/17 at 2 p.m., NWFSC. Nosferatu, The Vampire (W. Germany, 1979) Werner Herzog Based more on Murnau’s 1922 film than the Bram Stoker novel, Herzog’s eerily beautiful film evokes the pestilential horror of the Dracula myth. Showtimes: 5/7 at 8 p.m. NWFSC Festival Opening Film, 5/9 at 7 and 9 p.m., 5th Ave. The Old Memory (Spain, 1978) Jaime Camino The anguish of the Spanish Civil War as experienced by those in Barcelona is the subject of this probing documentary. Like Ophul’s The Sorrow And The Pity, Camino’s film uses newsreel footage and interviews with participants to come to grips with the realities involved in a tragic war. Showtimes: 5/10 and 5/11 a t2 p.m., NWFSC. Our Hitler (W. Germany, 1979) Hans-Jurgen Syberberg This amazing film has been called “ one of the great works of art of the Twentieth Century.” It is an epic evocation of the many dimensions of the Hitler myth and its influence on the modern world. Please note that the film is seven hours long and will be shown with a 11 /2 hr. intermission after the third hour. Admission is $10, $8 Film Center members. Two showings 5/24 and 5/25 beginning at 2:30 p.m., NWFSC. Peeping Tom (Great Britain, 1960) Michael Powell Greeted by negative critical reviews in its native England, Powell’s film was effectively buried until its recent revival by Martin Scorcese. The story of a nice young man who photographs women at the moment of their sheerist terror — just before he murders them — is told with rich visual invention. Showtimes: 5/9 at 7:30 p.m., NWFSC and 5/11 at 9p.m. 5th Ave. Possessed (India, 1979) Shyam Benegai Shashi Kapoor, India’s most prominent film actor, stars as a Muslim in love with an English girl during a time of political tumult in 1857 in a haunting tale of his obsession for the girl and her family’s resistance to their marriage. Showtimes: 5/18 at 9:15 p.m., 5th Ave. and 5/20 at 9:30p.m., NWFSC. The Spiders (Die Spinnen, Germany, 1919) Fritz Lang Available for the first time in sixty years, The Spiders is Lang’s third feature and the oldest extant example of his work. Showtime: 5/11 at 9:30 p.m., NWFSC. Spiral (Poland, 1978) Krzystof Zanussi It is a tale of an obnoxious man who invades a ski lodge, insults its inhabitants and mysteriously disappears in the snow. Showtimes: 5/21 at 7p.m., 5th Ave. and 5/23 at 7p.m., NWFSC. Sven Klang’s Combo (Sweden, 1979) Stellan Olsson Set in rural Sweden in 1958, Olsson’s film perfectly captures the mood and lifestyle of a combo of “ wild and crazy guys” who worship American progressive jazz. Showtimes: 5/9 at 9:30 p.m., NWFSC 5/10 at 2 p.m. and 5/12 at 7:00 p.m., 5th Ave. The Tin Drum (Germany, 1979) Volker Schlondorff This faithful adaptation of Gunter Grass’s world renowned novel won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film this year. Showtimes: 5/8 at 9:15 p.m., NWFSC. Why Not! (Porquois Pas France, 1979) Coline Serreau In one of the more unorthodox groupings in the history of films, three people live more or less happily together in a charmingly offbeat world. Showtimes: 5/16 at 7:00 p.m., 5th Ave. and 5/18 at 7:30p.m., NWFSC. Wise Blood (USA, 1979) John Huston Based on Flannery O’Connor’s novel, Wise Blood delves into the mores-and religion of a people for whom the Bible is a part of the culture, language and lifestyle. Showtimes: 5/20 at 7p.m., 5th Ave. and 5/22 at 7 p.m., NWFSC. The Wobblies (USA, 1979) Steward Bird and Deborah Shaffer The directors combine rare footage of America laboring on the docks and in the textile mills, mines, grain fields, and forests of the 1930’s with detailed watercolors of an itinerant 30s artists, scathing political cartoons, early antiunion animation and interviews with articulate old- timers to recreate the Wobblie dream and its demise. Showtimes: 5/15 at 9:30 p.m., NWFSC and 5/19 at 7p.m., 5th Ave. Woyzeck (W. Germany, 1978) Werner Herzog Klaus Kinski plays a lowly soldier beheaded in Leipzig in 1821 for murdering his mistress after hearing “ inner voices.” Showtimes: 5/19 at 9:30 p.m., NWFSC and 5/21 at 9p.m., 5th Ave. The Wrong Move (W. Germany, 1975) Wim Wenders Wenders takes post-war Germany as his landscape in a meditation on the mood of his people that Der Spiegel called one of the most important German films since the 1920s. Showtimes: 5/14 at 7p.m., 5th Ave. and 5/17 at 9:30 p.m., NWFSC. 1O„ 2 SvenKlang’s | Combo-5th । 2 TheOldMemory 1 NWFSC 1 7 Koko. ATalking Gorilla-5th 7:30 Angi Vera NWFSC | 9 Fedora 5th j 9:30 TheLettHanded Woman•NWFSC llsUN 2 DonGiovanni 5th 2 TheOldMemory NWFSC 7 PeepingTom 5th 7:30 Angi Vera NWFSC 9 Best Boy 5th 9:30 Spiders NWFSC 12 MON 7 SvenKlang's Combo-5th 7:30 TheHandmaidens ofGod NWFSC 9 Gatesot Heaven 5th 9:30 Fedora NWFSC 13 TUES 7 Moliere 5th 7:30 Deathota Bureau crat •NWFSC 9:30 Koko. ATaling Gorilla-NWFSC 1 4 WED 7 TheWrongMove 5th 9 Hot Tomorrows 5th 1 5 THURS 7 Angi Vera 5th 7:30 FourteenAmericans •NWFSC 9 Handmaidensot God-5th 9:30 TheWobblies NWFSC 1 6 FRI 7 WhyNot! 5th 9 TheLett Handed Woman-5th 1 7 SAT 2 Koko. ATalking Gorilla-5th 2 Moliere NWFSC 7 DeathotaBureau crat -5th 7:30 Gal YoungUn NWFSC 9 Best Boy 5th 9:30 TheWrongMove • NWFSC 18 SUN 2 FourteenAmericans■NWFSC 2 Hol Tomorrows 5th 7 AutumnMarathon 5th 7:30 WhyNot' NWFSC 9:15 Possessed 5th 9:30 Gatesof Heaven NWFSC . . . . . _________ 1 9 MON 7 TheWobblies 5th 7 15 AutumnMarathon NWFSC 9 Gal YoungUn 5th 9:30 Woyzeck NWFSC • 20 TUES 7 WiseBlood 5th 7:30 DeathotaBureau crat NWFSC 9:15 Manof Marble Sth 9:30 Possessed NWFSC 21 WED 7 Spiral 5th 7 Best Boy NWFSC 9 Woyzeck 5tb 9:15 TheMeadow NWFSC 2 2 THURS 7 WiseBlood NWFSC 9:30 Best ot theShorts NWFSC ___________________ 23 ERI 7 Spiral NWFSC 9 Manot Marble NWFSC 24 12 Best o<theShorts NWFSC' 230 OurHitler NWFSC 25 SUN 12 TheMeadow NWFSC 2 30 Our Hitler NWFSC 8 Festival closingal theBagdadTheater. 3702SE Hawthorne Film tobeannounced 43
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