Film

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NEXT Dance Cinema It started out as serendipity that Velocity Dance Center is just down the road from Northwest Film Forum, but the two organizations are making a virtue of proximity with their ongoing collaborations for NEXT Dance Cinema. This time they’ve got four separate programs, opening with a cinematic sampler featuring several local choreographers, including Dinosaurs and Sea Hawks, a poignant addition to Ezra Dickinson’s 2013 examination of mental illness and homelessness, Mother for you I made this. Later programs include work by local artists KT Niehoff and Dayna Hanson, along with a sweet lip-sync directed by Sara Jinks to “Lonesome Polecat” (from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers). Other programs include a rigorous solo by Dutch performer Roxane Huilmand and an evening of film examining contemporary African dance. (See nwfilmforum.org for exact schedule through Sat., Dec. 13.) SANDRA KURTZ Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $6-$11 Wednesday, December 10, 2014

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NEXT Dance Cinema It started out as serendipity that Velocity Dance Center is just down the road from Northwest Film Forum, but the two organizations are making a virtue of proximity with their ongoing collaborations for NEXT Dance Cinema. This time they’ve got four separate programs, opening with a cinematic sampler featuring several local choreographers, including Dinosaurs and Sea Hawks, a poignant addition to Ezra Dickinson’s 2013 examination of mental illness and homelessness, Mother for you I made this. Later programs include work by local artists KT Niehoff and Dayna Hanson, along with a sweet lip-sync directed by Sara Jinks to “Lonesome Polecat” (from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers). Other programs include a rigorous solo by Dutch performer Roxane Huilmand and an evening of film examining contemporary African dance. (See nwfilmforum.org for exact schedule through Sat., Dec. 13.) SANDRA KURTZ Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $6-$11 Thursday, December 11, 2014

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NEXT Dance Cinema It started out as serendipity that Velocity Dance Center is just down the road from Northwest Film Forum, but the two organizations are making a virtue of proximity with their ongoing collaborations for NEXT Dance Cinema. This time they’ve got four separate programs, opening with a cinematic sampler featuring several local choreographers, including Dinosaurs and Sea Hawks, a poignant addition to Ezra Dickinson’s 2013 examination of mental illness and homelessness, Mother for you I made this. Later programs include work by local artists KT Niehoff and Dayna Hanson, along with a sweet lip-sync directed by Sara Jinks to “Lonesome Polecat” (from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers). Other programs include a rigorous solo by Dutch performer Roxane Huilmand and an evening of film examining contemporary African dance. (See nwfilmforum.org for exact schedule through Sat., Dec. 13.) SANDRA KURTZ Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $6-$11 Friday, December 12, 2014

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The Conformist Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 classic has been given a spiffy new digital 2K restoration, which should bring out the burnish of Vittorio Storaro’s famously elegant cinematography. (No one, back then, could’ve predicted the near-demise of 35 mm film.) Jean-Louis Trintignant’s fatally passive Marcello is plagued by an incident from childhood. An aristocrat whose class is falling out of favor in late ‘30s Italy, he seeks to make good with the fascists by agreeing to assassinate his old professor. (One sin will erase the other, he figures.) His Paris honeymoon a pretext for the hit, he and his wife both fall in love with the academic’s young wife (Dominque Sanda, with powerful bisexual appeal). Marcello’s life emerges in gorgeous flashbacks: empty plazas menacingly paced by hard-soled flunkies, country estates in lavish, leafy disrepair, Marcello and Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli) necking in a room seemingly constructed of Venetian blinds. There’s a lovely scene in a dancehall where the two women lead a swarm of dancers in joyous rings around Marcello; yet he stands stolid at their center. Making amends for his past cuts him off from the living. (See siff.net for showtimes.) BRIAN MILLER SIFF Film Center, 305 Harrison St. (Seattle Center), Seattle, WA 98109 $7-$12 Friday, December 12, 2014

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NEXT Dance Cinema It started out as serendipity that Velocity Dance Center is just down the road from Northwest Film Forum, but the two organizations are making a virtue of proximity with their ongoing collaborations for NEXT Dance Cinema. This time they’ve got four separate programs, opening with a cinematic sampler featuring several local choreographers, including Dinosaurs and Sea Hawks, a poignant addition to Ezra Dickinson’s 2013 examination of mental illness and homelessness, Mother for you I made this. Later programs include work by local artists KT Niehoff and Dayna Hanson, along with a sweet lip-sync directed by Sara Jinks to “Lonesome Polecat” (from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers). Other programs include a rigorous solo by Dutch performer Roxane Huilmand and an evening of film examining contemporary African dance. (See nwfilmforum.org for exact schedule through Sat., Dec. 13.) SANDRA KURTZ Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $6-$11 Saturday, December 13, 2014

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The Conformist Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 classic has been given a spiffy new digital 2K restoration, which should bring out the burnish of Vittorio Storaro’s famously elegant cinematography. (No one, back then, could’ve predicted the near-demise of 35 mm film.) Jean-Louis Trintignant’s fatally passive Marcello is plagued by an incident from childhood. An aristocrat whose class is falling out of favor in late ‘30s Italy, he seeks to make good with the fascists by agreeing to assassinate his old professor. (One sin will erase the other, he figures.) His Paris honeymoon a pretext for the hit, he and his wife both fall in love with the academic’s young wife (Dominque Sanda, with powerful bisexual appeal). Marcello’s life emerges in gorgeous flashbacks: empty plazas menacingly paced by hard-soled flunkies, country estates in lavish, leafy disrepair, Marcello and Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli) necking in a room seemingly constructed of Venetian blinds. There’s a lovely scene in a dancehall where the two women lead a swarm of dancers in joyous rings around Marcello; yet he stands stolid at their center. Making amends for his past cuts him off from the living. (See siff.net for showtimes.) BRIAN MILLER SIFF Film Center, 305 Harrison St. (Seattle Center), Seattle, WA 98109 $7-$12 Saturday, December 13, 2014

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The Conformist Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 classic has been given a spiffy new digital 2K restoration, which should bring out the burnish of Vittorio Storaro’s famously elegant cinematography. (No one, back then, could’ve predicted the near-demise of 35 mm film.) Jean-Louis Trintignant’s fatally passive Marcello is plagued by an incident from childhood. An aristocrat whose class is falling out of favor in late ‘30s Italy, he seeks to make good with the fascists by agreeing to assassinate his old professor. (One sin will erase the other, he figures.) His Paris honeymoon a pretext for the hit, he and his wife both fall in love with the academic’s young wife (Dominque Sanda, with powerful bisexual appeal). Marcello’s life emerges in gorgeous flashbacks: empty plazas menacingly paced by hard-soled flunkies, country estates in lavish, leafy disrepair, Marcello and Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli) necking in a room seemingly constructed of Venetian blinds. There’s a lovely scene in a dancehall where the two women lead a swarm of dancers in joyous rings around Marcello; yet he stands stolid at their center. Making amends for his past cuts him off from the living. (See siff.net for showtimes.) BRIAN MILLER SIFF Film Center, 305 Harrison St. (Seattle Center), Seattle, WA 98109 $7-$12 Sunday, December 14, 2014