nwFilmCenter

Jan/Feb 2007

Fri, Jan 5, 2007 - Thu, Feb 15, 2007

Jazz, R&B, rock, folk, reggaeâ€”from a cappella and accordions to tango and twirling dervishesâ€”it's all here in our annual celebration of film and music. We hope you'll find something to get your 2007 off to a lively and memorable start. This year's programs feature live performances at the Crystal Ballroom and Towne Lounge, visiting filmmakers and rarities you won't want to miss. Our thanks to Music Millenium, Willamette Week's Music Fest NW and Living Room Theaters for helping make it all happen.

Click for a PDF Reel Music calendar to view or print.

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Jewish Film Festival

Welcome to the 15th annual Portland Jewish Film Festival, presented by The Northwest Film Center and co-sponsored by the Jewish Review. We hope you find that this year's films, while they express specific Jewish experiences, resonate beyond their cultural inspiration and speak to ideas, experiences and issues that confront our common humanity. We invite you to explore, discover and acknowledge as we do the generosity of our individual program sponsors and patrons, whose ongoing investments make the festival possible.

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Peter Whitehead

An unsung hero of British cinema, Peter Whitehead is an extraordinary figure whose films offer a singular record of the late 1960s counterculture movements in London and New York. Born in Liverpool in 1937, Whitehead was at the very heart of the swinging music and arts scenes from the Rolling Stones in drag to Allen Ginsberg at the Royal Albert Hall, and Peter Brook directing the Royal Shakespeare Company's protest against the Vietnam War. In the US, he captured Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign and the occupation of Columbia University by student radicals. Whitehead was a pioneer of the pop music promo, working for "Top of the Pops" on British television and filming acts such as The Animals, The Small Faces, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Nico, and the Stones. Featuring rare and previously unseen material from Whitehead's extensive archive, this touring program and the accompanying program notes were organized by The Maysles Institute, New York and Sticking Place Films, Contemporary Films, and Reality Films, London. Speical thanks to Peter Whitehead, Paul Cronin, and Michael Chaiken, Program Director for Film at the Maysles Institute.

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Special Screenings

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