nwFilmCenter

January/February/March 2010

Thu, Jan 7, 2010 - Wed, Mar 31, 2010

Welcome to our 27th edition of Reel Music. We've been on the lookout all year for new works—and timely classics—for this annual celebration of sound and image, music and culture. Whether your passion is classical, opera, jazz, blues, rock, or reggae, we hope you find this mixture of old and new, familiar and strange to be full of inspiration and discovery. As always, our special thanks go to Music Millennium, Willamette Week, and MacTarnahan's Brewing Company for helping to make it all happen. Enjoy.

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NW Tracking

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Frontier Justice

Socrates once observed: “Nothing is to be preferred before justice.” However, the quality of justice is not an absolute—it is a human concept and therefore flawed by subjectivity. Some of cinema’s greatest works deal with characters attempting to break free of, or tame, imperfect systems: noble loners and misguided outlaws choosing to stand alone in the face of near-impossible odds, ready to fight for what they believe in. Spanning familiar genres—Western, science fiction, police thriller, and indie-cult—these classic films examine, through the lens of moral predicament, the nature of justice and the ultimate cost of pursuing it.

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Special Screenings

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