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Friday Film Club – Portraits

April 8, 2016 – June 10, 2016

The theme of our second Friday Film Club discussion series is PORTRAITS—literal, narrative, existential and cinematic. Friday Film Club screenings are presented monthly when the Portland Art Museum’s galleries are open late on Friday evenings. Each screening is accompanied by a post-film discussion led by Film Center staff and Art Museum docents, in which a work from the Art Museum galleries is utilized to spark dialogue and debate about the film. Special Admission: $5.

Sponsored by Pacific University Master of Fine Arts in Writing.

Au Hasard Balthazar

Directed by Robert Bresson

By 1966 Robert Bresson could be comfortably grouped into the category of “masters of French cinema,” having already made such …

Irma Vep

Irma Vep

Directed by Olivier Assayas

A twin portrait of both the acclaimed Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung as well as the French film industry as …

Laura

Directed by Otto Preminger

Widely hailed as one of the most influential and expertly crafted film noirs ever made, Laura is also one of …

Persona

Directed by Ingmar Bergman

One of Bergman’s most famous and audacious experiments in a career filled with piercing character studies and psychological realism unparalleled …

The Northwest Film Center recognizes and honors the Indigenous peoples of this region on whose ancestral lands the museum now stands. These include the Willamette Tumwater, Clackamas, Kathlemet, Molalla, Multnomah and Watlala Chinook Peoples and the Tualatin Kalapuya who today are part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and many other Native communities who made their homes along the Columbia River. We also want to recognize that Portland today is a community of many diverse Native peoples who continue to live and work here. We respectfully acknowledge and honor all Indigenous communities—past, present, future—and are grateful for their ongoing and vibrant presence.