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December 30, 2008
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Next report and we’ll be starting the 10th year of the Port Townsend Film Festival! In mid-February we’ll announce our year-long slate of activities. Stay tuned: Time flies when you’re watching movies.
We have reached the $5,000 mark in our search for an additional $15,000 for the annual fund drive. Fortunately, our primary donor is not holding us to a dollar-for-dollar match, so that we will at minimum have obtained a very generous $20,000 by the end of the year, allowing us to pay down most of our line of credit. And since the end of the year doesn’t come until tomorrow, there’s still time to become a donor for the 2008 annual fund.
Send a check to PTFF, P.O. Box 594, Port Townsend, WA 98368, or call the office (360-379-1333)where we will process it with plastic and you can earn some points toward your next trip.
Many thanks to the generous folk who have already contributed to this fund. You are strong supporters all.
Funny First Fridays
The American Film Institute has declared SOME LIKE IT HOT, the 1959 classic film that reopened the Rose Theatre in 1992, as the funniest movie ever made, and Joey Pipia is showing it at 7:30 pm Friday, January 2, 2009, at his Chameleon Theatre on Castle Hill.
One of the most hilarious, raucous films ever made, it is a clever combination of spoof (1920-30's gangster films with period costumes and speakeasies) and romance (quasi-screwball comedy with one central joke - entangled and deceptive identities). The film's major plot points are disguise, masquerade, impersonation – with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, it’s all to hilarious effect.
The Chameleon Theater is located at 800 W. Park Ave., in The Port Townsend Business Park near the Department of Motor Vehicles (signs will direct you in); adults are $10, kids twelve and under $6. Entertainment will precede the movie. Reservations are suggested, but not required. Box office: 379-1068, or e-mail joey@olympus.net. The Port Townsend Film Festival is co-sponsor of the Funny First Fridays series which will run through June.
Global Film Initiative
The Global Lens 2008 series of foreign-language films resumes at 10 am, Saturday, January 3 at the Rosebud Cinema. The series, co-sponsored by Peninsula College and the Port Townsend Film Festival, is designed to promote cross-cultural understanding through cinema. Films from such countries as Croatia, Philippines, South Africa, Argentina, Iran, Lebanon, India, China, and Indonesia offer American audiences a glimpse in to lives and cultures vastly different from our own.
Three films remain in the series. They include, LET THE WIND BLOW(January 3), LUXURY CAR (January 17), and OPERA JAWA (January 31).
Tickets may be purchased in advance at the box office at the Rose Theatre, and in the concession lobby on the day of the screening. All films are free to students with school identification. Adult tickets are $5. The theatre will begin seating at 9:30 am each day.
“3 by 3” Fort Worden Winter Film Series
New for 2009, and an early evocation of our 10th anniversary celebratory plans, is the “3 by 3” Fort Worden Winter Films Series of nine films on Tuesday nights, co-sponsored with Centrum beginning 7:30 pm, Tuesday, January 6.
The series features three films chosen by three curators (thus the title, “3 by 3”) who will introduce each film and lead a question-and-answer period after the screening.
The curators and their films include:
Reel Grrls, a Seattle-based after-school media & technology training program that empowers girls to critique media images and to gain media technology skills in a safe, open environment, mentored by a network of multi-cultural women media professionals: CLEO de 5 a 7 (January 6); WHALE RIDER (January 13), BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER (January 20).
Tom Skerritt, versatile film and television actor: THE TURNING POINT (January 27 ) , CONTACT (February 3), A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT (February 10).
Kathleen Murphy, film critic and educator: JULES ET JIM (February 17), THE HOURS (February 24), LAST TANGO IN PARIS (March 3).
All screenings are at 7:30 pm in the Wheeler Theatre at Fort Worden. Tickets are available by calling Centrum at 360/385-3102, x117. Tickets are $12; $8 with current student ID; series passes are $95. Tickets will also be available at the Wheeler Theater box office one hour before the film begins.
Details about each film and their curators are available at http://www.fortwordenwinterfilms.com/