October 9, 2013
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Jazz-Themed Films
Edgy works
dominate Reel
Music Festival
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The Northwest Film Center’s
Reel Music Festival has always
wrangled together an exciting
cross-section o f jazz-them ed
films within the lineup and this
year’s festival is no exception.
From films on spiritual jazz
guru Charles Lloyd and hot jazz
drummer Chick Webb to edgy
works about blues/jazz pianist
James Booker and the Hypnotic
Brass Ensemble, Reel Music 31
promises a multitude o f jazzy
treats for music lovers of all
ages
T he31 st edition of the festival
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ing from documentaries about
musicians to performance films
to movies drenched in popular
music and musical tropes. The
festival opens Friday, Oct. 11
and continues through Oct. 27 at
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Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 S. W. /£•
Park Ave. and at McMenamins
M ission Theater, 16234 N.W.
Glisan.
W hether your passion is jazz,
blues, rock, soul, folk, funk, or Laura Mae Gross and her legendary South Central Los Angeles blues club are profiled in the documentary B a b e ^ in c H lic k y ^ n ^ W ie
punk, the series will deliver a film will be screened Friday, Oct. 18, one o f the 3 2 films in the Northwest Film Center’s two-week long Reel Music Festival that opens
mixture of old and new, familiar Friday, Oct. 11.
V Whether your passion is jazz, blues, rock,
New Orleans piano
legend James Booker,
called the Ivory Emperor
and Black Liberace, is
profiled in the docu­
mentary Bayou Mahara­
ja h : The Tragic Genius
o f James Booker,
showing Saturday, Oct.
1 9 at 8 :3 0 p.m. at the
Mission Theater. The
film is part o f the
Northwest Film
Center’s Reel Music
Festival.
soul, folk, funk, or punk, the series will
deliver a mixture o f old and new, familiar
and strange, to be full o f inspiration and
discovery.
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and strange, to be full of inspira­
tion and discovery, promoters of
the festival said.
Overlapping, and part of, Reel
Music is "The Hitchcock 9," re­
cent restorations of all of Alfred
Hitchcock's surviving early si­
lent films, accompanied by live
p e rfo rm a n c e by som e o f
Portland's finest musical talents.
Tickets are $9 for general
admission and $8 for students
and seniors. For more informa­
tion about the Reel Music lineup,
including locations and times, visit
nwfilm.org.
The Northwest Film Center is
a regional media arts organiza­
tion offering a variety of exhibi­
tion, education programs, and
artist services throughout the
region.