Saturday May 27, 7:00pm Northwest Film Forum
Wednesday May 31, 9:30pm Northwest Film Forum
"It's a great asset in life, not to know what you're talking about."
On the locks of Canal Saint-Martin one day appeared the image of a large yellow cat. Soon this feline with the toothy grin began popping up all over Paris. Chris Marker's 'Case of the Grinning Cat' documents his amusing journey into the Metro, through parks and over rooftops in search of the infamous 'chat', while protesters took to the streets against fascism in France and America. The cat slyly sneaks onto television news and into van Eyck's Marriage of Giovanni and Giovanna Arnolfini. In one hilarious 'non-cat' moment a pigeon turns into a man, but the cat is soon back, on postage stamps and in the Louvre. "Just when you stop looking, there is a cat!" Marker rambles through everyday Parisian life for a year or two using the loosest of threads, or whiskers, tying everything together with a delightfully dry, understated and ironic humor that could only be French.
" Faites la guerre de chats pas. "
Wednesday May 31, 9:30pm Northwest Film Forum
"It's a great asset in life, not to know what you're talking about."
On the locks of Canal Saint-Martin one day appeared the image of a large yellow cat. Soon this feline with the toothy grin began popping up all over Paris. Chris Marker's 'Case of the Grinning Cat' documents his amusing journey into the Metro, through parks and over rooftops in search of the infamous 'chat', while protesters took to the streets against fascism in France and America. The cat slyly sneaks onto television news and into van Eyck's Marriage of Giovanni and Giovanna Arnolfini. In one hilarious 'non-cat' moment a pigeon turns into a man, but the cat is soon back, on postage stamps and in the Louvre. "Just when you stop looking, there is a cat!" Marker rambles through everyday Parisian life for a year or two using the loosest of threads, or whiskers, tying everything together with a delightfully dry, understated and ironic humor that could only be French.
" Faites la guerre de chats pas. "