Last Night of The Rain People at NWFF
As the yearlong 69 film series soldiers on, tonight is your last chance to see one of Francis Ford Coppola's first films, The Rain People.
The Northwest Film Forum is screening a 16mm print they got their hands on from an Australian library (of course), and we must warn you that while the picture is still pretty good, the sound--especially at the beginning--is ROUGH.
But if you make it through that trial by fire, you'll catch a great relic of a simpler time, with Shirley Knight as a Long Island housewife who finds out she's pregnant and leaves her husband for a nice cross-country drive. Along the way, she meets hitchhiking dim bulb James Caan (looking young and surprisingly beefcakey) and asshole cop Robert Duvall (looking the same as always).
As to the rest of the film series, tonight is also the last night for The Wild Bunch and Paint Your Wagon.
And we don't know about you, but we're really excited by the prospect of next week's film, Putney Swope, a "brazen and bizarre satire on race relations and consumerism" directed by Robert Downey, Sr.
