FEBRUARY 10­–16, FRIDAY–THURSDAY AT 7 (SATURDAY AT 6:30 for an intro by author David Spaner)
Seattle Premiere!
We Can’t Go Home Again

Special introduction by author David Spaner on Saturday (beginning at 6:30)

February 10th screenings of both We Can't Go Home Again and Don't Expect Too Much are FREE to NWFF members!

(Nicolas Ray, 1973-1979, USA, Blu-ray, 90 min) On the occasion of Ray’s centenary, we are proud to present the most complete version of this one-of-a-kind film in a stunning digital restoration undertaken by Ray’s widow, Susan Ray. Made by the one-eyed legendary director and his students during his stint as a film professor at State University of New York, Binghamton, under abysmal financial conditions, the film records Ray’s groundbreaking use of multiple images as a way of telling more than one story simultaneously, and of colorization as a way to heighten emotional expression. He called it a “journalistic” film, one that shares the anthropologist’s aim of recording the “history, progress, manners, morals and mores of everyday life” at a critical moment in American history. We Can’t Go Home Againis a crucial document in both Ray's filmography and in the history of American independent cinema.