Not Rated (mild language), 90 minutes, 2007: Join the Museum in fending off winter with the heat and vibrant colors of Chihuly in the Hotshop. The film includes interviews with glass artist Dale Chihuly, photographs of his completed works, and amazing footage of glass blowing that will take your breath away. In 2006 the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, invited Dale Chihuly to work in their state-of-the-art hotshop, an amphitheater specifically designed to allow the audience to watch the glass blowing action close at hand. Chihuly's residency soon became the idea for this documentary as he set forth on an ambitious program that would reflect the sum total of his work in glass over the last thirty years. All thirteen of his best-known series were revisited along with more than forty artists and gaffers who had worked with Chihuly at the time of the inception of each series. This documentary feature is distributed by Portland Press.
After the film you are invited to view Chihuly’s piece Azteca Yellow Persian Set with Black Lip Wraps in the Museum’s Beck Gallery.

Note: Due to unforeseen circumstances the film, Seducing Dr. Lewis, will not be shown.

Saturday, February 11 @ 2 pm - Page One

Not Rated (Documentary - mild content), 117 minutes, 2007: The Rape of Europa takes the audience on a journey through seven countries telling a story of greed and warfare that threatened the artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art. Young art historians and curators from America and across Europe fought back, mounting a campaign to rescue and return countless art works displaced by the war. Sponsored by Terry MacGregor.

Saturday, February 25 @ 2 pm - Quinceañera

Rated R (language, some sexual content and drug use), 90 minutes, 2006: As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin. In Spanish with English Subtitles.

Saturday, March 3 @ 2 pm - Red Tail Reborn

Not Rated (Documentary - mild content), 54 minutes, 2007: The ambition to make the Tuskegee Airmen a household name is the primary objective of The Redtail Project, a group of men and women who honor the Airmen by touring air shows with a restored P-51C Mustang, the famous roaring fighter plane these men flew in combat. Red Tail Reborn, narrated by Michael Dorn, is a tale of inspiration. Historic interviews, unprecedented access, and emotional honesty bring to light the tale of the Tuskegee Airmen. Sponsored by a Friend of the MacNider Art Museum’s Foreign and Independent Film Series.

Saturday, March 10 @ 2 pm - Gasland

Not Rated (Documentary - language), 107 minutes, 2010: As American energy firms look for new sources of petroleum, natural gas has become an increasingly important part of their portfolios. Gas drilling is sharply on the rise, and when Josh Fox, a theatrical director and filmmaker, was offered $100,000 for the gas rights to family property on the Delaware River Basis in Pennsylvania, he was curious about the possible effects of drilling. Fox set out to talk to other property owners about what he could expect, and their answers startled him - fracking (hydraulic fracturing drilling) taints water sources near drilling sites, and many households have discovered their water is not only undrinkable after gas drilling, it's even flammable. It turns out this is just the tip of the iceberg of the environmental damage done by reckless gas drilling, and in his documentary Gasland, Fox travels to 34 states and talks to dozens of property owners and environmental experts on the under-reported menace of fracking and the truth about the dangers of natural gas.