Movie Reviews & Stories
There is something heartbreakingly true in witnessing a
wizened writer in his mid-30s demand of an intern, “Why are you sitting
there in front of that screen? You’re a young man!”
Why are
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This Is Not a Film is a stirring act of mundane defiance.
Movie Reviews & Stories
This Is Not a Film opens with Iranian filmmaker
Jafar Panahi alone at his breakfast table, spreading jam on flatbread
and talking to a friend over speakerphone. “I’m stuck in a problem,” he
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It’s the casually racist buddy comedy of the year!
Movie Reviews & Stories
Can there be a more insulting “fish out of water” trope
than putting a bored black man in front of a chamber orchestra, then
holding for laughs? It’s where poor Omar Sy finds himself as Dris
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The opening credits of Alex Ross Perry’s The Color Wheel use the same swollen font the first edition of Portnoy’s Complaint had on its front cover. That’s no accident: Both works are young men
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Will Smith sequels more necessary than Men in Black III.
Movie Reviews & Stories
Something is terribly wrong with the world when we’re getting a third Men in Black
movie and still don’t know what happened after...
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Movie Reviews & Stories
According to one expert in First Position, the keys
to making it in the cutthroat world of ballet are “body, training,
passion, personality.” Freshman director Bess Kargman manages to find
s
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Even in a town known for incubating distinctive animation
talents, Portland-born Bill Plympton is special. Not only is he one of
the most iconic animators currently working—his work is recogniza
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The Experimental Film Festival reconnects Portland’s avant-cinema community.
Movie Reviews & Stories
Experimental media in Portland is fractured. If that meant
abstruse, mind-splattering and totally fucking bonkers, it’d be a good
thing. But it’s more literal. In the last three years, the loc
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Richard Linklater’s new movie contains all the
“outrageous” elements obligatory to deadpan, small-town true crime.
Nice-guy killer? Meet Bernie Tiede, hymn-singing assistant mortician
with
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Movie Reviews & Stories
It’s fitting that the flagship offering of the sixth annual Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival is Jeffrey Schwarz’s Vito (7 pm Sunday, May 20),
a eulogy for the man who documented the depi
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