Don’t Let the Portland International Film festival get you down. WW's guide to week two.
Movie Reviews & Stories
After a certain point—we’re going to say it’s this
Saturday, Feb. 18—the trickiest part of navigating the Portland
International Film Festival is summoning the will to get out of bed.
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This is the story of two secret agents. They are best
friends. They are terrible secret agents, though the movie seems only
dimly aware of this. After all, it is directed by McG, whose idea of
s
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Helping the Portland International Film Festival get better, one movie at a time.
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We live in a difficult world. If you were not aware of how
difficult it is, the Portland International Film Festival is here to
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A long time ago, a USC student named George transformed
his love of Buck Rogers serials, pulp novels and Japanese cinema into
the greatest space-opera film of all time. Since then, he’s redeco
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Seriously, who picked the flicks for the 2012 Beer and Movie lineup?
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1000101011101010101. That’s the opening pixel of Conan the
Barbarian as it will appear to future audiences. Good ol’-fashioned
film is dying, fast, as cheaper, digital projectors now control a
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Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story
63 Docking in Portland as the opening-night
selection of the 22nd Annual Cascade Festival of African Films, this
2009 picture from Egypt contains a number of images
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Big Miracle58 About 15 minutes into the new inspirational family film Big Miracle, an insufferable Drew Barrymore exclaims, “But this is different—whales
are in danger!” I rolled my eyes so ha
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Wim Wenders pays his three-dimensional respects to Pina.
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Up to now, 3-D in film has been an enterprise largely
extraneous to the character of film itself: moviedom’s version of the
10,000 love-fattened cherubs overwhelming the interior of a baroque
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The gender-bending Albert Nobbs offers a
buy-one-get-one-free coupon of butch, with two central heroines
masquerading as dudes. The titular Albert (Glenn Close) is an awkward,
finicky little man
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a cloying atrocity.
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From Billy Elliot to The Hours to The Reader,
director Stephen Daldry has turned repressing your sexuality into
something the upper class can feel sexy about. The people in his movies
suffer the
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