Movie Reviews & Stories
Most of us see the world through American eyes,
contextualizing modern political struggles through selective memories.
Whether consuming news from Libya, Iran or Occupied Portland, it’s
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Ready or not, Portland gets an Elliott Smith documentary from Los Angeles.
Movie Reviews & Stories
Gil Reyes isn’t sure what to expect when he finally screens his 2009 film, Searching for Elliott Smith,
in Portland on Friday, eight years after the singer’s death.
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Jeff Nichols’ sublime Take Shelter is a trenchant,
contemporary American horror story, which means it is not about ghosts
or demons but waiting for the other shoe to drop. More specifically,
it
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Chicogrande
38 [MEXICO] The 41st film of 74-year-old Mexican auteur
Felipe Cazals is a deeply silly western loosely inspired...
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The existence of The Big Year is a
sign of something diseased and possibly irreparable in our society.
Watching it I felt, for the first time this month, a distinct urge to
occupy something. This i
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In contemplating Clarence Reid’s career touring the world
as septuagenarian soul singer/rap inventor/pussy lover Blowfly, it’s
hard not to think of a tired old circus lion. Occasionally he roars
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A Star Is Born
35 A Star is Born is like a Serbian episode of MTV’s Made.
Vanja Kovacevic, who wrote, directed, edited and produced this
documentary, wants to become a drummer. The Decemberists ar
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Gus Van Sant’s Restless is a love story with carrion beetles.
Movie Reviews & Stories
It is not uncommon for a great artist to show questionable
taste in source material. Bob Dylan recorded a Christmas album in which
he gurgled “Here Comes Santa Claus.” T.S. Eliot developed a poe
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If politics is the art of the possible, art about politics
is an inventory of the most appalling possibilities. The taint of
compromise—the incremental moral-compass adjustments that have despoile
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Real Steel is fundamentally a bad movie—obnoxious,
incoherent and sloppy—resembling nothing so much as some ’90s summer
family-film commodity fabricated to sell toys: Rock ’Em Sock More