Movie Reviews & Stories Lincoln opens with a shot of Abraham’s very large, very statuesque head. As the camera pans to the front, the effect is startling. Though the 16th president has been put to film many times bef More
Animatronic Abe
Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is a live-action history lesson.
Movie Reviews & Stories Lincoln opens with a shot of Abraham’s very large, very statuesque head. As the camera pans to the front, the effect is startling. Though the 16th president has been put to film many times bef More
Siren Nation Film Festival
The personal is political is cinematic.
Movie Reviews & Stories As one of three women in the Willamette Week newsroom, I need no reminder of the embarrassing underrepresentation of women in the media. Documentaries like... More
Smashed
Beer me! Wait, maybe don’t.
Movie Reviews & Stories Though there’s no dearth of films about alcoholism and recovery, Smashed reeled me back not to Barfly or Days of Wine and Roses, but to Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry’s 1947 modernist novel. L More
Sun$hine (Tahni Holt)
A cardboard world, shiny and sequined.
Dance A towering wall of used cardboard boxes stretches diagonally across the stage, clear packing tape glinting in the light. Robert Tyree enters, tall and long-limbed and dressed head to toe in sequ More
Cultured Caveman
Food Cart Reviews Our club-wielding ancestors would have a rough time making chicken tenders the Cultured Caveman way. Considering Paleolithic hominids couldn’t reliably control fire, they’d have to hand- More
Getting Hitched
Cinema 21 celebrates the Master of Suspense.
Movie Reviews & Stories Like denim or Dr. Seuss, Alfred Hitchcock never goes out of style. But the director is particularly hot right now: Anthony... More
The Sessions
Out of the iron lung and into bed.
Movie Reviews & Stories Sex and disability are murky waters for film. How does a filmmaker depict sex involving disabled people without gawking or needlessly inflating the significance of the event? How to show it as b More
Gather: A Dance About Convergence (Tere Mathern & Tim Duroche)
When musicians and dancers collide.
Dance Gather, a new dance-music piece, professes its mission with buzzwords like interdependence, isolation, connection, division, collaboration and community. Such a jargon-y catalog is unsurprising More
Cloud Atlas
Overcast, with a chance of getting really lost.
Movie Reviews & Stories When an author calls a book “unfilmable,” it takes some serious chutzpah to raise a challenge. Directors Lana and Andy Wachowski (of the Matrix franchise) and Tom Twyker (who directed Run Lola More
Body Awareness (Coho Productions)
Our bodies, our very complicated selves.
Performance People with Asperger’s syndrome are often said to lack empathy. But no matter how emphatically Jared, a character in the deft and funny Body Awareness, denies such a diagnosis, his social apti More
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Body Awareness (Coho Productions)
Our bodies, our very complicated selves. Keys To Survival
A St. Paddy’s Day option if you’re plowed at a bar and want to go home with your car. Shelved
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What a worker-owned restaurant is doing about the housing crisis. Gigantic Brewing: Giant’s Lair
Gus
Portland’s greatest filmmaker and his controversial new movie. Winter Guide 2013: Stone Cold
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Trek in the Park (Atomic Arts)
Set phasers to “mildly entertaining.” ’Couve Crawl
A night out in Portland’s northern neighbor.
Our bodies, our very complicated selves. Keys To Survival
A St. Paddy’s Day option if you’re plowed at a bar and want to go home with your car. Shelved
The story of Powell’s layoffs, according to affected workers. House United
What a worker-owned restaurant is doing about the housing crisis. Gigantic Brewing: Giant’s Lair
Gus
Portland’s greatest filmmaker and his controversial new movie. Winter Guide 2013: Stone Cold
A WW correspondent learns to keep her beer off the curling rink. Cheap Eats 2011: Pupuseria El Buen Gusto
Trek in the Park (Atomic Arts)
Set phasers to “mildly entertaining.” ’Couve Crawl
A night out in Portland’s northern neighbor.
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