Gus: Co-Directors

Local filmmakers Gus Van Sant and Todd Haynes talk fracking, MTV and old Portland.

Movie Reviews & Stories Todd Haynes, the Portland-based Academy Award-nominated director of Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven and the Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There agreed... More

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 WW MOVIE STAFF

Gus Among Us: James Westby

We asked four Portlanders for their perspectives on Gus Van Sant. Here’s what they said.

Movie Reviews & Stories JAMES WESTBY, Filmmaker In Last Days, famous and troubled musician Blake (Michael Pitt) gets a visit from a Yellow Pages salesman. Blake is wearing a dress with combat boots and can barely speak. More

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 WW MOVIE STAFF

Gus Among Us: Viva Las Vegas

We asked four Portlanders for their perspectives on Gus Van Sant. Here’s what they said.

Movie Reviews & Stories VIVA LAS VEGAS, Author and stripper Once upon a time (this is a fairy tale), late on a Tuesday night at Mary’s Club, a posse of handsome, well-dressed men entered the bar and quietly took seats More

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 WW MOVIE STAFF

The Rock ’N’ Wrestling Connection

Fake It So Real and It Came From Detroit

Movie Reviews & Stories Fake It So Real At a time when it’s become perfectly acceptable for an adult to get a tattoo of a Stormtrooper, the last true outcast culture left in America just might be professional More

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 WW MOVIE STAFF

Jesus Built My Unicycle

Of God and Reedies. Also: snakes!

Movie Reviews & Stories Blue Like Jazz Blue Like Jazz is an odd beast: a pro-Christian movie condemned by multiple evangelical groups, an earnest and often affecting Igby Goes Down for the puppeteering-for-Christ set. The More

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 WW MOVIE STAFF

Road To Nowhere

PIFF ends with horrors and prostitutes.

Movie Reviews & Stories WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22 EternityCritic’s Score: 67[THAILAND] Though it is at some level a ghost story, Eternity is much more about absence than presence: The spirit in question is a lone rid More

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 WW MOVIE STAFF

Licking PIFF

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. More

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 WW MOVIE STAFF

PIFF Improvement

Helping the Portland International Film Festival get better, one movie at a time.

Movie Reviews & Stories We live in a difficult world. If you were not aware of how difficult it is, the Portland International Film Festival is here to remind you.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012 WW MOVIE STAFF

Beer Bash

Seriously, who picked the flicks for the 2012 Beer and Movie lineup?

Movie Reviews & Stories 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 More

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 WW MOVIE STAFF

Half-Baked Alaska

Movies that can see Russia from their house.

Movie Reviews & Stories 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 More

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 WW MOVIE STAFF

Top Articles from WW MOVIE STAFF

PIFF Gets Spiffy
All aboard the new and improved Portland International Film Festival. Half-Baked Alaska
Movies that can see Russia from their house. Not Dark Yet
But PIFF’s Getting There. Beer Bash
Seriously, who picked the flicks for the 2012 Beer and Movie lineup? PIFF Rolls East
Ghost monkeys, a killer tire and other Portland International Film Festival treats. Certified Copy/Soul Surfer
These movies have nothing in common! Gus: Co-Directors
Local filmmakers Gus Van Sant and Todd Haynes talk fracking, MTV and old Portland. 38th Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival
New name, same game: Discovering local talent. PIFF Improvement
Helping the Portland International Film Festival get better, one movie at a time. Licking PIFF
Don’t Let the Portland International Film festival get you down. WW's guide to week two.

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