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Timothy Hutton's son was born Sept. 11, 2001, or so he informed a Leverage fan—who'd asked a different question altogether—last night in a ballroom ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Agnès Varda has a unique perception of the ways women’s personalities are formed by the worlds in which they live; that skill has made her the feminine voice of the French New Wave. The V ...   More

Q & A Richard Thomas doesn’t mind being considered an extra. He’s been one for 20 years, starting in Astoria at John Jacob Astor Elementary School, where Arnold Schwarzenegger shot Kindergarten ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Perhaps you’ve heard, but Portland is a pretty good place to drink a beer and watch a movie. The city has at least a dozen theater pubs (listed each week in WW’s Brew Views), where audienc ...   More

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Zak Smith lives in Los Angeles and is most famous for a book-length collection of drawings which illustrate each and every page of Thomas Pynchon's mammoth Gravity's Rainbow., Smith also is an accomplished painter, mainly of nude women, and he a...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories On the strength of playing about a dozen close-to-the-edge types throughout the ’80s, culminating with his work as an escaped mental patient in The Dream Team, Michael Keaton got to be Batman. T ...   More

Special Section This summer’s lineup of outdoor movie screenings isn’t all family-picnic fare. Sure, there are the requisite recent popular flicks (Madagascar 2, Monsters vs. Aliens) and older, popcorny o ...   More

Bar Reviews It just underwent a major remodel, but Blitz Pearl (110 NW 10th Ave. 222-2229), the bartender tells me, was a sports bar to begin with. They just made it bigger. Flat-screens are omnipresent across th ...   More

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Underground cinema legend George Kuchar has been professor of film studies at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1971. For a few years in the '90s, filmmaker Jennifer Kroot was both his student and an actress in his movies before eventually becoming a close friend. Ten years late...   More

Q & A Joel Hodgson was the original interminably imprisoned lab rat forced to watch horrible movie screenings on Mystery Science Theater 3000, the cult TV show he created in 1988 that featured a crew of hum ...   More