http://www.wweek.com/portland/articles.sec-1372-1-.html Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT+7 en hourly 1 http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16929-piff_gets_spiffy_all_aboard_the_new_and_improved_portland_international_film_festival.html There’s no mistaking it: Like any good regional importer looking to tap into economic recovery, the 34th annual Portland International Film Festival is diversifying. For the first time, PIFF is exp]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18761-half_baked_alaska_movies_that_can_see_russia_from_their_house.html 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]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16994-not_dark_yet_but_piff%E2%80%99s_getting_there.html This is the way the world cinema showcase ends: not with a whimper, but with mutilated clowns and schoolgirls with robotic claws. The Portland International Film Festival doesn’t let its foot off ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18759-beer_bash_seriously_who_picked_the_flicks_for_the_2012_beer_and_movie_lineup.html 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]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16970-piff_rolls_east_ghost_monkeys_a_killer_tire_and_other_portland_international_film_festival_treats.html Gephyrophobia: the fear of crossing bridges. This malady has longed plagued the eastside cinephile during the Portland International Film Festival. But not this year. In its second week, PIFF jumps]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17322-certified_copy_soul_surfer_these_movies_have_nothing_in_common_.html Certified Copy 77 Juliette Binoche’s filmography already reads like a Bazin-quoting video store geek’s wet dream—Godard, Haneke, Kieslowski, Assayas and Hou have all harnessed her radiance—a]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20060-gus_co_directors_local_filmmakers_gus_van_sant_and_todd_haynes_talk_fracking_mtv_and_old_portland.html 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...]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18190-38th_northwest_filmmakers%E2%80%99_festival_new_name_same_game_discovering_local_talent.html Instead of the usual mid-life displays of sports car and trophy companion, the NW Film Center’s regional festival is celebrating its 38th year
]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18781-piff_improvement_helping_the_portland_international_film_festival_get_better_one_movie_at_a_time.html 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.
]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18818-licking_piff_don%E2%80%99t_let_the_portland_international_film_festival_get_you_down_wws_guide_to_we.html 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. ]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20064-gus_among_us_viva_las_vegas_we_asked_four_portlanders_for_their_perspectives_on_gus_van_sant_here%E2.html 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]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18218-38th_northwest_filmmakers%E2%80%99_festival_it%E2%80%99s_week_two_and_we_gotta_get_back_in_time.html How the Fire Fell 72 Joe Haege (31Knots frontman, part-time Menomena member) stars as charismatic preacher Edmund Creffield...
]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18853-road_to_nowhere_piff_ends_with_horrors_and_prostitutes.html   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]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19060-jesus_built_my_unicycle_of_god_and_reedies_also_snakes_.html 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]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20063-gus_among_us_james_westby_we_asked_four_portlanders_for_their_perspectives_on_gus_van_sant_here%E2%8.html 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.]]> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19125-the_rock_%E2%80%99n%E2%80%99_wrestling_connection_fake_it_so_real_and_it_came_from_detroit.html 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 ]]>