PIFF 2013: Tonight, We Are Young

PIFF will set the world on fire, and burn brighter than the sun.

Movie Reviews & Stories Being a kid is tough these days. Whether children are being unfavorably compared to that hilarious little Honey Boo Boo, stripping down to their SpongeBob underwear for a search at elementary sc More

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 WW Staff

No Guts, No Glory Holes

The Portland Underground Film Festival cleans itself up.

Movie Reviews & Stories In the early 2000s, former Clinton Street Theater owner Seth Sonstein founded the Portland Underground Film Festival. His mission... More

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER, CHRIS STAMM

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

Oh, The Places We’ve Been!

Mapping the terrain of a land called PIFF.

Movie Reviews & Stories No festival is an island. They’re regional importers, which is why the Portland International Film Festival shares so many titles with its sisters in Seattle, San Francisco and the Film Society More

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE, AP KRYZA, AARON MESH, MATTHEW SINGER