Our Lineup of the Most Promising Blockbusters-To-Be, Non-Spinoff Titles and Wild Cards

This Year’s Filmed By Bike Festival Offers the Most Diverse Programming Lineup To Date

Locally Filmed Phoenix, Oregon Examines Small-Town Mundanity and Perseverance

Four Films in Weekend Showcase Are Your Call to Action This Earth Day

A Local Animator Reflects on the Stop-Motion Process in Laika’s New Film, Missing Link

Five Highlights from the Portland International Film Festival

We’re halfway through a beloved annual fortnight in the city’s film scene. This 42nd iteration of the Portland International Film Festival is curated, as always, by NW Film Center and presents well over 100 offerings, from lyrical epics to inventive indies to far-flung documentaries and a dash of gnarly genre fare, too. Here are our picks for the best of what’s still to screen at PIFF.

Hollywood Theatre Welcomes Vincent Price’s Daughter for Double Showing

This Friday and Saturday, the Hollywood Theatre screens House on Haunted Hill (1959) and House of Wax (1953) with Vincent Price’s daughter Victoria in attendance for Q&A sessions and signings. We caught up with Victoria, 56, about her dad, how he still influences her work, and the inimitable qualities of his voice.

A Portlander Adapts a Novel—and His Style—When Authoring the Script for We the Animals

We the Animals isn’t the sort of film to leave you wondering what William Goldman or Nora Ephron acolyte penned the dialogue. It’s a cinematographer’s picture. The human drama feels found and dreamt more than written, intimating the lives of three brothers approaching adolescence and roaming every wooded and rusted inch of their upstate New York world.