A new dark comedy film featuring an ensemble cast of students from a Portland theater class premieres October 8th at the McMenamins Kennedy School Theater.
Francis Ford Coppola’s first studio film in more than two decades is an underdeveloped vanity project, albeit an entertaining and visually splendid one.
Three new movies put women actors front and center. Also this week: 1964’s “Nothing but a Man,” new Portland-made features, and “Burden of Dreams” restored in 4K.
Halloween creeps into September with three new horror flicks of varying quality. Also this week: the documentary “Join or Die,” plus pre-Code women screenwriters on the Criterion Channel.
A thriller from French-Canadian director Pascal Plante hits theaters this week alongside a supernatural comedy from New Zealand and some choice streaming picks.
The movie week shoots for outer space with a rarely seen gem from the maker of “Fantastic Planet” and other interstellar adventures. Also: Japanese film festival, singing the blues, more.
Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane strike up an unlikely friendship in writer-director Nathan Silver’s ninth feature film.
Martin Scorsese teaches a crash course on the films of Powell and Pressburger, plus a rare, intimate glimpse inside the Taliban in the wake of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Also this week: “A Matter of Life and Death” at Cinemagic, films from the Dennis Nyback archive, and the 1973 spaghetti Western “The Man Called Noon.”
Also this week: “Seven Samurai,” newly restored in 4K, plus Hong Kong horror comedy “The Seventh Curse” and Soviet sci-fi in “To the Stars the Hard Way.”
Also this week: psychic horror in “Oddity,” “Noir City: Portland” at the Hollywood Theatre, and a new documentary about the life of Faye Dunaway.
The “Czar of Noir” talks with Marc Mohan about film restoration, digital technogoloy, and Argentine and American noir ahead of a weekend of films at Portland’s Hollywood Theatre.
Also this week: thrill-seeking rooftoppers in “Skywalkers: A Love Story,” and the surreal, Soviet-era “Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel” at the Clinton Street Theater.
Mia Goth plays an adult film star of the ’80s in the final installment in horror auteur Ti West’s “X” trilogy.
The latest film from “Poor Things” director Yorgos Lanthimos is a darkly bizarre anthology featuring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.
The Portland-based filmmaker’s first narrative feature screens Thursday, June 27, at the Tomorrow Theater.
Austin Butler and Tom Hardy star as members of a criminal motorcycle gang in “The Bikeriders,” the latest film from director Jeff Nichols.
Also this week: Jude Law as Henry VIII and Alicia Vikander as Katherine Parr in “Firebrand,” and the latest film from “Fists in the Pocket” director Marco Bellocchio.
In a relatively uneventful week for theatrical releases, a few straight-to-streaming indie flicks are still worth a watch.
A new, 13,000-square-foot building will celebrate Oregon’s cinematic legacy, leaving the current site to focus on ‘The Goonies.’ The city will mark the 39th anniversary of the film’s release with Goonies Day on June 7.
Plus: Don Hertzfeldt’s “Me,” “In a Violent Nature,” and the 2024 Portland Horror Film Festival.
Anya Taylor-Joy hits the road to revenge in the latest installment in George Miller’s “Mad Max” saga.
Lundgren talks with Marc Mohan about his new film, creative independence, and Krzysztof Kieślowski ahead of a Wednesday night appearance at the Hollywood Theatre.
Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine star in writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s surreal and nostalgic second feature.
Also this week: Harmony Korine’s “Aggro Dr1ft,” Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak,” and “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.”
Also this week: “Free Time,” “Golden Years,” sci-fi animation “Mars Express,” and more.
Beautiful people play tennis beautifully in the latest film from Luca Guadagnino.
Plus: Guy Ritchie’s “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” Anthony Mann’s “The Tin Star” on Blu-ray, and a few 4/20 highlights.
Kirsten Dunst is exceptional in Alex Garland’s emphatically non-partisan vision of a war-torn future America.
An obscenity-filled period comedy pits Olivia Colman against Jessie Buckley as friends-turned-archrivals whose feud stirs up controversy in a sleepy English village.
Plus: “Asphalt City,” “Lousy Carter,” and the latest Liam Neeson revenge fantasy “In the Land of Saints and Sinners.”
Also this week: a trio of Tarantino double features, OMSI’s 2024 Sci-Fi Film Fest, and a Middle Earth marathon at the Hollywood Theatre.
Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian star in a stylish neo-noir, plus the feature film debut of writer-director-star Julio Torres of HBO’s “Los Espookys.”
Plus: “Accidental Texan,” “Cabrini,” and “Kung Fu Panda 4.”
After its biggest and most successful year yet, the wine country film festival looks toward a bright and expansive future.
Timothée Chalamet rides a sandworm in the sequel to 2021’s “Dune,” and a 2022 documentary portrait of Alexei Navalny gets a theatrical release after his death.
Also this week: “Barbarella” remastered in 4K, and documentaries about the rise of Christian nationalism and the history of the Seattle Black Panther Party.
Wim Wenders’ latest film, an Oscar-nominated fictional feature set in Tokyo, follows the day-to-day existence of an eccentric toilet cleaner.
Also screening this week: “Lisa Frankenstein,” “The Sweet East,” and the latest 3D documentary from Wim Wenders.
Also this week: Mads Mikkelsen in “The Promised Land” and the documentaries “Dario Argento Panico” and “In the Dirt.”
The director and actor talk with Marc Mohan about filming in Astoria and working with an internationally famous movie star.
A fictionalized film adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s best-selling book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” falls short of its ambitions. Plus: where to watch every Oscar-nominated film before the awards show.
This week, director Jonathan Glazer provides a stark reminder of the banality of genocide, and Anthony Hopkins stars as the father of psychoanalysis opposite Matthew Goode’s C. S. Lewis.
Also this week: Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan in “Foe,” three Heisei-era Gamera films at Cinemagic, and Lakeith Stanfield in “The Book of Clarence.”
2024 kicks off with a French farce, a biting satire starring Jeffrey Wright, and a new film by Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Marc Mohan shares his picks for this year’s best films.
Three new films from directors Michael Mann, Blitz Bazawule, and George Clooney round out the year with more whimper than bang.
Also this week: the Hollywood Theatre’s year-end 70 mm extravaganza, and some joyful holiday favorites including “White Christmas,” “Elf,” and “Eyes Wide Shut.”
From Pasolini to Jackie Chan to Werner Herzog’s memoirs, here’s a picture-perfect assortment of gift ideas sure to please even the most discerning movie lover.
Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo give superb performances in the new film by Yorogs Lanthimos, plus the latest from Aki Kaurismäki and Portland filmmaker Irene Taylor.
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