This week at the movies: an existential Stephen King adaptation, Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal in a romcom from "Past Lives" director Celine Song, plus the Western "The Unholy Trinity" and the Portland Horror Film Festival.
June 5, 2025Marc Mohan
Plus: The Ozploitation flick "Dangerous Animals," and "Bleak Week" comes to Portland with a roster of depressing films on 35mm.
June 4, 2025David Bates
Seminar students combine synthesized and acoustic music to accompany stories ranging from a rite of spring to a rocket-piloting dog.
May 29, 2025Marc Mohan
Set in Portland and shot at a number of local landmarks, the film has its Portland theatrical premiere Friday, May 30, at PSU's 5th Avenue Cinema.
Plus: Samurai action in "Tornado," Charles Burnett's "Killer of Sheep" restored in 4K, and more.
May 22, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: the Korean drama "A Normal Family," "Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted," and "The Cinema Within," a documentary about the psychology of film editing.
May 15, 2025Marc Mohan
Plus: the documentary "Deaf President Now!" on Apple TV+, Portland's 22nd annual Filmed by Bike festival, and battling Bigfeet in "The Siege of Ape Canyon" at the Kiggins Theatre.
May 8, 2025Marc Mohan
Two modest releases from Vertical Entertainment offer a welcome break from the standard big-budget studio fare.
May 4, 2025Jim Flint
With robust audiences and several hit films, this year's lively festival climbed out of the pandemic-years slump. Coming in 2026: AIFF's 25th anniversary celebration.
May 1, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: the 1960 B-movie "College Confidential" on Blu-ray, bloody folk horror, trippy animation, and more.
April 29, 2025Marc Mohan
The film screens Thursday, May 1, at Cinema 21, with Stillman in attendance for a post-film discussion and Q&A.
April 26, 2025Brian Libby
The longtime Portland experimental filmmaker and curator, now mentoring generations of filmmakers in Spokane, returns to the microcinema and studio where he first flourished.
April 24, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: the Sirkian melodrama "On Swift Horses," the Korean crime thriller "Yadang: The Snitch," plus documentaries, a tribute to David Lynch at the Hollywood Theatre, and more.
April 17, 2025Lori Tobias
The tiny building when the beloved Newport artist worked will be reconstructed at the preserve, giving the arts program the home base it has lacked.
April 17, 2025Marc Mohan
This week at the movies: a reimagining of Ang Lee's 1993 comedy "The Wedding Banquet", a microbudget indie triumph, plus some thoughts on the latest Marvel slop.
April 14, 2025Jim Flint
The Ashland Independent Film Festival will honor the "Twin Peaks" star and one of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's most beloved artists with the Oregon premiere of the documentary “I Know Catherine, the Log Lady.”
April 10, 2025Marc Mohan
This week at the movies: in two noirish dramas, dangerous secrets lurk behind the French countryside's picturesque facade. Plus: the buddy comedy "Sacramento," "The World Will Tremble," and more.
April 7, 2025Brian Libby
With international and local fare, features and shorts, organizers of Panorama, which runs April 10-20, hope to fill the void left by numerous discontinued fests.
April 3, 2025Marc Mohan
The Tarantinoesque "Freaky Tales" from directing duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck tells four interconnected stories set on a single day in 1987 Oakland, California.
After its world premiere last month at a San Jose festival, the new musical film now comes to Campbell's hometown for a weeklong run at Portland's Living Room Theaters.
March 27, 2025Marc Mohan
Four decades after his (presumed) death, Andy Kaufman at last gets the feature-length documentary treatment. Plus: the feel-good "Bob Trevino Likes It," and a new Blu-ray release of the 1999 sharksploitation flick "Deep Blue Sea."
March 20, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: a strange dystopia in "The Assessment," plus the sci-fi flick "Ash" and the baseball film "Eephus."
March 15, 2025Marc Mohan
The analog film collection of the late Dennis Nyback moves to the basement of a Southeast Portland community center, where a crew of dedicated cinephiles takes on the monumental task of cataloguing its over 5,000 titles.
March 13, 2025Marc Mohan
An uneventful week for new releases is led by two star-studded but pointless comedies, but a Blu-ray collection of unheralded films noir from Kino Lorber offers a silver lining.
March 8, 2025David Bates
About 1,600 tickets were sold for the recent independent film festival, which instead of superheroes and explosions, offers an expansive view of what it’s like to be a human in this world.
March 6, 2025Marc Mohan
The "Parasite" director follows his 2019 Best Picture win with a big-budget sci-fi satire starring Robert Pattinson.
March 1, 2025Martha Ullman West
A new film delves into the life and continuing inspiration of the international modern dance pioneer and co-founder of the Columbia Gorge's Maryhill Museum of Art.
February 27, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: the star-studded "Riff Raff," Italian filmmaker Maura Delpero's Alpine drama "Vermiglio," and the crypto-thriller "Cold Wallet."
February 24, 2025David Bates
The festival provides access to independent storytellers and voices from around the world in categories that include environmental, Native American, animation, local filmmakers, horror, and documentary.
February 20, 2025Marc Mohan
Horror meets slapstick comedy in a new adaptation of a story by Stephen King about a homicidal toy monkey.
