History, Mystery, Odyssey: An animated tale
Martin Cooper’s new film at Cinema 21 tells the stories of innovative Portland animators Jim Blashfield, Joanna Priestley, Rose Bond, Zak Margolis, Joan C. Gratz and Chel White.
Martin Cooper’s new film at Cinema 21 tells the stories of innovative Portland animators Jim Blashfield, Joanna Priestley, Rose Bond, Zak Margolis, Joan C. Gratz and Chel White.
In a busy week focused on European films, indie features and revivals, a probing Romanian movie about globalization and bias tops the bill.
M. Night Shyamalan’s latest high-concept horror flick hits theaters on Friday, and an Oscar nominee finally gets its Portland premiere.
A pair of movies about women of low and high birth responding to repression; German and Japanese cinema at the Clinton; a flock of revivals: Welcome to 2023.
The festivals at the Hollywood Theatre and Cinema 21 provide a rainbow of stories about LGBTQ+ life.
“A safe place inside a dangerous place”: A dozen years in the making, and three after its director’s death, a rare collaboration with inmate actors comes to the screen.
Two beautifully performed films – one with child actors, one about old age – defy the ordinary in welcome ways. Plus, streaming picks.
Alternate universes, an IRS office, hot dog fingers, and tons of fun. Plus: Israel, Palestine and “Ahed’s Knee”; French “Gagarine.”
Two foreign-film winners: Archaeology and understanding on a Russian train; moral complexity in the Palestinian West Bank.
Also this week: An extra-noirish “Nightmare Alley” and a host of good revivals strut their stuff.
Oscar best-foreign-film candidates from Japan’s Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar highlight Portland’s movie week.
In search of an avatar dragon and a very real snow leopard. Plus: Martin Luther King Jr. tributes, Coen Brothers & more.
A two-time Oscar winner for best foreign film looks at the ambiguities of heroism; a “demented Horatio Alger” keeps on trying.
Marc Mohan at the movies: Branagh recalls his childhood during the Troubles; a political bio puts things in and leaves things out; some short streaming gems.
Wes Anderson’s “Dispatch” is about as Wes Anderson as a movie can be. And Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the Victorian polymath Wain, an artist who paints psychedelic cats.
“From the get-go, the portrayal of this family feels as authentic as any glimpse into deaf culture I’ve seen on screen.”
Oh, the horror (and more): As movie houses begin to reopen, a mini-flood of fresh new films arrives.
Streamers: Skye Fitzgerald’s documentary short about the war in Yemen chronicles a struggle to aid children caught in famine.
Ready or not, movie theaters are starting to open again in time for the Oscars and summer blockbusters.
Marc Mohan’s sneak peek at the Portland International Film Fest; the “Citizen Kane” of awkward first-date movies.
For lovers of movies, 2021 is looking almost as confusing as 2020 was. Marc Mohan starts the clarification process in this edition of Streamers.
Marc Mohan: Mall multiplexes may edge toward extinction, but independent art houses will survive.
As the quaran-time slowly unspools, movies are moving to a small screen near you, including “Martin Eden” and Alex Gibney’s take on our coronavirus fumble.
Marc Mohan’s Streamers column considers the deeper recesses of your video options. This week that means a jazz classic and a trove of documentaries.
One well-known Portlander tells the story of another in “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot,” Gus Van Sant’s new film based on the memoir by the late cartoonist John Callahan. Van Sant has had his eye on Callahan’s life story
The highlights in Portland movie theaters right now range from a touching portrait of a beloved TV icon to a soul-searing portrait of family dealing with grief, insanity and terror. How’s that for range? “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”: It’s safe to
This week’s column necessarily begins with a personal aside. When it became clear to me in 2016, after years of writing about movies for The Oregonian (God rest its soul), that Portland’s daily newspaper was not willing to invest in regular local
A 65-year-old male director, world-famous, Oscar-nominated, a legendary auteur, makes a movie about a 23-year-old woman rediscovering her sexuality through masochistic fantasies and by working the afternoon shift at a brothel. In several scenes, some of them taking place in her imagination,
One of the most fascinating films of the 1990s returns to the big screen this week in Portland when Cinema 21 hosts a restored version of director Emir Kusturica’s 1995 historical fantasia “Underground.” The movie was a cinematic event when it won
“Gemini” is a sleek, entertaining new thriller set in the glamorous world of Hollywood and drenched in celebrity culture. It’s also directed by Portland-raised Aaron Katz, and for anyone familiar with Katz’s previous work, that synopsis might come as a shock. “Sleek,”
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