Nicolas Cage plays a biology professor who starts appearing in people’s dreams, Barry Keoghan stars in Emerald Fennell’s sophomore feature, and Joaquin Phoenix is Napoleon in Ridley Scott’s latest historical epic.
Portland-based director Todd Haynes’ latest feature is an elusive melodrama with strong performances from Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore.
Paul Giamatti stars in Alexander Payne’s nostalgic nod to the films of Hal Ashby, and the fate of the universe is at stake again in the MCU’s latest installment.
Doughton’s film, based on a short story by Jonathan Raymond, has its Portland theatrical premiere on Monday, November 6 at Cinema 21.
Plus: Annette Bening and Jodie Foster in “Nyad,” Jessie Buckley and Jeremy Allen White in “Fingernails,” and William Friedkin’s posthumous final film, “The Caine Mutiny Court Martial.”
Also screening: Steven Soderbergh’s “Divinity” and a slew of frightful flicks for the end of October.
Highlights from the festival’s 14th season included the documentaries “Kim’s Video” and “Finding Groovopolis” and the narrative features “Free Time” and “The Secret Art of Human Flight.”
Also this week: Errol Morris’s “The Pigeon Tunnel,” Signe Baumane’s “My Love Affair with Marriage,” and the Astoria International Film Festival.
Four days at the Bend Film Festival yield a bounty of gripping documentaries, local gems, and highly anticipated indie releases.
A new documentary about Joan Baez offers an intimate view of the singer and counterculture icon toward the end of an astonishing career.
Ahead of appearances at Portland’s Cinemagic theater, the French-Australian filmmaker discusses aliens, Dennis Hopper, and World War II.
The newly renovated theater on SE Division Street opens its doors to the public November 3 with a live appearance by David Byrne.
Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick brush up against the rough inhabitants of the Australian outback; Marisa Tomei inspires Peter Dinklage to finish his opera; plus, the world premiere of a documentary about sticker art.
Also opening: Chloe Dumont’s debut feature “Fair Play,” “Flora and Son,” and Gareth Edwards’ “Creator.”
“Mutt,” the first feature film by director Vuk Lungulov-Klotz, follows a trans man in New York over the course of two days.
With a new 4K restoration, Godard’s 1963 indictment of the post-studio era is worth revisiting 60 years later, when Hollywood once again finds itself at a crossroads.
The director talks about his new film with Marc Mohan ahead of two screenings this weekend at the Portland Art Museum.
Director Maite Alberdi’s documentary chronicles the plight of a Chilean journalist with Alzheimer’s and his caregiving wife.
Also opening: “Aurora’s Sunrise,” “Bank of Dave,” “The Elephant 6 Recording Co.,” and “Ignore Heroes – The True Sounds of Liberty.”
Plus: “Landscape with Invisible Hand,” the films of animator Ishu Patel, and Pietro Marcello’s “Scarlet.”
Jeff Rutherford’s first feature captures the quiet melancholy of a father and son amid the stark landscape of Central Oregon.
Park, known for his roles in the MCU and the sitcom “Fresh Off the Boat,” makes his feature directing debut with an amusing if somewhat conventional dramedy.
In the German writer-director’s latest film, four characters find themselves together in a vacation house as a forest fire rages nearby.
Christopher Nolan’s latest seems unlikely to bomb. Also this week: “Lone Wolf and Cub” and a glimpse of 1970s Portland in the short films of Tim Smith.
This week at the movies: “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1” is a heart-pounding success, Manuela Martelli makes her feature directing debut with “Chile ’76”, and “The Wicker Man” turns 50.
Plus: Church of Film presents “Visitor to a Museum,” and a big shark attacks New Orleans in Tommy Wiseau’s “Big Shark.”
Also screening: Five films by John Carpenter, the documentary “Every Body,” and 35mm prints of “Rear Window” and “Aliens.”
The newest dioramic metafiction from Wes Anderson opens alongside free screenings of “THX-1138,” “Jaws,” and other titles at Portland’s Living Room Theaters.
Plus: Award recipients Jacqueline Stewart and Jon Raymond talk with Marc Mohan about film history, creativity, and their current and upcoming projects.
This week’s cinematic highlights include the filmmaking debut of playwright Celine Song and the story of a closeted high school gym teacher set against the grim backdrop of Margaret Thatcher’s England.
Plus: The Understory Northwest Film Fest presents short films from three PNW directors, Edgar Wright’s “Cornetto” trilogy at Cinemagic, and other flicks from “Ghostbusters” to “The Palm Beach Story.”
Also this week: Northwest Children’s Theater screens family-friendly films at The Judy; plus, “Repo Man,” “Time Bandits,” “The Doom Generation,” and “Wild at Heart.”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as a struggling author in Nicole Holofcener’s dramedy about a couple’s marital crisis.
Also screening this week: ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street,’ Jane Arden’s ‘The Other Side of Underneath,’ a double feature of ‘Ator: The Fighting Eagle’ and ‘Dead Heat,’ and all nine ‘Fast & Furious’ films.
In a busy week focused on European films, indie features and revivals, a probing Romanian movie about globalization and bias tops the bill.
A packed movie week offers a little something for everyone, from nightclub dancers and familial rivalries to psychosexual depravity and revenge porn.
The Portland-filmed fourth collaboration between director Kelly Reichardt and star Michelle Williams is a refreshingly naturalistic portrayal of artistic creation.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon star as Nike’s vapid chairman and his savvy assistant in the entertaining origin story of the Air Jordan.
Everyone’s favorite tabletop role-playing game returns to the big screen for the first time in over a decade. It may be entertaining enough for the average moviegoer, but can it please the die-hard fans?
This week’s cinematic offerings include a Portland-made short film, the true story of an ambitious Ricardian, and a mumblecore horror flick.
A full week of film showings includes documentaries “The First Step,” “Atomic Bamboozle,” and “Paris Calligrammes”; the baseball comedy “Calvin Marshall”; plus “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and “Heat.”
A drug-addled black bear begins its box office rampage this weekend, but a few alternatives exist for those of us who’d prefer a light smack to a smash hit.
Most of this year’s Oscar-nominated short films are available for streaming, but starting this weekend you can catch all of them in theaters.
Marisa Cohen and Peter Issac Alexander’s ten-episode series reimagines hundred-year-old science fiction stories in hand-drawn 2D animation.
Against all odds, censored Iranian master Jafar Panahi creates another captivating concoction of fact and fiction; Brandon Cronenberg’s third feature is a shocking indictment of the rich and powerful; and Bill Nighy sparkles in “Living,” but it’s no “Ikiru.”
Generationally speaking, what we’ve got here is failure to communicate. And “Everything Everywhere” scores big with the critics circle.
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.
From the glories of Movie Madness to a flock of festivals to the tale of Will Vinton’s lost dreams, it was a very good film year in Oregon.
Marc Mohan picks his best movies of the year. To find out which ones make the list – and which is No. 1 – read on.
In “EO,” six donkeys in search of an auteur find the right one; “Babylon” discovers that Hollywood’s a den of iniquity.
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