Screen The NW Film Center’s annual music-documentary fest expands across town this week. Here are two standouts: Search and Destroy: Iggy Pop and the Stooges’ Raw Power79 Could be the fact that I ... More
Reel Music 28
Screen The NW Film Center’s annual music-documentary fest expands across town this week. Here are two standouts: Search and Destroy: Iggy Pop and the Stooges’ Raw Power79 Could be the fact that I ... More
Blue Valentine
I love this movie like Williams loves Gosling.
Lost In Paradise
Sofia Coppola’s celebrities: They’re just like us, but more depressed!
Screen Sometimes the drugs stop working. Sex doesn’t thrill. A sitcom laugh track grates more than usual because it refers to jokes that aren’t even half-funny anymore. The vague flicker of light ... More
Reel Music Festival 28
Screen From a distance, Sly Stone and Phil Ochs couldn’t have less in common. Stone was a flamboyant, excess-prone sex symbol who took the pop world by storm; Ochs was a smart, big-hearted kid from Ohi ... More
Shoot, Score
The great, the good and the meh of ESPN’s 30 For 30 documentary series.
Screen ESPN has broadcast a lot of schlock since taking the air in 1979. The network’s rise to cable juggernaut has meant sports devotees wasting uncounted hours (not me, of course) watching lumberjack ... More
Agree To Disagree
Choosing the top 10 movies of 2010, our critics couldn’t unite on anything. Except maybe Valhalla Rising.
Screen Aaron Mesh’s Top 10The conventional wisdom says 2010 was a bad year for good movies, and the clever retort is it was a good year for movies that made us feel bad—but really, the year&rsquo ... More
Little Fockers
Not happy to see you, Robert De Niro.
Screen As if the sight of Robert De Niro with a raging hard-on poking through his pajamas isn’t sad enough, the creators of Little Fockers have to go and make it worse. It’s not just that they fo ... More
The King’s Speech
The s-s-s-sadness of King George.
Screen If it is the task of the movie psychologist to tell his patient, à la Robin Williams, that distress is “not your fault”—and to convince us that, yes, that fellow’s probl ... More
Cussed Assurance
True Grit is the Coen Brothers’ hymn to frontier loss.
Screen True Grit reminded me of Lolita, though not in that way. The Coen Brothers’ new rendering of Charles Portis’ novel of Arkansas frontier retribution is remarkable for its lack of perversity ... More
White Material
Claire Denis blesses the pains down in Africa.
Screen It takes time to get your bearings in a Claire Denis film. Her movies define themselves leisurely, like a landscape fading up from night to dawn to morning. White Material, the remarkable new movie by ... More
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Fellow assholes: Let’s talk about that Carrie Brownstein show, shall we? PIFF Gets Spiffy
All aboard the new and improved Portland International Film Festival. Follow That BAM
Beer and Movie is for real. Crispin Glover
His body of work is a Wonderland. Not Dark Yet
But PIFF’s Getting There. My Dog Tulip
Teeny little super cartoon. PIFF Rolls East
Ghost monkeys, a killer tire and other Portland International Film Festival treats. Rage vs. Lance Bangs
Portland filmmaking may induce vomiting. Little Fockers
Not happy to see you, Robert De Niro. Meet Me In Senegal
The Cascade Festival of African Films expands our cinematic horizons.
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