Get Your Reps In: All Aboard “Snowpiercer”

What to see at Portland’s repertory theaters.

Snowpiercer (IMDB)
By Chance Solem-Pfeifer

Snowpiercer (2013)

Aboard one of the most distinct settings in action movie history—a once-luxury train perpetually circling a lifeless, frozen Earth—Snowpiercer holds a violent thrill, a stomach plummet, and a soul-crashing revelation behind each new compartment door.

That’s the structural beauty of Bong Joon-ho’s cutting class allegory. With the cars divided brutally between steerage and first class, revolutionary leader Curtis (Chris Evans) leads an insurrection against the train’s heretofore unknown front half with the help of a drug-addled security expert (Song Kang-ho) and loyal compatriots (John Hurt, Octavia Spencer and Jamie Bell.)

Snowpiercer screens at Cinema 21, leading up to the release of Bong’s awaited Parasite follow-up, Mickey 17. Cinema 21, Feb. 28–March 1.

Also Playing:

5th Avenue: The Blood of a Poet (1932) and Return to Reason (2024) double feature, Feb. 28–March 2. Academy: Casablanca (1942), Feb. 26 and 27. Menace II Society (1993), Feb. 26 and 27. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Feb. 26 and 27. Cinema 21: The Room (2003), Feb. 28. King Kong (1933), March 1. Cinemagic: Scream (1996), Feb. 26 and 27. Clinton: The Little Girl of Hanoi (1974), Feb. 26. Neptune Frost (2021), Feb. 27. Mamma Mia! (2008), March 1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), March 1. Eve’s Bayou (1997), March 2. Hollywood: Paper Moon (1973), Feb. 26. Noroi: The Curse (2005), Feb. 28. Basket Case (1982, 1990 and 1991) triple feature, March 1. Empire of Ash 3 (1990), March 4. Tomorrow: Appropriate Behavior (2014), Feb. 28. Love & Basketball (2000), March 1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), March 1. Space Jam (1996), March 2. Bend It Like Beckham (2002), March 2.

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