Bobby Bermea: For the Love of Craft
Bobby Bermea
October 2, 2023
About 60 films of the weird and macabre will spool out at Portland’s Hollywood Theatre in the 28th annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Oh, the horror!
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About 60 films of the weird and macabre will spool out at Portland’s Hollywood Theatre in the 28th annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Oh, the horror!
Also opening: Chloe Dumont’s debut feature “Fair Play,” “Flora and Son,” and Gareth Edwards’ “Creator.”
Also this week: “Radical Wolfe” pays tribute to an iconic New Journalist, and a hungry Hindu demon haunts a group of teens in “It Lives Inside.”
The show, in the McMinnville gallery through Oct. 6, features work by artists from Outside the Frame, a nonprofit that mentors unhoused youth.
“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.
The poet, painter, and writer, whose novel “Mala Noche” was turned into a film by Gus Van Sant, was a fixture of Portland’s poetry-reciting club scene in the 1970s and ’80s.
The Portland academy’s live multimedia performance tribute to the Talking Heads film incorporates original work by students with disabilities.
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.”
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.
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.
As Portland Art Museum decommissions Whitsell Auditorium, PAM CUT looks across the river for a new home.
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.
As “Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio” opens at the Portland Art Museum, co-director Mark Gustafson and animation chief Brian Hansen talk about the making of the Oscar-winning movie.
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.
The latest films from directors Andrea Pallaoro and Emanuele Crialese recast the traditional family melodrama into incisive portrayals of the trans experience.
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 year after the Oscar-winning actor’s death at his Portland home, Stage & Studio brings back Dave Paull’s in-depth radio interview with Hurt from 2011.
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.”
This year’s festival offers in-person screenings March 10-12 in addition to virtual showings March 13-19.
Mia Hansen-Løve’s latest film screens alongside the eighth installment in the Rockyverse. Plus: Billy Wilder classics and films for Women’s History Month.
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.
The former Oregon resident says the festival, which starts Thursday, is unusual in its focus on celebrating filmmakers and making connections.
Remembering the late star’s filmed-in-Portland roller derby movie “Kansas City Bomber,” and the key role a North Portland dive bar played.
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.
Also screening this week: films for Black History Month, the stoner comedy ‘How High,’ and the new found-footage horror film ‘The Outwaters.’
Dmae Lo Roberts talks in her new podcast with director Paul Daisuke Goodman and actor Chris Tashima about their film on the fraught legacy of FDR’s Executive Order 9066.
M. Night Shyamalan’s latest high-concept horror flick hits theaters on Friday, and an Oscar nominee finally gets its Portland premiere.
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.
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