FilmWatch Weekly: ‘Stop Making Sense’ is back, better than ever, plus much more
Marc Mohan
September 27, 2023
Also opening: Chloe Dumont’s debut feature “Fair Play,” “Flora and Son,” and Gareth Edwards’ “Creator.”
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.”
“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.
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.
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.
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 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.”
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.
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.
Also screening this week: films for Black History Month, the stoner comedy ‘How High,’ and the new found-footage horror film ‘The Outwaters.’
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.
Also showing this week: Portland’s 10th EcoFilm Festival, Bollywood’s “RRR,” and the classic glories of Technicolor.
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.
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.
On beyond “Avatar”: a pair of audacious debuts from Filipina and Danish/Iranian directors; big swings in a fat suit; and, yes, those otherworldly special effects.
A stellar adaptation of an “unfilmable” Dom Delillo novel leads a bonanza of big-screen openings, including a gay love story and a documentary on Nan Goldin’s war on OxyContin.
On beyond vengeful Santas: “Nanny” and “The Inspection” tell potent human tales, “Chatterley” is a handsome version of the novel, “Fawn” goes ancient Greek on the thriller format.
“Bones and All” revels in the sins of the flesh; Spielberg looks at anti-Semitism in America; Portlander Mark Gustafson co-directs “Pinocchio.”
Shades of Fellini: “Bardo” is decadent, indulgent, and well worth the ride; “The Menu” gleefully roasts the rich and clueless.
Without the late Chadwick Boseman, a quintet of fierce females leads the Marvel franchise into vivid new territory.
An intriguing but not-too-dangerous apocalyptic tale, a saga of art behind bars, adventures on Mars, Lawrence returning to her indie roots, and one heaven of a sex scandal.
With “Banshees,” the “In Bruges” team creates another winner; “Jane” brings pre-Roe issues to post-Roe times; Oregon-made animation; unflinching “Western Front”; trouble for trailer parks.
Blanchett does a star turn as a tough musical maestro in former Portlander Todd Field’s newest film, and Portland trio YACHT gets a documentary.
A CIA-tinged tale of danger and lust; Lebanon’s first all-female thrash metal band; a festival of 400-plus films, from Buffalo Soldiers to Storm Large.
A historical comic puzzle in a conundrum in an eccentric Christian Bale; a smart tense mystery; festivals from Lovecraft to the mountains.
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