This past weekend I attended the digital screening of Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 science fiction film Total Recall at 5th Avenue Cinema. This was my first time seeing the film and…
5th Avenue Cinema wraps up Fall of New Hollywood series
Portland State’s local cinema house 5th Avenue Cinema put on a digital screening of William Friedkin’s 1977 existential thriller Sorcerer on Friday, May 16. Friedkin is an American director who…
Portland Art Museum presents ‘Halcyon Days: The Camera in the Garden’
This weekend I had the pleasure of visiting the Portland Art Museum. Walking around the museum never fails to fill me with positive energy. On this particular occasion I stepped…
Metal heads assemble! ‘Heavy Metal’ comes to 5th Avenue Cinema
Gerald Potterton’s 1981 fantasy-animated film Heavy Metal screens this weekend at 5th Avenue Cinema, and everyone should go out to see it. The film is an anthology of adapted fantasy…
I’m a loner, Dottie. A rebel.
Screening this weekend at 5th Avenue Cinema is Tim Burton’s Pee-wee’s Big Adventure , a story filled with comedy, love and child-like wonder. The film begins with Pee-wee Herman, who loves…
‘Let us be thankful we have commerce’
George Lucas’ THX 1138, screening this week at 5th Avenue Cinema, is a 1970s dystopian science fiction film about a highly controlled underground city. The story here is one of…
The 37th Portland International Film Festival brings global perspectives to Portland
This year marks the 37th year of the Portland International Film Festival, presented by the Northwest Film Center. This year’s tagline, “Look the World in the Eye,” in many ways…
37th Portland International Film Festival highlight continues with ‘A Gun In Each Hand’ and ‘Omar’
A Gun in Each Hand Directed by Cesc Gay A Gun In Each Hand is a witty and side-splitting film that explores contemporary Spain and the ever-changing gender roles that…
‘Gabrielle’ and ‘Ilo Ilo’: exploring the films of the 37th Portland International Film Festival
Gabrielle Directed by Louise Archambault Directed by Louise Archambault, the Canadian film Gabrielle was the first to be shown at the press screening for the 37th Portland International Film Festival…
I Need to Return Some Videotapes
Coke, elegance and slaughter are just the beginning of this psychological horror black comedy. Originally written by Bret Easton Ellis in 1991, the heinous and mesmerizing novel was transformed into…
Are you a dreamer?
“Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, from the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, has a strange and slightly unwholesome intensity…” quoted Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian. The Virgin Suicides is an American…