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Becoming gold: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘The Holy Mountain’
Vanguard editors Matthew N. Andrews (Arts & Culture) and Andrew D. Jankowski (Online & Social Media) attended NW Film Center’s sold-out screenings of The Holy Mountain (1973). Andrew narrates, Matthew comments: I…
Northwest Film Center: Constructing Identity at Portland Art Museum
Northwest Film Center’s recent film series, Constructing Identity: Black Cinema Then and Now, explored black cinema from the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on the construction of black identity in…
What makes somebody, somebody?
Walk the Line meets Cloud Atlas, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus with a Woody Guthrie twist, Stan Brakhage in The Dust Bowl–okay, that one’s a stretch. I don’t know if…
Depressingly hopeful: Sofia Coppola’s “Somewhere”
Johnny Marco is in the middle of a major life crisis. His life seems directionless. Maybe it’s depression. Or maybe it’s anhedonia or soul-crushing ennui. Whatever it is, he doesn’t…