CINEPHILES! TIGHTEN YOUR MONOCLES! Here are my favorite movies that played in Portland in 2014. It was an excellent year for film—while most critics crank out a top 10, I had a hard time whittling it down to 15. Each day I'll highlight one of those, going alphabetically, because fuck that ranking nonsense.

JODOROWSKYS DUNE Almost as good as Jodorowsky’s Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
  • JODOROWSKY'S DUNE Almost as good as Jodorowsky’s Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

Jodorowsky's Dune
dir. Frank Pavich
Now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD
From the Mercury's review: "At first, Frank Pavich's documentary seems like little more than a glorified DVD bonus feature—a 'making of' doc, with the catch that the film it chronicles the making of doesn't exist."

Even if you don't like Dune, and even if you don't like Jodorowsky, Jodorowsky's Dune is something to behold: A movie about the urgency and frailty of creation. There's more passion in five minutes of this documentary than in most studio blockbusters (or most indie dramas). It's impossible not to get caught up in Jodorowsky's vision of a movie that never came to be.