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New Life exists right alongside Pig as a great Portland-shot movie that plays with our expectations.
When writer-director Celine Song’s acclaimed debut feature Past Lives recently opened the 49th Seattle International Film Festival, it represented a fittingly poetic full-circle moment of sorts. It turns out this was not the only time Song had come through the Pacific Northwest with one of her stories to share. “I keep wanting to tell people, […]
Opening at Cinema 21 on Friday, “Wild Life” is a new documentary from the directorial team who made “Free Solo,” about former Patagonia and North Face executives Kris and Doug Tompkins, the relationship between conservation and capitalism, and who gets to determine environmental protection’s path forward.
Ahead of the Portland run of “Wild Life,” a new documentary from the directors of “Free Solo,” Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi spoke with the Mercury about the film’s subjects—former Patagonia and North Face executives Kris and Doug Tompkins—the relationship between conservation and capitalism, and who gets to determine the environmental path forward.
Film Q &A: Wild Life Is the New Documentary From the Directors of Free Solo About Former Patagonia and the North Face Executives
Though it’s early, 2023 is unlikely to see a widely released film as divisive as Beau Is Afraid. It has no desire to be liked, as it drags us along the journey of a troubled man desperately trying to visit his mother. Just as there are films that get labeled as crowd-pleasers, this one is […]
Kelly Reichardt is one of contemporary cinema’s great filmmakers. The director of indie hits like Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, and Night Moves, critics have labeled her modern portraits of the West—even the bumbling pioneers in First Cow felt revisionist—as feminist, minimalist, and slow. However, fans of her work will tell you every pregnant pause, […]
Ah, weddings. We all remember them fondly, right? They provide the chance for loved ones to come together, unexpected reconnections between former flames, nude sprints through golf courses, and the potential collapse of the engagement entirely. Well, those last few might just be something that could happen in the charming, Oregon-filmed romantic comedy Somebody I […]
This story was originally published by our sister publication, The Stranger, in Seattle.—eds. In videos posted online over the weekend, the Seattle-raised documentary filmmaker Andrew Callaghan was accused of assault and sexual coercion by multiple women in incidents that allegedly date back several years. The Stranger spoke to one of those women and two others […]
The 10th anniversary season of the Portland EcoFilm Festival kicks off this weekend, at the Hollywood Theatre. Like the previous two years, the 2023 festival films will be presented across months—rather than a single weekend—and will include a variety of documentaries, shorts, and more. The fest’s spacious schedule is built around a principle of “increasing […]
When the credits roll at the end of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, some of the first names you’ll see after the film’s co-directors—del Toro and Mark Gustafson—are those of the many craftspeople who brought it to life. This is for good reason, though their contributions often go overlooked. Everything seen in front of the camera […]
There is something that needs to be said up front about I Am DB Cooper, a bizarre documentary by T. J. Regan (Gap Year), that loosely retells the true story of a mysterious hijacker who jumped from a plane with his ransom in 1971 and was never heard from again. If you’ve ever read, seen, […]
So you’re going to make a film adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s 1883 children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio and release it in 2022. How do you approach the material? If you’re Robert Zemeckis, you take the basic skeleton of the pre-existing 1940 Disney animated film and create yet another unnecessary live action remake. If you’re […]
Mother of Color, the first feature from queer, Mexican American filmmaker Dawn Jones Redstone, tells a very personal and very Portland story. Jones Redstone calls it the “origin story” of its central character Noelia (Ana del Rocío), a single mother who reconnects to her past via connections with her ancestors. And those communications prepare her […]
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