Uncle Boonmee: slow death and seafood, Thai style.
Jamie S. Rich
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Lincoln Liars
Spoiler: Abe Lincoln Dies.
The Conspirator: It was John Wilkes Booth in the boarding house with a candlestick!
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I’m Staying Home
A World of Shit
Full Metal Jacket hits the Laurelhurst. Here are some more war movies for your, uh, enjoyment?
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Fate Accomplice
The Adjustment Bureau Is The Notebook with Better Haberdashery
The Adjustment Bureau is The Notebook with better haberdashery.
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Shadowy Men on a Samurai Planet
Seeing Double with Kurosawa’s Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha will have you seeing double.
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The (Kinda Crappy) Year in Film
Portland’s Film Experts Pick Their Favorites of 2010
Portland’s film experts pick their three favorite films of 2010. Hope you like machetes and Scott Pilgrims!
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Don’t Fear The Reaper
Spooky Songwriters Sing Murder Ballads
Night of the Murder Ballads Sat Oct 26 Laurelthirst Public House For six years now, every October, Portland has been treated to a spookariffic evening of diabolical music about death and killing. Organized by Jen Bernard, the Night of the Murder Ballads throws together some of P-town’s finest–Nicole Campbell, Lara Michell, James Low, Marilee Hord, […]
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Dream On
Lara Michell’s Just Lovely
Lara Michell CD Release w/ Carmina Piranha, Nancy Hess Fri Dec 14 Ash Street I remember the first time I heard Lara Michell; it was part of an anonymous block of tunes on KBOO. I think there were a lot of emo boys on that night, and so she really stood out, like a siren […]
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Mercury Video Picks
Return of the Japanese Invasion For the second year in a row, on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, we take a stroll through an area where the Japanese actually hand our asses to us on a regular basis. In America, animation is all singing animals and excuses to sell cereal. In Japan, cartoons can be […]
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Mercury Video Picks
Boo-Hoo-Hooooo! Right about now, when the Oregon weather gets all Oregon-like, nothing compares to a drizzly Sunday afternoon with the cat, some snacks, and a healthy supply of tissues. The tissues are to dry my eyes, because the routine would be nothing without a few sappy movies to get my own waterworks flowing–particularly since sappy […]
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The Film is Alright
A Restored Quadrophenia is Still Bleedin’ Great!
Quadrophenia dir. Franc Roddam Opens Fri Sept 14 Clinton Street Theatre Hollywood always gets it wrong. For anyone who has gone to the cinema to see their favorite book brought to life on screen, anyone who has a passion that some studio exec decided he could exploit, this is not a hard theory to get […]
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Size Doesn’t Matter
Local Animators Prove it’s Not the Length of the Film but What’s on it
Festival of Portland Animation Fri May 18 through Thurs May 24 Clinton Street Theatre Program 1: 7:00 pm Program 2: 9:00 pm Harlan Ellisononce wrote an essay called “The 3 Most Important Things In Life.” The third item on his list was an anecdote about his brief, one-day job on staff at Walt Disney Studios. […]