Movies & TV
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Portland EcoFilm Festival Reckons with Climate Crisis
Opening weekend takes us deep into the lives of people and animals on the front lines of a changing climate.
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Living Room Theaters Employees Picket in Downtown Portland
Staff say they were told not to discuss a coworker’s termination at work or outside of work.
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The Mercury’s Favorite Films of 2022
The cannibalism movie, the broke millennial gay Pride and Prejudice, and the instant Internet classic all made the list.
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Film Review: Avatar: The Way of Water Is Peak Immersive Filmmaking
Will a post-pandemic audience be invested in a story from 13 years ago and, furthermore, devote three hours of their time for it?
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It Took a Village (of Portland Animators) to Raise Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Our city is home to some of the world’s most talented animation staff, and they’re the ones who built Pinocchio’s bones.
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Film Review: I Am DB Cooper Crashes To Earth
In this dubious documentary, a man claims to be the mysterious plane hijacker who parachuted to unsolved infamy in 1971.
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Hollywood Adds Encore Matinee of Susperia With Live Score by Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin
The 1977 Italian horror film will be scored live by the latest incarnation of the prog band who wrote the original score.
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John Waters Will Celebrate His 77th Birthday in Portland
Clinton Street Theater has planned a week of Waters’ cult films in his honor.
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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Dances with Darkness
Brilliant Portland-made animation, masterful narrative reworking, but could have gone harder on the fascism.
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Don’t Call Mother of Color Magic Realism
The first feature film from Dawn Jones Redstone is as much about Portland (including a protest reenactment) as it is about ancestors and enchantment.
