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Second Run Portland: In Memoria, Tilda Swinton Has a Sonic Headache

Plus more slow cinema, Celtic myth, and Sergei Parajanov in smell-o-vision.
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Unlike some months, the repertory movie screenings of November lack a natural theme. But our indie cinemas have still formed a united front, choosing films that ask their audiences to hang tight with a little more focus and faith than usual. Surreal and nonlinear selections like The Double Life of Vรฉronique, The Color of Pomegranates, […]

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Second Run Portland: Phantasmโ€™s Freaky Mortician Takes Over a Portland Funeral Home

Plus, city theaters pregame for Halloween with Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s neo-noir Cure and a fashionable giallo classic.
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Yes, itโ€™s October, and yes, that means itโ€™s time to watch something that leaves you a little unsettled. But that doesnโ€™t mean settling for the same old slashers. (Okayโ€ฆ some slashers can stay. More on that below.) This month, indie theaters dig a little deeper, offering less-screened but much-loved options like Kiyoshi Kurosawaโ€™s slow-burn detective […]

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One Battle After Another Captures the Relentless Overstimulation of Being Alive in 2025

Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film is a funny, breathless, sometimes overwhelming spectacle of American violence.
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The most relatable moments inย One Battle After Another, writer/director Paul Thomas Andersonโ€™s 10th feature, are of Leonardo DiCaprio groaning. Wiping his eyes, ugh-ing dramatically, hungover literally but also spirituallyโ€”as โ€œBob Fergusonโ€ (the name taken when he goes into hiding with his daughter), DiCaprio lugs his body around like an overstuffed suitcase. Granted, Bob is pretty […]

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Eleven Films to Argue About in Fall 2025

The season is stacked with the likes of Paul Thomas Anderson, Kelly Reichardt, Lynne Ramsey, Chloé Zhao, Kathryn Bigelow, Yorgos Lanthimos, a Safdie, a Tron movie, and more!
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September A Big Bold Beautiful Journey: In the yawning aftermath ofย After Yang, writer/director Kogonada tries again with Colin Farrell, this time welcoming Margot Robbie to another potential wad of corn, giving it a horrific title, and going for the tearjerking jugular. Iโ€™m sorry, but it grows harder every year to cheer for the man who […]

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Second Run Portland: Gakuryลซ Ishiiโ€™s August in the Water is Unstreamable Late-Summer Magic

The folkloric Japanese film screens alongside Hungarian psychedelia and Edward Yang’s Yi Yi this month. 
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This month, Portland venues will close out summer with a psychedelic swirl of films merging myth and magical adolescence. Teen girls time-travel and chat with dolphins; cosmic heroes emerge from horse goddesses. Meanwhile, here on earth, a sex worker undertakes her own journey from a donut shop to a laundromat in Los Angeles.ย  Screenings are […]

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