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The Strange Sublime Cinema of Motern Media and Evil Puddle
Matt Farley and Charlie Roxburgh make micro-budget films followed by and starring their fans.
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Second Run Portland: Phantasmโs 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.
Yes, itโs October, and yes, that means itโs time to watch something that leaves you a little unsettled. But that doesnโt mean settling for the same old slashers. (Okayโฆ 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 Kurosawaโs 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.
The most relatable moments inย One Battle After Another, writer/director Paul Thomas Andersonโs 10th feature, are of Leonardo DiCaprio groaning. Wiping his eyes, ugh-ing dramatically, hungover literally but also spirituallyโas โBob 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!
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. Iโm sorry, but it grows harder every year to cheer for the man who […]
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Megadoc Is an Essential Portrait of Grand Delusion
We thought we were done talking about Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, but this new, making-of documentary is fascinating.
A new documentary looks at the sometimes chasmlike gap between what Francis Ford Coppola wants and those desperately trying to give him that.
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Eleven Films to Argue About in Fall 2025
The season is stacked with films from the likes of Paul Thomas Anderson, Kelly Reichardt, Lynne Ramsey, Chloé Zhao, Kathryn Bigelow, Yorgos Lanthimos, a Safdie, a Tron movie, and more!
Fall 2025 is STACKED with films from the likes of Paul Thomas Anderson, Kelly Reichardt, Lynne Ramsey, Chloé Zhao, Kathryn Bigelow, Yorgos Lanthimos, and more!
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Second Run Portland: Gakuryลซ Ishiiโs 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.
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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Highest 2 Lowest Is Spike Leeโs Fanboy Homage to Akira Kurosawa
But this isn’t a Kurosawa film, so don’t go looking for one.
For fans of making fun of Boston sports fans.
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Nobody 2: Twice the Carnage, but Not Enough
Bob Odenkirk’s dad justice series kicks up the brutality with the help of Indonesian filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto.
I want to see a man’s [redacted] maimed by a [redacted]. That is the catharsis I deserve.
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My Eternity Evening With Francis Ford Coppola
Inside the iconic director’s Portland stop on his Megalopolis Tour—but first, a few tangents!
What about the other five “illusions?”
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Second Run Portland: Shinji Sลmaiโs Moving Is the Luminous Coming-Of-Age Film Youโve Never Seen
Plus, Gakuryลซ Ishii’s punk-inflected vision and two cinema vérité documentaries head to the screen this month.
Portlandโs late-summer screenings feel especially thoughtful, turbulent, and aliiiive! This month, weโve got fresh restorations and poetic takes on youth, class, and artistic longing on the docket. A coming-of-age sparkler by Japanese director Shinji Sลmai gets its due, and two vรฉritรฉ documentaries paint radically human portraits of small-town America. Plus, Ethan Hawke has a well-deserved […]
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In Itโs Never Over, Jeff Buckley Youth Is Too Real
A new documentary by Amy Berg captures a songwriter’s vivid youth cut short.
Reminiscence bump is a real thing, and relates to the way one sees the landscape of their life as they get older. Oddly enough, you remember your youth more vividly than later periods.