Film festival season gears up this weekend with the Northwest Film Center’s Portland International Film Festival, the one-day Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival, and more online options. We’ve compiled them below, along with our picks for continuing films streaming through local theaters, drive-in movies (like Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds on Sunday), and nationwide notables. If you like to plan ahead, check out our complete guide to online film festivals this fall.
DRIVE-INS
The Birds
Apropos of spooky season, watch a drive-in screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and mull over this anecdote from The Stranger‘s Charles Mudede: “In 1997, I saw something horrible near Bodega Bay, the town where Alfred Hitchcock set his 1963 horror film The Birds. I saw a huge and overfed seagull eating fried chicken out of a KFC box some human had abandoned on a picnic table. The seagull picked up a deep-fried wing with its beak, raised its head skyward, and swallowed the thing whole. Its neck expanded and contracted and swayed as the wing went down to the hell of its stomach. A bird eating a bird near the town where a movie about evil birds is set. Twenty-one years later, I can still recall that monstrous moment as if it happened a few hours ago.”
Cinema Unbound Drive-In
Sunday only
