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Andrew Gaines

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‘Belladonna of Sadness’

  • Andrew Gaines
  • April 10, 2018

Belladonna of Sadness, directed by Eiichi Yamamoto, is an erotic tale of violence and revenge set in medieval France and told through psychedelic animation. Based off the book Satanism and…

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Chapo Trap House visits Portland

  • Andrew Gaines
  • April 9, 2018

The leftist political comedy podcast Chapo Trap House made two appearances at Holocene on Sunday, April 1. Hosts Matt Christman, Felix Biederman, Virgil Texas, Amber A’Lee Frost and Will Menaker…

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Nice girls don’t wear cha-cha heels

  • Andrew Gaines
  • April 6, 2018

If you’re familiar with John Waters’ movies, you’re either a huge fan or are generally baffled by his continued popularity in the underground film circuit. I highly doubt that film…

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Feminist cinema debuts at 5th Ave.

  • Andrew Gaines
  • March 8, 2018

In celebration of International Women’s Day on Thursday, March 8, 5th Avenue Cinema is showing two shorter pieces: Left On Pearl and Genesis 3:16. Left On Pearl is a 2017…

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    • Arts & Culture

MR. PICKLES! GOOD BOY!

  • Andrew Gaines
  • March 4, 2018

I’m a metal newbie. I like Pallbearer a lot, and I’m a huge fan of Mastodon—although I don’t know if it counts as metal. However, when I decided to review…

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Find it at 5th Ave.: ‘Precious’

  • Andrew Gaines
  • February 25, 2018

Lee Daniels’ 2009 drama Precious remains a source of controversy in the film community. Positive and negative criticisms of the film tend to form a hyperbolic spectrum. While Precious is…

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‘Boyz N The Hood,’ a classic in New Black Realism

  • Andrew Gaines
  • February 18, 2018

Boyz N The Hood is a 1991 film infused within the American cinema lexicon and has become a film nearly everyone knows of, even if they’ve never watched it or…

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‘Chameleon Street,’ Fascinating, forgotten and (mostly) factual

  • Andrew Gaines
  • February 2, 2018

Chameleon Street, the only film by writer-director Wendell B. Harris Jr. is, in some ways, a classic American narrative. A young man (Harris) is unsatisfied with his life and decides…

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‘La Noire de’ is a short and bitter upheaval of European cinema

  • Andrew Gaines
  • January 24, 2018

Sometimes you don’t need your film to be two hours long to make an impact. La Noire de is a 50-minute condemnation of mid-century European attitudes toward Africans. The film…

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‘I Am Cuba,’ a Soviet technical marvel

  • Andrew Gaines
  • January 20, 2018

However you feel about the politics of a pro-Castro drama funded by the Soviets screening on Portland State campus, you owe it to yourself to see I Am Cuba. In…

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“I Wake Up Screaming” Goes Deep in Noir

  • Andrew Gaines
  • January 17, 2018

Director Bruce Humberstone’s thriller I Wake up Screaming (1941) features a mix of flashback-heavy noir and comedy as it tells the story of a New York boxing promoter (Victor Mature)…

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