This week, the staff at 5th Avenue Cinema—Oregon’s only student-run theater—has chosen to project Cinema Paradiso. Giuseppe Tornatore wrote and directed this heartwarming Italian classic which beautifully captures the…
Find it at 5th: Sisters with Transistors
This week at 5th Avenue Cinema—Oregon’s only student-run theater—film curators will be screening Sisters with Transistors. This 2020 documentary, directed by Lisa Rovner, shares the forgotten story of electronic music’s…
Find it at 5th: Privilege
This week at 5th Avenue Cinema—Oregon’s only student-run theater—film curators will be screening Privilege, a film by Yvonne Rainer. Rainer is known for creating thought-provoking films which empower women…
Find it at 5th: Dog Star Man & student movie short
This week at 5th Avenue Cinema—Oregon’s only student-run theater—curators have chosen to screen Dog Star Man, along with a short physical film collection created by Portland State students! Stan…
Find it at 5th: Double Feature: The State of Things & Stranger Than Paradise
This week at 5th Avenue Cinema, Oregon’s only student-run theater, Portland State students and staff can catch a free showing of a double feature: The State of Things and Stranger…
Find it at 5th: Exploring life, death and change with artistic cinematography
Life comes with inevitable loss, and exploring that loss becomes part of the human experience for those we leave behind. This week, 5th Avenue Cinema is showing The Metamorphosis of…
Find it at 5th: Careful
Find It At 5th Ave. is a recurring column that reviews, previews and explores running and upcoming films at PSU’s independent movie theater, 5th Avenue Cinema. This weekend, Portland…
Find it at 5th: Black Dynamite
This week at 5th Avenue Cinema—Portland’s only student-run theater—Portland State students can catch a free showing of Black Dynamite in 35mm! Scott Sanders directed the action comedy film in…
Find it at 5th: The Traveler
This week at Portland State’s 5th Avenue Cinema—Portland’s only student-run theater—our film curators have chosen to project an Iranian film, The Traveler. This 1974 film is Abbas Kiarostami’s first…
Find it at 5th: Mysterious Object at Noon
This week at Portland State’s 5th Avenue Cinema—Portland’s only student-run theater—our film curators have chosen to screen an experimental documentary by Apichatpong Weerasethakul titled Mysterious Object at Noon. The…
Find it at 5th: In the Mirror of Maya Deren
This weekend at Portland State’s 5th Avenue Cinema—Portland’s only student-run theater—PSU students and the general public can catch a screening of In the Mirror of Maya Deren, a documentary about…