This week at Portland State’s 5th Avenue Cinema—Portland’s only student-run theater—our film curators have chosen to screen an experimental film titled Decasia. The 2002 movie is a combination of…
Portland Latin American Film Festival returns to PDX for its 16th season
It’s a commonly accepted notion among those who travel: traveling forces one to open their mind and worldview to other cultures in a way that virtually no other experience does….
PSU film program showcases rising media artists
Since their creation, TV shows and films have been powerful tools that can shape the views, perspectives and knowledge of thousands. Portland State Film Studies Program Director Courtney Hermann recognized…
Staying home? Keep busy with these fun ideas
Social distancing. Self-quarantining. Quarantine. State of emergency. These terms all relay a clear message: stay home. What they don’t tell you, though, is what to do when you get there….
Events Calendar March 3–March 9
Tue, March 3 Art Paint Nite: The Original Paint and Sip Party Red Lion Hotel on the River 6:30–8:30 p.m. $30 • 21+ Sip some drinks and paint…
2019’s most underrated films
2019 was a year of great cinema for all audiences. Avengers: Endgame ($858.3 million United States domestic) crushed the box office. Director Bong Joon-ho’s film Parasite ($44.3 million U.S….
Events Calendar Jan. 28–Feb. 3
Tue, Jan. 28 Art Northwest Art Council: A Necessary Irritant Portland Art Museum 6:30–7:30 p.m. Free The final lecture on Garth Clark’s international tour is an opportunity to learn…
Events Calendar Jan. 12–18
Tue, Jan. 14 Art Billions and Billions Multnomah Arts Center 9 a.m.–9:30 p.m. Free New monoprints from Portland artist Jonathan Barcan, inspired by the philosophy of Alan Watts and…
THE FINAL GARBAGE DAY
Folks, it’s come to this. I’ve covered slashers, killer animal flicks, foreign ripoffs and blind samurai played by Roy from Blade Runner. But there’s one realm of movie garbage I…
Events Calendar Dec. 3–9
Tue, Dec. 3 Art Brian Oaster & Angelita Surmon Lan Su Chinese Garden 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Free, with canned food donation New oil works by two artists displayed at the…
Garbage Day
It’s ‘Die Hard’ on a boat, also the Kraken is there Something I’ve been glad to see is the public consciousness’ general reappraisal of Stephen Sommers’ 1999 version of The…