Portland State students need not commit to several months abroad and a lifetime’s worth of student loan debt for authentic foreign cultural experiences. “Warum ist das?” (Why is this?) The…
Film series explores the legacy of genocide
Three films will be showing throughout the month of April, looking at past recognized and unrecognized genocides in the world. The films will screen at Portland State and in the…
Is James Franco the devil?
There’s no concrete evidence, but James Franco just might be the Devil. Alright, so maybe James Franco isn’t actually the Devil—that’s a little bit of a stretch—but he plays someone…
Asian Studies institute unveils new series
Portland State’s Institute for Asian Studies will host a new quarterly series called Dialogs across Asia. The inaugural event will take place on March 11 at 6 p.m., and is…
Hollywood Theatre’s odyssey to 70mm at an end
The Hollywood Theatre will debut its 70mm projection capabilities with a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s infamous 2001: A Space Odyssey on March 2. The 70 mm format reached its peak…
Examining images of disaster and war in anime
Dr. Hikari Hori, assistant professor of Japanese film and visual culture at Columbia University in New York, made the transcontinental journey to lecture at Portland State on Feb. 12 about…
Crouching tiger, hidden feminist
The otherworldly Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is more than just an action movie that defies gravity. It is also a multilayered narrative that explores the conflicts between duty and desire,…
Musical ennui
Ah, no one understands love quite like the French. Who else could concoct a romantic musical drama featuring a bisexual triad singing about things like saliva, rain and long-term relationships?…
Emmy-nominated screenwriter to give exclusive talk
The Portland State film program will host a talk with Oregon screenwriter Jon Raymond on Feb. 4 to discuss his career and creative process. The lecture will take place in…
QRC to screen documentary on overlooked civil rights activist
The Queer Resource Center will screen the film Brother Outsider: the Life of Bayard Rustin in the Smith Memorial Student Union, room 458 on Jan. 22 at 6 p.m. The…
Angels in the outfield
As I’m sure you’ve heard, it’s now 2015, and we all know what that means: God’s wrath. Well, not so much the wrath of God, but the weirdest consequence of a…