Film
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1 hour agoWhere To Watch Cult Fave Documentaries and Japanese Deep Cuts in Portland This Month
Portland's summer film screenings feature restorations and poignant narratives exploring youth, class, and artistic longing.
Brazil opens with a bureaucratic error. A fly gets stuck in a typewriter, changing the surname of Archibald Tuttle to Archibald Buttle, a misprint on a form that dictates the government forcibly detain a suspected terrorist (Tuttle) but instead leads to the arrest of an entirely innocent man (Buttle). If the inciting events of our great science fiction films have been hostile aliens, seductive robots, and reckless technologies, Terry Gilliam begins his with a humble typo.
In David Cronenberg's new film, widower Karsh Relikh invites Myrna to a restaurant that doubles as a showroom for his graveyard business, showcasing burial shrouds equipped with livestreaming cameras.
The buried Roger Corman production was the stuff of pop culture lore for decades before anyone saw it. Tim Story's two titles from the 2000s were critical disappointments and poor representations of some of the comics' most iconic arcs.
Fans have critiqued the character posters for Ariana Grande's Glinda and Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba, claiming both utilize AI in their creation, leading to disappointment.
I have officially purchased Ed and Lorraine Warren's home and Occult Museum, including being the legal guardian for at least the next five years, of the entire haunted collection including THE ANNABELLE DOLL.
The Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation, and Technology, now in its third year at OMSI, showcases over 170 films, VR experiences, and panel presentations.
"Pee-wee's Big Adventure" not only introduced audiences at large to Paul Reubens' wild comic creation, it also welcomed us into the heightened world of Tim Burton.