David Matthews Portable Bohemia

Memo from the cinema desk: two recommendations. In Un amour impossible (2018) Virginie Efira portrays a beautiful but unassuming office...

The headline news out of the NW Film Center's 2022 Cinema Unbound Awards on March 8 is that the NW Film Center is now PAM CUT (Portland Art

Portland International Film Festival, March 5–14, 2021 The film festival exceeded my modest expectations. I saw eleven films in virtual...

Portland International Film Festival, March 5–14, 2021 Faasla (Argentina, India | 2020) dir. Priya Sen, Nicolás Grandi (51 mins) Program...

Portland International Film Festival, March 5–14, 2021 Bitter Love (Finland, Poland, Sweden | 2020) dir. Jerzy Sladkowski (87 mins)...

The 44th Portland International Film Festival (PIFF44), my 24th festival, dating back to 1999, kicked off with the Cinema Unbound Awards...

If you find that watching a film by Eric Rohmer is like watching paint dry, South Korean director Hong Sang-soo (b. 1960) may not be for...

The international film festival (PIFF43) came to an abrupt close yesterday with the announcement that following the guidance of the State...

This morning Governor Kate Brown declared a state of emergency in Oregon. All large public gatherings over 250 people are canceled...

The 43rd Portland International Film Festival (PIFF43) is in full swing. This post and the next several will be devoted to accounts of...

The 43rd Portland Internal Film Festival (PIFF43) kicked off with Friday's opening night films and festivities. The festival has been a...

I don't often watch zombie movies, but when I do...I remember why I don't often watch zombie movies. There are good reasons to be...

Once again the Portland International Film Festival blew by with the blink of an eye. It seems only yesterday we were queueing up inside...

Asako I & II (Japan/France): PIFF 42: Take 1 Ash Is Purest White (China): PIFF 42: Take 2 Blind Spot (Norway): PIFF 42: Take 6...and it's...

3 Faces (Iran). A young woman resorts to desperate measures to enlist director Jafar Panahi and actress Behnaz Jafari in her scheme to...

Transit (Germany/France). Director Christian Petzold's earlier films Barbara (2012) and Phoenix (2014) were ample reason to make Transit...

The 42nd Portland International Film Festival is rolling headlong into its second weekend. I'm rolling right along with it in the blog's...

42nd Portland International Film Festival (PIFF) March 7–21, 2019 The Load (Serbia, France, Croatia, Iran, Qatar). A quietly nice film...

The 42nd Portland International Film Festival (PIFF) kicked off on Thursday. Among other things this means we will all be spared my rants...

I'm a pushover for doomed love. That may explain a few things. I am also a pushover for directors who portray compelling characters in...