David Matthews Portable Bohemia

Scarred Hearts (Romania) dir. Radu Jude (141 mins) Trailer NW Film Center/Whitsell Auditorium at Portland Art Museum It is a special...

I took Bolt Bus down to Eugene on Tuesday morning and enjoyed a delightful midweek sojourn with my old pal Williston and her people,...

Woman in the Dunes (Japan, 1964) dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara screenplay by Kōbō Abe (247 mins) Trailer NW Film Center Japanese Currents...

This week's film recommendations Faces Places (Visages Villages) is a collaboration between 88-year-old French New Wave director Agnès...

Faces Places (Visages Villages) dir. Agnès Varda and JR (89 mins) Trailer 88-year-old filmmaker Agnès Varda and 33-year-old visual...

The gentle shadow of a sweet melancholy fell across my days as the 41st Portland International Film Festival drew to a close. The...

Index of Reviews, Notes, and Impressions from the 41st Portland International Film Festival A Chiambra (Italy/Germany/France): PIFF 2018:...

41st Portland International Film Festival (February 1 – March 1, 2018) Lean on Pete (United Kingdom, 2018) dir. Andrew Haigh (121 mins)...

41st Portland International Film Festival (February 15 – March 1, 2018) What Will People Say (Sweden/Norway/Germany, 2018) dir. Iram Haq...

41st Portland International Film Festival (February 15 – March 1, 2018) Ice Mother (Czech Republic/France/Slovakia, 2017) dir. Bohdan...

41st Portland International Film Festival (February 15 – March 1, 2018) La Villa (The House by the Sea) (France, 2017) dir. Robert...

41st Portland International Film Festival (February 15 – March 1, 2018) The Death of Stalin (United Kingdom, 2017) dir. Armando Iannucci...

The Shape of Water dir. Guillermo del Toro (123 mins) Trailer Living Room® Theaters "partly a code-scrambled fairy tale, partly a...

Lucky dir. John Carroll Lynch (88 mins) Trailer Academy Theater No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M Emmet Walsh in a...

The Big Sick dir. Michael Showalter (120 mins) Trailer Academy Theater The Big Sick is a sweet romantic comedy based on the true story...

Atomic Blonde dir. David Leitch (115 mins) Trailer Academy Theater Lest anyone harbor the misconception that I traffic only in...

Columbus dir. Kogonada (100 mins) Trailer Cinema 21 An intriguing trailer and a friend's recommendation got me to the theater for...

Blow-Up (1966) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni (111 mins) Trailer NW Film Center/Whitsell Auditorium Michelangelo Antonioni borrowed the...

The Midwife dir. Martin Provost (120 mins) Trailer Living Room Theaters A synopsis of The Midwife reads like the standard stuff of...

Of late, and by that I have in mind a dismaying stretch of six months or more, I have seen few films apart from February's Portland...