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Mock Star: Carrie Brownstein is Making Fun of Younew
Don’t get offended, Portland: One of the generation’s most beloved indie rockers is about to ridicule America’s most unassailably indie city.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
11-04-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Coens Tighten the Beltwaynew
Burn After Reading, the subversive new comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen, prowls around the corridors of CIA headquarters at Langley, but it isn’t ideological either, unless you consider a despairing cackle an ideology.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
09-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Alex Holdridge on the Perils of Shoestring-Budget Filmmakingnew
The Midnight Kiss director explains the dark place where indie filmmaking meets Starbucks.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
J. Gary Mitchell's Puppets Fight Pedophilianew
Mitchell, a soft-spoken 70-year-old with a dapper white mustache, has been directing and producing short educational movies for three decades, creating characters who warn against smoking and drinking. But his specialty since 1985's What Tadoo is gently informing children about sexual abuse.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
07-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rectum? Will Smith Damn Near Killed 'Emnew
I had hoped that Hancock would be a departure, that it might restore some of Smith's Fresh Prince swagger, but instead it's the most explicit demonstration yet of the wallowing that has drained a superstar of his powers.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
07-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Forgetting, but Apparently Not Forgiving, Sarah Marshallnew
Apatow's created another sex comedy with another director-for-hire (Nicholas Stoller), and it takes the attitude that sex is a wholesome and laudable activity for every person to enjoy -- unless that person is your ex, in which case she must be punished.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
04-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Matt Mccormick's Bright Futurenew
Portland's next great director was out on the road somewhere between here and Las Vegas, doing what he does best -- filming clouds and abandoned motor lodges -- when he realized he was alone.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
04-09-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
David Gordon Green Loves a Good Mistakenew
As Green debuts Snow Angels, a small-town tragedy starring Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale, he's preparing for the August release of Pineapple Express, a big-budget stoner comedy produced by Knocked Up's Judd Apatow.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
03-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Gordon Green, Snow Angels
Robert Benton on 'Feast of Love'new
Once in Benton's company, his generosity becomes instantly apparent: He's quick to praise the actors and cinematographers he's worked with, often crediting his films' innovations almost entirely to his collaborators.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
09-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Feast of Love, Robert Benton
The Naked Truthnew
In 1945, Charis Wilson stopped posing for Edward Weston's iconic photographs -- half a century later, Ian McClusky has revealed her again.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
03-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Eloquent Nude, Ian McClusky
