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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
Soldier Boys Don't Crynew
Taxi to the Dark Side and Stop-Loss try to understand our troops -- the tortured and the torturers.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
03-26-2008 |
Reviews
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
Teenage Wastelandnew
Gus Van Sant knows where Portland's skater kids have buried their feelings.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
03-19-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park
'Penelope' is a Fairy Tale With No Shortage of Fracturesnew
Maybe Penelope's sufferings are her mother's fault. But the movie has only itself to blame for its blemishes.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
02-27-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Mark Palansky, Penelope
Portland International Film Fest Saves the Best for Lastnew
The final weekend of the whirlwind globe-hopping that is the PIFF offers fresh and juicy material from people you've actually heard of before.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
02-20-2008 |
Movies
Portland International Film Festival Goes On and Onnew
If the first week of the Portland International Film Festival was an immersion into polyglot cinema, the second week is a deluge -- 47 separate films screen over the next seven days.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
02-13-2008 |
Movies
Let’s Get Lostnew
Finding your bearings at the Portland International Film Festival.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
02-06-2008 |
Movies
Toothed-vagina Ladies are Getting Away with Murdernew
I'm perfectly willing to accept that growing up next to a nuclear reactor might cause a girl to develop interlocking incisors in her vagina. (Things happen.) But I'm a little more skeptical that a year and a half of sexual abstinence will turn a teenage boy into a rapist.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Mitchell Lichtenstein, Teeth
Thicker Than Waternew
Paul Thomas Anderson brings out the devil in Daniel Day-Lewis.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
01-09-2008 |
Reviews
The Gloomy Cinematic Gifts of Christmasnew
Ah, the holidays -- that time when our thoughts naturally turn to slashed throats, drug addiction, child rape and putting dad in a nursing homes. Hence Sweeney Todd, The Kite Runner, Walk Hard and The Savages.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
12-19-2007 |
Reviews
'Juno' Turns on a Heroine's Choicenew
I walked into Juno expecting to love it, and halfway through was beginning to think I didn't care for it very much. But the film soldiers on, and develops a gravity to match its gravidity.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
12-12-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Juno, Jason Reitman
Tone Deafnew
Joe Wright doesn't have a clue how to film Ian Mcewan's novel, Atonement.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
12-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Atonement, Joe Wright
Dear Diarynew
Portlanders get ready for the first staging of Mortified, a live show in which local citizens read the most hilarious, humiliating things they wrote as teenagers -- journal entries, poetry, love letters and song lyrics.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
11-14-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
'King Corn': The Quiet, Scary Documentarynew
King Corn feels like a tonic not only for the ills of American food production, but for the shrillness of the nation's documentaries as well.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
11-07-2007 |
Reviews
