News and interviews about the independent film scene
Portland, OR
Joined September 2013
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Mister Rogers is the closest thing this country's ever had to a Dalia Lama.
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The illustrious @DaveCCooper is my guest on this week’s @KBOO show, touring behind his newest comics series DOGHEAD.
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Toon in! Thursday morning 11/14 from 11:30 to noon PT @ 90.7 in Portland or kboo.fm/listen worldwide.
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Fragment of an Empire (1929), a silent drama about a veteran of the Russian Civil War who loses his memory and is confused to find himself in the Soviet Union of the late 1920s
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THURS 11:30am on @KBOO: We’re celebrating #EdWood’s 100th birthday with a retrospective at @cstpdx with film archivists Ian Sundahl & Adam Tamberg.
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Tune in! Thurs 9/26 from 11:30 to noon PT at 90.7fm in Portland or kboo.fm/listen worldwide.
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What few people know or notice is that the iron bar shadows are spray painted: a b&w film trick that is used effectively here.
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THURS 11:30am: Filmmakers and musicians do a deep dive on their favorite movies in @RevPerMovie. We preview their @cstpdx show with @ChrisSlusarenko & @Krummenacher.
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Tune in 9/12 from 11:30 to noon PT at 90.7fm or kboo.fm/listen worldwide.
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My latest interview is online at @OrArtsWatch. Come out this Thursday and see Bill @Plymptoons at @thePFCAT!
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R.I.P. Albert Kallis, legendary AIP art director who designed posters for many sci-fi and horror classics of the 50s and 60s.
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THURS 11:30am on @KBOO: @BillPlympton is bringing his new animated feature SLIDE to @thePFCAT festival at @OMSI. We’ll talk about the Oregon history behind the film.
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Thurs 8/8 - 11:30 to noon PT - 90.7fm in Portland or kboo.fm/listen worldwide.
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When A Fistful of Dollars aired on ABC in the 70s, the network added a 4 minute prologue in an attempt to justify the film's cynical tone & amoral violence. The prologue was directed by Monte Hellman & stars Harry Dean Stanton:
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa's theory of Somai:
The inherent entropy and singularity of the act of filming, the temptations of a film set, how Somai leaned into those temptations and "exposed the realities of filming."
MOVING is screening everyday at @filmlinc.
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THURS 11:30am on @KBOO: We preview classic film screenings in #Portland w/ @EddieMuller’s NOIR CITY FILM FESTIVAL and @ElliotLavine’s SATURDAY MORNING CLASSICS.
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Tune in 7/11 - 11:30 to noon PT - 90.7fm in Portland or Kboo.fm/listen worldwide.
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Christopher Nolan watched Sunrise as part of his preparation for making Dunkirk. “I spent a lot of time reviewing the silent films for crowd scenes – the way extras move, evolve, how the space is staged and how the cameras capture it, the views used,” he told Premiere magazine
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ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK was released 43 years ago today. A cult classic and one of the best films of the John Carpenter/Kurt Russell collaboration, its behind the scenes story was out there, even for Carpenter…
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THURS 11:30am on @KBOO: Rani Singh, dir. of the Harry Smith Archive, previews the upcoming @HollywoodTheatr screening of Harry’s film MAHAGONNY.
Also - a tribute to Bill Walton: the 1978 Trailblazers doc FAST BREAK plays at @CSTPDX.
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