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Film: Page 2

Along Came a Spider

Director Chloe Okumo subverts the voyeur thriller in Watcher

Film 10 months ago

Director Chloe Okuno’s debut film, Watcher, is not an overtly feminist take on the voyeur/stalker sub-category of the thriller genre. Working with a screenplay by … Continue reading →

Down and Out 

A young homeless couple in Eugene and Springfield is portrayed with grace and honesty in local director Jarrett Bryant’s new movie Maxie

Film 11 months ago

One of my favorite films of this past year was Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, an endearing vision of young, star-crossed love that is so … Continue reading →

Don’t Sell These Short

EW’s movie critic looks at five short films nominated for the Oscars

Film 1 year ago

Short films, like short stories, are an exercise in economy and punch. They are measured in minutes, not hours, stripping away all the excelsior and … Continue reading →

Spent the Rent Money

Eugene filmmaker brings together drugs, beer and comedy in new movie

Film 1 year ago

The recipe for comedy is to start with a true story, and for director Blake Laitner, 35, when he started working on the screenplay for … Continue reading →

A Fading Echo

The new Scream is competent, scary — and barely memorable

Film 1 year ago

As a lifelong lover of movies, I’ve been blessed to experience now and again what I can only describe as a divine convergence — that … Continue reading →

Love in the ’70s

Licorice Pizza enthralls, confounds and restores

Film 1 year ago

I had no idea I’d been waiting my entire adult life for the absurd and exhilarating spectacle of Sean Penn and Tom Waits chewing up the … Continue reading →

Periwinkle and Denim

Two kids from Eugene make their film debut alongside Hollywood stars

Film 2 years ago

One afternoon in the summer of 2018, a nervous Amelia Borgerding and Parker Pascoe-Sheppard approached writer and director Sabrina Doyle in an ice cream shop … Continue reading →

Man on the Run

Roadrunner is an honest profile of chef and traveler Anthony Bourdain 

Film 2 years ago

After watching Roadrunner, a new documentary about chef and travel journalist Anthony Bourdain, I think about my two-month stay in Pakistan.  During 2016, I was … Continue reading →

Lights, Thunder, Action

Local director shoots genre-bending short film in Eugene

Film 2 years ago

Kitsann Means’ first memory is of red vinyl.  She had fallen asleep pressed against the curve of a casino restaurant booth in Reno, Nevada. Means … Continue reading →

The Possible Dream

In the Heights is a generational answer to West Side Story

ArtsFilm 2 years ago

Let me get this out of the way: I love West Side Story. Since the first time I saw the movie as a teen after … Continue reading →

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