Happy new year everyone!!!  A belated best of 2011 list heading to the blog sometime in the next week.  Funny how a new baby and film pro...

Having my recent experiences with Belgian films mostly confined to bittersweet comedies like Eldorado , I was somewhat unprepared for the...

  With his latest film,  Nostalgia for the Light , Chilean director Patricio Guzmán ( The Battle of Chile ) achieves a near-imposs...

This feature-length collection of shorts by some of the best and emerging talents of the contemporary Mexican film scene is unified in a...

 What to say about a horror movie starring a tire?  Unsurprisingly, Quentin Dupieux's Rubber was one of the most unique films sh...

Hailing from Costa Rica, Of Love and Other Demons is the quite promising debut feature by director Hilda Hidalgo .  Working from a text by...

Álex de la Iglesia isn't likely to become a household name anytime soon.  Embraced by a certain type of film nerd, the director of 800...

This weekend is the busiest of the fest with additional venues (Hollywood Theatre, Cinema 21 & Cinemagic) joining the PIFF army.  Betwee...

I ended up skipping the press screenings on Wednesday.  Here's what I missed: Agusti Villaronga's Black Bread : and John Tu...

Set against the depressed landscape of the Ukrainian roadside, Sergei Loznitsa's My Joy hitches a ride with a young trucker, Georgy,...

Peter D. Richardson's second feature-length documentary, How to Die in Oregon , is the hot ticket at the 34th annual Portland Inter...

Every year 'round festival time, I tend to encounter at least one feature that I end up considering my little secret.  It's usuall...

Walking into the Whitsell Auditorium on Wednesday, memories of Uncle Boonmee still dancing in my head, I really had no preconceived notions...

The press screening at the Whitsell Auditorium was packed on Wednesday in anticipation of two of the more hyped up films at this year's ...

Things get kicked off in style this evening for the 34th annual Portland International Film Festival.  The newest feature from French au...

I entered into the Whitsell Auditorium for Tuesday's PIFF press screenings expecting to begin the day with a Chinese take on the Hollywo...

I was feeling pretty run down when Monday morning crept around and, as a result, only caught the first of the two features programmed for th...

I've spent a lot of time this week writing about the films that are about to play at this year's Portland International Film Fest.  ...