It's been a long, busy (mostly non-blogging) week.  Here's a short nod to several films playing around PDX this weekend: First...

Okay, I'll admit it: I'd never seen My Neighbor Totoro or the majority of the output from the geniuses at Studio Ghibli until ...

Vibrating like a raw nerve, Ellen Ratner makes for a fearsome presence at the fore of Academy award-winning director Barbara Kopple...

The past haunts and predetermines the path taken by Matt McCormick's latest film project, The Great Northwest , a nearly wordless, ...

Chronicling the contemporary garage rock music scene of Detroit, James Petix' It Came from Detroit doesn't stray too fa...

  Sometimes a film won't easily cut loose its secrets, demanding that you sign up for the long haul, 'cause, otherwise, maybe...

Opening with the voice of Hester ( Rachel Weisz ) reading a suicide note addressed to her lover, Freddie ( Tom Hiddleston ), Terence Dav...