Based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, THE SNOW QUEEN is a surreal and sinister film focusing on the young girl Kerttu’s journey to rescue her brother Kai from the evil Snow Queen. A rarely seen landmark of Finnish cinema, and a wintry fantasy epic!
When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy living with his mother in suburban Sweden, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship.
Raven Shaddock (Willem Dafoe), along with his gang of merciless biker friends, kidnaps rock singer Ellen Aim (Diane Lane).
Raven Shaddock (Willem Dafoe), along with his gang of merciless biker friends, kidnaps rock singer Ellen Aim (Diane Lane).
BLACK LIZARD is a gender-annihilating Diabolik-esque with eye-popping costumes and sets, based on a screenplay by Yukio Mishima, who appears as a human statue in the film, from a story by Rampo Edogawa!
Filmed in Oregon, two old friends reunite for a quietly revelatory overnight camping trip in this breakout feature from director Kelly Reichardt. Adapted from a short story by Jonathan Raymond and accompanied by an atmospheric Yo La Tengo score, this film is a contemplative, wryly observed triumph whose modest scale belies the richness of its insight.
Regarded as the indispensable document of New York Street culture of the early ’80s, the film is record of a golden age of youthful creativity that exploded into the world from a city in crisis.
Please join Greg and Jere Canote and director Larry Edelman at a free screening of The Canote Twins following the Portland Old-time Music Gathering.