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F*** I love "Frenzy". Hitch basically inventing the need for Steadicam...
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"Jeffrey Epstein at a Rick James concert in Savannah" feels like we're playing Surreal Clue
Acclaimed Kiwi author Janet Frame is the subject of "An Angel at My Table" (1990) by Jane Campion
Portland film!
"An Angel at My Table"... www.5thavecinema.com
"Misery"! hollywoodtheatre.org/show/misery-...
"Network"...
www.academytheaterpdx.com
"Little Shop of Horrors", "Cameron's Closet" www.thecinemagictheater.com
"Rock n' Roll High School"!!! tomorrowtheater.org/movies/rock-...
Small Press & Art Book Fair PDX March 2026
Festivals, PDX?
Jazz: St Vincent! Charlie Brown III!
www.pdxjazz.org
African Film: "So Long a Letter"
www.africanfilmfestival.org/2026/festiva...
Small Press & Art Book Fair www.instagram.com/ccac_pnca
"Hobbit"? tickets.omsi.edu/events/019c0...
"Wendy & Lucy"! cstpdx.com/event/wendy-...
Nuremberg Trials 2: Longer rope; vegetarian last meal options
by the power of Joan Collins's strutting shoulder pads YES
Compensation (1999)
Tonight's late night library disc: Parallel love story, poetry and dance-filled, Black deaf Chicago gem "Compensation" (1999).
Richard Hell wrote a homoerotic, Poets of NYC in the '70s novel? Are Maggie Gyllenhaal and Diablo Cody fighting over movie rights? www.powells.com/events/richa...
"Old Joy" tonight, PDX film fam. cstpdx.com/event/old-jo...
"A New Love in Tokyo"... hollywoodtheatre.org/show/a-new-l...
NW Music Video Showcase! tomorrowtheater.org/movies/nw-mu...
Saxophone Sounds of Spring www.livemusicproject.org/events/17062...
"A Poet" soon! www.cinema21.com/movie/a-poet
We're watching Columbo and he's apologizing to somebody for being a pest as usual, and he says "It's not me, it's my mind!" Which I'm going to start saying immediately, about all of my problems.
Million dollar idea: Book about how the **** long-lived women of antiquity got through menopause. What was Queen Victoria's regimen (Spouse's suggestion? "Laudanum"!). Are any of Nagase Kiyoko's poems about medicinal herbs and loose garments
Drop something ORANGE
Portland film fam! Tonight:
"Burges-La-Morte"... cstpdx.com/event/bruges...
F&F parody "Torque"... hollywoodtheatre.org/show/torque/
"Streets of Fire", "Go"... www.thecinemagictheater.com
And in Camas: "Arco", "Ghost Elephants", "Tender Mercies", "Othello". www.camasliberty.com
MOLLY Awards submissions open, y'all. $5,000 prize for journalism; $1,000 for political cartoons and comics journalism. Go get it!
www.texasobserver.org/molly-awards...
Oooh, please, be Australian, plz plz...
*checks Wiki*
Oh, shit really??
Hope? Is that you, you dumb b***h
- Emily Dickenson prolly
Happy birthday from a strip-o-gram chicken, nobody can hear a word that I'm saying. "The Store" (1983)
Late night stream: "The Store" (1983). Wiseman insinuates himself into Neiman Marcus HQ in Dallas, TX.
We were *riveted*. Watching buyers awkwardly pitch imported brassieres should not be this compelling
sad news: nermal has been killed by an iranian drone attack on abu dhabi. an innocent victim of a senseless war
Awwww we'll miss U
Native American Vietnam War survivor Rick BARTOW show at PAM *devastated* me. Recommended, PDX.
portlandartmuseum.org/event/rick-b...
And the video loops of Black women comedians and musicians on the 1st floor, daaaamn... portlandartmuseum.org/event/mickal...
"The Demolitionist" at B-Movie Bingo, Portland... hollywoodtheatre.org/show/the-dem...
"Arco" in Camas... www.camasliberty.com
"SirΓ’t"...
pdx.livingroomtheaters.com/movie/sirt
Ooh "Streets of Fire"... tickets.thecinemagictheater.com/movie/street...
"Book Smart"! cstpdx.com/event/booksm...
.. Θo if the media could fact check Reddit's claim that Hegseth is preaching that the Iran War is for Armageddon
www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal...
book: "How He-Man Mastered the Universe - Toy to Television to the Big Screen" with a lighting-wreathed figure holding up a sword against a space-like background
HOW HE-MAN MASTERED THE UNIVERSE (Brian C. Baer, 2017, #book)
A thoroughly enjoyable look at the He-Man phenomenon ranging from from before conception to some of the most recent refreshes, with a big focus on the *delightful* Cannon films flopsterpiece. A great read!
h/t: @briancbaer.bsky.social
Okay if fucking Trump outlasts Bruce Campbell I'm fighting god barefoot in a Waffle House parking lot.
Slotting Angel into other franchises now mandatory
Clark Gable and Barbara Stanwyk in Night Nurse (1931)
Late night library disc: "Night Nurse" (1931). Joan Blondell and Barbara Stanwyk repeatedly undressing each other. Dangerously Tom of Finland-y Clark Gable.
Plot? Honey, where we're going- Pre-Code Hollywood?- We don't get silly lil things like "plot."
Clarence Williams III as The Kid's dad is a whole separate film in "Purple Rain" (1984)
And "Purple Rain" on BluRay, at last! 'Can't believe the "Tango & Cash" dude gave us this post-racial urban musical fantasy about the creative process, overcoming trauma, and how bands are at best shotgun marriages and at worst zoos.
Bronco Bullfrog (1970) shot in East London with local talent. Turn subtitles ON unless native Cockney speaker
Yesterday's "Let's Disassociate Now / Come on Let Me Show You How" twofer: "Bronco Bullfrog" (1970), a Truffaut-esque cockney Romeo & Juliet with nary an actor in sight...