The Film Show

News and interviews about the independent film scene

[The Film Show @KBOOFilmShow]

Mister Rogers is the closest thing this country's ever had to a Dalia Lama.
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[Words and Pictures 💬 @WordsandPicture]

The illustrious @DaveCCooper is my guest on this week’s @KBOO show, touring behind his newest comics series DOGHEAD.
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Toon in! Thursday morning 11/14 from 11:30 to noon PT @ 90.7 in Portland or https://t.co/d5w0w6cR4m worldwide.

[Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs]

Fragment of an Empire (1929), a silent drama about a veteran of the Russian Civil War who loses his memory and is confused to find himself in the Soviet Union of the late 1920s

[Words and Pictures 💬 @WordsandPicture]

THURS 11:30am on @KBOO: We’re celebrating #EdWood’s 100th birthday with a retrospective at @cstpdx with film archivists Ian Sundahl & Adam Tamberg.
https://t.co/Xt0Btpv1No
Tune in! Thurs 9/26 from 11:30 to noon PT at 90.7fm in Portland or https://t.co/d5w0w6doTU worldwide.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Director: Charlie Kaufman

[Guillermo del Toro @RealGDT]

What few people know or notice is that the iron bar shadows are spray painted: a b&w film trick that is used effectively here.

[Words and Pictures 💬 @WordsandPicture]

THURS 11:30am: Filmmakers and musicians do a deep dive on their favorite movies in @RevPerMovie. We preview their @cstpdx show with @ChrisSlusarenko & @Krummenacher.
https://t.co/t5VI8qIb3o
Tune in 9/12 from 11:30 to noon PT at 90.7fm or https://t.co/d5w0w6doTU worldwide.

[Conch Communications @ConchDotCom]

My latest interview is online at @OrArtsWatch. Come out this Thursday and see Bill @Plymptoons at @thePFCAT!
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[The Perlich Post @theperlichpost]

R.I.P. Albert Kallis, legendary AIP art director who designed posters for many sci-fi and horror classics of the 50s and 60s.

[Will Sloan @WillSloanEsq]

I could watch this on loop forever

[Words and Pictures 💬 @WordsandPicture]

THURS 11:30am on @KBOO: @BillPlympton is bringing his new animated feature SLIDE to @thePFCAT festival at @OMSI. We’ll talk about the Oregon history behind the film.
https://t.co/NOGxzpYhLZ
Thurs 8/8 - 11:30 to noon PT - 90.7fm in Portland or https://t.co/d5w0w6doTU worldwide.

[Westerns & the Old West @DavidLambertArt]

When A Fistful of Dollars aired on ABC in the 70s, the network added a 4 minute prologue in an attempt to justify the film's cynical tone & amoral violence. The prologue was directed by Monte Hellman & stars Harry Dean Stanton:

[Ed McCarry @_edwardmc]

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's theory of Somai:

The inherent entropy and singularity of the act of filming, the temptations of a film set, how Somai leaned into those temptations and "exposed the realities of filming."

MOVING is screening everyday at @filmlinc.

[Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs]

Buster Keaton in College (1927)

[Ben Crew @BenjaminCrew1]

Finally watched Black Narcissus (1947) and it is so cool that one of the most visually stunning films is about losing your sanity after seeing 5 inch inseam shorts.

[Aremis @Aspiromentis]

Gary Oldman as Dracula in 1992. Photography by Herb Ritts

[Words and Pictures 💬 @WordsandPicture]

THURS 11:30am on @KBOO: We preview classic film screenings in #Portland w/ @EddieMuller’s NOIR CITY FILM FESTIVAL and @ElliotLavine’s SATURDAY MORNING CLASSICS.
https://t.co/JcQmZqPtlW
Tune in 7/11 - 11:30 to noon PT - 90.7fm in Portland or https://t.co/QQaQx96FJI worldwide.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Twin Peaks (1990–1991)

[Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs]

Christopher Nolan watched Sunrise as part of his preparation for making Dunkirk. “I spent a lot of time reviewing the silent films for crowd scenes – the way extras move, evolve, how the space is staged and how the cameras capture it, the views used,” he told Premiere magazine

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK was released 43 years ago today. A cult classic and one of the best films of the John Carpenter/Kurt Russell collaboration, its behind the scenes story was out there, even for Carpenter…

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[Words and Pictures 💬 @WordsandPicture]

THURS 11:30am on @KBOO: Rani Singh, dir. of the Harry Smith Archive, previews the upcoming @HollywoodTheatr screening of Harry’s film MAHAGONNY.
Also - a tribute to Bill Walton: the 1978 Trailblazers doc FAST BREAK plays at @CSTPDX.
https://t.co/l6eWmcquXS