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In one of Straight Outta Compton‘s most powerful shots, two men walk toward a police line. Held between them are a blue and a red bandana, knotted together, signifying unity in the face of a common enemy. It’s part of a scene that recreates the chaos of the Rodney King riots, the political event that […]
From a distance, it’s hard to tell how much celebrity suffering is actually theater. Asif Kapadia’s shattering documentary Amy certainly qualifies as theater in its own right, piecing together great amounts of archival, never-before-seen video footage of late musician Amy Winehouse with dramatic effectiveness. Much of Kapadia’s film is narrated by the star herself, inter-spliced […]
Director Frédéric Tcheng is carving out a niche. With 2008’s Valentino: The Last Emperor, 2011’s Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, and now Dior and I, Tcheng’s work in film has been exclusively devoted to documenting characters and moments in the world of high fashion. (True, Valentino was directed by Matt Tyrnauer—but given his […]
Growing old has never looked as wonderful as it does on Iris Apfel. The 93-year-old is a style icon—so much so that the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted an exhibition of her personal wardrobe in 2005. A retired textile mogul and interior designer who tweaked the White House for nine different presidents, Apfel’s style is […]
Sprout Film Festival The ninth annual Sprout Film Festival comes to the Tower Theater. The films focus on developmental disabilities and all try to shine a light on the personalities and plights of some of these people. Some of the films include A Time For Georgia (following six months in the life of a four-year […]
Let’s just say I’m no stranger to the record scratch—that moment in human interaction when politeness fails, collective agreements about normalcy retire, and situations take on a new and horrible independence. It’s shocking and dangerous to be caught in such a scene, but it’s also tinged with a surreal, anarchic hilarity. Such events are commonly […]
The photographs in Finding Vivian Maier draw your curiosity immediately; the film attempts to frame them. Finding details the landmark uncovering of now-deceased photographer Vivian Maier’s secret archives—more than 100,000 images that document the streets of New York, Chicago, South America, rural France, and beyond in the latter half of the 20th century with an […]
Ernest & Celestine originally screened in Oregon as part of the Portland International Film Festival (PIFF), and I remember thinking it was a shame. Not the film itself—which is an absolute delight—but the fact that it was screening in its original French with English subtitles. Fine for adults, but out of reach for kids who […]
dIf you wonder what drives someone to want to climb mountains, look elsewhere. The documentary The Summit does not attempt to justify people risking frostbite and skull smashing in order to get a life-affirmingly fantabulous view. Director Nick Ryan is on a different, more specific mission: to sort out what went wrong in early August […]
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