Metropolitan Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana/Paliacci Encore Yeah, it’s that good, there’s an encore. Like a three and half hour encore! Amazingly, this opera—although now roundly considered a classic—was the equivalent of a 19th century open-mic, as a music publisher and pimp invited a bunch of young Italian composers (who had yet to produce anything) to submit […]
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Film Events 12/31-1/8
Trashed: No Place for Waste Trashed is a documentary looking at risks to humanity’s food chain through pollution of air, sea and land by the amount of garbage we produce daily. It is a very thought-provoking documentary that examines ways to fix the problem instead of creating alarmist doom and gloom scenarios through fear mongering […]
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Film Events 1022-10/30
Beyond The Amityville Horror —Why Supernatural Horror Still Haunts Us Portland State University Film professor Drew Beard delves into the philosophy, history and draw of the horror genre discussing why we continue to obsess over things that terrify us and how horror films can stand in for real world fears. 2 pm. Sat., Oct. 25, […]
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Film Events 9/4-9/11
Sleepless in Seattle It is Tom Hanks week in Central Oregon (as well it should be). Sleepless in Seattle tells the story of a manipulative child that tricks an emotionally distant father into finding the woman of his (cold, drizzle and distant) dreams. Although still mourning his deceased wife, Hank’s precocious half-orphaned child decides to […]
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Film Events 5/14-5/22
See More Seymour (Capote) What is so remarkable about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Oscar-winning performance as Truman Capote in the 2005 film Capote is how the massive actor seemingly shrinks in size and stature to the slight and fey size of the New York writer. The film is spellbinding, exploring the ethics of a writer exploiting […]
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See More Seymour We begin our tribute to the great American actor Philip Seymour Hoffman with Almost Famous, a movie about rock and roll with one of the greatest, rock-and-roll soundtracks ever and Mr. Hoffman playing the greatest rock-and-roll critic ever, Lester Bangs. May 7, 7pm. Old Stone Church, 157 NW Franklin Ave. Free. Happy […]
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Two Short Film Reviews
Ebenezer Scrooge meet fake beard and Art, skateboarding and activism
If we take the entirely creepy 1934 carol “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” at its word, the man in red sees us when we’re sleeping and knows when we’re awake, and thus, he knows if we’ve been bad or good. What the song fails to inform, is the state of Santa’s personal behavior. Has […]