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I used to be good at predicting the Oscar winners, but every year I get worse as my tastes change and I find myself rooting for the movies that shake up the status quo. I never would have guessed the saccharine “Green Book” or the sexy fish movie “The Shape of Water” would have won, but […]
The Oscars were weird this year. I mean, they’re always baffling for at least a few minutes, but this year seemed especially frontloaded with the strangeness. There were several deserving winners, but there were also such terrible choices as to completely cheapen what came before. Here are a few of the good, the bad and […]
I’m not sure if you noticed, but the Oscars are more interesting now than ever before. In 2012, The New York Times did a study on the demographic breakdown of voters among the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, with all 5,100+ members questioned. At 94 percent white, 77 percent male and 54 percent […]
Every year critics and audiences alike decry Hollywood for the “fact” that not very good movies come out anymore. There are two reasons why this statement is false: 1) Quite a few good movies come out every year, they just mostly don’t make it to your local theater unless you live in LA, NYC or […]
Well, it’s not Oscar night unless we make some Oscar predictions, so here are a few of mine before the big night happens. These aren’t necessarily all the things I want to win, as much as they are the things that will probably win, but I’ve never been that great predicting the Oscars anyway. BEST […]
ArchaeologyFest Film Series: Best of 2014 This festival is a collection of the best films from the 2014 edition of the Archeology Channel International Film and Video Festival. The series is a benefit for the entire festival, which takes place in the spring in downtown Eugene. Some of the films include: Davis Bottom: Rare History, […]
The short film category at the Oscars is a fascinating cinematic examination. In some sense, they are the pure films, not worried about commercial success, and in other ways, they are the minor leagues, a place to see the up-and-coming talent. But they also are a fascinating insight into the mind of the Academy’s collective […]
There is not as much of a thematic through-line with the documentary selections as the live action narratives, except a subtle one: Regular people dealing with trauma, death and depression and keeping hope alive. While that sounds like a brutal bit of programming (and at times it is), there is always light and beauty; there […]
Taken as a whole, the five entries for this year’s Academy Awards for animated shorts and an additional three “highly recommended” films tell a story that is much different than what blockbusters like Frozen would have you believe about the state of animation. No, instead, these films—a collection that’s enchanting, yet dreamy and at times […]
thursday 27 Slaughter Daughters MUSIC—When the banjo first came into popular Americana music, it was primarily porch-sitting hillbillies and easy-going chords and strumming filling the Appalachian Hills. But, as much punk-picking as bluegrass-plunking, how the Slaughter Daughters have adopted banjos into their pile-driving ditties would simply blow that hillbilly’s mind to smithereens. (Ka-POW!) Catch local […]
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