An uneventful week for new releases is led by two star-studded but pointless comedies, but a Blu-ray collection of unheralded films noir from Kino Lorber offers a silver lining.
The nonprofit center serves a 10-county swath of the state with exhibitions, classes, and annual events, often engaging with the past in ways that speak to the present.
Director RaMell Ross's adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel is ambitious and effective; plus, Portland documentarian Jan Haaken's "The Palestine Exception," the anime film "The Colors Within," and more.
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof's "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" is Germany's submission for Best International Feature Film. Also this week: Mike Leigh's first film in six years, a singing simian, and more.
After a successful run on the festival circuit, writer-director H. Nelson Tracey' debut feature screens Monday, December 2, at Portland's Hollywood Theatre.
In a genre-defying musical comedy film from Jacques Audiard, Karla Sofía Gascón plays a drug cartel kingpin who fakes her own death to obtain gender confirmation surgery.
The "Czar of Noir" talks with Marc Mohan about film restoration, digital technogoloy, and Argentine and American noir ahead of a weekend of films at Portland's Hollywood Theatre.