For the holiday season, we chat with notorious filmmaker John Waters,
who's bringing his annual Christmas show to Portland once again. Waters
has spent the past half-century directing such transgressive films as Pink
Flamingos, Hairspray, and Serial Mom, and is also the...
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The work of Portland-based artist Anders Nilsen defies categorization.
Themes of anatomy, geography, and mythology intertwine in his minimalist
artscapes. The New York Times notable book Big Questions brought the realm
of ancient gods down to earth. The wordless A Wal...
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Charles Brownstein is the Executive Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense
Fund, a non-profit advocacy organization which recently moved its
headquarters from New York to Portland. The CBLDF provides aid to artists
and publishers facing legal threats such as censorshi...
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Film writer Shawn Levy sits down with Jenn Chavez to tell
behind-the-scenes stories of the classic Italian film studios, as collected
in his newest book Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci,
Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome.
Then, S.W. Conse...
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Underground USA is a symposium at the University of Oregon's Portland campus
on October 15th, paying tribute to great underground artists of the Pacific
Northwest.
Joining us in the studio to talk about the event is Underground USA keynote
speaker Patrick Rosenkranz, au...
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In this special membership-drive episode of The Film Show, Jenn Chavez
previews the Portland EcoFilm Festival with director Dawn Smallman and
documentarians Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz, who have produced The Real Dirt
on Farmer John, Queen of the Sun, and the new film Se...
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Oregon artist Maximilian Uriarte signed up with the U.S. Marine Corps at the
age of nineteen and served as a gunner in the Iraq War. His early comic
strip Terminal Lance offered a sardonic view of military life in an
occupied land, but his new graphic novel The White Do...
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In this extended version of our interview with Oregon artist Maximilian
Uriarte, we talk more about his graphic novel The White Donkey, which has
been hailed for its frank depictions of post-traumatic stress disorder in
young veterans. Max hopes to adapt the graphic nov...
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Latinx Pride PDX is screening a series of documentaries this month at the
Hollywood Theatre, spotlighting the Latino/a LGBTQI community. Jenn
Chavez talks with filmmaker and curator Marco Castro-Bojorquez and
asks what viewers can expect from this event.
And S.W. Conse...
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