The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Portland This Weekend: Dec 9-11, 2022 - EverOut Portland
LIVE MUSIC Volunteer-run music organization PDX Pop Now! presents this free, all-ages show featuring performances from Portland-based multimedia artists including Letras, Sic Bloom, Joe Von Appen, and Spieee (AKA Sean Pierce).(Zero Wave, North Portland, free) SHOPPING Founded by genre-bending musical duo MadgesdiqCEG, this pop-up market and gathering space aims to represent the depth of Portland's diverse communities through art, culture, food, and music.
The Overlook Film Festival 2024 Highlights, Part 1: Fasterpiece Theater, Exhuma, All You Need is Death, Me | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert
Berg's skills in editing and programming highlighted during film festival Q&A, showcasing his rhythmic & 'symphonic' editing style, humor, and ability to make strange movies entertaining. [ more ]
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A Mixed Bag of LGBT Shorts and Features at This Year's San Francisco Independent Film Festival - San Francisco Bay Times
The San Francisco Independent Film Festival will take place from February 8-18, 2024, both in-person and online.
The festival will feature a variety of LGBTQ-focused films, including a documentary about non-binary singer-songwriter Avery Hellman and a film about three Bay Area individuals with Parkinson's disease. [ more ]
Highlights of the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival DW 02/13/2024
The 74th Berlinale, one of the world's major film festivals, is set to take place from February 15-25.
The opening film 'Small Things Like These' deals with Ireland's Magdalen laundries, Catholic Church-run asylums where young women were enslaved. [ more ]
The 21st annual Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024 is set to begin in London and travel through 30 cities in the UK.
The programme features 24 films that showcase the creative talents of Japanese cinema, including prize-winning films from international festivals and unique genres. [ more ]
Romford Horror Festival set to return with dozens of world premieres
The Romford Horror Festival is returning for its fourth year, with a lineup that includes 168 feature films and shorts, including eight classic horror favorites.
Special guests at the festival include Italian actress Cinizia Monreale and Caroline Munro, who played Bond girl Naomi in The Spy Who Loved Me. [ more ]
'Excision' (2012) Was the Midnight Sundance Showing That Sent Audiences Home with Bloody Tampons
IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.
Richard Bates Jr., the writer/director of 'Excision,' brought fake bloody tampons to the Sundance premiere and later to a sold-out Fantasia screening. [ more ]
London's BAFTA and BIFA qualifying Short Film Festival is back for its 21st year with the new Orbital project.
The festival will feature thematic programs of short films, including a retrospective of filmmaker Ian Pons Jewell and the short films of Cartoon Saloon. [ more ]
From lead poisoning to 'miracle feet,' sample the winners of the WHO's film festival
Jonathan and his twin brother were born in Sierra Leone with club feet.His twin died as a baby and his parents were told he may never walk like other children.His father turned to prayer and his mother to an herbal healer, but none of it worked and the family gave in to hopelessness.That is, until a relative heard about a special clinic on the radio, leading the family to travel across the country to get treatment for Jonathan.
Bolder than ever': Cannes fuses film and glamour in unofficial fashion week
At night, the Croisette in Cannes is lit up by 1,500 dark pink LED lights.It happens all year.But during the film festival, which ends this weekend, these lights transform the boulevard into a red carpet.It's where industry types with lanyards queue for parties, fashion types jostle to be seen, and fans on the blue chairs sit and watch and it explains why the festival is fast becoming an unofficial fashion week.
Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson talk 'Rye Lane', first dates and the magic of Peckham
As south-of-the-river as sun-kissed pint on Clapham Common and equally teeming in good vibes, 'Rye Lane' is our new big-screen happy place.A starburst of local colour, big LOLs, relatable first-date snafus and sharp observations around breaking up and healing, playlisted with a crate of '90s and MySpace-era bangers, the Peckham-set romantic-comedy is the perfect anecdote to all those posh London romcoms that look like they were conceived of in a branch of Foxtons.
2023 SXSW Film Festival: Austin's energetic, creative core draws filmmakers from all over
AUSTIN, Texas South by Southwest (SXSW) is back in town, and Friday night is the Film & TV opening party.The film festival portion of SXSW is undoubtedly one of the biggest things that draws people to Austin this time of the year."Austin is telling, that the actual film community remained like, really tight-knit and collaborative," said Jim Kolmar, a SXSW film programmer, adding, "People who maybe have worked together locally or even have met at the festival and return with collaborative projects.
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Highlights From the Upcoming Mostly British Film Festival 2023 - San Francisco Bay Times
By Jan Wahl- These days, when many of us think about the U.K., royals like Harry and Meghan come to mind.I, by the way, am firmly on Team Harry.How can we knock someone trying to make his family safe?But let us move over to the U.K.'s fine films, actors and actresses, TV programs, and series.From shows like Gentleman Jack and Absolutely Fabulous to some of our best films including The Imitation Game, Albert Nobbs, The Danish Girl, Billy Elliot, and , there are countless quality productions coming from a constitutional monarchy that is just 2.48% the size of the U.S. To showcase such treasures, my friend and colleague Ruthe Stein eight years ago put together the Mostly British Film Festival in San Francisco.
By Jewelle Gomez- In 1991 my friend and noted film critic, B. Ruby Rich, returned from a film festival and cornered me to say she'd seen an extraordinary film and urged me to see it as soon as it opened.I went immediately to see Thelma and Louise.Watching it was like lighting a fuse under my social conscience that had lain dormant too long.
In Cannes, standing ovations stretch on and on but they're designed to
The Cannes Film Festival is on, which means stopwatches are out.Nowhere are the length of standing ovations at high-wattage premieres more carefully recorded and parsed than in Cannes.Did a movie garner a triumphant eight-minute standing ovation?Or did the audience stand for a mere four or five minutes?
Harrison Ford's Dadcore Button-Up And Tailored Jeans Are Owning Cannes 2023
Do you hear that sound?It's either the sound of Indiana Jones' whip cracking...or maybe Harrison Ford stepping out in crisp jeans and a perfect crosshatch button-up dress shirt.At the 2023 Cannes Film Festival at Carlton Beach south of France, the 80-year-old icon posed for photos with his Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny cohorts; including director James Mangold, and actors Ethann Isidore, Boyd Holbrook, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen.
Displacement in Hayward: New film explores Russell City evictions
The Ancona family was the last to leave Russell City, an unincorporated town outside of Hayward annexed to the city in 1968, after its 1,400 majority Black and Latinx residents were forced to leave the year earlier.But Lita Ancona didn't plan to let the city's bulldozers tear down her home.So, before she left, she burned it to the ground.
After a decidedly UN-horny pandemic break, the Mercury's annual SEX SURVEY is back, bay-beee (and presented by Lumera Regenerative Medicine)!If you've never taken one of our many sex surveys before, this is where we ask YOU and fellow Portlanders to reveal your deepest, darkest sexual secrets... but don't worry, it's completely ANONYMOUS.
FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Win Free Tix to See G. Love and Special Sauce and the HUMP! Film Fest!
Who's ready to see some shows?Well, the Mercury is here to help with FREE TICKETS to see some of Portland's best concerts-our way of saying thanks to our great readers and spread the word about some fantastic upcoming performances!(Psst... if you want to say thanks to the Mercury, please consider making a small monthly contribution to keep us alive and kickin'!)
Woman sues Harvey Weinstein after her testimony led to his rape conviction in L.A.
An Italian model whose testimony led to a Los Angeles jury finding Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape in December has filed a civil suit against the fallen film producer.The woman, identified as Jane Doe 1, is suing Weinstein for sexual battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and other unnamed parties for negligence, according to a complaint filed in L.A. Superior Court on Thursday.
FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See the HUMP! Film Festival and Lacuna Coil!
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Harvey Weinstein will not be retried on rape charges in Los Angeles
Los Angeles County prosecutors will not seek to retry Harvey Weinstein in the sexual assault of two women, including Jennifer Siebel Newsom, after a jury hung on those charges last year, prosecutors announced Tuesday.After a two-month trial, in which he was accused of raping four women in hotels between 2004 and 2013, Weinstein was convicted in December of sexually assaulting an Italian model and actress following a film festival in Beverly Hills.
Mar. 14, 2023 POOL - MOVEMENT ART FILM Festival Berlin is a film festival aimed at showcasing independent film productions featuring dance choreographies.Every edition, including this year's, presents a selection of international dance films and constitutes a meeting place for creatives in the fields of dance, cinema, fashion and art, while highlighting the artistic interplay between dance and cinematic tools.
Harvey Weinstein will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after LA sentence
Harvey Weinstein appearing in court in Los Angeles in Oct. 2022.Etienne Laurent/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Editor's note: This report includes descriptions of sexual assault.Disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 16 more years in prison by a Los Angeles judge Thursday.He was convicted there in December on three charges of rape and sexual assault.
Weinstein faces sentencing in California for rape and sexual assault conviction
Disgraced film executive Harvey Weinstein will be sentenced Monday following a rape and sexual assault conviction in California.He's already serving a separate sentence in New York.DWANE BROWN, HOST: We want to warn you that this next story deals with rape and sexual assault, specifically the conviction of those crimes of disgraced film executive Harvey Weinstein.
Israeli Filmmaker's Critique of Popular Bollywood Film Draws Fierce Backlash
NEW DELHI A prominent Israeli filmmaker who sharply criticized a popular but contentious Indian film at a government-sponsored film festival faced a police complaint on Tuesday as Israeli diplomats scrambled to apologize.The filmmaker, Nadav Lapid, used his closing remarks at the festival, which was in the Indian state of Goa, to criticize The Kashmir Files, a Hindi-language feature film depicting a violent chapter in the restive region of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir during which members of the Kashmiri Pandit community were persecuted, attacked and killed.
Telluride Film Festival 2022 Highlights | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert
For me, the most revealing conversations at the festival's recently wrapped and surprisingly austere 49 th edition didn't unfold during a gondola ride towards the Chuck Jones theater, Telluride's only screening venue up at Mountain Village, or one of the various dinners or parties I was lucky to attend, witnessing the likes of Chloé Zhao and Alejandro González Iñárritu lost in discussion.
The Final Weekend for HUMP! 2023 Is Almost Sold Out... Snap Up Those Last Tickets Quick!!
The 18th annual HUMP!Film Festival is here... but lookout!It ends this WEEKEND!😱 That's right, a brand new lineup of sexy, dirty, funny, kinky, hot, and weird short films are showing at Revolution Hall this weekend, but as we write this, there are only a few tickets left for tonight's (Friday, March 10) double screening!
Harvey Weinstein sued by woman who he was convicted of raping in Los Angeles criminal trial
(CNN)A woman has filed a civil lawsuit against disgraced former film producer Harvey Weinstein for sexual battery, false imprisonment and other claims after he was convicted of raping her last December in Los Angeles.The model and actress, who is identified as Jane Doe 1 in court documents, was the first to testify in Weinstein's Los Angeles trial in 2022.
Harvey Weinstein accuser testifies she wanted to destroy' herself after assault
A woman who accused Harvey Weinstein of raping her in 2013 testified on Tuesday that the attack left her wanting to destroy herself.The woman, a model and actor living and working in Rome who was in Los Angeles at the time for a film festival, is the first of eight Weinstein accusers set to testify in a courtroom in Los Angeles where the 70-year-old movie mogul is on trial on multiple counts of rape and sexual assault.
American Black Film Festival to Present Its First Comedy Festival in DC - Washingtonian
The American Black Film Festival will introduce its inaugural comedy festival, " Because They're Funny ," at the Wharf in Southwest DC from October 6 to October 8.The three-day festival will highlight rising BIPOC comics, as well as feature performances by what are promised to be well-known comedy stars.
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The Mercury provides news and fun every single day-but your help is essential.If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us.Thanks for your support!GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND!Three things of note, right off the top: Thing 1) Due to last week's snowy shutdown, the Mercury's HIGHBALL week has been extended through Sunday March 5, YAY! Thing 2) The deadline for you to fill out the Mercury's sexy SEX SURVEY is this Wednesday, March 1, PANIC! Thing 3) The similarly sexy HUMP! film festival kicks off this Friday, March 3, THANK GOD.
Pride Northwest and QDoc Collaboration, "Pride Pics," Centers Black Filmmakers
For a second year, Portland Pride festival attendees can enjoy two nights of outdoor queer film screenings, as part of the weekend of LGBTQIA+ community programming in downtown Tom McCall Waterfront Park.
Portland Mercury's Spring Arts Preview: The Look of Love
Due to the nature of my profession-as the Mercury's arts & culture editor-I can't help but see Portland's amazing side.For instance, I was standing in line at a film festival the first time I heard about a series of "glam shot" portrait pop-up in the Lloyd Center Mall.This led to our Spring Arts cover, "Big City Times," from Robbie Augspurger's December residency at ILYToo-the latest in a series of retail residencies created by a new gallery opening in the Pearl called ILY2 or "I Love You 2." Despite reports of our city's destruction, it's growing impressive, authentic new venues like Historic Alberta House.
HUMP! Film Fest Starts This Weekend-Get Your Tix Before It Sells Out!
The 18th annual HUMP!Film Festival is coming (lol) this weekend!A brand new lineup of sexy, dirty, funny, kinky, hot, and weird short films will premiere at Revolution Hall starting this Friday, March 3, with showings every weekend through March 11.And tickets are ON SALE NOW!Why am I yelling?Because tickets are selling FAST, and we're already heading toward a sell out.
Hey Sexy People! Get Your Tix NOW for HUMP! 2023-"Coming" March 3!
The 18th annual HUMP!Film Festival is coming!(lol) A brand new lineup of sexy, dirty, funny, kinky, hot, and weird short films will premiere at Revolution Hall on March 3, with showings every weekend through March 11.And tickets are ON SALE NOW!Why am I yelling?Because tickets are selling FAST, and we're already heading toward a sell out.
Quick! Get Your Tickets for HUMP! 2023 Before They Sell Out!
The 18th annual HUMP!Film Festival is coming!(lol) A brand new lineup of sexy, dirty, funny, kinky, hot, and weird short films will premiere at Revolution Hall on March 3, with showings every weekend through March 11.And tickets are ON SALE NOW!Why am I yelling?Because tickets are selling FAST, and we're already heading toward a sell out.
Quicksand! Demons! Tighty-Whities! Oh My! The 2023 HUMP! Film Festival Lineup is Here!
The 18th annual HUMP!Film Festival is coming!(lol) A brand new lineup of sexy, dirty, funny, kinky, hot, and weird short films will premiere at Revolution Hall on March 3, with showings every weekend through March 11.And tickets are ON SALE NOW!Why am I yelling?Because early-bird tickets are only available through December 31!
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The Mercury provides news and fun every single day-but your help is essential.If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us.Thanks for your support!Good Afternoon, Portland!A little housekeeping:Today is the last day to take the Mercury's Sex Survey.
It's the FINAL Weekend for the HUMP! Film Fest-Get Your Tix Before It Sells Out!
The 18th annual HUMP!Film Festival is here... but it ends this WEEKEND!😱 That's right, a brand new lineup of sexy, dirty, funny, kinky, hot, and weird short films are showing at Revolution Hall this weekend, but only through March 11.So get those tickets NOW, because they're selling FAST, and one show is already sold out!
In February, when the Berlin International Film Festival takes place, the German capital is reliably what meteorologists term bloody cold.The overriding fashion aesthetic is puffer jackets, the puffier the better, accessorized with a scarf and a scowl.That might be one reason that, contrary to other major European festivals in Venice or Cannes, the Berlinale, as it's also known, has never acquired much of a reputation for glamour: One can't expect too many stars to hazard shoulder-frostbite in red-carpet gowns, especially as Oscar night looms in a couple of weeks.
Roger Ebert and Empathy: Ebertfest, April 19-23, 2023 | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert
This was a core belief of Roger's right up to April 4th, 2013, when he passed away.On this, the tenth anniversary of his death, we will commemorate him at the 23rd edition of Roger Ebert's Film Festival ("Ebertfest") with films, events and guests who reflect that principle.While we usually don't have specific themes at Ebertfest, Dr. Nathaniel Kohn ("Nate"), the Festival Director since the beginning, and I are working diligently with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to make this festival one that Roger would have been especially proud of.
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Ebertfest Film Festival 2023 Passes On Sale December 12th | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert
"Since 2023 will commemorate the tenth anniversary of Roger's death on April 4th, we are in the process of planning some pretty special films and events.Roger is not lost to any of us; just as with his beloved movies, he lives on through his artistry, his historical role, his continuing unsurpassed critical influence, and through this film festival.
A local's guide to Deauville, France: fine sands, fine dining and a new arts scene
For a town of barely 4,000 inhabitants, Deauville has a pretty sophisticated dining scene, thanks to the weekend influx of Parisians and the tourists drawn here for the horseracing, polo and film festival.Franco-Korean couple Mi-Ra and Charles recently won a Michelin star for their creative fusion at L'Essentiel, which includes dishes such as tom yam-style prawns with salsify and horseradish.
Calling all creatives!Initial participation opportunities for the 2023 SXSW Conference & Festivals open on June 28 including PanelPicker®, Music Festival, and SXSW Pitch.
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