Spinal
01-23-2008, 10:56 PM
A thread for discussing your visits to film festivals and offering previews to other posters of films that will eventually be coming their way.
The 2008 Portland Film Festival has announced its lineup. Any thoughts on these films and what might be worth seeing would be appreciated:
27,000 DAYS Naveen Singh
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS Cristian Mungiu
A GENTLE BREEZE IN THE VILLAGE Yamashita Nobuhiro
A MAN'S JOB Aleksi Salmenperä
AFGHAN MUSCLES Andreas Mol Dalsgaard
AFTER ALL Alexis Fortier Gauthier
ALEXANDRA Alexander Sokurov
ALICE'S HOUSE Chico Teixeira
AMERICAN/SANDINISTA Jason Blalock
BEAUFORT Joseph Cedar
BLIND MOUNTAIN Li Yang
BLUE DRESS Katie Stern
BREATH Kim Ki-duk
BY MODERN MEASURE
CABINET Robert Todd
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' Cristian Nemescu
CAMP SERIES #2 John Price
CARAMEL Nadine Labaki
CHICAGO 10 Brett Morgen
CHIHULY IN THE HOTSHOP Peter West
CHOP SHOP Ramin Bahrani
CLOUDS OVER CONAKRY Cheick Fantamady Camara
DREAMS AND DESIRES—FAMILY TIES Joanna Quinn
DUSKA Jos Stelling
EDUART Angeliki Antoniou
EMPTIES Jan Sverák
FAIR TRADE Michael Dreher
FAMILY TIES Kim Tae-yong
FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON Hou Hsiao-Hsien
FOREVER Heddy Honigmann
GATES Antonio Ferrera, Albert Maysles
GETTING HOME Zhang Yang
HARROWDOWN HILL Chel White
HOME SONG STORIES Tony Ayres
HOW TO CONDUCT A LOVE AFFAIR David Gatten
I MET THE WALRUS Josh Raskin
IMPORT/EXPORT Ulrich Seidl
IN BRUGES Martin McDonagh
IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA José Luis GuerÃ*n
IN THE HELIOPOLIS FLAT Mohamed Khan
IRINA PALM Sam Garbarski
It's a Free World Ken Loach
JAR CITY Baltasar Kormákur
JEU Georges Schwizgebel
KINGS Tom Collins
La ANTENA Esteban Saphir
LITTLE TERRORS Lou Thomas, Jake Ryan Manning
LOVE AND WAR Frederik Emilson
M FOR MOTHER Rasoul Mollagholipour
MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
MISTER FOE David Mackenzie
MONGOL Sergei Bodrov
MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD Daniele Luchetti
MY MOTHER Elaine Wickham
NOT BY CHANCE Philippe Barcinski
OBSERVATION EL CIELO Jeanne Liotta
OFF THE GRID: LIFE ON THE MESA Jeremy Stulberg, Randy Stulberg
OPERATION FILMMMAKER Nina Davenport
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies Michael Hazanavicius
PARANOID PARK Gus Van Sant
PERSIAN CARPET Various Directors
POP FOUL Moon Molson
PRICELESS Pierre Salvadori
RING! RING! Arman Bohn
ROMULUS, MY FATHER Richard Roxburgh
SAFARI Catherine Chalmers
SAVIOUR'S SQUARE Krzysztof Krauze, Joanna Kos-Krauze
SHOTGUN STORIES Jeff Nichols
SHUTEYE HOTEL Bill Plympton
SILENT LIGHT Carlos Reygadas
SNOW ANGELS David Gordon Green
SOFT Simon Ellis
SPIDER Nash Edgerton
STILL LIFE Zhang Ke Jia
STREETCAR NAMED PERSPIRE Joanna Priestley
SUPER NONPAREILS Jeremy Bird
TANGHI ARGENTINI Guido Thys
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE Alex Gibney
TAXIDERMIA György Palfi
TELL NO ONE Guillaume Canet
THE ART OF NEGATIVE THINKING BÃ¥rd Breien
THE BAND'S VISIT Eran Kolirin
THE BUTTERFLY IN WINTER Ute Aurand, Maria Lang
THE COUNTERFEITERS Stefan Ruzowitzky
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ROSEFRIEND APARTMENTS Brian Libby
THE DUTCHESS OF LANGEAIS Jacques Rivette
THE EDGE OF HEAVEN Fatih Akin
THE GREAT MAGICIAN Elisabeth Gustafson
THE MONASTERY: MR. VIG AND THE NUN Pernille Rose Grønjaer
THE PEARCE SISTERS Luis Cook
THE PULL Andy Blubaugh
THE RUSSIAN TRIANGLE Aleko Tsabadze
THE SUBSTITUTE Andrea Jublin
THE TRAP Srdan Golubovic
THE TRUFFEL HUNTER Tom Tagholm
THE VISITOR Tom McCarthy
THE WHITE SILK DRESS Luu Huynh
THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION Cao Hamburger
THE YEAR OF THE NAIL Jonás Cuarón
THEN SHE FOUND ME Helen Hunt
THREE HOURS, FIFTEEN MINUTES BEFORE THE HURRICANE STRUCK Christina Battle
TIMES AND WINDS Reha Erdem
TOWER BAWHER Theodore Ushev
TUYA'S MARRIAGE Wang Quan
UNDER THE SAME MOON Patricia Riggen
Unrelated Joanna Hogg
UP THE YANGTZE Yung Chang
WHO'S GOOD LOOKING Warren Pereira
WIND Chel White
XXY LucÃ*a Puenzo
YELLA Christian Petzold
YOU, THE LIVING Roy Andersson
No Nightwatching. :evil:
But I definitely want to see Breath.
The 2008 Portland Film Festival has announced its lineup. Any thoughts on these films and what might be worth seeing would be appreciated:
27,000 DAYS Naveen Singh
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS Cristian Mungiu
A GENTLE BREEZE IN THE VILLAGE Yamashita Nobuhiro
A MAN'S JOB Aleksi Salmenperä
AFGHAN MUSCLES Andreas Mol Dalsgaard
AFTER ALL Alexis Fortier Gauthier
ALEXANDRA Alexander Sokurov
ALICE'S HOUSE Chico Teixeira
AMERICAN/SANDINISTA Jason Blalock
BEAUFORT Joseph Cedar
BLIND MOUNTAIN Li Yang
BLUE DRESS Katie Stern
BREATH Kim Ki-duk
BY MODERN MEASURE
CABINET Robert Todd
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' Cristian Nemescu
CAMP SERIES #2 John Price
CARAMEL Nadine Labaki
CHICAGO 10 Brett Morgen
CHIHULY IN THE HOTSHOP Peter West
CHOP SHOP Ramin Bahrani
CLOUDS OVER CONAKRY Cheick Fantamady Camara
DREAMS AND DESIRES—FAMILY TIES Joanna Quinn
DUSKA Jos Stelling
EDUART Angeliki Antoniou
EMPTIES Jan Sverák
FAIR TRADE Michael Dreher
FAMILY TIES Kim Tae-yong
FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON Hou Hsiao-Hsien
FOREVER Heddy Honigmann
GATES Antonio Ferrera, Albert Maysles
GETTING HOME Zhang Yang
HARROWDOWN HILL Chel White
HOME SONG STORIES Tony Ayres
HOW TO CONDUCT A LOVE AFFAIR David Gatten
I MET THE WALRUS Josh Raskin
IMPORT/EXPORT Ulrich Seidl
IN BRUGES Martin McDonagh
IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA José Luis GuerÃ*n
IN THE HELIOPOLIS FLAT Mohamed Khan
IRINA PALM Sam Garbarski
It's a Free World Ken Loach
JAR CITY Baltasar Kormákur
JEU Georges Schwizgebel
KINGS Tom Collins
La ANTENA Esteban Saphir
LITTLE TERRORS Lou Thomas, Jake Ryan Manning
LOVE AND WAR Frederik Emilson
M FOR MOTHER Rasoul Mollagholipour
MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
MISTER FOE David Mackenzie
MONGOL Sergei Bodrov
MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD Daniele Luchetti
MY MOTHER Elaine Wickham
NOT BY CHANCE Philippe Barcinski
OBSERVATION EL CIELO Jeanne Liotta
OFF THE GRID: LIFE ON THE MESA Jeremy Stulberg, Randy Stulberg
OPERATION FILMMMAKER Nina Davenport
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies Michael Hazanavicius
PARANOID PARK Gus Van Sant
PERSIAN CARPET Various Directors
POP FOUL Moon Molson
PRICELESS Pierre Salvadori
RING! RING! Arman Bohn
ROMULUS, MY FATHER Richard Roxburgh
SAFARI Catherine Chalmers
SAVIOUR'S SQUARE Krzysztof Krauze, Joanna Kos-Krauze
SHOTGUN STORIES Jeff Nichols
SHUTEYE HOTEL Bill Plympton
SILENT LIGHT Carlos Reygadas
SNOW ANGELS David Gordon Green
SOFT Simon Ellis
SPIDER Nash Edgerton
STILL LIFE Zhang Ke Jia
STREETCAR NAMED PERSPIRE Joanna Priestley
SUPER NONPAREILS Jeremy Bird
TANGHI ARGENTINI Guido Thys
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE Alex Gibney
TAXIDERMIA György Palfi
TELL NO ONE Guillaume Canet
THE ART OF NEGATIVE THINKING BÃ¥rd Breien
THE BAND'S VISIT Eran Kolirin
THE BUTTERFLY IN WINTER Ute Aurand, Maria Lang
THE COUNTERFEITERS Stefan Ruzowitzky
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ROSEFRIEND APARTMENTS Brian Libby
THE DUTCHESS OF LANGEAIS Jacques Rivette
THE EDGE OF HEAVEN Fatih Akin
THE GREAT MAGICIAN Elisabeth Gustafson
THE MONASTERY: MR. VIG AND THE NUN Pernille Rose Grønjaer
THE PEARCE SISTERS Luis Cook
THE PULL Andy Blubaugh
THE RUSSIAN TRIANGLE Aleko Tsabadze
THE SUBSTITUTE Andrea Jublin
THE TRAP Srdan Golubovic
THE TRUFFEL HUNTER Tom Tagholm
THE VISITOR Tom McCarthy
THE WHITE SILK DRESS Luu Huynh
THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION Cao Hamburger
THE YEAR OF THE NAIL Jonás Cuarón
THEN SHE FOUND ME Helen Hunt
THREE HOURS, FIFTEEN MINUTES BEFORE THE HURRICANE STRUCK Christina Battle
TIMES AND WINDS Reha Erdem
TOWER BAWHER Theodore Ushev
TUYA'S MARRIAGE Wang Quan
UNDER THE SAME MOON Patricia Riggen
Unrelated Joanna Hogg
UP THE YANGTZE Yung Chang
WHO'S GOOD LOOKING Warren Pereira
WIND Chel White
XXY LucÃ*a Puenzo
YELLA Christian Petzold
YOU, THE LIVING Roy Andersson
No Nightwatching. :evil:
But I definitely want to see Breath.