Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio – Coming To The Portland Art Museum June 10th

Guillermo del Toro on the set of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, 2022. Image courtesy Jason Schmidt/Netflix

The Portland Art Museum will be hosting the Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio exhibit this summer. The exhibit is “a celebration and exploration of the inventiveness, passion and artistic cooperation that goes into making a cinematic vision come to life.” The exhibit started at MoMA in New York and is now opening at the Portland Art Museum on June 10th and will run through September 17th, 2023.

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OMPA’s Annual Showcase Event: April 27

OMPA’s annual celebratory event of Oregon’s media production industry and toast our award recipients is coming next week. Come enjoy connecting, exchanging ideas and experiences, and exploring new collaborations.

Learn more and RSVP at https://ompa.org/events

Where: Produce Row
When: April 27, 6:30-9:30pm
Dress code: Creative and festive
What will be there: Drinks and hor d’oeuvres, photo booth, member highlight reels and awards winner recognition

Thank you to our event sponsors ComcastOregon FilmKoerner Camera SystemsOregon Film Museum, Emma Josephson and the Portland Events and Film Office! Continue reading... “OMPA’s Annual Showcase Event: April 27”

“Dear Future Children” Screening At Clinton Street Theater May 9th

In our Monthly Film Series, we will show a variety of German language films – from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On the 2nd Tuesday of each month, audiences will now have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons – please check our website.) All films are with English subtitles.
“Dear Future Children   BUY TICKETS HERE
TUESDAY, May 9, 2023 – 7:00 PM
Germany/ Austria/ UK  2021, 89 min
Directed by Franz Böhm
With global protests on the rise, DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN is a film about the new generation at the heart of this seismic political shift.
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Clinton Street Theater Screening “Nightlife”

In our Monthly Film Series, we will show a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. On the 2nd Tuesday of each month, audiences will now have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children’s movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons – please check our website.) All films are with English subtitles.
NIGHTLIFE (Nightlife)  BUY TICKETS HERE
TUESDAY, April 11, 2023 – 7:00 PM
Germany 2020, 110 min
Directed by Simon Verhoeven
Cast: Elyas M’Barek, Frederick Lau, Palina Rojinski, Leon Ullrich

A wild comedy that launches at full speed, Nightlife is an entertaining romp about the misadventures of friends lost in the Berlin night.

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Pride Month: NEUBAU (Neubau)

In our Monthly Film Series, we will show a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. On the 2nd Tuesday of each month, audiences will now have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children’s movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons – please check our website.) All films are with English subtitles.
NEUBAU (Neubau)   BUY TICKETS HERE
TUESDAY, June 13, 2023 – 7:00 PM
Germany 2020, 82 min
Directed by Johannes Maria Schmit
Cast: Tucké Royale, Monika Zimmering, Jalda Rebling
Summer in Brandenburg.
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GUNDERMANN (Gundermann)

The Portland German Film Festival is showing in our Monthly Film Series, a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. On the 2nd Tuesday of each month, audiences will have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children’s movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons – please check our website.) All films are with English subtitles.
GUNDERMANN (Gundermann)
Tuesday, February 14, 2023 – 7:00 PM
Germany 2018, 128 min
Directed by Andreas Dresen
Cast: Alexander ScheerAnna UnterbergerAxel PrahlThorsten MertenBjarne MädelMilan PeschelKathrin Angerer
After his outing into family entertainment with TIMM THALER, director Andreas Dresen has now returned to Germany’s recent past with his portrait of the contradictory life of the digger driver Gerhard Gundermann who made a name for himself as a singer-songwriter in former East Germany, tragically dying at only 43 in 1998.
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PARIS CALLIGRAMMES (Paris Calligrammes)

The Portland German Film Festival shows in our Monthly Film Series, a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. On the 2nd Tuesday of each month, audiences will have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children’s movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons – please check our website.) All films are with English subtitles.
PARIS CALLIGRAMMES (Paris Calligrammes)
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 – 7:00 PM
Germany/ France 2019, 129 min
Directed by Ulrike Ottinger

“In Paris Calligrammes, the artist Ulrike Ottinger casts a highly personal and subjective gaze back to the twentieth century.

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LIFE ON TAPE (Bilder (m)einer Mutter)

The Portland German Film Festival will show in our Monthly Film Series, a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. On the 2nd Tuesday of each month, audiences will have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children’s movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons – please check our website.) All films are with English subtitles
LIFE ON TAPE (Bilder (m)einer Mutter)
Tuesday, January 10, 2023 – 7:00 PM
Germany 2021, 78 min
Directed by Melanie Lischker
A seemingly entirely normal childhood in the 80s captured on countless video cassettes.
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Portland Premiere – Campy Screwball Comedy Movie “Pocket Mouse Protector”

Winner of Best LGBTQ Feature Film (Seattle Film Festival), POCKET MOUSE PROTECTOR brings its zany humor to Clinton Street Theater on November 5th, 2022.

Starring Portland talent James Sharinghousen, Eleanor O’Brien, Blake Stone, Jonas Israel, Yelena King, Daniel Villarreal, and Paul Bright, the movie is a send-up of screwball comedies from the 20s, 30s, and 70s.

Environmentalist Larry takes an experimental virility drug to woo back his wife Mary who’s having an affair with Barry who works for Thierry who plans to destroy the remaining habitat of the endangered pocket mouse.

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#CreateResponsibly Panel at the Hollywood Climate Summit

Calling all Filmmakers, Creators, Photographers, Artists and Influencers of all sorts who use the outdoors as their canvas!

#CreateResponsibly joins this week’s Hollywood Climate Summit to inspire better outdoor creation and recreation practices. Join the workshop Saturday June 25 at noon PT. Register for free at www.hcs.earth/RSVP to gain access to this workshop and much more.

Oregon Film is proud to have been participating in this campaign under the Recreate Responsibly Coalition during the pandemic.

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