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Essential NW Film: That Blade Just Don’t Stop

March 27, 2012March 28, 2012 NW Film Center Movies, Oregon Film, Portland Essential NW, nw film, NW Film Center, Oregon FilmLeave a Comment

The process that delivers the furniture into our homes is often as grim as the process that delivers the food onto our plates. Aerial vistas of butchered landscapes look like ecological crime scenes, the brown swathes of mowed hillsides replacing the chalk outlines. The murder weapons drip with water instead of blood, freshly bathed for the next sanctioned slaughter. The morbid din of strained cedars slit at their mammoth bases, tipping over, their broad tops exploding on impact could just as easily have been confused with an animal’s death throes. Continue reading... “Essential NW Film: That Blade Just Don’t Stop”

Local Film “Some Days” at Living Room Theaters

June 24, 2011 Oregon Film Film and Media Industry, Oregon Film, Portland Some Days are Better Than OthersLeave a Comment

Local Director Matt McCormick’s film “Some Days are Better Than Others” begins a run at the Living Room Theaters tonight in Portland. Here are some details about the film.

Some Days are Better Than Others is Matt McCormick’s poetic, character-driven debut feature-length film that asks why the good times slip by so fast while the difficult times seem so sticky. The film explores ideas of abundance, emptiness, human connection and abandonment while observing an interweaving web of awkward characters who maintain hope by inventing their own forms of communication and self-fulfillment. Continue reading... “Local Film “Some Days” at Living Room Theaters”

Film Adaption “The Glass Menagerie” Red Carpet Screening

May 10, 2011May 10, 2011 Eastern Oregon Film Festival Independent Films April Curtis, Eastern Oregon Film Festival, Eastern Oregon University, EOUMA, Greg Rawlins, la grande, Media Arts1 Comment

THE GLASS MENAGERIE: THE FILM –It’s a Wrap!

After 5 Months of Filming, Eastern Oregon University’s First Feature-Length Film Now Enters the Editing Stage.

The cast and crew of EOU’s first feature-length film called it a wrap after five months of intensive and involved filming. The Glass Menagerie, a 92-minute movie based on the famous play by Tennessee Williams and adapted into a film by Professor April Curtis, is now ready for the final concentrated effort of computer technology, voice-over work and musical theme music composed by Biology Professor John Rinehart. Continue reading... “Film Adaption “The Glass Menagerie” Red Carpet Screening”