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Monday, February 6, 2012

Film A Trailer for Kill List, the Best PIFF Movie I've Seen So Far

Posted by Erik Henriksen on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:44 AM

The Portland International Film Festival starts later this week, which means all of us Mercury film writers have been selflessly watching about 48,000 press screenings and DVDs so that we can give you ungrateful jerks about 48,000 reviews of a whole bunch of movies with subtitles. Here's a trailer for Kill List—one of the PIFF movies I watched this weekend and, so far, my favorite movie I've seen from this year's PIFF lineup. It's probably my favorite PIFF selection since they showed Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo a while back, actually.

BUT THIS IS IMPORTANT: THE LESS YOU KNOW ABOUT KILL LIST GOING IN, THE BETTER. I'm putting the trailer up because, you know, something to watch, but just trust me: Kill List is one of those movies that works much, much better if you go into it knowing little more about it than its title. So you should probably just go. It screens Friday February 24 at 11:30 pm at Cinema 21.

 

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A pretty weak lineup. Anyone have any recommendations/stuff on your radar yet?

So far I got:

Kill-list and maybe the other After Dark films
Aurora
Bullhead (maybe?)
The Day He Arrives
Elena
The Extraordinary Voyage (if only for the actual restored Méliès short!)
Extraterrestrial
The Front Line (?)
Let the Bullets Fly (?)
Life Without Principle
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Postcard
Surviving Life (!)
Tales of the Night (?)
Target (?)
This Is Not a Film
The Turin Horse (!)
Possibly the second Short Cuts program, if only for Terry Gilliam's 20 minute film.
Posted by PeretDesnos on February 6, 2012 at 12:15 PM · Report
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@PeretDesnos: Marjorie's currently writing our big piece on PIFF for this year, and for the next few weeks, we'll have short reviews of the movies we thought were interesting enough to warrant a look. Check the Film section on Thursday.
Posted by Erik Henriksen on February 6, 2012 at 12:58 PM · Report

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