We've got issues.
Staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades.
For all their deceptive genre fluidity, technical finesse and narrative bankability, the Coen brothers remain among our finest filmmakers, capable of straddling that razor’s edge … Continue reading
I believe about all art what Kafka said about books — that it should “wound or stab us,” that a work of art must chop … Continue reading
Steven Dietz’s 1996 adaptation of Dracula maintains a disorienting fidelity to Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, hewing close to the spirit and characterization of the original. … Continue reading
What, really, is this thing we call a Western? Outwardly, it’s a movie with horses and six-shooters and cacti and grizzled men and whiskey and … Continue reading
When I first met the writer Pat Newson, he was a bent wild man, part satanic elf and part hobbled saint, and his whole being … Continue reading
Global in scope, holistic in approach and deeply humane in its engagement with our imperiled planet, the Eugene Environmental Film Festival kicks off its inaugural … Continue reading
Chris Hedges’ latest book, America: The Farewell Tour, offers the reader an unsentimental and brilliant diagnosis of our ongoing national malaise, and it goes off … Continue reading
Among all the subcategories in the domestic drama genre, one of the most rarefied and exclusive must certainly be this: The coming-of-age story of a … Continue reading
You’ve got to hand it to Actors Cabaret of Eugene. As the name implies, ACE is a homespun purveyor of musical theater, and as such, … Continue reading
I can’t help but feel there’s a sly political comment hiding in the “44” baseball jersey worn by a bloody Nicholas Cage as he sets … Continue reading