Words and Pictures

  Ed Wood Jr made low-budget B-movies that tested the limits of 1950's American sensibilities, with such outre features as Bride of the Monster, Plan 9 From Outer Space, and Glen or Glenda.  Portrayed by Johnny Depp in the 1994 Tim Burton bio-pic, Ed is now recognized as a... Read more

  Revolutions Per Movie host Chris Slusarenko calls his weekly podcast “your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide." Chris invites musicians, actors, and filmmakers to choose a favorite music documentary, video, or musical, and tease apart th... Read more

  Bill Plympton has spent four decades going against the grain of the animation industry, self-financing his short films and features and drawing each frame with pencil and paper.  Nominated twice for Academy Awards and taking home a Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival,... Read more

  Women in Animation is a global organization which has made great strides in the film industry.  Portland chapter leaders Sara Logan Hofstein and Christina Palomino are helping host a panel discussion at this year’s Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology. Read more

  Eddie Muller is the Founder and President of The Film Noir Foundation.  He's a film preservationist, a festival programmer, a San Francisco Literary Laureate, and the host of Noir Alley on the Turner Classic Movies channel.  Eddie is bringing the Noir City Film Festival ... Read more

  In this extended conversation with Film Noir Foundation Founder Eddie Muller, we spend an extra 20 minutes finding out about the importance of gritty urban stories in American culture and the race to rescue overlooked films from the landfill. Eddie Muller is a film pres... Read more

  Harry Smith is best known as an experimental filmmaker, but he was so much more.  He was a painter and collage artist, a mystic, a student of anthropology, a collector of folk music and indigenous art, and an important — though unsung — figure in the Beat Generation. Ha... Read more

  From 1974 to 1995, Stan Mack tagged along on the adventures of ordinary New Yorkers, then combined their stories with his frenetic pen-and-ink artwork to create the documentary-style comic Stan Mack's Real-Life Funnies.  Now, Fantagraphics has published a collection of ... Read more