{"id":3365,"date":"2015-11-10T07:24:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2015-11-10T07:24:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:24:43","slug":"portland-the-city-in-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3365","title":{"rendered":"Portland, the City in Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/145211909\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\nPortland hardly runs the risk of cinematic overexposure, but when we see real a Portland movie, one with a sense of place, we remember it. These run the gamut from the 1950s noir morality play <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Portland Expos\u00e9<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and nuclear-strike preparedness special <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Day Called X<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Penny Allen\u2019s 1978 land-use satire <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Property <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the work of such Portland auteurs as Gus van Sant, Kelly Reichardt, and Aaron Katz \u2014 not to mention the unerotic erotic thriller <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Body of Evidence<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the pseudoscientific docudrama <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What the Bleep Do We Know!?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and B-movie master Albert Pyun\u2019s Andrew Dice Clay vehicle <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brain Smasher\u2026 a Love Story<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. All of them take the elements of Portland\u2019s urban space \u2014 the bridges, the MAX trains, Big Pink, the woods just outside the city \u2014 to constitute a fascinating body of modern Portland urban cinema.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more The City in Cinema video essays, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/channels\/thecityincinema\">its Vimeo page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland hardly runs the risk of cinematic overexposure, but when we see real a Portland movie, one with a sense of place, we remember it. These run the gamut from the 1950s noir morality play Portland Expos\u00e9 and nuclear-strike preparedness special A Day Called X to Penny Allen\u2019s 1978 land-use satire Property to the work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portland","category-the-city-in-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}