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Cheesehead-turned-puddlejumper; four-eyes-turned-beardo; Packer fan, Marvel Zombie; lover of good films, hater of bad ones. A walking contradiction.
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FilmWatch Weekly: ‘Wild Horse Nine,’ ‘La bola negra,’ and plenty more award-season hopefuls

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By Marc Mohan
| Oregon Arts Watch
Sometimes things can change all of a sudden in November, one example being the always-sudden surge in award-season movies on screens big and small. From Hollywood to Spain, with a detour to Chile, and from Tokyo to South Korea, the selections this week and, most likely, going forward, will be, apologies to Yogi (the other one), artier than the average fare. Writer-director Martin McDonagh’s films have had a good run recently in the annual horse race.
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FilmWatch Weekly: ‘Interspecies Communication’ through music, plus arthouse fare ‘Fjord,’ ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,’ and ‘Once Upon a Time in Harlem’

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By Marc Mohan
| Oregon Arts Watch
Jim Nollman plays guitar with orcas from the bow of a boat. (Photo by Jim O’Donnell) When the phrase “interspecies communication” gets tossed out, the easy reference is to seeming relics from the 1970s like Day of the Dolphin or Koko, the gorilla who was taught sign language. While the promise of those sorts of experiments hasn’t been fulfilled by, say, the publication of a human-cetacean lexicon, that may be because we’re relying on an all-too-human definition of communication.
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FilmWatch Weekly: Laika’s ‘Wildwood’ is a triumph, plus the 2026 QDoc festival and more

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By Marc Mohan
| Oregon Arts Watch
A scene from Wildwood (image courtesy Laika) “I don’t know whether this is terrifying or adorable,” a character says about halfway through Wildwood, the triumphant new film from Hillsboro’s Laika Studios that adapts Colin Melloy and Carson Ellis’s young-adult novel into a sumptuous animated feature and ranks as the company’s most ambitious, finest work to date.
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