Astoria Picture Show is a nonprofit film organization in Astoria, Oregon. We run curated mini-fests, a large annual festival, a year-round community film school, and regular special events and screenings.
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What ties this organization together is a belief in cinema that pays attention — honest, strange, alive work that makes you feel something you didn’t expect. We show it. We teach people to make it. And we help fund it when it’s being made right here.
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What does it really take to kill a finished movie? Not a flop… or a script that never got off the ground… or a project that burned through its funds. I mean a movie that’s done. And by done, I mean shot, edited, scored, shown to real audiences who liked it (like, genuinely liked it),…
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Here’s a question worth asking: why did a nearly three-hour, R-rated movie based on a poem older than reading itself just shake up the global cultural zeitgeist? Not “did it.” It did…the best debut of Christopher Nolan’s career and the third-biggest opening of the year, against films that had entire theme parks behind them. The…
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Here’s a number that should not be true for a beginner filmmaking class in a town of about ten thousand people: nearly two dozen. That’s how many showed up for the first session of our Film 1 class at Clatsop Community College. Some people put a lot of miles on their car to be there.…