PMA Films Screenings — Portland Museum of Art

The Donut King

The Donut King

94 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Alice Gu.

The Donut King, Ted Ngoy's story is one of fate, love, survival, hard knocks, and redemption. It's the rags to riches story of a refugee escaping Cambodia, arriving in America in 1975 and building an unlikely multi-million dollar empire baking America’s favorite pastry, the donut. Ted sponsored hundreds of visas for incoming refugees and helped them get on their feet teaching them the ways of the donut business. By 1979 he was living the American Dream. But, in life, great rise can come with great falls.

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Guest UserOctober 21, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

This Is Not A Movie

This Is Not A Movie

106 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Yung Chang.

For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world. Yung Chang’s This Is Not a Movie captures Fisk in action—feet on the ground, notebook in hand, as he travels into landscapes devastated by war, ferreting out the facts and firing reports back home to reach an audience of millions.

Guest UserOctober 21, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

Coming Home Again

Coming Home Again

86 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Wayne Wang.

Chang-rae, a first generation Korean-American, returns to his family home in San Francisco to care for his ailing mother. Wanting nothing more than to fulfill his role as the supportive son, he must come to terms with his own conflicted emotions.

Guest UserOctober 21, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

Kid Flicks Two

Kid Flicks Two

66 minutes. Not rated. Multiple directors. In English, no dialogue, or with brief English subtitles.

Challenging expectations and reflecting growth and resilience, NYICFF Kid Flicks Two is a fantastic trip on the road to growing up. Kid Flicks Two is a program of inspiring short films for ages 8+!

Guest UserOctober 21, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

Kid Flicks One

Kid Flicks One

58 minutes. Not rated. Multiple directors. In English, no dialogue, or with brief English subtitles.

New York International Children's Film Festival's Kid Flicks One keeps the dynamic of work and play lively with these tales and more from around the globe. The program features inspiring short films for ages 5 and up.

Guest UserOctober 7, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

Martin Eden

Martin Eden

129 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Pietro Marcello.

In this drama, Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite.

Guest UserOctober 7, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

Aggie

Aggie

92 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Catherine Gund.

An exploration of the nexus of art, race and justice through the story of art collector Agnes Gund, who sold Roy Lichtenstein's painting Masterpiece in 2017 for $165 million to start the Art for Justice Fund to end mass incarceration.

Guest UserOctober 7, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

RBG

RBG

97 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Betsy West & Julie Cohen.

In honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, PMA Films and Magnolia Pictures are offering a special purchase of the film.

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Guest UserSeptember 23, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

114 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Ric Burns.

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact.

Guest UserSeptember 23, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

Faust

Faust

97 minutes. Not rated. Directed by. Jan Svankmajer.

Jan Svankmajer’s Faust is a rendering of the infamous Dr. Faustus fable of temptation and damnation. Borrowing freely from both Marlowe and Goethe and ancient folktales and timeless myths, the story follows a lonely Czech businessman who sells his soul to the devil in return for 24 years of self-indulgence.

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Guest UserSeptember 9, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

Driven to Abstraction

Driven to Abstraction

84 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Daria Price.

Driven to Abstraction unravels a mutating tale of self-delusion, greed, and fraud -- the $80 million forgery scandal that rocked the art world and brought down Knoedler, New York City’s oldest and most venerable gallery.

Guest UserSeptember 9, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

Our Time Machine

Our Time Machine

81 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Yang Sun & S. Leo Chiang.

Shaken by the news of his father’s dementia, artist Maleonn creates “Papa’s Time Machine,” a wondrous time-travel adventure performed on stage with life-size mechanical puppets. Through the play's production, he confronts his own mortality. Maleonn finds grace and unexpected joy in this moving meditation on art, the agonies of love and loss, and the circle of life.

Guest UserSeptember 9, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

96 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Mary Wharton.

The mostly forgotten story of how Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter, a lover of all types of music, forged a tight bond with musicians Willie Nelson, the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan and others. Low on campaign funds and lacking in name recognition, Carter relied on support from these artists to give him a crucial boost in the Democratic primaries.

Guest UserSeptember 9, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

Sundance Shorts Tour 2020 - Virtual Edition

Sundance Shorts Tour 2020 - Virtual Edition

81 minutes. Not rated. Various directors

The 2020 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour “Virtual Edition” is a 82-minute program of 6 short films selected from this year’s Festival. Widely considered the premier American showcase for short films and the launchpad for many now-prominent independent filmmakers for more than 30 years, the Short Film Tour includes fiction, documentary and animation from around the world, giving new audiences a taste of what the Festival offers.

Guest UserAugust 25, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

Epicentro

Epicentro

108 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Hubert Sauper.

An immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, «utopian» Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine still resonates. This Big Bang ended Spanish colonial dominance in the Americas and ushered in the era of the American Empire. At the same time and place, a powerful tool of conquest was born: cinema as propaganda.

Winner - 2020 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary.

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Guest UserAugust 25, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

The 24th

The 24th

113 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Kevin Willmott.

The 24th tells the true story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917, a mutiny by 156 African American soldiers in response to the brutal violence and abuse at the hands of Houston police officers. Directed by Kevin Willmott, Oscar-winning co-writer of Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq, BlacKkKlansman, and Da 5 Bloods.

Guest UserAugust 12, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

Jazz On A Summer's Day- Restored Re-Release

Jazz On A Summer's Day- Restored Re-Release

85 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Bert Stern

Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O'Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, and closes with a beautiful rendition or The Lord's Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday morning.

Guest UserAugust 12, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

Creem: America's Only Rock ’N’ Roll Magazine

Creem: America's Only Rock ’N’ Roll Magazine

75 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Scott Crawford.

Capturing the messy upheaval of the '70s just as rock was re-inventing itself, Creem: America's Only Rock ’N’ Roll Magazine explores CREEM Magazine's humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse

Guest UserAugust 11, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

You Never Had It: An Evening with Charles Bukowski

You Never Had It: An Evening with Charles Bukowski

55 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Matteo Borgardt.

A night of drinking and talking about sex, literature, childhood and humanity with the irreverent writer poet Charles Bukowski in his California house in 1981. A story of tapes lost, found and brought back to life.

Guest UserAugust 11, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings

Out Stealing Horses

Out Stealing Horses

122 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Hans Petter Moland. In Norwegian with English subtitles.

Based on the bestselling novel by Norwegian author Per Petterson. Trond (Stellan Skarsgård) retires to solitary life in the Norwegian woods after the death of his wife, but the past resurfaces.

Guest UserAugust 5, 2020digital screenings, available digital screenings