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Derrick Peterson — a top candidate for the Portland school board whose ties to prominent Christian nationalists Rolling Stone uncovered this week, is withdrawing his candidacy.

In a statement to supporters Wednesday afternoon, Peterson wrote, “Over the past week my affiliations with various churches have been presented in the media. This has taken a toll on my family and takes away from the critical work that needs to be done at [Portland Public School] Pps. I respect our youth too much to allow this distraction to continue. As such, I am withdrawing from the race.

Hello, everyone! We’re back with the final round of horror and sci-fi home media releases for the month of August, and we’ve got quite a few killer titles headed home today. Scream Factory is giving Paul Schrader’s Cat People remake a 4K overhaul in a brand-new Collector’s Edition release, and Severin Films is keeping busy with several titles today as well, including All About Evil and Fearless, and if you haven’t had a chance to check it out for yourself yet, Jane Schoenbrun’s extremely unsettling We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is headed to Blu-ray this week as well.

Other titles being released on August 30th include Arrow Video’s Giallo Essentials: 3-Disc Limited Edition Collection, Lux Aeterna, Satan’s Children, Jack Be Nimble featuring Alexis Arquette, The Oregonian, Raw Nerve, and Shriek of the Mutilated.

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David Cronenberg plays the hits in “Crimes of the Future” (Neon), but there’s no other filmmaker today with hits like his. Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux are a pair of surgery-based performance artists whose interests intersect with a sect of plastic-eaters, while bureaucrats Kristen Stewart (giving the screen’s most divisive performance since Jared Leto in “House of Gucci”) and Don McKellar look on in fannish amazement. If you enjoy the auteur’s brand of surgical implements that look like insect exoskeletons and furniture that looks like tumors, this is your kind of movie.

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“Charm City Kings” (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment): Denied a proper release during the pandemic lockdown, this saga of a young Baltimorean getting involved in the city’s motorbike culture is a powerful drama not to be missed.

“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” (Marvel Studios): Audiences differed...

Police in Oregon arrested a man Friday in connection with the death of Dennis Day, an original member of Disney’s The Mickey Mouse Club.

Daniel James Burda, 36, was taken into custody on suspicion of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, abuse of a corpse, criminal mistreatment and identity theft in connection with Day’s death, The Oregonian reported.

Burda previously worked as a handyman for Day at his home outside Medford.

The suspect was already in custody on an unrelated robbery case when he was additionally charged in Day’s death.

The arrest came after police picked up two Oregon women last month on charges related to the theft of several of Day’s personal items.

Wanda Garcia and Lori Declusin faced felony charges for allegedly stealing the former actor’s white 1990s Ford Escort station wagon. Garcia also was accused of selling a brooch that belonged to Day in July...

“The Loudest Voice” premiered on June 30 on Showtime, and it’s the latest (but not the last) dramatization of the rise of right-wing media in the United States. Last year’s Oscar-winning “Vice” explored the rise of Dick Cheney and tangentially touched on the sinister Fox News phenomenon. The 2018 documentary “Divide and Conquer” went deep into the rise and fall of Fox News mastermind Roger Ailes specifically. And now this latest drama, told in seven parts with Russell Crowe playing Ailes, delves even deeper. But what do critics think of this latest account?

As of this writing “The Loudest Voice” looks a little bit like “Vice” actually, with a MetaCritic score of 61 indicating strong admiration mixed with some disappointment and concern. That’s based on 18 reviews counted thus far, 9 of which are positive, 8 of which are mixed and only 1 of which is outright negative. That’s consistent with Rotten Tomatoes,...

David Ogden Stiers, best known for his role as Major Charles Winchester on the classic TV show M*A*S*H, has died at the age of 75, The Oregonian reports. According to his agent, Mitchell Stubbs, the actor died peacefully in his Newport, Ore., home after a battle with bladder cancer.

Stiers first joined M*A*S*H in its sixth season, filling the void left by Larry Linville’s Major Frank Burns, who departed the series at the end of Season 5. Stiers received back-to-back Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1981 and 1982.

Update: Alan Alda paid tribute to...

Last week, we had fun chiming in on how Sundance 2016 might look like with our Sundance predictions list. Our series was exactly one short from the promised 75. We decided to switch things up this year. Our last pick is reserved for what is a next to impossible, needle in the haystack guess at what films might break into the short film sections. Out of the 8000 plus submissions the Sundance Short Film programmers will receive, they’ll end up selecting a little less than a hundred short films. Here are some ideas as to who and what could show up.

The Bulb and The Procedure

No stranger to Park City, Calvin Reeder has supplied the fest with features such as The Oregonian (2011), The Rambler (2013) and could very well bring this Kickstarter pairing to public access television blitz and X-Files love. Production wrapped in August. Actors Linas Phillips and Christian Palmer star.

Underground movies don’t typically lend themselves to commercial interruption, what with their narrative experimentation and their devotion to artistic sensibilities over more profitable concerns. Plus, home media viewers are becoming more accustomed to streaming business ventures that are based financially solely on subscriber fees and not advertiser dollars, e.g. Netflix and Amazon Prime.

Still, there might be a time when a home viewer will be in the mood for something a little more off the beaten path and not want to pay for an additional subscription over what is most likely an outrageous Internet bill — and want to view that off-beat media legally.

So, in that scenario, sometimes Hulu becomes a good option for viewing an oddball movie that screened at an underground film festival — if one doesn’t mind the intrusive ads. Below are five incredible flicks that deserve to be seen, no matter what the option is.

Director Adam Wingard has received rave reviews for his R-rated, home invasion horror-comedy You’re Next, which screened at several film festivals over the past couple of years and will be released August 23. But his often gore-drenched creative sensibility — and twisted sense of humor — is not everyone’s cup of Darjeeling. In the spring of 2007, for instance, the then just the 24-year-old Wingard appeared on the premiere episode of Fox TV’s On The Lot, a much-hyped but now little-remembered, Steven Spielberg-produced filmmakers’ competition with the first prize of a million-dollar development deal at Dreamworks. As Wingard recalls, he...

Aimlessly Devoted To You: Reeder Culls More Stars and Less Sense for Sophomore Film

More proof that horror as a genre has been hedged out of midnight movie programming in favor of meandering strangeness is The Rambler, the sophomore feature of Calvin Lee Reeder. Rather than expanding on the mindf*ck bizarro-world shtick that characterized his polarizing 2011 debut, The Oregonian, Reeder seems more eager than ever to agitate, confound, and blow through our conditioned notions of film narrative. Fans of his first film can rejoice, but the rest of us should be praying for the return of David Lynch. Films by directors such as Reeder, who is obviously influenced by the likes of the grand master himself, only highlight how genius someone like Lynch is at making the grisly and bizarre as compelling as it is incomprehensible.

A man known as the Rambler (Dermot Mulroney) is recently released from prison,...

Judging from the slick production values, the leading name actor, the eye-catching poster art, and the stock horror trailer, one might glean the false impression that The Rambler, Calvin Reeder’s sophomore film, might be a more commercial affair than his micro-budget 16mm debut, The Oregonian. But make no mistake, though The Rambler finds Reeder painting with a larger canvas, the film is just as bold, hallucinatory and unrepentantly experimental as any of his previous work. Based off the 2008 short of the same name, The Rambler follows a taciturn guitar-slinger (Dermot Mulroney, taking the role on from Reeder who played …...

Call it weird, experimental, avant-garde, or artsy-fartsy stream-of-consciousness film school strangeness, but there's certainly something to be said for a dark indie thriller that eschews a traditional narrative in favor of something a bit more personal, abstract, and bizarre. Films like Calvin Reeder's The Rambler, for example, may shine at a film festival, but it's a rather tough sell to viewers who are looking for more traditional form of "scary stories" -- but that's not to say there's no room for the cinematic oddities.

What's indecipherable to you may be strangely straightforward to another, and therein lies the beauty of art. In other words, if you're looking for a "normal" thriller about an ex-con who hitchhikes his way across the country and stumbles across all sorts of violent and unkind people, The Rambler might throw you for a loop, or even piss you off. If, on the other hand,...

Among the movies joining those already slated (see item here) for the fest, which runs Wednesday-Sunday, March 27-31 at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Ma, is the tongue-in-cheek big-bug epic Big Ass Spider (pictured above), fresh from its world premiere at this month’s SXSW. Accompanying this closing-night screening will be director Mike Mendez (of The Convent and The Gravedancers, who discussed Spider here), and producer Travis Stevens, also repped at Buff by E.L. Katz’s Cheap Thrills.

Also added to the Buff lineup are Chad Crawford Kinkle’s rural shocker Jug Face (see story here), with Kinkle and producer Andrew van den Houten on hand for this East Coast premiere; Guilty Of Romance, an eerie thriller from Suicide Club, Exte: Hair Extensions and Cold Fish director Sion Sono; The Rambler, an exercise in comic brutality from The Oregonian director and V/H/S co-star Calvin Reeder, also making its...

Among the movies joining those already slated (see item here) for the fest, which runs Wednesday-Sunday, March 27-31 at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Ma, is the tongue-in-cheek big-bug epic Big Ass Spider (pictured above), fresh from its world premiere at this month’s SXSW. Accompanying this closing-night screening will be director Mike Mendez (of The Convent and The Gravedancers, who discussed Spider here), and producer Travis Stevens, also repped at Buff by E.L. Katz’s Cheap Thrills.

Also added to the Buff lineup are Chad Crawford Kinkle’s rural shocker Jug Face (see story here), with Kinkle and producer Andrew van den Houten on hand for this East Coast premiere; Guilty Of Romance, an eerie thriller from Suicide Club, Exte: Hair Extensions and Cold Fish director Sion Sono; The Rambler, an exercise in comic brutality from The Oregonian director and V/H/S co-star Calvin Reeder, also making its...

Among the movies joining those already slated (see item here) for the fest, which runs Wednesday-Sunday, March 27-31 at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Ma, is the tongue-in-cheek big-bug epic Big Ass Spider (pictured above), fresh from its world premiere at this month’s SXSW. Accompanying this closing-night screening will be director Mike Mendez (of The Convent and The Gravedancers, who discussed Spider here), and producer Travis Stevens, also repped at Buff by E.L. Katz’s Cheap Thrills.

Also added to the Buff lineup are Chad Crawford Kinkle’s rural shocker Jug Face (see story here), with Kinkle and producer Andrew van den Houten on hand for this East Coast premiere; Guilty Of Romance, an eerie thriller from Suicide Club, Exte: Hair Extensions and Cold Fish director Sion Sono; The Rambler, an exercise in comic brutality from The Oregonian director and V/H/S co-star Calvin Reeder, also making its...

Among the movies joining those already slated (see item here) for the fest, which runs Wednesday-Sunday, March 27-31 at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Ma, is the tongue-in-cheek big-bug epic Big Ass Spider (pictured above), fresh from its world premiere at this month’s SXSW. Accompanying this closing-night screening will be director Mike Mendez (of The Convent and The Gravedancers, who discussed Spider here), and producer Travis Stevens, also repped at Buff by E.L. Katz’s Cheap Thrills.

Also added to the Buff lineup are Chad Crawford Kinkle’s rural shocker Jug Face (see story here), with Kinkle and producer Andrew van den Houten on hand for this East Coast premiere; Guilty Of Romance, an eerie thriller from Suicide Club, Exte: Hair Extensions and Cold Fish director Sion Sono; The Rambler, an exercise in comic brutality from The Oregonian director and V/H/S co-star Calvin Reeder, also making its...

The Rambler

Writer/Director: Calvin Lee Reeder

Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Lindsay Pulsipher, Natasha Lyonne, James Cady

Official Synopsis: Upon release from prison, a solitary man known only as “the Rambler” embarks on a mysterious journey en route to reconnecting with his long-lost brother. Traversing treacherous back roads, lost highways, and isolated small towns, he unearths a multitude of bizarre and wickedly depraved slices of Americana.

Performances

Dermot Mulroney anchors the film as the wandering lead character, and he fits perfectly in Reeder's strange cinematic world. Though he's been acting in films since the late 80s, he's rarely played a lead part; that pressure doesn't seem to be an issue for him here, since his performance is one of the film's highlights. Lindsay Pulsipher plays a hypnotic love interest who may or may not actually exist, and she's worked with Reeder enough times to be comfortable acting in his unique vision.

Over the past half-decade, Calvin Reeder has carved out a filmmaking niche all his own. His debut feature, The Oregonian (which premiered at Sundance two years ago), as well as his much-praised early short films, are a strange mix of psychological horror, high-minded surrealism, camp, and a soundtrack and filmic texture that hint at both nostalgia and discomfort. His second feature, The Rambler, is an adaptation of his 2008 short film of the same name, and follows a man (Dermot Mulroney) recently released from jail who embarks on a journey to reconnect with his long-lost brother. It premieres today in …...

The official one-sheet for writer/director Calvin Lee Reeder’s The Rambler is here in honor of the film's midnight premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, which is taking place January 17-27 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. Dig it!

The film premieres at Sundance on Monday, January 21st, and the eye candy comes courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, who recently caught up with star Dermot Mulroney. “It’s a very phantasmagoric impressionistic film," he told the site. "It’s shot beautifully, and this really great young hot-shot director put together images and thoughts and really spiritual and some might say psychic elements that turn into this really psychedelic mind-blowing Western style film. There’s no real sign posts in the story. He’s a rambler; he runs into some freaky people; and effed-up shit happens. I mean, I’m answering these questions in an oblique way...

Born in Portland and raised in Seattle, Calvin Reeder worked in construction out of high school while also shooting 16mm films during that same period. Since then, he's gone on to become a renown short film director, known for mixing underground horror shock with an existential atmosphere in acclaimed shorts like "Piledriver," "Littlefarm" and his 2008 Sundance entry "The Rambler," on which his latest feature of the same name is based. It marks his second feature, following his debut "The Oregonian," which divided audiences in Park City in 2011. Read More: Sundance Review | A Wacky Roadtrip in Calvin Lee Reeder's "The Oregonian" What It's About: "A man gets out of jail and finds his home on the road. Strange encounters, love interest, major vomit scene blah blah blah." Now What It's Really About: "Embracing the unknown. For me, it's a lot about trying new things, blending humor...

Film lovers and outside-the-box horror fans have had their eye on filmmaker Calvin Reeder since his visually stunning, terrifying and absolutely mind-bending short films that made the rounds at Sundance and in midnight-movie sections of festivals around the world. Garnering comparisons to David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Luis Buñuel, Reeder is often categorized among directors who are themselves ride the edge of familiar genres. The Oregonian,  Reeder's Sundance-selected first feature film (starring True Blood's Lindsay Pulsipher), looked and felt like it might be a horror movie, but was something else entirely. The film won an aptly titled special award for "Independent Vision" at the 2011 Sarasota Film Festival.

Until this month, Reeder's films had yet to screen here in Austin. On January 11, The Oregonian will have its Austin premiere at the Austin Film Society as part of this month's spotlight on the indie distribution label Factory 25. (Tickets and info here.

Among the Midnight movies at next year’s fest, which runs January 17-27 in Park City, Ut, are S-vhs, the anthology follow-up to V/H/S featuring short terror tales by Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Edúardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale, Timo Tjahjanto, Gareth Huw Evans and Jason Eisener; We Are What We Are (pictured above), the remake of the Mexican cannibal-family drama by the Mulberry Street/Stake Land team of Jim Mickle and Nick Damici; In Fear, about a couple’s nightmare road trip, from director Jeremy Lovering; Hell Baby, Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon’s exorcism comedy; and The Rambler, a rural mystery/horror by The Oregonian’s Calvin Reeder. The Spotlight section will showcase Sightseers, Ben Wheatley’s much-awaited follow-up to Kill List about a vacation gone very bad. For more information about the fest, see its official website.

Among the Midnight movies at next year’s fest, which runs January 17-27 in Park City, Ut, are S-vhs, the anthology follow-up to V/H/S featuring short terror tales by Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Edúardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale, Timo Tjahjanto, Gareth Huw Evans and Jason Eisener; We Are What We Are (pictured above), the remake of the Mexican cannibal-family drama by the Mulberry Street/Stake Land team of Jim Mickle and Nick Damici; In Fear, about a couple’s nightmare road trip, from director Jeremy Lovering; Hell Baby, Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon’s exorcism comedy; and The Rambler, a rural mystery/horror by The Oregonian’s Calvin Reeder. The Spotlight section will showcase Sightseers, Ben Wheatley’s much-awaited follow-up to Kill List about a vacation gone very bad. For more information about the fest, see its official website.

Among the Midnight movies at next year’s fest, which runs January 17-27 in Park City, Ut, are S-vhs, the anthology follow-up to V/H/S featuring short terror tales by Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Edúardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale, Timo Tjahjanto, Gareth Huw Evans and Jason Eisener; We Are What We Are (pictured above), the remake of the Mexican cannibal-family drama by the Mulberry Street/Stake Land team of Jim Mickle and Nick Damici; In Fear, about a couple’s nightmare road trip, from director Jeremy Lovering; Hell Baby, Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon’s exorcism comedy; and The Rambler, a rural mystery/horror by The Oregonian’s Calvin Reeder. The Spotlight section will showcase Sightseers, Ben Wheatley’s much-awaited follow-up to Kill List about a vacation gone very bad. For more information about the fest, see its official website.

All signs are pointing to another Park City showing for Calvin Reeder’s latest, as the hard to classify filmmaker is a regular at the fest having premiered his debut feature film, The Oregonian (Sundance ’11 – here’s our interview with him) and before that, short films Little Farm (Sundance ’07), and The Rambler (Sundance ’08) which is actually the basis for his sophomore project. We haven’t heard anything new on The Rambler since principal photography was announced/began back in Roswell, New Mexico in April, which means that the project which stars Dermot Mulroney (official still above), Lindsay Pulsipher (who reprises the role she had in the short) and Natasha Lyonne has had loads of time to be readied in post-production.

Gist: After being released from prison, a man known as The Rambler (Mulroney) stumbles upon a strange mystery as he attempts a dangerous journey through treacherous back roads and small...

V/H/S has been highly praised and lots of talk of the film being a hit but something was missing until today, a trailer. Check out the trailer for V/H/S below and let us know what you think. V/H/S screened at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival to positive reception, and given the talent affixed to this project, that really comes as no surprise. Directorial credits are lengthy, and boast the likes of Adam Wingard (You're Next), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Radio Silence, David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic), and Ti West (The House of the Devil). Calvin Reeder (The Oregonian), Lane Hughes (A Horrible Way to Die), Adam Wingard, Hannah Fierman (The Vampire Diaries), Mike Donlan, Joe Sykes and Jas Sams star.

Written with Lindsay Pulsipher in mind (the thesp stars as a beautiful farm girl who wakes up from a car accident, only to find herself wandering through a strange, confusing, nightmarish vision of the Northwest she barely recognizes) there’s a lot to say about the this unconventional film. Not plot driven and following more of an emotional arc, the 2011 Sundance Film Festival selected The Oregonian might be inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker.

Currently lensing his sophomore feature The Rambler, which is based on his short, Calvin Reeder’s feature directorial debut will be receiving its theatrical premiere with a week-long run, at the reRun Gastropub Theater starting on Friday, June 8th (Factory 25). We got to sit down with Pulsipher and discuss her career path and how she embarked on this character’s journey while Reeder detailed inspiration, style and the process. Interview was conducted by Sean Glass in...

Since being named one of Filmmaker magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2007, Portland-bred writer-director Calvin Lee Reeder has amassed a small body of impressively uncategorizable work—mostly no-budget shorts like Little Farm, The Rambler, and Snake Mountain Colada—that reveal a taste for the bizarre and beguiling, as well as the shockingly perverse. Prior to making films in earnest, Reeder played guitar with the Lars Finberg–led paranoid post-punk group Popular Shapes (a/k/a The Intelligence) and collaborated with Brady Hall on Jerkbeast, a feature comedy based on a demented, sophomoric public-access program they developed for fun. (Think Morton Downey Jr. meets Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.) That anarchic spirit certainly carried over into the short-form work, as did Reeder’s knack for creating eerie swatches of music and sound design to outfit his surreal stories, but the films became more ambitious, more cinematic, while remaining resolutely strange.

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Starting next week, on May 4th through May, 20th, Porto Alegre will be the Latin American Capital of Genre Cinema as Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival 2012 unleashes.

Fantaspoa – International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre, the biggest genre film festival of Latin America will be back for its 8th edition, with 17 days of pure cinephilia, exhibiting 150 films – including 87 features from 32 countries: 5 having their world première, 12 in national première and 43 in their Latin America première. The festival will also bring more than 35 guests, including the duo that will be getting a Career Achievement Award: David Schmoeller and Stuart Gordon. Schmoeller, in the occasion, will also have the première of his first feature in 14 years: “Little Monsters”.

The festival will open and close with two world premières: “Nervo Craniano Zero”, directed by Paulo Biscaia Filho will open the festival and “Cell Count”, directed by Todd E. Freeman will close it.

The very first look at Xyz Films and production partner Brooklyn Reptyle Films' The Rambler, from writer/director Calvin Lee Reeder (The Oregonian), has made its way online; and as per usual we have a peek at it here for ya! Dig it!

Dermot Mulroney (New Girl, The Grey) and Lindsay Pulsipher (“True Blood”, The Oregonian) star.

Synopsis

After being released from prison, a man known as The Rambler (Mulroney) stumbles upon a strange mystery as he attempts a dangerous journey through treacherous back roads and small towns en route to reconnecting with his long lost brother.

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Do you like David Lynch? Me too. I’m pretty sure that Calvin Lee Reeder, Director of The Oregonian, the film that caused quite a stir at Sundance in 2011, is a big fan. As previously stated, I also enjoy a David Lynch picture although I am partial to his earlier, more accessible work if you want to call movies like Eraserhead and Blue Velvet accessible. I also do not have a problem with folks trying to push the boundaries of story telling, sensory perception and complex visual concepts, but what we have here is a failure to communicate.

Basic story line: The Oregonian (Lindsay Pulsipher) leaves her horse farm, gets into a car accident and then spends the remainder of the picture trying to find help for some injured people in said accident. She tries to figure out how she came to be on the farm, why she left and...

The Berlinale's announced today that its 62nd edition will open on February 9 with the world premiere of Benoît Jacquot's Les Adieux à la reine (Farewell, My Queen). "All the debauchery, betrayal, power and tragedy of Marie Antoinette's court in its last days witnessed by one of her readers," promises distributor Elle Driver, where you'll find a full synopsis and a few words from Jacquot. His film, set in Versailles at the dawn of the French Revolution, features Diane Kruger as the Queen and Léa Seydoux as one of her ladies-in-waiting and is based on Chantal Thomas's award-winning novel. France Télévisions has a two-minute report from the set.

In other news. Ioncinema has begun counting down its "Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012," starting with #100: Léos Carax's Holly Motors.

BAFTA will award its annual Fellowship to Martin Scorsese on February 12.

"Film actress Salma Hayek has been awarded one of...

After watching the trailer for The Oregonian I can't get those bizarre sounds out of my head. The strange sounds almost put you in a trance like state, or maybe more of a psychedelic journey. The trailer is full of odd imagery and appears to be one of those artsy horror films. That's not surprising since the director Calvin Reeder played in art-punk bands the Popular Shapes and the Intelligence. Last year The Oregonian premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and if you missed it like most of us you will be able to catch the horror movie on VOD starting January 17, 2012. The Oregonian is written and directed by Calvin Reeder and stars Lindsay Pulsipher, Robert Longstreet, Tipper Newton, Barlow Jacobs and Matt Olsen.

One freaky looking flick that caught our attention at last year's Sundance Film Festival was The Oregonian. Missed it? Still confused by the film's stills? No worries as the flick is on its way to VOD!

That's right, weirdos. The Oregonian will be arriving on various VOD platforms including iTunes (link below) on January 17th.

If you're at all familiar with the short films of filmmaker Calvin Reeder (Little Farm, The Rambler, Snake Mountain Colada), then you already know that when it comes to being disturbing, few out there do it better.

Lindsay Pulsipher, Robert Longstreet, Tipper Newton, Barlow Jacobs, and Matt Olsen star.

Synopsis

Leaving behind a desultory and possibly abusive existence, a beautiful farm girl, known only as The Oregonian (Lindsay Pulsipher), rushes headlong into an unknown future. Her getaway is cut short when she rams her car into an embankment. Shocked and confused, The Oregonian walks away...

Calvin Reeder’s trippy art-horror film The Oregonian lands in New York today for one screening at Brooklyn’s Nitehawk Cinema.

When we selected Reeder for our 25 New Faces series, Mike Plante wrote:

“I’m not really sure” how he arrived at his alt-horror style, Reeder says. “Just sorta roll the dice. I do love Sleepaway Camp. I just like to make movies all bent up, I guess.” Originally from Portland, Ore., and living in Seattle up until this year, Reeder played extensively with the great art-punk bands the Popular Shapes and the Intelligence. But he got notoriety, for better or worse, with the twisted public access show and later-feature film Jerkbeast, co-made with Brady Hall.

Perhaps stemming from his musical background, the sound designs in his films are complex in their layering of thick aural moods. They give the movies the feeling of old folk songs telling brutal tales.

THR reports that True Blood‘s Lindsay Pulsipher will replace Hilary Duff in the role of legendary outlaw Bonnie Parker in The Story of Bonnie and Clyde.

Cypress Moon Studios producer Tonya S. Holly – who will be writing and directing the picture – had these comments:

“We are thrilled to welcome Lindsay Pulsipher as Bonnie Parker in The Story of Bonnie and Clyde. Lindsay will undoubtedly bring many layers to this critical role,” says producer Tonya S. Holly of Cypress Moon Productions in a statement. “This is a gripping story about two of the most legendary fugitives in history.”

And they would like to stress that it has absolutely nothing to do with Duff’s recent announcement that she and hockey player husband Mike Comrie are expecting their first child. Scheduling conflicts have gotten in the way.

This may be yet one more completely unnecessary remake of a pretty much perfect film,...

As one of roughly a dozen full time staffers at Ifp, I’ve been working the past six months to help launch the 33rd annual Independent Film Week. It’s our first year at Lincoln Center’s new Elinor Bunin Film Center, and more than a thousand indie filmmakers and industry professionals are in town for the festivities.

In commemoration, I’ve dug up my long neglected digital camera, and I’ll be sharing photo highlights from Ifw all week long. Here are some snapshots from Day 1:

The team behind the upcoming Detroit Unleaded (editor Nathanial Sherfield, director Rola Nashef, producers Marwan Nashef and Leon Toomey) explore the Lincoln Center area.

During the Filmmaker Conference, producers Ted Hope (Martha Marcy May Marlene) and Mynette Louie (Children of Invention) debate whether filmmaking is a career or a hobby. Hope argues that it’s nearly impossible to pursue a career in...

Premiering at the "Midnight Madness" portion of the Toronto International Film Festival premieres (full list) is you're Next, a fresh spin on the home invasion subgenre that reteams A Horrible Way to Die director Adam Wingard with writer Simon Barrett (Dead Birds, Red Sands). Having already revealed some images from the slasher that brings '80s scream queen Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, From Beyond, Castle Freak, Puppet Master and even Chopping Mall) out of retirement, we've scored a fresh still featuring one of the masked assailants. Sharni Vinson (Bait), Nick Tucci (Undocumented, Choose), Wendy Glenn (11-11-11), Aj Bowen (House of the Devil, Hatchet II, The Signal), Joe Swanberg, Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz, Ti West (director of The Innkeepers, House of the Devil, The Roost), Calvin Reeder (director of The Oregonian), Larry Fessenden (Glass Eye Pix producer, director of The Last Winter, Habit), Kate Lyn Sheil (Silver Bullets), and Rob Moran also star.

The Ifp announced today the slate for this year’s Project Forum, which will take place during the 33rd edition of Independent Film Week on Sept. 18-22 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center.

The centerpiece of Independent Film Week, Project Forum is designed specifically as a place for industry to meet with new talent, as well as discover fresh projects from emerging and veteran filmmakers.

Read the complete press release and full list of titles in this year’s Project Forum.

All 150 projects showcased in the Project Forum this year are narrative and documentary features ranging from films in development, or the early stages of production, to those nearing completion.

Some of the notable directors in this year’s Project Forum include: Bruce La Bruce (Otto: Or, Up With Dead People), Alrick Brown (Kinyrwanda), Adam Bowers (New Low), David Lowery (St. Nick), David Robert Mitchell...

Out of all of the Toronto International Film Festival premieres, the one I'm most excited for is you're Next, a fresh spin on the home invasion subgenre that reteams A Horrible Way to Die director Adam Wingard with writer Simon Barrett (Dead Birds, Red Sands). Having its world premiere at the "Midnight Madness" portion of Tiff, we scored some remarkable first official hi-res stills, while we also discovered that one of the "teaser" images (lo-res screengrab, sorry guys) features '80s scream queen Barbara Crampton!! Sharni Vinson (Bait), Nick Tucci (Undocumented, Choose), Wendy Glenn (11-11-11), Aj Bowen (House of the Devil, Hatchet II, The Signal), Joe Swanberg, Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz, Ti West (director of The Innkeepers, House of the Devil, The Roost), Calvin Reeder (director of The Oregonian), Larry Fessenden (Glass Eye Pix producer, director of The Last Winter, Habit), Kate Lyn Sheil (Silver Bullets), and Rob Moran also star.

Once in (very rare) while, you see a short film and wish it were, you know, longer. Such is the case with the titillating short, "The Rambler," which first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in 2008.

Now, thanks to the vision of director Calvin Reeder, your wish is about to come true—and better yet, it's going to star Ali Larter.

Reeder, who just premiered his first feature film, "The Oregonian," at the most recent Sundance circuit, is prepping to shoot a feature version of "The Rambler" in early fall. Production starts this October in New Mexico, and a bevy of stars are lining up to bring this story to the silver screen.

Dermot Mulroney (of "Zodiac" and "The Grey" fame), Lindsay Pulsipher ("True Blood"), and, as previously mentioned, "Final Destination"'s Ali Larter, are in talks to star, Bloody Disgusting reveals.

The flick follows a stranger who takes...

It's always cool to see a good short film get fully realized into a great feature film, and we're really hoping that's the case for The Oregonian director Calvin Reeder as he's prepping for such an event to take place.

Our favorite sickos over at Bloody Disgusting are reporting that Dermot Mulroney (Zodiac, The Grey), Ali Larter (pictured right; Final Destination, Resident Evil) and Lindsay Pulsipher ("True Blood," The Oregonian) are in talks to star in the feature length version of The Rambler. Pulsipher returns as "The Girl," Mulroney plays the title character, and Larter will play "Cheryl".

In the original short a stranger takes to the lonely highway with his guitar and traveling sack. He comes across a few strange people including a scientist with a machine that can record dreams.

Shooting is set to begin this October in New Mexico. Dig on the original flick below.

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Short films director Calvin Reeder - hot off the Sundance premiere of his feature film debut The Oregonian - is gearing up for his sophomore effort, a feature version of his incredible short The Rambler. The short version (which you can watch beyond the break) also premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Shooting this October in New Mexico, Bloody Disgusting exclusively learned that Dermot Mulroney (Zodiac, The Grey), Ali Larter (Final Destination, Resident Evil) and Lindsay Pulsipher ("True Blood," The Oregonian) are in talks to star. Pulsipher returns as "The Girl," Mulroney plays the title character and Larter will play "Cheryl". In the original a stranger takes to the lonely highway with his guitar and traveling sack. He comes across a few strange people including a scientist with a machine that can record dreams.

Rating: 2.5/5

Writer/Director: Calvin Lee Reeder

Cast: Lindsay Pulsipher, Robert Longstreet, Matt Olsen, Lynne Compton

You can’t really walk into your local multiplex and have a truly unique cinematic art experience. Even in the art houses they shy away from the fully surreal. They aren’t really to blame, the market is very niche and they are, after all, there to make at least some money. This is why at film festivals it’s good to see the strange and small films that may never get distribution except for a DVD on the filmmaker’s website. Going into Diff, veteran Cliff Lee Reeder’s first feature length film The Oregonian I knew very little. Coming out, I didn’t know a hell of a lot more but it was quite a visceral experience.

Read more on Diff 2011 Review: The Oregonian...

Some Major casting news coming in for the recently announced home invasion film You're Next! from the team of writer Simon Barrett (Red Sands, Dead Birds) and director Adam Wingard (Pop Skull), which features a highly revered Eighties scream queen making her return to the genre!

According to Bloody Disgusting Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, From Beyond, Castle Freak, Puppet Master, Chopping Mall) will be appearing in You're Next! opposite Sharni Vinson (Bait), Nick Tucci (Undocumented, Choose), Wendy Glenn (11 11 11), Aj Bowen (House of the Devil, Hatchet II, The Signal), Joe Swanberg, Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz, Ti West (director of The Innkeepers, House of the Devil, The Roost), Calvin Reeder (director of The Oregonian), Larry Fessenden (Glass Eye Pix producer, director of The Last Winter, Habit), Kate Lyn Sheil (Silver Bullets), and Rob Moran.

How badass is that? Principal photography commences today in Missouri for Snoot Entertainment. Look for more on this one soon!

The Dallas Film Society Announces

Twelve Titles for the Dallas International Film Festival in Official Selections

Four World Premieres & One U.S Premiere

Lineup marks return to Dallas Intl Film Fest by indie filmmakers Calvin Reeder and Dave Boyle

Cadillac takes the wheel as presenting sponsor for 2011

The Dallas International Film Festival announced today the first twelve films that will screen at this year.s fifth festival (March 31 . April 10) including four world premieres and one U.S. premiere. The festival announced three films set for its Texas Competition, two films in its Family Friendly section and the first film selected for a brand new India Spotlight series. Films entered into the narrative feature and narrative documentary competition will once again have the chance to win an unrestricted cash prize of $25,000 per category courtesy of Target.

The twelve official selections include:

Blood Of Eagles (Darah garuda . Merah putih II)(Indonesia) . Us Premiere

Director: Yadi Sugandi,...

The Dallas International Film Festival announced today the first 12 films that will screen at this year’s fifth edition, which runs March 31-April 10. Included are four world premieres and one U.S. premiere.

Festival passes are currently available; tickets go on sale March 14. Passes and tickets will be made available via online at www.dallasfilm.org and by phone at 214-720-0555.

The 12 official selections announced Thursday follow, with descriptions provided by the festival.

“Blood Of Eagles” (“Darah garuda – Merah putih II”) (Indonesia) – U.S. Premiere

Director: Yadi Sugandi, Conor Allyn

The action film “Blood of Eagles” follows the exploits of an elite army unit recruited to halt the construction of an enemy’s key airfield. The cast includes Doni Alamsyah, Ario Bayu and Atiqah Hasiholan.

“Cooper & The Castle Hills Gang” (USA) – World Premiere

Director: Sam Ditore

“Cooper & The Castle Hills Gang” is an action-packed, family-friendly story that takes lead...

The Dallas International Film Festival announced today the first 12 films that will screen at this year’s fifth edition, which runs March 31-April 10. Included are four world premieres and one U.S. premiere.

Festival passes are currently available; tickets go on sale March 14. Passes and tickets will be made available via online at www.dallasfilm.org and by phone at 214-720-0555.

The 12 official selections announced Thursday follow, with descriptions provided by the festival.

“Blood Of Eagles” (“Darah garuda – Merah putih II”) (Indonesia) – U.S. Premiere

Director: Yadi Sugandi, Conor Allyn

The action film “Blood of Eagles” follows the exploits of an elite army unit recruited to halt the construction of an enemy’s key airfield. The cast includes Doni Alamsyah, Ario Bayu and Atiqah Hasiholan.

“Cooper & The Castle Hills Gang” (USA) – World Premiere

Director: Sam Ditore

“Cooper & The Castle Hills Gang” is an action-packed, family-friendly story that takes lead...

On the one hand, Calvin Lee Reeder‘s The Rambler is probably best viewed really not knowing much about it beforehand. It starts out as a genial, if a bit strange, hitchhiking movie starring Reeder as the title character who gets picked up by a mad scientist (Philip D. Clarke) transporting a pair of mummies. Ok, that’s fine. But, it’s when the two travelers return to the scientist’s home when things go to hell. Suffice it to say, this film is Nsfw — but not for the traditional reasons — not appropriate for children and not to be viewed during mealtime. You have been warned.

Well, even with the warning, what Reeder pulls off is so completely unexpected there’s really no preparation for it anyway. What appears to be an off-kilter homage to cheesy ’70s B-movies descends into Lloyd Kaufman-esque over-the-top territory. Although, it can’t be...

Perhaps it is because the Oscar nominations were announced today, but it seemed that Sundance was fairly quiet today.... Horror For the Win! (Well, kinda) The first round of awards were handed out today at Sundance, in the shorts categories. "The Legend of Beaver Dam," about campfire ghost stories that release a malevolent monster, picked up an honorable mention. Get Off The Oregonian Trail The Oregonian premiered to almost no reaction at all. The flick from director Calvin Lee Reeder (in his feature debut) stars Lindsay Pulsipher (True Blood) and premiered at the fest during the Park City at Midnight series. Other than a couple of "hated it" tweets, I have not heard anything...