@brianlibby.bsky.social
Architecture & arts journalist, author of In Search of Portland: Exploring a Transforming City • photographer and experimental filmmaker • fond of film noir, college football, cats, British panel shows, tennis, jazz, espresso, Columbo, democracy
@brianlibby.bsky.socialHa! That’s funny.
@brianlibby.bsky.socialWhen I did a test viewing of the films in a mostly empty theater before the screening, it was so moving hearing her purr and meow in a movie theater.
@brianlibby.bsky.socialMy 2020 film “Transition (For a Tabby),” which closed out my film night at PAM CUT three nights ago — a montage of Hawthorne Bridge crossings that also became a tribute to my beloved cat Ruthie, who passed away at age 17 while I was making the film: vimeo.com/442797675
@brianlibby.bsky.socialInteresting…graffiti? Not sure what to call the paint applied to an otherwise blank pharmacy wall I passed by yesterday.
@brianlibby.bsky.socialThanks for the recommendation!
@brianlibby.bsky.socialFinally addressed what was perhaps my most glaring omission among classic crime movies. boxd.it/gIsWsH
@brianlibby.bsky.socialHaving fun creating next Wednesday's book talk at Design Portland.
@brianlibby.bsky.socialThat's great to hear! Thanks so much for coming!
@brianlibby.bsky.socialWhat an amazing night at my @portlandartmuseum.bsky.social PAM CUT show, talking about my book and curating a night of shorts and archival footage for a full house of people. So grateful!
@brianlibby.bsky.socialThis must be partly why the film’s 1997 rerelease in the US felt like it had appeared out of thin air. Like some of Powell & Pressburger’s masterworks, Le Samourai had literally never before screened here in its intended form. Just crazy. Hollywood was almost a kind of paranoid authoritarian state.
@brianlibby.bsky.socialFrom what I can tell, our cats seem to look alike.
@brianlibby.bsky.socialNow playing, a Miles Davis album that Id like to see become better known.
@brianlibby.bsky.socialJoin me this Thursday! At the @portlandartmuseum.bsky.social's PAM CUT Tomorrow Theater, I will be hosting an evening of short films and selections from the Oregon Historical Society archives, including a 1970s student film featuring Matt Groening, an ode to Portland's Lovejoy Columns, and more.
@brianlibby.bsky.socialI have not seen either of his previous films, but definitely would like to. I’m impressed.
@brianlibby.bsky.socialI really enjoyed the movie Rose of Nevada last night: the saturated 16mm film stock and unsynchronized sound, the inexplicable time-travel narrative, the Cornwall setting. And I love that director Mark Jenkin shot, wrote, edited and did the sound design. I’ll be contemplating this movie for a while.
@brianlibby.bsky.socialWhat?!
@drlauravarnam.bsky.socialReposted by @brianlibby.bsky.socialAbsolutely delighted that my copy of @brianlibby.bsky.social’s book has arrived! Looking forward to learning all about Portland, Oregon!
@brianlibby.bsky.socialOh wow, thank you SO much!!! How lovely!
@brianlibby.bsky.socialFrom the Spiral Elevator to the Delta Dome, my latest @orartswatch.org architecture column contemplates what might have been over the past 120 years, collected in the captivating "Unseen Portland Architecture" exhibit at Design Portland. www.orartswatch.org/unseen-portl...
@brianlibby.bsky.socialPortland friends, come see me this Friday afternoon! From 12-4pm, I will be at the Weedman Design Partners gallery (1905 NW 23rd Place), signing books and generally hanging out. My exhibit of photos remains on view there through October.
