Portland’s late-summer screenings feel especially thoughtful, turbulent, and aliiiive! This month, we’ve got fresh restorations and poetic takes on youth, class, and artistic longing on the docket. A coming-of-age sparkler by Japanese director Shinji Sōmai gets its due, and two vérité documentaries paint radically human portraits of small-town America. Plus, Ethan Hawke has a well-deserved spiritual crisis. Let’s get into it.

For fans of Isao Takahata’s Only Yesterday (1991), Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters (2018), Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A Summer at Grandpa's (1984).

Portland State University’s student-run 5th Avenue Cinema offers up a solid slate of programming this month, from French New Wave director Jacque Rivette’s surreal curiosity Le Pont du Nord on August 15–17 to Lingui, The Sacred B

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