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  • The Town That Kept Everything

    The Town That Kept Everything

    There’s a version of small-town history where the past gets cleared away to make room for whatever comes next. The Victorian houses come down for ranch-style sprawl. The…

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    June 17, 2026

    4 min read

  • The Women in the Room Where It Happened

    The Women in the Room Where It Happened

    There’s a version of the New Hollywood story you’ve probably heard. Scorsese, Coppola, Spielberg, Lucas, Altman… the movie brats and mavericks who blew up the old studio system…

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    May 30, 2026

    4 min read

  • The New Blueprint: Why Hollywood’s Risk Aversion is the Indie Filmmaker’s Secret Weapon

    The New Blueprint: Why Hollywood’s Risk Aversion is the Indie Filmmaker’s Secret Weapon

    Take a walk down the Astoria Riverwalk on a moody afternoon, and it’s easy to feel the ghosts of cinema past. We live in a town that practically…

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    May 21, 2026

    4 min read

  • The Grammar Nobody Taught You

    The Grammar Nobody Taught You

    Did you know that you speak a secret second language? You absorbed it in darkened living rooms and multiplexes and —if you’re lucky enough— maybe even drive-in back…

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    May 16, 2026

    4 min read

  • FILM 1 is Open for Registration

    FILM 1 is Open for Registration

    We’ve been building toward this one for a while. And now, finally, here it is: FILM 1: Introduction to Cinema — the first course in the APS Film School —…

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    May 11, 2026

    4 min read

  • Nobody Trusts Anybody: What The Thing Knows About Us That We’d Rather It Didn’t

    Nobody Trusts Anybody: What The Thing Knows About Us That We’d Rather It Didn’t

    There is a line in John Carpenter’s The Thing that has no business being as relevant as it is in 2025. MacReady, alone, recording into a tape deck like a…

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    May 9, 2026

    4 min read

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Astoria Picture Show

A film festival. A community film school. Special events and screenings. Future funding and support program for local filmmakers. All of it rooted in Astoria, Oregon, and stubbornly committed to cinema that chooses life over despair.


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