Even as a pretty new arrival I can understand why Portland has so many film festivals. Especially in the winter. There are almost too many to keep track of.

So you gots to be choosy. And this week I’m choosing the one-of-a-kind Reel Music Film Festival. What makes it worth it is it’s all music all the time. Every film, mostly documentaries, focuses on some music artist or style or whatever.

This year, the 25th annual, runs until Feb. 4 and includes all kinds of movies from one about American jugband music, to another about some Algerian style of music call nouba, to one I really want to see called Let’s Get Lost about Chet Baker.

Shows run at the Whitsell Auditorium, the theater I just found at the Portland Art Museum. So get out of the rain for awhile why don’t you?

Later,
Keith