There is something inescapably Portlandia about Showing Up. To be fair, it does take place in (unnamed) Portland at the (unnamed) Oregon College of Art and Craft (a real institution that has sadl…
Director Kelly Reichardt is touted in the movie trailer for Certain Women as "cinema's foremost poet of the American Northwest", which, to this Northwest girl, is kind of an awesome title to earn. I'v…