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"The late 1960s and ‘70s saw a glorious boom of American regional filmmaking, and it was Franco-American Penny Allen who captured the particular eccentricities of the Pacific northwest, then a last redoubt for the routed counterculture.The late 1960s and ‘70s saw a glorious boom of American regional filmmaking, and it was Franco-American Penny Allen who captured the particular eccentricities of the Pacific northwest, then a last redoubt for the routed counterculture. Allen helped put Oregon on the map, long before Todd Haynes, Kelly Reichardt, and Gus Van Sant—who recorded sound on her breakthrough gentrification drama Property. In the years since she has continued to work in her own idiosyncratic, stubbornly independent manner, the influence of her films’ humanity and integrity enormous in Portland and beyond—and certain to grow after this vital retrospective."-Metrograph