From Twin Peaks to Twilight , from Practical Magic to Portlandia! , Filmlandia! highlights more than 200 film and television entertainments created and centered in Seattle, Portland, and the greater Pacific Northwest, extensively researched and curated by culture writer David Schmader. The PNW has a thriving, rich film culture, and it's finally celebrated in a guide as visually arresting and compelling as the films and television themselves! More than 200 entries are included and feature: • Hilarious, insightful synopses • Behind-the-scene facts and trivia • Regional scenic highlights In addition, sidebars pepper the pages, covering: • Regional filmmakers like Gus Van Sant and Lynn Shelton • Television shows that shaped the public's perception of the region (such as Twin Peaks, Shrill, and Portlandia! ) • Documentaries, queer cinema, silent films, Vancouver-shot imposters, and more. Colorful artwork, inspired by the primary VHS color palette of the 80s, turns this handy guide into a visual treat as well. This is a book for any cinephile, but for those who love and live in the PNW, Filmlandia! is an absolute must-have. “ Filmlandia is a quick, joyful read that’s as much a love letter to local film and television icons such as Lynn Shelton, Megan Griffiths, and Irene from the Real World as it is to the Pacific Northwest’s (mostly) sparkling scenery. And oh, boy, is this corner of the country filled with weird little treasures.” —The Stranger “David Schmader’s film writing has always been dryly funny and incisive, but it has rarely been this affectionate. This very comprehensive collection of PNW-centric film and TV capsules is for locals or tourists, hardcore cinephiles or casual viewers. Full disclosure: David once called me a " Showgirls truther.” —Matt Lynch, Scarecrow Video, cohost of The Suspense Is Killing Us podcast and YouTube’s Viva Physical Media DAVID SCHMADER is a writer and performer devoted to exploring his obsessions, from homophobic rock stars and pray-away-the-gay Christians to trash cinema and legalized drugs. His solo plays— Letter to Axl , Straight , and A Short-Term Solution to a Long-Term Problem —have been performed across the US. From 1998–2015, Schmader worked as a staff writer and editor for Seattle’s Pulitzer-winning newsweekly The Stranger , where he wrote the issue-opening column “Last Days: The Week in Review” for 18 years. In his spare time, he is the world’s foremost authority on the glorious terribleness of the movie Showgirls , hosting annotated screenings of Paul Verhoeven’s notorious stripper drama at cinemas all over North America and providing the commentary track for the Showgirls DVD. His first book Weed: The User’s Guide was first published by Sasquatch Books in 2016. Introduction   For filmmakers, the Pacific Northwest presents a double whammy of ravishing cinematic locales, offering both hyper-modern cityscapes amid vast natural splendor. Here moviemakers find a reliable setting for all sorts of cloudy human experiences, with the perpetual sog, low skies, and sporadic blasts of light forming a pressure cooker for drama, from love-starved vampires and obsessive con artists to poetic junkies and the nation’s most vengeful divorcees.   But alongside the mossy noirs have bloomed some of the most romantic love stories that still manage to feel like real life, and the whole region has served to cultivate and inspire such world-class cinematic talents as Gus Van Sant, Kelly Reichardt, and Lynn Shelton. Beyond this are the non-cinema visual entertainments—the Frasiers, Portlandias, and Grey’s Anatomies, all drawing on the unique cultural character of the Pacific Northwest.   During initial planning of this book, I assumed I’d be dealing with 80-90 films. But as I worked through those, more and more titles started to trickle in, and in the end I watched over 200. Still, this book is not exhaustive, just alphabetical, with the book’s entries split between Washington (where the primary visual motif is a glistening cityscape before a snow-capped mountain; bonus points for Space Needles) and Oregon (where the primary visual motifs are trees and bridges, bridges, bridges).   Helping me know what I’m talking about is a bunch of other people’s work, from Robert Horton’s 2013 MOHAI exhibit Celluloid Seattle: A City at the Movies and Michael Upchurch and John Hartl’s archived film writing in the Seattle Times to filmmakers’ DVD commentaries and the plethora of daily news reports celebrating local movie filmings with a “Hollywood’s coming to town!” featurette. Final thanks to Seattle’s Scarecrow Video, whose vast archives made it possible for me to see even the weirdest title I might have heard of; they can do the same for you.   Sample Entries: It Happened at the World’s Fair (1963, dir. Norman Taurog) Fresh out of the military and focusing on his film career, Elvis Presley made 27 movies during the 1960s, nearly all