A Survey of Open Space This full-blown adventure documentary focuses on a pair of city folk who begin a search for a truly wild place in America from the seat of a bike. Their journey begins on the Mexican border and spans the entire continent until they reach their conclusion in the Arctic. The film […]
Jared Rasic
Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.
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Maziar Bahari Film To Light A Candle Highlights Iranian Abuses of Bahรก’รญs
Newsweek’s Iranian correspondent Maziar Bahari’s newest documentary, To Light A Candle, will be screened on Saturday at St. Helen’s Hall in Bend. Bahari has been in the media most recently due to The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart’s film Rosewater, a retelling of Bahari’s 118 days of detention and torture in Iran. His new film focuses […]
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Random Acts of Netflix: Invasion of the Bee Girls
Hey folks! Jared here. Every Thursday I’m going to go on Netflixroulette.com, and then watch whatever the damn thing tells me to. In case you haven’t heard of Netflix Roulette, it’s basically a silly website that allows you to spin a virtual wheel which then chooses a film or TV show at random out of […]
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Film Events 3/11-3/18
20 Feet From Stardom The documentary 20 Feet From Stardom does not teach its audience any lessons we don’t know. What it does is smarter than that: Instead of spending the majority of the running time talking about how cruel and evil the music business is, the film truly succeeds by shining a light on […]
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Speak to Me
The Language Archive catalogues love languages
Julia Cho’s The Language Archive is a play of ideas. While the characters are all well drawn, it is the ideas and themes that Cho really seems interested in exploring and, throughout the play, the audience is led between them gracefully. George (Stuart Hicks) is an academic who works for an archive dedicated to the […]
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Random Acts of Netflix: Meteor
Hey folks! Jared here. Every Thursday I’m going to go on Netflixroulette.com, spin the wheel and then watch whatever the damn thing tells me to. In case you haven’t heard of Netflix Roulette, it’s basically a silly website that allows you to spin a virtual wheel which then chooses a film or TV show at […]
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Film Events 3/5-3/11
The Meaning of Wild, Only the Essential, Four Wives, and Bolshoi Ballet: Romeo and Juliet
A “Wild” Night in Bend BendFilm will host the screening of two documentaries focused on celebrating the stunning beauty of the Pacific Crest Trail and the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Opening the double bill is The Meaning of Wild, a trip through the Tongass National Forest of Southeast Alaska that follows a wildlife […]
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Film Events 2/25-3/4
Rousey vs. Zingano Ronda Rousey is the first ever women’s Bantamweight Champion, while Cat Zingano is the first woman to win a UFC fight by TKO. When these two fierce warriors are placed in the octagon will we get a tooth shattering explosion of blood and sinew, or will it be an anticlimax like most […]
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Film Events 2/18-2/25
ArchaeologyFest Film Series: Best of 2014 This festival is a collection of the best films from the 2014 edition of the Archeology Channel International Film and Video Festival. The series is a benefit for the entire festival, which takes place in the spring in downtown Eugene. Some of the films include: Davis Bottom: Rare History, […]
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Be Their Guest
Beauty and the Beast opens at Summit Auditorium
Thoroughly Modern Productions is not screwing around. Each successive production I have seen from David DaCosta and company has increased in scale and scope ten-fold. Last year’s The Wizard of Oz featured so many moving parts, from dancing monkey children to melting witches, it seemed like DaCosta had reached a ceiling on what could be […]