Trashed: No Place for Waste Trashed is a documentary looking at risks to humanity’s food chain through pollution of air, sea and land by the amount of garbage we produce daily. It is a very thought-provoking documentary that examines ways to fix the problem instead of creating alarmist doom and gloom scenarios through fear mongering […]
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Film Events 12/17-12/25
Spaghetti Western Wednesdays Every single Wednesday at Tin Pan Theater (except for Christmas Eve!) there is all-you-can-eat spaghetti, garlic bread and salad partnered with a damned ridiculous western from the late-’60s to the late ’70s. Every week the film is a surprise, so when the lights go down and William Shatner comes up playing twin […]
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Film Events 12/10-12/18
The Metropolitan Opera: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg While Regal has been playing the Met’s operas for several years now, they have never assaulted the senses so thoroughly with an opera so unyeildingly long. Die Meistersinger is listed on Fandango as six hours long, even though most versions of the show run around four and a […]
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Film Events 12/3-12/11
Final Pose It isn’t clear whether they will provide chairs or if attendees will be “required” (ya’namaste) to sit in a pose or their yoga mat, but this is a special screening of “A Final Pose,” a short documentary on the end of life journey of Sisters yogi Myra Fisher, which screened at Bend Film […]
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Film Events 11/26-12/4
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation The Griswold clan returns with another attempt to make solid family memories. This time instead of going to Wally World or Europe, all they want to do is stay at home and have a successful Christmas with each other. What they fail to realize is Christmas will more than likely be […]
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Film Events 11/19-11/27
Tracing the Tea and Horse Trail A short film about a (local) long distance runner, Kami Semick. The film tells the story of Semick’s journey over the Tea and Horse Trail in China and Eastern Tibet. After working with the historian to map the trail and to hike the most difficult sections, she pulled together […]
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Welcome to Winter: The Local Preview
Powerhound becomes a pre-snow tradition
Born from a simple local slideshow production in 2000, when the biggest technical worries were lightbulbs burning out and seating running out, Powderhound Preview has evolved into a true pre-season ski event launching local talent, both in film and photography. Created by Pine Mountain Sports, the event has grown from its roots at the ski […]
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Film Events 11/13-11/20
Warren Miller’s No Turning Back The 65th installment of the classic “ski porn,” this year travels to big mountains in Alaska and snowboards in Japan, and also has a sweet chapter that showcases some of the old European ski legends. 6 & 8:30 pm. Thurs.-Sat. Nov. 13-15. Old Stone Church. $17. Tracing the Tea and […]
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Film Events 10/29-11/6
Bubba Ho-Tep Two rest home residents who believe themselves to be Elvis Presley and former president John F. Kennedy, face down an ancient Egyptian mummy who is feeding on their elderly compatriots. Midnight cult classics don’t get much weirder than Bubba Ho-Tep, the 2002 film staring the square-jawed hero of Evil Dead, Bruce Campbell. Fri., […]
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Film Events 1022-10/30
Beyond The Amityville Horror —Why Supernatural Horror Still Haunts Us Portland State University Film professor Drew Beard delves into the philosophy, history and draw of the horror genre discussing why we continue to obsess over things that terrify us and how horror films can stand in for real world fears. 2 pm. Sat., Oct. 25, […]
