Beetlejuice (1988) Fresh-faced Winona Ryder and perpetually middleaged Michael Keaton create one of the most original and unexpected Halloween treats. A tale of conjuring, humor and good-natured frights, Beetlejuice is a peculiar but fun entry from the greatest hits of the 80s. One installation of the Deschutes Public Library’s Frightful Films series at Tin Pan […]
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Film Events 10/2-10/9
Gone With the Wind Just in case interested parties have an extra four hours to kill, Gone With the Wind will play for only two showings. The mega-film tells the story of Scarlett O’Hara and her pursuit of a dude married to his cousin and her eventual marriage to rough-and-tumble Rhett Butler. Set during the […]
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Film Events 9/25-10/2
Untrammeled & The Meaning of Wild Deschutes National Forest and the nonprofit organization Discover Your Forest presents a double feature of films celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Untrammeled features the Scapegoat and Bob Marshall wilderness areas and focuses on a group of Montana high school students who have never experienced wilderness before. […]
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Film Events 9/11-9/18
Janapar: Love on a Bike Presented by Pine Mountain Sports and the Central Oregon Trail Alliance, Janapar follows 23-year-old Tom Allen and his attempt to cycle and camp his way around the world. Janapar is the Armenian word for journey and Allen initially started his with two friends who quit after only a few weeks, […]
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Film Events 9/4-9/11
Sleepless in Seattle It is Tom Hanks week in Central Oregon (as well it should be). Sleepless in Seattle tells the story of a manipulative child that tricks an emotionally distant father into finding the woman of his (cold, drizzle and distant) dreams. Although still mourning his deceased wife, Hank’s precocious half-orphaned child decides to […]
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Film Events 8/28-9/4
Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary, Frozen, and The Amazing Spider-Man
Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary Not that there needs to be a good reason to see Ghostbusters on the big screen, but the 30th anniversary seems like as good a reason as any. Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Dan Ayckroyd, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, Sigourney Weaver and William Atherton as that jackass Walter Peck work their […]
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Film Events 8/21-8/28
Munch and Movies: Gravity The popular end-of-summer series, Munch and Movies, starts this week at Northwest Crossing with the Sandra Bullock/George Clooney space thriller Gravity. While Neil deGrasse Tyson says most of the science is inaccurate and somewhat laughable, some people do not need accurate science-ing in their movies to still find them enjoyable. In […]
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Film Events 8/13-8/21
GMO OMG, Rifftrax:Godzilla (1998), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, The Way Bobby Sees It
GMO OMG This alarming (and somewhat alarmist) documentary focuses on the loss of seed diversity and how lab assisted genetic alteration of food can affect freedom of choice around the world. The most interesting aspect of the film is not the parade of information about GMOs and some of the effects they could have on […]
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The Princess Bride Some might say that is hyperbolic to call Rob Reiner’s incredible tale of Westley and Buttercup one of the greatest films of all time. To them, I say NAY! This movie has it all: A heroic and mysterious man in black, a beautiful farm girl, a six-fingered man, a fire swamp, swordfights, […]
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Film Events 7/31-8/7
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods When last we checked in with our Dragon’s Ballz, there were people yelling and flexing and making with the punching. This is the eighteenth animated feature film based on the Dragon Ball series and the first one in 17 years to receive a (extremely limited) theatrical release. Battle […]
