Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret Cowspiracy is a documentary focused on the animal agriculture industry and the staggering figure that it occupies up to 45 percent of all land globally and uses one third of all fresh water. The film also looks into the idea that enough food is grown in 2014 to feed 12 billion […]
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Monty Python Live (Mostly): One Down, Five to Go Aside from the gone too soon Graham Chapman, most of the crew from Monty Python are still alive and kicking. Join Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin and Terry Jones as they come together in what they’re calling their very last live reunion. Tickets […]
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Film Events 7/10-7/17
Grateful Dead: Meet Up at the Movies Hey man, you should really come down to this far out event that’s one night only at that big movie theater, man. It’s a love-filled meet-up at the theater for Jerry’s Kids where we will then screen the Dead’s show that they played at the Beat Club in […]
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Film Events 7/2-7/10
The Accidental Death of a CyclistOthelloDouble feature
Pantani In conjunction with Le Tour de France and the Cascade Cycling Classic, Sisters Movie House and the Sisters Athletic Club are screening this documentary about cycling legend Marco Pantani. Pantani won the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia and only six years later was dead in a cheap Italian hotel room. This intense […]
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Film Events 6/26-7/3
Film Events Met Opera: La Rondine Part of an increasingly popular live opera on the big screen series, La Rondine is as plucky today as when released nearly a century ago. Wed, June 25, 7 pm. Old Mill Stadium. The Art of Wilderness The Friends of the Central Cascades Wilderness is celebrating the protection and […]
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Brain Man No Die
Morgan P. Salvo’s WTF masterpiece rough cut
When asked about the content of Brainman No Die, Morgan P. Salvo (aka, Wayne Newcome) tells me: “It’s a horror/slasher/comedy paying homage to the Grade-B driven horror flicks and all the Grade-Z exploitation films of the ’60s and ’70s. It’s basically a twist on the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story with the romance of […]
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Film Events 6/5-6/12
Documentary Film, DamNation Spaghetti Western Wednesdays What the Bleep Do We Know!? Transgendered Children
Dam removal is one of those topics, like gun control, where a middle ground doesn’t seem to thrive. The new documentary DamNation definitely falls in on the dam removal side, but the film mostly seems aimed at people like me: the laymen who see pros and cons on both sides, but are too wishy-washy to […]
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Film Events 5/28-6/5
See More Seymour: Mission Impossible III Phillip Seymour Hoffman played plenty of borderline characters, hanging on to the outer limits of decency, but when he battles against Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible III, he is delectably evil, no apologies. Wednesday, June 4, 7 pm. Old Stone, 157 NW Franklin. Free! Alan Howarth: benefit concert This […]
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Film Events 5/21-5/29
Animal activists, dog lovers and community members alike are invited to this illuminating documentary film about what happens after a dog attack, how people in rural areas deal with unwanted animals and what happens at overcrowded shelters. The film is being presented by The Bend Spay & Neuter Project and is originally an HBO documentary. […]
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Typing is Hard
Every day someone tells me, “Wm.™ Steven Hump-Me? You got it EEEEEEEASY. All you do is sit around on your spectacular honey-baked ham and watch TV! I call that: EEEEEEEASY.” Well, it’s not so EEEEEEEASY! I thought this TV criticizing gig would be the EEEEEEEASiest job in the world—until I discovered there’s a considerable amount […]
