Screening with Shorts Block 1 at 6pm Thu., Oct 10, Regal Cinemas Old Mill 2; Shorts Block 3 at 5:30pm Fri., Oct 11, McMenamins Running Blind – Trailer from Suckatash Productions on Vimeo. Running BlindE.J. Scott, a regular-looking guy in his mid-30s, lives in a world of increasing darkness. In 2003 he was diagnosed with […]
BendFilm Festival
BendFilm is an independent Oregon film festival in the truest sense–rugged, brilliant, daring, adventurous, fun and engaging.
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BendFilm: Grape
Vineyards are good looking, so naturally they make fabulous settings for movies. Sideways, A Good Year and Parent Trap are just a few of the many films set in vineyards. Add the short film Grape to the list. Writer and director Daniel Stine uses the scenery to create a haunting, sometimes verging on creepy, but […]
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BendFilm: Twenty Million People
The modern romantic comedy is a joke. The genre fosters the fantasy of charming men who stalk ex-lovers through airports (creepy), come to the church to break up your wedding (annoying), and Peter Gabriel fans who are willing to stand stoically in the rain with boom boxes all in the name of undying love (also […]
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BendFilm: Finding Hillywood
SHOWING Friday, October 11; 12:30 @ Oxford; Saturday, October 12 @ 10:30 am @ Regal 2 FINDING HILLYWOOD (2013) documentary trailer from Inflatable Film on Vimeo. In April 1994, the central African nation of Rwanda was ripped apart in ethnic violence. Over one month, more than one million Rwandans were murdered; many hacked to death […]
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BendFilm Kick Off Party!
The BendFilm 10th anniversary kick off party starts at 6pm tonight at Deschutes Brewery (upstairs, 1044 NW Bond St.). The event features live music, IPA tasting, and a chance to check out the new BendFilm lineup for this year. Tickets are $25 at the door.
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Best Movie of the year! (So far)
Can we talk about Matthew McConaughey for a bit? Okay, we can talk about him all day long if you want.We are in the middle of watching an extraordinary career arc. For a while, the once-promising career seemed to be sagging into mundane, easy-to-digest but forgettable films (How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, […]
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BendFilm Makes Top 50 List
MovieMaker.com just named BendFilm in the top 50 best bang for your buck film festivals in the world. The decade old festival takes place every fall in downtown Bend. Last year, flicks were shown at the Tower, McMenamins, 2nd St. Theater, Tin Pan and in the Old Mill. It may not be SXSW or Sundance, […]
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SCREENING TONIGHT: It’s a Disaster
David Cross is hilarious. You may remember him from such awesome shows as Arrested Development, where he played Tobias Fünke. Cross is back in It’s a Disaster, a comedy about four couples who, while enjoying a casual Sunday brunch, are faced with an unsavory possibility: The world may be coming to an end just outside […]
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BendFilm Announces Documentary Film Series
BendFilm is bringing hit documentaries to local theaters this winter and spring.
While the BendFilm festival remains a painful nine months in the future, BendFilm is giving Bend a much-needed shot of indie cinema in venues throughout the area this winter and spring.
The series kicks off on January 26 with a screening of the documentary, Becoming Chaz, a film that documents Chaz Bono’s journey through his transgender reassignment.
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BendFilm: A Roundup of Saturday’s Films and the Winners!
Short reviews of several movies that screened on Saturday at BendFilm, as well as a list of the winners.
I wrapped up my 2011 BendFilm Festival experience yesterday with another three films, which were all really great. The festival continues today with screenings in Sisters, as well as the winners showing in Bend down at the Old Mill. Here’s a round up of the films I saw yesterday, as well as a list of the winners. Now get out there and see some truly amazing independent films while you can!
Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & TechnologyI loved this documentary! Though the title may lead you to believe it’s tech-heavy, it’s not and that’s definitely a good thing in this case. I am pretty sure I only saw one or two iPhones in the whole thing. Rather than concentrate on modern technology, filmmaker Tiffany Shlain takes us back through history in her stream of consciousness to delve into the interconnectedness of humankind, nature and progress. Shlain finds the correlation between progress in global society’s connection to developments like the alphabet and the computer and relates them to left vs. right brain thinking. If you the chance, check out this doc. And contrary to what you might think, you won’t leave the theater feeling scorned for all the tweeting and texting you do.