After four years as the festival director for Bend’s annual film festival, Orit Schwartz announced publicly today that she will not be returning for he 2014 festival. Here is the statement the Source received via email this afternoon: hello everyone, for those who aren’t hooked on facebook as i am,, sorry for the mass email. […]
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BendFilm: Bending Steel
SHOWS Friday, October 11 @ 3 pm, McMenamins; Saturday, October 12 @ 1 pm, Regal 2 Although there is plenty of flexing and grunting, Bending Steel is a surprisingly soft and intimate story about a 43-year old New York man who decides to become a sideshow strongman at Coney Island. Certainly there are scenes when […]
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BendFilm Ticket Giveaway!
BendFilm begins its 10th festival today, and we’ve got tickets for you! All you have to do is follow some very simple instructions. First, check out the BendFilm schedule here. Then, comment on this blog with the name and showing of the film you want to see. If you submit one of the first ten […]
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BendFilm Festival is Back!
Recommended films, from A to Z
Fortunately, finding a quality movie at Bend Film is a lot easier than a needle in a haystack. A lot easier. Even so, with seven screens simultaneously showing movies, we wouldn’t want you to miss out on one of our favorites. What follows are some of our staff’s choices, ranging from “highly recommended,” which means […]
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BendFilm: The Cold Lands
The Cold Lands is well worth your time. Screening at 5:30pm Fri, Oct 11 at The Tower Theatre; 5:30pm Sat, Oct 12 at Tin Pan Theater When Atticus’ mother, a Subaru-driving, back-to-the-land hippie, unexpectedly dies the pensive youngster, who has been raised to be wary of authority, takes to the woods that surround his upstate […]
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BendFilm: McConkey
Screening 8:30pm Thu. Oct. 10 at The Tower Theatre; 5:30pm Fri. Oct. 11 at Regal Cinemas Old Mill 1 Extreme skiing pioneer Shane McConkey, who died skiing in 2009, must have been one of the most filmed athletes of all time. Since boyhood, McConkey, an affable daredevil, was obsessed with taking calculated risks—most of which […]
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BendFilm: Herd in Iceland
Screening with Finding Hillywood at 12:30pm Fri., Oct. 11 at The Oxford Hotel; 10:30am Sat, Oct 12 at Regal Cinemas Old Mill HERD IN ICELAND – Official Trailer from Herd In Iceland on Vimeo. Although Herd in Iceland creates little tension or drama, it’s a beautiful portrait of Iceland’s barren, windswept countryside and its storied […]
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BendFilm: Running Blind
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 […]
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BendFilm: When Ali Came To Ireland
SHOWING Friday, October 11 @ 12:30, Tower; Saturday, October 12 @ 8:30 pm, Regal 2 According to Sports Illustrated, there wasn’t any 20th century figure on whom more ink was expended than Muhammad Ali, the repeat heavyweight champion boxer and one of the most important civil rights heroes of the ‘60s. In more recent years, […]
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Filmmakers With Impeccable Timing
Documentary about Egyptian metal musicians tells another story
Western heavy metal stormed the Middle East in the late ’80s and early ’90s, gaining popularity with the same crowds it appealed to in the United States and Europe, a subculture of young, perverse devotees. The Egyptian government responded to the genre’s popularity by carrying out a string of infamous mass arrests in 1997, temporarily […]