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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Girls Gone Wild
Farah Goes Bang flips the script on the male-dominated road trip genre
Few things are as American as the road trip. Trekking across the country inside a rickety old vehicle with only a vague itinerary serving as guide is a time-honored right of passage, and an expression of freedom. Traditionally, however, such exploratory trips have been an expression of male freedom—somehow women were left at home when […]
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Still the Greatest
Another Muhammad Ali documentary, and still not enough!
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, that fascination with Ali seems to have turned to another medium—and one which truly showcases […]
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A True Underdog Story
Bending Steel tells the straight story
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 the strongmen straighten out horseshoes and, veins bulging, smash nails into pieces of wood (without the use […]
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Why Romantic Comedies are Bad for You
Twenty Million People is realistic romance, sort of
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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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 Fรผnke. 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 […]