BendFilm Festival With one of the finest programs in its history, BendFilm is coming out swinging, not content to be just the premiere festival of Central Oregon, but of the entire Northwest. Some highlights this year include Breaking A Monster (a doc that will have the entire theater cheering), Astraea (a science fiction film that […]
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Riding On Mustangs with Boys
Unbranded documents an incredible journey
Unbranded is a documentary with a lot on its mind. On the surface level, it is an adventure about a group of young cowboys who train some mustangs and then ride them from the Mexican to the Canadian border. While their journey is an intense and fascinating one, the film also wants to shed light […]
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Life of Crime
Black Mass almost makes it
Black Mass tells the true-life story of James “Whitey” Bulger as he transforms from a small-time crook to the crime kingpin of South Boston. It also tells the story of one of Bulger’s friends growing up, John Connolly, and his return to South Boston as a mid-level FBI agent. Their relationship makes up the bulk […]
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Film Events 8/12-8/19
The Hunting Film Tour A collection of short documentaries and travelogues, with beautiful vistas of Alaska (hunting caribou) and sweeping panoramas of eastern Montana (antelope). Probably no Zimbabwean lions, though. (Too soon?) 6 pm. Wednesday, August 12. Volcanic, 70 SW Century Dr. $10 adv., $12 door. Clean Spirit A response to the doping culture that […]
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Film Events 6/18-6/24
Double feature: Comes with Baggage & The Black Canyon Trail Comes With Baggage is a lighthearted, 20-minute roll-through bike-touring history, with styles that range from PBS Ken Burns to MTV Dog Town & Z-Boys’ lost footage of badasses. Followed by a second more specific short film about a high octane group of men bike touring […]
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Not Where, But How You Get There
For Thousands of Miles documents a bike journey
It’s become popular to focus on the “journey” rather than the “destination.” And yet, most journeys do reach a conclusion. Less discussed is what happens when you arrive. For Thousands of Miles (FTOM) explores the emotional impact of an arduous and solitary cross-country bike ride, and one man’s struggle to reckon with the after-journey. Inspired […]
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Out of Town 5/13-5/20
mcminnville thursday 14 – saturday 16 McMenamins UFO Festival It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No really, this nuclear physicist says it’s a UFO! This festival commemorates the infamous Trent sighting of a UFO in 1950, one of the most credible UFO sightings to date. Speakers include witness and abductee Travis Walton, researcher and author […]
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Unholy Matrimony
Maybe don’t ever get married if you
live in Israel
You know what seems horrible? Getting divorced! You know what seems extra horrible? Getting divorced in Israel! In Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, Viviane, an Israeli woman, unhappily married since she was a teenager, finally decides to put her terrible marriage out of its misery. Good move, Viviane! Only, thanks to arcane religious laws, […]
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Film Events 5/13-5/20
Queens of the Roleo A documentary about 11-time world log rolling champions out of Lewiston, Idaho. All female, all badass, all really good at balancing on floating logs that are spinning in water. Funded by a Kickstarter and produced by local journalist and former TV executive Dave Jones, this film picks up an otherwise footnote […]
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Things Fall Apart
Wild Tales for the social skeptic
Let’s just say I’m no stranger to the record scratch—that moment in human interaction when politeness fails, collective agreements about normalcy retire, and situations take on a new and horrible independence. It’s shocking and dangerous to be caught in such a scene, but it’s also tinged with a surreal, anarchic hilarity. Such events are commonly […]
