Don’t trust me. I’m biased. I work a lot of shifts at Tin Pan Theater, and help program the movies we show. But heck, with that said, here are my top five favorite moments this year at Tin Pan Theater. 5. Spaghetti Western Wednesdays: There’s no substitute for watching people eat spaghetti while laughing. Sometimes […]
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European Vacation
Force Majeure: Not-so-fun for the whole family!
Life is pain, even in the gorgeous French Alps. What starts as a perfect family vacation—one spent skiing pristine mountains, chatting in restaurants, laughing with friends—goes hideously awry in Force Majeure, Ruben Östlund’s darkly hilarious and/or darkly horrifying tale of a marriage on the rocks. Or maybe that should be “on the slopes”? I don’t […]
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PICK: Beetlejuice!
wednesday 15 Beetlejuice FILM—Flashback to 1988, baby Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton—the ghost with the most—are sure to put hilariously pinstriped fright in your October night. One installation of the Deschutes Public Library’s Frightful Films series at Tin Pan Theater. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice…we dare you. 6 pm. Tin Pan Theater, 869 NW Tin Pan Alley. Free.
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Encounters at the End of the World
Director Aaron Katz on Iceland, weirdness, and Land Ho!
Colin (Paul Eenhoorn) doesn’t really have a say in the matter. When he arrives at the Kentucky home of Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson), his former brother-in-law and a recently retired doctor, the reserved Colin expects to have dinner, catch up, and maybe talk about how he’s doing after the death of his wife, or how […]
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ScaleHouse Sessions: Stephanie Gervais
International wearable art maker and performer, Stephanie Gervais will be speaking at Tin Pan Theater tonight, Monday Aug., 18. Presenting an interactive conversation exploring identity and transformation. Artist Stephanie Gervais combines sculpture & the body in performance & photography in order to explore adornment, disguise and identity transformation. Most recently based in Brazil, Stephanie will […]
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Crazy Train
Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer Is Crazy, But That’s How It Goes
A train hurtles over the dead Earth, speeding across deep-frozen plains and carving a path around oceans of ice. The desiccated skeletons of cities blur by, as do old automobiles and abandoned ships; every once in a great while, the train shoots by a pile of huddled corpses, half-buried in the snow. The vague lumps […]
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A River Kind Of Runs Through It
DamNation plants some dynamite
Dam removal is one of those topics, like gun control, where a middle ground doesn’t seem to thrive. It seems like the arguments bounce between, “Dams equal jobs and if you get rid of a single one you’re a communist” and, “All dams must go, because Mother Nature shouldn’t be boxed in, man. Plus, I […]
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A Homecoming
Hank and Asha started its journey at Bend Film Festival, and now returns!
A charming and easy-going, yet deeply emotionally resonant story, it was no surprise that Hank and Asha won an Audience Choice Award at the most recent Bend Film Festival. It was the second stop for the film, after a debut at Slamdance, the slightly more populist film festival to its sibling, more snotty and critic-driven […]
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Twee Noodling
Michel Gondry vs. Noam Chomsky
Michel Gondry is concerned about how documentary filmmakers use selective editing to manipulate audiences’ perceptions of reality. (Of course he is. He’s Michel Gondry. He’s like the French-iest guy ever.) And so Gondry decided to present his new film about renowned linguist Noam Chomsky as an animation, so the audience will never forget they’re watching […]
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Love in the City of Lights
Le Week-End is a commitment worth making
After the first 15 minutes of Le Week-End, I couldn’t stand the film’s two lead characters, Nick and Meg Burrows. He was drowsy and a bit oafish, while she was sour and prickly to the point of being unlikeable. Luckily, a few moments later I realized I was not supposed to like them since they […]
