During the Vietnam war, Laos became the most bombed country in history. Two million tons of bombs were dropped between 1964 and 1973, including 260 million cluster munitions. An estimated 30 percent of that ordinance never detonated, and to this day Laotians are still maimed and killed by the bombs every year. Director Kim Mordaunt […]
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Fear and Zombies in Las Vegas
Former Source film reviewer Jared Rasic, has written a screen play. It’s about zombies. He and a crew of local actors including co-writer Nick Saraceno, Prairie Carrie, Cletas Emrich, Todd Hanson, Amber Dawn Hanson, A.J. Cowan and Tori Miller will be performing said script at Tin Pan Theater tonight at 8 pm. Here’s what Rasic […]
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Welcome Back Fellini
The Great Beauty brings back traditional Italian cinema
The Great Beauty takes a while to take on a structure—and, with true Fellini dreaminess, rarely holds onto a cohesive storyline. The film opens with a seemingly unrelated scene—a lyrical and sun-dappled scene as Japanese tourists explore one of Rome’s hillside chapels, before one man drops dead from a heart attack—and then jumps to a […]
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Top Five Movies of the Year
Narrative and docs!
Top Five Movies (Narrative) By Tin Pan Theater 1. Short Term 12 We laughed, cried and rejoiced with the characters in this film. It was the only movie of the year where the closing credits made us feel like we were saying goodbye to family. 2. Before Midnight The most realistic film about long term […]
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Liar, Liar, Spandex on Fire!
The Armstrong Lie is stunning (and not just for cycling fans)
“I didn’t live a lot of lies, but I did live one big one.” That’s how the new documentary from director Alex Gibney opens, with a half-confession from disgraced cycling superstar Lance Armstrong. It is a perfect first line and sets the tone for the rest of the stunning film, which chronicles Armstrong’s miraculous cancer-be-damned […]
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Tough Love
Short Term 12: Damaged Kids Helped by Damaged Heroes
Besides being a good band name, Chekhov’s Gun is the principle protecting cumulative narrative coherence: A gun introduced in the first act must go off by the end of the third. In the first act of Short Term 12, the studiously humane drama written and directed by Destin Cretton, we’re instantly introduced to a number […]
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My Grandma Liked the Beatles!
Good Ol’ Freda tells yet another story about the fab four
Perhaps some of the most iconic images of rock music aren’t even about the music, but about the fans—grainy black and white footage from the early years of the '60s; teenage girls shrieking for the Beatles as if possessed. And, in a time before Facebook “likes,” when managing a fan club meant much more than […]
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Freedom on Two Wheels
Breakthrough film Wadjda gives voice to Saudi women
There’s something uniquely liberating about riding a bicycle, a fact that is not lost on Wadjda, despite the fact that she has never ridden one. But that doesn’t stop the free-spirited Saudi 10-year-old and namesake of the 2012 feature film Wadjda from devising schemes to raise money for the forbidden item. Whether by selling handmade […]
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Firing Range
Guns, monsters, and Blue Caprice
“I’ve created a monster,” says John (Isaiah Washington), looking appreciatively at Lee (Tequan Richmond). John (old, calculating, furious) and Lee (young, quiet, and a terrifyingly good shot) are sitting in their 1990 Chevrolet Caprice; navy blue, it has a hole sawed out of its trunk that's just large enough to fit the barrel of a […]
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Best Movie Selection
Tin Pan Theater
Every good city needs an art house movie theater. As of 2012 Bend has had its very own, thanks to Tin Pan Theater. Tucked away in what also happens to be our favorite alley, Tin Pan Alley, in an area some are trying to label the Minnesota District, is the little 28-seat theater, right next […]