BendFilm has plenty going on this month! Check out the films now showing.
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Need a last-minute Christmas gift for the cinephile in your life? Look no further than a yearly BendFilm membership! Memberships start at $60 and include perks like free tickets to Tin Pan screenings, discounts on Festival Passes and more! Check out membership passes below.
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Recently Opened
The Novice (A Festival Encore!)
A queer college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost. The director’s debut picture is inspired by her own experience rowing competitively in college and stars Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Amy Forsyth (Beautiful Boy) and Dilone (Halston). It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it won multiple awards including Best US Narrative, Best Actress and Best Cinematography.
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Continuing This Week
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Life, as Vonnegut observed it, is full of blarney and pain, but oh, how he relished the ride! Slaughterhouse-Five, the book that made him famous, was a war story about a man who’d become “unstuck in time,” and that ability to leap through life liberated him and the novel. In this documentary 33 years in the making, director and friend of Kurt Vonnegut, Robert B. Weide, traipses through his archives to create the first film featuring the revolutionary late writer.
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The Rescue (A Festival Encore!)
The Rescue chronicles the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach, trapped deep inside a flooded cave. Academy Award-winning directors and producers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin reveal the perilous world of cave diving, the bravery of the rescuers and the dedication of an entire community that made great sacrifices to save these young boys. An outing to explore a nearby system of caves after soccer practice transformed into a two-week saga of survival and a story that would capture the world’s attention. With exclusive access and never-before-seen footage from the rescue, the film tells the story of the imagination, determination and unprecedented teamwork displayed during this heroic edge-of-your-seat mission with life-or-death stakes.
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One Night Only
Batman Returns
It’s Christmas in Gotham City! While Batman deals with a deformed man calling himself the Penguin, an employee of a corrupt businessman transforms into the Catwoman.
Wednesday, December 22 at 7:30pm
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Janus Film Series:
A Hard Day’s Night
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, A Hard Day’s Night is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul’s troublemaking grandfather and Ringo’s arrest.
Thursday, December 23 at 7:30pm
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