August 5th–13th
The KahBang Film Festival is a 9-Day event featuring over 50 films and showcasing work by a variety of up and coming filmmakers who represent the future of independent cinema. KahBang exhibits feature films, documentaries, shorts and more.
2011 Film Guide (a - z)
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Bob and the Monster (Opening Night Film)
Presented by Camden International Film Festival
Bangor Opera House
Friday, August 5th
9:30PM
Competition: Music Docs
Requires VIP Pass or Invitation
*A small amount of tix will be on sale at the Venue Box Office
Six years in the making, Bob and The Monster follows outspoken indie-rock hero Bob Forrest (frontman for Thelonious Monster), through his life-threatening struggle with addiction, to his transformation into one of the most influential and controversial drug counselors in the US today. [Read More]
Boy Wonder
Bangor Opera House
Saturday, August 6th
7:00PM
Competition: Gen-Next
In this riveting and gritty psychological-thriller, a young boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother during a Brooklyn car-jacking … leaving him to be raised by his alcoholic father (Bill Sage). Now a 17-year-old loner, Sean Donovan (Caleb Steinmeyer) is relentlessly haunted by his past and obsessed with finding his mother’s killer. [Read More]
The Deposition
Bangor Opera House
Sunday, August 7th
5:30PM
Competition: Gen-Next
Former lovers ADAM and JILL reunite at a wedding reception in their rural Appalachian town. Although the two share a chemistry that persists despite their breakup, Jill is with another man, WAYNE. Adam and Jill slip away together for a tryst. [Read More]
Dying to do Letterman (Closing Night Film)
Presented by Champion The Cure Challenge
Bangor Opera House
Tuesday, August 9th
7:00PM
Competition: LMFAO
Dying to do Letterman is a hilarious, heart-felt, award-winning feature-length documentary that proves one thing: dreams matter.
When 35 year old stand-up comedian Steve Mazan learned he had cancer, and might only have five years to live, he dedicated his life living his dream: performing comedy on The Late Show with David Letterman. [Read More]
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
Bangor Opera House
Sunday, August 7th
7:30PM
Competition: Music Docs
From the shifting faultlines of Hollywood fantasies and the economic and racial tensions of Reagan's America, Fishbone rose to become one of the most original bands of the last 25 years. [Read More]
Groundhog Day
Brick Chrch
Sunday, August 7th
9:00PM
Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell
Category: Murray vs Murray
In "Groundhog Day," playing a formerly smug weatherman who finds himself condemned to relive one Feb. 2 over and over again in Punxsutawney, Pa., Bill Murray explains his feelings to two bleary-eyed, beer-drinking locals. "What would you do if you were stuck in one place and everything was exactly the same and nothing that you did mattered?" he asks despairingly. The two strangers listen very sympathetically. They didn't have to be trapped by a magic spell to know what he means. [Read More]
Live at Preservation Hall: Louisiana Fairytale
Brick Church
Sunday, August 7th
3:00PM
Competition: Music Docs
Louisiana Fairytale documents the collaboration between New Orleans's legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band and American rock band My Morning Jacket, culiminating in an intimate live performance in the historic Preservation Hall.
For fifty years the Preservation Hall Jazz Band has played to keep the traditions of New Orleans jazz alive, both at home and on tour around the world. Along the way, they have brought in collaborators of all musical stripes to play, honor, and reinterpret America's first true art form.
Over The Top (1987)
Brick Church
Saturday, August 6th
4:00PM
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia
Category: So Bad It's Good
Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a greasy truck driver who arm wrestles on the side to earn extra cash while attempting to put his life back together. [Read More]
Quick Change
Bangor Opera House
Monday, August 8th
9:00PM
Starring: Bill Murray, Gena Davis, Randy Quaid
Category: Murray vs Murray
Okay, fine... Dog Day Afternoon it is not, but Quick Change has often been referred to by film critics as one of Murray's finest performances. As Grimm, the would-be bank robber who first appears on screen as a pathetic looking circus clown, Murray once again taps into that down-trodden everyman, flirting with eccentricity, that he so expertly portrays in so many of his films like Stripes and The Life Aquatic. [Read More]
Road House (1989)
Bangor Opera House
Saturday, August 13th
2:00PM
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Sam Elliot, Kelly Lynch
Category: So Bad It's Good
I originally thought about writing the review of this film as "The film was Directed by a man named Rowdy... 'nuff said", because that pretty much sums it up. Road House is the quintessential B-movie you just can't stop watching. [Read More]
Rushmore
Bangor Opera House
Friday, Augist 12th
4:00PM
Starring: Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman
Category: Murray vs Murray
Shortly after finishing this, his second feature film, Wes Anderson arranged a private screening for the New Yorker's esteemed former film critic, Pauline Kael. After the lights came up, the 79-year-old turned toward this fresh-faced auteur, 50 years her junior, and said: "I don't know what you've got here, Wes … I genuinely don't know what to make of this movie."
Who can blame her? Even now that we understand exactly what is meant by a Wes Anderson film, Rushmore looks and sounds as rich and strange as ever with its story of unlikely romantic jousting playing out against a privileged East Coast backdrop to the jangling guitars of a "British Invasion" soundtrack (The Kinks, The Who, The Rolling Stones). [Read More]
Starship Troopers
Bangor Opera House
Wednesday, August 10th
9:15PM
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards
Category: So Bad It's Good
Unbelievably, this film was nominated for an Academy Award (for visual effects) in 1998. Months later, a prominent Academy member was overheard referring to the film as "the dumbest movie... ever". Although I cannot say I support that comment (Batman & Robin... I am looking in your general direction...), Starship Troopers is in fact, dumb. The violence is senseless, the nudity is senseless, the plot is... well you get the idea. [Read More]
The Troll Hunter
Bangor Opera House
Wednesday, August 10th
7:00PM
Category: KahBang Presents
Trolls. They're big. They're dumb. They eat rocks. And - as it turns out - they are not just a fairy tale creation.
Thomas, Kalle and Johanna are a trio of student film makers striking out to the remote parts of Norway on assignment. Their task: Find and question the illegal poacher roaming the region taking down bears - a closely regulated animal population - as he goes. With the help of local hunters they track the man down, a solitary soul named Hans who roams the countryside in his battered landrover and pungent trailer. But once they finally get Hans to talk what they find is not at all what they expect. [Read More]
Turkey Bowl
Bangor Opera House
Sunday, August 7th
4:15PM
Competition: LMFAO
Eight friends — six men, two women — who look to be a few years out of college gather on a ragged field to play their annual game of touch football, with a frozen turkey as the traditional prize. Two strangers who happen to be in the park are recruited to join them. [Read More]