That Was Us, and Now This is Us: A Conversation with Robb Moss on The Bend in the River

The Bend in the River Is a Poignant Look at a Changing World

Ever since a fateful rafting trip in 1978, documentarian Robb Moss has been chronicling his friends’ lives. In the moving, lyrical ‘Bend in the River,’ he finds them in their 70s, still trying to understand the world.

‘The Bend in the River’ Review: A Group of Onetime Nudists Get (Mostly) Better with Age

Robb Moss' third entry in his decades-spanning documentary series about his college friends illustrates how age can mellow us without altering what counts.

The Bend in the River Review: Aching For What Was and May Never Come Again

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Telluride coverage. The film opens on August 14. The Bend in the River, director Robb Moss’ third installment in his running chronicle of his friends’ lives (following The Same River Twice in 2003 and Riverdogs in the late ’70s ), is a gentle, effective documentary that can often feel like looking in a mirror. It’s very personal and revealing without doing much at all. To paraphrase …

That Was Us, and Now This is Us: A Conversation with Robb Moss on The Bend in the River

In 1970, Robb Moss took a semester off from Berkeley and started wandering to wherever he could crash, first out to a friend’s farm in Minnesota, and then listlessly hitchhiking to Arizona when it got too cold up north. It was down there that he saw a photograph of a boat riding a giant wave [...] The post That Was Us, and Now This is Us: A Conversation with Robb Moss on The Bend in the River appeared first on In Review Online.