Curl a photo (or drop zone)

I want to make a photo (drop zone for that matter) have a curve to it. As if I had a tube and wanted to bend the photo around it. I cannot seem to find a filter to achieve this. Is it possible? Maybe there is a filter but I am not using the controls correctly.
Thanks,
Brian

This may not be exactly what you want, but here's a still:
that shows the use of the Displace filter along with a gradient filled rectangle to bend an image. I used a copy of the same rectangle to provide some shading...
Here's the project so you can see what I mean...
Patrick

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