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Film Series to Screen Rivers and Tides

rivers and tidesThe Manzanita Film Series will present “Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time” Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita.

Directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer, the 2001 documentary film follows British artist Andy Goldsworthy as he creates art in natural settings using natural materials such as driftwood, ice, mud, leaves, and stones. Goldsworthy’s creations are intentionally mutable works; several of them fall apart, melt, or drift away due to exposure to the elements.

The music was composed and performed by Fred Frith and was released on a soundtrack “Rivers and Tides” in 2003.
The film received a number of awards, including the ‘Best Documentary’ awards of the San Diego Film Critics Society and the San Francisco Film Critics Circle.

Running time: 90 minutes. Admission is $7, refreshments will be available and a discussion follows the film.

Hoffman Center Presents Festival of Short Films

NWFest38 GraphicThe Hoffman Center’s Manzanita Film Series will host a showing of “The Best of the 38th Northwest Film & Video Festival” at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 26. Admission is $7 and snack concessions will be available for purchase.

The collection of short films was selected by the Northwest Film Center of Portland from its annual juried film festival. The total running time is about one hour. Center regional services manager Thomas Phillipson and filmmaker Rob Tyler will attend the screening to discuss the features and the Film Center itself.

The films to be screened are:

“Basin” by David Geiss, Victoria. (Images of the once pristine landscape of northern Alberta scarred by industrial development compel us to take environmental action.)

“Old-Time Film” by Barbara Tetenbaum and Marilyn Zornado, Portland. (A fiddle and some antique engravings make for good times in this short toe-tapper.)

“Woman Waiting” by Antoine Bourges, Vancouver. (This powerful narrative uses minimal dialogue and long takes to depict a middle-aged woman on the edge of homelessness and invisibility.)

“Laszlo Lassu” by Ben Popp, Portland. (This masterful cut-paper animation has an Eastern European folk art flare to its lines and narrative.)

“Treeverse” by John Waller, Portland. (Two men take an unprecedented one-kilometer canopy trek — i.e. they never touch the ground — through an old growth Oregon white oak forest.)

“The Big Sayonara” by Don Hamilton, Spokane. (A former Wall Street employee hits rock bottom in rural Rosalia, Washington. Some of the funniest understated dialogue ever heard in a short independent film.)

The Manzanita Film Series is a program of the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. Films are screened monthly throughout the year.

 

Book and Film Presentation on November 24

The Hoffman Center in Manzanita will host coastal writer Matt Love Saturday, Nov. 24 at 7:30 for a special presentation on his book “Sometimes A Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey And The Filming Of The Great Oregon Novel.” A screening of the film itself will follow.

Admission is $7 and refreshments will be available.

In June 1970, the biggest movie star in the world traveled to the Oregon Coast to film an epic novel about a defiant family of loggers written by a homegrown counterculture hero. The star was Paul Newman. The author was Ken Kesey. The story was “Sometimes a Great Notion” and it has a fanatical following in the Pacific Northwest.

What ensued was a wild working vacation between Hollywood and Oregonians involving beer, sex, scotch, loggers, beaches, and perhaps, a spectacularly vandalized pool table. In his book, author Matt Love documents the legend of that magical summer and presents over a 125 never-before-seen photographs, including many in color.

“I first became interested in the story after Ken Kesey died in 2001, when I heard a remarkable tale from an eyewitness who claimed that during the movie shoot, Paul Newman cut the legs off a pool table with a chain saw in a Toledo bar,” said Love. “I wanted to discover if the story was true. In the course of four years, I interviewed close to a hundred people connected to the filming and collected hundreds of incredibly candid photographs. I think I’ve ended up with a truly fun and poignant narrative about a unprecedented earthy collaboration between Hollywood and a place where they went on location to make a movie.”

Matt Love is the author/editor of eight books about Oregon, including, the best selling “Far Out Story of Vortex I”, “Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology”, and “Gimme Refuge: The Education of a Caretaker”.

In 2009, Love won the Oregon Literary Arts’ Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award for his contributions to Oregon history and literature. He lives in South Beach and teaches English and journalism at Newport High School. He’s currently working on a novel about teaching in a public high school.

 

Film Series to Screen His Girl Friday on September 22

The Manzanita Film Series will present the comedy “His Girl Friday” Saturday, September 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita.

The 1940 comedy stars Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy, and was directed by Howard Hawks. Based on the hit Broadway play “The Front Page” written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.

Storyline: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

Running time: 92 minutes. Admission is $7, refreshments will be available and a discussion follows the film.

Film Series Screens ‘Howl’ on Sunday, May 27th

We’ll be having our Film Series presentation this month on a Sunday night, since it’s Memorial Day Weekend. Showing will be “Howl”. This movie is about Allen Ginsberg’s life and art, and the famous obscenity trial his most famous poem provoked. Starring James Franco, Todd Rotondi, and Jon Prescott. Movie starts at 7:30, and admission is $7.

Film Series to Host Movie and Star

The Hoffman Center’s Manzanita Film Series will present the 1981 feature “Friday the 13th Part 2” Saturday, Oct. 22, and one of the stars of the film will be on hand to discuss the film. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $7 and refreshments will be available. The film is rated R.

The film stars Manzanita resident Amy Steel as the intrepid Ginny Field.   She’ll be on hand to discuss the film. The event will also be an early Halloween party, and costumes are encouraged.

Story Line: Mrs. Voorhees is dead, and the infamous Camp Crystal Lake is shut down. However, an unknown assailant is stalking the camp next door. Could it be Mrs. Voorhees’ son Jason who didn’t drown in the lake 30 years before?

Film Series to screen D.O.A. on August 27

 

On Saturday, August 27, the Manzanita Film Series will show “D.O.A.” at 7:30 pm. It has been called by one reviewer “a high-concept movie before its time”.

A film noir drama, directed by Rudolph Maté, is considered a classic of the genre. The frantically paced plot revolves around a doomed man’s quest to find out who has poisoned him – and why – before he dies.

This film explores the question of what you might do if you were to meet your own killer.

There will be a short discussion about the movie at the end. Come for the popcorn. and a classic film on the silver screen. $7 Suggested donation.

 

 

Read All About It: Hoffapalooza!

Be sure to stop by the Hoffman Center on Saturday, July 23rd, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

We’re excited to show off some of the changes to our performance and gallery spaces, as well as the newly expanded Clay Studio.  Plus, you’re invited to explore all sorts of demonstrations of what the Hoffman Center has to offer, including clay, drawing, writing, reading, music, letterpress, mixed media, and book and paper arts.  Click on the Hoffapalooza Schedule for a printable schedule of events.  There’s no admission.

Local businesses and individuals have also generously donated over $1,500 worth of products and services for our fabulous raffle and silent auction prizes. Enter to win a $25 gas card from Bayside Shell & Grocery, just for showing up. Click on this list of Hoffapalooza prizes to see all of the wonderful raffle prizes and special silent auction items.  Raffle tickets are just $1 each,  12 for $10, or 25 for $20.    All proceeds go to the Hoffman Center Operating Fund.

And that’s not all!  Over 20 local artists will be showing and selling their art, including pieces made in the Hoffman Center Clay and Life Drawing Studios, and other art classes.  There also will be a display of art by kids in the Outside the Box Arts program.

Did we forget anything?  Well, there will be a lemonade stand on the front porch, plus tasty hand baked goods donated by Kim Miller.

We’ll see you there!

 

 

Film Series Offers Russian Documentary on April 23rd

The Hoffman Center’s Manzanita Film Series will present the ground-breaking 1929 Russian documentary film “Man with a Movie Camera” Saturday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m. Admission will be $7. Refreshments will be available.

Written and directed by Dziga Vertov, the work documents urban life in the early Soviet Union. “This playful film is at once a documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of said documentary, and a depiction of an audience watching the film,” said commentator George S. Davis. “The film anticipates many of the techniques used (over) 50 years later in Koyaanisqatsi (1982).”

“The Cinematic Orchestra,” a British electronic/jazz group, created a soundtrack for the film.

Film Series leader Jonathan Feder will offer commentary before and after the presentation.

The Hoffman Center is located at 594 Laneda Ave. in Manzanita.

Hoffman Center Screens Best of NW Film & Video Festival on 1/22

The 36th Annual Best of the Northwest Film & Video Festival

The Hoffman Center’s Manzanita Film Series will host a showing of “The Best of the 36th Northwest Film & Video Festival” at 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 22. Admission is $7. Theater concessions, including beer and wine, will be available for purchase.

The collection of 14 short films was selected by the Northwest Film Center of Portland from its annual juried film festival. The total running time is 90 minutes.

Works to be shown are: “The Mouse That Soared” Kyle T. Bell, Portland; “Nous Deux Encore” Heather Harlow, Portland; “The Fancy” Eric Maxen, Portland; “Nature On Its Course” Su-An Ng, Port Moody; “Is That Me” Elijah M. Hasan, Portland; “Eros” Megan Griffiths, Seattle; “Endless Tunnel” Tommy Thompson, Olympia; “Missed Aches” Joanna Priestley, Portland; “Trolls” Brianne Nord-Stewart, Vancouver; “122 Random Seconds” Karl Lind, Portland; “Damian And Ende” Benjamin Schuetze, Vancouver; “Stick” Patrick Beechinor, Justin Longoz and Chris McKinlay, Vancouver; “Don’t Worry It’s A New Century” Jeff Guay, Portland; and “Somewhere” Salise Hughes, Seattle.

The Manzanita Film Series is a program of the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. Films are screened on the fourth weekend of the month throughout the year. The Center is located at 594 Laneda Ave.