WHAT'S HAPPENING: SCREENINGS AND EVENTS
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"Five Easy Pieces"  Director:  Bob Rafelson  (1970)  With Jack Nicholson and Karen Black.  (98 min.)
Time: 7:00 PM
Admission: LCC Summer Registration or $3 donation at the door.
Seminar Host: Tom Blank Former Hollywood Director

Jack Nicholson plays a concert pianist who has dropped out of the music world to work in the oil fields.  When his father falls ill, he brings his waitress girlfriend  to Spokane to visit his upper class family.
   Several sequences were filmed in Oregon, and the most famous, the "chicken sandwich" scene was filmed in Eugene at the Denny's near the 30th Street I-5 onramp...
   This is an LCC class at DIVA that explores the work of the world's award winning directors. If you love great films, and love learning about them, then this class is for you. The class examines the trends and highlights in the history of film while participants relax in a casual screening room environment. Those who registered for the 2010 summer session may attend this extended August program free.

"Flickering Images and Silver Screens" - A First Friday Art Walk Showcase Event
Time: 5:30 - 8:00 PM
Admission: Free

“Flickering Images” is the theme of a special DIVA event during the First Friday Art Walk from 5:30PM to 8:00 PM on August 6th.  DIVA will be hosting an informational evening showcasing many of the area’s film festivals, film programs, classes, and events.

The evening’s goal is to share with the public the growing diversity of film/video organizations and activities in our community that present festivals, teach about film, and promote the professional film, video, and media arts.

Confirmed participants with hosted tables, many with audiovisual presentations, include: Mid-Oregon Production Arts Network (MOPAN), The Archeology Channel’s International Film Festival, The Eugene International Film Festival, the University of Oregon’s Cinema Pacific, DisOrient Asian American Film Festival, The Eugene Celebration Film Festival, and DIVA’s own OpenLens Festival, Behind The Lens Film Seminar, and The Shaggy Dog film production Project.

DIVA will be screening a sampler reel of the many film related events it sponsors throughout the year.

At 8:15, the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) and DIVA hosts the first program in The ArchaeologyFest Film Series with "Chumpi's Adventure" and "Lost Nation: The Ioway". These are two of the jury-selected films from The Archaeology Channel’s International Film and Video Festival: 2010. Doors open at 7:45. Admission: $6. Other programs in this fundraising series follow on August 7th, 13th, and 14th.

ArchaeologyFest Film Series: Best of 2010 - Program A
Time: 8:15 PM - Doors open at 7:45
Admission: $6

A benefit for The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival. These are the best films from the 2010 edition of TAC Festival.  (The 2011 edition of TAC Festival takes place at Eugene’s Soreng Theater, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, May 24-28)

Chumpi's Adventure (Peru) 47 min. This film focuses on the lives of three generations of Achuar, who live in the Peruvian Amazon.  A young boy, Chumpi, his father, Secha, and his grandfather, Irar, make an upriver trip to a sacred waterfall, where both adults received their visions as young men.  They travel through the tropical rainforest in an adventure into the spiritual world of these indigenous people.  Their journey gives insight into the Achuar culture, as they try to continue their traditions while facing conflicts with oil companies and the encroaching industrial world. (Special Mention by Jury; Honorable Mention for Script, Cinematography, and Inspirational)

Lost Nation: The Ioway (USA) 57 min. In 1824, during the twilight of Native American dominion, two conflicted Ioway leaders met with William Clark, one of the principals of the earlier Lewis and Clark Expedition, to sign a momentous treaty.  White Cloud saw cooperation as survival for his people, while Great Walker regretted the loss of their ancestral homeland.  This pivotal moment led both men to different tragic destinies in their battle with epic change. Ioway Elders join historians and archaeologists to tell the dramatic and true story of the small tribe that once claimed the territory between the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers from Pipestone, Minnesota, to St. Louis.  What was a quest for survival in the past has become a struggle to retain a unique Native American culture and language in the present. (Honorable Mention for Best Film)

ArchaeologyFest Film Series: Best of 2010 - Program B
Time: 7:30 PM - Doors open at 7:00
Admission: $6

A benefit for The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival. These are the best films from the 2010 edition of TAC Festival.  (The 2011 edition of TAC Festival takes place at Eugene’s Soreng Theater, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, May 24-28)

Life in Limbo (USA) 40 min. This film paints a portrait of life in the town of Hasankeyf, in southeastern Turkey, adramatic town of caves located near the borders of Iraq and Syria. It has been inhabited since the 9th Century B.C. and is considered an archaeological treasure because it is the finest example of a medieval city in the region. Hasankeyf has endured upheavals through the centuries but it now faces a seemingly insurmountable threat to its survival; a proposed dam on the Tigris River that will submerge the town. Through a combination of verite scenes, lyrical landscape images and interviews, Hasankeyf is revealed as a town of long traditions, an archaeological treasure and finally, a community that is fated to be destroyed. (Honorable Mention for Audience Favorite, Best Film, Cinematography, and Music)

Stone Age Artists: The Magdalenian Masters (France) 52 min. The inception of art in prehistoric times is a much debated issue.  Some believe it coincides with a revolution of the mind, which is thought to have started about 40,000 years ago.  Others think it is the result of gradual evolution that began with the very first human beings, some two million years ago.  Our forefathers gradually devoted more and more time to art, decorating their objects and their places of residence.  As for the Magdalenians, ancestors that settled in large areas of Europe between 18,000 and 10,000 years B.C., art was amazingly developed.  The sculpted bas-relief of the Roc-aux-Sorciers site in southwestern France is proof that a golden age of prehistory did actually exist.  For the first time ever, this film reveals Lascaux Cave, a showcase that suggests that the Stone Age may well have had its share of “Michelangelos.” (Best Script; Honorable Mention for Audience Favorite, Best Film, Narration, Animation, Cinematography, and Inspirational)

"McCabe and Mrs. Miller" Director: Robert Altman  (1971)  With Warren Beatty and Julie Christie.  (120 min.)
Time: 7:00 PM
Admission: LCC Summer Registration or $3 donation at the door.
Seminar Host: Tom Blank Former Hollywood Director

A gambler makes a business partnership with a prostitute in a mining camp in the Old West.  Many of Altman's signature techniques are present, including overlapping and improvised dialogue.  The photography by Vilmos Zsigmond is spectacular, and the songs of Leonard Cohen set a perfect, off-center mood.
   This is an LCC class at DIVA that explores the work of the world's award winning directors. If you love great films, and love learning about them, then this class is for you. The class examines the trends and highlights in the history of film while participants relax in a casual screening room environment. Those who registered for the 2010 summer session may attend this extended August program free.

ArchaeologyFest Film Series: Best of 2010 - Program C
Time: 7:30 PM - Doors open at 7:00
Admission: $6

A benefit for The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival. These are the best films from the 2010 edition of TAC Festival.  (The 2011 edition of TAC Festival takes place at Eugene’s Soreng Theater, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, May 24-28)

Standing with Stones (UK) 135 min. Produced and directed by documentary film-maker Michael Bott and presented by naturalist and explorer Rupert Soskin, this is a first-hand account from Rupert of a journey taken through the British Isles and Ireland, starting at the tip of Cornwall and ending on the Scottish Isles, visiting more than 100 Neolithic and Bronze age monuments en route.  Beautiful to look at and aiming to be enlightening, the film explores the diversity and wonder of these extraordinary enigmatic structures.  It also looks at some of the explanations and absurdities which attach to them.  Rupert Soskin has a deep knowledge of the subject, but also a refreshingly open-minded attitude to the whos, the hows and especially the whys of the stone construction.  The entire project was conceived and realized entirely by Michael Bott and Rupert Soskin, with a camera, a camper van, two very understanding wives, and a passion for stones. (Best Narration; Most Inspirational; Honorable Mention for Audience Favorite, Best Film, Animation, Script, and Music.

ArchaeologyFest Film Series: Best of 2010 - Program D
Time: 7:30 PM - Doors open at 7:00
Admission: $6

A benefit for The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival. These are the best films from the 2010 edition of TAC Festival.  (The 2011 edition of TAC Festival takes place at Eugene’s Soreng Theater, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, May 24-28)

Herculaneum: Diaries of Darkness and Light (Italy) 52 min. This film tells the story of the excavations at Herculaneum, following Amedeo Maiuri, the archaeologist who in little more than 30 years brought to light the Roman city, which had been destroyed along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.  Today, two-thirds of the ancient city still lies under the modern city of Ercolano.  In order to continue the excavations, large parts of the modern city would have to be knocked down, as Maiuri had started to do a few years before his death.  The diaries of Maiuri, together with interviews and unseen footage, lead us in the discovery of the archaeological site and invite us to consider the relationship that humans have with their past along with our desire to discover it, to understand it and to preserve it in time.

Paddle Ship “Patris”Lost in 1868... (Greece) 63 min. This documentary concerns the historic steam engine paddle ship Patris, which sank in 1868.  This type of boat is unique because it used wheels for movement.  It was manufactured at a time before the advent of the screw propeller, when most ships were made of wood.  This particular boat was one of very few made of metal and for this reason it was preserved.  It was a luxurious vessel that had a paddle-wheel steam engine, but also had sails.  Patris was property of “Hellenic Steam Navigation Company,” the first coastal shipping company that was founded in Greece.  The film was made with the collaboration of the Museum of Industrial Heritage of Syros, subordinate to the Municipality of Syros, Greece, and the Greek Ministry of Culture, the National Institute of Research, the Department of Underwater Antiquities, and the Underwater Filming Research (UFR) diving team. (Best Film; Best Cinematography; Honorable Mention for Best Narration, Animation, Special Effects, Script, Music, and Inspirational)

Poetry Series features Nicholas Karavatos and Tim Shaner.
Time: 7:30 PM
Admission: Donation
NOTE: This session to be held at the DIVA Annex at 80 E. Broadway.

Nicholas Karavatos is included in the anthology Punk Rock Saved My Ass (Ukiah: Medusa’s Muse, 2010) and the latest issue of West Wind Review (University of Southern Oregon, 2010).
    In December 2009, Amendment Nine published his first book titled No Asylum (Arcata, 2009). David Meltzer wrote on the back cover: “Nicholas Karavatos is a poet of great range and clarity. This book is an amazing collectanea of smart sharp political poetry in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it voiced with an impressive singularity.”
   Nick lives near Dubai, teaching at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Previously he taught in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. He is a graduate of New College of California and Humboldt State University.

Tim Shaner’s work has appeared in Jacket, Kiosk, P-Queue, Shampoo, 88: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry, The Portable Lower Eastside, Ambit (UK), The Rialto (UK), and other magazines. He is the co-editor of Wig, a magazine devoted to poetry written on the job, and curates A New Poetry Series in Eugene, Oregon. He has a Ph.D. from SUNY-Buffalo’s Poetics Program and teaches at Lane Community College and Umpqua Community College.

"American Graffiti" Director: George Lucas (1973)  With Richard Dreyfess and Ron Howard.  (120 min.)
Time: 7:00 PM
Admission: LCC Summer Registration or $3 donation at the door.
Seminar Host: Tom Blank Former Hollywood Director

Two recent high school grads spend a final night cruising their home town streets before leaving for college.  The soundtrack features memorable rock and roll hits from the period.  Look for Harrison Ford and Suzanne Somers in small parts.  This movie's success made "Star Wars" possible.
   This is an LCC class at DIVA that explores the work of the world's award winning directors. If you love great films, and love learning about them, then this class is for you. The class examines the trends and highlights in the history of film while participants relax in a casual screening room environment. Those who registered for the 2010 summer session may attend this extended August program free.

"Chinatown" Director:  Roman Polanski   (1974)  With Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway.  (130 min.)
Time: 7:00 PM
Admission: LCC Summer Registration or $3 donation at the door.
Seminar Host: Tom Blank Former Hollywood Director

A detective stumbles on a plot involving the Los Angeles water supply, but that doesn't tell us that "Chinatown" is a magnificent "neo-noir" that muddies its feet with murder, incest, and civic corruption.  The success of this film made Nicholson decide, in order to avoid type casting,  to never again play a detective.  This was the last film Polanski directed in America.
    Academy Award for Best Screenplay to Robert Towne, the only win out of eleven nominations.
    This is an LCC class at DIVA that explores the work of the world's award winning directors. If you love great films, and love learning about them, then this class is for you. The class examines the trends and highlights in the history of film while participants relax in a casual screening room environment. Those who registered for the 2010 summer session may attend this extended August program free.

"Network" Director:  Sidney Lumet   (1976)  With William Holden, Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway.  (121 min.)
Time: 7:00 PM
Admission: LCC Summer Registration or $3 donation at the door.
Seminar Host: Tom Blank Former Hollywood Director

A detective stumbles on a plot involving the Los Angeles water A television network uses the mental illness of its anchorman to boost ratings.  It was considered satiric that a network would turn over its news department to the entertainment division.  Sadly, that's seems to be the way the whole industry decided to operate.
   Academy Awards for Peter Finch (Best Actor, Faye Dunaway (Best Actress) and Beatrice Strait (Best Supporting Actress).  Best Screenplay to Paddy Chayefsky
   This is an LCC class at DIVA that explores the work of the world's award winning directors. If you love great films, and love learning about them, then this class is for you. The class examines the trends and highlights in the history of film while participants relax in a casual screening room environment. Those who registered for the 2010 summer session may attend this extended August program free.