Arts & Entertainment
Opening This Week — Sept. 14
Free HD Video Camera Workshop
BIG BUDGET FILMS
North Portland Training Center teaches the
art of recording oral history
Finding Nemo (G) 3-D
rerelease of the much-
beloved animated adventure
about a timid clownfish
(Albert Brooks) who sum-
mons up the courage to
embark on a perilous
transoceanic trek to rescue a
son (Alexander Gould) left
trapped in a bowl in a den-
tist’s office after being net-
ted by fishermen near the
Great Barrier Reef. Voice
cast
includes
Ellen
DeGeneres, Willem Dafoe,
Brad Garrett, Allison Jan-
ney and Geoffrey Rush.
A
‘Finding Nemo’
death of his mistress (Laeti-
tia Casta) rather than risk
damaging his marriage and
reputation. With Susan
Sarandon, Brit Marling and
William Friedkin.
Resident Evil: Retribu-
tion (R for pervasive graph-
ic violence) 5th installment
in the grisly, sci-fi franchise
finds Milla Jovovich repris-
ing her role as an intrepid
defender of the planet and
forging new alliances in a
high body-count fight
against legions of flesh-eat-
ing zombies. With Boris
Kodjoe, Oded Fehr, Sienna
Guillory,
Michelle
Rodriguez and Bingbing Li.
I’m Carolyn Parker:
The Good, the Mad, and
the Beautiful (Unrated)
Oscar-winner
Jonathan
Demme (for Silence of the
Lambs) directs this post-
Katrina documentary chron-
icling the valiant struggle of
a feisty, retired resident of
New Orleans’ Lower Ninth
Ward to rebuild her home
left devastated by the hurri-
cane.
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
10 Years (PG-13 for pro-
fanity, sexuality, drug use
and alcohol abuse) Skele-
tons-out-of-the-closet dram-
edy about the shocking
confessions shared by five
best friends (Channing
Tatum, Justin Long, Chris
Pratt, Oscar Isaac and Max
Minghella) upon returning
to their hometown for their
10th high school reunion.
Ensemble cast includes
Rosario Dawson, Anthony
Mackie, Jenna Dewan-
Tatum, Ari Graynor, Kate
Mara and Ron Livingston.
community who find them-
selves surrounded by a
swarm of great white sharks
after a tsunami leaves them
trapped inside a submerged
grocery store. Cast includes
Xavier Samuel, Julian
McMahon and Phoebe
Tonkin.
‘I’m Carolyn Parker’
Bait 3-D (R for profanity,
graphic violence and grisly
images) Disaster flick about
the residents of a beachfront
Barfi!
(Unrated)
Romance drama about the
love triangle which devel-
ops when a woman (Ileana
D’Cruz)
has
second
thoughts about rejecting a
hearing
and
speech-
impaired suitor (Ranbir
Kapoor) after he falls for a
mentally-challenged maid-
en (Priyanka Chopra). (In
Hindi with subtitles)
free
intensive
workshop on Sat-
urday, September
29 from 9 A.M. – 5 P.M.
is open to the general
public 18 years and over.
Sponsored by The
Skanner Foundation, the
North Portland Multime-
dia Training Center
(NPMTC) offers training
and production opportu-
nities to increase visibili-
ty of the community in a
positive way.
Dozens of video pro-
ductions of community
Students learn the art of HD camera operation
events and histories of
individuals through inter-
munity to capture any remaining stories
views have been the result of the training about a lost city, once an important part of
to date and can be viewed at Portland, before it is too late.
www.npmtc.com
The upcoming NPMTC
In addition, skills
workshop is taught by Tim
learned through the pro-
Rooney and Miae Kim,
ject’s multimedia work-
experts in videography and
shops have led to
oral history documentation.
successful careers in
The NPMTC workshop
production for some
takes place at The Skanner,
students.
415 N. Killingsworth, Port-
This new workshop
land.
blends teaching the
“Life in Vanport” is also
mechanics of HD cam-
sponsored by a matching
era operation and the art
grant from Mt. Hood Cable
of producing oral histo-
Regulatory Commission.
ry in a one-day 8-hour
For more information
workshop.
about the class or to regis-
NPMTC supports the
ter, go to www.npmtc.com .
community’s effort to
You may also email
record the histories of its citizens through npmtc@comcast.net or call and leave a
their own words. The first topic used for message at 503-285-5555, x 521. Registra-
the project-based training will be “Life in tion is required prior to workshop date.
Vanport.” This is an outreach to the com-
NPMTC offers
training and
production
opportunities to
increase the
visibility of the
community in a
positive way
Arbitrage (R for profani-
ty, drug use and violent
images) Richard Gere stars
in this Wall Street thriller as
the philandering manager of
a sinking hedge fund who
implicates a friend of the
family (Nate Parker) in the
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