Lights, camera, film festival

Marylhurst to celebrate Oregon cinema, May 1-10

By Cliff Newell

The Lake Oswego Review, Apr 30, 2009, Updated Oct 30, 2009

Shirley Skidmore, left, and Jenn Marron have recently included putting on a film festival among their duties at Marylhurst University.

CLIFF NEWELL / Lake Oswego Review

Bette Davis with eyes wide open and in full strut.

Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Susan Hayward and rodeos.

A little-seen silent classic by master filmmaker F.W. Murnau.

Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary in rowboats.

All of these movie wonders and more will be featured in Marylhurst University’s first film festival on May 1 to 10, titled the Oregon Sesquicentennial Film Fest.

“I’ve never done anything like this in my life,” said Marylhurst’s Jennifer Marron, film festival manager.

Yet somehow everything seemed to line up for this event to happen. The most important thing was adjunct professor Dennis Nyback deciding to have his vast 7,000-film collection be archived at Marylhurst.

In addition, not only is 2009 the sesquicentennial year for Oregon, it is also the sesquicentennial year for the Sisters of the Holy Names coming to this state and transforming education.

“We started with two days,” said Shirley Skidmore, marketing and communications director for Marylhurst. “It grew to 10.”

A couple days simply were not enough to contain all of the good things the Marylhurst film fest had to offer, and everything shown will have an Oregon connection.

Bette Davis is in top form in Marked Woman, a Warner Brothers classic from 1937 in which she played a night club hostess defended by district attorney Humphrey Bogart.

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