FILMS IN THE GARDEN
$10 DONATION (includes a beverage).
Set up your blanket or lawn chair in Edward Hopper's garden.
Set up your blanket or lawn chair in Edward Hopper's garden.
FEATURE PRESENTATION
POINT BLANK
Saturday, July 14, 2018 - 8pm (rain date Sunday, July 15)
Saturday, July 14, 2018 - 8pm (rain date Sunday, July 15)
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After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him. -IMDB
ENCORE APPEARANCE
a Short Film by Local Filmmaker
CHARLES CASTER-DUDZICK
CHARLES CASTER-DUDZICK
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"Charles Caster-Dudzick paints, screenwrites, animates, crafts, edits video, acts, and shoots film. Whether on his new experimental series "Synapse Enforcer," an animation, a piece of music, a script, or a new watercolor, oil, or digital painting, Caster-Dudzick spends as much time as possible creating."
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FEATURE PRESENTATION
BLOOD SIMPLE
Saturday, July 28, 2018 - 8pm (rain date Sunday, July 29)
Saturday, July 28, 2018 - 8pm (rain date Sunday, July 29)
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A rich but jealous man hires a private investigator to kill his cheating wife and her new man. But, when blood is involved, nothing is simple. - IMDB
ENCORE PRESENTATION
by artist and activist
BILL BATSON
BILL BATSON
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Bill’s artwork was recently featured at Edward Hopper House (February 2018). He was also the director of the Nyack Record Shop Project, an oral history project reflecting the African American community in Nyack and inspired by Carrie Mae Weems' recent "Beacon" exhibition at Edward Hopper House (November 2017 - February 2018). Bill's writing has appeared in Essence Magazine, New York’s Amsterdam News, and The Argus in Cape Town, South Africa. While in South Africa, Bill received the Bertram’s Young Writer Award and won first place in the Sidelines Journal Student Essay competition. One of his essays, “In Africa Men Hold Hands” is included in a college text book written by Susan Ankara and published in 2003 by Bedford St. Martin’s.
Bill’s work as an artist has been profiled in New York Newsday (6/27/99), Daily Heights(6/16/05), Brooklyn Rail,(12/04/06), and The Journal News (2/26/05) and NyackNewsandViews (1/4/18). |
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FEATURE PRESENTATION
HAROLD & MAUDE
Saturday, August 18, 2018 - 8pm (rain date Sunday, August 19)
Saturday, August 18, 2018 - 8pm (rain date Sunday, August 19)
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Harold, the 20-year-old son of a wealthy, neglectful woman, tries to gain attention for himself with various hilariously staged "suicides." Obsessed with death, Harold meets a like-minded 79-year-old woman named Maude. Harold and Maude become inseparable friends, both helping each other out of various personal travails. - Rotten Tomatoes
ENCORE PERFORMANCE
FILMS IN THE GARDEN : 2016
Blade Runner
Saturday, September 16, 2017 - 8pm (rain date Sunday, September 17th)
Saturday, September 16, 2017 - 8pm (rain date Sunday, September 17th)
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Director Ridley Scott cites Hopper as a great influence in the set design of his futuristic neo-noir piece Blade Runner, particularly the painting Nighthawks (1942) and adds that “I was constantly waving a reproduction of this painting under the noses of the production team to illustrate the look and mood I was after.” His effort was well compensated since when watching Blade Runner (a film about a man who pursues four fugitives who aim to return to Earth in a stolen ship), one can discriminate the painter’s influence once Rick cruises the futuristic city full of light contrasts and places where it becomes notorious that estrangement and alienation are dominating feelings within this modern society. - Truman Hopper
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Special thanks to Business Partner KUKA BEER for their sponsorship of The Blade Runner screening. |
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Pennies From Heaven
Saturday, August 19th, 2017 - 8pm (rain date Sunday, August 20th)
Saturday, August 19th, 2017 - 8pm (rain date Sunday, August 20th)
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The great British production designer Ken Adam scrupulously reproduced Hopper's Nighthawks and New York Movie when transposing Dennis Potter's Pennies From Heaven (1981) from prewar Britain to the American Midwest during the Depression.
- Philip French, THE GUARDIAN |
Director Herbert Ross and writer Dennis Potter’s depression-era Pennies from Heaven has a mood so similar to Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, it made perfect sense to see Potter’s characters momentarily become the painting.
- Stephen Altobello |
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featuring a seasonal cocktail with flavors from the Nyack Farmers Market
THE PENNY FROM HEAVEN: bourbon, Cynar, nectarines & basil, lemon simple syrup |
FILMS IN THE GARDEN : 2016
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The Man Who Fell To Earth
Rivertown Film joins the Edward Hopper House Art Center, Kiam Records and Festoon to present a screening of The Man Who Fell to Earth, in tribute to the late David Bowie.
In The Man Who Fell to Earth, Bowie plays an alien who comes to earth and to get water for his dying planet. First, he has to make enough money to finance his trip home. UK, 1976, 130 minutes, rated R for nudity. Presented by Edward Hopper House Art Center, Festoon, Kiam Records and Rivertown Film. Sunday, July 10, 2016 : $12 General Admission, #8 for members of Rivertown Film and Edward Hopper House |
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Music & Film in the Garden:
Steven Bernstein Meets Laurel & Hardy A fusion of classic jazz and comic film for the family! Steve Bernstein’s versatile New York-based MTO plays scores to three side-splitting Laurel and Hardy films. Refreshments available, including Gelato provided by Gail Heller & Cris Spezial of Nyack Gourmet. Children under 10 are free, but must be accompanied by an adult. In case of rain, the event will move to Nyack Center. Tickets $35 per person; $20 Hopper House members, and students. Sponsored by Nyack Gourmet, Soap & Paper Factory, and Rod Greenwood & Vickie Hertz. Rain location: Nyack Center, 58 Depew (corner of S. Broadway). August 1, 2016 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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