C OV ER S T ORY In director Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 “Point Break,” surfers Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves and Lori Petty braved the waves off Cannon Beach. Other scenes in the movie were shot in the tiny community of Wheeler, on the Nehalem River.
Learn more Oregon Film Museum. 732 Duane St., Astoria; 503-468-3300, www.oregonfilmmuseum.com Oregon Governor’s Office of Film and Television. 1001 S.E. Water Ave., Suite 430, Portland; 503229-5832, www.oregonfilm.org From previous page And the Erb Memorial Student Union fishbowl, though extensively renovated some years ago, is still easily recognizable as the scene of a notorious “Animal House” food fight. The movie’s climactic parade scene, featuring actor Kevin Bacon’s film debut, took place in downtown Cottage Grove. Eugene and Cottage Grove also figured in “Stand By Me” (1986), based on a Stephen King novella, “The Body.” Most scenes of the River Phoenix movie were shot in tiny Brownsville, standing in for the fictional Oregon town of Castle Rock. The scenes along the railroad tracks, where the four main characters discover a body early in the movie, were filmed near Cottage Grove, along a railroad right-of-way that is now the Row River National Trail. Other films shot in Eugene have included “Rachel and the Stranger” (1948), with Loretta Young and William Holden; “Shenandoah” (1965), with James Stewart and Katharine Ross; and “Five Easy Pieces” (1970), with Jack Nicholson and Karen Black. In “Getting Straight” (1970), Elliott Gould and Candice Bergen were students in revolt on the Lane Community College campus. In “How to Beat the High Co$t of Living” (1980), Jane Curtin and Jessica Lange shopped at the new Valley River Center. “Without Limits” (1998), largely filmed at Hayward Field and at The Pad tavern in Eugene, featured Billy Crudup as distance runner Steve Prefontaine and Donald Sutherland as his coach, Bill Bowerman. “Quarterback Princess” (1983), featuring Helen Hunt and Tim Robbins, was set in McMinnville. “Bandits” (2001), a road movie with Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Cate Blanchett, was shot in Silverton and Salem. Opening scenes of “Seraphim Falls” (2006), starring Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan, were filmed at Sahalie Falls on the upper McKenzie River. The best-known movie to have been shot in Salem was “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975), based upon the novel of the same name by Eugenean Ken Kesey. Starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher, both of whom won Oscars for their roles, it was filmed almost entirely at the Oregon State Mental Hospital (2600 Center St. N.E., Salem).
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Schwarzenegger’s “Kindergarten Cop” (1990) was filmed here, using many students and staff as extras. Numerous other scenes from the movie were shot around Astoria, and a school picnic was set at Ecola State Park, 25 miles south near Cannon Beach. But Ecola is best remembered as a setting for Kathryn Bigelow’s “Point Break” (1991), a surfing adventure movie starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves. Many “Point Break” scenes were also filmed at Wheeler, a tiny Nehalem River community. The village of Nehalem itself figured heavily in “Shattered” (1991), with Tom Berenger and Greta Scacchi, along with adjacent Neahkahnie Mountain and Oswald West State Park.
Around the state In Southern Oregon, “The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid” (1972), featuring Robert Duvall as Jesse James, was filmed in the old gold-rush town of Jacksonville. The Jacksonville Inn and Bella Union Restaurant & Saloon are easily recognizable. In the alien-abduction epic “Fire in the Sky” (1993), with Robert Patrick and D.B. Sweeney, the historical community of Oakland (north of Roseburg) subbed for Snowflake, Ariz. Several scenes from “The River Wild” (1994), with Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon, were filmed on the Rogue River. “Dead Man” (1995), a selfdescribed “acid western” starring Johnny Depp, was shot in the Grants Pass area. Director Gary Lundgren chose
Ashland as the location for his new movie “Calvin Marshall,” which was scheduled to show twice during this weekend’s BendFilm festival. Starring Alex Frost and Steve Zahn, it is the story of a zealous but not especially talented college baseball player, and a good example of how a film company can affect a community. Many scenes were shot at the athletic facilities of Southern Oregon University, where about 200 extras stood in as sports fans. Sports fields in Ashland (North Mountain Park) and Medford (Harry and David Park) were also employed, as were local homes, the Whiskey River Café in White City and the Rogue Valley Family Fun Center in Central Point. In Eastern Oregon, perhaps no location is more identifiable than the Anthony Lakes Lodge. During the filming of “Paint Your Wagon” (1969), a ribald musical that starred Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood, a central location was the saloon of Starbottle’s Hotel. Built of wood from a 19th-century miner’s cabin, the fictional hotel was eventually
dismantled, but the “Starbottle Saloon” sign still sits on a wall within the small ski area’s main watering hole. The Pendleton Roundup grounds were the main filming site for “8 Seconds” (1994), in which Luke Perry portrayed champion bull rider Lane Frost. John Day and Canyon City are nearly as removed from the Oregon mainstream as is Burns. This is not a part of the state where many film companies venture. But one 1972 movie — Walt Disney’s “Napoleon and Samantha,” starring young actors Michael Douglas and Jodie Foster — had a lasting legacy. The movie is about two youngsters and their pet, an aging excircus lion. Foster was 8 when the story was filmed in 1970; it was her first movie role. But during the filming, she was attacked by the lion; according to www.who2 .com, she still has faint lion-bite scars on her stomach and back. Not surprisingly, she also has had a lifelong fear of cats. John Gottberg Anderson can be reached at janderson@ bendbulletin.com.
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