“In Your Dreams,” a documentary film about Grammy Award-winning Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, will screen at Summerfield Cinemas in Santa Rosa. The film follows Nicks as she collaborates on an album with Dave Stewart, best-known for his work with the group Eurythmics. The film is scheduled to [...]
It’s been a busy time for Alfred Hitchcock fans, with the release late last year of the film “Hitchcock,” starring Anthony Hopkins. And this year marks the 50th anniversary of Hitchcock’s 1963 thriller, “The Birds,” filmed in Bodega and Bodega Bay. And now there’s a play called “Bodega [...]
Filming is under way on the Sonoma County coast during February for the independent feature film “Ghost and the Whale.” The film project revisits the locales of Bodega and Bodega Bay during 50th anniversary year of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film, “The Birds,” which was filmed in the area. [...]
Every year, the Academy Award nominations spark a fierce flash of interest among film fans. But for decades, one category languished in the shadows — the short films. Locally, Ky Boyd, proprietor of the Rialto Cinemas — first in Santa Rosa, and now in Sebastopol — has championed these little [...]
"From Obscurity to Excellence: The Story of Grapes and Wine in the Russian River Valley,” a 76-minute documentary film by Joe Nugent will be shown Wednesday, Feb. 6, in Washington, D.C. Nugent, a Sonoma County viticulturist and retired chemistry professor, premiered the film in December at Santa Rosa’s Wells Fargo [...]
Sausalito filmmaker Scott Roberts' first documentary, "The Raven and the Gypsy," makes its premiere at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, at the Raven Theater, 115 North St., Healdsburg. Roberts filmed the Raven’s resident theater company, the Raven Players, as the troupe staged “Gypsy,” its closing show of the 2011-12 season. [...]
“Rebels With a Cause,” an award-winning documentary about the fight to preserve open space, protect agriculture and wildlife and establish public parks, will screen 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, at the Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol. Created local filmmakers Nancy Kelly and Kenji Yamamoto, who will attend the screening, [...]
This may be the first film named after a rating. "Parental Guidance," scheduled to open Dec. 25, stars Marisa Tomei and Tom Everett Scott star as parents who need to go out of town for work and leave their kids with the grandparents. Sounds safe enough. But when the grandparents [...]
“From Obscurity to Excellence: The Story of Grapes and Wine in the Russian River Valley,” a 76-minute documentary film by Joe Nugent, Sonoma County viticulturist and retired chemistry professor, will premiere Saturday, Dec. 1, in Santa Rosa. There will be two screenings, at 7 and 9 p.m., in the East [...]
St. Helena’s Cameo Cinema, which opened in 1913, is celebrating its centennial. As part of that celebration, five-time Academy Award winner Francis Ford Coppola plans a special mystery event at the venerable movie theater at 8 p.m. Nov. 15. Will he talk about his career as a film director, his [...]
What is art? Whether it’s oil on canvas or actors on stage, dancers on their toes or comedians doing stand-up, Press Democrat staff writer Dan Taylor covers the fine and lively arts in Northern California. Meet the people, go behind the scenes and get ahead on what’s coming up.