See a good movie and help support Elsie Allen High School's drama department, when the Rialto Cinemas presents "Dancing Across Borders," a feature-length documentary about a young Cambodian dancer, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 29. A reception will be held at 7 p.m. Before the film, classical Cambodian dancer and [...]
Readers have been calling and emailing for the past few days, asking where they can see the well-reviewed new movie, "Winter's Bone." It opens this Friday, June 25, at the Rialto Cinemas Lakeside, 551 Summerfield Road, Santa Rosa. The film follows Ree Dolly, a teenage girl in the Missouri Ozarks [...]
"See What I'm Saying," a new documentary film that chronicles a year in the lives of deaf performers, screens Thursday, at 7:15 p.m. June 17, at the Rialto Cinemas in Santa Rosa. The performers profiled include comic C.J. Jones, actor Robert DeMayo, singer T.L. Forsberg and drummer Bob Hiltermann of [...]
From 1985 to 2001, Los Angeles film executive Peter Schneider worked at the Walt Disney studios. When he arrived there, the company had been struggling creatively since founder Walt Disney's death in 1966. "I got there just as they were releasing 'The Black Cauldron,' arguably the worst movie in the [...]
If you've never thought of bagging groceries as a contemporary American art form, or a competitive sport, here's a chance to change your mind. Rialto Cinemas Lakeside in Santa Rosa will screen "Ready, Set, Bag!" -- an award-winning documentary about the National Grocery Bagging Competition in Las Vegas -- is [...]
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.