Santa Rosa comedian Juan Carlos, a familiar face at Northern California nightclubs, is excited about the debut of his first feature film. “The name of the movie is ‘Trattoria’ and it will premiere in San Francisco on Friday, Nov. 9,” he said. Set in a fictional start-up restaurant [...]
Santa Rosa Junior College will screen Marin County filmmaker Tiffany Shlain’s “Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death, & Technology” at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22. Shlain will participate in a question-and-answer session following the film, which will be shown in the Carole L. Ellis Auditorium on the college’s [...]
“Deep Dark Canyon,” a new feature-length independent film by Sonoma County husband-and-wife team Abe Levy and Silver Tree, opens Friday, Oct. 19, at the Roxy Stadium 14 theater in Santa Rosa. Originally titled “Lawless,” the movie was shot entirely in Sonoma County, primarily in Guerneville and along the Russian River. [...]
A new feature film starring the late Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts” comic strip characters is scheduled for release in 2015. The Iconix Brand Group Inc., based in New York, announced today (Oct. 9) that the animated film, as yet untitled will be produced by Schulz’s son, Craig Schulz of Santa Rosa. [...]
In 1956, shortly before “Dracula” film star Bela Lugosi died, he appeared in some odd bits of footage shot by low-budget film writer and director Edward D. Wood, Jr. Some of that film found its way into the notoriously bad movie “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” which premiered in 1957 [...]
Rialto Cinemas and the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival will launch “Community Cinema,” a new free monthly series of films from the Emmy Award-winning Public Broadcasting System series, “Independent Lens,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11. The series kick offs with “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for [...]
Last year’s Wine Country grape harvest, dubbed the worst ever by some local winemakers, was plagued by untimely rainstorms and widespread grape rot. The stressful harvest season offered the opportunity for a rare glimpse inside the wine industry in “Harvest,” a documentary film directed by John Beck and [...]
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art will screen the documentary film “Ferlinghetti” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 18, in conjunction with its current exhibit, “Cross Pollination.” The exhibit features the writings, paintings and graphic works of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 93, Beat era poet and co-founder of San Francisco’s City Lights [...]
Some film festivals thrive, some fade and others change, expand and adapt. The Bodega Bay International Short Film Festival, which drew more than 900 movie buffs to its debut event last year, is moving to a new town and has adopted a new name. Renamed the Healdsburg International Short Film [...]
Petaluma filmmaker Tom Wyrsch's hit documentary double bill about two gone-but-not-forgotten San Francisco attractions is coming back for yet another encore Saturday, March 10, at Santa Rosa’s Summerfield Cinemas. “Remembering Playland at the Beach” and “Sutro’s, the Palace at Land’s End,” have played to full houses and long lines three [...]
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.