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thru Nov 17 ~ Sonoma County Jewish Film Festival ~ All of the films will be shown at Rialto Cinemas Sebastopol, 6868 McKinley Avenue. 1p ($10) and 7:30p ($13) shows. Eight films exhibit a glimpse of Jewish life with universal human themes from countries around the world. 707-528-4244 or www.jccsoco.org
Industrial Hemp replaces many plastics, providing cleaner, greener products. Production is starting up after a long absence. Kelp has the potential to replace fossil fuels and feed the world: Kelp - Food - Fuel - Fertilizer. Be a part of the solution! Film Series - 7p, Sebastopol Grange, 6000 Hwy 12, Sebastopol. $5-10. 829-2324. www.liteinitiatives.org
Nov 4, 11 ~ Screening ‘Most Likely to Succeed’ ~ hosted by Sonoma County Office of Education and West Sonoma County Union High School District; This documentary highlights an inspiring new path one California school has taken that educators around the state might follow. Nov 4 at Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol; Nov 12 at El Molino High School in Forestville. 7p. klamb.do@wscuhsd.k12.ca.us
Nov 6-8 ~ OUTwatch: Wine Country’s LGBTQI Film Festival ~ Sebastopol Center for the Arts. This year’s theme is Films For Us. The best, award- winning films are always selected for the show. Six films and two documentaries will be showcased. www.OutWatchFilmFest.org. 282 S. High St, Sebastopol. 707-829-4797.
Nov 8 ~ Occupation 101 ~ Mideast Film Festival. 2p screening in Andrews Hall, Sonoma County Community Center. This documentary looks at the current historic root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the US Governement involvement. 76 East Napa Street, Sonoma. www.facebook.com/sfjpp.
Nov 8 ~ Food and Farm Fest ~ A series of short films from around the world in all styles on the topics of food and farming. 7p. Wine, beer, and other selections will be available. SHED Grange, 25 West North St, Healdsburg. Tickets $10. 707- 431-7433
Nov 11 ~ Symphony of the Soil ~ The best thing we can do for our food supply is to grow and rebuild our soil. symphonyofthesoil.com. Film Series - Wednesdays, 7p, Sebastopol Grange, 6000 Hwy 12, Sebastopol. $5-10. 829- 2324. www.liteinitiatives.org
Nov 14 ~ Kumu Hina: The True Meaning of Aloha ~ presented by Cinema Numina. This film examines the essence of being transgender in traditional Hawaiian culture. $10. 7p at Church of the Incarnation, 550 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, www.meetup.com/Cinema-Numina/
Nov 22 - My Neighborhood ~ screening part of 2015 Mideast Film Festival. 2p, “A story that tells what happens when a Palestinian boy loses half of his home to Israeli settlers in East Jerusalem and how scores of Israelies choose to stand by the residents side.” Sonoma Community Center. 76 East Napa Street, Sonoma. www.facebook.com/sfjpp.
Nov 4 ~ Hemp & Kelp Will Help~
Sonoma Film Institute ~ Fridays at 7pm, Sundays at 4pm. Admission is $7, $6 for non-SSU students and senior citizens, $5 for SFI members and children under 12, and FREE for SSU students.There is a $5 parking fee on all Sonoma State University lots. INFO: www.sonoma. edu/sfi or call (707)664-2606.
Nov 6 & 8 ~ The Cut ~ Faith Akin’s epic drama about one man’s journey through the Ottoman Empire after surviging the 1915 Armenian genocide. The film tells the story of a young man who is deported from his village and must go in search of his daughters, to a diverse array of places from Turkey to Havana, to North Dakota.
Mark Rylance and Tom Hanks
FILM REVIEW ‘Bridge of Spies’ HHHHH
Nov 13, 15 ~ My Friend Victoria ~
By Don Gibble
Steven Spielberg is back fellow movielovers! This is his first film since
Based on the story ‘Victoria and the Staveneys’ by Nobel laureate (and oft-filmed author) Doris Lessing, MY FRIEND VICTORIA relocates its black London heroine to contemporary Paris.
“Lincoln” three years ago and is his fourth collaboration with Tom Hanks.
For people of Spielberg’s generation, the early years of the nuclear era and
the stand-off between the United States and the Soviet Union represents a significant part of the fabric of childhood. With the passage of time, it’s possible to tell stories of the time without furnishing them with overt propagandistic overlays, and for Westerners there is the added built-in appeal of the “we won” factor and the perception that dealing with adversaries was so much simpler then than it is now.
Nov 20, 22 ~ Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) ~ The third, and, many feel, the best of the five very personal features Roberto Rossellini made with Ingrid Bergman, JOURNEY TO ITALY is the key link between neo-realism and the subjective cinema of the early sixties.
As their focus in this impeccably rendered recreation of a moment in history, most palpably represented by the building of the Berlin Wall, Spielberg and screenwriters Matt Charman and Ethan and Joel Coen have chosen a sort-of Atticus Finch of the north, a principled, American Everyman insurance attorney unexpectedly paged to represent a high-level Soviet spy caught in New York. There is no question that Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) is guilty, but James
Dec 4 ~ Some Came Running ~ Frank Sinatra Centenary. Vincente Minnelli’s glorious larger-than-life melodrama is one of the highlights of Hollywood filmmaking in the 1950’s. Frank Sinatra plays a dissolute writer and war veteran who makes a misbegotten odyssey to his small hometown in Indiana and is immediately thrust into a hotbed of hypocrisy and bigotry.
B. Donovan (Hanks), a proper and decent family man with a professional dedication to his client and an abiding loyalty to the principles of the U.S. Constitution, has a quick and intuitive read of any legal situation and shrewdly stays at least one step ahead of the game in almost any situation.
Cinema Numina - Numina Center for Spirituality & the Arts 707-815- 1675 - The Church of the Incarnation, 550 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa. www.meetup.com/Cinema-Numina/ Nov 14 ~ Kuma Hina: The True
The story plays out over a period of five years, from the time when British- born Soviet spy Abel is captured in 1957 to the suspenseful moment in February 1962 when Abel is traded by the U.S. for captured U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers, who had been shot down in 1962, and an American student, Frederic Pryor. The wonderfully comprehensive but unstressed detailing of 1950s American life in the opening stretches slides the viewer ever so smoothly into the period, with a very different Brooklyn and New York subway system serving as convincing backdrops to the FBI’s pursuit of Soviet agent Abel as he paints a landscape on a lovely afternoon.
Meaning of Aloha ~ Kumu Hina is a powerful feature documentary about the struggle to maintain Pacific Islander culture and values within the Westernized society of modern day Hawaiʻi.
Plucked from the prosperous law firm where he is a partner to represent the resilient sad-sack of a client, Donovan has no chance of winning the case, but uncannily presents a strong argument for not putting Abel to death. All the same, his victory in this matter makes him seem disloyal, even traitorous; fellow subway riders give him the evil eye, his legal colleagues give him the cold shoulder and his house is even attacked at one point.
Rialto Cinemas: Bringing the Best Films in the World to Sonoma County. www.rialtocinemas.com. 6868 McKinley Street, Sebastopol.
Summerfield Cinemas: Sonoma County’s home for Art, Independent and Foreign Films. Summerfield Cinemas, 551 Summerfield Road, Santa Rosa. www. summerfieldcinemas.com
The Clover Theater ~ offers mainstream fare, as well as art-house programming including independent films and classics. www.clovertheater.com. 707.894.6347
Hanks makes Donovan into another of the actor’s Everyman characters, but one with very particular American “greatest generation” characteristics, such as unselfishness, modesty and fundamental adherence to core principles he’s been raised to value and live by. Rylance, one of the greatest ofcontemporary stage actors, has to date had only an intermittent screen career, but “Bridge of Spies” suggests that could be about to change. He brings fascination andvery, very subtle comic touches to a man who has made every effort to appear as bland, even invisible, as possible. The entire cast is engaging down the line. This film will receive many Oscar nominations. See this one in the theaters!
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