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Moonlight; I just don’t know what the buzz is about except for an incredible performance by Naomie Harris as the gay black boy’s drug-addled mother.
Arrival is a really intelligent science- ction piece focusing on the linguistic aspect, the di culty of communicating with extra- terrestrials.
Manchester by the Sea is well done, bleak, depressing but I’m not sure that Casey Affleck’s hang-dog portrayal is worthy of an Oscar.
PetalumaFilmAlliance- Wed. Nights at Carole L. Ellis Auditorium SRJC Petaluma Campus 680 Sonoma Mountain Parkway - General Admission: $6, Senior/Student: $5, Season Pass: $45, Parking: $4, Season Parking: $20 - Optional pre-Film lecture 6p; Film 7p; Post Screening Discussion until 10p - For more info: petalumafilmalliance.org/2017-spring- schedule/
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Mar 25 ~ Home for the Homeless, A Better Way about Tiny Houses - Homelessness and some new solutions. Social Action Film Series entitled Sparks of Hope, Healing through Innovation and Creativity. Free 7p-10p - Shomrei Torah 2600 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa .shomreitorah. org/community/social-action/.
Mar 30 ~ The Hunting Ground - One in Five women in college is sexually assaulted. Looks at rape culture on campuses and follow survivors pursuing both their education and justice. Free 10:30 - noon Room PC 657 SRJC Petaluma Campus Sonoma Mountain Pkwy #680, Petaluma events.santarosa.edu
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Some of these lms are already on DVD.
Others will be out shortly.
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Mar 8 ~ A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness A true story of "honor" killing in Pakistan. Free 12- 2p Center for Student Leadership, Room 4643 -SRJC 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa events.santarosa.edu/ event/womens-history-month-2017
Mar 9 ~ Code: Debugging the Gender Gap - Focuses on the lack of women & minorities in computer science/ software engineering. Free 3:30-5:30p Bertolini Student Center, 2nd floor Room 4731 -SRJC 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa events.santarosa.edu/ event/womens-history-month-2017
Mar 9 ~ 8th Annual Disability Services & Legal Center Film Festival - “Getting Up: The Tempt One Story” and “Down Under Mystery Tour”, about overcoming disability through the power of perseverance, humor and creativity. $10. - 6 -8p - Summerfield Cinemas 551 Summerfield Rd, Santa Rosa - MyDSLC. org - 707-636-3063, or Lake@MyDSLC. org
Mar 9 & 23 - Peace & Justice Center Documentary Film Series - Presenting Al Nakba, The Palestinian Catastrophe, a 2008 documentary explores history of Palestine from 1799 through today. Parts I and II on Mar 9, Parts III and IV on March 23. 7p Free to public, donations welcomed. Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave, Santa Rosa. peaceandjusticesonomaco.org
Mar 14 ~ Code: Debugging the Gender Gap - Focuses on the lack of women & minorities in computer science/ software engineering. Free 10:30 - Noon, Room PC 657 SRJC Petaluma Campus Sonoma Mountain Pkwy #680, Petaluma - events.santarosa.edu/ event/womens-history-month-2017
Mar 18 ~ Bodega Bay loves
Hitchcock! Celebrating the Master of Suspense “Bird’s” at 3:30pm and “Rear Window” at 7pm. Wine, beer, Spud Point clam chowder and more. $5-$18. Bodega Bay Grange 1370 Bodega Bay Ave. bodegabayhitchcock. brownpapertickets.com Benefits Bodega Bay Elementary and Tomales Elementary arts programs.
Mar 23 - 26 ~ Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival 5 venues in Sebastopol. Opening Night “Sacred”, Involves more than 40 filmmakers who travelled the globe in search of religious ceremonies. Dir. Thomas Lennon at opening. Mar 23 - 7p at Brent Auditorium Center for the Arts -282 S High St. $30 opening night, $10 all other films & events. sebastopolfilmfestival.org/
Mar 29 - Apr 2 ~ Sonoma International Film Festival -Benefitting multiple youth and arts programs in the Sonoma Valley, Featuring over 100 hand-selected films screened in six state-of-the-art, intimate venues all within walking distance of the historic Sonoma Plaza. Passes available at sonomafilmfest.org/ film-festival-tickets-events, 707-933-2600
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Mar 1 ~ Moonlight
Mar 8 ~ Lamb
Mar 15 ~ Nocturnal Animals Mar 29 ~ Lion
Apr 5 ~ La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Hacksaw Ridge features
a conscientious objector who becomes a war hero. It presents an irony that makes one weep.
Hell and High Water is a modern Western with the banks as the bad guys. Je Bridges as a crusty old coot is always good.
All screenings are in Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall on the Sonoma State University campus in Rohnert Park. Fridays at 7p, Sundays at 4p. $5 Donation - There is a $5 parking fee on all Sonoma State University lots. INFO: www.sonoma.edu/sfi or call (707)664-2606.
La La Land is a delightful, feel good romp with some great jazz, but best picture? Maybe most popular picture.
Fences is powerful and poignant with dynamite performances but it never really escapes from the con nes of the stage play from which is was adapted.
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Lion is about a little boy
in India who falls asleep on a train and wakes up hundred of miles away from his home. Enjoyment of his story is enhanced if one has seen the actual person interviewed on TV.
Mar 3 & 5 ~ La Chienne - Early sound 1931 film by French director Jean Renior. Unhappily married middle-aged bank clerk who becomes obsessed with a prostitute.
Mar 10 & 12 ~ Apur Sansar -Follows Apu into an arranged marriage with Aparna then 14, and a distant relative of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, an important Ray influence.
Mar 31 & Apr 2 ~ Forever - Zhang Yang (Shower, Paths of the Soul) adapts two novels by Tibetan writer Tashi Dawa for this stunning mystical epic about a killer on the run who is entrusted with a sacred mission.
Hidden Figures has it all: history, patriotism, feminism sterling performances. One of my three favorite movies was Nocturnal Animals. It lays out a story
Rialto Cinemas
within a story, an arti ce that Shakespeare loved. Amy Adams having discarded her author husband, Jake Gyllenhaal, years before receives a manuscript he has dedicated to her. The audience follows not only Amy but the violent characters within the draft. Directed by designer Tom Ford, the production is highly stylized, symbols and foreshadowing abound. It is stunning, unique and intriguing.
Bringing the Best Films in the World to Sonoma County. www.rialtocinemas.com. 6868 McKinley Street, Sebastopol.
Silence has been a passion project for director, Martin Scorsese, for more than twenty years. In 17th century Japan two Portuguese Jesuit priests search
for their mentor, Liam Neeson. Harsh and brutal but always beautifully photographed Scorsese has always been obsessed with ethical and moral ambiguity. At two and one half hours it may be a struggle but worth it.
Captain Fantastic revolves around an uber-hippie family group who have escaped to live in the wilds of the northwestern forests. When the mother dies, her funeral necessitates a foray into the decadence of society. Viggo Mortensen gives a standout performance as the captain.
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Mar 14 - On the Map
Mar 21 - Apples from the Desert
Israeli Film Festival presented by Sonoma County Jewish Community Center, shows at 1p and 6:30p
Mar 7 - The Women’s Balcony
Summer eld Cinemas
Cinemas, 551 Summerfield Road, Santa Rosa. sregmovies.com Sebastopol Special Events - $18 - $25 unless stated otherwise Mar 1 ~ Met Opera Live in HD 1 & 7pm Mar 2 ~ Broadway Musical (PG) 7pm Mar 4 ~ Saint Joan (NR)4 10am
Mar 8 ~ I, Claude Monet (NR) 4pm Mar 11 ~ The Broadway Musical (PG)10:30am