Page 66 - Sonoma County Gazette February 2017

The Girl on the Train
Review by Diane McCurdy
The Girl on the Train will forever be
Feb 2 ~ Munich '72 and Beyond - A searing account of the kidnapping and murder of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the Munich Summer Olympics $10. - 7p -The Raven Theater 415 Center St. Healdsburg- crm.fundly.com/1138/ Pages/Events/#/Details/4203//
Feb 3 ~ First Friday Film Series 7:00p - returns with Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller, Rear Window (1954), Shultz Museum - 2301 Hardies Ln, Santa Rosa, CA schulzmuseum.org (707) 579-4452Cost: Free for members/$5 for public. Sponsored by Craig Schulz.
Feb 8 ~ Shelter - A Doumentary - takes us on an intimate journey into a grass roots organization (**Veterans Resource Center located in Santa Rosa) where veterans make a difference and care for their fellow veterans who have returned from war lost, damaged and homeless. Free - donations Accepted - Doors open at 6:30 pm, Film at 7pm, followed by a discussion. Jackson Theater Sonoma Country Day School 4400 Day School Place, Santa Rosa -www.vetsresource.org
Feb 8 ~ Screening of "Haunted Sonoma County" - including an intimate conversation with filmmaker Tom Wyrsch. Contact #: 707-778- 6242 Free - 5:30p - Hospice of Petaluma 416 Payran St. Petaluma
Feb 9 ~ Saul Landau's documentary film "Fidel” A Personal Portrait of a Political Legend." Filmed in May 1968 over a one week period, nine years after the revolution, Landau interviewed Castro and travelled with him around Cuba. 7-9p - Peace and Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Avenue, Santa Rosa
Feb 13 ~ Neruda - Alexander Film Festival - An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize- winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party. $10. - $14. 7p The Raven Film Center - 415 Center St Healdsburg
Feb 15 ~ Black History Month Film Series - Explore culture and history through film. Featuring the film Red Tails (PG- 13) The Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky. 5:30 - 7:30p Cloverdale Library - 401 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale
Feb 17 ~ A Film Screening - "Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age" -Delaney takes a deeply personal approach as she probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, including her own, to explore struggles over social media, video games, academics and internet addiction. $10 General / $5 12 and under / Free with Student/Faculty/Staff ID - 7p - Schroeder Hall at the Green Music Center 1801 E Cotati Ave. Rohnert Park
performances of the Live Cinema silent film program at 4 pm & 8:00p 45096 Cahto St, Mendocino Tickets: $10 - Details are available at eventbrite.com/e/short- films-then-now-tickets-31079895805
Feb 17 ~ West County Film Society Presents“Limon—A Life Beyond Words” Indie Film FREE, although donations are gratefully accepted. 6:30- 8:30p Occidental Center for the Arts - 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental
Feb 17 & 19 ~ Heat of the Night - Tibbs is teamed with a racist redneck sheriff (Steiger) to help investigate a murder in the Deep South. $5 Suggested Donation and $5 for parking fee - 7p on Friday Feb 17 & 4p on Sunday Feb 19 - Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall, Sonoma State University -1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park
Feb 23 ~ Film Night - Robeson, Songs of Freedom illuminates the importance of entertainer, athlete and activist, 7-9p - Peace and Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Avenue, Santa Rosa
A Benefit for Food for Thought. We present the 89th annual awards ceremony live and on the big screen! We have movie trivia contests, raffle prizes, prizes for best costume from a nominated film, and a grand prize for the audience member who correctly predicts all the winners! $30 includes 1 drink and 2 appetizers. Doors open at 3p, show starts at 5p - Rialto Cinemas - 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol
Call For Entries
31st Annual Wine Country Film Festival - Sept 2017 in Kenwood, CA. A showcase of independent shorts, docs & features from around the world. To submit: filmfreeway.com/festivals and enter wine country film festival. For more information: wcfilmfest@aol.com
Sonoma Film Institute ~ 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.
Feb 3 & 5 ~ Lupe Under the Sun Feb 10 & 12 Orignial Copy
Feb 17 & 18 In the Heat of the Night Feb 24 Lamb
Rialto Cinemas ~ Bringing the Best Films in the World to Sonoma County. www.rialtocinemas.com. 6868 McKinley Street, Sebastopol.Summerfield
Feb 2 ~ Amadeus (NR) 7p
Feb 11 ~ Nation Theatre Live: Amadeus (NR) 10am
Feb 13 ~ Indie Lens Pop-Up: The Bad Kids (NR) FREE - 1pm, 7pm
Feb 14 ~ Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake (NR) 1pm, 6:30pm
Feb 16 ~ National Theatre Live: Saint 7p Feb 22 ~I Claude Monet 1 & 7p
compared to another girl – Gone Girl. Both
anti-heroines were rst featured in best-seller
books and then their stories were made into
lms and ultimately DVD’s. Rosamund Pike
starred as the gone girl and the girl on the train
is Emily Blunt – both lovely British actresses.
Adapting the script from the novel by Paula
Hawkins, The Girl on the Train must have given the
screenwriter a massive headache because the story
is told from the point of view of three di erent women and
it see-saws back and forth in time. Rachel is the protagonist. Anna is Rachel’s ex-husband’s new wife. Megan is the nanny and it is her disappearance that supplies the arc of the story.
Feb 26 ~ Academy Night at the Rialto:
Rachel’s husband has left her and she has lost her job. She is overweight and alcoholic. In the book she is pitiful. But Rachel in the movie is portrayed by Emily Blunt. Her mascara may be smeared and her face blotched up a little but she is still Emily Blunt and gorgeous. Herein lies a aw. The audience is supposed to tune in to the miserable appearance and unhappiness of this woman but it is di cult to do that when she looks like Ms. Blunt. Anyway, Rachel pretends to go to work every day. She peers longingly out of the window of the commuter train onto the street where she once lived. And she sees a couple and revels in their seemingly idyllic relationship. They represent her ultimate fantasy, the true happiness that has evaded her. They are her Romeo and Juliet, Ken and Barbie. Then one day she sees the women do something untoward and soon afterward the woman vanishes. Into this mix lies another disturbing issue surrounding Rachel. When she goes on one of her drunken binges she sometimes has blackouts. She knows that recently, at some point, a terrible event occurred but she cannot remember what. Driven by her loneliness and desperate voyeurism, she becomes inextricably involved in the search for the missing woman.
Because this is a psychological thriller there is a perfunctory twist at the end, which is heavily foreshadowed but solid nonetheless. Justin Theroux stars as the ex-husband with cameos by Lisa Kudrow and Allison Janney. Rebecca Fergusson is his new wife and Haley Bennet is the one who has disappeared. Danny Elfman provides a moody, provocative score. The Girl on the Train is not a great movie, but it is good entertainment. There is suspense and mystery as the audience attempts to gure out the fate of the missing woman and what exactly did Rachel have to do with it.
Call to Film Makers: Peer Pitch West - Are you a documentary filmmaker with a work- in-progress at any stage of development? Are you looking for a supportive environment to give your pitch a test run? Do you want to help support your fellow filmmakers by providing them feedback? Peer Pitch West is an opportunity for documentary filmmakers to get and give feedback on pitches from other filmmakers. The window is open for registration. Peer Pitch can accommodate up to eight film projects and is designed to accommodate other filmmakers and film professionals as observer/respondents who will help provide feedback to the presenting filmmakers. Sign up now Space is extremely limited! The day is very tightly structured, and we can only accept the first eight pitch projects: Event held on Mar 24 2017 - 10a-4p -Little Red Hen Dining Room - Sebastopol Center for the Arts - 282 S. High St. Sebastopol -To register as a filmmaker or observer - sebastopolfilmfestival.org/peer-pitch-west
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Short Films: “Live Cinema” – a selection of films from the silent era Proceeds from the program will benefit the Mendocino High School Multimedia Arts Program. Fri 8:00 p & Sun. 1p Sat will feature two
Feb 17 thru 19 ~ Mendocino Film Festival