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Summer at the Movies is Here!
By Date
Jun 21 ~ Documentary Film Screening of “A Thousand Cranes” - Talk by Veronica Bowers of Native Songbird Care and Conservation. $12-$25 Pre-register 7- 9p, Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation, 900 Sanford Rd., Heron Hall, Santa Rosa, 707- 527-9277, lagunafoundation.org
Jun 22 ~ Movie Night on the Square -
My favorite time of the year has arrived. The first film I’m excited about is the sequel to “The Incredibles”. It opens June 15th. It’s been 14 years since the original came out but you will remember all the characters, especially Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl. This of
course is appropriate for the whole family.
celebrations, At the Mendocino Coast $11-$12, 707-937-0171, mendocinofilmfestival.org/
707-545-1414, com/events
santarosametrochamber.
Jun 1 - 3 ~ Mendocino Film Festival - Filmmaker Q&As, panels,
La La Land. FREE, 6:30-10p, Old Courthouse Square, 600-636 4th St., SR,
I’m also excited about “Ocean’s 8”. It opens June 8th. Stars include Oscar winners Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathaway and Cate Blanchett. This is an expansion of Steven Soderbergh’s George Clooney-starring franchise. Opening June 1st is the San Francisco Film Festival hit, “A Kid Like Jake”. Starring Claire Danes and Jim Parsons. They play a married couple with a gender-nonconforming child. Timely subject!
Thru Jun 3 ~ Connections - To community, to family, to nature and to each other. Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Court, 707-874- 9392, occidentalcenterforthearts.org
Jun 3 ~ Ocean Song: Past
and Future - 40-year audio visual journey, community update. FREE, 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental, C e n t e r f o r t h e A r t s , 7 0 7- 8 74 - 9 3 9 2 , .occidentalcenterforthearts.org
Alexander Valley Film Society screenings on a jumbo screen, food & wine to support annual educational and cultural programs. TICKETS: 12 - $100, 6:30p, Cloverdale Citrus Fairgrounds, 1 Citrus Fair Dr., Cloverdale, avfilmsociety.org/ drive-ins
Jun 14 ~ Two documentaries - Israel’s abuse and imprisonment of Palestinian children. Arlene Francis Center FREE, 7-9p, 99 6th St. Santa Rosa, 707-494-9127
Jun 21 & 28, Jul 5, 12, 19, 26 ~
Cinema & Psyche - The Art of
the Heist. Study six masterworks of noir from the 50s to the 90s. Terry Ebinger, MS, blends film studies, archetypal psychology, cultural anthropology, dreaming, and myth. $135, 6:30-9:30p, SRJC, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Emeritus Hall, Room 1691, 707-527- 4011, cinemaandpsyche.com/film-noir- masterworks.html, dreamterry@gmail. com
Jun 24 ~ 4th Sunday Funday – Minions live to serve, but find themselves working for a continual series of unsuccessful masters. $6-$4 under 13, 10:30a, Rio Theater & Cafe, 20396 Bohemian Highway, Monte Rio, 707-520-4075, riotheater.com/calendar/
Jun 28 ~ Best of the Fest - Among Wolves Documentary. $10-$12, 6:30p, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 South High St., 707-829-4797, sebastopolfilmfestival.org
Jun 29 ~ “Coco” - The story of young boy who embarks on an extraordinary journey in the Land of the Dead. FREE, 7p, Green Music Center, 1801 E. Cotati Ave. Rohnert Park, gmc.sonoma.edu
Rialto Cinemas
rialtocinemas.com
June 6, 1p ~ Bolshoi Ballet - Coppelia, $16- $21, 1 and 6:30p
Jun 20 ~ Met Summer Encores - Madama Butterfly, $12.50, 1 and 6:30p
Jun 27 ~ Met Summer Encores, $12.50, 1 and 6:30p
For those of you who love mysteries will be
happy to see “Under the Silver Lake” starring
Andrew Garfield. It opens June 22nd. It’s
about Garfield’s character, who goes on a date
with his neighbor and then, the next day, she’s
vanished. Opening June 15th is the hilarious
“Tag” starring Jon Hamm and Ed Helms.
Imagine continuing to play the childhood
game tag into your adulthood. That’s the
premise of this comedy. I saw a preview yesterday and it was hilarious!
Jun 9 ~ Summer Drive-In Series -
The biggest release in June is “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”starring the very busy Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. It opens June 22nd.
The Mendocino
Film Festival opens
this weekend. Friday
they are having a
retrospective screening
of “My Family (Mi
Familia)” at 11am.
Director Gregory
Nava will be on hand
for Q&A after the
screening along with
two of the film’s stars,
Jimmy Smits and Esai
Morales. IF you’ve never been to Mendocino this is a perfect excuse. Gilda Radner fans will want to see the new documentary, “Love Gilda” at 8pm also this Friday. Call 707 937- 0171 for more information.
Bullshot Crummond at Curtain Call Theatre
“My Family” starring, Jimmy Smits and Esai Morales.
Before James Bond, before Austin Powers, before Clouseau, there was Captain Hugh “Bullshot” Crummond. This dashing, determined, deliriously funny detective is a former Olympic champion, flying
ace, auto racer, and all-round sporting chap who
For my live theater fans it’s very busy in June in the bay area. First at Spreckels in Rohnert Park is “The Mermaid”. Only two performances. June 18th and June 19th. It’s the ballet version of “The Little Mermaid”. Appropriate for the whole family. Call 707-937 0171 for more information.
fights the forces of evil wherever he encounters them.
At A.C.T. in San Francisco is the world premiere of “Man in the Moon”, based on the hit film starring Reese Witherspoon. In the summer of ‘69, America is on the brink of change. In the cities, crowds are protesting the Vietnam War
in the skies, Apollo 11 is speeding towards the first moon landing and at a Catskills resort near Woodstock, NY. Jewish housewife Pearl Kantrowitz is busy balancing her rebellious teenage daughter and her overworked husband. Call 415 749 2228 for more information.
When a beautiful damsel-in-distress asks him to rescue her scientist father, who was abducted and is being held prisoner, Bullshot leaps into action against his archnemesis, the devious Count Otto Von Brunno.
At the Green Music Center on June 27th is the very popular “Mormom Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square”. Call 866-955-6040 for more information. If you’ve ever wanted to meet Bill Clinton in person here’s your chance! He’s appearing with novelist James Patterson June 28th at 8pm at the SAP Center in San Jose. Call 408 287 7070 for more information.
Written in 1974, Bullshot Crummond is anything but politically correct, intentionally poking fun at, well, just about everything and everyone. We assert that we need to be able to laugh at just how seriously we take ourselves at times, in order
What ensues is a hilarious “tour-de-farce” in this rapid fire British comedy classic presented in contemporary Victorian Steam Punk costuming and props.
Email me with any questions to dongibblecast@hotmail.com.
Enjoy the summer!
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to renew our commitment to human rights and justice. So come and enjoy this zany send-up of all British spy movies of the 30’s with us and laugh your head off!
For reservations and performance times call 707-524-8739.