Page 63 - Sonoma County Gazette December 2017

It’s that time of the year to spend as much time as you can with your family. The most fun way is to see a movie or play together. Movies you must see with your family include “Star Wars the Last Jedi” starring Mark Hamill and Daisy Ridley. Opens December 15. Carrie Fisher, who died last
December, makes her final appearance. In this new film, her character Leia is leading her scatter- shot Resistance, cut
Daisy Ridley in “Star Wars the Last Jedi”.
off from the Republic, whose leadership was obliterated in “The Force Awakens”. She’s also mourning Han Solo and his murder at the hands of their son, Kylo Ren, who has fully fallen to the dark side. We are lucky to have so many theaters in Sonoma
County to choose from to see this epic film. The Airport theater in Santa Rosa has the new amazing seats and the best parking. For some of you this is the only movie you wil lsee this holiday season so see it at the Airport!
Also opening in December is “Pitch Perfect 3” starring Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson. The Bellas are back! The first two movies were so enjoyable
I’m excited to spend 2 hours and get lost with the music. This opens December 22. Also opening December 22 is “Downsizing” starring Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig. This movie is very unique because it’s about an overpopulated world and scientists shrink humans to pocket size. Hopefully this movie will be better than the last movie with Matt Damon, “Suburbicon” which was very disappointing. Opening December 25 is “The Greatest Showman” starring Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron. This movie chronicles P.T. Barnum’s rags-to- riches tale as a musical, but with a twist: the songs sound like contemporary Top 40 hits. This movie should be seen by the whole family!
For my theater fans we have a lot to celebrate in December. Let’s start with Spreckels in Rohnert Park. They are continuing with “Little Women, the Musical” which ends
December 17. It’s directed
Judy Garland stars in “The Clock,” showing Dec 8 at Sonoma State University.
by Michael Ross and book by Allan Knee, based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott. For tickets call
707 588-3400. At the 6th Street Playhouse “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” premieres December 1 and goes through 23. Call 707 523-3544 for tickets. For fans of “The Nutcracker” you can see it this year
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Nov 28 ~ Jewish Film Festival ~ Rialto Cin- emas “Family Commitments”; $10, Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley Street, Sebasto- pol, 707-526-5538, sonomacounty.com/ sonoma-events/jewish-film-festival
Nov 30 ~ SRJC ~ “Heart of a Dog” - Lau- rie Anderson enchantingly weaves art, dream, autobiography, philosophy, and storytelling into an irreverent, poetic film memoir. Circling the depth con- nections between beauty, love, loss, memory, wonder, humor, and wisdom, she offers cinema as healing medicine. Free, 6:30-9:30p, Santa Rosa Junior Col- lege, 1501 Mendocino Ave., Emeritus Hall ~ Elliot Ave and Emeritus Circle,
Suggested donation is $5 and all dona- tions are tax deductible., Warren Audi- torium Sonoma State University Ives Hall, 1801 East Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, 707-664-2606, web.sonoma.edu/ sfi/schedule/, nicholse@sonoma.edu
Dec 8 ~ Sonoma Film Institute Sched- ule “The Clock” marks Judy Garland’s first non-musical star vehicle. On a two-day pass, Robert Walker’s gangly soldier clings to Garland’s sympathetic secretary for a whirlwind courtship in the hours before he ships overseas, only to lose her in the city’s rush Sug- gested donation is $5 and all donations are tax deductible., Warren Audito- rium Sonoma State University, Ives Hall, 1801 East Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, 707-664-2606, web.sonoma.edu/ sfi/schedule/, nicholse@sonoma.edu
Dec 16 ~ Rio Theater ~ C+C Movie Fac- tory presents 3rd Saturdays at the Rio. Every month we’ll be screening a cult or classic film from our favorite es- cape archives. Laugh your way into the holidays with Mike Myers and Nancy Travis antics in “So I Married an Axe Murderer.” 1993. 7p $8 Adults; $6 Ju- niors and Seniors, Rio Theater & Cafe, 20396 Bohemian Highway, Monte Rio, 707-520-4075, riotheater.com/calendar
in Cloverdale. Opens December 1 and closes December 10 at the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center. Call 707 829-2214 for tickets.
Luther Burbank Center for the Arts offers Mannheim Steamroller
Christmas by Chip Davis on November 29 and Transcendence Theatre’s
Broadway Holiday Spectacular December 1 through the 3rd and Tony
Bennett appears December 5. Call 707 546 3600 for tickets. Chris Isaak fans
will be happy to hear that he is appearing in Napa at the Uptown Theatre on Santa Rosa, dreamterry@gmail.com
December 7. Call 707 259 0123 for tickets.
Have a happy and relaxing Christmas and remember to email me any movie and theater questions to dongibblecast@hotmail.com
Dec 1 & 3 ~ Sonoma Film Institute Sched- ule - Martin Scorsese’s epic movie, “Si- lence,” follows two seventeenth-cen- tury Jesuit missionaries as they travel from Portugal to Japan in search of their missing mentor, who is believed to have rejected Christ under torture.
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