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OUTwatch – Wine Country’s LGBTQI Film Festival Brings the Best of International Queer Cinema to the North Bay Oct. 4 -6

As the LGBTQI Community both honors and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, OUTwatch – Wine Country’s LGBTQI Film Festival has tagged this year’s event as “Irrepressible.”  We honor those individuals and groups who fought for LGBTQI rights bringing us to this point in time, where we both enjoy the many advancements but both struggle to keep those civil rights and expand them to our entire community. This year the festival will happen at our permanent home Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol, which this year is celebrating 20 years of “Bringing the Best Films in the World to Sonoma […]

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Reading Cinemas in Rohnert Park Presents Horror-Fest

Reading Cinemas gets into the spirit of October with “Horror-Fest” by showcasing a classic horror film every Wednesday night (except Oct. 30) including Hitchcock’s PSYCHO on Halloween. All tickets are $11 and shows start at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at the box office, or guests may conveniently purchase tickets in advance online, or download the Reading Cinemas USA app. For more information please visit ReadingCinemasUs.com, or follow us on Facebook @RohnertPark16, or on Twitter and Instagram @ReadingCinemas. HORROR-FEST SCHEDULEReading Cinemas Valley Plaza 28 DAYS LATER (2002)OCTOBER 2 @ 7PMFour weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful […]

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Mill Valley Film Fest Happens October 3 – 13

The Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF), presented annually by the California Film Institute (CFI), announced today the complete lineup of films, special guests, Tributes & Spotlights, special events, MVFF Music, and much more for the 42nd edition of the Festival. The Festival will showcase the finest cinema around Marin County October 3-13, 2019 with a diverse lineup of acclaimed films, filmmakers, and special events. The Festival will present twelve World Premieres, eleven North American Premieres, and seventeen US Premieres. Opening NightJUST MERCYIn Monroeville, Alabama—To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee’s lifelong home—African American Walter McMillian (Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx) was sentenced to death […]

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Free Screening of ‘UNSETTLED: Seeking Refuge in America’ st The Rafael Theater in San Rafael

September 16 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Bay Area filmmaker Tom Shepard’s powerful new documentary tells the untold stories of LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers who have fled intense persecution in their home countries and are attempting to resettle in the United States. The film follows four new arrivals, each of whom have escaped potential peril in their native countries for being different. They’ve landed in the purported “gay mecca” of San Francisco yet, even here, building a new life in an adopted nation is a precarious undertaking. As the current Administration continues to restrict immigrants and drastically cut the flow […]

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Clara Bradbury-Rance Talks Lesbian Visibility in Film

A new cinema text of note, Clara Bradbury-Rance’s Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory (Edinburgh University Press) seeks to take an overdue dive into the long-standing conversation about visibility and representation in film. Grounding her research to an octet of films—Mulholland Drive, Nathalie…, Chloe, Water Lilies, She Monkeys, Blue Is the Warmest Color, and Carol—she offers new ways of thinking about the queer moving image. Lambda Literary recently spoke to Clara about Lesbian Cinema and lesbian cinema alike. You’ve made a compelling case for the importance in distilling lesbian characters from ‘queer,’ while deploying queer theory as a way of analyzing these figures. Why this distinction, and this collaboration between disciplines? Well, […]

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Line Up for SF Jewish Film Festival Announced

The Jewish Film Institute (JFI) announces the complete lineup for the 39th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF), which will return to the Bay Area July 18th to August 4th, 2019. Tickets are now on sale for all programs. “As we celebrate our 39th year, it is an inspiring time to be part of the global film culture and the Jewish Film Institute is participating in that conversation. The changes of the past few years have resulted in the incredible diversity of films and filmmakers that are reflected in this year’s lineup at the first and still the largest Jewish Film […]

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Frameline43 Film Review: “Family Members”

Gay teen Lucas and his older sister Gilda haven’t gotten along for years, but they are reluctantly journeying together to the family’s beach house to remember their mother, who has recently died. Determined to pay their last respects and be gone by morning, the two soon find themselves marooned in the sleepy Argentinian coastal town by a bus strike. Now stuck indefinitely, the siblings become embroiled in their rocky reunion, struggling to leave the past behind while facing an uncertain future. Director Mateo Bendesky’s bittersweet and funny coming-of-age tale is refreshingly original and touching, as his two remarkable young actors […]

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Frameline43 Film Review: “Kattumaram”

In a small village ravaged by a tsunami, Singaram works as a fisherman to care for his orphaned niece and nephew. Despite her uncle’s tireless bids to find a groom for her, Anandhi rejects all efforts to get her married off, instead focusing on her work as a schoolteacher. When a new photography instructor named Kavita arrives at the school, Anandhi finds an instant connection with her. As their friendship begins to blossom into something more, Anandhi must face her feelings and the consequences they will bring in this conservative society. Kattumaram is a heartfelt look at the strength of community […]

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Frameline43 Film Review: “Vita and Virginia”

The opening scene of Vita & Virginia, Chanya Button’s look at the literary lesbian love affair between legendary writers Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf baits all of us who have been eagerly awaiting this film. Gemma Arterton’s Vita declares during a public radio segment alongside her husband that she that marriage is a prison for women, along with a slew of other bold statements about the liberation of our gender.  Listening with rapt attention is Virginia Woolf, squirreled away in her secluded writing room, huddle in front of her radio. Vita quips about wanting to meet Virginia just before signing off. Every lesbian […]

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Frameline43 Film Review: “More Beautiful for Having Been Broken”

In the new drama from director Nicole Conn (Claire of the Moon; Elena Undone, Frameline34), boy wonder Freddie, who lives with a chronic illness, charms three broken women into his healing embrace. His single mother Samantha tries to cope by dancing, newcomer McKenzie runs, and Vivienne drinks. Each is isolated. Nothing but surrendering to passion, trusting in life, and receiving a greater love can fully help them move through their intertwined grief and loss. McKenzie (Zoe Ventoura) just wants to be left alone in the glorious Northern California mountains to outrun the pain of losing her mother, but Freddie (an […]

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