Category - Monthly Film Series
Posted - 02/24/2013 10:00am Film - Murphy's Pub - Tuesday, Feb. 24
Category - Films,Monthly Cinema
Posted - 10/23/2012 05:05pm A Royal Affair
Date: Monday, Nov. 5Time: 6:00 PM Doors Open / 7:00 PM Film
Sebastiani Theatre
476 First St. East / Sonoma
A Royal Affair (Danish: En kongelig affære) is a historical drama film directed by Nikolaj Arcel, starring Mads Mikkelsen, Alicia Vikander and Mikkel Følsgaard. The story is set in the 18th century, at the court of the mentally ill King Christian VII of Denmark, and focuses on the romance between the queen and the royal physician Struensee.
The film competed in competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival[1] and has been selected as the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards.
Category - Film,Monthly Cinema
Posted - 10/07/2012 10:00am A Liar's Authobiography
Friday, Nov. 16A Liar's Authobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
Murphy's Pub
2 Shows
1st Show: Doors Open at 5:45 PM
2nd Show: Doors Open at 8:45 PM
Category - Film, Monthly Cinema
Posted - 10/06/2012 10:00am My Worst Nightmare
Monday, Oct. 15Category - Film
Posted - 05/31/2012 10:00am Monthly Cinema Series
HELENO
Monday, June 18
Reception at 6:00 pm
Film starts at 7:00 pm
at Murphy's Irish Pub
Tickets: $20 (includes appetizers & a drink ticket).
Heleno depicts the rise and fall of famed Brazilian footballer Heleno de Freitas (Rodrigo Santoro), whose aggressive style revolutionized the sport. The film’s chronology alternates between the forties, when Heleno was at the top of his game, and the late fifties, when he spent his last days in a sanatorium. Reminiscent of Raging Bull, Heleno tells the story of a talented athlete whose arrogance and violent temper would destroy his life both on and off the pitch.
In the early forties, Rio was a glamorous oasis in a world ravaged by war. Fonseca conjures this epoch in high-contrast black and white, evoking the films of the classic Hollywood era. We follow the womanizing Heleno from Rio’s nightclubs to his room at the Copacabana Palace; from practice on the beach to games starring for his beloved Botafogo. His dream is to lead Brazil to victory at the World Cup, but the faraway war in Europe prompts the cancellation of both the 1942 and 1946 tournaments. By 1950, Heleno is in decline. His untreated syphilis, hotheaded attitude and unwillingness to be a team player eventually cause him to be sold to the Boca Juniors in Argentina, while his ongoing affair with a nightclub singer leads to his wife and son’s estrangement.
Fonseca expertly captures both the mood and beauty of his film’s setting, as well the excitement of football at such a seminal point in its history. (An exquisite attention to detail during the game sequences adds an authenticity that fans of both the sport and the cinema will appreciate.) Santoro gives the performance of his career, effortlessly evoking Heleno’s glory days in a delectable combination of the cocksure and the charismatic. Most poignantly, we see him witness the historic ascension of Pelé, who led Brazil to World Cup victory in 1958 and eclipsed Heleno’s legend forever.
-- written by Diana Sanchez, Toronto International Film Festival
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Category - Film
Posted - 05/29/2012 10:00am Take this Walz
SPECIAL EVENT
An Evening of Food, Wine, Dance & Film
at Gundlach Bundschu Winery
featuring the film
TAKE THIS WALTZ
Saturday, June 30
from 6:00 to 11:00 pm
Tickets:
- $35 (regular: includes music, film & 2 wine tickets)
- $50 (VIP: includes designated hilltop VIP area)
An evening with live music by Crossfire, northern California's premiere dance, show & party band, wines by Gundlach Bundschu and food by Crossroad Chicken and Ultra Crepes.
Featuring a sneak preview screening of TAKE THIS WALTZ, starring Michelle Williams and Seth Rogan and directed by Sarah Polley, whose directorial debut AWAY FROM HER screened at the 2007 Sonoma International Film Festival.
Michelle Williamsplays 28-year-old Margot, happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable. Warmly human, funny and bittersweet, TAKE THIS WALTZ deftly avoids romantic clichés and paints an unusually true and unsentimental portrait of adult relationships.
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