SANTA ROSA FILM FESTIVAL - Santa Rosa International Film Festival

Summerfield Cinemas 2, 7:15 pm
DIR:
Oliver
Stone
122
Minutes,
1986,
USA
Roxy 3, 9:00 pm
DIR: Brian
de Palma
170
Minutes,
1983,
USA
Salvador - 25th Anniversary:
Evening with John Savage
Cinema of Conscience
The 25th Anniversary of Salvador is a perfect
celebration for the SRIFF, as it is our
25th Anniversary as Wine Country Film
Festival. We had the film 25 years ago and
were privileged to have Co-Writer Richard
Boyle on our Cinema of Conscience panel.
He is the real life character James Woods
portrays in the film.
Set in El Salvador, the film traces a war photographer’s
steps into a moment in history.
This year we are honored to have John Savage
with us to give particular insight into
the making of the film, as well as the rest
of his career.
Scarface
US Cinema
This ground-breaking 1983 film was written
by Oliver Stone. Nearly thirty years on,
Scarface’s legacy remains confirmed and
its “the higher they fly, the harder they fall”
message will eternally ring true.
Sunday, September 18 Sunday, September 18 Mon., Sept 19
Deerfield Ranch Al Fresco, 8:00 pm
DIR: Marc
Evans
PROD:
Rebekah
Gilbertson,
Flora
Fernandez-
Marengo
ED: Mali
Evans
MUS:
Joseph
LoDuca
CAST:
Matthew
Rhys,
Marta
Lubos,
Nahuel
Pérez Biscayart,
Nia
Roberts,
Matthew
Gravelle
120
Minutes,
2010,
Argentina,
UK
Patagonia
Quests for Roots at the End of
the World
Cine Latino
In May 1865, 163 Welsh men, women and
children set sail to flee the poverty of their
hill farms and to find a promised land
where they could prosper. Two months later,
the Welsh came ashore in Patagonia, Argentina.
Years later, two on-the-road stories
of love and identity prove that the dream of
Patagonia is still alive today.
Cerys, an old diabetic woman (Marta Lubos),
tricks her neighbor’s misanthropic
son, Alejandro (Nahuel Perez Biscayart),
into traveling with her to Wales, to find the
farm her immigrant mother grew up on,
and ends up broadening his horizons far
beyond anything could have imagined.
Gwen (Nia Roberts) and Rhys (Matthew
Gravelle), a young couple, take a trip to Patagonia.
Their journey takes an unexpected
twist and turns into a love triangle with the
entrance of their tour guide (Matthew Rhys)
that puts their relationship to the test.
The cast brings the characters’ wants and
dreams to life. With beautiful backdrops
and breathtaking cinematography, Patagonia
explores cultural identity across multiple
generations and is, itself, a beautiful
example of the festival’s phrase “terroir of
cinema”—the attributes, tastes and cultural
distinctions that reflect the roots of the filmmakers
and subjects they focus on.
Happening at Deerfield Ranch Sun.!
Food: The Yeti 6:30Ppm - 8:30pm
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 8:30 pm
East Fifth Bliss
52 53
DIR:
Michael
Knowles
PROD:
Michael
Knowles,
Douglas
Matejka,
John Ramos,
John
Will
MUS:
Daniel
Alcheh
CAST:
Michael C.
Hall, Lucy
Liu, Sarah
Shahi. Peter
Fonda,
Rhea Perlman,
Brie
Larson
97
Minutes,
2011,
USA
ALSO PLAYING: Saturday, Sept. 17, 4 pm
Summerfield Cinemas 3
US Cinema
Adapted from an award-winning novel
by Douglas Light and featuring such high
profile names as Peter Fonda (Easy Rider),
Lucy Liu (Charlie’s Angels) and Michael C.
Hall (Dexter), East Fifth Bliss is the story of
a man due for an unexpected and overdue
awakening from his dreary life.
Thirty-five-year-old Morris Bliss is trapped
in an urban catch-22. He wants to travel,
but has no money. He needs a job, but has
no prospects. Adding to his woes, he shares
an apartment on New York City’s Lower
East Side with his widowed father and is
still haunted by his mother’s premature
death. But when Stephanie, the highly sexual
eighteen-year-old daughter of a former
high school classmate comes into his life,
an awkward relationship ensues and suddenly
Morris finds himself fighting to keep
his life from spinning out of control.
Moving, funny and full of thought-provoking
social commentary, East Fifth Bliss
is a film that will send audiences on a
wild roller coaster ride close to the edge.
-James Conrad
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 2:00 pm
DIR:
Steven
Besserman
SCR:
Steven
Besserman,
Aranka
Mozes
Besserman
CAM:
Gerardo
Puglia
ED: Ivan-
Drufovka
MUS:
Allen
Krantz
FEATUR-
ING: M.
Katrin
Daria
65
Minutes,
2010,
USA
ALSO PLAYING: Sunday, Sept. 18, 1:00 pm
Summerfield Cinemas 3
Only a Number
West Coast Premiere
Cinema of Conscience
Stephen Besserman’s parents, Aranka and
Joseph, are survivors of the Holocaust. Both
have numbers tattooed on the inside of
their left arm: hers is A17855, his is 159337.
To better understand his parents’ history,
he travels to Europe and follows the same
path his mother did. Starting in her home of
Atkar, Hungary, he moves on to Auschwitz-
Birkenau in Poland, the place where she
began her descent into hell and where she
became only a number to the Nazis. Then
he moves to Waldlager in Muhldorf, Germany
to the concentration camp where his
parents met, fell in love and found the will
to live. The journey continues to Troubing,
Germany, where they married, and finally
onto America to begin a new, free life.
While a majority of the film is narrated by
his mother’s words, the film’s interspersed
dialogue beautifully depicts Besserman’s
ambivalent feelings about the Holocaust
because had such a horrific event not occurred,
he may not have come to be.