Last-Minute Additions to the Mendocino Film Festival!
By director on Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 in News.
By director on Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 in News.
By director on Sunday, April 24th, 2022 in News.
Tom Killion – Cuffeys Cove. The 15th annual Mendocino Film Festival has announced its 2022 schedule of films and events for June 2-5. A diverse lineup of nearly 60 films, special panels, workshops and visiting filmmakers will make Mendocino the epicenter of film in NorCal this June. The film line-up includes 35 feature films, including Read the full article…
By director on Friday, October 22nd, 2021 in 2022, Mendocino Village, Spotlight Programs, year-round.
For as long as they’ve been around, film festivals have been places to watch movies you might not otherwise get to see-smaller films, foreign imports, or the stuff that is just too weird to ever make it to the multiplex. But in the age of Netflix and its ever-multiplying streaming service offspring, finding things to Read the full article…
By director on Sunday, August 29th, 2021 in 2021, year-round.
There’s a moment early on in Mel Brooks’s 1974 parody of the classic Boris Karloff Frankenstein films that encapsulates Gene Wilder’s inspired performance as Frederick “Frahnk-en-steen.” He’s teaching neurology, a respectable scientist running from his family legacy of not-so-respectable scientists-a sore spot one student presses him on until Wilder, emphatically denouncing his ancestry, unwittingly plunges Read the full article…
By director on Tuesday, July 20th, 2021 in 2021, year-round.
The Mendocino Film Festival and the Skunk Train proudly present Cinema in the Redwoods, a unique twist on the outdoor movie experience. Join us as we board the incomparable Skunk Train in Fort Bragg on August 20th and 21st at 6:30pm and cruise to an open meadow at the Glen for a screening Read the full article…
By Kristin Suratt on Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 in 2019, Crown Hall, Documentary, Mendocino Village, News.
A Tuba to Cuba traces the journey of Ben Jaffe and The Preservation Hall Brass Band as they unearth the spiritual and cultural connection between Afro-Caribbean music and New Orleans jazz. Listen to Jeff Zolitor’s KZYX interview with Directors T.G. Herrington and Danny Clinch Allan and Sandra Jaffe were vacationing in New Orleans when they Read the full article…
By Kristin Suratt on Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 in 2019, Documentary, Matheson PAC, Mendocino Village, News.
Satan and Adam, a film by Scott Balcerek about the unlikely partnership of renowned bluesman Sterling Magee “Mr. Satan” and young Princeton graduate Adam Gussow took twenty-three years to make. The film is a musical and spiritual odyssey between two men who developed a loving and fierce friendship, and went from singing on a street Read the full article…
By Kristin Suratt on Monday, May 27th, 2019 in 2019, Documentary, Matheson PAC, Mendocino Village, News.
Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly is a powerful documentary depicting the Alcatraz exhibit @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, organized in 2014 by Cheryl Haines, the film’s director. Haines met Ai WeiWei in 2008, and their friendship developed over the following years. When Ai WeiWei was detained by Chinese authorities in 2011, Haines wanted to do something Read the full article…
By Kristin Suratt on Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 in 2019, Matheson PAC, Mendocino Village, Narrative, News.
In A Bread Factory, Patrick Wang’s award-winning two-part film, the director and his team construct a moving and spirited narrative about two women who move to a small town and buy an abandoned bread factory. In A Bread Factory Part I: For The Sake of Gold, Dorothea and Greta transform the factory into an arts Read the full article…
By Kristin Suratt on Friday, May 17th, 2019 in 2019, Coast Cinemas, Documentary, Fort Bragg, News.
Afghan Cycles uses the bicycle to tell a story of women’s rights–human rights–and the struggles faced by Afghan women on a daily basis, from discrimination to abuse, to oppressive silencing of their voices in all aspects of contemporary society. These women ride despite cultural barriers, despite lack of infrastructure, even despite death threats. Afghan Cycles Read the full article…