Cinema series returns to Petaluma Campus
Courtesy of the Petaluma Cinema Series
The Petaluma Cinema Series offers a wide variety of films to fit all.
September 15, 2015
The Petaluma Cinema Series returns to Carole L. Ellis auditorium on Santa Rosa Junior College’s Petaluma campus.
Admission is free for Cubcard+ and Petaluma Film Alliance (PFA) members and is $6 for the general public and $5 for students and seniors. A series pass is available for $45 that will grant access to every screening and saves people $39 dollars. Parking for the general public is the standard $4 or a parking pass for the series is $20.
Each night of the series begins at 6 p.m. with an hour-long lecture by Michael Traina, director of the PFA, about film terminology and how to analyze content. The film begins at 7 p.m. and a discussion on the film and its impressions on the audience follows.
Safety Last, showing Sep. 16: A critically acclaimed silent comedy from 1923.A live musical performance by Rick Friend accompanies the screening. The story follows the hijinks of Harold Lloyd (Harold Lloyd), a hopeless romantic in a dead end job that must convince his love that he is wealthy and worthy of her amorous reciprocation.
White God, showing September 23: A Hungarian drama from 2014. Directed by Kornél Mundruczó, the film follows the life of a half-breed dog named Hagen after his owners shun him. As a result Hagen sparks a half-breed crusade consisting of 250 dogs that revolt against their human oppressors.