Arts & Entertainment
Gallery: Film Festival's Opening Night Festivities
The 16th Sonoma International Film Festival came to life last night, with at least two kick-off receptions and a local premiere of "The Iceman"
From the first gathering of film aficionados at MacArthur Place to the Opening Night After-Party at General's Daughter, this year's Sonoma International Film Festival was dizzy with its own excitement.
In between, tough-guy actor Ray Liotta and director Ariel Vroman screened the new gangland action film "The Iceman," starring Michael Shannon as a cold, pent-up mob assassin trying to maintain a normal family life. The two-hour movie was screened to a packed house at Sebastiani Theatre.
Sponsors and SIFF Passholders mingled with the directors and producers of some of the 100-plus films in the festival at all events, and danced to the Clapton-esque blues rock of Eight Street 5 at the General's Daughter mansion on West Spain.
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But it was just foreshadowing, as they say in the movies, of the excitement yet to come. Stick with Patch throughout, as we endeavor to cover the films and events of this year's Sonoma International Film Festival daily.
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