Last Wednesday night I had an opportunity to “Tesser” into Meg Murry’s magical world when I saw Ava DuVernay’s new film A Wrinkle in Time at the Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission’s local premiere. The film follows 13-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace and friend Calvin, accompanied by the three Misses: Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. […]
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Oscar-worthy
Way north of the Academy Awards ceremonies in Hollywood, Humboldt hosted its own glittery evening as the Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission and the Eureka Theater rolled out the red carpet for an Oscar viewing party and celebration of local filming. The swells showed up in tuxes and tulle, furs and fedoras, to sip cocktails in […]
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Out in the Woods with Primal Rage’s Bigfoot
If you brave tomorrow night’s North Coast premier of Primal Rage at the Eureka Theater, you might see a familiar face. No, not the shadowy figure from the Patterson-Gimlin film — Edward Olson, a Eureka High School alum and co-producer of the new Bigfoot feature, which is set for release nationwide on some 500 screens […]
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Bigfoot on the Big Screen
If you saw a film crew, a hairy suit and a lot of bare abs in the woods between 2015 and 2016, it may have been the cast and crew of Primal Rage, a Hollywood feature film about our local cryptozoological hero, Bigfoot. The movie, directed by Patrick Magee and starring Casey Gagliardi and Andrew […]
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Humboldt in the New Wrinkle Trailer
The trailer for director Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, part of which filmed here in Humboldt County, dropped during the American Music Awards last night. At last, the Venn diagram circles of movie buffs, sci-fi/fantasy nerds, YA fiction nuts, Humboldt boosters and Oprah Winfrey fans have all overlapped. The trailer […]
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No Spoilers: Woodshock’s Red Carpet Evening
On the evening of Saturday, Sept. 9, the line for the red-carpet special screening of Woodshock at the Minor Theatre wrapped around the block. The Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission and Minor Theatre co-hosted the catered event for the locals — scouts, transportation crew, extras and more — who participated in the film’s five weeks of […]
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Woodshock Sneak Peek
You can finally stop wondering what the hell is going on in that trippy Woodshock movie Kirsten Dunst filmed here in Humboldt two summers ago. On Saturday, Sept. 9, you can see it at a pair of special screenings at the Minor Theater, well ahead of the Sept. 29 regular local release. The Humboldt-Del Norte Film […]
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Spot the Humboldt Locations in the Woodshock Trailer
Hey, remember when Kirstin Dunst came to town and we totally became best friends and tried on shoes and ate macaroons just like in Marie Antoinette? What? That could have happened — you don’t know my life. Regardless, the trailer for Woodshock, the film she was shooting with directors Kate and Laura Mulleavy amid our majestic (and apparently […]
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First Contact: Steven Paul Judd’s Moving Pictures
When Kiowa-Choctaw artist Steven Paul Judd was a child, growing up on Indian reservations in Oklahoma and Mississippi, he contracted polio and had to go to the hospital. There, by his own account, he “saw TV for the first time.” It made a big impression. As luck would have it, the TV movie that was […]
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Watch Sara Bareilles’ Oscar Performance
There were some moving speeches and emotional twists at the Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, including Sara Bareilles‘ moving rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now,” performed during the In Memoriam montage of stars and industry greats who passed away in 2016. In case you missed it while microwaving more popcorn or hobnobbing at the Eureka […]
