MIDDLETOWN — Coyote Film Festival, Lake County”s own independent film festival, will host two encore screenings of “Sherman”s Way” on Saturday at the Calpine Geothermal Visitors Center in Middletown with a 1:30 p.m. matinee and a 7:30 p.m. evening screening.
The Calpine Geothermal Visitors Center is located at 15500 Central Park Road in Middletown. There is plenty of parking, restrooms, great sound and a great screening room. Tickets are $10 at the door and $5 for children 16 and younger. Fresh popcorn and concessions will also be available.
In case you missed the Lake County premier of “Sherman”s Way” last September, here is another chance to see this comedy. Partially shot in Lake County, the film features locations in Kelseyville, Lakeport, Langtry Estates and Lampson Field Airport. Catch a glimpse of Lake County residents, friends and neighbors who are liberally sprinkled throughout the film.
“Like an annoying new puppy, ?Sherman”s Way” just wants to run around in circles and lick your face,” writes Jeannette Catsoulis with the New York Times. “After a while, though ? and against your better judgment — you kind of fall in love with it. Not that either of this movie”s lead characters, an elitist Yalie and a washed-up Olympian, is particularly admirable. As Sherman, a recent law school graduate and uptight mama”s boy, Michael Shulman embodies the kind of preppy privilege that”s a liability almost anywhere but Manhattan. But it”s James Le Gros, playing a disgruntled former ski champion named Palmer, who finally pulls you in …”
Coyote Film Festival is a fundraising arm of EcoArts of Lake County, a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization. For information, visit www.EcoArtsofLakeCounty.org.
