movies Archives - Oakland North

This week, The New Parkway Theater screens films that showcase Oakland

By Ryan Lindsay | September 21, 2016

Romeo Must Die. Fruitvale Station. Moneyball—or in other words, Oakland, Oakland, Oakland. For the first time, The New Parkway Theater is dedicating a full week to showing movies that are hella Oakland, from the actors to the locations and filmmakers.

A look inside The New Parkway

By Debora Silva | December 6, 2012 |

The New Parkway is nearly 8,000 square feet, has two floors and features two screening rooms with a seating capacity of 145 and 125 people each. The theater will have a full commercial kitchen and a café from which people will be able to order pizza, burgers, fries, salads, soups and appetizers, as well as vegetarian and vegan options.

The New Parkway theater gets ready to open its doors in Uptown Oakland

By Debora Silva | November 30, 2012 |

It’s Wednesday night and a party is underway in Uptown Oakland. Inside a blue building decorated with graffiti, over 200 people are celebrating the return of Oakland’s beloved Parkway movie theater, which will open its doors to the public before the end of the year. Managed by New Parkway Entertainment LLC, a group of 56…

Oakland Museum of California launches Summer Nights

By Anne-Sophie Braendlin | April 30, 2012 |

Now that the nights are getting longer and warmer, the Oakland Museum of California is introducing a new event: a monthly Summer Nights series that launched on Friday. Summer Nights events offer extended evening hours, half-price admission to all exhibits and galleries, as well as food and drink specials and special events such as book signings or screen printing demonstrations.

Home Movie Day helps old film reels see the light of day

By Jessie Schiewe | September 21, 2011 |

Submit a movie and you can finally find out what's on all those old movie reels in your attic!

Home movies are easy to define. According to Pamela Jean Vadakan, a former film collection assistant at the Pacific Film Archive, home movies are “personal moving images shot by an amateur (non-professional) of familiar subjects and familiar places.”

Oakland Art Murmur illuminates a hidden side of Pixar

By Karmah Elmusa | September 30, 2010

While visual art enthusiasts usually stick to the galleries during the Oakland Art Murmur, this Friday the film-heads in the crowd may want to linger in front of the Great Wall of Oakland for “Behind the Pixar Screen,” a nod to the artists who work at the beloved Emeryville animation studio.