"Love Her Madly"

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Fest of the West

Rock-star filmmakers bookend a provocative program at the Santa Cruz Film Festival

By WALLACE BAINE

Sentinel staff writer

Bernard Shakey isn’t the kind of name that’s going to drag you away from the NBA Playoffs and down to the local theater. But there’s something you should know about the enigmatic Mr. Shakey before you write off the Santa Cruz Film Festival as only something film geeks do: He’s had quite a career in another field where he answered to the name Neil Young.

Rock’s most brilliant iconoclast is now a psuedonymed director and his new film, "Greendale," opens the third annual Santa Cruz Film Festival on May 13.

And like a good three-minute rock song, the opening riff returns at the end when another famous rock ’n’ roll hall-of-famer, Doors keyboard master Ray Manzarek, comes to town with his most recent film, the thriller "Love Her Madly," based on a short story by another former film student who did OK in the music industry, Jim Morrison.

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