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A big, bright, high-definition image projected onto a giant screen—that’s what makes movies better than television! And no film format filled that screen better—at least for narrative fiction films—than 70mm, which dominated the biggest film presentations for [...]

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Sequel. The very word conjures up images of Hollywood at its most crass and commercial. Indeed, the term art house sequel sounds like an oxymoron. Yet in less than two years, we’ve had The Barbarian Invasions (Denys [...]

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Box office sales are down. Studios are making less from theaters that from DVD sales. There’s panic in the streets of LA.
There are plenty of theories as to why people have lost the theater habit. Mick LaSalle wrote an excellent article [...]

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Of all the ethnic/religious/sexual identity film festivals in the Bay Area, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is my favorite. What do you expect, I’m Jewish? For a few weeks every summer, I’m not the only person in the [...]

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First of all, I’d like to thank all of you who sent their condolences on the death in my family. I appreciated your kindness.
I had just started writing last week’s newsletter—about the Balboa’s Human/Nature Festival and the [...]

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