It’s not Cannes, but in 28 years, the Mill Valley Film Festival has earned a great deal of local respect. It doesn’t have quite the size or status of the San Francisco International Film Festival, but it’s [...]
Entries from September 2005
Mill Valley Film Festival
September 23rd, 2005 · No Comments
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3D at the Castro
September 19th, 2005 · No Comments
When the pressures of life conflict with the pressures of running a Web site, life wins. By life, I mean the Jewish High Holidays and some articles that (unlike this blog) I’m actually getting paid to write. [...]
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Nature Films and Anti-Nature Films
September 16th, 2005 · No Comments
I saw two similar and yet very different nature movies almost back-to-back this week. Similar in that they both dealt with large mammals living in the frigid North (as opposed to flightless birds in the frigid South), [...]
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Movies for the Week of September 9, 2005
September 9th, 2005 · No Comments
It seems odd to write about movies at a time like this. Our country is caught between the worst natural calamity to hit our shores in nearly a century and an idiotic president who doesn’t understand what [...]
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Surprising Summer Hits
September 2nd, 2005 · No Comments
There’s an interesting article on movie theaters in the August 22 issue of Time Magazine (the one with the “25 Most Influential Hispanics in America†cover). Titled “Is Luxury the Ticket?†it describes some theater chains that [...]
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