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Cutting to the chase, this week. Sorry, but I don’t have time to write more than the bare bones.
Okay, one comment: Two big festivals are hitting the Bay Area simultaneously: Cinequest (which I discussed last week) and the Tiburon International Film Festival. I’ll be providing only partial lists of the [...]

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Where are you going to watch the Academy Awards? (Yes, I know, many of you wouldn’t dream of watching them. Please excuse my absurd fascination with meaningless exercises in self-congratulations.) These days, thanks to many of the theaters I track here at Bayflicks, the Oscars can be a communal experience—even if [...]

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Let’s start with something fun. Click here for a very funny and short movie parody (actually a trailer parody). Enjoy. And then consider it an object lesson in the power of editing—context completely changing the meaning of what was filmed.
Editing is the great, overlooked filmmaking art. A few examples:
The shooting script [...]

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I guess the Oscars are now officially irrelevant. I know, a lot of my readers have considered them irrelevant for years, and while I follow them closely, I don’t take them seriously.
But I’m not talking here about people in Bayflicks’ demographics. After Brokeback Mountain’s Golden Globe victory, Dr. Ted Baehr of [...]

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