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Since I’ve posted all of the Jewish Film Festival descriptions before, this time I’m placing them at the end of the listings.
She’s Gotta Have It, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Saturday, 7:30. Spike Lee jumped from film school to the big time with this [...]

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I’m separating the Jewish Film Festival listings from everything else on this week’s list. So first:
Jewish Film Festival:
My Mexican Shivah, Castro, Monday, 6:45. Death brings families together”“even families that should probably remain apart. In Alejandro Springall’s mildly comic drama (Do we call these things a dramedy or a coma?), the death [...]

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Let me start with a list of titles:

1984
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Catch-22
The Great Gatsby
Moby Dick
The Old Man and the Sea
The Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Ulysses

And now, another [...]

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I spent Friday night and all day yesterday at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. I hate missing it today, but life sometimes gets in the way of movie-going.
Have I told you about the costumes? A great many people, mostly women, take the trouble to dress up for the festival. It’s great to see flappers [...]

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Ten Canoes, Lumiere, Shattuck, and Rafael, opening Friday. Don’t expect a conventional narrative made exotic by a pre-contact, aboriginal Australian setting. Ten Canoes feels more like a piece of native oral tradition recorded on film. While a [...]

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Since I last wrote you, I attended screenings at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and the Film Forum.
Last night, MOMA screened a selection of D.W. Griffith Biograph shorts, with piano accompaniment, in one theater, and Alfred Hitchcock’s only romantic comedy, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, in the other theater. A difficult [...]

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Sorry it’s taken so long to get back to you. I’ve been having Internet-connection problems (not to mention laptop hardware problems), and I decided that enjoying my New York vacation was more important than dealing with connectivity issues.
Of course, the very idea of this vacation brings up a question: Why visit NYC in the summer, [...]

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I’m writing this at 37,000 feet, enroute to New York, hoping my laptop’s battery holds out. The inflight movie, The Last Mimsy, is drawing to an end. I didn’t watch it, but my eyes are naturally drawn to moving images on a screen, so I glanced up every so often. I can’t [...]

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Happy Independence Day! In its honor, perhaps today you should see a wholesome, patriotic movie. Or an independent film. Me? I’m taking my daughter to see a movie about a French rat.Sorry I haven’t written much this week. I’ve been busy with paying work, and with preparing for a vacation. I’m [...]

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