Americans of Asian descent make films here, in Japan, China, France, and Australia. A large number of these films come to the Bay Area next month. The 26th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (AKA, the Film Festival with a Very Long Name) opens March 13 for an 11-day run in the City, Berkeley, [...]
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Documentary Directed by Daniel Gold and Judith Heifand The first question Everything’s Cool brings to mind is “Why do we need another documentary about global warming?” The people distributing Everything’s Cool must have aksed that themselves, and came up with an answer: “Because this documentary about global warming is funny.” But calling Daniel Gold and [...]
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The Oscar ceremony–with or without screenwriters–is less than two weeks away. Most people have three options for Oscar night (Sunday, February 24 this year): You can stay at home and watch them on TV, attend a private Oscar party, or just ignore the whole thing. But the type of people who visit Bayflicks have another [...]
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I just received the strangest press release. It was from the Insurance Information Institute, “a nonprofit, communications organization supported by the insurance industry.” Not really my kind of organization. But the subject was movies. The release proudly announced the “top ten insurance films of all time.” And no, these aren’t educational shorts with titles like [...]
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I caught Blade Runner: The Final Cut yesterday at the Cerrito. According to Wikipedia, this is the seventh version of the movie. I hope the powers that be respect that Final in the title–if only for the sake of everyone’s sanity. To be fair, three of those previous cuts shouldn’t really count. Two were preview [...]
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The online independent film distribution company Cinequest brings its 18th Film Festival to San Jose February 27 through March 9 with “over 150 films from around the world.” In addition to the screenings, the festival includes four workshops for hopeful filmmakers: one on distribution, one on writing, and two on “Sight, Sound & the Dollar [...]
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Historical epic Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson’s small, character-driven films feel like epics, so there’s no surprise that he’d eventually try the real thing. Or that he’d get it right. Based on a Upton Sinclair novel called Oil! (the name change makes no sense), There Will be Blood is big, [...]
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