This is a follow-up to an earlier post, Indiana Jones and the First Running at the Castro. I’m assuming you’ve read that one. A PR representative was kind enough to get back to me on Monday with more information about this seeming change in policy: We had a substantial opening in our programming at the [...]
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Are we about to lose the Castro? Will it go the way of the Balboa and start carrying first-run Hollywood fare? A regular Bayflicks.net reader pointed me to a very frightening article on the SF Weekly web site, which directed me to a much less scary one at the Bay Area Reporter. I’ve also exchanged [...]
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Missing the old calendar I used to on this site? The Film on Film Foundation, which I’ve mentioned in the past, has started one. You’ll find it at www.filmonfilm.org/filmcalendar/. I hope the Foundation is able to keep it going.
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Something else from the San Francisco International Film Festival press conference, although it doesn’t directly concern the festival. Starting June 13, the San Francisco Film Society will take over one of the screens at the Kabuki for showing “programming similar to that of the…San Francisco International Film Festival. Films shown on the Film Society Screen [...]
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They’re screening a few classics this year, but not many? Aside from the already-mentioned Shampoo, they’re screening a newly-restored print of a classic Technicolor film noir (yeah, that does sound like an oxymoron) called Leave Her to Heaven. I haven’t seen it, and neither as Leggat, apparently, but he assured us that “Eddie Muller says [...]
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As I’m playing catch-up, I’ve noticed the big United Artists 90 Anniversary series at the Castro. Ten programs, nine of them double bills, of movies released by UA. Actually, there’s considerably more. The current Castro listings (from April 2nd through May 8th) have an additional seven double bills of exclusively United Artist releases. I have [...]
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Tuesday morning, Graham Leggat, Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Society, stood up at the St. Francis and officially announced the 51st annual San Francisco International Film Festival. The press conference was mercifully short. There was, of course, the usual long and boring thanks to the corporate sponsors–a preview of the long and boring [...]
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