Worried that October doesn’t have enough film festivals? Here’s another. The 11th United Nations Association Film Festival runs October 19-26 in various Bay Area location. It will screen 41 films from assorted countries. This year’s theme is Blue Planet, Green Planet. I have not seen any of the films listed, and between other festivals, Jewish [...]
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The great film director John Ford was a religious Catholic who, as a young man, fell in love with a Protestant divorcee. Since Ford’s church didn’t approve of the union, they married elsewhere. (Decades later, after she had converted and her first husband died, they finally got their church wedding.) Excuse me while I go [...]
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I picked up the October-December Rafael schedule Sunday. The schedule doesn’t list everything the triplex will show, mostly just the special events, but they’ve got some good stuff. Very little of this in on their web site yet, so I can’t provide many links; and some that I do provide are to my own reviews [...]
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I saw two movies today after Mishima, but didn’t get a chance to write them up until now. It’s hard to talk about Burning the Future: Coal in America as cinematic art. This documentary about the environmental effects on mountaintop mining is propaganda, pure and simple. But as I’m in complete sympathy with its message–that [...]
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Just saw Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters at the Rafael. Part of the Mill Valley Film Festival, of course. I’ve never seen it before, and this is a new “Enhansed” version created for Criterion DVD release. One scene restored (I don’t know which) and some digital trickery added. Well, it was co-produced [...]
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Odd how these things work. I’ve lived in the Bay Area for 33 years. I even lived in Marin County the first 17 months of that (around the corner from the Rafael, actually). Yet until today, I don’t believe I have ever been in downtown Mill Valley. (Up until this year, every Mill Valley Film [...]
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