These are my unedited notes from the SFIFF press conference. I don’t have Internet access here at the Westin, so I’ll post this as soon as I can. When I get a chance, I will post an edited version. Update: I had that chance. You’ll find a more readable version here. I’m not totally comfortable [...]
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I would have included this in the weekly newsletter, but I just found out about it this morning. This Saturday, Industrial Light and Magic lead animator Charles Alleneck will appear at the Balboa to discuss his work on Rango and other movies. He’ll talk after the 7:00 show and before the 9:10 screening. In addition [...]
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With its celebration of technology and independent filmmaking, Cinequest always seemed like a festival I should attend. But San Jose a big schlep for me, and I’ve yet to make it. But that doesn’t mean you should miss it. It runs the first 12 days of March. The festival kicks off this year with Passsione, [...]
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The rule used to be that you watched movies in theaters and TV at home. Today, so many of us watch movies at home that we need to get out once in awhile to watch TV in the theater. And why not do it with the biggest movie night on television: The Academy Awards? Comedy [...]
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Last month I explained the three types of film festivals: identity festivals, which focus on ethnic, religious, racial, and gender identities, genre festivals, which look at particular kinds of movies and generic film festivals. There’s a fourth kind: Advocacy film festivals. The latest addition to the Bay Area pantheon, the Green Film Festival, falls into [...]
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I’ve previewed three films coming to IndieFest. Here’s what I thought about them. B+ The Drummond Will, Roxie, Friday, February 4, 7:00; Sunday, February 6, 2:30; Monday, February 7, 7:00. No one can make murder funny like the British. In this low-budget comedy, two very different brothers inherent a ramshackle house from the father neither [...]
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I tend to put film festivals into three categories. First, you’ve got identity festivals, which focus on the many ethnic, religious, racial, and gender ways in which people group themselves (the Jewish Film Festival, Frameline, and so one). Second, you have genre festivals, which look at particular kinds of movies (Noir City, Silent Film Festival). [...]
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I got a chance to preview two foreign films that will make very brief Bay Area appearances next week. If you don’t catch them now, you may never get another chance. A- Sawako Decides, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Thursday, January 13, 7:30; Sunday, January 16, 1:00. How do you manage in a highly [...]
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How long can the Bay Area go without film festivals? Obviously not that long. These festivals will (hopefully) delight local cinephiles in early 2011: German Gems, January 14 – 16, Castro. Berlin & Beyond may be gone, but this new festival (only the second year) seems to filling its slot—both on the calendar and in [...]
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