Just a few interesting things on the way:
If you looked at schedules for Bay Area art theaters after Bergman and Antonioni died in early August, you probably wondered where all the tributes were. The Castro finally comes through this week with a Bergman series running Tuesdays and Wednesdays through November 21. Most of his best-loved films, many of which I haven’t seen in decades, are included.
No similar Antonioni festival has been announced.
Writer/producer James Hirsch appears to be taking over the Lark for the last weekend of October. First, Hirsch will teach a two-day writing seminar, Saturday and Sunday, 10/27 and 28, from 10:00am to 3:00. And Saturday night he’ll interview stoner comedian turned serious artist/activist Cheech Marin. But be warned, this is an extremely expensive benefit for the Lark. Click here for details.
The Stanford is still dark, with only a promise of more movies to come.
Finally, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts has a series called Red State Cinema: Rural Auteurs that looks promising. The low-budget exploitation fare includes Poor White Trash II, a 1941 “race film” called Blood of Jesus, and a little 1938 shocker called Child Bride. Somehow, I don’t think that one got code approval.
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