Coming to the Rafael

~ Lincoln Spector

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 or other sites.

  • As soon as the Mill Valley Film Festival ends,  Forbidden Lie$ and Humboldt County open for four day runs.
  • Ballast opens Friday, October 17.
  • The festival’s screening of Through a Glass Darkly dovetails into a post-festival Ingmar Berman series. The most exciting presentation: The first Bay Area, big-screen presentation of the complete, five-hour Fanny and Alexander, in two parts. This will be a high-definition video screening. I haven’t yet developed an opinion as to whether this is an exceptable replacement for film.
  • A three-film tribute to Irving Thalberg, the producing genius who put MGM at the top of the Hollywood studio system.
  • A special presentation, on November 16, of the Sounds of WALL-E, by sound designer Ben Burtt.
  • Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times, “screened and explored” on November 20.
  • The Films of 1908 on December 4.
  • Four essential art house films–Rashomon, Knife in the Water, Wild Strawberries, and Beauty and the Beast–December 5 through 11.
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Lincoln Spector writes about cinema, technology, and cinema technology. From 1986 through 2008, he wrote Gigglebytes, the first technology-oriented humor column. From 1977 through 2016, he wrote PC World's Answer Line column and blog.