Our first Kurosawa-free newsletter in months. The celebration was fun, but I’m glad it’s over. A Romeo and Juliet (1967 version), Pacific Film Archive, Sunday, 4:00. Franco Zeffirelli’s version of Shakespeare’s popular romantic tragedy changed forever how filmmakers approached the Bard–and changed it for the better. Beautiful, violent, funny, sad, and lusciously romantic, it makes … Continue reading What’s Screening: September 3 – 9
Month: September 2010
A Few, Upcoming Mini-Festivals
A few small, short festivals are coming up soon. Iranian Film Festival, San Francisco Art Institute, September 18-19. While much of the American media is whipping us up to go to war with Iran, let’s do something very unpatriotic and learn something about the people. Actually, the films to be screened are not all from … Continue reading A Few, Upcoming Mini-Festivals
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