I visited the Pacific Film Archive Friday night to see two very good films. I suppose I could say that they were both feminist films. The first was about a woman and the damage done to her because to her gender, and the second was directed by a woman. But that would be a stretch. … Continue reading Friday Night at the PFA
Month: November 2013
What’s Screening: November 8 – 14
Both the American Indian Film Festival and French Cinema Now continue through Sunday. 3rd i's South Asian Film Festival also plays through Sunday, but will resurrect itself for one day next week. Both the New Italian Cinema and the Chinese American Film Festival start Wednesday. A- Dead Man, Castro, Friday. Here you have a western … Continue reading What’s Screening: November 8 – 14
To Late for Halloween: My Blu-ray Review of Nosferatu
The big question about Kino's forthcoming Blu-ray release of Nosferatu, newly and beautifully restored: Why release a classic vampire movie three weeks after Halloween? Now, on with our review. Before Christopher Lee, Gary Oldman, or even Bela Lugosi, Max Schreck created the first screen Dracula. He was not the elegant, sexy aristocrat of the night … Continue reading To Late for Halloween: My Blu-ray Review of Nosferatu
On the Moral Dilemma of Gladiator Movies
"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?" I finally saw The Hunger Games a couple of nights ago. Pretty good for a modern Hollywood blockbuster. It's a gladiator movie, of course. Sure it's all dressed up in science fiction hardware and leftwing economic attitudes. The story involves a television spectacle where 24 mostly unwilling teenagers … Continue reading On the Moral Dilemma of Gladiator Movies
What’s Screening: November 1 – 7
Four film festivals opening this week. Both Taiwan Film Days and the American Indian Film Festival start today. And, speaking if Indians, the 3rd i South Asian Film Festival starts Wednesday. French Cinema Now starts Thursday. A 12 Years A Slave, Kabuki, Embarcadero Center, California (Berkeley), Piedmont, CineArts at Sequoia, opens Friday. True story: In … Continue reading What’s Screening: November 1 – 7
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