Here's another quartet of movies that will screen at this year's SFFilm Festival. That way, you'll know what to see, or not to see, although, thankfully, there are no stinkers among these four. A Montana Story Family drama set against the magnificent Montana sky. A very serious stroke has thwarted the hated family patriarch from … Continue reading SFFilm Fest Previews, Part 2
Month: April 2022
What’s Screening: April 8 – 14
Want to see an old movie the old way - in a theater? Here's what classics are playing this week in the Bay Area. But remember to wear your mask and carry proof of vaccination. Also, three film festivals are running this week. Festivals & Series The Glas Animation Festival closes Sunday The International Ocean … Continue reading What’s Screening: April 8 – 14
SFFilm Fest Previews: Part 1
Here are four films that will screen at this year's SFFilm Festival. Three of them are documentaries. My next set of previews will have more fiction films. I'm listing the films from best to worst - although none are really bad. A American Justice on Trial Director Andrew Abrahams made an incisive, short, and powerful … Continue reading SFFilm Fest Previews: Part 1
Dinner from the petri dish may be coming with Meat the Future
D+ Documentary Directed by Liz Marshall A Bay Area tech startup called Upside Food is working to help the environment and end animal cruelty. They take tissue from living animals (cows, chicken, ducks and others), and grow the meat in test tubes and petri dishes. Few living animals are involved, and none are slaughtered. For … Continue reading Dinner from the petri dish may be coming with Meat the Future
More Film Festivals: Animation, Greek, & saving the world
I can't cover every Bay Area film festival. I try to cover the major ones and my favorites. So far this spring, I've written blog posts for the SFFilm Festival, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, and Doc Week (already running). Here are three other film festivals that will play in April. I can't tell … Continue reading More Film Festivals: Animation, Greek, & saving the world
What’s Screening: April 1 – 7
It finally happened! Erich von Stroheim's original cut of Greed will play in eight Bay Area theaters this week! And April Fool's Day. Less surprising but actually true: Thanks to the Oscars, at least six Bay Area theaters are playing CODA this week. Also Star Trek at its best, Studio Ghibli, the movie that started … Continue reading What’s Screening: April 1 – 7
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