Note: After I posted this newsletter, a reader brought another film festival, opening tonight, to be attention. I've therefore corrected this article. What's happening in Bay Area theaters this week? Silent comedy, John Huston, Paul Butterfield, and David Bowie. Also two new movies and three four film festivals. Plus, at the Lark and Roxie, it'll be … Continue reading What’s Screening: February 15 – 21
Category: Weekly Newsletter
What’s Screening: February 8 – 14
For Valentine's week, Bay Area movie theaters give you Rudolph Valentino, Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Ruth Gordon, and Walt Disney's classic about classics. Also, one film festival ends and another begins. Festivals IndieFest closes Thursday. Read my preview. The Mostly British Film Festival opens Thursday. I have a preview of that one, too. Promising events … Continue reading What’s Screening: February 8 – 14
What’s Screening: February 1 – 7
What's playing in Bay Area movie theaters this week? Laurel and Hardy, Jackie Chan, epic Fritz Lang, and two film festivals. But here's what's really strange: Only one theater is playing Groundhog Day. Festivals Noir City continues through Sunday. See my preview and last weekend's report. IndieFest continues through this week and beyond. Read my … Continue reading What’s Screening: February 1 – 7
What’s Screening: October 25 – 31
What's in Bay Area movie theaters this week: Quentin Tarantino, Humphrey Bogart, Mel Brooks, Fritz Lang's German mythology, and the best film about the Warsaw Ghetto, along with two film festivals. Festivals Noir City opens Friday. See my preview. IndieFest opens Wednesday. See my preview. The Week's Big Event A Who Will Write Our History, … Continue reading What’s Screening: October 25 – 31
What’s Screening: January 18 – 24
Harold Lloyd climbs into the public domain, Pickett and Prueher show very bad videos, and Germany frightens us in both sound and silence. Also Satyajit Ray, Christopher Guest, Ida Lupino, and a whole lot of great movies on Bay Area movie screens this week. But no film festivals. The Week's Big Event A Safety Last, … Continue reading What’s Screening: January 18 – 24
What’s Screening: January 11 – 17
Real and fake Laurel and Hardy, dogs and cats of the deadly kind, a dying bureaucrat, a desperate cyclist, a hitchhiker with a twitchy trigger finger, musical POWs, and a boy named Apu. But no film festivals. The Week's Big Event A The Apu Trilogy, Stanford, Friday through Sunday The Stanford is starting a Satyajit … Continue reading What’s Screening: January 11 – 17
What’s Screening: January 4 – 10
Not much to talk about this week, but we do get dancing mice, a Claymation Mark Twain, Adam Sandler in a dramatic role, Hitchcock's best, and our first film festival of 2019. Festivals 2019's first Bay Area Film Festival, For Your Consideration, starts tonight and closes Thursday. Read my preview. New films opening B+ 2018 … Continue reading What’s Screening: January 4 – 10
