Francis Coppola, Louise Brooks, crack cocaine, and Laurel & Hardy all grace this week's Bay Area screenings. Festivals The 3rd i South Asian Film Festival continues through Sunday, then comes back for one more date next week. The SF Urban Film Fest opens Monday and runs through the week and beyond. New Italian Cinema opens … Continue reading What’s Screening: November 11 – 17

James Bond, Sherlock Holmes, Spike Lee, and the silent version of Mad Max at this week's Bay Area screenings. Festivals Doc Stories continues through Sunday If you're interested in noirs made in France, The French Had a Name For It runs through Monday Another Hole in the Head Film Festival continues through Wednesday The 3rd … Continue reading What’s Screening: November 4 – 10

Silent horror, women-created horror, hole-in-the-head horror, Spanish horror, and even Rocky Horror in this Halloween week's Bay Area screenings. Festivals The United Nations Association Film Festival continues through Sunday. I didn't find out about Horrific Women--Female Directors Killin' It in time to list it last week, but I have it now. Another Hole in the … Continue reading What’s Screening: October 28 – November 3

Harry Potter, Nightmare on Elm Street, My Fair Lady, and six film festivals in this week's Bay Area screenings. Festivals I somehow missed FACINE: The Filipino International Cine Festival, which opened Wednesday. It runs through Saturday. I also didn't know about the United Nations Association Film Festival until Friday morning. It opened last night and will run through the … Continue reading What’s Screening: October 21 – 27

Five festivals, multiple Keatons, Trump vs. Clinton, and A Man Called Ove on Bay Area screens this week. Festivals The Mill Valley Film Festival continues through Sunday. You can read my reports and reviews while choosing what to see. The Arab Film Festival also continues through Sunday Modern Cinema continues through this weekend and next … Continue reading What’s Screening: October 14 – 20

This week we have Gene Wilder, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, dead teenagers, and a whole lot of classics that don't get screened as often as they should. Also, four film festivals, including Mill Valley. Festivals The Mill Valley Film Festival continues through this week. Check out my coverage to see what's worth catching. The Arab … Continue reading What’s Screening: October 7 – 13

Tarantino, King Kong, Mozart, and some early Halloween treats this week in Bay Area screenings. Also two new films and the opening of this year's Mill Valley Film Festival. Festivals The CM SF Latino Film Festival closes Saturday The fall's big show, the Mill Valley Film Festival, opens Thursday night with several films that will … Continue reading What’s Screening: September 30 – October 6

This Saturday is National Art House Theater Day, where we celebrate the kind of movie theaters I cover in Bayflicks. In the Bay Area, the Rafael, the Lark, the Balboa, the Vogue, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the New Mission are taking part. Other than that, we've got six five festivals this week (yikes!), … Continue reading What’s Screening: September 23 -29

This week in Bay Area screenings, we've got epic cowboys, silicon cowboys, sinking continents, a Latino film festival, and two celebrations of Star Trek turning 50. Festivals The CM SF Latino Film Festival opens Friday and runs until October 1 New films opening B Silicon Cowboys, Roxie, opens Friday IBM ruled the personal computer market … Continue reading What’s Screening: September 16 – 22

Mr. Spock, Dekalog, Merchant Ivory, and a Big Parade in this week's Bay Area screenings. Festivals Alfred Hitchcock Weekends continues through Sunday The California Independent Film Festival continues through Wednesday New films opening B+ For the Love of Spock, Roxie, opens Friday Adam Nimoy splits this feature documentary between his father Leonard and the character … Continue reading What’s Screening: September 9 – 15