Both SFFilm and Hollywood's Golden Era end Sunday, which means I can rest a bit. But not much; There's plenty of vintage movies in Bay Area cinemas this week. Festivals & Series Sorry, I accidentally listed CAAMFest a month earlier The Hollywood's Golden Era ends Sunday The San Francisco Greek Film Festival continues into next … Continue reading What’s Screening: April 21 – 27
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What’s Screening: Oct. 21 – 27
What can you see on Bay Area big screens this week? Two of the best of Hitchcock. The looney, and sexy, world of Max Fleischer. Also, there's a very disturbing post-Holocaust thriller, Mel Brooks' Halloween treat, the world's most Catholic horror flick, and Charlie Chaplin with live music. Festivals & Series The Albany Filmfest closes … Continue reading What’s Screening: Oct. 21 – 27
What’s Screening: August 19 – 25
In Bay Area moviegoing this week: A Powell/Pressburger film I’ve yet to see. A Kurosawa double bill. Spike Lee’s best film free in the open air. Movies by Howard Hawks and Samuel Fuller. And for the first time in movie history, a handsome man lights a cigarette and says the immortal words, “Bond. James Bond.” … Continue reading What’s Screening: August 19 – 25
This year’s Jewish Film Fest deals with refugees, music, romance, and yes, genocide
This year's San Francisco Jewish Film Festival focuses considerably on the traditional command of tikkun olam (healing the world). Several of the films have little or nothing to do with Judaism, but they are very much about justice, charity, freedom, and cleaning the planet - all parts of tikkun olam. But not all. The festival … Continue reading This year’s Jewish Film Fest deals with refugees, music, romance, and yes, genocide
The Challenges of Digital Projection, Part 1: The Theaters
Esthetically speaking, I see no problem with digital projection. Under the best of conditions, 2K DCP projection looks better than 35mm film--and 4K looks better than 2K. An incompetent projectionist can ruin a digital presentation, of course, but with film, they can ruin the presentation and the print. As transitions go, digital hardly changes the … Continue reading The Challenges of Digital Projection, Part 1: The Theaters
What’s Screening: December 9 – 15
Shakespeare, Truffaut, and killer Androids (and I don’t mean smartphones). Here in the Northern Hemisphere, which includes the Bay Area, December is the darkest month of the year. It’s cold. People look for indoor activities. It’s also, outside of summer, the biggest month for movie-going. And yet, no festivals this week or, ASAIK, this month. … Continue reading What’s Screening: December 9 – 15
What’s Screening: April 16 – 22
The Sonoma International Film Festival continues through Sunday, and the San Francisco International Film Festival opens Thursday. And we’ve got an earthquake to commemorate. A- The Palm Beach Story, Stanford, Saturday through Tuesday. No one wrote and directed screwball comedies as well as Preston Sturges, and if this one doesn’t quite come up to the brilliant … Continue reading What’s Screening: April 16 – 22
What’s Screening: April 9 – 15
This is a great week for silent movie lovers. We’ve got The Gold Rush with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Sunrise with organ accompaniment (it usually plays with the original Movietone track), and Sherlock Jr. with hip-hop. On the festival beat, the Sonoma International Film Festival starts its four-day run on Thursday. A The Gold … Continue reading What’s Screening: April 9 – 15
What’s Screening: April 2 – 8
I’m trying to get back into the swing of things after my mother’s death. Expect this newsletter to be short. I missed the San Francisco International Film Festival press conference on Tuesday, but I have the press kit. I’ll get to it probably on Sunday. B+ The President’s Analyst, Castro, Wednesday. This little comedy from … Continue reading What’s Screening: April 2 – 8
What’s Screening: March 19 – 25
The Asian American Film Festival plays through Sunday, and the Tiburon International Film Festival continue through the week. Creature Features Presents Horror Express, Balboa, Thursday, 7:00. Bay area film buffs old enough to remember TV before the VCR have fond memories of KTVU (channel 2)’s late night series Creature Features. Each week, host Bob Wilkins--or … Continue reading What’s Screening: March 19 – 25
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