It's Oscar week, and at least eight Bay Area cinemas are projecting the ceremony onto their big screens. One theater is giving us a selection of Buster Keaton shorts from half a century. Aside from all that, there are excellent works by Hayao Miyazaki, Wim Wender, Christopher Guest, and Philip Kaufman. Festivals & Series Cinequest … Continue reading What’s Screening: March 10 – 16
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What’s Screening: January 21 – 27
The bad news: The Castro Theater is no longer a movie theater. The good news: Other Bay Area theaters are showing plenty of vintage movies. Theaters closings The end of the Castro For decades, the Castro Theatre has been the perfect movie palace for opening a film festival or just for watching vintage cinema. And … Continue reading What’s Screening: January 21 – 27
What’s Screening: November 8 – 14
Crime by Scorsese, Coppola, and Zhangke Jia, solved by Sherlock Holmes. Comedy by Mel Brooks and Jacques Tati. Boxing and amnesia. Plus a Chinese Western and two film festivals. All that and more on Bay Area movie screens this week. Festivals The 3rd i South Asian Film Festival temporarily closes Sunday. It will pop up … Continue reading What’s Screening: November 8 – 14
What’s Screening: September 29 – October 5
Harry Dean Stanton, Buster Keaton, and four film festivals in Bay Area theaters this week. Also, the Stanford's massive Warner Brothers series ends with a bang. Festivals Cine+Mas SF continues through Sunday Fantastic Fest opens today and runs through the weekend And so does Hong Kong Cinema The Mill Valley Film Festival opens Thursday. Read … Continue reading What’s Screening: September 29 – October 5