When was the last time you watched a beloved classic the way it should be seen? And by that, I mean in a theater with a large screen and an audience. I don't think I've had that experience since 2019. The Cerrito celebrates its reopening this Friday with the Cerrito Classics Festival. Here are the … Continue reading The Cerrito opens with a classic fest
Tag: Indiana Jones
What’s Screening: January 17 – 23
What's in Bay Area outarthouse cinemas this week? A hilarious disaster. A real and tragic disaster. And movies by Spielberg, Forman, Fellini, Lumet, Keaton, and Varda. But no film festivals. <Sorry about that. I was running a fever when I wrote that.> The Week's Big Event A Airplane! 40th anniversary, Castro, Sunday, 3:00They're flying on … Continue reading What’s Screening: January 17 – 23
What’s Screening: May 18 – 24
Indiana Jones, Douglas Fairbanks, Mitchum vs. Peck, triple Vertigo, and a movie Beyond the Infinite - and all on Bay Area movie screens this week. Also, one film festival. Festivals CAAMFest continues through the week Vertigo, Vertigo, & Vertigo Over the weekend, three movie theaters will present special screenings of most people's favorite Alfred Hitchcock … Continue reading What’s Screening: May 18 – 24
What’s Screening: August 25 – 31
Cats, dogs, Humphrey Bogart, stoned teenagers, and cinema's most famous archeologist light up Bay Area movie screens this week. Festivals The New Filipino Cinema 2017 continues through this week New films opening B+ Unleashed, Roxie, opens Friday In this predicable but very funny comedy, a dog and a cat run away from the young woman … Continue reading What’s Screening: August 25 – 31