Troubled families, big fish, baking bread, musical bicycles, and yet there's no place like home. Festivals & Series Frameline47 continues through the week Theatrical revivals A+ Jaws (1975), 4-Star, 5:00pm & 7:30pm People associate Jaws with three men in a boat, yet the picture is more than half over before the shark chase really begins. … Continue reading What’s Screening: June 23 – 29
Tag: Marcel Pagnol
What’s Screening: May 17 – 23
Here's what's in Bay Area movie theaters this week: New movies about spaceflight, Shakespeare, and fascism. Old movies about kidnapping and adultery. You can spend your weekend at an Asian-American film festival, then on Monday watch Tarantino's Holocaust revenge fantasy. Festivals CAAMFest (The Center for Asian American Media Festival) continues through Sunday New films opening … Continue reading What’s Screening: May 17 – 23
The Baker’s Wife at the BAMPFA
The first thing you should know about Marcel Pagnol's 1938 comedy, The Baker's Wife, is that it's very, very funny. The second thing you need to know is that it's also sweet and humane, especially as this story of adultery in provincial France comes to its end. My wife and I saw it at the … Continue reading The Baker’s Wife at the BAMPFA
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