What’s Screening: Oct. 28 – Nov. 3

October 28, 2022October 27, 2022 ~ Lincoln Spector

If you're getting tired of horror movies, don't despair; Halloween will soon be over. This week, Bay Area theaters will show non-scary gems from Peter Bogdanovich, Mira Nair, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hayao Miyazaki, and Vincente Minnelli. But if you're still looking for a fright, there are works from Jordan Peele, Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski, Victor … Continue reading What’s Screening: Oct. 28 – Nov. 3

What’s Screening: April 15 – 21

April 15, 2022April 14, 2022 ~ Lincoln Spector

I've changed the format of this weekly newsletter. Hopefully, it will make choosing a theater or a screening time easier to find. And among these easy-to-find classics are works by Federico Fellini, Milos Forman, Roman Polanski, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Linklater, the Coen Brothers, and Monty Python - all on big screens. But first, we have … Continue reading What’s Screening: April 15 – 21

Disappearing from HBOmax

February 22, 2021February 21, 2021 ~ Lincoln Spector

The Criterion Channel isn't the only streaming service that removes movies at the end of the month. Here are some good movies streaming on HBOmax that you may want to watch before February goes away: A Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski was at his best when he made this neo-noir tale of intrigue and double-crosses set … Continue reading Disappearing from HBOmax

What’s Screening: May 10 – 16

May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 ~ Lincoln Spector

This week on Bay Area movie screens: Satan and Adam, Herzog and Gorbachev, James Dean and Paul Thomas Anderson, and the biggest of them all: King Kong and Godzilla. Also two film festivals. Festivals CAAMFest (The Center for Asian American Media) continues through this week and beyond A The French Had a Name for It, … Continue reading What’s Screening: May 10 – 16

Movies I’ve Recently Seen: Repulsion, The Woman in the Moon, Hello I Must Be Going, & Out of Africa

February 19, 2019February 18, 2019 ~ Lincoln Spector

Four more movies I've seen for the first time, and only one of them was made before I was born. A Repulsion (1965), Netflix Blu-ray Talk about psychological horror! Catherine Deneuve plays a young woman losing her mind. At first we think she's suffering from depression, but as this early Polanski film unwinds, we realize that … Continue reading Movies I’ve Recently Seen: Repulsion, The Woman in the Moon, Hello I Must Be Going, & Out of Africa