What do Bay Area cinemas (the few left) offer us when it comes to vintage movies? This week it's early Fellini, Kubrick destroying the world, the great mobster epic, Billy Wilder at his best, and Richard Linklater his youth. Festivals & Series Sorry, but I didn't catch the SFFilm Doc Stories festival until Friday. It … Continue reading What’s Screening: November 3 – 9
Tag: Studio Ghibli
What’s Screening: Sept 22 – Sept 28
There's a lot of works from great auteurs this week in Bay Area cinemas. How about Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton, John Huston, Francis Coppola, Jonathan Demme, David Lynch, and most importantly, Stanley Kubrick. Festivals & Series Scorsese: More than a Gangster closes Sunday 2023 HUMP! Film Festival The San Francisco Dance Film Festival … Continue reading What’s Screening: Sept 22 – Sept 28
What’s Screening: July 21 – 27
If you want vintage cinema playing in Bay Area theaters, follow the auteurs. This week there are movies from Alfred Hitchcock, Spike Lee, Sergio Leone, Luis Buñuel, and Preston Sturges. But some films are not made by directors, but by studios such as RKO or Studio Ghibli. Festivals & Series The San Francisco Jewish Film … Continue reading What’s Screening: July 21 – 27
What’s Screening: July 7 – 13
This week, we have films from Japan, Italy, Mexico, and Warner Brothers. Most of them are pretty good – and all of them will be better in a theater. Festivals & Series Studio Ghibli Festival opens Saturday, and goes through July The San Francisco Silent Film Festival opens Thursday The San Francisco Frozen Film Festival … Continue reading What’s Screening: July 7 – 13
What’s Screening: June 30 – July 6
I have friends who love vintage wine. They carefully store their bottles and, on special occasions, take them down and pop the cork. But what about vintage cinema? Physical film also rots. But there's another kind of cinematic decay. If people don't watch movies, or just watch them at home, the motion pictures we love … Continue reading What’s Screening: June 30 – July 6
What’s Screening: May 5 – 11
Want to see new movies and old movies on the big screen? Here are reviews of two fresh films from CAAMFest (the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival). There is also a new film of the great outdoors and the people trying to save it. Also, there's a Soviet silent, one of the best … Continue reading What’s Screening: May 5 – 11
What’s Screening: February 3 – 9
You know what's the most difficult part of setting up these newsletters? It's writing the intro. So let's get it over with. Reader, meet newsletter. Newsletter, meet reader. Okay, I'll tell you more. There's a new, sexy film from France and a documentary about Jewish settlements in Eastern Europe. There are three films about African … Continue reading What’s Screening: February 3 – 9
What’s Screening: January 13 – 19
Don't worry about it being Friday the 13th. The movies playing around here this week seem to be generating good vibes. You can see Harold Lloyd, with the movie that made me fall in love with silent comedy. But if you prefer your slapstick with dialog, there's a full weekend of Jackie Chan. Also, there … Continue reading What’s Screening: January 13 – 19
What’s Screening: July 8 – 14
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance back onto the big screen as the Stanford Theatre finally opens. And that also means the return of double features! Also works by Jacques Tati, Studio Ghibli, Monty Python, and the brilliant but sadly short-lived Barbara Loden. Festivals & Series The San Francisco Frozen Film Festival opens Wednesday and … Continue reading What’s Screening: July 8 – 14
Movies I’ve recently seen: Men Without Women ֍ Tales From Earthsea ֍ The Clock & The Longest Day
Here's another random selection of films I hadn't seen before. None are particularly brilliant. But then, none is truly awful. Click a film's title to find out how you can stream the movie. B Men Without Women (1930) The film should have been called Men Without Oxygen. John Ford directed this tense, powerful naval thriller, … Continue reading Movies I’ve recently seen: Men Without Women ֍ Tales From Earthsea ֍ The Clock & The Longest Day
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