Hal Ashby, Paul Greengrass, Rafael Sabatini, Mel Brooks, The Beatles, Ingmar Bergman, and a bunch of smart kids - along with six (count 'em, six!) film festivals - in Bay Area movie theaters this week. Festivals The San Francisco Latino Film Festival closes Sunday Hong Kong Cinema opens today and runs through Sunday The Japan … Continue reading What’s Screening: September 28 – October 4
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What’s Screening: July 13 – 19
Astaire and Rogers, Powell and Loy, Harryhausen and Disney, and the Wrath of Khan. Also Beatles, Chaplin, exploitation, five (count 'em, five!) film festivals, and love amongst the autistic - and all available this week on Bay Area movie screens. Festivals Modern Cinema/Black Powers: Reframing Hollywood continues. Read my preview. Charlie Chaplin Days opens tonight … Continue reading What’s Screening: July 13 – 19
What’s Screening: November 24 – 30
This week in Bay Area movie theaters: Swiss activists, French martyrs, Swedish knights, Spanish rebels, British rockers, and a very American Harold Lloyd. And you know what we don't have this week? Film festivals! New films opening B+ The Divine Order, Opera Plaza, Shattuck, Rafael, opens Friday Swiss women didn't get to vote until 1971. … Continue reading What’s Screening: November 24 – 30
What’s Screening: June 22 – 28
In festival news, Frameline LGBT continues through Sunday. A- Oslo, August 31, Kabuki, Embarcadero, Rafael, opens Friday. Anders, a recovering drug addict living in a clinic in the country, gets a day’s leave to return to Oslo for a job interview. The trip will also give him a chance to catch up with some friends. … Continue reading What’s Screening: June 22 – 28
What’s Screening: June 8 – 14
It's a gay time for film festival lovers. The Queer Women of Color opens tonight (Friday) and runs through Sunday. Then Frameline LGBT opens Thursday night. A The Wages of Fear, SF Film Society Cinema, opens Friday for one-week run. You’ll find few other thrillers this painfully suspenseful. Four poverty-stricken Europeans, desperately stranded in South … Continue reading What’s Screening: June 8 – 14
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