A Date with Double Exposures: Don Malcolm’s “Gallic Evangelism” Reaches A Fever Pitch As He Aims for 101 French Noirs in 5 Years… AS TOLD TO OWEN FIELD An increasing fraction of the “noiristas” who travel from the Castro Theatre (lone dowager of San Francisco’s once-abundant “movie palace” tradition) to the upstart Roxie are grasping […]
Don Malcolm and Phoebe Green explain the particulars of their new French revival series to Owen Field.The first of four films taking lovers of THE FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT into non-noir regions of classic French cinema will play in the intimate confines of the Little Roxie Theatre in San Francisco on April 4 […]
An exoneration by Anastasia Lin including conversation snippets with Don Malcolm [EDITOR’s NOTE: We return to the freewheeling discussion between Anastasia Lin and Don Malcolm that focuses—mostly, at any rate—on the twenty rare films being screened in THE FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT 5, the singular series that starts at the Roxie Thursday evening November […]
A two-part exoneration by Anastasia Lin including conversation snippets with Don Malcolm JUST WHAT IS HE DOING TO US THIS TIME? Is there such a “thing” as “too much of a good thing?” Devotees (and I use that term, er, charitably) of internet porn might disagree, but even cinephiles (who also like to watch…) may […]
by Anastasia Lin (The maestro of the “lost continent” continues to astonish those of us “out there in the dark” with the hidden treasures of French film noir. His “keeper” Anastasia Lin captures his latest discovery—the “Goth Girl” of 1940s French cinema getting her centennial close-up at a “one night stand” on Thursday, July 26 […]
Hard Choices Need to be Made For Bay Area Cinephiles This Week by Meredith Brody Despite the fact that it has often been said that the San Francisco Bay Area is host to some 70 different film festivals, I rarely feel as though I can’t decide which screening to attend on any given night. But, […]
