By Meredith Brody (March 25, 2024) You can go see Carol Doda Topless at the Condor expecting to see a lot of naked flesh, even without knowing the story of the blonde gogo dancer who danced the Frug in Rudi Gernreich’s topless swimsuit on top of a piano in a nightclub.
More to Watch at the Mill Valley Film Festival 46 By Meredith Brody (October 9, 2023) Halfway home! But there’s still lots to recommend and to look forward to. I didn’t catch American Fiction in Toronto, and I didn’t hear very much about it – it wasn’t one of those movies that people cited as […]
MVFF46: Some Highly Recommended Movies in Our Delightful Local Film Festival By Meredith Brody (October 5, 2023) Some of us cinephiles know the exquisite pain of yearning to see a movie for months and months before we can access it. When the festival circuit begins with Sundance in January, Berlin in February, and the 900-pound-gorilla […]
Musing on the 2023 San Francisco Silent Film Festival By Meredith Brody (July 11, 2023) I’ve written these words before: I am in love with the San Francisco Silent Film Festival returning to the Castro Theatre July 12-16. It is brilliantly programmed and one of the best places in the world to enjoy beautiful […]
Part Two of a look at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival By Meredith Brody (July 12, 2023) We are back at the Castro Theatre which still has its 1407 traditonal theater seats. They may be gone by next year’s festival. What a great way to celebrate the San Francisco Silent Film Festival and understand […]
Anticipating the SFSFF’s Day of Silents Makes My Endorphins Rise by Meredith Brody (December 1, 2022) I keep my TV tuned (do we say tuned, nowadays?) to TCM. It’s what greets me when I snap on the TV (do we say snap on, nowadays), and has resulted in me being surprised that The Apartment or […]
My Romance with Toronto, Still the Festival of Festivals for Me By Meredith Brody Well, it really wasn’t my first film festival. I’d had flirtations with other, smaller festivals, but they were almost all fairly local. And my attendance at them was patchy, not obsessive. My first deep-dish, long-distance festival relationship was in Toronto.
Regrets, I Have a Few By Meredith Brody When I was picking up my press pass in Toronto, I ran into the ebullient, ubiquitous Col Needham, the founder of the essential Internet Movie Database, and a tireless festival-goer. He was the first familiar Festival face I’d seen – at the first film festival outside of […]
By Meredith Brody (November 5, 2022) I’ve been a film buff ever since I first saw a re-issue of Cinderella at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland when I was just a tot. I wasn’t able to fully exercise my film buff inclinations for the next decade or so, as I was dependent on my […]
By Meredith Brody (November 5, 2022) San Francisco is lucky to have Donald Malcolm’s French Noir Series, “The French Had a Name for It” at the Roxie. The upcoming festival programs 15 films over four days at the Little Roxie, and once again I will be there for all of it. It unspools on Sunday […]
The First Weekend Was Great! And there was plenty to see. By Meredith Brody (Updated with Awards October 22, 2022 below.) The takeaway from the first four days of MVFF45 was YOU CAN GET IN, EVEN TO FILMS AT RUSH! And many of the movies I’ve seen will soon be in cinemas near you.
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