by Ruthe Stein
Two of Ida Lupino’s strongest films as a director will be shown for free Sunday November 22 at the Balboa Theater in San Francisco. The Bigamist screens at 11 a.m. followed by The Hitch-Hiker at 12:30 p.m.
Ida Lupino liked to be called “mother” on a movie set. She even had
The Mother of Us All
inscribed on her director’s chair. She felt the cast and crew would try harder if they considered her as family. Continue reading
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We are easing back into a regular schedule for EatDrinkFilms. Continue reading
a book review by Risa Nye
Alice Medrich, who introduced the chocolate truffle to an eager America many years ago, wrote a stunning cookbook that introduces a variety of innovations to traditional baking: all the recipes in her book, Flavor Flours (Artisan Books, Nov. 2014), utilize non-wheat flours. Continue reading
“My career started with a handwritten recipe for the tiny cocoa-dusted chocolate truffles given to me by my Paris landlady in 1973. The truffles had captivated me with their pure bittersweet flavor, and the recipe changed my life. Continue reading
by Karl Cohen
At the 42nd annual SIGGRAPH, the computer industry’s largest professional gathering, there were six major production sessions about animated features. Continue reading
I have woken up in bed, more times than I care to remember, with legendary cookbook A Treasury of Great Recipes nestled in beside me. It’s a bit like sleeping with a puppy, as it weighs around 4 lbs. Continue reading
DJ Alpha Bravo (Alexander Bailey) created a terrific mix tape that played before film showings on “Food Day / Film Day” on October 24 at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco. Continue reading
Happy Halloween 2015! Now just put these glasses on. Continue reading
by Bill Kinder
Veterans Day is coming. It’s unlikely you’ve been preparing for it. We don’t say, “It’s only October and the Veterans Day decorations are already out.” Not to mention the perennial confusion with Memorial Day. But there will be some nods to it in the news cycle this week: some pageantry, parading, and perhaps a day of war movies on a cable channel. Continue reading
Last year the Roxie scored a big hit with “The French Had a Name For It,” a first-ever all-French spinoff of longtime programmer Elliot Lavine’s popular U.S. noir retrospectives. Now Lavine and former editor of Noir City Magazine Don Malcolm are back with a second edition that is primarily the brainchild of the latter. Continue reading
This Saturday night, November 14, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum will screen the remarkable Raymond Griffith vehicle and Civil War comedy, Hands Up! An almost-always dapper and unflappable gentleman, Griffith could get into the most bizarre situations and get out of them again with seeming ease. And if memory serves (I haven’t seen the film in decades), Hands Up! is a minor gem. Continue reading
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