Let’s hear it for stop-motion animation. Knowing that each moment captured on film is a decision mulled over and made 30 times per second lets you know you have entered the vision of an artist.
Author Archives: Kenn Fong
Dash’s Crib – Where modern crime fiction was born
by Eddie Muller
[John Huston’s film version of Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. Turner Classic Movies presents screenings Feb. 21 and 24 at theaters around the country. For more, click here and for the line-up of TCM Big Screen Classics. And, as is our policy, look for extras after the article-ed.]
The first time I walked into Sam Spade’s apartment I thought my head would explode. Continue reading
Gothic Cinema: Darkness and Desire
by David Robson
For nearly 20 years, film-and-video curator Joel Shepard has programmed one of the country’s best film programs at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Shepard’s new series is Gothic Cinema: Darkness and Desire, which spotlights the moody shadows, doomed love and nightmarish atmospheres of Gothic films from more than several decades. This weekend sees a marvelous Valentine’s Day pairing of the series’ first two films, Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca and James Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein, with 11 more features to come before the series wraps in April. Continue reading
Critics Corner: RAMS
Rams garnered a host of awards as it traveled the international film festival circuit in 2015. The bleat goes on as the Icelandic feature about feuding sibling shepherds opens around the country (in San Francisco, Friday, Feb 12 at Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinema) and critics Michael Fox and Dennis Harvey decide whether it merits the hullabaloo. The film’s official website is Rams site.
A Sweet Deal For Sweet Sushi Fans
Oakland’s Grand Lake Theatre has brought the popular East Side Sushi back and it will show through Thursday, February 18. Continue reading
Hayward’s Hidden Gem: Ghazni Afghan Kabobs
“Who Knew?”
There are hidden gems where we can explore interesting and unusual cuisines in neighborhoods most people might not know about. With Sue Ralston’s visit to Ghazni Afghan Kabobs in Hayward, we start to seek food discoveries in unexpected places. Continue reading
From Bubbles to Boardrooms
by Michaela Kane Rodeno
Michaela Rodeno shares reflections from her pioneering career at the forefront of the wine industry in Napa Valley.
Tracing the arc of her career development from its unlikely beginnings in early 1970s Napa, when the wine industry was in its infancy, to being part of the two-person team that launched Domaine Chandon in the U.S., to her role as St. Supéry Winery’s first CEO, Rodeno has extensive wit and wisdom to share. Continue reading
Critics Corner: HAIL, CAESAR!
The Coen Brothers love the movies—making them and watching them. Their films often pay homage to classics from The Man Who Wasn’t There with its direct links to Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (both black and white murder stories set in Santa Rosa) to O Brother Where Art Thou filled with references to Sullivan’s Travels (a movie about making movies). And now they return with a new behind-the-scenes look at the cinematic creative process so darkly explored with Barton Fink—but this time it is an all-star farce. Read what our film buff critics think about Hail, Caesar!
All About Bernard Herrmann’s VERTIGO Score – to be performed live at the San Francisco Symphony
Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) starts with a disembodied close-up of a woman’s face that moves up to her eye, while Bernard Herrmann’s score begins its moody and compulsive circular rising-and-falling motif – immediately haunting and troubled.
Festival Going Haywire Delivers the Goods
by Pam Grady
Robert Redford thinks it’s possible that his baby, the Sundance Film Festival, has gotten too big for its small-town britches. “Suddenly, this thing was going haywire,” he told the Associated Press. Continue reading
Win Tickets to See VERTIGO and Hear the San Francisco Symphony With Kim Novak in Person
The San Francisco Symphony is offering readers of EatDrinkFilms chances to win pairs of passes to the Saturday, February 13, 8pm showing of Vertigo with the Bernard Herrmann score performed live at Davies Hall in San Francisco.
Arrive at 7 p.m. to hear Kim Novak in conversation with arts journalist Steve Winn.
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