A look at the 43rd San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, 2023
(July 19,2023)
By Gary Meyer
One would expect that such an event would offer films with a direct connection to Judaism but that is only a small part of the story with features like Remembering Gene Wilder, Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, and Food and Country, highlighted in this year’s Festival.
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 prints of silent films with live musical accompaniment.
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 the meaning of the Festival motto: “True art transcends time.”
By C.J. Hirschfield
(May 17, 2023)
On July 14, 2015, Hank Aaron, Sandy Koufax, Willie Mays and Johnny Bench took to the field together at Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game, where they were recognized as the greatest living ballplayers.
By Geneva Anderson
(May 12, 2023)
When it comes to Asian-focused cinema, nothing beats the Bay Area’s CAAMFest. The 11-day festival, which prides itself on culturally relevant stories that you won’t see anywhere else, offers 55 events grouped under film, music, food, and ideas. For the first time since 2019, CAAMfest will be a fully in-person experience and the programming reflects the reality that people have been changed by the pandemic; that they think, feel and engage differently. Browse the program and let yourself be moved by the call to gather and “to lift each other up after in the audacity of our stories.”
Chef Hanif Sadr’s recipe for Zeitun Parvedeh, a northern Iranian marinated olive dish which is one the most loved and popular Iranian mezzes.
As we approach the exciting special screening of Pandora’s Box starring Louise Brooks at the Paramount Theater, Saturday, May 6, 2023, EatDrinkFilms brings you an international collection of posters, ephemera, documentaries and other fascinating treasures related to G.W Pabst’s restored masterpiece.
by Thomas Gladysz
(Updated May 8, 2023 to inclde photos from the May 6th performance)
On Saturday, May 6, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival is set to screen Pandora’s Box at the Paramount theater in Oakland. This legendary silent film, which stars Louise Brooks as Lulu, can rightly be described as a Bay Area favorite. In fact, as exhibition records suggest, Pandora’s Box has been screened more often in the San Francisco Bay Area than anywhere else in the United States.
“Six California Kitchens is the quintessential California cookbook, with farm-to-table recipes and stories from Sally Schmitt, the pioneering female chef and original founder of the French Laundry.
Sally Schmitt opened The French Laundry in Yountville in 1978 and designed her menus around local, seasonal ingredients—a novel concept at the time.
By Nancy Friedman
(April 25, 2023)
Maligned, misunderstood, and mercilessly censored when it was released in 1929 – and virtually forgotten for the next three decades – Pandora’s Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) is today acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of silent cinema. That honor is attributable in part to the artistry of director Georg Wilhelm Pabst and cinematographer Günther Krampf, two giants of German film. But the film’s real magic resides in the indelible performance of its American star, Louise Brooks, whom the film historian David Thomson has called “one of the most mysterious and potent figures in the history of the cinema.” The British film critic Pamela Hutchinson has said that Brooks – with her impish smile, dancer’s lithe body, and gleaming black helmet of bobbed hair – “both defines the Roaring Twenties and stands outside it. She is timeless.”
By Nancy Friedman
(April 24, 2023)
How many times has Richard Marriott seen Pandora’s Box? When I suggested 50, he said that number was conservative. “Probably double that,” he guessed.
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