by Gary Meyer
The bar has been set high by the 58th San Francisco International Film Festival under the guidance of head programmer Rachel Rosen and her team of savvy film programmers, Rod Armstrong, Sean Uyehara, and Audrey Chang. Continue reading
Hollywood & Wine: Screening Room Meets Tasting Room at New Film Series in Marin
by David Templeton
Cinematic history is crammed with films in which, at one moment or another, someone talks about wine, shops for wine, or actually drinks wine — or in the case of the Creature in Young Frankenstein , just tries to drink wine (“A toast . . . to a long friendship!” Crash!). Continue reading
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“Weddings” From YOU SUCK AT DRINKING by Matthew Latkiewicz
There aren’t many scenarios in your life when you will encounter a true open bar—your office holiday party maybe, some art and culture events if you run in those circles, a party at Kanye West’s house—which is what makes weddings so damn awesome. Continue reading
Raise Your Glass: An Appreciative Look at Matthew Latkiewicz’s YOU SUCK AT DRINKING
by Risa Nye
Over the last ten years, Matthew Latkiewicz been offering eager readers his hard-won knowledge about drinking through his humor writing for McSweeney’s and New York magazine’s Grub Street. Continue reading
Racy Ragtime Romps: “Pre-Code Follies” on May Day in Niles
by Paul F. Etcheverry
A program paying tribute to the early sound era’s wildest cartoons and inimitable all-talking-all singing-all dancing extravaganzas springs forth at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum on May Day. Continue reading
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The Artist on Camera: Mike Leigh Recreates the Life and Times of a Great Painter in MR. TURNER
by Colin B. Bailey
The opening frames of Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner show the sun rising over a river with a windmill and two immaculate milkmaids, giggling as they walk. It is a scene worthy of Rembrandt or Cuyp, old masters Turner would have had in mind as he sketched the Dutch landscape during his visit to Holland in the summer of 1825. Continue reading
Sugar Snap Pea and Radish Salad, and Tomato Watermelon Gazpacho, From HOMEGROWN by Heather Hardison
Whether your idea of gardening is a tomato plant on your fire escape or a pumpkin patch in the yard, Homegrown: Illustrated Bites From Your Garden to Your Table is the ultimate guide to growing your own food and eating it, too! Continue reading
SFIFF 58: From A to Z and Back Again—One Cinemagoer’s Top 10
by Pam Grady
Guillermo del Toro or Guy Maddin? That’s one of the tough questions facing moviegoers at the 58th San Francisco International Film Festival. Continue reading
Eat, Drink, Watch: Food Films at the 58th San Francisco International Film Festival
by Gary Meyer
The number of food films being made should not come as a surprise. PBS started the trend of cooking shows long ago and is still a leader in them, but now we have the Food Network, Cooking Channel, Food Matters TV and more offering 24 hours a day of programing about things to eat. Movies with food themes have spanned the history of cinema, but it wasn’t until Babette’s Feast , Like Water For Chocolate , Tampopo , Big Night and others became box office successes that we started to see a genre develop. And the number of documentaries about food has exploded. Continue reading
On the Edge of Risk: The Take-Away From DIOR AND I
by Cari Borja
“My obsession has been—and is still—the feeling of being there. Not of finding out this and analyzing this or performing some virtuous social act or something. Just what’s it like to be there.” —Richard Leacock Continue reading