by Dick Fregulia
I’m feeling like there’s not much to look forward to these days, so I am enjoying rediscovering the past much more. One of the better experiences I’ve had with that lately is viewing the sparkling new 4K restoration by IndieCollect of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival documentary, Jazz on a Summer’s Day.
The Director of Programming at the New York Film Festival has made his third movie about the movies. Kent Jones offers personal memories about growing up with Truffaut and Hitchcock as his guides. Pam Grady then interviews the maker of Hitchcock/Truffaut. Continue reading
By Kevin Longa
[We recently had the opportunity to see the first episodes in an exciting new series of food films. They pack a lot of story into their short running times of three-to-seven minutes by each concentrating on a single person. Continue reading
Marlon Brando, until his ashes were scattered in Tahiti and Death Valley in 2004, was a private man. Continue reading
by Pam Grady
There are lots of intriguing offerings at San Francisco’s DocFest, running this year June 4-18. Continue reading
by Country Joe McDonald
John Pirozzi’s documentary film Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten does a great job showing Cambodian popular music from the 1950s up to the present using film clips of people dancing and enjoying the music and interviews with musicians. Continue reading
by Pam Grady
The world became a little less interesting place in March when Albert Maysles, one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema and a keen chronicler of life, passed away at 88. Continue reading
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
by Sabrina Schroeder-Dammann
Sabrina Schroeder-Dammann is featured in the new documentary States of Grace, which takes an intimate look at her family in the wake of a life-changing accident.
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Read two critical perspectives on The Salt of the Earth (Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders, 2014), by Stephen Goldblatt and Ken Light. Salt of the Earth opens Friday, April 3 at the Landmark Clay in San Francisco, the Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley, the Regency Cinemas in San Rafael, the CineArts @ Palo Alto Square in Palo Alto, Camera 7 in San José and the Century 16 in Pleasant Hill.
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Read three critical perspectives on National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman, 2014), by Lucinda Barnes, Chuck Mobley and Max Goldberg. National Gallery opens at Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinemas, Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, Elmwood in Berkeley, San Jose’s Camera 3 and the Sebastopol Cinemas on Friday, December 19.
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