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Eat, Drink, and See Films Dec. 5-11, 2014
Here’s our guide to what to EAT, DRINK, and SEE coming this week of Friday, December 5 to Thursday, December 11, 2014.
EAT, DRINK & SEE FILMS: November 20-27, 2014
QUICK DRAW SF! Sketchgiving Food Event
A live drinks and draw event on Thursday. Each month, ten artists are selected to come enjoy happy hour and draw, then sell their creations on the “art wall” available on the cheap. Continue reading
Rare, Authentic, Gorgeous: A Look at PFA’s “Discovering Georgian Cinema”
by Kelly Vance
Bay Area art-film aficionados and armchair adventurers are in for a treat. The six-month trip to Georgia is ready for take-off. Continue reading
The Telluride Film Festival 2014
by Gary Meyer
Labor Day, 1975. I had heard so much about this unique little festival in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado after their first year that it seemed I could not miss it. The second festival featured a selection of new international movies and a healthy menu of classics including silents with live music plus tributes to classic American director Henry King, actor Jack Nicholson, and German director Werner Herzog. It proved to be a weekend full of great movies and an opportunity to meet not only other film lovers but the artists themselves away from any hint of Hollywood hype. Continue reading
Neo-Sincerity at the Movies
by Jesse Hawthorne Ficks
Movies keep me awake until all hours of the night and get me up early in the morning because movies help me understand the world.
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Unsung Hero: Don Murray
by Tim Sika
In 1956 actor Don Murray exploded onto movie screens as Beauregard “Bo” Decker: the swaggering, handsome, gauche cowboy who romances low-rent chanteuse Marie (played by superstar Marilyn Monroe) in director Joshua Logan’s Technicolor Cinemascope film adaptation of the celebrated William Inge stage play Bus Stop. Continue reading
Orson Welles: M Is For Mystery
by Brian Darr
Orson Welles loved a good mystery. Some of his greatest films, from Citizen Kane to Touch of Evil to F For Fake , use conventions of that literary and film genre to draw his audience into their labyrinthine worlds. An intensely private man, he also frequently employed his incomparable skills as raconteur to obfuscate the truths about his own life, creating mysteries that each new biographer or reader must try to unravel if he or she wants to understand more about Welles than he intended to to reveal. Continue reading
Roxie Kids / Nippon Nights + Cheap Eats
by Kaan Senaydin
The Bay Area is quite a place—certainly, a cultural capital of the world. Take film and food: you would be hard-pressed to keep up with the prodigious pace of film festivals and special film series showing every week; meanwhile, the city abounds with ways to enjoy very tasty and—if that’s your thing—challenging food and drink.
PFA: Derek Jarman, Visionary
by Dennis Harvey
“The only audience I worry about is my collaborators on the film; everything, and everyone else, is outside the circle. Cinema audiences interest me no more than the tide of humanity that passes each day under my window in Charing Cross Road—I wish them well.” Continue reading
Brakhage x 3: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
by Steve Polta
Stan Brakhage (1933–2003) was easily the most prolific filmmaker in the medium’s history. With nearly 400 films created during 50 years of activity, he is recognized (especially in the field of “avant-garde” or “experimental” filmmaking) as one of the medium’s most significant and influential practitioners. While two very impressive multi-disc DVD sets have been issued on the Criterion imprint and include over 50 works, public screenings of Brakhage’s work are few and far between.
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