Last week Pam Grady wrote about women flouting social norms in Pre-Code Hollywood. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Films
Q & A: The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture
In light of Spotlight’s six Oscar nominations – and the winners being announced at the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 28 – we talked to Joe Saltzman, co-author (with Matthew C. Ehrlich) of the new book Heroes and Scoundrels: The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (University of Illinois Press). [Ed. note: Spotlight won the Best Picture Oscar.]
Saltzman is a professor of journalism and communication at USC Annenberg, and he maintains the comprehensive Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (IJPC) research database www.ijpc.org (more than 87,000 entries and counting). Saltzman previously had a long, award-filled career in newspaper reporting and editing, broadcast journalism and documentary filmmaking. Roger Leatherwood interviews him for EatDrinkFilms.
Critics Corner: EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT
Beautifully shot in black and white – a rarity these days – Ciro Guerro’s Embrace of the Serpent is Columbia’s nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, and deservedly so. An “elegy for lost cultures and an indictment of exploitation,” this saga of human endurance in the wilderness – also the theme of fellow Oscar nominee The Revenant – plays like “a rainforest fever dream.” Critics Daniel Barnes and Dennis Harvey present their takes on this vivid physical adventure, which opens across North America in February and March.
Critics Corner: A WAR
The Danes think enough of Tobias Lindholm’s A War to nominate it for best foreign-language film in this year’s Oscars. See how Bay Area reviewers Daniel Barnes and Richard von Busack view Lindholm’s “… look at the burden of leadership and the psychological toll of living through hell” in this week’s Critics Corner.
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
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
Slamdance
by Randy Myers
PARK CITY, Utah – Small in scale but large in ambition, the upstart film festival Slamdance once again rolled into this snowy city to celebrate the work of talented, scrappy, first-time filmmakers. Continue reading
Catching Up with the Czar of Noir at Café du Nord
by Thomas Downs
In early January my old friends Randall Homan and Al Barna called to see if I wanted to go out for a night on the town. They have a book out, San Francisco Neon: Survivors and Lost Icons, which features their beautiful photographs of the city’s neon signs, so for them, getting out often involves supporting a business with a legacy neon sign. Continue reading
EatDrinkFilms Presents Hollywood Noir Classics
by Gary Meyer
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On Friday night, January 29, Noir City and EatDrinkFilms present two film noir classics, set behind the seamy back doors of the Hollywood studios, at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre. Continue reading
Eat My Shorts: Real Food Films
At Eat Drink Films we are delighted to serve as a Media Partner for this year’s Real Food Films Contest, a competition where in the past two years, more than 300 filmmakers from around the world have entered the world’s largest short-films competition for films on food, farming and sustainability. Continue reading
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