Best Of Bay Area Film – December 2013
What movies of interest are coming your way this month, you lovely Bay Area folks? Come on inside and we’ll fill you in.
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Walker, Alex Cox, And The Stupid Bastards of The Late ‘80s
Walker, Alex Cox’s 1987 sort-of-but-not-really biopic about William Walker, an American who in the 1850s became President of Nicaragua, is a very weird movie.
Purple Rain, And The Shame of Movies Never Seen
“That ain’t Lake Minnetonka.”
Best of Bay Area Film — November 2013
New releases, rep picks, double features, film festivals, and movie marathons all demand your popcorn crunching, babysitter funding, brain whittling attention this November. But what if you can only make it to […]
The Lone Ranger: The Best Movie Of 2013 You Didn’t Bother To See
Unplug your ears and listen, people! You have missed one of the best movies of the year.
Kubrick Loved The Treasure of The Sierra Madre–So Should You
In 1963 Stanley Kubrick made a list of his top ten favorite movies, the only time he was ever known to make public such a list. It’s got some usual […]
12 Years A Slave Brings The Pain
Watch the trailer for director Steve McQueen’s new movie, 12 Years A Slave, and you will fear the worst: a weepy, tug-at-your-heartstrings, Oscar-bait Hollywood take on slavery. If you’ve seen […]
Steven Soderbergh, Richard Lester, And The Knack
Nobody ever told me about Getting Away With It, a ’99 book in which Steven Soderbergh interviews Richard Lester, director of such movies as A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, Petulia, […]
Shame and Lost Highway are not Good
And so here you find me, scouring the internet, looking for a copy of the generally unavailable 1950 film noir, Shakedown. The Supreme Being saw it at a Noir City screening […]
Cronenberg’s Scanners Will Blow Up Your Head
Scanners (’81) is a very strange movie. It’s renowned for a scene—originally supposed to open the film—wherein Michael Ironside, as the evil scanner Darryl Revok, sits on a panel before […]
Our Nixon: Fun With Super-8
Nixon and Watergate. Best political scandal ever? It’s the gift that keeps on giving, to the point where every scandal since has had “gate” stuck on the end of it, […]
The Bed-Sitting Room Is A Very Odd Film
Surely we’ve all had times in our lives when we’ve feared suddenly turning into a wardrobe or a foyer or a driveway or a blender or what have you. It […]
Before Sunrise, Sunset, & Midnight
I like these movies much more than I thought I did. They’re about time, and time is interesting. It does things to people. We can’t help but make choices as […]
Touch of Evil: It Was Some Kind of A Movie
Touch of Evil is Orson Welles’s best movie. Which is a scandalous thing to say in the movie world. Maybe not scandalous. How about sacriligeous? Citizen Kane is, after all, […]