Hell On Frisco Bay

Five years since I updated this blog in any way (that festival blogroll to the right freezes the COVID-19 cancellations in amber) and gettin...

The  62st San Francisco International Film Festival  is in its final weekend; it runs through Tuesday, April 23rd. Each day during the festi...

The San Francisco Bay Area is still home to a rich cinephilic culture nurtured in large part by a diverse array of cinemas, programmers ...

The San Francisco Bay Area is still home to a rich cinephilic culture nurtured in large part by a diverse array of cinemas, programmers and ...

The first month of the New Year has almost ended. Between travel, a new worksite, trying to make sense of a new Presidential administration...

A scene from Kelly Sears' A PATTERN FOR SURVIVAL, playing at the 58th San Francisco International Film Festival, April 23 - May 7 2015...

Image from artist website . WHO: Kathleen Quillian made this short animation. WHAT: The cut-out animation tradition includes some illu...

image courtesy San Francisco Silent Film Festival WHO: Stars Sergei Komarov, the Soviet-era actor who also performed in previous San Fra...

WHO: Janie Geiser made this film. WHAT: I have not seen The Red Book , but I've long been a fan of Geiser's puppet animations, t...

WHO: Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme made this documentary. WHAT: One of the earliest Chris Marker films I've seen, and one of the ...

WHO: Standish Lawder made this short film, and makes a brief appearance in it as well. (He's the one smoking in the above screen shot....

WHO: Tod Browning directed this. WHAT: An otherwise-excellent scholarly article by Elisabeth Bronfen (pdf) repeats the common misconce...

WHO: Nancy Andrews made this video work. WHAT: I haven't seen much of Andrews' work but I really liked her 16mm film Haunted Cam...

WHO: Nina Paley wrote and directed this partially-autobiographical animation. WHAT: It's unfortunate that, because Sita Sings The B...