The Evening Class

"Cinema is the evening class for discriminating adults."--Ousmane Sembene

Sunday, August 30, 2026

SFFP 2026—THE VALLEY OF BEES / ÚDOLÍ VČEL (1968)

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There are times when I regret that I no longer live in San Francisco and those regrets usually revolve around notions of film literacy empha...
Friday, August 28, 2026

ODYSSEAN OVERVIEW—Filmic Adaptations of Homer’s The Odyssey

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Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (2026) has grossed approximately $1.4 billion at the worldwide box office. Its domestic gross (US and...
Sunday, August 02, 2026

TIMELESS SPIRAL—FRANCES FAYE

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“Is it true that when you're pretty it doesn't matter how you wear your hair? Do you think brandy is fattening?”— Frances Faye .  K...

LED / ALEXA ROSE FOUNDATION—ARTIST HAVEN AT THE DIXON WITH DANIEL OJEDA (08/01/26)

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In January of this year, LED —in partnership with the Alexa Rose Foundation —launched a unique new residency called Artist Haven, designed f...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

FANTASIA 30 (2026)—NIGHTBORN (2026): REVIEW

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I swear, Kuura—the baby in Finnish filmmaker Hanna Bergholm’s sophomore feature Nightborn (2026) —makes Rosemary’s baby look downright ange...
Monday, July 27, 2026

I WANT YOUR SEX (2026)—REVIEW

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Hilarity is seldom this erotic. Every prurient bone in your body is going to tremble with lust and laughter over Greg Araki’s latest provoc...

AMERICAN PACHUCO: THE LEGEND OF LUIS VALDEZ (2026)—REVIEW

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When I first heard about it, I was incredibly excited about plans to open the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino. It seemed...
Saturday, July 25, 2026

FANTASIA 30 (2026)—HOME BODIES (2026) / INSECTASY (2026) / SOUR MINNOWS (2026): REVIEWS

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The World Premiere of Canadian filmmaker Casey Walker’s strange and engaging Home Bodies (2026) starts you scratching your head straight o...

FANTASIA 30 (2026)—WHEN YOU OPEN THE DOOR (2026): REVIEW

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Remember back in 1992 when American psychoanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés published Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the W...
Friday, July 24, 2026

FANTASIA 30 (2026)—THE SEOUL GUARDIANS (2026): REVIEW

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At Fantasia there is no shortage of dystopian visions of the future, often the near-future, tracking the dark consequences of socio-politica...
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