The Evening Class

Long before Argentine author Manuel Puig evocatively synopsized The Enchanted Cottage (1945) in his experimental novel The Kiss of the Spid...

I knew I was in trouble when Eddie Muller (the "Czar of Noir")—introducing an advance screening of The Good German to his word of...

It's with great pride that I announce that—partly due to his conversation with me here on The Evening Class —filmmaker Jed Rosenthal Bel...

Recently, working on a magazine article profiling David Thomson's upcoming PFA film series "A Thousand Decisions in the Dark" ...

Graham Leggat, Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Society, introduced Guillermo Del Toro following the Embarcadero Landmark screen...

I may have been too hasty choosing my 10 favorite interviews of 2006. Meeting Guillermo Del Toro at the Ritz Carlton for a brief chat about...

Patrick Galloway, author of the Stonebridge Press Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook , has followed up that celebration...

My thanks to Dierdre Kennedy at Terry Hines & Associates for forwarding this press release: The San Francisco Film Critics Circle has n...

Andy Horbal over at No More Marriages! has me adding -lypto onto everything! Which is my way of entitling Saturday Night Live's movie ...

Alison Bailes was born in the United Kingdom and grew up in Ascot, Berkshire. She attended Oxford University where she got a BA degree in Fr...