The Evening Class

The reviews are pouring in on David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises , and all-in-all they're quite favorable. It scored the highest a...

The Mill Valley Film Festival ("MVFF") is arguably the Bay Area's second-most important annual film event in terms of both siz...

As part of the "deal" I struck with the press accreditation committee at TIFF, I was to place write-ups at both Twitch and Greenc...

I find Brian DePalma's latest film Redacted lurid, loud and uncomfortably entertaining. Though I was immediately taken to task for usi...

Following up on my review of David Cronenberg's latest , and in the wake of Eastern Promises winning TIFF's Cadillac People's C...

Ryan Gosling’s winning streak continues with his radiant performance as Lars Lindstrom in Craig Gillespie’s crowd-pleasing dramedy Lars and ...

Earlier this year Ken Burns participated in the “Witness to War” program curated by the International Center for the Arts and San Francisco...

Cycles fit seamlessly within cycles in Silent Light , commencing with the gradual shift from a starlit night to a dawn punctuated with the a...

Actress turned filmmaker Tamar van den Dop not only suggests that love is blind in her first feature; but, implies that it must be blind. ...

In Jungian parlance the puer is the archetype of the eternal child. And any Jungian worth his salt will advise that—as attractive as etern...

In 1889, Rudyard Kipling penned "The Ballad of East and West" , which began: Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twa...

At Frameline earlier this year I befriended and interviewed Seth Randal whose film The Fall of '55 sold out its first screening. Quit...

Way back in April, just prior to the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF), local film writer "target="new">Jo...