Friday, May 3, 2024

Tagged with: Festivals

Heated moments

SCREEN GRABS Filmmaking in the Philippines hit a first "golden age" in the years after World War II. That was followed by a 1960s...

Expanding consciousness

At some point, humankind will look back and figure out what to make of our heavy usage of psychedelics at music festivals. Despite the...

Star time

SCREEN GRABS There’s never been an un-interesting moment for the SF Jewish Film Festival (July 20 to August 6) to be going on, in...

Summer’s bright highlights

Despite all the bad press, San Francisco summers do indeed contain many a sunny day to frolic with friends in Dolores Park (pick up...

Silent is golden

SCREEN GRABS Particularly these days, a one-story building designated for commercial usage in space-hungry San Francisco is an unusual sight, so you may at...

Sgt. Pepper, UnderCover

1967 was a banner year for music – a year when Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, and Aretha Franklin topped the charts. But perched...

Surfing the docs

SCREEN GRABS This is a moment when the notion of watching documentaries sounds like mandatory homework: The world is falling apart, many parties would...

A leap for CROSSROADS

SCREEN GRABS The San Francisco Cinematheque’s eighth annual experimental film festival, CROSSROADS 2017, has some genuine medicine for the overabundance of melancholy fogging up the...

Party Radar: Feisty festies

PARTY RADAR Festivals seem so uncool right now. Those not suffering from Coachella post-partum depression (or simply Coachella fatigue), surely experienced the Fyre Festival rush...

Splendido Dino

SCREEN GRABS Comedy is seldom universal, and Italian comedy is as culturally specific as any strain of humor. Yet for a while, Italian screen...