Sixty years doesn’t seem a great length of time, but as the San Francisco International Film Festival is turning 60,…
Janos Gereben
Janos Gereben
Janos Gereben From refugee scholarship in Helena, MT, and Atchison, KS, Janos worked his way up from copy boy to the copy desk at the NY Herald-Tribune of blessed memory. When the Trib went under, he worked for TIME-LIFE, UPI Audio, then switched coasts, published the Kona Torch, was a reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, and taught journalism at UH-Manoa. He received an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship, reported from the European political and cultural scene for a year. In the S.F. Bay Area, he worked as arts editor of the Post Newspaper Group/East Bay for 20 years, writes about performing arts and films for the S.F. Examiner, continues writing for the S.F. Classical Voice which he joined when Robert Commanday established this first professional online publication about music and dance. He also participated in the work of CultureVulture in the publication's first years.
The two great Sanskrit epic poems – “Ramayana” and “Mahabharata” – and Divali, the Hindu festival of lights, are treasured…
September 30, 2016 Renzo Piano’s magnificent “all-glass see-through” California Academy of Sciences ([http://www.calacademy.org) in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park (across…
The superbly melodic operas of Gaetano Donizetti represent a triumph of the human spirit over extreme adversities. Long before syphilis…
Ethnic support for opera in multi-ethnic San Francisco is a subject worth scholarly research, which is certainly not being offered…
Ruan Ling-yu was among the biggest Chinese silent-film stars, acclaimed, adored, and compared to Greta Garbo. Her brief life –…
San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program does a world of good for super-talented young singers about to launch their careers, but…
The Great Raid is solid value – an honest, well-crafted, engrossing story. What can an obscure World War II episode…
A mindboggling view into the heart of Japan, Fear and Trembling includes some of the incongruous hilarity of Sofia Coppola’s…
Paul Provenza’s The Aristrocrats is so unspeakably filthy and offensive that only pre-pubescent kids or sophisticated scholars of obscene cinema…
Asif Kapadia’s The Warrior is a work of rare and consuming integrity. This brilliant new British director made his debut…
One simple but essential factor that makes Vietnamese films so stunning is the sheer beauty of the country. Add now…