“Moka” is a revenge thriller tendering a compact story that traverses Lac Leman (Lake Geneva). Some of its action plays…
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Everybody has heard of T. E. Lawrence–“Lawrence of Arabia”–adventurer, explorer, expert on what’s now called the Middle East. Certainly every…
Father’s Day, wedding day, graduation–all important June occasions. And, of course, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, June 1st to…
Previously on Culture Vulture, I shared the Top Five Films I saw at Austin’s 2017South-by-Southwest Festival. And now, my picks…
You know you’re in for a treat when among the opening scenes of a film is one where two mature…
Does moviegoing matter? And with so many options for consuming entertainment, is there still a distinction between small and big…
Sixty years doesn’t seem a great length of time, but as the San Francisco International Film Festival is turning 60,…
My father broke with the religion of his birth, Judaism, when he was 14. Three factors drove his apostasy, two…
Hirokazu Kore-eda has seemingly inherited the role of chronicling Japanese middle class domestic life from Yasujiro Ozu. That isn’t to…
Big cities in the warmer latitudes–Rome and Athens come to mind–all seem to have their cadres of “street cats”: not-quite-feral…
Raoul Peck takes a unique approach to documenting the meditations of the late Harlem-born author James Baldwin, who lived as…
Using the device of a play within a movie, Asghar Farhadi (“A Separation”) this time brings us a whodunit set…
“I always thought of the joke as a superior way of telling the truth.”—Emily Nussbaum, “New Yorker,” January 23, 2017…
2016 was an exceptional year for movies, as well as refreshingly diverse. The upcoming Oscar Awards show will thankfully be…