Paula Farmer
It’s not just the men that are swimming with sharks these days. Women may be the minority on Wall Street, but alive and present, ready to kick ass and take numbers. It’s a couple of these shrewd and ambitious women ...
Renata PoltSan Francisco,
Some Bay Area movie-goers have called the annual Jewish Film Festival their favorite Jewish holiday, and you'd have to witness the excited queue outside San Francisco's Castro Theater on opening night to understand why. This year's 36th edition, running ...
A Documentary about Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
Michael McDonagh
We all want to be loved. We all want to belong. But what do you do if your house is bombed and everyone in it dies? Do you become bitter, or take the high road? And what do you do ...
Jesse Eisenberg is the latest actor to take-on the Woody Allen persona
Renata Polt
Starting with the plain white opening titles against a black background, Woody Allen's latest romantic comedy, "Café Society," has all the earmarks of earlier Allen rom-coms: an Allen avatar with a Jewish background, a beautiful love interest (or two), ...
Renata PoltSan Francisco,
Louise Brooks. Pola Negri. Douglas Fairbanks. Fritz Lang. René Clair. Ernst Lubitsch. Victor Fleming. Buster Keaton.
If any of these names makes your heart skip a beat, then mark your calendar for ...
Paula Farmer
No doubt, the documentary "The First Monday in May" will draw comparisons to "The September Issue," although done by different directors. Besides probably drawing some of the same audience, both feature fashion, Vogue magazine and its editor, Anna Wintour. But ...
Paula Farmer
The theme of “unlikely friendships” in a film may be over used and sometimes used ineffectively, but for Sweet Bean it’s appropriate, effective and welcome.
Sweet Bean is a delicious red bean paste, the heart of the dorayaki pancakes ...
Andrew Osborne's film runners-up and also-rans at SXSW
Andrew OsborneTX,
SXSW 2016 HONORABLE MENTIONS
1. ACCIDENTAL COURTESY: DARYL DAVIS, RACE & AMERICA
Thought-provoking and (during at least one SXSW post-screening Q&A) argument-sparking, Matt Ornstein’s documentary examines racial discrimination through the eyes of Daryl ...
Renata Polt
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art--"the Met"--is open every day of the year except Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and the first Monday in May. That last one is because it's the day of the Gala, the Met's ...
Andrew OsborneTX,
1. THE TOWER
Winner of both the SXSW 2016 Jury and Audience Awards for Best Documentary, director Keith Maitland’s animated/non-fiction hybrid depicting the 1966 mass shooting at the University of Texas is roughly ...
