Film & Photography

01 Aug 2023

Is It Just Me, Or Did Oppenheimer Kind Of Suck?

(WARNING: SPOILER ALERT) I’ve always been a fan of Christopher Nolan. I love Memento, I love the Batman Trilogy, and I found Inception to be a legitimately creative big budget film, which, you already know, is a rarity. So when I saw those dramatic photos of Cillian Murphy that popped

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20 Jul 2023

43rd San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Preview

Openly anti-Semitic comments and efforts by radical right-wingers to use the law to control women’s bodies may be the types of political developments that undercut belief in humanity’s capability for evolving towards the future of “Star Trek”’s Federation.  Fortunately, the 43rd edition of the S.F. Jewish Film Festival (hereafter “SFJFF”)

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20 Jul 2023

Drag King Comedy “City Folx” Returns

Last year, the locally made webseries “City Folx” debuted to do its part to raise the visibility of the Bay Area’s local drag king talent.  It followed the misadventures of Raq (Vera Hannush) and Cin (Bex Salas), a pair of drag king roommates trying to hold onto their Mission District

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28 Jun 2023

Movies You Might Have Not Realized are Queer AF!

Without question TONS of great queer cinema exists: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Birdcage, Moonlight, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, Milk, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Out, Brokeback Mountain, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fire Island, etc. There are also so many great queer characters that

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14 Jun 2023

This Year’s Frameline Film Festival Lineup is Superb!

Frameline is one of those local cultural events which show why the phrase “representation matters” remains meaningful. 

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08 Jun 2023

David Lynch, The Wizard of Oz, & The ROXIE Theater

Could the Golden Age of Hollywood classic “The Wizard Of Oz” be the Rosetta Stone cinemagoers need to truly understand the films of David Lynch?  The Roxie Theater’s summer film series “You’re Not In Kansas Any More” gives interested viewers the opportunity to test this contention.  Running from June 9,

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01 Jun 2023

BAMPFA’s Summer Schedule Preview

This summertime’s planning needs to include space to check out the summer quarter’s programming at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive (hereafter BAMPFA).  Why not pay tribute to the man who helped shape both the Pacific Film Archive and the Telluride Film Festival?  How about enjoying the balm of

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30 May 2023

The 22nd San Francisco Documentary Film Festival is Here!

The month of June is here, which means it’s time for the return of the S.F. Documentary Film Festival (hereafter “S.F. DocFest”).  This festival, now in its 22nd year. Is an offshoot of the well-respected San Francisco Independent Film Festival.  This year’s S.F. DocFest is a hybrid event running June

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