Film Review: Free Solo
Free Solo chronicles the personal and professional life of a man obsessed with his goal of climbing Yosemite’s Half Dome “Free Soloing”.
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Film Review: The Man With A Movie Camera + DeVotchKa
Get off your couch, fellow potatoes. Go to the cinema, sit with real people not staring at their phone (much). Picture this… watching “The Man With A Movie Camera”, at the beautiful Castro Theatre, accompanied by the live band, DeVotchKa. Thank you, San Francisco International Film Festival. Seriously, pure bliss. Who knew, this 1929, black…
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San Francisco Int’l Film Fest
Make way for SFFILM, the Mother of all Film Festivals, the longest-running in the Americas. Happy 60th anniversary to you, San Francisco Film Festival. Clear your calendar, all of it, April 5 – 19. Your body and soul recharging station beckons with nearly 200 films, Spotlight on Argentina, live music, dancing, talks, master classes, field…
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Mother & Child Film Review
An oasis amongst the summer film dreck, Mother & Child, is another fine offering by Rodrigo Garcia , (Nine Lives), who just happens to be the son of famed author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This is no mere chick flick, which it is, but it’s so much more. The film introduces us to three diverse women…
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The Visitor Film Review
Keeping in mind the travel theme of Tango Diva postings, I chose the film “The Visitor” to review. Even though the entire film takes place in and around NYC, a major subtext is how lucky we are to have the freedom to travel. If you are a US citizen you can also experience the guilt…
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Lars and the Real Girl: Film Review
The film could easily have devolved into a bad SNL skit, but reveals itself to be a surprising study in people’s need for intimacy.
