Roxie Theater hosted the Berlin & Beyond Film Festival’s North American Premiere of “Girl You Know it’s True“, a biopic about Fab Morvan, and the rise and fall of his band Milli Vanilli. Fab made a personal appearance in San Francisco to answer audience questions and graciously pose with admirers. A little history: Fab Morvan was…
The historic Castro Theatre hosted BELLA!, the 2023 closing night selection of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, oldest such festival in the world. If you don’t know who Bella Abzug is, you weren’t alive in the 1970s, but trust me, you want to see this documentary of an extraordinary woman, beginning her career as…
Remembering Gene Wilder opened the 2023 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, screened at the beautiful Castro Theatre. Side note: the SFJFF is the oldest Jewish film festival in the world. Through Interviews and archival footage we are given a back stage pass to rub shoulders with the likes of Richard Pryor, Zero Mostel, Gilda Radner,…
The San Francisco Film Festival wrapped up Its 2021 program with a screening of the documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street. Good choice SFFILM! Sesame Street, still the gold standard of children’s programming worldwide, was the first racially integrated television show, born out of the mind of Joan Ganz Cooney, inspired by…
During a time when all of us have had to cancel long awaited travel, secluded from our friends and family, the urge to explore has grown. You can explore a whole new world right from your sofa.
Is your cell phone spying on you? How about the ATM, your smart TV, your private messages on Facebook, every card swipe, computer keystroke, and emoji? Be afraid, be very afraid. Data is now the world’s biggest commodity, surpassing oil. The Great Hack, a Netflix original, reveals how our data is bought and sold without…
Have you ever been to a low budget wedding where they forgo the professional photographer in favor of cell phone paparazzi? Seems anyone can wave a camera phone around and call themselves an artist. That doesn’t make the results worthy of the big screen. Like a Prayer should never have made it past YouTube. A…