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…
Here’s what happened at the dentist today. My lovely 30-something dental technician, not pictured here, was chatting about this and that. Let’s call her Midge. Midge related a funny story about getting a text from a friend saying #MeToo. Assuming it was a mistake, she thought nothing of it. And then on Facebook lots of…
Icarus Documentary drama – director Brian Fogel accidently discovers global politics, doping scandal, Russian conspiracy, olympic committee corruption, whistleblower …
RESISTANCE NOW ! Lynn Hershman Leeson takes nothing at face value. Her film, installation, and multimedia work highlight acts of courage against censorship and repression, unknown stories that have little chance of being told, if not for her persistence of vision. TANIA LIBRE In the documentary “Tania Libre”, Leeson introduces us to Tania Bruguera, a…
NEW YEARS RESOLUTION TIME If you are like the majority of end-of-year list makers you have written “lose weight”. If you are a teacher or a parent or heck, a woman in training, the message should be to internalize positive self esteem, not “I hate my body”. Open any magazine with a female model photo…