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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Très Distingué: "Breakfast at Tiffany's," another "Big Screen Classic" from TCM and Fathom Events

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Each month this year Turner Classic Movies and Fathom Events have teamed to bring "Big Screen Classics" into movie theaters a...
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Friday, October 28, 2016

Pierre Chenal's 1939 Adaptation of James M. Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice"

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SAN FRANCISCO'S 3RD FRENCH FILM NOIR FESTIVAL COMES TO THE ROXIE THEATER From Thursday, November 3, through Monday, November 7, San...
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Monday, October 24, 2016

Stanley Kubrick's "2001" - A Musical Odyssey, Pt. 2

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The skies opened up over San Francisco on Saturday evening, October 15, and the rains poured down. Though this deluge complicated our tr...
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Monday, October 10, 2016

STANLEY KUBRICK'S "2001" - A MUSICAL ODYSSEY, Pt. 1

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  In 1964 Stanley Kubrick, who had by this time directed several notable and some Oscar -nominated films ( Killer's Kiss, The Ki...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT (2015)

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The legendary interviews of Alfred Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut, the French New Wave auteur who idolized him, took place in Hollywood o...
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Monday, August 1, 2016

THE REAL JAMES DEAN, new from the Chicago Review Press

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61 years ago this September 30, newly-minted movie star James Dean, with an ace Porsche racing mechanic riding in the passenger sea...
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Monday, May 16, 2016

Celebrating National Classic Movie Day: "5 Movies on an Island"

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If by some bizarre quirk of fate I end up stranded on a deserted island that happens to have a reliable food source, lots of sunshine and...
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Saturday, March 19, 2016

Real and Unreal Old Hollywood: "Hail, Caesar!" (2016)

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Hail, Caesar! , the latest comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen ( Fargo ; O Brother, Where Art Thou? ) offers a tongue-in-cheek bow to Holly...
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Saturday, March 12, 2016

SF Symphony 2015 -2016 Film Series Nears End; 2016 - 2017 Series Announced

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  The San Francisco Symphony's third annual Film Series will come to an end later this month with screenings of Steven Spielberg'...