http://www.filmonfilm.org/ Periodic writings from the Film on Film Foundation on film advocacy and the medium in general July 14, 2010 at 9:02pm http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=73 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=73#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:54:11 +0000 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=73 Thursday commences the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, and so let us take a look at the provenance of this year's prints. For a less materialist overview of the festivities, I recommend Brian "Ob... http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=72 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=72#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 13:49:34 +0000 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=72 In these post-festival doldrums, with the PFA on hiatus until May 29 and the Castro on autopilot with their weeks-long digital Iron Man 2 engagement, mid-latitude Bay Area cinephiles hunger for eye-ca... http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=71 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=71#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 11:03:23 +0000 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=71 In my eagerness to catch all the Iranian films in the festival, I saw one great work (The White Meadows) and two lesser ones. I described Frontier Blues as pseudo-Iranian and I'll say the same of Teh... http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=70 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=70#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 10:36:47 +0000 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=70 I had wondered if I would see another festival film as good as The White Meadows, and I have: Le père de mes enfants (The Father of My Children). I skipped Mia Hansen-Løve's previous film T... http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=69 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=69#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 13:57:52 +0000 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=69 After taking Sunday off (from the festival), I sprang back into action Monday night with Ted Kotcheff's 1970 ozploitation classic Wake in Fright, which wasn't near as well-attended as I'd expected. ... http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=68 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=68#comments Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:55:03 +0000 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=68 Imogen Poots and Juno Temple in CracksAnother film caught early in a press screening: Jordan Scott's leaden Cracks, starring Eva Green (The Dreamers) as a diving instructor at a 1930's English girls' ... http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=67 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=67#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:28:11 +0000 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=67 It's April, and the S.F. International Film Festival rears its head once more. Those wondering which programs will be projected via the divine medium of 35mm celluloid (ok, polyester, to be precise) ... http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=66 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=66#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:34:41 +0000 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=66 I didn't catch too many films in this year's San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (what a catch-all name--perhaps the word "International" deserves special emphasis). I favored th... http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=65 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=65#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:56:49 +0000 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=65 It's been a while, hasn't it? But this is an exciting week of cinema in the Bay Area and I'm compelled to proselytize. Ben Russell is town. I just saw his Let Each One Go Where He May at the Yerb... http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=64 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=64#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:49:30 +0000 http://www.filmonfilm.org/blog/?ID=64 Asked by Brian Darr, that stand-up gent of the Bay Area Cinephilia Scene, to contribute for the first time to his annual year's end round-up, "I Only Have Two Eyes", posted in his most excellent Hell ...