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NOIR CITY 11: EXPERIMENT IN TERROR (1962)—Lobbycards Gallery
For a movie that is lustrously shot in black and white, these tinted lobbycards reveal a deceptively lurid production.
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NOIR CITY 11: THE COME ON (1956)—Eddie Muller Introduction
Eddie Muller expressed a couple of caveats regarding the rare screening of Russell Birdwell's The Come On (1956), the second entry in Noir City's annual "Bad Girls Night". He warned that the film was...
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NOIR CITY 11: THE OTHER WOMAN (1954)—Eddie Muller Introduction
"Who doesn't love a bad girl?" Bill Arney—the "Voice of Noir"—asked his Thursday night Noir City audience, "even when there's a hell of a price to pay? Have you really lived if you haven't lost your...
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SFSFF 2013: Michael Hawley Previews "Silent Winter"
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival's (SFSFF) one-day winter program has become a welcome tradition, helping silent film fanatics endure the long months between the organization's main festival held...
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SFSFF 2013: SILENT WINTER—The Evening Class Interview With Anita Monga
Anita Monga first came to my attention when she was summarily discharged as the programmer from the Castro Theatre after 16 years of devoted service. As Johnny Ray Huston wrote for the San Francisco...
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SFSFF 2013: SILENT WINTER: SNOW WHITE (1916)—Introduction by J.B. Kaufman
Walt Disney was a 15-year-old newsboy when he attended a free event at the Kansas City Convention Center in 1917 to see Miss Marguerite Clark on screen in a live-action rendition of a German fairy...
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SILENT WINTER 2013: THINK SLOW, ACT FAST: BUSTER KEATON SHORTS...
As Thomas Gladysz has written for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival: "Think slow, act fast" is a quote attributed to Buster Keaton. Even if apocryphal, it suggests the studied approach behind his...
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SILENT WINTER 2013: THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924)—Introduction by Jeffrey Vance
As Thomas Gladysz has written for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival: "The Thief of Bagdad shows Douglas Fairbanks at the top of his form. Directed by Raoul Walsh and adapted from One Thousand and...
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SILENT WINTER 2013: MY BEST GIRL (1927)—Introduction by Jeffrey Vance
As Thomas Gladysz has written for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival: "My Best Girl (1927) was Mary Pickford's last silent film. Although she would make four more sound films and win an Oscar®, My...
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HOLLYWOOD BEFORE THE CODE: DEEPER, DARKER, NASTIER!!—BLOOD MONEY (1933)
Perhaps the most salacious quality of Blood Money (1933) [IMDb, Wikipedia]—the second half of tonight's opening night double-bill of Elliot Lavine's pre-Code series "Hollywood Before the Code: Deeper,...
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SAGEBRUSH: CRAWLSPACE (2011)—The Evening Class Interview With Actors Kristy...
My involvement with the sophomore edition of the Sun Valley Film Festival (March 14-17, 2013) has involved negotiations with the Idaho Film Office (IFO) to increase media visibility for the event, in...
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SVFF 2013—The Evening Class Interview With Executive Director Ted Grennan
You have to love the intimate displacements of the modern age. From my desk in San Francisco I phoned Ted Grennan at his relatively new desk in central Virginia (he's just moved his family from Los...
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SVFF 2013:SHORT FILMS—MAGPIE (2011): The Evening Class Interview With Joel Wayne
An eclectic assortment of short films and music videos have been selected for screening at the upcoming 2013 Sun Valley Film Festival (March 14-17). The 20 short films and 15 music videos were selected...
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SVFF 2013:SHORT FILMS & MUSIC VIDEOS
As mentioned previously, an eclectic assortment of short films and music videos have been selected for screening at the upcoming Sun Valley Film Festival (March 14-17, 2013). The 20 short films and 15...
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SVFF 2013: HOT SHOT STUDENT FILMS—The Evening Class Interview With Hemingway...
In early January, the Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF) actively sought submissions for its new Hot Shot film category dedicated to filmmakers under age 18. Films of any type, feature, documentary, or...
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SVFF 2013: SCREENWRITERS LAB—Will McCormack's We Are Puppets
Photo courtesy of the Sun Valley Film FestivalWhen Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF) Executive Director Teddy Grennan asked 2013 Spirit Award nominee Will McCormack if he had written anything new since...
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SVFF 2013: SCREENWRITERS LAB—The Evening Class Interview With Cody Tucker
Early in January, the Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF) announced their inaugural Screenwriters Lab, an exciting, interactive new feature event of the festival, sponsored by InkTip and Wyoming Whiskey....
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SVFF 2013: COFFEE TALK—An Evening Class Question For Jodie Foster
Photo courtesy of the Sun Valley Film FestivalIf there is anything I have learned from Film Festival Studies in the past few years it is the challenge that festival programmers face in satisfying the...
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SVFF 2013: SPONSOR REEL—The Evening Class Interview With Zach Voss
SVFF Sponsor Reel from Zach Voss on Vimeo.Isn't that just about one of the most beautiful bumper reels you've ever seen? All throughout the Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF) weekend, I kept asking, "Who...
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