The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

As the Castro Theater is still closed for renovations, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival took place this year at the Orinda Theater . ...

Continuing a wrap-up of last year with the San Francisco Silent Film Festival 's A Day of Silents: The annual Day of Silents was held at...

To answer the question asked in this kickstarter campaign , yes, I have heard of Alice Guy-Blache, and I have even seen some of her films, i...

Cal Performances had a lot going on this last Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, and though I was tempted by the Joffrey Ballet down in Z...

Here is some very exciting news! The San Francisco Silent Film Festival is presenting Abel Gance's astonishing 1927 film Napoleon, compl...

It’s sugarplum month, but we don’t need to let that stop us. There will be Christmas-tinged items on this list, but that’s hardly avoidable,...

These are the doldrums months for theater, and as such perhaps a bit of a relief, though there’s always something tempting: Here’s some long...

April 8, 10, 11, and 13, Nicholas McGegan leads Philharmonia Baroque in Handel’s great opera, Orlando (one of the first operas I ever saw !...

A couple of years ago I was re-watching Griffith's Intolerance and there was a close-up of some chickens, and I thought, "Wow. Thos...

I was interested in a couple of plays that Thick House Theater was doing this season, but I ended up subscribing to the whole series, mostly...

The trip to Camille at the Silent Film Festival was such a big success that I returned to the Castro Theater a week later, this time for a d...

I normally avoid movie theaters, finding a big-screen TV and Netflix preferable to the ordeal that movie-going has become, but I was given p...

Last September I saw the Aurora Theatre’s revival of Oscar Wilde’s Salome. It was like a doughnut, rich and delicious and probably not as he...