As we breathlessly await the Christmas Day arrival of Guy Ritchie’s new Sherlock Holmes epic (I’m currently holding my breath until I turn blue or Warner Brothers realize their decision to turn Holmes into an action hero was a bad idea and cancel its release, whichever comes first), there’s not a great deal to report […]
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Big Screen Berkeley: In Chris Smith’s new release things are getting worse, much worse
Pacific Film Archive has a couple more Otto Preminger treats in store for us before they close down for their annual hibernation scheduled this winter between December 21 and January 13. On Saturday December 19 at 8:30 pm, the Archive offers Preminger’s psychedelic anti-classic Skidoo, a 1968 mistake that truly must be seen on the big screen […]
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Big Screen Berkeley: prickly Preminger’s in town
Pacific Film Archive’s ongoing salute to Otto Preminger continues this week with a selection of the director’s best features from the 1950s and 1960s. On Friday December 11, at 8:20pm, the Archive offers a screening of Otto’s taboo-breaking 1953 comedy-drama The Moon is Blue, long infamous for being the first Hollywood film in which the […]
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Big screen Berkeley: Thomson treks east and top picks
One of the world’s most respected film writers, British expat and longtime San Francisco resident David Thomson, will travel across the Bay to the Pacific Film Archive on Saturday December 5 for a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). Thomson is promoting his new book, The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love […]