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  1. Reel World

    Before the Revolution
    A local doc gets an Oscar nod, and Reel World bids a fond farewell
    By Michael Fox
    Published: February 4, 2004

    The day the Academy Award nominations were announced happened to coincide with the first session of Sam Green's video production class at the University of San Francisco. Did the co-director of...

  2. Reel World

    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    Jamming guns, love as a virus, and a movie that travels by foot
    By Michael Fox
    Published: January 28, 2004

    Six million smackers may seem like plenty of dough to make a movie, especially one headed straight to DVD (following a pay-per-view broadcast). But not if it's a sci-fi flick crammed with special...

  3. Reel World

    The Man Between
    "When I decided to be an artist, I thought it was my license to investigate being alive."
    By Michael Fox
    Published: January 21, 2004

    San Francisco filmmaker William Farley premiered two acclaimed features in competition at the Sundance (né U.S.) Film Festival in the '80s -- Citizen , which marked Whoopi Goldberg's screen...

  4. Reel World

    In the Company of Men
    From Burning Man to downtown San Fran: the life of a documentary team
    By Michael Fox
    Published: January 14, 2004

    For their next documentary, Paul Barnett and Unsu Lee are jump-cutting from the remote desert setting of Confessions of a Burning Man to the canyons of downtown. The San Francisco filmmakers have...

  5. Reel World

    The Dreamlife of Angels
    The year ahead in local film
    By Michael Fox
    Published: January 7, 2004

    A new year means a fresh slate -- of films. We movie fans indulge in airbrushed expectations of a perfectly fabulous year in cinema, at least until the first dog of January fouls the air. But while...

  6. Reel World

    Goodbye, Mr. Chips
    The year in local film, plus the passing of a cinematic champion
    By Michael Fox
    Published: December 31, 2003

    The year in Bay Area film, which did not present many opportunities for jubilation, ended on a decidedly down note with the Dec. 5 passing of Robert S. Donn. A retired teacher who founded the S.F....

  7. Reel World

    City Hall
    We hope Gavin Newsom follows through on promises to shake up the Film Commission
    By Michael Fox
    Published: December 24, 2003

    It's not at the top of Mayor-elect Gavin Newsom's list, but expect major changes by next spring at the San Francisco Film Commission. For eight years, Willie Brown took an apathetic approach to the...

  8. Reel World

    Freedom on My Mind
    New responsibilities for the head of the Film Arts Foundation
    By Michael Fox
    Published: December 17, 2003

    After 23 years at the wheel, Gail Silva has relinquished the day-to-day responsibility of overseeing the nonprofit Film Arts Foundation. In her tailored new role -- which comes with the title of...

  9. Reel World

    Choose Me
    Where are all the locals in next year's Sundance lineup?
    By Michael Fox
    Published: December 10, 2003

    In one of the more shocking developments of the year, local filmmakers were nearly shut out of competition slots at next month's Sundance Film Festival. And those few who were selected should...

  10. Reel World

    Continuum
    The tactile pleasures of exposing, editing, and projecting celluloid
    By Michael Fox
    Published: December 3, 2003

    North Beach filmmaker Dominic Angerame recently bought a spiffy digital camcorder, but he's still committed to the tactile pleasures of exposing, editing, and projecting celluloid. "The video...

  11. Reel World

    MonkeyBone
    The Roxie loses a programmer, plus animation wizards and Oscar documentaries
    By Michael Fox
    Published: November 26, 2003

    "I call this his Fellini movie," says a chuckling Henry Selick, the Bay Area stop-motion animation wizard whose distinctive style elevated the children's tales The Nightmare Before Christmas and...

  12. Reel World

    Triumph of the Will
    With the dough he spent on this film, he could have bought a BMW
    By Michael Fox
    Published: November 19, 2003

    There's nobody more pretentious than a Hollywood director passing himself off as a "storyteller," but somehow avant-garde filmmakers are the ones perceived as pompous artistes. The Mission...

  13. Reel World

    The Enforcer
    Cops on location, cowboys in oaters, and mountains of film events
    By Michael Fox
    Published: November 12, 2003

    Sgt. George Carrington, the film production liaison in the SFPD's Police Law Enforcement Services unit for the last six-plus years, was anointed City Employee of the Year at the ninth annual...

  14. Reel World

    The Defiant Ones
    Turning complex political ideas into human drama with "smoke and mirrors."
    By Michael Fox
    Published: November 5, 2003

    "The thing that really drives me is I'm a very political beast and I have messages I want to get out to the world," says Lise Swenson, the Mission District video artist and activist who co-founded...

  15. Reel World

    The Entertainer
    The Four Star's Frank Lee on turning the Presidio into a multiplex.
    By Michael Fox
    Published: October 29, 2003

    When Frank Lee signed the risky deal last year to take over the Presidio Theater on Nov. 1, he sidestepped questions about whether he would divide the 600-seat house into two or more screens. The...

  16. Reel World

    Dirty Dancing
    The dark side to every guy's secret dream job: stripper
    By Michael Fox
    Published: October 22, 2003

    An empathetic portrait of four straight male strippers in Tampa, Adam Ballachey's American Dancer reveals the dark side to every guy's secret dream job. "There's definitely a fantasy, to have the...

  17. Reel World

    The 400 Blows
    A movie about teenage name-calling -- using the raw words the kids
    By Michael Fox
    Published: October 15, 2003

    Documentary makers typically dream of the prestige and glory of a theatrical release, and happily "settle" for the wide reach of a TV broadcast. For several years, following her Academy Award for...

  18. Reel World

    Speed
    What would you do with one weekend to write, shoot, and edit a short movie?
    By Michael Fox
    Published: October 8, 2003

    "We're still sort of formulating our team and our resources," says commercial producer Alisa Goldstone. "That's the whole gimmick -- you don't know what you're doing until the kickoff." The...

  19. Reel World

    The Man Who Knew Too Much
    Hitch in the Bay Area, zombie social structures, and theater-chain shenanigans
    By Michael Fox
    Published: October 1, 2003

    "Nowadays we look at Coppola, Lucas and Phil Kaufman," Hitchcock biographer Patrick McGilligan writes in an e-mail, "and understand that they live and work away from Hollywood to establish an...

  20. Reel World

    The Hours and Times
    An experimental approach to the sensitive story of a man abused as a child
    By Michael Fox
    Published: September 24, 2003

    Robert Hall's soft-spoken recollections of being abused as a boy and his gentle commitment to healing himself and others were powerful, but novice filmmaker Frances Nkara couldn't figure out how to...

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