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2012 Stories by Michael Fox

• Revolutionary Rutting

  published April 25, 2012

  Remember when certain types of hetero sex were acts of political rebellion? Don’t fret if you don’t — those days will return... More >>

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  Jonathan Lethem Gets Bookish in Cinema Address

  published Apr 24, 2012

  At last year's San Francisco International Film Festival, indie producer and invited speaker Christine Vachon embarrassed her hosts with a sloppy and unprepared "State of Cinema" report. To erase the ... More >>

• Organizing a Community

  published April 4, 2012

  In the mid-1980s, Barack Obama left a promising and well-paid New York business career to work as a community organizer on the South Side of... More >>

• "Choked": Economic Parable Exposes Social Mores

  published April 18, 2012

  A good deal less harrowing and cataclysmic than it could (and perhaps should) have been, this well-observed first feature considers the narrow... More >>

• "Smugglers' Songs": A Glimpse down the Road to Freedom

  published April 18, 2012

  This episodic, easy-rolling saga of nomadic living and grassroots insurgency centers on a convivial band of armed traders in the French... More >>

• The S.F. International Film Festival Stirs Up Ethical Dilemmas

  published April 18, 2012

  The inventor and radical thinker R. Buckminster Fuller walked into a public washroom and, spying an unflushed urinal, pulled the handle. Asked... More >>

• Hitchcock Heights

  published March 28, 2012

  A glamorous, glittering city on a hill, San Francisco in the late 1950s represented the pinnacle of American prosperity and sophisticated... More >>

• That Sinking Feeling

  published March 28, 2012

  If global warming is a distant, abstract concept to you, Mohamed Nasheed has a pressing message: There is no Planet B. Deposed recently as... More >>

• Looking for Oscar: Al Pacino Shows Why We Love Him at Wilde Salome Debut

  published Mar 22, 2012

  For a brief and tantalizing moment on the Castro Theatre stage last night, a sly Al Pacino appeared set to go Cruising. The house was packed and primed for the U.S. premiere of Wilde Salome, the actor... More >>

• Coffy Break

  published March 7, 2012

  Back in the freewheeling 1970s, Pam Grier was the hottest -- and coolest -- woman in movies. Rough, tough, and occasionally out-of-control scary,... More >>

• Kirk Here

  published March 7, 2012

  For children of a certain generation, the Starship Enterprise’s earnest Capt. James T. Kirk was a cardboard cousin of Dudley... More >>

• Vocal Visualizations

  published February 29, 2012

  We’d love to know what Jaap Blonk thinks of The Artist, the old-fashioned silent charmer that seduced Academy Awards voters. The... More >>

• Before the Flood

  published February 22, 2012

  If global warming is a distant, abstract concept to you, Mohamed Nasheed has a pressing message: There is no Planet B. Deposed just a few weeks... More >>

• A Couple on the Rocks

  published February 15, 2012

  Well-dressed, well-lubricated urbanites Nick and Nora Charles made their first screen appearance in 1934 in The Thin Man, personifying a... More >>

• Mad Blokes

  published January 18, 2012

  If you find American TV spots entertaining and clever, you should see the brief bits of brilliance concocted by the whiz kids on the other side of... More >>

• The British Have Way More Latitude in TV Commercials Than We Do -- See Their Best

  published Jan 27, 2012

  If you find American TV spots entertaining and clever, you should see the brief bits of brilliance concocted by the whiz kids on the other side of the Atlantic. The British Arrows Awards (a more color... More >>

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  Filmmaker Chris Metzler Brings Fishbone Back to S.F. With Everyday Sunshine

  published Jan 06, 2012

  Chris Metzler fits in perfectly in the eclectic documentary circles of his adopted S.F. home, even if he hasn't shed his L.A. roots. Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, the high-energy follow-up... More >>