Email Author Michael Fox

1997 Stories by Michael Fox

• Zoom Lens

  published October 22, 1997

  Video Art at SFMOMA Video's roots are in news, as an inexpensive, populist tool for documenting political events (i.e., late-'60s anti-war... More >>

• Reel World

  published September 17, 1997

  The Conversation The sleeping giant of the Bay Area exhibition scene, United Artists Theater Circuit, is stirring. With other strong chains... More >>

• Reel World

  published July 30, 1997

  The Last Picture Show On July 20, a Sunday night quiet even by San Francisco's somnambulant standards, the Northpoint theater closed. A... More >>

• Best of the Jewish Film Fest

  published July 16, 1997

  * The Jewish Film Festival opens Thursday and runs through next Thursday, July 24, at the Castro Theater, 429 Castro (at Market). It continues... More >>

• The S.F. International Film Fest, Week 2

  published April 30, 1997

  * Indicates films recommended by our reviewers. The Age of Possibilities (France, 1996) * Unsettled young Americans may find... More >>

• Past Forward

  published April 23, 1997

  * Indicates films recommended by our reviewers. Thursday, April 24 (Opening Night) 7 p.m. Bliss (U.S.A., 1997) This movie... More >>

• Reel World

  published April 2, 1997

  Out of the Past The San Francisco International Film Festival announced its 40th anniversary edition at a Tuesday press conference. The... More >>

• Reel World

  published March 5, 1997

  A Face in the Crowd Yes, that's former Film Arts Festival director and Sex Is ... poster boy Bob Hawk enjoying a cameo in Chasing Amy, the... More >>

• Reel World

  published February 19, 1997

  Semi-Tough No word yet if Attorney General Dan Lungren will call out the dogs on the Caviar Buyers Club (aka the Edward J. DeBartolo... More >>

• Second Time Around

  published January 29, 1997

  The Big Sleep (Pre-Release Version) This version of The Big Sleep is a rediscovery of a lost original that never played U.S. theaters.... More >>

• Reel World

  published January 22, 1997

  Gone With the Wind As reported here last week, two multiplexes totaling 29 screens are now under construction in San Francisco. AMC is... More >>

• Reel World

  published January 15, 1997

  Cinema Paradiso It was the groundbreaking for the most portentous development in San Francisco entertainment since Planet Hollywood... More >>