Email Author Michael Fox

1999 Stories by Michael Fox

• Reel World

  published December 22, 1999

  Land and Freedom"Things here are fairly unorthodox," says the Red Vic Movie House's Dennis Conroy, with a certain degree of... More >>

• Reel World

  published December 15, 1999

  Zan BokoFrom its cluttered, no-frills offices overlooking the grimy corner of Ninth Street and Market, California Newsreel... More >>

• Reel World

  published December 8, 1999

  Freedom on My MindIt barely qualifies as news that the sprawling Sundance Film Festival lineup features a clutch of new films by local... More >>

• Reel World

  published December 1, 1999

  La Regle de JeuThis has been a year of nonstop ecstasy for Francophile cinemaphiles, as the PFA, Castro, and S.F. Film Society mounted... More >>

• Reel World

  published November 24, 1999

  Eyes Wide Shut I called Philip Kaufman's office and, lo and behold, Northern California's greatest (and shiest) filmmaker answered the... More >>

• Reel World

  published November 17, 1999

  Point BlankPersonal to independent filmmakers: There is an upside to financing your movie with your credit cards. Consider Evan... More >>

• Reel World

  published November 10, 1999

  The TinglerIt's not quite as mammoth a job as hoisting the big top when the clowns and carnies and elephants come to town, but the... More >>

• Reel World

  published November 3, 1999

  Floating CloudsFrom Canyon Cinema to Strand Releasing (now based in L.A.) to Roxie Releasing to the now-defunct Tara Releasing to... More >>

• Reel World

  published October 27, 1999

  Tin CupPumpkins are everywhere, children are chattering about their costumes, and the Sundance Watch has begun. When we checked in with... More >>

• Reel World

  published October 20, 1999

  The KidWriter-director-actor-producer-editor Eli Rudnick hops on and off a bench,surveying the empty seats in the cozy new cinema on... More >>

• Reel World

  published October 13, 1999

  Kitten With a Whip Before Jack Stevenson got married and moved to Denmark in 1993, the author (Desperate Visions: Camp America)... More >>

• Reel World

  published October 6, 1999

  Best BoyBay Area documentary filmmakers are a socially conscious lot who, by and large, treat serious subjects extremely seriously. So... More >>

• The Bridge and Tunnel Crowd

  published October 6, 1999

  The Mill Valley Film Festival, now celebrating its 22nd anniversary, has grown to become one of the country's most respected venues for new... More >>

• Reel World

  published September 29, 1999

  Pipsqueak PfolliesIn the vast, teeming universe of cinema, small-gauge filmmaking is possibly the least-respected province. After all,... More >>

• Reel World

  published September 22, 1999

  Broadcast NewsThe tidings don't get any bigger -- or better -- than this for Bay Area moviegoers and filmmakers: KQED debuts a... More >>

• Reel World

  published September 15, 1999

  The Horn Blows at Midnight "It blows my mind that nobody's ever done a film about Miles Davis," says Laura Plotkin. So the Oakland... More >>

• Reel World

  published September 8, 1999

  The Big Picture George Lucas isn't the only big-name Bay Area moviemaker heading to the Presidio. The San Francisco Film Center,... More >>

• Reel World

  published September 1, 1999

  Black to the Promised Land Central Marin may be the Bay Area's most privileged enclave, but the Mill Valley Film Festival can't be... More >>

• Reel World

  published August 25, 1999

  On the Edge In one swift stroke, The Blair Witch Project may have erased the long-held resistance of mainstream audiences to... More >>

• Reel World

  published August 18, 1999

  Some Like It Hot After a long career researching and penning biographies of literature's heavyweights, Jeffrey Meyers turned to movie... More >>

• Zoom Lens

  published August 18, 1999

  Return With Honor Leni Riefenstahl would admire this emotionally potent and morally repugnant portrait of American pilots imprisoned and... More >>

• Reel World

  published August 11, 1999

  Breaking Away Ted White shyly hopped up on the low stage at Cell Space, simultaneously basking in and waving off the raucous adoration of... More >>

• Reel World

  published August 4, 1999

  Rachel's Daughters When last we checked in with Doug Wolens, the S.F. lawyer-turned-filmmaker was traipsing around the country with his... More >>

• Reel World

  published July 28, 1999

  Rachel&185;s DaughtersWhen last we checked... More >>

• Reel World

  published July 21, 1999

  The Big Knife The lone Hollywood screenwriter (or so one assumes) without a personal tale of abuse and humiliation lives in the heart of... More >>