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2001 Stories by Michael Fox

• Keeper of the Flame

  published December 26, 2001

  To paraphrase Marlene Dietrich in Touch of Evil, what can you say about a year? While Bay Area filmmakers enjoyed uncommon success on a... More >>

• The Majestic

  published December 19, 2001

  The Majestic Correction, Col. Kilgore: I love the smell of fresh paint in the morning. It smells like victory -- over decay, over entropy,... More >>

• Reel World

  published December 12, 2001

  Traffic With his first feature (Fall and Spring) making the festival rounds, SoCal native Steve Sobel moved to San Francisco in the... More >>

• Reel World

  published December 5, 2001

  Stairway to Heaven If you listen to the mainstream media, getting into the Sundance Film Festival is akin to winning the lottery. In fact,... More >>

• Reel World

  published November 28, 2001

  Umbrella Man Working in every conceivable format, experimental filmmaker Scott Stark has produced an average of three pieces a year since... More >>

• Reel World

  published November 21, 2001

  Two Weeks in Another Town The post-9/11 plunge in tourism, should it continue much beyond the first of the year, could bite local media... More >>

• Reel World

  published November 14, 2001

  A Christmas Story Here's a match made in heaven: The Coen brothers have tapped Terry Zwigoff to direct a dark comedy for their production... More >>

• Underground Voices

  published November 7, 2001

  Northern California's independent filmmakers, even more than its organic farmers, think globally and act locally. Ambitious but cash-strapped,... More >>

• Reel World

  published November 7, 2001

  Inserts Ted Bonnitt's charmingly salacious movie, Mau Mau Sex Sex, was originally slated to premiere at the Roxie in the summer of... More >>

• Reel World

  published October 31, 2001

  Space Cowboys Cory McAbee was quite familiar to habitués of the SOMA club scene in the early '90s. When he wasn't fronting the... More >>

• Reel World

  published October 24, 2001

  What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? "We are writing to you because we, as independent filmmakers, find ourselves feeling an emotional need... More >>

• Reel World

  published October 17, 2001

  Honeymoon in Vegas If you find yourself at the Stardust Hotel pool in Las Vegas next week, near the original (east) tower built in 1958,... More >>

• Reel World

  published October 10, 2001

  Cadillac Desert "For a lot of people, viewing this film is like being held under water," Jon Else remarks wryly about Open Outcry,... More >>

• Reel World

  published October 3, 2001

  I Am a Camera Back in 1999, Caveh Zahedi took the idea of a video diary to extremes: He filmed one minute of his life every day for a year.... More >>

• Paranoid Prophecies

  published September 26, 2001

  Fritz Lang's timing, as always, is impeccable. As the world trembles with a trepidation not approached since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the late... More >>

• Reel World

  published September 26, 2001

  The Sorrow and the Pity With the recent departure of Doug Jones, every one of the programmers who assembled the 2001 S.F. International... More >>

• Reel World

  published September 19, 2001

  The Day After Following the Sept. 11 terror attack, executive director and curator Khalil Benkirane canceled last weekend's lineup of... More >>

• Reel World

  published September 12, 2001

  Tell the Truth and Run The parade of job changes in the local filmmaking community continues apace. Tamara Gould takes over the executive... More >>

• Reel World

  published September 5, 2001

  Jump Tomorrow Come Oct. 15, Oakland will have its own Black Cinema Cafe. The monthly, free, invitation-only event for black professionals... More >>

• Reel World

  published August 29, 2001

  American Hot Wax It's either a terrific insight or a banal cliché that movie stars want to be rock stars and rockers want to be... More >>

• Reel World

  published August 15, 2001

  And Then There Were None It's official: Rachel Rosen is leaving the S.F. International Film Festival after 10 years to become the... More >>

• Fantasia

  published August 8, 2001

  "How much are people going to pay for your animation?" muses financial analyst Stuart Lerner of Mondo Media, the S.F. online entertainment... More >>

• Reel World

  published August 1, 2001

  Starship Troopers As a child actor in New York (he played Mr. Whipple's stock boy) whose dad did a lot of animation for Sesame... More >>

• DV Dynamite

  published July 25, 2001

  If there truly is a just God, the great gift of digital video will turn out to be his subversive potential. With only the mildest of financial... More >>

• Reel World

  published July 25, 2001

  Crimes and Misdemeanors Nick Katsapetses (Get Over It, The Joys of Smoking) isn't one of those Wunderkind filmmakers... More >>