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2009 Stories by Michael Fox

• The British Are Coming!

  published February 25, 2009

  High-toned accents prevailed yet again at the Oscars, as Brits Danny Boyle and Kate Winslet and Aussie Heath Ledger stole the spotlight. (So says... More >>

• 20,000 Frames Under the Sea

  published February 11, 2009

  We’ll be feeling the pinch of the drought years in just a few short months, as reservoirs shrink and we’re compelled to reduce our water... More >>

• The People’s Cinema

  published January 28, 2009

  More and more independent filmmakers have come to disdain the old refrain, “Sundance or bust!” They’ve figured out that all too... More >>

• Dean and Britta’s Screen Test

  published January 21, 2009

  The house band at Andy Warhol’s Factory happenings was not Courtney Taylor-Taylor’s outfit, you dodgy hipster. (It’s a common... More >>

• Bless This Dump

  published January 21, 2009

  After a holiday hiatus, the San Francisco Film Society Screen is again primed to fire up its projector. Curated by the same clued-in programmers... More >>

• Ink-Stained Wretches

  published January 14, 2009

  The quintessential film noir character is a desperate, luckless lug whose every clever move to escape his self-inflicted predicament only adds... More >>

• Nowhere to Go But Downey

  published January 14, 2009

  By our unofficial count, exactly one actor performed in a movie in blackface in 2008. Tropic Thunder may have seemed like just another... More >>

• Grand Teutonics

  published January 14, 2009

  The current blitz of American and British movies with Nazi themes confirms one thing: Nobody in the world understands fascism like German... More >>