Email Author Michael Fox

2011 Stories by Michael Fox

• Disposable Film Festival Starts Thursday

  published Mar 23, 2011

  A guiding principle of art, at least for those without a patron or trust fund, is work with what you've got. Cavemen and women used natural pigments and, well, cave walls, while modern primitives avai... More >>

• Byte-size Video

  published March 23, 2011

  A guiding principle of art, at least for those without a patron or trust fund, is work with what you’ve got. Cavemen and women used natural... More >>

• Mutiny Ahoy!

  published March 16, 2011

  The 70-year history of the USSR is slowly disappearing, yet the convulsive Russian Revolution remains as vivid as ever. So raise a cheer,... More >>

• Asia Rocks

  published March 9, 2011

  The coveted and elusive population of hip young moviegoers always mobs the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Maybe... More >>

• San Francisco Green Film Festival Offers Laughs, Entertainment -- and Stark Reality

  published Mar 01, 2011

  Here's a clue that the startup San Francisco Green Film Festival isn't another feelgood hugfest sprouted by evangelical vegans: Rachel Caplan's business card identifies her as "CEO/Founder" of the fes... More >>

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  Academy Awards, You Lie: Seven Movies that Expose the Real Hollywood

  published Feb 25, 2011

  The central myth propagated by the annual Academy Awards telecast is that Hollywood is one big happy family of mutually supportive artists in thrall to the sacred muse of inspiration. (We'll pause for... More >>

• Be Kind, Rewind

  published February 23, 2011

  Regard with respect the breakthrough technology that was VHS, you overindulged child of the digital age. The home-video revolution of the... More >>

• Act Naturally

  published February 16, 2011

  Seeing that it's Oscar season, motion picture — and moving-body — art beckons. And frankly, we’d find a contemporary refraction and... More >>

• Idol Worship

  published February 16, 2011

  The bellowing pomp-and-dime-store pageantry of Super Bowl Sunday may provide the truest glimpse of America’s soul, but we prefer the... More >>

• Anatomy of an Epidemic

  published February 16, 2011

  David Weissman steps into the delicate breach where journalism gives way to history. In the profoundly personal We Were Here he... More >>

• 100 Profiles: Craig Baldwin Rages Against the Multiplex Machine

  published Feb 10, 2011

  100 ProfilesSF Weekly interviews 100 people in San Francisco arts and culture.No. 99: Craig BaldwinForget about Sumatran coffee blends, lab-concocted energy drinks or full-bore action flicks. If you n... More >>

• IndieFest Features 'Dogumentary'

  published Feb 07, 2011

  We San Franciscans are lucky when it comes to film. To offset the 100-screen multiplexes in shopping malls throughout the region that show whatever big-budget star vehicles Hollywood sends their way, ... More >>

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  Five Sports-Themed Movies to Counteract the Super Bowl

  published Feb 04, 2011

  Are you appalled by the prospect of turning your brain off for five hours during the national holiday that is Super Bowl Sundayr Do you dread making small talk between commercials with equally benumbe... More >>

• British Island Accents

  published January 26, 2011

  The emotional gut-punch of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s most haunting movies, The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus,... More >>

• George, Ever Curious

  published January 26, 2011

  George Kuchar’s most admirable trait is his refusal to live in the past. An underground movie pioneer in New York in the 1950s and ‘60s... More >>

• Hi-Res Hi-Fi

  published January 12, 2011

  Let’s Get Lost, Bruce Weber’s wrenchingly intimate 1987 portrait of jazzman Chet Baker, is the high-water mark for marriages of... More >>

• Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing

  published January 12, 2011

  Barbara Stanwyck displayed a youthful enthusiasm for deviousness and opportunism in the pre-Code classic Baby Face before attaining... More >>

• Rage Politely Against the Machine

  published January 5, 2011

  The frustrated, flummoxed characters in Japanese wunderkind Yuya Ishii’s semi-absurdist comedies are typically running from something. It... More >>