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helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

RIP Quincy Jones, not just a great film composer, producer, etc. but also the only person who had the savvy to record a version of a song inspired by an X-Rated art film directed by Nagisa Oshima and take it into top 10 on the US R&B charts & #1 in Japan

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helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

One last day to see this double-bill at the all-35mm @StanfordTheatre!

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helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Film on film options for the first weekend of Noirvember include Ministry of Fear & I Walked With a Zombie tonight, Touch of Evil & Sudden Fear at the all-35mm @StanfordTheatre, and Spaceballs in 16mm at the @balboatheatresf

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Sad to learn of the postponement of the rest of the @othercinema Fall calendar; here’s hoping Craig Baldwin recovers heartily and quickly!

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

October #top5firstviews in order viewed:

Spider Baby
The Ghost of Yotsuya
It Follows
Boxcar Bertha
A.K.A. Don Bonus

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Tonight and tomorrow at the @StanfordTheatre: an ideal Halloween 35mm WWII-era double-feature of Jacques Tourneur’s I Walk With a Zombie and Fritz Lang’s Ministry of Fear

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Happy Halloween! The @exploratorium put up a video of an installation @KerryLaitala created there nine years ago this month:

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Tonight at the @cafilminstitute in San Rafael: the best Dia De Los Muertos movie I’ve seen

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Something interesting happening at the @4StarTheater tonight

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Here’s a trailer that silent film accompanist Jon Mirsalis put together advertising his performance to the third Universal Super-Jewel (after Hunchback of Norte Dame & Phantom of the Opera), The Man Who Laughs, at @NilesEssanay tonight

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

I made a list of every feature film I saw when I was living in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 1999-2000. Wish I’d been more adventurous in watching Thai films and others without English subtitles, but it’s a snapshot of my cinematic diet at the time.

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

This weekend see A Page of Madness with live musical accompaniment!

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Last 3 weekends of the all-35mm @StanfordTheatre’s film noir + Val Lewton horror season. Tonight’s pairing of Curse of the Cat People/Night of the Hunter is ingenious & exquisite. (I’ve seen both at the Stanford & prefer their audience to others for these delicate masterpieces).

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helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

I wrote more than expected on an obscure horror B-movie that almost nobody I follow on Letterboxd has logged:

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Locking my account again for a while. (Job application out)

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Tonight and tomorrow the @VogueTheaterSF runs Fulci’s The Beyond! Read the recent @ScreenSlateSF article if you don’t know why that’s important:

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

R.I.P. cinematographer Dick Pope. His work with Mike Leigh was tremendous, but if you haven’t seen the bizarre 1990 horror film he shot, The Reflecting Skin, it’s available to view via Hoopla and Kanopy, both of which you have access to via a San Francisco Public Library Card.

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Leaving the Criterion Channel at the end of the month: an all-time great San Francisco documentary from the early 1990s that I ought to have seen decades ago, and am so thankful I finally got around to.

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

The Wailing is a pretty intense movie.

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Last night to catch a creepy double-feature of Boris Karloff in Isle of the Dead and Dorothy Maguire in The Spiral Staircase at the all-35mm @StanfordTheatre! Tomorrow and Sunday they show two stalwart noirs: Laura and Out of the Past

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Doc Stories celebrates its tenth year with a weekend of screenings at the @VogueTheaterSF starting tonight. I enjoyed this podcast interview with SFFILM’s Jessie Fairbanks

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Made a list of the feature films shown in the @balboatheatresf’s Boris Karloff retro in 2006

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Tonight @NilesEssanay screens a 35mm print of F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu with live music by Greg Pane. Plus shorts!

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

I saw the “generative documentary” about Brian Eno twice and tried to take notes on the experience(s)

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Nov 21

It seems there are still tickets available to @MOViES4MANiACS’ tribute to James Earl Jones at the @balboatheatresf tonight! One of the best Twilight Zone episodes and the rarely-seen (especially in a decent copy) made-for-tv movie The Man, both via 16mm: