Tag: San Francisco

This material highlights how different the historically informed performances of PBO (and the Academy of Ancient Music) are from anything most of us grew up with. This was driven home by snippet of what must have been an early ‘60’s recording which sounded stultifying, thick, and very unBaroque.

Even if you don’t like her acting style, you’ll marvel at her command, her timing, her eyebrows. Watching her makes me start connecting lines back to a young Carol Burnett.

Congratulations to all involved in the stunning revitalization of the new Strand Theater on Market Street. A.C.T. artistic director Carey Perloff today announced the new space, featuring a bold red facade and clean lines, had won a major award. The American Institute of Architects awarded The Strand project its prestigious "Revitalization Design...

Above photo: Sid Davis (Dan Hiatt, pictured in orange suit) indulges the Miller family with food gags at the dinner table in Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness!, performing at A.C.T.'s Geary Theater through Sunday, November 8. ‘Eugene O’Neill’ and ‘hilarious’ don’t usually belong in the same sentence. America’s great tragedian did...

Chef David Kinch is at top of his game.

The votes are in. Organizers say Room was named the overall audience favorite at this year's Mill Valley Film Festival. Directed by Lenny Abrahamson, the film is a dark, yet uplifting (and unique) look at childhood as told through the eyes of a 5-year old boy (Jacob Tremblay). His "Ma" (a...

Hard to believe, but it was only less than a century ago that women first earned the right to vote (on the same terms as men). In England, as depicted here in the film Suffragette, thanks to the Representation of the People Act, in 1928. And, in the U.S., with the...

Mark Ruffalo. Michael Keaton. Rachel McAdams. Liev Schreiber. John Slattery. Stanley Tucci. Together, in one movie? Yes. That would be Spotlight. And it's a monster. Tom McCarthy's newsroom drama will surely go down as one of the year's best films. Based on true events surrounding the take-down of the Catholic Church in...

Stark Insider is on location at the Mill Valley Film Festival. In this episode, Brie Larson talks about Room, and losing her (inner) child. "It's very similar to Plato's 'Cave' allegory." Brie Larson lit up San Francisco last night at the premiere for her new film Room. But it wasn't just her...

Director Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) said that she wanted to ensure that Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette bonded before shooting began. As she has done so often before, during pre-production she invited the actors to her home for several readings, and rehearsals, in hopes a relationship would bloom; one that...