Film - I wake up screening

by Erin Blackwell

Tall, balding, with distinguished gray goatee and glasses, Elliot Lavine, 65, feeds his addiction to the hypnotic charms of film noir as director of repertory programming for the Roxie Theater. He presented his first noir in 1991, and is midway through this year's I Wake Up Dreaming festival of rarely seen double features.

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Music - Giant steps

by Philip Campbell

The San Francisco Symphony's Beethoven Project, a two-week festival and symposium guided and conducted by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas, ended last Saturday with a fervent and powerful performance of the composer's glorious Missa solemnis. MTT should get a copyright on the template he has created over the years for captivating music appreciation cum composer celebrations. His unstuffy approach and passionate enthusiasm charge each series with infectious energy and intelligent curiosity unrivaled since the days of Leonard Bernstein.

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Fine Arts -
Outside of the box

"I'm a dyke, and I love being gay and I love women, but I was born to be an artist, not a female or lesbian artist," Nicole Eisenman has asserted. (read more)

Out There -
Where you'll find us

Last Monday a week ago, Out There joined the San Francisco Symphony and the family of the late William Bennett, the Principal Oboist for the orchestra who passed away in February, at a memorial tribute in celebration of his life in Davies Symphony Hall.
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DVD - Let us now praise
Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand is an incredible star who has had a not-so-incredible film career. She's now 71. (read more)

Music - 'Classical
Barbra' revisited

For hundreds of thousands of Streisand fans, many of whom were Friends of Dorothy, Classical Barbra was the album that first introduced them to the songs of Faure, Debussy, Schumann and Wolf. (read more)

Film - Florida & beyond

In round one of Amy Seimetz's steamy noir Sun Don't Shine (opening Friday at the Roxie), a young couple comes undone and starts swinging for the downs. (read more)

Out & About -

How about a little pizzaz, a little showmanship, a little extra effort in your entertainment options? Enjoy aural odysseys and terpsichorian treats from artists great and small. (read more)

Film - Spirit of 1968

As director Olivier Assayas' quasi-autobiographical Something in the Air opens in 1971, Gilles (spunky newcomer Clement Mettayer) is torn between desires to make it as a painter, or, before it's too late, acquire the skills to become a revolutionary filmmaker. (read more)