JOHN MOSES, PRESIDENT 1. Napoleon -- Abel Gance's biopic was originally released in 1927, but the screenings of the newly restored five-and-a-half-hour version at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, [...] Continue Reading
Filmworks sponsors “Swede Fest” on Sunday, November 11
On Sunday, November 11 at 6pm, following our Classics series, Fresno Filmworks sponsors Swede Fest 10, a film festival for sweded films: hilarious, short, no-budget recreations of popular Hollywood [...] Continue Reading
“Forget it, Jake”—It’s Film Noir and Chinatown
“What’s your favorite movie?” is a question I’m often asked. It might come from a new acquaintance who has just learned that I teach film studies and have a special interest in the history of [...] Continue Reading
Hollywood’s Coming Attractions: What’s Wrong with a Digital Future?
In March 2002, the very month Fresno Filmworks was launched at the Fresno Art Museum, the major Hollywood studios began to lay the groundwork for an industry-wide conversion to digital exhibition. The [...] Continue Reading
Subtle relationships abound in Monsieur Lazhar, our July film
Monsieur Lazhar is a film about relationships that don’t quite work. But it’s no big deal. Most matters in real life don’t quite work. We go on. We deal with people. We do what we have to do. The [...] Continue Reading
Our July film manages to be farcical about teen girls’ sex desires
While still in community college in Pasadena, Mike and I were big fans of the Nazarene College basketball team which had won a couple of NAIA (small college) national championships. We started dating [...] Continue Reading
Film, dancing, animation, and more film mark our festival, April 27-29
Our various festival committees—for features, for shorts—have worked hard to bring you a weekend of varied cinematic fare. You won’t be able to see these films anywhere else in town. Nor in many other [...] Continue Reading
Great Humanist Film for March
Most reviewers of Le Havre, the Finnish film which Filmworks will show on March 9, call it something like sentimental, unreal, or impossibly optimistic, as if these are objectionable qualities in a [...] Continue Reading