This is the first installment of "Good Films You May Have Missed," a series that will call attention to movies new and old that Filmworks didn't show for one reason or another. Titles are available [...] Continue Reading
Filmworks fans pick their Shakespeare favorites
By Jefferson Beavers In March, Filmworks will screen the Italian drama Caesar Must Die, a film that The Hollywood Reporter calls "a fascinating encounter between theater and reality." The selection [...] Continue Reading
Taviani brothers give the world a taste of Italy
By Olga Verkhotina Some jobs just don't let you retire. Brothers Paolo Taviani, 81, and Vittorio Taviani, 83, started their careers as journalists, but in 1954 they shifted to the film [...] Continue Reading
Oscar fashion: How to win on the red carpet
By Olga Verkhotina When it comes to the annual Academy Awards ceremony, "Who wore what?" is often just as important a question as "Who won?" Celebrities plan their red-carpet outfits far in advance, [...] Continue Reading
Short films enjoy worldwide revival
By Jefferson Beavers Some filmmakers prefer to keep things short. Famed auteur Wes Anderson got his start by making a short movie called Bottle Rocket, a roughly edited film about a crew of [...] Continue Reading
On Christopher Walken and acting normal
By Jefferson Beavers In a film, stage, and TV career that spans more than fifty years, sixty-nine-year-old Christopher Walken -- the star of our January movie, A Late Quartet -- has surely now played [...] Continue Reading
Filmworks board picks favorite films of 2012
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