Today is Home Movie Day – October 18, 2014
By Ron Merk For the past two years, I’ve been working on a true passion project, acquiring and assembling more than 500 collections of historically or culturally [...]
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2014
BERTOLUCCI – A Film Series
October 18, 2014 Castro Theatre, San Francisco SCHEDULE 12:30pm – The Conformist (111 mins.) 3:00pm – The Sheltering Sky (137 mins.) 6:00pm – The Last [...]
The Mill Valley Film Festival Wraps…
By Ron Merk Last evening marked the end of the 37th Mill Valley Film Festival, with a wonderful party at the Elks Lodge in San Rafael, CA. A festival atmosphere was created [...]
Last Weekend
By Ron Merk I had the unique opportunity to spend nearly a hour a few weeks ago with the co-director of the film, Tom Dolby, talking about life, love, cinema, and why we do [...]
The Liberator
By Ron Merk The danger with most film biographies is the inability for the filmmaker to truly understand that the subject of the film was more than an image, an idol or a [...]
FILM spelled with all capital letters…
By Ron Merk …meaning that flexible material made from celluloid, coated with an emulsion and perforated on the edges and Ferrania, one of the great names in film [...]
Discovering Georgian Cinema
By Ron Merk BAM/PFA AND MOMA COLLABORATE ON THE LARGEST RETROSPECTIVE OF GEORGIAN CINEMA EVER IN THE US; SERIES FEATURES APPROXIMATELY FIFTY FILMS AND SPANS MORE THAN A [...]
The World is Filled with Good Ideas… and Sometimes They Actually Become Reality
Two Film Reviews about People Doing Good By Ron Merk RACING TO ZERO My good friend, Diana Fuller, who’s been involved in the arts, writing and film culture for a long time, [...]
Connecting With Each Other and Showing Respect
By Ron Merk In his book, Hope For Film, Ted Hope wrote: “Indie film is not about community or culture – it is more about business and success than ever before. This is [...]
Listen Up, Alex Ross Perry!
By Ron Merk In the last 40 years I have never disliked a film as much as “Listen Up Phillip,” written and directed by Alex Ross Perry. Yes, that’s a pretty strong [...]
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