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San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2017

Each year at the Castro Theatre audiences are treated to four days of classic silent films, projected on the big screen as they were meant to be seen, and accompanied by live [...]

May 30, 2017

Oy Vey! It’s on the Way!

By Ron Merk Okay, so I didn’t do that with the proper Yiddish accent. Gertrude Berg I’m not! I hope I at least caught the cadence of how someone might say that back on [...]

July 15, 2016

Raymond’s Ramblings

Obsolescence As the new millennium is now well on its way, I have started to codify my thoughts on what has happened in the ‘electronic’ communications media [...]

June 22, 2016

Actress Maureen O’Hara (1920–2015)

By Ron Merk Filmed more than any other actress in the stunning Technicolor process, 34 times in fact, Maureen O’Hara has left an indelible mark on the history of motion [...]

November 6, 2015

Film is Fragile

By Ron Merk   I was recently sent a link to this amazing video made by Mill+ and the British Film Institute. No words, no narration, just images. Images we all know and [...]

October 26, 2015

Truth, The Story Behind the

By Ron Merk No, I didn’t make an error in the title. It was meant to be ironic, as ironic as the good faith efforts of CBS Network anchor, Dan Rather, and his friend and 60 [...]

October 21, 2015

Joan Leslie

By Ron Merk There are very few stars still with us from the Golden Age of Hollywood, and we have just lost another one, the wonderful Joan Leslie. Joan passed away last week. [...]

October 20, 2015

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