film series in bay area

[anne mcknight]

This may have blipped thorugh before, but for people in the Bay Area,
there are 2 series currently running you might be interested in.  The
Yerba Buena is showing a series of 60s films, Suzuki, Kobayashi,
Matsumoto, a few more.  Then the PFA us showing a Kinoshita
retrospective all through October.  Unfortunately they're booked right
on top of each other of Friday nights, but here's the info.

http://www.yerbabuenaarts.org/filmvideo/index_outlawmasters.htm

http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa/filmseries/

Also, in terms of reviews, there's a lot of interesting stuff in the
free papers.  For a number of reasons -- internet gold rush, game
industry, proximity to pacific rim, good writers in the area, geek
culture, etc.  -- the free papers SF Weekly & SF Bay Guardian have good
coverage of current events, which goes far beyond the lame coverage of
the major dailies  in historical framing & analysis.  In the Bay
Guardian (sfbg.com) , a guy named Alvin Lu consistently writes excellent
pieces on E. Asian & Asian American pop culture (cf. recent piece
reviewing an accessible academic history of Shanghai modernism), and
Frako's reviews in the Weekly have really souped up their coverage.  URL
is sfweekly.com.

Surely there are other free papers out there with good E. Asian
coverage.