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JunkThief is your typical Gallic Jew boy born on the Great Plains, went to Gotham and Ouagadougou and Kathmandu before settling in San Francisco's Mission District. Now he searches the dark alleys of that city to find good conversation, Weimar culture and

Recent Posts Tagged With 'movies'

• Today I've Been Watching the Films of...

  Posted on Saturday August 9th, 2008 at 15:03 in 1930s, austria, china, movies

• Summer Viewing

  Posted on Sunday July 20th, 2008 at 18:26 in couples, marriage, movies, southern california

  Though I certainly won't be going to see the Indiana Jones, Batman or other blockbusters this summer (I'll wait until they're on the small screen of an airlines), I am compelled to go see Wall-E, desp...

• Hush, Hush Sweet Junk Thief

  Posted on Sunday July 13th, 2008 at 23:33 in 1920s, japan, movies, san diego, silent film stars, the castro

  I wrapped up the silent film festival weekend with two completely unrelated films as the afternoon moved into early evening.A restored print of Her Wild Oat discovered in the Czech Republic and starri...

• Get Up and Make Us a Meatloaf -- NOW

  Posted on Sunday July 13th, 2008 at 15:21 in Canada, guy maddin, movies, silent film stars

  Being just a few inches away from Guy Maddin last night, I wished I'd been brave enough to ask him when My Winnipeg will finally be screened in this cultural backwater that is San Francisco. They're ...

• Evelyn Waugh - Master of Action Packed Suspense

  Posted on Saturday June 28th, 2008 at 17:21 in british stars, movies, pbs

  Although I have no opinion of the film itself at this point, the trailer for the new big screen treatment of Brideshead Revisited has me scratching my head. It starts off straight forward and predict...

• Out, Damned Word, Out

  Posted on Friday June 27th, 2008 at 00:13 in gay sheep, lgbt stuff, movies

  Tonight I went to a screening of the 1978 documentary Word Is Out that was being presented as part of it 30th anniversary and impending DVD release. I definitely remember it from its original releas...

• Shh...the Silents Are Coming

  Posted on Monday June 23rd, 2008 at 00:39 in guy maddin, movies, silent film stars, the castro

  Film discovery of the week was the career of Lois Weber whose 1915 The Hypocrites which is credited with being the first mainstream film to feature explicit female nudity, albeit in the Biblical visio...

• Hollywood Regency

  Posted on Tuesday June 17th, 2008 at 13:49 in 1960s, 1970s, hollywood, household design, movies, oklahoma, television

  I am giving serious consideration to a radical make over of the Junk Plex. Although I will not part with my famed Ming Dynasty tea pots, Biedermeier chests, Catalaniste Modernisme mosaics, Burkinabe ...

• It's Miller Time

  Posted on Sunday June 15th, 2008 at 12:55 in 1970s, Canada, movies, pacific northwest

  I bought McCabe & Mrs. Miller this weekend, prompted in part by all that discussion last week about ampersands. Tragically, the titles are all done in dower Helvetica, but that scripty, swerving ...

• Film Type

  Posted on Friday June 13th, 2008 at 02:40 in france, godard, movies, typefaces

  When I went to see Contempt at the Castro (which I'd love to make a film about called Contempt at the Castro) recently, I was struck by how much Godard's films are about typography. I've revisiting a...

• I'm Going to Water My Dead Plants That Are Dying

  Posted on Wednesday June 11th, 2008 at 22:59 in movies, Photography

  A middle-aged woman descends on the home of her eccentric mother who lives somewhere not too far from Manhattan in a sprawling, ramshackle home that may have once been a place of some grandeur. They ...

• What Land Are You From?

  Posted on Tuesday June 10th, 2008 at 12:57 in france, italians, movies

  With today's simultaneous release of DVD sets of films of both Sophia Loren and Catherine Deneuve, Dave Kehr had this interesting description of these two sovereign nations in his review in today's Ti...