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Independent Film

What’s Happening: Actress Elle Fanning to appear at Cinequest film festival in San Jose

BY MONICA TURNER — 03.12.2019

Breaking news. Cinequest has just announced that actress Elle Fanning will make an appearance at this year’s edition of the film and creativity festival. Per…

Cameras & Filmmaking

3 Days in Sonoma: Producing a short film using 5 years of footage (Video)

BY CLINTON STARK — 02.27.2019

A woman in wine country. A woman in trouble. Again.

Broadway Musical Review: Hamilton at SHN Orpheum San Francisco

News

‘Hamilton’ Review: Founding of country was much more difficult than you were taught

BY JEANNE POWELL — 02.23.2019

Stark Insider Broadway Review by Jeanne Powell: Hamilton at the SHN Orpheum Theatre San Francisco. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s remarkable Broadway stage musical Hamilton celebrating America’s founding…

Film Reviews

Review: Revisiting ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ at Mostly British Film Festival in San Francisco

BY JEANNE POWELL — 02.20.2019

As part of the Mostly British Film Festival in San Francisco, the English film, Four Weddings and a Funeral, was celebrated with a champagne reception…

Blue Velvet Criterion Lost Footage release on Blu-Ray

Independent Film

David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’ to get lost footage treatment by Criterion

BY CLINTON STARK — 02.19.2019

51-minutes of Blue Velvet "lifts" were found somewhere in Seattle and recovered.

Culture

What’s Happening: Broadway’s Next Hit Musical, Tom Rush, more at Montalvo Arts Center

BY MONICA TURNER — 02.01.2019

Montalvo Arts Center has announced its line-up for Spring (see below for all the details). Live improv show Broadway’s Next Hit Musical, artist Tom Rush,…

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Culture

Fyre a sad, but not surprising indictment of influencer culture

BY CLINTON STARK — 01.30.2019

If there was any doubt that influencer culture had an ugly side you need only watch one of two decent docs now streaming on Netflix…

Culture

3 Days, 3 Museums in NYC: Stark Insider on location at MoMA, The Met, The Whitney

BY CLINTON STARK — 01.23.2019

Yes, Stark Insider is All Things West Coast. Being based out of San Francisco means our travels and stories here typically takes us around the…

The White Crow opens The Mostly British Film Festival

Independent Film

What’s Happening: Mostly British Film Festival in San Francisco

BY JEANNE POWELL — 01.22.2019

From February 14 through 21, the Mostly British Film Festival returns to the Vogue Theatre in San Francisco. This year’s festival features both new and…

Theater and Stage

‘Come From Away’: A musical gift to SF audiences

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 01.10.2019

I don’t usually cry throughout a show. At the climactic tragic moment perhaps, but not all the way through. Watching Come From Away (SHN Golden…