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Michael Fox

Michael Fox is a longtime film journalist and critic, and a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle. He teaches documentary classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute programs at U.C. Berkeley and S.F. State. In 2015, the San Francisco Film Society added Fox to Essential SF, its ongoing compendium of the Bay Area film community's most vital figures and institutions.

Naomi looks wary in an unadorned apartment with a cool blue-white tint
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

Gothic thrills take Israeli film ‘A Quiet Heart’ to dark places

by Michael Fox July 25, 2017March 23, 2018
an old man with a bandaid on his forehead holds up his hand to block the sunlight
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

Deep memories of an ‘underground’ man in Buenos Aires animate late-in-life saga

by Michael Fox July 20, 2017March 23, 2018
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

‘Harold and Lillian’ peeks behind the scenes at Hollywood’s unsung Golden Age heroes

by Michael Fox July 19, 2017March 23, 2018
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

Romantic comedy heralds ‘Change’ through autistic lovers

by Michael Fox July 14, 2017March 23, 2018
they stand together, both holding guitars
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

Romantic comedy ‘Band Aid’ keeps writer-director-star’s Jewishness intact

by Michael Fox June 8, 2017March 23, 2018
a woman sets in a wedding dress, she looks on the verge of tears
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

Orthodox filmmaker’s risky ‘Wedding Plan’

by Michael Fox May 16, 2017March 23, 2018
they sit singing and playing guitar
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

Devoted Berkeley Deadhead documents ‘Long Strange Trip’

by Michael Fox May 11, 2017March 23, 2018
a younger man and older man sit around a coffee table. the younger one talks while the older one smoke a joint
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

Shiva ends, then what? Grief-stricken comedy about the day after

by Michael Fox May 10, 2017March 23, 2018
Norman and Micha stand in a shop window looking at shoes
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

‘Norman’ digs at complicated dynamic between Israelis and U.S. Jews

by Michael Fox April 19, 2017March 23, 2018
children run across a grassy field
Posted inCulture, Film, TV & Film

True story of young girl’s derring-do lifts Holocaust escape film

by Michael Fox February 23, 2017March 23, 2018

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