Category: film

A Jitney Elopement

Just yesterday I was talking about films shot in San Francisco and noting that the San Francisco Chronicle‘s list seemed a little slim. And today Sparkletack posts on…

Movies filmed in San Francisco

In the context of an article about filmmakers avoiding SF because of its expense, SFGate has put together a nice interactive map mashup showing the location of several…

San Francisco, Open Your Golden Gate

Many people think of Tony Bennett and his left-behind heart when they think of San Francisco tunes. But residents know that our theme song is really “San Francisco,…

Vertigo at Fort Point

Fort Point, at the south end of the Golden Gate Bridge, figures prominently in the Hitchcock film Vertigo. It is here where Kim Novak plunges off the fort…

Lady from Shanghai

I’ve always enjoyed Orson Wells’s The Lady from Shanghai (1948). It was shot in San Francisco and Sausalito (and L.A.). Here are a few images, taken from the…

SF Trek

via Laughing Squid

Oakland Hillbillies

The provocative Mr. Charles Barkley, an NBA legend in his own estimation and currently a TNT network commentator, referred a moment ago to “Golden State” as a “a…