Cinema Lounge

Balboa Festivals and Events

Cannes 2008 Report - May, 2008

Balboa's 82nd Birthday Bash - Feb. 27th, 2008

The Rolling Stone Open the Berlin International Film Festival - Feb. 8, 2008

Holiday 2007 - Film Picks - Dec. 7, 2007

Cannes 2007 Report - May, 2007

Buster Keaton at the Balboa Birthday Bash - Feb. 27, 2007

Robin Wright Penn at the Balboa - Feb. 6, 2007

Gary Meyer's 2006 Film Favorites - Dec 2006

Last Frame of the Picture: Needles to Natchez - Movie Theatres of the American West (Fall 2006)

AS SURE AS MY NAME IS BORIS KARLOFF. . . (June 2 - 22, 2006)

Reel San Francisco 2006 (April 16 - 27, 2006)

Samurai! (December 2 - 22, 2005)

Sin in Soft Focus – Paramount Pre-Code (November 3 - 24, 2005)

The Films of Louis Malle (August 11 - 25, 2005)

Human/Nature Festival (June 24 - July 6, 2005)

The Reel San Francisco! (April 16 - May 11, 2005)

Gene Wilder comes to the Balboa (April 11, 2005)

Garbo's Back! (February 24 - March 3, 2005)

Hot cha cha! Flip through the Balboa Birthday Bash 2005 photo album (February 27, 2005)

Noir City 3, Darkness Coast to Coast (January 14 - 27, 2005)

The Balboa's 78^th Birthday was a blast! (February 26, 2004)

Past Calendars

• March - April 2005
• May - June 2005
• August - October 2005
• October - November 2005
• October - December 2005
• Jan - February 2006
• March - April 2006
• May - June 2006
• (We are no longer making printed calendars. Check the website for the most up-to-date information)

Festival Reports

our Cannes 2004 snapshots

San Francisco International Film Festival 2004 Report

Cannes Report 2003

Worthy Websites

Noir Film - a locally-produced website dedicated to film noir

Eddie Muller's Noir City

Cinema Treasures - "Devoted to movie theater preservation and awareness". They're working on a book — help 'em out . . .

The Internet Movie Database

Movie Review Query Engine

Leonard Maltin's MOVIE CRAZY

Roger Ebert's RogerEbert.com at the Chicago Sun-Times

Rotten Tomatoes, a big bucket of reviews and more

Film Arts Foundation

Bayflicks.net, your one-stop guide for revivals, festivals and everything cinema in the San Francisco Bay Area

Staging your own Preston Sturges series? Need a Kurosawa fix? Check the shelves at Le Video, San Francisco's premiere rental house, with close to 89,000 films, including rare and foreign videos found nowhere else.

Love movie posters? Internet Movie Poster Awards "honors the very best and the very worst achievements (past and present) in movie posters and all the latest movie poster news"

Balboa Scrapbook

You Love Us — You Really Love Us! A flood of Balboa Theater fan testimonials brings a lump to our throat . . .