Focus Features

A 1966 feature film written and directed by John Korty, edited by David Schickele, shot, as I remember, in Marin County and maybe San Francisco. From the neo-realist tradition with narration by Burgess Meredith and adapted from the Alan Wheelis novel, The Illusionless Man and the Visionary. The man without illusions meets the woman with nothing but. Hard to find but well worth trying.

A 1971 feature film written and directed by David Schickele. Memorable footage from Portrero Hill, the Fillmore district and industrial areas around Hunter’s Point. A visiting Nigerian gets involved in the San Francisco State strike. A bomb is planted on him and he is arrested. Reality intervenes. Paul Okpokam, the lead actor, is actually arrested while filming and is sent to San Quentin. The film turns documentary as David spends a year trying to get him out. A film everyone should see.

A 1971 feature co- written and directed by Jim McBride and shot mostly in the woods and shores of Marin County.  A post- apocalyptic feature film about feckless survivors searching for a lost city depicted in a Captain Marvel comic.  I loved its slack-jawed Bohos and “whatever” insouciance. Vincent Canby stood above it as judge and jury. Vincent Canby was wrong.

Co-directed by Gene Corr, Steve Wax and Peter Gessner. Shot largely in the East Bay, a 1977 feature film about a factory worker and semi-pro baseball player (Robert Viharo) asked by fellow workers to join in a strike. Cine Manifest’s first feature. The collective’s second feature was Northern Lights, co-directed by John Hanson and myself.

Directed by Deniz Demirer, director of photography, Jonathan Silvio. A dramatic 2008feature film shot mostly in the San Francisco Tenderloin about a young, modern-day jazz saxophonist played by David Boyce, a member of the Broun Fellinis. Jazz is back where it started, in dives (no longer smokey) with love of the music its own reward and life hardscrabble.  Kaleidoscopic, instinctive, smart and unwilling to explain itself away. Look for it.