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Twisted (2004/I) Directed by:Philip Kaufman
Writing credits (WGA)
Sarah Thorp (written by)
Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Tagline: Every murder has a mark.
Plot Outline: Jessica, whose father was a serial killer, is a female police officer. While investigating a murder, she finds herself in the center of her own investigation, when her former lovers start dying around her at a furious pace.
Cast overview, first billed only:
Ashley Judd .... Jessica Shepard
Samuel L. Jackson .... John Mills
Andy Garcia .... Mike Delmarco
David Strathairn .... Dr. Melvin Frank
Russell Wong .... Lieutenant Tong
Camryn Manheim .... Lisa
Mark Pellegrino .... Jimmy Schmidt
Titus Welliver .... Dale Becker
D.W. Moffett .... Ray Porter
Richard T. Jones .... Wilson Jefferson
Leland Orser .... Edmund Cutler
James Oliver Bullock .... John Flanagan
William Hall .... Chip Marshall
Joe Duer .... Larry Geber
Jim Hechim .... Bob Sherman (as James Hechim)
Also Known As:
The Blackout Murders (USA) (working title)
MPAA: Rated R for violence, language and sexuality.
Runtime: 97 min
BANDITS
Bandits (2001)
Film Directed by Barry Levinson
Film Writing credits (WGA) Harley Peyton
Film Genre: Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance
Film Tagline: Two's Company, Three's A Crime.
Film Plot Outline: Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped. click here to view trailer at IMDB
The Rock (1996)
Film Directed by Michael Bay
FilmWriting credits (WGA)
David Weisberg (story) &
Douglas Cook (story) ...
Film Genre: Action / Thriller
Film Tagline: Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in. (more)
Film Plot Outline: A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when soldiers threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.
Cast overview, first billed only:
Sean Connery .... John Patrick Mason
Nicolas Cage .... Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
Ed Harris .... General Francis X. Hummel
John Spencer .... FBI Director James Womack
David Morse .... Major Tom Baxter
William Forsythe .... Special Agent Ernest Paxton
Michael Biehn .... Commander Anderson
Vanessa Marcil .... Carla Pestalozzi
John C. McGinley .... Captain Hendrix (as John C. Mc Ginley)
The Joy Luck Club (1993) Directed by Wayne Wang
Film Writing credits (WGA) Amy Tan (novel),Amy Tan (screenplay)
Film Genre: Drama / Romance
Film Plot Outline: The life histories of four Asian women and their daughters reflect and guide each other.
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) Directed by,Chris Columbus
Film Writing credits (WGA) Anne Fine (novel) Randi Mayem Singer (screenplay)
Film Genre: Comedy / Drama
Film Tagline: She makes dinner. She does windows. She reads bedtime stories. She's a blessing... in disguise.
Film Plot Outline: After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend secret time with his children held in custody by his Ex.
Cast overview, first billed only:
Robin Williams .... Daniel Hillard/Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire
Basic Instint 1992
Film Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller (more)
Film Tagline: A brutal murder. A brilliant killer. A cop who can't resist the danger.
Film Plot Outline: A detective investigating a series of vicious sex murders encounters a seductive woman who seems too obvious as a suspect perhaps by her own choice? (more) (view trailer)
The Presidio (1988) Directed by Peter Hyams
Film Writing credits (WGA)
Larry Ferguson (written by)
Film Genre: Action / Crime / Thriller / Mystery
Film Tagline: He didn't want to share the murder investigation. There's no way he's going to share his daughter.
Film Plot Summary: Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before...
Classic San Francisco in the seventies. This without trying, is a period piece showing what the Embarcadero Center was
in it's day. This was a benchmark for on location shooting.
The Conversation (1974)
CAST: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams, Michael Higgins, Elizabeth MacRae, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Robert Duvall....
WRITER: Francis Ford Coppola
PRODUCER: Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Mona Skager
DIRECTOR: Francis Ford Coppola
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Dean Tavoularis
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Bill Butler
EDITOR: Richard Chew
LOCATIONS DEPARTMENT: Alex Tavoularis
PLAY MISTY FOR ME
Play Misty for Me (1971) Directed by Clint Eastwood
Film Writing credits Jo Heims
Film Genre: Horror / Thriller
Film Tagline: The scream you hear may be your own!
Film Plot Outline: A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan
takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.
Cast overview, first billed only:
Clint Eastwood .... David 'Dave' Garver
Jessica Walter .... Evelyn Draper
Donna Mills .... Tobie Williams
John Larch .... Sgt. McCallum
Jack Ging .... Frank Dewan
Irene Hervey .... Madge Brenner
James McEachin .... Al Monte
Clarice Taylor .... Birdie
Don Siegel .... Murphy (as Donald Siegel)
Duke Everts .... Jay Jay
George Fargo .... Man
Mervin W. Frates .... Locksmith
Tim Frawley .... Deputy Sheriff
Otis Kadani .... Policeman
Brit Lind .... Anjelica
All filming was completed in 21 days, which means this was an early version of low budget film making.
Dirty Harry (1971) Directed by Don Siegel
Film Writing credits
Harry Julian Fink (story) &
Rita M. Fink (story)
Genre: Action / Crime / Thriller / Drama
Tagline: You don't assign him to murder cases, You just turn him loose.
Plot Outline: A San Francisco cop with little regard for rules (but who always gets results) tries to track down a serial killer who snipes at random victims.
Cast overview, first billed only:
Clint Eastwood .... Insp. Harry Callahan
Harry Guardino .... Lt. Al Bressler
Reni Santoni .... Insp. Chico Gonzalez
John Vernon .... The Mayor
Andrew Robinson .... Scorpio Killer (as Andy Robinson)
John Larch .... The Chief
John Mitchum .... Insp. Frank DiGiorgio
Mae Mercer .... Mrs. Russell
Lyn Edgington .... Norma
Ruth Kobart .... Bus Driver
Woodrow Parfrey .... Mr. Jaffe
Josef Sommer .... Dist. Atty. William T. Rothko
William Paterson .... Judge Bannerman
James Nolan .... Liquor Store Owner
Maurice Argent .... Sid Kleinman (as Maurice S. Argent)
Film Writing credits Daphne Du Maurier (story) Evan Hunter (screenplay)
Film Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller
Film Tagline: Suspense and shock beyond anything you have seen or imagined!
Film Plot Outline: Birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people, in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness.
Vertigo (1958) Directed byAlfred Hitchcock
Film Writing credits
Pierre Boileau (novel) and
Thomas Narcejac (novel)
Film Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
Film Tagline: Alfred Hitchcock engulfs you in a whirlpool of terror and tension!
Film Plot Outline: Complex story about a San Francisco detective and his psychological troubles with fear of heights and obsession over a woman.
Twisted was probably the most recent major motion film production here in the San Francisco Bay Area. An on the waterfront set flash
montage is at the right. "Play Misy for Me" was my seventh english teachers favorite film, circa 1971. I grew up in Maryland. The film featured
Seacliff and San Francisco as a moody backdrop. It was Clint Eastwoods directorial debut. The Conversation was big at the film
school I went to, I never realized it was a Francis Ford Copola/Fred Roos film until now. The Conversation is definitely a period peace from
San Francisco Gone By. No offense intended, but an old boys club that once dominated here gone by the wayside. Basic Instinct, then becomes a new definition
with Sharon Stone blazenly taken a female lead role. Amy Tans' "The Joy Luck Club" novel first then movie certainly moved past many social barriers with
a novel based on chinese women. Bandits make the list because every time I drive up the coast I remember lines/scenes from the film when I see
locations the film was shot in. I liked the film, it had a clever plot, I liked the actors, so it made the list.
Hitchcock. He set the bar on thrillers and storytelling. I proudly have framed photography, posters and prints in every room
at the York Hotel, hotel of Kim Novak or Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton. I have been in her room, or the room at the York Hotel where the
filming actually took place. Ever since I moved to San Francisco Bay Area in 1985, the actual close proximity of the Mission
Delores to the rest of the film story has always bothered me. It so close and it seemed so remote in the film. Her suicide scene at Fort
Point set the bar for disturbed suicides. Thing is, you would not necessarily die if you flung yourself into the Bay from Fort Point.
I love the elegance and excellance of Hitchcock films. He hated women. Come on! They all have platinum died blonde hair and are morons.
What was his insistance on preying on the human emotion of fear? Just kidding, the blockbuster success of films like
"Jaws" proved we all love to be scared. Leading to the selection of San Francisco Bay Area resident Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire
and the human need for comic relief.
Disclaimer - I am not a film critic. These are my just my little opinions. Take what you need and leave the rest, enjoy the site.
San Francisco Bay Area has been location to many films from Hitchcock's "Vertigo", "The Birds" , "China Girl", to "The Maltese Falcon", to Sharon Stones "Basic Intstinct", to "The Conversation" with
San Francisco (1968)
Directed by: Anthony Stern
Writing credits
Anthony Stern
Genre: Short
Plot Outline: The film shows various pictures of San Francisco in the psychedelic era, with rapid cuts and freeze-frames, and Pink Floyd's music.
Flash Montage of the film set the Film "Twisted" aka "Blackout".
TWISTED (BLACK OUT PRODUCTIONS)
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