Artistic Consumption Log, Oct. 24, 2011 - Oct. 30, 2011: Bay Area Edition

SAN FRANCISCO—By the time you all read this, I will most likely be on my way to San Francisco International Airport to fly back to New York after a wonderful week here in the Bay Area!

Because I've been trying to keep busy sightseeing, meeting up with friends and all that, I wasn't able to find much time to give last week's artistic consumption log my usual annotations. So once again, here's a barebones accounting of what I consumed artistically this week. As you can imagine, it's a rather, um, lean list...but a good one, for the most part.

The legendary Castro Theatre in San Francisco

Films

★ A Face in the Crowd (1957, Elia Kazan), seen at Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto, Calif.

★ Black Narcissus (1947, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger), seen at Castro Theatre in San Francisco [third viewing]
★ The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger), seen at Castro Theatre in San Francisco [second viewing]

Music

Audium 9 (2008, Stan Shaff), experienced at Audium in San Francisco

Literature

★ Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition (2010, Jonathan Rosenbaum)