Saturday Films

Saturday Films. After volunteering the staff let us see the remainder of the noire film "Cast a Dark Shadow". Here's a partial program description : Before becoming a 1960s international art house favorite in the films of Joseph Losey and Luchino Visconti, Dirk Bogarde shot to stardom in England playing sexy, amoral cads in juicy ’50s crime dramas.

The black and white film and cinematography was fabulous film noire but instead of a femme fatale it was a male fatale.

The next film was Lo and Behold: Reveries of the connected world. by Werner Herzog.

I only went because i wanted to see a documentary by Werner Herzog. I studied how he did his interviews, how he asked some questions offline or participated with some choice quips online. He was funny i loved how he cut the interviews together and the questions he asked.

Program description:The inimitable investigative style of Werner Herzog’s documentaries meets the Bay Area’s nexus of technology and innovation in Lo And Behold: Reveries of the Connected World. Jumping off from the invention of the Internet and a curious cast of characters from 1960s and 1970s computer science, Herzog quickly expands his gaze to dreams of the future and especially the consequences of intelligent robots. In typical Herzog fashion, the title of the film itself is an inspired bit of pathos: the first message sent on the Internet in 1969 was meant to be “login,” but they only got to “lo” before the system crashed. —Noah Cowan. I wasn't that interested in the topic but he did the documentary with great questions, characters and humor.