Fog City Mavericks

Why does San Francisco sound so envious and insecure in it's vain attempt to focus attention on itself. Boasting of a cinematic legacy that it can only validate by referencing the very city that it continually tries to disassociate from.... Full review

Gruveyman2 (comment below)you are a complete idiot...blinded by ignorance by the very city you have allegiance to. Its that whiny arrogance, that you are ironically claiming the film exudes about SF, that makes you seem like such the typical LA... Full review

I just watched the documentary "Fog City Mavericks" on the Starz cable TV network. It is without a doubt, one of my most enjoyable viewing experiences ever! It chronicles the San Francisco Bay area artists and creative talent responsible for... Full review

I drove from Sacramento to San Francisco (and back) to see this movie premiere--and really glad I did. As a big movie fan and a life-long Northern Californian, I was surprised how many Oscar-winning films have been made in the... Full review

I just attended the World Premiere of Fog City Mavericks at the Castro Theatre, San Francisco, last night, April 29, 2007. The documentary was a Spotlight Film of the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival. Most of those featured film... Full review

The main problem with Fog City Mavericks isn't so much....it omits many the most memorable SF-set pictures ( Vertigo , Point Blank , Petulia ) in favor of a few Finding Nemo sketches....The city in Gary Leva's relentlessly reverential documentary on Bay Area filmmaking is painted not just as a mellow artists' enclave.... ... Full Review

The documentary is more a catalogue of admiring portraits and reminiscences than a structured, objective documentary.....Coppola's home movies of his parents are a treat....The film might have worked better....the old photographs, behind-the-scenes footage, pristine film clips and amusing stories --.... ... Full Review

The two focal points of Mavericks are Lucas and Coppola, who united under the American Zoetrope production company and struggled to give an independent voice to the crowded, small-minded film business. Its wonderful to watch these filmmakers recall their moments of stimulation, along with hesitation, as they achieved some of their wildest dreams. ... Full Review

Gary Leva's documentary Fog City Mavericks tries to encompass them all, making a case for the city as a welcoming place for innovation and art. Still, while Fog City Mavericks is far too uncritical and mainstream-minded, his interviewees' anecdotes are interesting, and a line can undeniably be drawn from Muybridge to the experimenters at Skywalker Ranch and Pixar Animation. ... Full Review

Over the past 150 years, San Francisco had been the base of operations for Eadweard Muybridge and Philo T. Farnsworth-inventors of the zoopraxiscope and television, respectively-as well as filmmakers as well-known as George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and as... ... Full Article

an Francisco has a long and diverse film history, yet most roads in Fog City Mavericks seem to lead to either the Skywalker Ranch or Pixar Studios. ... Full Article

THE FILM Innovation through location is the theme of "Fog City Mavericks." A diligent documentary on the illustrious alumni of the Bay Area cinema movement, the picture takes an affectionate look at those visionaries who not only originated from the... ... Full Article

It's comforting to know that even when small independent theaters are being swallowed up by impersonal multiplexes around the nation, San Francisco and the Bay Area have done much to foster a safe haven for some of our most unique... ... Full Article

While Los Angeles has been the capital of major studio filmmaking in America since the early ears of the 20th Century, in the northern part of California, San Francisco has become home to a different breed of filmmaker -- artists... ... Full Article

"Mavericks" is not a documentary charting the individual explosion of success. With a diverse range of directors such as George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Saul Zaentz, Philip Kaufman, John Lasseter, and Clint Eastwood, there's certainly the temptation to explore the... ... Full Article