Flamboyant filmmaker Alejandro Adams invokes Lawrence Durrell, James Agee and Jean Renoir while dismissing Terrence Malick’s highly anticipated Palme d’Or winner THE TREE OF LIFE; Walter von Tagen proposes a re-write for 16 TO LIFE, the Netflix Instant title of the week; Letter to an Unknown Director – Terrence Malick; Sara riff-previews the wides and limiteds and offers “a moment of industry briefs.”

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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo

Bay Area film critic, trade journal editor and film studies teacher Sara Vizcarrondo brings her inimitable style and insider knowledge of the film industry to "Look of the Week," a half-hour show featuring discussions of current theatrical releases, film festivals, retrospectives, the Criterion Collection, Netflix Instant, VHS oddities and stray tidbits about "the biz." Come for the infotainment, stay for the theme song! ("I'm an accordion," Sara insists.)

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