Best of 2025
Former BAFS volunteer and film aficionado Vince LePlavy selects the best films from 2025: Best of 2025
The Bay Area Film Society was founded in the winter of 1997 by a small group of film lovers desperate for more films. We kicked off with The Full Monty at the local historical society on a snowy February night, not knowing if anyone would show. We sold out. We’ve been showing films ever since.
Former BAFS volunteer and film aficionado Vince LePlavy selects the best films from 2025: Best of 2025
The 18th annual Big Water Film Festival is almost here! The festival kicks off at Honest Dog Books in Bayfield on Thursday, January 15,and continues in person at the Bay […]
Join the 4th Annual Stand with the Banned Music Festival! Music, food, and talks will take place in the courtyard behind the bookstore. Screen printing will be next door at […]
Former BAFS volunteer and film aficionado Vince LePlavy selects the best films from the first half of this decade: “When people look back on the 2020’s, what will they remember? […]
Former BAFS volunteer and film aficionado Vince LePlavy makes his Oscars picks for 2024: Here are my Oscar picks for 2024. It’s always hard to judge the categories with either […]
Former BAFS volunteer and film aficionado Vince LePlavy picks his favorite films from 2024: “The end of the year. Halfway through the decade. Quarter of the way through the century. […]
Former BAFS volunteer and film aficionado Vince LePlavy reviews Anora: “On the fringes of cinema there have always been the side players: the unsung heroes who never get their due […]
Former BAFS volunteer and film aficionado Vince LePlavy selects twelve underappreciated Chritmas films: “It’s that most wonderful time of year! When it comes to Christmas movies, they’re just as treasured […]
Former BAFS volunteer and film aficionado Vince LePlavy selects five films involving Native Americans: “With the upcoming screening of the critically acclaimed Sugarcane on the horizon, I thought it only […]
Former BAFS volunteer and film aficionado Vince LePlavy reviews the film Thelma which will be screened by BAFS on October 18th: “Who says an old dog can’t learn new tricks? With […]

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