About our Movie Reviewers Jeanne Aufmuth studied
film at UCLA and San Francisco State University. She was instrumental
in creating television’s “The Reel Review”, a
film review talk show that debuted in the spring of 1992, and has
been co-hosting and producing the show since its conception. Jeanne
writes film reviews and features for the Palo Alto Weekly and is
a member of the Online Film Critics Society and the San Francisco
Film Critics Circle. She is steadfastly serious when she says she
wants her ashes laid to rest at the Stanford Theatre, where she
saw her first movie more than 35 years ago.. Tyler Hanley was born
in San Francisco, but has lived in the Palo Alto area for the
past
20 years. He began dabbling in independent filmmaking at the age
of 16, and has since co-produced and co-directed (alongside his
identical twin brother) five short films and two feature-length
films. Following college, he studied acting at the American Conservatory
Theatre in San Francisco. He has been writing film reviews for
the Palo Alto Weekly since September 2001. Susan Tavernetti received her M.A.
degree in Cinema from the University of Southern California and
teaches in the Film/TV Department at De Anza College. Susan is the
co-author of a textbook, "The Critical Eye: An Introduction to Looking
at Movies" (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company), and recently contributed
an article to an anthology, The Hollywood Indian, which will be
published this year by the University of Kentucky Press. Besides
serving on a number of screenwriting and film festival juries, she
directed the Palo Alto Film & Video Festival for Northern California
Independents for five years. Since 1988 Susan has reviewed films
for the Palo Alto Weekly.
Movies: Best of 2004
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