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November
2011
Essential SF: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Essential SF: Susan Gerhard
Essential SF: Joshua Grannell
October
2011
Mill Valley Brings Oscar Contenders Close to Home
Graham Leggat and the Art of Engagement
The Facts Behind Great Fiction
Goldmacher IDs Perps Behind Financial Crisis
Kelly, Pickert Interpret ‘Cherokee’ Words
GOT Low Budgets, High Production Values?
Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall
‘New Environmentalists’ Salutes Gutsy Grassroots Guerillas
In Orbit with ‘An Injury to One’
Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
Clean White Lines Demos DIY Ethos
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Where Are their Stories?
Joshua Moore, on Location
NFPF’s ‘Treasures 5’ Excavates 'The West'
Under the Spell of French Cinema Now
Signs of the Times
Essential SF: Karen Larsen
Unbound by Genre, Taiwan's Films Travel Unique Paths
September
2011
Tiffany Shlain Connects the Dots
Jean-Luc Godard Sets Course for Adventure
Kuchar, Belson Bid Adieu
Radical Light: ‘Movie Factory’
He-Men Command Belief in MMA Film 'Warrior'
Stigma, Satisfaction Drive Indian 'Match' Game
More than Cute Keeps 'Hedgehog' Going
‘Aurora’ Startles, Subtly
Mill Valley Announces Titles in 34th
Iranian Teenage Love Sparks ‘Circumstance’
‘Puzzle’ Pieces Together a Life
SFFS's Hong Kong Cinema Series Brings Fan Fare to New Screen
Weimberg, Ryan Pick Berkeley ‘Brain’
Identifying Your Documentary’s Signature Style
Dark Thoughts Fill TIFF’s Lightbox
Turturro Makes a Case for 'Passione'
Gordon-Levitt's Chances Better than '50/50'
Slade Channels Broughton’s ‘Big Joy’
On Chronicling Criminals
Broadly Comedic ‘My Afternoons with Margueritte’ a Harmless Indulgence
Guy Maddin: Ann Savage and the Osmonds
August
2011
Essential SF: Lynn Hershman Leeson
McDonagh Finds Success in Family Path with 'The Guard'
Minott Tracks ‘Illness’ to Guam
Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'
Pagnol's Foodie Oeuvre Appreciated in East Bay
Field Shoots ‘MLK in Palestine’ on the Fly
High Energy 'Point Blank' Is a Rush
Miranda July Throws Cautionary Tale to the Wind with ‘The Future’
'Between Two Worlds' Places Politics of Speech in Spotlight
‘The Arbor’s’ ‘Verbatim Theatre’ Approach Strikes Chord
‘Dawn’ Salutes Lost Girls, Sainted Sister
What’s So Bleeping Funny?!
Teens Tackle Production at SFFS Young Filmmakers Camp
ITVS Celebrates 20th Tuned to Multi-Platform World
PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Susannah Greason Robbins on Growing the City’s Film Industry
San Francisco, Open Your Golden Gates
Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember
Graham Leggat and a Film Society Transformed
Graham Leggat, 1960-2011
'Vigilante, Vigilante' Opens Can of Worms
July
2011
Fassbinder's Funky Futurism Speaks to the Moment
Weitz Explores the Other L.A. with 'A Better Life'
Essential SF: ‘Off the Charts,’ ‘Double Dare’
Graham Leggat Steps Down as Executive Director of San Francisco Film Society
Roko Belic Charts Path to ‘Happy’
Silverdocs 2011: A Festival with Legs
Torres Story Gains Focus
The Naked Truth on Nudity in Film
Generator Everything
Essential SF: ‘North Beach,’ ‘Medicine For Melancholy’
Avoiding Turbulence Leads to Plot Trouble
Striking Skolimowski Films Rescued from Obscurity at PFA
Rapaport Brings Depth to Tribe Called Quest Doc
Essential SF: ‘Freedom On My Mind,’ ‘The Good War’
Notes on Leveraging the Big Bash Climax
Ben Berkowitz Offers Sound Advice
Voices Converge at San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Cinematographer Cardiff's Eye Prized in 'Cameraman' Doc
June
2011
Another Hole in the Head Scares Up New Round
‘Kiss the Cook’ Sparks Weidlinger’s Appetite
Celebrating a Reel Education
Richardson Wraps Circus ‘Net’
Production Values: Michael Whalen
'Blank City' Looks Back at Underground 'B' Heyday
Frameline35 Opens, Features Wildly Diverse Program
We Want Answers
Lewis Rides Herd on Lusty ‘Longhorns’
Soap-Operatic 'Bride Flight' Is an Entertaining Ride
Percifield Runs with Board of Supes Candidate
A City’s Smutty History, Embraced
Voluntary Organ Donor Inspires Krawitz
SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'
Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
Dues and Taxes Paid, Kornbluth Brothers Shoot for Glory
‘Over the Edge’ Emerges from ‘Cult-Favorite’ Closet
Critic's Notebook: A Day in the Life
Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Vintage Kinski Uncorked at YBCA
May
2011
SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced
SFIFF Brings in Burlesque as Closer
Snapshots Reveal Personal Side of SFIFF54
Frank Pierson, 'These Amazing Shadows' Offer Inspiration
Unrestrained at SFIFF54, Barney Offers Live Insight
We Are All Made of Stars in Patrico Guzmán's Universe
Bold Moves, Peril Define Great Third Acts
Gifts My Mother Gave Me
'Meek's Cutoff' a Minimalist Masterpiece
The Unsinkable Joel Hodgson Floats New Show
YBCA Revisits Vintage Erotica
Antonelli Contrasts Africa’s ‘Killing Seasons’
New Approaches Embolden Doc Genre
Park Jung-bum Offers Notes on his Unique POV
Lost Legends Haunt Roxie's Latest Noir Series
Elizabeth Taylor Tribute Maps Unusual Star Path
Frameline Announces Titles in 2011 Festival
Patrick Raises Child ‘Booksellers’
Topp Twins Agitate, Yodel, Entertain
New Era Takes Hold at the Roxie
'Into Eternity' Ponders a Present-Day Paradox
April
2011
The Power of ‘Poetry’
Juelich Rides ‘Neon’ Roller Coaster
Uncomplicating the Casting Process
Kehr Recalls ‘When Movies Mattered’
Ozon's 'Trophy Wife' Is a Winner
'Sleeping Ember' Reignites
Film Globally, Screen Locally
The Art of the Steal
Journalist-Activist Chakarova Exposes ‘Price of Sex’
Getting Behind 'Bill Cunningham'
SFIFF54 Finds Life Among the Ruins
Looking for the Moral with Bill Nichols
Production Values: Debbie Brubaker
On Producing Killer Films
Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
Bay Area Doc-makers of SFIFF54 Map Future
Tindersticks Fuel the Claire Denis Film Fire
Terence Stamp Honored with Owens Award
Explosive Actors, Anecdotes Light Up SFIFF54’s Midnight Awards
SFIFF54's 'Beginners' Brings Surprises
Stone not Cold in Castro Conversation
Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
March
2011
Hope Springs Eternal at Green Film Festival
'Boonmee's' Magic Lights Up SFFS Screen
Ehrlich Clicks with Icelandic ‘Mouse’
Poetry in Motion: Working in Action
SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Wolos’s ‘Trattoria’ Serves Up Spicy Comedy
What you Need to Know to License Music for Film
YBCA Brings Attention to Embattled Iranian Artists
Seely Treks Long Distances for Shorts
Nonfiction's Future Lies in Optimism
SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
Burroughs’ Story Still Stranger than Fiction
Jay Rosenblatt Talks ‘Darkness’
Merk Mixes ‘Cocktails’ for Television
Filmmakers Bring Stories to New Platforms
Kiarostami’s Enigmatic ‘Copy’ Fascinates
SFMOMA's Muybridge Experiments with Time, Space
Good’s ‘Vigilante’ Tags Graffiti Showdown
SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Haynes Reaches Mainstream with Thoroughly Modern ‘Mildred’
Talent Emerges at SXSW 2011
February
2011
Eclectic Expectations Met at SF Indiefest
Schneider-Jarmel Clan Take ‘Balz’ to Cuba
How to Fix Your Documentary's Structural Problems, Part Two
Silent Film Festival Is in the Money
Scary Cow Stampede Continues Apace
Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Mostly British Looks Beyond Speechifying Kings
SFFS Screen Returns with New Suleiman
Noise Pop 2011's Film Series Rawks
Soderbergh's Spalding Gray Rings True
Stone Tour Cultivates the City
Lagarde, Lozano Jam with NY Jazzman
On the Making of 'Crooked Beauty'
Beg For Your Life: In the Well with Laurel Nakadate
Nakadate’s Fever Dreams Heat the Screen
'We Were Here' Wrings Hope from the AIDS Crisis
Mitchell Block Brings Oscar Attention to Vets
Ido Haar Seeks Justice, Searches Soul
'Come Undone' Disrupts Domesticity
Arctic 'Summer' Story Chills Screen
January
2011
'Deathstalker' Muscles its Way Back to Big Screen
Politics, Sacrifice Define 'Bhutto,' Director
How to Fix Your Documentary's Structural Problems, Part One
Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens
German Gems Program Shines
Nanstad Tracks Down 'Sisters' Act
American Doc Showcase Visits Angola
VCinema Podcast Finds Its Audience
De Oliveira's 'Angelica' Balming, Enlivening
Costa's 'Ne change rien' Captures Singer's Dreaminess, Rigor
Bay Area Doc Makers Breathe Deep Before Sundance Debuts
Alexander Excavates Educational Film Treasures
Patrick Marks Takes a Green Eye to Noir
'Somewhere' Seizes on Discontent
Olsson Feels ‘Soldier’s Heart’ Beat
SF360 Live at Sundance: Strange and Charmed Visions
Red Lantern Meetup Reels in Film Fans
Temporary Insanity Takes Hold at Noir City
Sundance Awards 'Circumstance,' 'Another Happy Day'
SF360 Live at Sundance: 285 Steps
December
2010
Essential SF: Anne McGuire
'The Sound of Music' Offers Simpler Times, Strange Complications
Sundance Announces Films in Competition
De Michiel and Constantinou Offer Food for Thought
Stanford's MFA Doc Program Teaches Cardinal Rules, and How to Break Them
Film Festival Season: Five Last-Minute Music Clearance Tips
Film 2010: Big Pictures Light up the Small Screen
John Waters, New Leadership Renew Roxie
'Ghost Bird' Returns to Roost
Film 2010: Top Tens
Film 2010: YouTube, WeTube
Film 2010: We’re Not Here to Make Friends
Film 2010: Think Globally, View Locally
Film 2010: The Year in Quotes
Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area
November
2010
Essential SF: Les Blank
Essential SF: Rick Prelinger
Essential SF: Gail Silva
Essential SF: Marlon Riggs
The View from Here
Essential SF
New Italian Cinema Puts Focus on Ferzan Ozpetek
Manning’s ‘Al Capp’ Sketches Grandpa
'Client 9' Reclaims Spitzer
Copyright Crosses Borders
New to SFIAF: Online Screening Room
Season's Screenings Bring out Best Films of the Year
Going Guerrilla with Zombies
Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Writing Screenplays Is not Painting by Numbers
Malmberg Builds a Following with 'Marwencol'
October
2010
'Enter the Void' at Your Own Risk
Mill Valley's 33rd Launches
'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival
'Better This World' Takes a Look at Criminal Injustice
Are You Expecting Your Producer to Save You?
Savoring Fishbone in its Third Insane Decade
Pitchers Craft Hits at SFFS Film Arts Forum
Charles Ferguson Solves ‘Inside Job’
Marquee Names Light Up French Cinema Now
Brown Follows Injuries in ‘Going the Distance’
Mike Ott on the Guileless Filmmaking of 'Littlerock'
Berlin & Beyond Provides Genius Genre Treatments
Ed Burns Looks to Future by Getting Back to Basics
September
2010
Going McCarey's Way
'Sweet' Beat Drives Fruchtmans’ Rwanda Doc
'Change of Plans' Finds Humor in Mid-Life
Mallimson surveys 'Edge of the Wild' on San Bruno Mountain
'Them Greeks' Tests Independent Digital Production Model
Telluride Unveils 37th Film Festival
Toronto's New Lightbox Offers Transcendence
Tushinski Brings San Francisco into 'Dirty Poole'
Online Film Contests: Friend or Foe?
Innovative Characters, Concepts Inform New California Website
Irving Glides from Parrots to Pelicans
Altman Versus the World
Radical Light: 'Image Dissectors'
Rwanda Moves Forward in New Documentary
Local Filmmakers Pour into Mill Valley
Gardner's Global Views Unnerve at YBCA
A Children's Film Festival Finds Inspiration for All Ages
A Family Implodes in Biting 'Dogtooth'
Phil Spector, the Spectacle, Viewed in New Doc
August
2010
Looking to the Skies for Cinema
Media Pulse: The Closed Net Threat
Subtext: Catching the Drift Beneath the Dialogue
'Winnebago Man' Hits the Road
Kirschenbaum’s ‘Looking’ Provides Alzheimer’s Patient P.O.V.
Overcoming Your Fear of Fundraising
Schneider and Zanuck on the Highs of 'Get Low'
Of Longing and Laforgue
Maoz Speaks of the Limits of Language in 'Lebanon'
Back with a 'Vengeance'
A Vampire Weekend at YBCA
Medina Stokes SF-set ‘Furnace’
Getting Perspective on your Story
Eat, Pray, Love, Direct
'Army of Crime' Revisits the Not-Always French Resistance
The Price of Fame
Bar-Lev on the True 'Tillman Story'
Two Zimbalists and 'Two Escobars'
July
2010
Wilson-Shepard Doc Blooms in AIDS Grove
Reeling in the Years with the Red Vic
Lisa Cholodenko Makes High Art of Family Hijinx
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival Speaks Volumes
Media Pulse: A Crude Interpretation of the Law
Observing Ordinary People in 'Everyone Else'
Storylines of Silverdocs 2010
Crafting Motifs in Documentary Films
Charlotte Buchen, Wheels Turning
Koons Garcia Runs Fingers Through 'Soil'
Crowd Control
'Wild Grass' Finds Resnais Still Growing
7th Heaven: Another Hole in the Head
Perkins Places 'Trust' in Convicts and Parolees
Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'
SF Jewish Film Festival Lights 30 Candles
Getting Down, Dirty with Bob Ray and Chad Holt
Essential SF: 'Berkeley in the Sixties,' 'Brother Outsider,' 'Weather Underground'
Why Hire a Producer of Marketing, Distribution
Crime on the Mind
June
2010
Kore-eda Breathes Life into 'Air Doll'
Guevara-Flanagan Soars with 'Wonder Woman'
On Loving the Best Worst Movie of All Time
Field's Anti-Apartheid Series Returns to Bay Area
Jordan's Magic Moments with Ondine
Breaux Leads Search Party Through Southwestern Country
Koppelman Maps International Cybercrime, Cuban Opera
Frameline34 Focuses on Warhol and Worlds of LGBT Cinema
Frameline34, a Festival Refreshed
Frameline's History Lessons
On the Road with 'Joan,' Stern and Sundberg Talk Big Picture
Bowden Exposes San Francisco in Full Picture
Polk Street Lures Boswell's 'Stranger'
San Francisco Habitue John Waters Offers Role Models
The Story Beyond the Story
A Digital Glossary
Fast-Track Filmmaking with the 48 Hour Film Project
May
2010
Conner Forever Moving Forward
'Typeface' Makes Art of a Lost Craft
Getting Shatnered with Thrillville
Stevenson's Oddball Scandinavian Cinema
Merchant-Ivory: A Look Back
Looking for Comedy in Ken Loach's 'Eric'
Griffin and Jordan Getting Nails Done
Omori, Hardy Conspire to Tattoo the World
SFIFF53: Women's Worlds
SFIFF53 Reports: James Schamus, Roger Ebert and the Writing Life
SFIFF53 Reports: Divine Madness at 'All About Evil' Premiere
SFIFF53: War Stories
SFIFF53: Golden Gate Awards and Juried Prizes/Grants Announced
San Francisco International's Local Filmmakers Next Step
Ideas that Last at the Disposable Film Festival
New York-set Charlie Barker's Big S.F. Break
Dialogues: Gary Snyder on Art, Anarchy and the Environment
Behind the Music with 'Simonal'
Poitras's Unexpected Path to 'The Oath'
Judge's Crude Behavior Infuriates Documentary Makers
Festivals from Cannes to Marfa, San Francisco Filmmakers Reporting
A Short Guide to Funding Short Narratives
Thinking Like a Screenwriter for your Documentary
April
2010
Link TV's ViewChange Launch
Epic Expectations in 'The Warlords'
Independent Inuit Films at YBCA
Can-Can Do: Silent Shooting at the Victoria
'It Came from Kuchar,' 'La Mission' in Theatres
The Roxie's New Leadership
SFIFF53: Deft Dussollier In 'Micmacs,' 'Wild Grass'
Living on Default line in Bakalian Doc
Rajendra Serber's Confident Steps into Film
SFIFF53: Ephemeral Film and Music, Live & Onstage
SFIFF53 Reports: The Butcher Block; Opening Night
SFIFF s Porchlight On For Guests
SFIFF53 Reports: 'Utopia,' 'Morning'
Local Filmmakers In SFIFF Spotlight
SFIFF53: The Art of Revival
SFIFF53: 'At the Movies' with Roger Ebert
SFIFF53 Reports: California Dreamin' at Film Society Awards Night
Rosen's Insights into 53rd San Francisco International
Christina Yao's solid Empire of Silver
'Utopia' in San Francisco
Dialogues: Jim Harrison on Poetry, Documentary
Hernandez's Guilty Verdict
Do You Pass the Test?
The Empathetic Storyteller
March
2010
Hurt and Belief in 'The Yellow Handkerchief'
Pixar's Latest Oscar High
West with 'Sweetgrass'
Bong Joon-ho's 'Mother' Pleases
Unresolved Conflict in 'American Radical,' 'Promised Lands'
Green by Design: Purebred Productions
Streetfilms' Two-Wheeled Revolution
Laotian Tourists Focus Murray's Camera
Hiler and Brown's Visionary Music
Riffe's Raw Milk Germ
Nuclear Family Secrets in Silvia's Atomic Mom
28th SF Int'l Asian American Film Festival
SF International Asian American Film Festival's Archival Tour
San Francisco International Film Festival's 53rd Edition
Reed's Promise of Prodigal Sons
'Village' a New Look at New Orleans
Borshay Liem's Double Exposure of Korean Adoptions
'Lesh Sabreen?' On Red Vic Screen
Karim Ahmad on ITVS's Forward-Thinking FUTURESTATES
Do Ask, Do Tell
Childhood's Richness on Film
Sights and Sounds of South by Southwest
February
2010
Bay Area's Strong Presence at 82nd Oscars
Pacific Film Archive's Young Filmmakers on Big Screen
San Francisco Cinematheque's Spring Action
Buscemi in Fine, Droll Form in 'St. John of Las Vegas'
As Oscars Approach, Winners Still Up in the Air
Freak Flag Flying at YBCA
Herzog's Unexpected 'My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done'
Beyond 'Berlin,' Eggers' New German Gems
Wendy Slick's 'Virtuoso' Turn
Final Chapter in Kelly and Yamamoto's Art Trilogy
Cohen and Lipman's Recovering Friend in Forest
SF Indiefest at Twelve
Mostly British and Very Entertaining
Cinequest at 20
Scott MacDonald on Art in Cinema at SFMoMA
Ehrlich, Goldsmith on Pentagon Papers
Sid Ganis on Hollywood South and North
Public, Private: A Need-to-Know Guide
Best Length for Documentary Films
Chat It Up: Livestream, UStream and Justin.tv
January
2010
Citizen Critics' New Outlets, Challenges in 2009
It's 'Playtime' with Jacques Tati in New Series
Unspoken Fascist Future In Wings of White Ribbon
Val Lewton's Brooding Mood, Chilling Themes
The Greatest Finds of My Generation
Can't Stop the Musical: PFA's Classics
'Fish Tank's Essex truth
Nani Walker's 'Other Nature' At 15,000 Feet
Connie Field's Magnum Opus on Anti-Apartheid Movement
Joe Graham's Soulful 'Strapped'
Nao Bustamante's 'Silver and Gold' in Park City
Darkness Of Noir City On Castro Screen
Words from Sundance Staffers: Landon Zakheim
Words from Sundance Staffers: Robyn Arville
Words from Sundance Staffers: Natalie Mulford
Words from Sundance Staffers: Krissy Bailey
Words from Sundance Staffers: Ashley Soares
Words from Sundance Staffers: Ilya Tovbis
Words from Sundance Staffers: Jennie-Marie Adler
Words from Sundance Staffers: Jon Ho
Words from Sundance Staffers: Michael Lyons
Words from Sundance Staffers: Duc Bieu Pham
Words from Sundance Staffers: Jesse Dubus
Words from Sundance Staffers: Elizabeth Duran
George Csicsery's Hard Problems
Animal-Rescue Mine In Katrina's Emotional Aftermath
Jennifer Phang On Half-Life and Identity
Steven Severin On His Silent Spring
Michael House's Translation of Tati at YBCA
Butchers Chop Shop at Sundance
Stephen Talbot's World Music
Sam Green's 'Utopia' at Sundance
Road-Tested Rules For Bang-up Fundraising Events
What's In a Name?
Talking Heads to Storytellers
December
2009
The Cockettes' Celluloid Afterglow Still Strong at 40
Workin' It: 'La Danse" and "Everything Strange and New'
Holiday Film Preview, Part II
Shannon and Ryan own the screen in "The Missing Person"
Soulful "35 Shots of Rum" Gently Intoxicating
After Sept. 11, 2001, A Decade Found Its Way
3D Reloaded: Where Does 3D Go From Here?
Top 10s of 2009: Insiders and Fans
Top 10s of the 2000s
Thoughts On the Aughts: Best/Worst Trends
Antonelli's 'Crossing Over' and Cooke's Soulful Genius
Legal Eagle Eye Kristine Enea Zooms 'Off the Grid'
Bay Area Narrative Filmmakers Thriving in Doc Capital
Wintering with the SF Silent Film Festival
Catherine Galasso's 'Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice'
David Thomson Revisits 'Psycho's' Critical Moment
Filmmakers Stuff 'Bag!' With Self-Distribution Dreams
Sequence Names
Best Practices For Naming Sequences
Coming Around to 'Convergence'
November
2009
The Exiled Ingrid Bergman at PFA
On the Road Before 'The Recess Ends'
Chilean Film 'The Maid' and the Liberation of a Genre
Gerald Peary on the Rise and Fall of the Film Critic
Daven Gee Docs on the New American Family
Shamir's 'Defamation' a Vintage Documentary Dust-up
New Social Issue Dramas from Rainin Grant-Winners
Feast Your Eyes: A Holiday Film Preview
Marissa Aroy Unearths Forgotten California history
A Tour Through the 2009 Taiwan Film Days
New Italian Cinema's Fact, Fiction, Fascination
Parker and di Napoli on Parody and High Art
Russell Merritt at the SF International Animation Festival
Frazer Bradshaw on "Everything Strange and New"
David Sherman and Wasteland Utopias
How to Entice and Reward Potential Donors
A Challenge to Filmmakers
Carmen Madden on Watching People, Writing Characters
The Upside of Downtime
October
2009
Tangerine Dreams: Cinematheque de Tanger's Morocco Showcase
Heddy Honigmann and the Art of Interview
San Francisco Cinematheque Fall Program Underway
The Turn-off Sex Cinema of Koji Wakamatsu
Remembering Chick Strand
Clough's Rough Time in 'Damned United'
Yes Men Take On the World
Christopher Upham Back to 'Dakto,' Vietnam
Anne, Anne, Anne: McGuire Comes Alive
Don't Criticize it: 'Holding On to Jah'
Mill Valley Film Festival's 32nd
What's up, DocFest?
Live from Mill Valley: Woody Harrelson and Uma Thurman
SFFS's Debut Cinema by the Bay
French Cinema Now—and then
'Sorry, Thanks' Lavishes Love on the Mission
Pamela Jean Smith Brings Home Movies to Big Screen
Dave Eggers, Spike Jonze and 'Wild Things'
Robert Mailer Anderson on Mendo Madness of 'Pig Hunt'
The Importance of Supporting Characters
Structuring Your Doc With Your Voice - and Vision
A Fat Line Between Love and Hate
September
2009
High Drama in High school in 'The Beautiful Person'
William Klein's Restless Mind
Columbia Pictures' noir lights at the Roxie
War Vets as Stars in 'Common Sky'
Foraging for 'Swamp Cabbage'
Telles charts 'Storm' of Mexican Revolution
Simon and Gosling Play Strachwitz's Tunes
Montalbano's "The Recondite Heart"
Toronto International Film Festival 2009
Cory McAbee and 'Stingray Sam'
The Sad Dance of 'Tony Manero'
Lucrecia Martel and "The Headless Woman"
Franny Armstrong's S.O.S. to the World
Roy Andersson on "You, the Living"
The Impact of Joe Berlinger's 'Crude'
Writing a Kick-Ass Funding Proposal
Organizing your bins effectively
TechCrunch 50: Clicker and AnyClip
E-news You Can Use
August
2009
'Desert of the Tartars' Saved from Obscurity
'Thirst' and the Vampire Genre Still Bleeding
Josef von Sternberg Gem
'District 9' a Summer Sci-fi Surprise
WWII as Genre Busted by 'Flame & Citron'
Kim Longinotto and Women Make Movies Film Festival
Lee, Schamus and Woodstock
Dina Ciraulo's 'Opal'
Pete Nicks Impatient in 'Waiting Room'
Hess, Janos and the Volunteers of America
How Scary Cow co-op is making indie filmmaking in SF a little less frightening
Swedish Muckrakers Enlist Local Help
Seiji Horibuchi on VIZ Cinema
Bob Goldthwait, Fate and 'World's Greatest Dad'
Ellen Schneider's Active Voice
Fine points on Festivals
Understanding Backstory
How a Story Consultant Saved Me
July
2009
An Ample Display of Tilda Swinton's Edge
'Why Isn't Chris von Sneidern Famous?'
Lucrecia Martel and a Case for Decadence
Whip-smart, Witty 'In the Loop'
Social Justice and the S.F. Jewish Film Festival
'Until the Light Takes Us'
'Howl' is Poetry in Post
'Lion's Den' and '24 City'
The horror, the horror: 'Tweaker With an Axe'
Weissman's 'Heartbreak and Heroism'
J.P. Allen and the Landscape of Love
SF Silent Film Festival
Kutner and Goldstein on 'The Snake'
Anita Monga and the SF Silent Film Festival
Britta Sjogren and "Women's Film"
Berkeley-based writer Barry Gifford's wild screen-rides
Shelley Diekman Reflects on Well-Spent life
'The Greatest Year in Film' at the Castro
Are Your "Friends" Worthless?
Beyond Words: Comedy That Sticks
The Real Deal
Free and Open: Video's Cambrian Explosion
June
2009
'Fados' finds Saura on his toes
Social Fury 'In the Realm of Oshima' at PFA
Marco Ferreri's Anarchic Filmmaking
Iron Curtain Call in the Poland of 'Katyn'
Frameline33: Youth in Revolt
Suspense, Stillness and Beauty in 'Three Monkeys'
Nutritious eating on the cheap for Potash film
'All About Evil'-doer Joshua Grannell in post
Tejada-Flores on "Road" for a Change
Another Hole in the Head
Frameline33: Something Old, Something New
Frameline33: Icons and Unsung Heroes
Lawrence Jordan: to Infinity and Beyond
Miller Brothers Touch Home at AT&T Park
Weimberg/Ryan on Conflict and Conscience
Tom Shepard's 'Whiz Kids' Blinding with Science
Lee Isaac Chung on 'Munyurangabo'
Cronenwett's 'Maggots and Men' at Frameline
Richard Levien, from 'Immersion' to 'La Migra'
"Just Make Them Love It"
Facing the Music (Rights)
Story Structures that Funders Love
When the Personal is Political
May
2009
Film Society Awards: Ballard, Coppola, Redford and Toback
SFIFF52 Blogs: Five Reasons why SF Loves Coppola
SFIFF52: Movie-Scribe Meltdown
SFIFF52 Blogs: Wilkerson's Proving Strong
SFIFF52 Blogs: Coppola & Lucas at the Castro
SFIFF52 Blogs: Cataloguing California
Kubrick and Altman's Fear, Desire, and Delinquency
Elliot Lavine: 'I Wake Up Dreaming'
SFIFF52 Blogs: Dinosaurs, Disease, and Delirium
Garrel's 'Frontier of Dawn'
'A Wake for Analog'
'Night and Day:' Location, Location, Locution
Berkeley Hosts Karel Vachek Retrospective
Raimi's Return to Horror: Drag Me to Hell
Kaufman and Snitow: New Jewish Identity
Recession-Proof Theaters, to a Point
'In-World War:' Brant Smith's Directorial Debut
Dinner and a Movie Discussion: Igor Sinyak
Cyrus Omoomian's 'Democracy': From Iran to Chile
Local Makers Line Up Next Shot after SFIFF
SFIFF52: Planet Armstrong
SFIFF52: Golden Gate Awards Uncorked, SFFS/KRF Grant Winner Announced
SFIFF52 Blogs: Keeping Scores
Bruce Goldstein: From NY to SF to 'Con'
Six Degrees of Bringing Home the Bacon
The Hero, Deconstructed
Crafting an Elegant Essay Documentary
The Future of Video—In Our Hands?
April
2009
Box set "Treasures" unearths buried avant-garde
Walsh sets off on Rainer's parade
"Fans, Friends & Followers"—an excerpt
"Observe and Report:" Seth Rogen Strikes Again
Bahrani Earns Ebert's Praise for "Goodbye Solo"
SFIFF52: Jim Granato's "D tour"
SFIFF52: Peter Bratt's "La Mission"
SFIFF52: "Lightness of Being" – Eight Wry Films
SFIFF52: Jarmel and Schneider's "Speaking in Tongues"
SFIFF52: Yun Suh's "City of Borders"
SFIFF52: Chris Felver's "Ferlinghetti" Captures an Icon
SFIFF52: Lourdes Portillo, Persistence of Vision Award Recipient
SFIFF52 Blogs: Mission, Midnight and Under the Influence
SFIFF52 Blogs: Portillo's 'Al Más Allá'
SFIFF52: Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in the West'
Holtzman: Psychedelic Cambodian Rock in 'Dengue Fever'
SFIFF52: New Narrative Trend for Bay Area Cinema
SFIFF52: 'The Professionals' Unites Filmmakers
SFIFF52: Jennifer Maytorena Taylor and a 'New Muslim Cool'
SFIFF52: Wisdom of the Underages
SFIFF52: Robert Redford Accepts Owens Award
SFIFF52: Light and Saraf's 'Empress Hotel'
Risky (Film) Business - What (Not) to Do
Character, Stripped to the Bone
Repeating Yourself?
Augmented Reality at SXSWi
March
2009
'Examined Life' Puts Ideas into Action
Troell in Fine Form with 'Everlasting Moments'
Back to Nature with Ben Rivers
William Kentridge at SFMOMA
On the Road, in Search of a Film
Sam Green's Utopian Experiment
Kitchell on Another Hot Topic with Environmental Movement Doc
Cinequest, Transforming
Kiyoshi Kurosawa and a Cinema of Disaster
SXSW: From the Producer's Chair
Politics Get Personal in 'Project Kashmir'
Connecting Here and There at the 27th SFIAAFF
SF International Film Festival Lineup
'Medicine for Melancholy' in the City it Re-discovered
The Buzz on H.P. Mendoza's 'Fruit Fly'
Cary Joji Fukunaga on the (Very) Bay Area Story Behind 'Sin Nombre'
Livin' la Vida Arnold with Lyndall Grant
Michael Jacobs 'Audience of One' at the Roxie
'Medicine for Melancholy' and the Art of DIY Legal Agreements
How to Rate Your Doc's Story Potential
Sound Advice
February
2009
Warhol's Screen Tests Get Dean & Britta Treatment
'Strand' Follows Thread to Rep Cinema's Glory Days
Stephane Gauger on 'Owl and the Sparrow'
Terence Davies' 'Of Time and the City' is Poetic, Personal
Re-Viewing 'The Savage Eye'
'Just Another Love Story' Offers Shock Treatment
Chantal Akerman's Everyday, and More, at SFMOMA
Gangster Life Verite in 'Gomorrah'
'Silent Light' and Shattered Landscapes
Epps Unearths Buried Alcatraz History
Strand Releasing Turns 20
Ellen Lake's Miniatures Fit Right In
Leban and Szajko's Gay Marriage Doc
Peled's Globalization Trilogy in India's Cotton Fields
SF Indiefest 2009
San Francisco Silent Film Festival Winter Event
Noise Pop Film Festival 2009
SF Cinematheque: New Year, New Direction
Intersections of 'Harrison Montgomery' with Daniel Davila
Lightening Your Fundraising Load
The Alchemy of Adaptation
Growing a Good Story, Naturally
Ten Commandments Before Diving into Digital Delivery
January
2009
The Year in Film 2008: Oscar Odds
The Year in Film: What did Women Want?
Debra Chasnoff's 'Straightlaced'
Autobio-Animation and the Horrors of War
'Che: The Roadshow' reclaims a legend
Bruce LaBruce's 'Otto': Zombies With Heart
'Scott Walker: 30 Century Man'
Bud Cort Honored at Sketchfest
Sundance Blogs: 'Everything Strange and New' and 'La Mission'
Sundance '09: Award-Winners, Bloggers, and More
César Charlone Directs 'The Pope's Toilet'
Essay Films at the Pacific Film Archive
Elizabeth Pepin's 'Wasted!'
'Tongues' Cracks the Language Barrier
A Composer Almost Ready for His Close-Up
Veteran Berkeley Filmmaker's Baseball Doc
Wim Wenders: Berlin & Beyond
Sundance Blog: Midnight at the Egyptian
Sundance Blog: Urban Hiker's Guide
Wendy Levy on the Politics of Participation
Eddie Muller and Noir City
Unresolutions of 2009
Social Justice Filmmaking Grants Announced
Remembering Ave Montague
Casting: Names and Numbers
Funder as Supplicant
December
2008
'Discovering Teuvo Tulio'
Something Wild: Martha Colburn's Collage Animations
Genuflection: 'Pray the Devil Back to Hell'
Season's Gleanings, a Holiday Preview
Reading Between the Frames: Fleming and Sturges
Bursting with 'Button'
New at Frameline: K.C. Price
Case Studies in Screenwriting: Pam Gray
Pamela Harris, GFEM, and Filmmaker Funding
Tom E. Brown on 'Pushing Dead' and Stayin' Alive
Québec Film Week's Unprovincial Pleasures
Sundance Harvests an Eclectic Crop of Local Films
The Year in Film, 2008: Top Unreleased Films
What Crisis? Fundraising During an Economic Meltdown
From Gauche to Great
Audience of One?
Greenscreen Envy
November
2008
Supernaturalism with 'Let the Right One In'
Another Ingmar Bergman in 'Monika'
SF360 Film+Club: 'Silver Jew'
Soviet-Critical 'Cargo 200' at YBCA
Global Lens on Link TV
Kroot's Planet Kuchar
Sean Uyehara On the S.F. International Animation Festival
Scott MacDonald's 'Canyon Cinema' Book--Both History and How-to
David Thomson and 1,000 Unusual Suspects
Gus Van Sant and Dustin Lance Black on 'Milk'
Sragow on 'An American Movie Master'
Perfect Pitch
October
2008
'Full Battle Rattle' On the Endless War
Crossing Borders with 'Fraulein'
'Secrecy' Up For Debate
SFFS Screens 'Delwende'
'Christmas on Mars' Non Halloween
Straight and Not So Narrow 'Crooked Beauty' In Production
Making 'Howl' and 'Babnik'
A Documentary on Death and Survival in Paradise
Mill Valley Film Festival's Maher Moment
Dead Channels 2008 Comes Alive
SFFS's Inaugural French Cinema Now
MVFF: Mulford and Cruz On Chile's Dark Past
Carnival of Nonfiction Filmmaking
12th Arab Film Festival
Jack Stevenson on 'The Superstars Next Door'
Documenting the Lyme Epidemic
A Talk With Arab Film Festival's Executive Director
Lance Hammer on Beauty and 'Ballast'
Susan Oxtoby and the Pacific Film Archive
Notes on Digital Distribution
Trailer Talk
The Dimensions of Dialogue
Basics of Web 3.0?
September
2008
Chris Marker Comes Home, At Last
Room for Thought at SFMOMA
The Fantastical Imagination of 'Wind Man'
Curators at Bay Area Now 5
Toronto 2008: Slow Food, Fast Festival
The Cosmic Dance-Floor of Arthur Russell
Baloney Sandwiches With No Cheese: Ted V. Mikels' Wild World
'Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer'
Jerusalem's Lone Gay Bar
Educational 'Split' Helps Troubled Children of Divorce
Scott Crocker's 'Ghost Bird' Phenomenon
Mendocino's Swine Country
Mill Valley's 31st Program
7th SF DocFest Program
Ariella Ben-Dov's Madcat Archives
Stephen Parr's Oddball Films
Vida Ghahremani: Star is Reborn in Wayne Wang's Latest
Yiyun Li, The Voice of 'A Thousand'
James Savoca's 'Around June' Casts Spell Around Potrero Hill
SWAG: Free Feature Films On the Web
August
2008
Saluting the Ultimate Whistleblower
Not About Royalty
'The Dark Cinema of David Goodis' at the PFA
Nik Sheenan's 'FliCKer'
Vertigo's 50th Anniversary
In Spain with 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona'
Global Film Initiative: Funding the Bigger Picture
'Hats Off' Fascinated With 93-Years-Young Actress
'Days and Clouds' Finds Changes in the Weather
Inside the Telluride Film Festival
Exhuming History with "The Judge and the General"
Canyon Cinema's Dominic Angerame
Stephen Olsson and Link TV
Parvez Sharma and 'A Jihad for Love'
Rob Nilsson on Himself
Second Stage of Film Arts Foundation's Legacy of Advocacy
Not Quite Quiet Desperation
July
2008
'The Gits,' the Movie
Niles Essanay's Voguing Eunuchs, Raving Madmen
Fatih Akin and 'The Edge of Heaven'
Swinging '60s suburbs in 'Viva'
The Mystical and Everyday in 'A Listener's Tale'
'CSNY: Deja Vu'
Jacques Nolot and 'Before I Forget'
'The Exiles,' a Return Engagement
Beard world and Swenson's Salton Sea
Frameline's New Lesson Plan
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
The 28th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Riffling through '1000 Journals' with Someguy
SFFS Screen's 'Hank and Mike'
Hard Look at China in 'Blind Mountain'
Catherine Breillat's 'The Last Mistress'
S.F. Jewish Film Festival's Stein and Fishman
Muayad Alayan, Christian Bruno
In Memoriam: Bruce Conner (1933-2008)
A Week at Flaherty
What's Fair is not Foul
June
2008
Review: 'Surfwise'
Travel Guide Through Another Hole in the Head Film Festival
Review: 'Love Songs'
'Mongol's' Mr. Nice Guy: Genghis Khan
Herzog's 'Encounters at the End of the World'
San Francisco Black Film Festival's 10th
Screen Test, San Jose
The List: Michael Lumpkin Looks Back
Hong Sang Soo on the SFFS Screen
Critic's Notebook: Hole Head, Week One
New Rohmer on SFFS Screen
The World of 'Derek' at Frameline32
Argentina's New Wave at Frameline
Critic's Notebook: Frameline32
Alex Gibney on Going 'Gonzo'
Dawn and David Katznelson
'Up the Yangtze' with Yung Chang
Strand's Marcus Hu and Frameline's Michael Lumpkin
Ruby Yang on 'A Double Life'
SFFS Screen at Sundance Kabuki
May
2008
Review: 'The Living End,' remixed and remastered
Finding Warren Sonbert
Review: "Mister Lonely"
Jimmy Stewart at 100
Review: "Postal"
Capelle on Composers: Day Two
Nights on the Towne: Film Society Awards Night
Cinemania at the SF International
Capelle on Composers: Back to Back
SF International's Golden Gate Awards: Alive and Cooking
In Other Words: States of Cinema, Music and Mind
In Other Words: Pacific Whims
Capelle on Composers: Day Three
"Standard Operating Procedure" and the Stories We Tell
Frameline's 32nd SFLGBT Festival Program
S.F. International Arts Festival
SFIAF: 'Mordake' and Week Two -- Reviewed, Previewed
'Shampoo.' Rinse. Repeat.
Gibney Going "Gonzo," Part Two
Q&A: Alex Rivera, 'Sleep Dealer'
The Doctor and the Documentarian Behind "The English Surgeon"
Contemporary Jewish Museum's DAWN
April
2008
Review: "Boarding Gate"
"Cachao: Uno Mas"
SF Int'l announces its 51st program and year-round screen
Earthdance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival
Seven from the Sonoma Valley Film Festival
"Palestine: Interior/Exterior"
SFIFF51: Renee Tajima- Pe–a's trip down “Calavera Highway'
SFIFF51: Dawn Logsdon, on new hope in an old neighborhood, "Faubourg TremŽ"
SFIFF51: The Miller Brothers on writing, pitching, acting, directing, and hitting one out of the ballpark
Asia Argento, In Full Flower
I [heart] Jason Lee
Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy World
Capelle and Composers: Day One
In Other Words: Standard Operating Procedure
Thomas Beard exposes "Live Cinema"
'Thrillville' turns 11
Johnny Symons and "Ask Not"
SFIFF51: Craig Baldwin Shoots the Moon, and the Desert
SFIFF51: California Newsreel at 40
SFIFF51: On the Breeding Behind "Evolution: The Musical!"
SFIFF51: Barry Jenkins' San Francisco Story
SFIFF51: Eddie Muller's Muses
SFIFF51: Katherin McInnis Cues the Carnival Music
March
2008
"Warts & All: The Films of Danny Plotnick"
"A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich"
"Paranoid Park"
Ira Sachs on "Married Life"
"Shelter"
SFMOMA's "Nonwestern Westerns" Series
Review: "Shotgun Stories"
The San Francisco Irish Film Festival
Cinequest's surprises
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 2008
Ten SFIAAFF Picks From Judy Stone
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
SFIAAFF's winners
"Girls Rock" with Arne Johnson & Shane King
Donnie Yen, "Flashpoint"
"2 Husbands," One Amazing Race?
Q&A: Brillante Mendoza
SFIAAFF's Taro Goto, Moving On
Jeff Nichols on "Shotgun Stories"
February
2008
Review: "Taxi to the Dark Side"
"Shrooms" Screams Bloody Horror
Cinema, Israeli Style
Bollywood By the Bay
Undying Love for George A. Romero
Review: "The Signal"
Kiarostami Firsts, Plus "Five"
Danny Glover, "Honeydripper," and Us
10 Reasons to See "Cinema Piemonte"
Sundance, In Stitches
SF Indiefest at 10
SF Indiefest, From Day One
Noise Pop Film Festival
Cristian Mungiu's 24 Hours of "4 Months, 3 Weeks"
SF Indiefest Opening Night: Riding "Shotgun" With Jeff Nichols
Carl D. Brown and Erin Beach of "2nd Verse"
Eran Kolirin and "The Band's Visit"
Emiko Omori and Wendy Slick's "Passion & Power"
L.Q. Jones Talks Dogs and Cult Movies
January
2008
The Best Undistributed Films of 2007
SFMOMA's Emile de Antonio Series
Review: "The Violin"
"Joy Division" on Screen
Cassandra's Dreamer, Woody Allen
Art Stars of Sundance
Paradjanov and Godard on DVD
"The Medieval Remake" at the PFA
Berlin & Beyond at 13
Noir City 2008
Location Scouting at Sundance
Gail Silva's Sundance Primer
"Teeth" Actor Has a Sundance Flashback
Peter Galison, "Secrecy," and Sundance
Amanda Micheli Going for La Corona
Alan K. Rode on Noir and Charles McGraw
'Be Kind Rewind' Brings Michel Gondry to SF
SF-Based Distributor Viz Pictures
Heath Ledger, a Loss
December
2007
Review: "Diva"
Five Great Skate Features
Reviews: "Walk Hard"; "Charlie Wilson's War"
Les Blank's "All in this Tea"
Jesse Hawthorne Ficks's Midnight Movie Empire
Q&A with "Holly" Filmmakers
Christopher Coppola Wants You
Jessica Yu, "Protagonist"
"Starting Out in the Evening" With Andrew Wagner
Bollyhood, a Concept, a Cafe
November
2007
Jumping the Shark
"Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten"
"Redacted"
Phil Chambliss, Arkansas Auteur
The Short Films of Big Ugly Review
The Many Faces of Dylan
"RKO Lost & Found" at the Roxie
"Hannah Takes the Stairs"
"Holly," an Unseasonably Sobering Drama
S.F. Silent Film Festival“s Third Annual Winter Event
The 32nd American Indian Film Festival
International Latino Film Festival and S.F. International Animation Festival
Second S.F. International Animation Festival
Connie Field, from Berkeley to Johannesburg
Sean Uyehara Talks S.F. International Animation Festival
Herzog, Docs, and Truth at AFI Fest
Reverend Billy on Missionary Mall Work
Robert Lepage, "Progress" Report
'Her Name is Sabine' With SF360 Movie Night
October
2007
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
Joseph Cornell at SFMOMA
Your Al Gore, and More
"Lars and the Real Girl"
Mill Valley Film Festival at 30
Mill Valley Film Festival 30
The 11th Arab Film Festival
Anywhere Road's Robert Ogden Barnum
Nine Questions for Rob Nilsson
Jamie Meltzer on "Welcome to Nollywood"
Robert Arnold, in "The Key of G"
Shooting People's Ingrid Kopp
Aaron Woolf Seeding Doubt in "King Corn"
MobMov and the New-School Drive-In Movie
Mister Jalopy's Urban Guerrilla Movie House
September
2007
"Discovering Orson Welles"
SOFA, so good? "Straight outta Film Arts" (SOFA) shines a light on youth filmmaking
"Punk's Not Dead"
Tomo Uchida at the PFA
"In Search of Mozart"
A Sean Penn Top 10
Lucy Gray's Telluride
Five from Madcat
SF Docfest Report
Finn Taylor on Natural Selection and "The Darwin Awards"
George Kuchar, Neither Boil nor Blister
Lynn Hershman Leeson's "Culture" war
Ariella Ben-Dov, Madcat Mastermind
August
2007
Jewish Humor, After Woody
Abbas Kiarostami: "Image Maker"
"Crossing the Line" and "Death at a Funeral"
Pier Paolo Pasolini
"This is England;" "Rocket Science"
Blood, Sweat, Tears
"The King of Kong;" "2 Days in Paris"
"Coffy" and Other Tales of Female Revenge
"From the Tsars to the Stars: A Journey Through Russian Fantastik Cinema"
Laurent Tirard on "Moliere"
"Arctic Tale" and the Melting of Hearts
"Revolution Summer"
Telluride in Transition
Bruce Fletcher, Dead Channels and the Living
Irina Leimbacher and Konrad Steiner on "kino21"
Jeffrey Blitz and Reece Thompson on "Rocket Science"
A Mighty Wurlitzer Player
Peaches Christ Superstar
"2 Days in Paris" with Julie Delpy
Off the Lot With Mateen Kemet
July
2007
Parker Posey's return in "Broken English"
Rodents we love
"Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox;" "Ten Canoes"
Fabulous Fashion in Film
Saul Bass, "Phase IV"
"Private Property;" "One to Another"
International Stories Find Audiences at L.A. Film Fest
A Frozen Film Festival five
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
In the ring with Jewish boxers at SFJFF
Jasmine Dellal on her "Gypsy Caravan"
Stacey Wisnia, talking silent pictures
'Joshua's' George Ratliff
Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky on "Manufactured Landscapes"
"Sunshine" on my shoulders
Shonali Bose on "Amu"
Mateen Kemet, "On the Lot"
Marc Huestis on the Runway
June
2007
Reviews: "La Vie en Rose;" "Crazy Love"
Reviews: "Brand Upon the Brain!", "Golden Door"
The art of Muppetry
"American Cannibal" and Reality TV
"Lover Other"
"SiCKO"-time
Macbeths we have known
San Francisco Black Film Festival
A Strandful at Frameline31
Lumpkin and Morris on Frameline's Big Picture
Jackson Hole Film Festival
Frameline31
Dennis Nyback and "Bad Bugs Bunny"
"Once" Again -- A Date With Carney, Hansard, and Irglova
Dan Klores and "Crazy Love"
Michael Winterbottom's "A Mighty Heart"
Richard Wong and H.P. Mendoza, reanimating "Colma: The Musical"
Andrea Sperling, powering up
Movies and Martinis, A Movement
Laura Albert, The Real J.T. Leroy, Charged With Fraud
May
2007
A "Flanders" Reader
"Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait"
Guillen's Top Five from Another Hole in the Head
Reviews: "Bamako" and "Angel-A"
"The Prodigy," The Roxie, Delirium, God
Fred Astaire, "Also Dances..."
Picturing Politics at SFIFF50
Digital Festival
Spike Lee
Film Society Awards Night
SFIFF50, Diving In
Live from Fog City
Golden Gate Award to "The Key of G"
Frameline, Scalped
Meet the Jury/A Palme d'Or 20
Frameline Announces 31st Program
2007 Mendocino Film Festival
Liane Yasumoto and Superfest International Disability Film Festival
Hal Hartley, Not So simple
Hal Hartley, Not So Simple: Part II
April
2007
Reviews: "Police Beat"; "The Page Turner"
Loach's Palme d'Or Winner
Reviews: "I Don't Want to Sleep Alone"; "Mafioso"
Reviews: 'Comedy of Power'
Dead Channels : The San Francisco Festival of Fantastic Film
S.F. International Announces Lineup for 50th
SFIFF50-philes
Sonoma Valley Film Festival
Uyehara Hits High Notes on Music of SFIFF50
A Festival, a Half Century
SFIFF50
SF360 Film Culture Confidential: Shhhhhh....
Amanda Micheli's Wonder Women
Weerasethakul Talks Hospitals, Aerobics, and a Boy From Mars
Paul Verhoeven and His "Black Book"
Mike White's Alter Egos
Jon Else On Acts of Creation
Kerry Laitala and Her New "Muse"
A Rob Nilsson 10
Daniel Wu, Heavenly King
Remembering Jim Lyons: 1960 - 2007
March
2007
Reviews: "Color Me Kubrick" and "Pride"
Now and Zen and an Imperial Adventure
The Critics and Antonioni
Favorite Artists at the SFIAAFF
The SF International's GreenWorld contest turns a big issue over to the makers of shorts
Video-Diary Pioneer Spencer Nakasako
Grace Lee on the Zombie in You and Me
Phillip Haas on "The Situation"
February
2007
15 Minutes of YouTube
The Eye Candy of 'Tears of the Black Tiger'
"Iraq in Fragments, "The Lives of Others"
"Alternative Visions" at the PFA
Reviews: "Family Law"; "Amazing Grace"
The Countercultures of "Commune"
Reviews: "Black Snake Moan"; "Cinemachismo"
'Seraphim Falls': Myth in the Western Canon
The Other Side of Indie at SF Indiefest's 9th
S.F. International Asian American Announces '07 Program
Film Arts Foundation's 'Bay Area Film Festivals'
A Royal Family
Cheryl Eddy, Behind the New "SF360 Movie Scene"
Von Donnersmarck's Oscar-nominated "The Lives of Others"
The Red Vic Movie House's Top 5
Rory Kennedy and 'The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib'
Michael Arndt, Little Mr. Sunshine
Food, Funding
'The Departed' Wins Best Picture, Scorsese Best Director at 79th Oscars
Signs of the Zodiac
January
2007
The Breno Mello of "Black Orpheus"
A "Backstage" Breakdown
"Absolute Wilson"; "Army of Shadows"
A Chilean Top Four
"Samoan Wedding"; "Romantico"
"The Lubitsch Touch"
Lynn Hershman Leeson and "Strange Culture"
Berlin & Beyond 2007
Indiefest Lineup Announcement
Key Events of 50th SFIFF Announced at Sundance
Noir City5, Fun with Dicks and Janes
A Superdance and a Superbowl
Tom Tykwer and the scent of a serial killer
Mark Becker's Mission-Inspired "Romantico"
December
2006
Cheryl Eddy's Badder Santas
Nathaniel Dorsky's Secret World
"Radical Closure" at the PFA
Written and Directed by Preston Sturges
"Candy" keeps up with the Joneses
I, Spy
James Broughton, and a DVD Eden
A Whole Lotta Holiday Film
SF to Sundance
2006, The Remix
"Man Push Cart" Director's New York-by-Way-of-Pakistan Story
Frank Lee on 4 Star Theatre's Second Life
James T. Hong on Heidegger, Hitler, and His New Film
SF Film Critics Circle Announces Awards
The Cities' Critics Speak
November
2006
The Mafia Doc "Excellent Cadavers"
More Made Men
Reopening "Pandora's Box"
50 Years of Janus Films
KQED's Wild West in "Truly CA"
Music Videos At the Museum
Teshigahara at The Castro
Otto Motives, A Preminger Perspective
Truman Capote , 1974
Cinema, New Italian Style
Second Look at 3rd I
A Cinequest 35
51 Birch Street, Revisited
A Marc Huestis Presents 20
Mary Badham, On a "Mockingbird" Mission
InDplay and The New Art of Film Distribution
Killing My Lobster Gets Krunk With Andrew Bancroft
Robert Altman 1925-2006
Adrian Belic Goes 'Beyond the Call'
A Word From Our Sponsored Films
Case Studies in Indie Distribution at Digimart
October
2006
Fighting for Freedom: Exploring Vachon's "Killer Life"
A War Movie Lost to Time
City Poet Bruce Baillie Returns
Found: 'Marie Antoinette' in Paris
Things You May or May Not Know About Miranda July
A U.N. Ten
Stand Up, Be Counted: Grassroots Docs Warn of Electronic Voting
Mill Valley Film Festival 2006
Dog Day Afternoon in the Castro
San Francisco International Animation Showcase
John Cameron Mitchell's long "Shortbus" ride
"One Man Band," two Pixar geniuses, and "The Iron Giant" revisited
Joseph McBride: All is Welles
Poetic Terrorism and Wholphin #2
Amy Berg's "Deliver Us From Evil"
Crossing That Bridge
Stanley Nelson on the Jonestown Tragedy
Arnold On the Auction Block
Roxie, The Vote
September
2006
Gallery on Demand
Peter Whitehead's '60s
Another Other Cinema, Now on DVD
The "remake," re-made
Jack Stevenson's vault of vice
Two Wheels, Five Films
Telluride Film Festival 2006
Arab Film Festival 2006
Ariella Ben-Dov on View-Mastery and "Women's Work"
Mill Valley Film Festival 2006 Announcement
Global Lens 2006
Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema 2006
David Thomson on Nicole Kidman
MPAA in Sights of This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre on Border Life
Opening "Red Doors" in Asian American Family
Ian Inaba on Stolen and Influenced Elections
Indie Distributors Strategize for Fall 2006 Releases
Voting Protection-Related Sites
Netflix 101, a Dispatch from IFP's Filmmaker Conference
August
2006
Francois Ozon, Mortal
All About Eva
Sweet "Quinceañera" vs. MTV's greedy "My Super Sweet 16"
"Seventeen" Might be Greatest Movie Ever About Teenagers: 17 Reasons Why
Bukowski By the Bunch
Pacific Film Archive's "A Theater Near You"
ZeroOne Through Ten
A Tale of Two Shorts Festivals
Academy Grant Jump Starts SF International's 50th
Fall 2006 Festival Season
Netflix Rolling Roadshow: Return to Alcatraz
Amos Gitai's Reality
Mary Woronov Visits Midnight Mass
Stephen Parr In the Home-Movie Archives
Keith Fulton and "Brothers of the Head"
Night Listening with Patrick Stettner
TurnHere's Travel Videos
Ryan Fleck: Wrestling with 'Half Nelson'
Naut Humon, Recombinant Media Labs Explore Limits of Sight, Sound
Laura Poitras" "My Country, My Country"
Morpho Power at SIGGRAPH
Current TV and the Audience as Auteur
July
2006
Celebrating "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"
Visconti's Signature Features
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Overview of the S.F. Jewish Film Festival
Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer, from the Salton Sea to San Francisco
SFMOMA Curator on Matthew Barney
Tracy Flannigan Watches Tribe 8 "Rise Above"
Larry Clark's New Kids on the Block
Best of Balboa
Car Talk with Chris Paine
Patsy Desmond, Survivor on Screen
25 Years of Sundance at the CFI's Rafael
Filmmaking in 48 Hours
Preteens on Surprise Endings
Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga on the Weight of Words
A Documentary on Peru's Terror War
Adrian Belic and Just Think Youth Media Educators
Hip Hop Cinema
June
2006
"Songbirds" New Tune
"An Inconvenient Truth" Strikes a Nerve
"Kees Kino: The Film Work of Weldon Kees"
"Broken Sky" and "Two Drifters" at the San Francisco LGBT Film Festival
Bay Area Filmmakers at SF International LGBT Film Festival
Army of Shadows and France's Soul
We Want Our "Dykeback Mountain"
Would Football By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet?
Zack Bazzi, War Correspondent
Rare Horror
The San Francisco Black Film Festival
San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
Critic's Notebook, Frameline30
Jesse Ficks and "Midnites for Maniacs"
Marc Huestis and a Wrinkle in Time
The Outsiders
Benjamin Morgan's "Quality of Life" out on DVD
Matthew Barney, "Drawing Restraint"
By the Numbers -- The Making of "Colma: The Musical"
Mat Whitecross and the Rough "Road to Guantanamo"
Zero Hour
May
2006
Kidlat Tahimik's "Perfumed Nightmare" Remains an Unlikely Masterpiece
Showstopping Filmmakers Rodney Ascher and Syd Garon
Four Performers on Getting "Fired!"
Ten Near Masterpieces Rescued from the Dustbin
Words on work with Michael Glawogger
San Francisco International Film Festival, Week Two
Addictive TV's VJ-style "Eye of the Pilot" at the Kabuki
Tilda Swinton: The 2006 SFIFF "State of Cinema" Address
San Francisco International Film Festival's Award Winners
Werner Herzog, Setting the Record Straight
Docfest: Not to Be Believed?
24 Reasons Why
Creative Offerings at the Icelandic Film Festival
Frameline's 30th San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
2006 San Francisco International Arts Festival
Terry Zwigoff, "Confidential" and Uncensored
A Writer and Filmmaker Bring "Alice" to the Screen
One Screen, Three San Francisco Cinephiles
Filmmaker William Farley's Peripheral Vision
New Executive Director of S.F. Cinematheque on Experimental Film
A Conversation with Farmer John (Peterson)
Dominic Angerame on Making "Consume"
April
2006
"Reel SF" Finds a Tough, Moody Kinda Town
Masharawi Finds Palestinians In States of Suspended Animation
'Hot Fuzz' a Cheeky Riposte to H-wood
Cinephiles and Oenophiles: Sommelier Pairings for Sonoma Valley Fest
International REMIX
Graham Leggat, SFIFF Executive Director, Indexed
Unleash the Blogs
From Here to Iberia at SFIFF
The Revolution Will Be Digitized?
Unleash the Blogs, II
Zahedi and Field on I Am a Sex Addict
Happiness Is...Finding a Film Club? Adam Werbach Riffs
Totally, Tenderly 20th-Century: Lopate Curates Critics
"Full Grown Men" On the Road
Tommy Pallotta's Reanimation of "A Scanner Darkly"
Andy Lau, The Magic Man
Choose Your Words
Sam Green's Tour Through "Lot 63, Grave C"
Five Moments on Market Street, 1905-2006
March
2006
Tehran Contemporary Art Exhibit On Tour
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: More Than "Watching"
Tiburon Film Festival Turns a Tourist Town Around
A Talk with SFIAAFF Directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto
Shigeta's Presence at the SFIAAFF
Transnational Tales at This Year's SFIAAFF
Future Stars of SFIAAFF
49th Annual SFIFF Lineup
Noise Pop: The Movie
Picks for the San Francisco International Film Festival
David Kipen Posits New Auteur Theory
The Roxie, Resurrected
Interview With Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker
Public Defender Jeff Adachi Adds Filmmaker to Resume
Cambodian Americans Exiled in New Film, Sentenced Home
Filmmaker Ham Tran Rights an Historical Wrong
Nothing and Everything Sacred in Reygadas' Films
Measuring Cities By Their Taste in Film
Garrett Scott, Filmmaker, 1968-2006
A JT LeRoy Reader
Sundance Cinemas Buys Kabuki 8
Chuck Stephens on the Set of "Citizen Dog"
February
2006
Leacock-Pennebaker Tribute at SF State's Documentary Film Institute