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Essential SF: Susan Gerhard
Johnny Ray Huston
Nov 2, 2011

Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.
Essential SF: Joshua Grannell
Johnny Ray Huston
Nov 1, 2011

Since its first event in 1998, Midnight Mass has become an SF institution, and Peaches Christ, well, she's its peerless warden and cult leader.
Essential SF: Karen Larsen
Michael Fox
Oct 31, 2011

Universally warm sentiment is attached to the Bay Area's hardest working indie/art film publicist.
Essential SF: Canyon Cinema
Michael Fox
Oct 26, 2011

For 50 years, Canyon Cinema has provided crucial support for a fertile avant-garde film scene.
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011

Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
Graham Leggat and the Art of Engagement
Peter Coyote
Oct 5, 2011

In the illusory world of what we call ‘real life’, our beloved friend Graham pursued his practice of keeping his attention fixed firmly on 'the screen.'
Radical Light: ‘Movie Factory’
George Kuchar
Sep 7, 2011

As an appreciation of George Kuchar's inspired presence, we offer up the filmmaker in his own words, excerpted from 'Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000.'
Graham Leggat and a Film Society Transformed
Susan Gerhard
Aug 26, 2011

Leggat’s eventful six-year tenure with the San Francisco Film Society changed an institution as well as the filmmaking landscape in the Bay Area and beyond.
Essential SF: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Aug 23, 2011

Lynn Hershman Leeson catalogues revolutions past and pushes the art and technology envelope well into the future.
'Between Two Worlds' Places Politics of Speech in Spotlight
B. Ruby Rich
Aug 5, 2011

Filmmakers take personal approach to Jewish cultural debates.
Essential SF: ‘Freedom On My Mind,’ ‘The Good War’
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2011

The best of the Bay Area's historical docs transform our understanding of previous eras, and, consequently, our own.
Generator Everything
Bruce Sterling
Jul 21, 2011

'If Marius Watz programmed it, then it's going to be vivid. It's going to be crisp, spiky and angular. It will be fast, bright and noisy. And there's going to be a whole, whole lot of it.'
Essential SF: ‘North Beach,’ ‘Medicine For Melancholy’
Michael Fox
Jul 20, 2011

Two Bay Area location-based features that speak to the moment are poised to stand the test of time.
Essential SF: 'Holy Ghost People,' 'Samsara'
Michael Fox
Jul 13, 2011

SF filmmakers Peter Adair and Ellen Bruno created classics on religious intensity.
Essential SF: ‘Off the Charts,’ ‘Double Dare’
Michael Fox
Jul 7, 2011

Surprising characters, narratives emerge in Jamie Meltzer and Amanda Micheli’s portraits of unlikely artists.
Beg For Your Life: In the Well with Laurel Nakadate
Mary Gaitskill
Feb 24, 2011

On the amoral goodness of nature, shapelessly shaped things and the hereness of bodies.
Film 2010: Think Globally, View Locally
Adam Hartzell
Dec 20, 2010

Why one local cineaste has made a resolution to support his local theater, the Bridge.
Essential SF: Anne McGuire
Sean Uyehara
Dec 6, 2010

San Francisco has not quite been the same since it began experiencing the cinema/performance antics of an uncontainable Anne McGuire.
Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Steve Anker
Nov 19, 2010

Pacific Film Archive offers the second of three excerpts from its monumental work, 'Radical Light.'
Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010

Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
Film Arts: How Cinema Was Born by the Bay
Margarita Landazuri
Oct 26, 2010

With Eadweard Muybridge's motion experiments and Niles Essanay's early productions, the San Francisco Bay Area brought the silent film to life.
Essential SF: 'Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter,' 'Paulina,' 'First Person Plural'
Michael Fox
Oct 6, 2010

The Bay Area's best first-person documentaries take us through a lens, darkly.
Essential SF: 'Chan Is Missing,' 'Thousand Pieces of Gold,' 'Heat and Sunlight'
Michael Fox
Sep 28, 2010

San Francisco narrative filmmakers offer nuanced visions of their city.
Radical Light: 'Image Dissectors'
Rebecca Solnit
Sep 17, 2010

Pacific Film Archive offers the first of three excerpts from its monumental new book, 'Radical Light.'
Media Pulse: The Closed Net Threat
Sara Dosa
Aug 4, 2010

The looming prospect of a two-tiered internet may compromise the ability of independent filmmakers to fund, exhibit and distribute their films.
Essential SF: 'Berkeley in the Sixties,' 'Brother Outsider,' 'Weather Underground'
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2010

Three Bay Area documentaries correct the historical record.
Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'
Michael Fox
Jul 23, 2010

Three films document essential chunks of San Francisco's tragic and mythic past, told in empathetic but non-hagiographic testimony.
Media Pulse: A Crude Interpretation of the Law
Jennifer Preissel
Jul 1, 2010

Jennifer Preissel examines the film and the court case that could redefine a journalist’s protection under First Amendment rights.
Dialogues: Gary Snyder on Art, Anarchy and the Environment
Robert Avila
May 3, 2010

Poet, essayist, environmentalist, Buddhist, public intellectual and teacher Gary Snyder speaks on life and the making of 'The Practice of the Wild.'
Dialogues: Jim Harrison on Poetry, Documentary
Robert Avila
Apr 23, 2010

Writer Jim Harrison offers thoughts about his relationship to Gary Snyder and his contributions to 'The Practice of the Wild.'