• July 12, 2011
  
  

  Silent Film Festival

  Jul 14, 2011

  The SF institution returns to the Castro Theatre with 18 rediscovered films and live musical accompaniment. Highlights include a collection of Disney's Laugh-O-Grams, a travelogue of an expedition to the Antarctic and a film once cited as "the single greatest masterwork in the history of cinema" by stately film journal Cahiers du Cinema. More info castrotheatre.com.

  
• April 28, 2011
  
  

  Tindersticks Fuel the Claire Denis Film Fire

  Dennis Harvey
  Apr 26, 2011

  A soundtrack staple in the Denis oeuvre, Tindersticks play their beautifully brooding music live to clips at SFIFF54.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  Tindersticks Fuel the Claire Denis Film Fire

  Dennis Harvey
  Apr 26, 2011

  A soundtrack staple in the Denis oeuvre, Tindersticks play their beautifully brooding music live to clips at SFIFF54.

  
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  Tindersticks Fuel the Claire Denis Film Fire

  Dennis Harvey
  Apr 26, 2011

  A soundtrack staple in the Denis oeuvre, Tindersticks play their beautifully brooding music live to clips at SFIFF54.

  
• News & Blogs
  
  

  SFIFF Presents Midnight Award to Clifton Collins, Jr., Zoe Saldana

  Apr 16, 2011

  The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21 - May 5) announced that Clifton Collins Jr. will be honored at the fourth Midnight Awards, 10:30 pm, Saturday, April 23 at the W San Francisco. The Midnight Awards takes the form of a late night talk show, hosted by Beth Lisick, New York Times best-selling author and coorganizer of the Porchlight Storytelling Series, with live musical accompaniment by the Darren Johnston Trio. Lisick will interview Collins and his previously announced Midnight Award corecipient Zoe Saldana. Clips of their work will be shown prior to the presentation of the awards. More at fest11.sffs.org.

  
• April 14, 2011
  
  

  'Sleeping Ember' Reignites

  Matt Sussman
  Apr 14, 2011

  A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.

  
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  'Sleeping Ember' Reignites

  Matt Sussman
  Apr 14, 2011

  A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  'Sleeping Ember' Reignites

  Matt Sussman
  Apr 14, 2011

  A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.

  
• March 1, 2011
  
  

  Balboa Birthday Bash: Rare Valentino

  Mar 6, 2011

  The Balboa Theatre celebrates its 81st year with a rare early film of Rudolph Valentino, ‘Moran of the Lady Letty,’ lensed here in San Francisco and Tiburon. The evening includes short-subject films, live accompaniment and performance, your own take on Jazz Age attire, and, of course, birthday cake. More at balboamovies.com.

  
• December 9, 2010
  
  

  Stiller's 'Sir Arne's Treasure' Brought Back to Life, Musically

  Dennis Harvey
  Dec 10, 2010

  The Mountain Goats offer an original score for Mauritz Stiller's rambunctious adventure-turned tragedy/morality tale of 1919.

  
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  Stiller's 'Sir Arne's Treasure' Brought Back to Life, Musically

  Dennis Harvey
  Dec 10, 2010

  The Mountain Goats offer an original score for Mauritz Stiller's rambunctious adventure-turned tragedy/morality tale of 1919.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Stiller's 'Sir Arne's Treasure' Brought Back to Life, Musically

  Dennis Harvey
  Dec 10, 2010

  The Mountain Goats offer an original score for Mauritz Stiller's rambunctious adventure-turned tragedy/morality tale of 1919.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Seiji Horibuchi on VIZ Cinema

  Michael Fox
  Aug 8, 2009

  Seiji Horibuchi, founder and chairman of VIZ Media, speaks about VIZ Cinema, a built-from-scratch venue located in the New People building in Japantown.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Seiji Horibuchi on VIZ Cinema

  Michael Fox
  Aug 8, 2009

  Seiji Horibuchi, founder and chairman of VIZ Media, speaks about VIZ Cinema, a built-from-scratch venue located in the New People building in Japantown.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  San Francisco Silent Film Festival Winter Event

  Jonathan Kiefer
  Feb 12, 2009

  The S.F. Silent Film Festival's Winter Event allows you to spend hours in the dark with the madcap movie entertainments of 80-plus years ago.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Sean Uyehara Talks S.F. International Animation Festival

  Eve O'Neil
  Nov 7, 2007

  SFFS programmer Sean Uyehara gives some perspective on the shifting dimensions of animated filmmaking.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  Live from Fog City

  Dennis Harvey
  May 9, 2007

  While the SF International Film Festival has always had celebrity guests, the 50th edition featured a particular concentration of unique one-offs.