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News & Blogs
Thompson on Hollywood: "Film Independent Names Lab Participants, Sloan Award Winners"
Oct 24, 2011"After their weekend-long Film Independent Forum," reports Sophia Savage, "FIND announced eleven filmmakers and nine projects for their 11th annual Producers Lab, and named Brent Hoff and Malcom Pullinger the winners of the 5th annual $25,000 Sloan Producers Grant." More at indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood.
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Home
'Vigilante, Vigilante' Opens Can of Worms
Michael Fox
Aug 18, 2011Filmmakers find themselves outside the 'buffer' zone as film about graffiti-abaters hits local screens, and streets. Editor's note: Vigilante, Vigilante: The Battle for Expression, a Bay Area-made film on graffiti "abatement," opened with a clamor last weekend at the Roxie, as San Francisco's Department of Public Works made an issue of cleaning up the film's street-art advertising campaign. The filmmakers responded that they've asked that their materials not be posted illegally, but that hasn't stopped DPW requesting them to cease and desist attracting audiences via wheatpaste. What follows is sf360.org's interview...
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News & Blogs
'Vigilante, Vigilante' Opens Can of Worms
Michael Fox
Aug 18, 2011Filmmakers find themselves outside the 'buffer' zone as film about graffiti-abaters hits local screens, and streets. Editor's note: Vigilante, Vigilante: The Battle for Expression, a Bay Area-made film on graffiti "abatement," opened with a clamor last weekend at the Roxie, as San Francisco's Department of Public Works made an issue of cleaning up the film's street-art advertising campaign. The filmmakers responded that they've asked that their materials not be posted illegally, but that hasn't stopped DPW requesting them to cease and desist attracting audiences via wheatpaste. What follows is sf360.org's interview...
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News & Blogs
LA Times: "Mexican Movie Is 'Censored'"
Mar 3, 2011Los Angeles Times: "The documentary “Presumed Guilty” (“Presunto Culpable”) has received accolades far and wide, from human rights groups, audiences and Mexican legislators. It is a damning look at the Mexican judicial system that hastens to put a man in prison on the flimsiest of evidence," writes Tracey Wilkinson. More at latimes.com.
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News & Blogs
LA Times: "Oscars: 'Inside Job' Wins for Documentary Feature"
Feb 27, 2011LA Times Blogs: "Inside Job” won the Oscar for documentary feature at the 83rd Academy Awards on Sunday night. “Inside Job” is an exploration of the causes and corollaries of the 2008 financial crisis. The award goes to Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs." More at latimesblogs.latimes.com. And from SF360.org: Bay Area-based Ferguson's speech began with a statement of fact, "After financial fraud not a single financial executive has gone to jail," before thanking his colleagues.
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Home
VCinema Podcast Finds Its Audience
Adam Hartzell
Jan 10, 2011An Asian cinema talk-radio show broadcasts from San Mateo to the world.
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January 13, 2011
VCinema Podcast Finds Its Audience
Adam Hartzell
Jan 10, 2011An Asian cinema talk-radio show broadcasts from San Mateo to the world.
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Q & A
VCinema Podcast Finds Its Audience
Adam Hartzell
Jan 10, 2011An Asian cinema talk-radio show broadcasts from San Mateo to the world.
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Reviews
'Typeface' Makes Art of a Lost Craft
Adam Hartzell
May 14, 2010Gary Hustwit s Helvetica turned a font into a fascination, and Justine Nagan's Typeface takes the topic of type one step further by moving into the past.
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Festivals
SF International Asian American Film Festival's Archival Tour
Adam Hartzell
Mar 19, 2010A theme that emerged in this year s SFIAFF was the importance of archives in the film world.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Elizabeth Duran
Hilary Hart
Jan 28, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Jesse Dubus
Hilary Hart
Jan 28, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Duc Bieu Pham
Hilary Hart
Jan 28, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Michael Lyons
Hilary Hart
Jan 28, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Jon Ho
Hilary Hart
Jan 28, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Jennie-Marie Adler
Hilary Hart
Jan 28, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Ilya Tovbis
Hilary Hart
Jan 28, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Ashley Soares
Hilary Hart
Jan 28, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Krissy Bailey
Hilary Hart
Jan 27, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Natalie Mulford
Hilary Hart
Jan 27, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Robyn Arville
Hilary Hart
Jan 27, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Landon Zakheim
Hilary Hart
Jan 21, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Reviews
Citizen Critics' New Outlets, Challenges in 2009
Adam Hartzell
Jan 2, 2010The silver lining to a decade that saw traditional critics in conventional media dwindle? The explosion of socially networked citizen critics.
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Funding
Are Your "Friends" Worthless?
Holly Million
Jul 13, 2009Fear-Free Fundraising: Are Your "Friends" Worthless?
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Q & A
Lawrence Jordan: to Infinity and Beyond
Sean Uyehara
Jun 1, 2009Leading light of avant-garde cinema Lawrence Jordan speaks on the occasion of his Gallery Extraña show and his 75th birthday.
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Festivals
SFIFF52 Blogs: Keeping Scores
Marc Capelle
May 11, 2009Marc Capelle's ode to Westerns and Buddy films as well as noteworthy festival scores.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Dinosaurs, Disease, and Delirium
Robert Avila
May 7, 2009The Lost World, the 1925 silent fantasy
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Cataloguing California
Jennifer Preissel
May 4, 2009California Company Town, blends the sights and sounds of the state's economically depressed towns, industrial wastelands and failed utopian communities.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Coppola & Lucas at the Castro
Dennis Harvey
May 3, 2009An Evening with Francis Ford Coppola & Friends honored Coppola with the Founder Directing Award and included a moderated discussion with editing/sound design genius Walter Murch, director Carroll Ballard, scenarist-turned-director Matthew Robbins, and George Lucas.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Wilkerson's Proving Strong
David Winks Gray
May 2, 2009On May Day Eve, Travis Wilkerson performed Proving Ground, probably the first multimedia Leninist rant to have ever graced the Sundance Kabuki.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Five Reasons why SF Loves Coppola
Justin Juul
May 1, 2009The San Francisco Film Society awarded Francis Ford Coppola the Founder & Directing Award this week. Justin Juul offers us five reasons why San Francisco loves Coppola.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Portillo's 'Al Más Allá'
David Winks Gray
Apr 29, 2009Lourdes Portillo's partly autobiographical documentary Al Más Allá draws a laugh from the San Francisco International Film Festival crowd.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Mission, Midnight and Under the Influence
Marc Capelle
Apr 28, 2009Marc Capelle meets and greets with actress Gena Rowlands, composer Bo Harwood and other film mavens and mavericks at a post-screening party for Cassavette's A Woman Under the Influence and the Mission Awards
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Reviews
Sundance Blogs: 'Everything Strange and New' and 'La Mission'
Susan Gerhard
Jan 22, 2009Susan Gerhard blogs on what is strange and new about watching movies in these particular mountains.
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Reviews
Sundance Blogs: 'Everything Strange and New' and 'La Mission'
Susan Gerhard
Jan 22, 2009Susan Gerhard blogs on what is strange and new about watching movies in these particular mountains.
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Festivals
Sundance Blog: Urban Hiker's Guide
Susan Gerhard
Jan 20, 2009Susan Gerhard reports on film and physique highlights at Sundance 2009.
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Festivals
Sundance Blog: Midnight at the Egyptian
Hilary Hart
Jan 18, 2009Hilary Hart blogs her 14th year at Sundance, back on the midnight shift at the Egyptian Theatre.
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News & Blogs
Unresolutions of 2009
Hannah Eaves
Jan 9, 2009Certain questions in 2008 endlessly plagued the film world, leading to outlandish predictions, flame-war mayhem and an outbreak of opinionated public speaking.
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Digital
SWAG: Free Feature Films On the Web
Hannah Eaves
Sep 26, 2008The Sixth Screen: Here are some browser-based legal zones for free online feature film viewing pleasure. No installation required.
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Festivals
Nights on the Towne: Film Society Awards Night
Susan Gerhard
May 4, 2008You know a festival is working its way into your brain when, in a landscape of intersecting ideas, you begin to witness the collisions.
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News & Blogs
Signs of the Zodiac
Susan Gerhard
Feb 28, 2007As this week's blanket coverage of David Fincher's Zodiac shows, it's axiomatic that nothing intrigues San Franciscans more than San Francisco. And why not?
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Festivals
A Superdance and a Superbowl
Susan Gerhard
Jan 31, 2007Wrapping up Sundance Ô07, with the NFL's big game as the best metaphor to describe the annual festival.
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Reviews
A Chilean Top Four
Miljenko Skoknic
Jan 12, 2007Miljenko Skoknic's list of favorites in Chilean Cinema.
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Q & A
TurnHere's Travel Videos
Susan Gerhard
Aug 18, 2006There's one resource on the Net where some of the best travel videos have congregated, the Emervyille company aptly named TurnHere.
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Reviews
All About Eva
Susan Gerhard
Aug 11, 2006The List: Ten faves from Eva Sollberger's YouTube series, The Deadbeat Club, which revisits the decade she spent working in the Bay Area film community.
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Festivals
Unleash the Blogs, II
Susan Gerhard
Apr 30, 2006Is it possible that Big Tilda in the real is bigger than Lucy Gray's larger-than-life projections of her onto City Hall?
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Festivals
Unleash the Blogs, II
Susan Gerhard
Apr 30, 2006Is it possible that Big Tilda in the real is bigger than Lucy Gray's larger-than-life projections of her onto City Hall?
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Festivals
Unleash the Blogs
Susan Gerhard
Apr 23, 2006The S.F. International Film Festival opened the gates this year to an accredited citizen press corps of bloggers and vloggers.
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Festivals
Unleash the Blogs
Susan Gerhard
Apr 23, 2006The S.F. International Film Festival opened the gates this year to an accredited citizen press corps of bloggers and vloggers.
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