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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.

  • In Depth

    Essential SF: Susan Gerhard

    Johnny Ray Huston
    Nov 2, 2011

    Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.

  • November 3, 2011

    Essential SF: Susan Gerhard

    Johnny Ray Huston
    Nov 2, 2011

    Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.

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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.

  • In Depth

    Essential SF: Susan Gerhard

    Johnny Ray Huston
    Nov 2, 2011

    Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.

  • November 3, 2011

    Essential SF: Susan Gerhard

    Johnny Ray Huston
    Nov 2, 2011

    Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.

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    Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember

    Susan Gerhard
    Aug 30, 2011

    When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.

  • News & Blogs

    Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember

    Susan Gerhard
    Aug 30, 2011

    When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.

  • September 1, 2011

    Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember

    Susan Gerhard
    Aug 30, 2011

    When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.

  • August 18, 2011

    ‘The Arbor’s’ ‘Verbatim Theatre’ Approach Strikes Chord

    Dennis Harvey
    Aug 16, 2011

    Clio Barnard's ‘The Arbor’ takes a fascinating and unconventional look at Andrea Dunbar's brief, brilliant career.

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    ‘The Arbor’s’ ‘Verbatim Theatre’ Approach Strikes Chord

    Dennis Harvey
    Aug 16, 2011

    Clio Barnard's ‘The Arbor’ takes a fascinating and unconventional look at Andrea Dunbar's brief, brilliant career.

  • Reviews

    ‘The Arbor’s’ ‘Verbatim Theatre’ Approach Strikes Chord

    Dennis Harvey
    Aug 16, 2011

    Clio Barnard's ‘The Arbor’ takes a fascinating and unconventional look at Andrea Dunbar's brief, brilliant career.

  • August 11, 2011

    Miranda July Throws Cautionary Tale to the Wind with ‘The Future’

    Sean Uyehara
    Aug 8, 2011

    The filmmaker talks about time, life, storytelling and her new film, ‘The Future.’

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    Miranda July Throws Cautionary Tale to the Wind with ‘The Future’

    Sean Uyehara
    Aug 8, 2011

    The filmmaker talks about time, life, storytelling and her new film, ‘The Future.’

  • Q & A

    Miranda July Throws Cautionary Tale to the Wind with ‘The Future’

    Sean Uyehara
    Aug 8, 2011

    The filmmaker talks about time, life, storytelling and her new film, ‘The Future.’

  • August 4, 2011

    In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'

    Jackson Scarlett
    Aug 2, 2011

    Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.

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    In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'

    Jackson Scarlett
    Aug 2, 2011

    Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.

  • Reviews

    In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'

    Jackson Scarlett
    Aug 2, 2011

    Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.

  • August 4, 2011

    In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'

    Jackson Scarlett
    Aug 2, 2011

    Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.

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    In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'

    Jackson Scarlett
    Aug 2, 2011

    Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.

  • Reviews

    In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'

    Jackson Scarlett
    Aug 2, 2011

    Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.

  • July 26, 2011

    'World on a Wire'

    Jul 29, 2011

    Recently rescued from obscurity via a new digital master, Fassbinder's high concept/high reward 1973 science-fiction epic 'World On A Wire' made a big impression on critics and viewers when it screened at SFIFF this past year. Roxie screens this wildly prescient, highly satisfying three-and-a-half-hour masterpiece beginning Friday. More info at roxie.com.

  • June 14, 2011

    'These Amazing Shadows'

    Jun 19, 2011

    Directors Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton inspect the treasures held in the Library of Congress' revered National Film Registry and consider their lasting impact on the American experience. The locally made doc features insightful interviews with prominent celebrities and critics. Both filmmakers will be present for Q&A after screening at Smith Rafael Film Center. More at cafilm.org.

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    YBCA Revisits Vintage Erotica

    Dennis Harvey
    May 19, 2011

    YBCA uncorks another era's eros.

  • May 19, 2011

    YBCA Revisits Vintage Erotica

    Dennis Harvey
    May 19, 2011

    YBCA uncorks another era's eros.

  • Reviews

    YBCA Revisits Vintage Erotica

    Dennis Harvey
    May 19, 2011

    YBCA uncorks another era's eros.

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    Bold Moves, Peril Define Great Third Acts

    Lisa Rosenberg
    May 10, 2011

    The best advice for creating the perfect Act III? Surprise yourself.

  • May 12, 2011

    Bold Moves, Peril Define Great Third Acts

    Lisa Rosenberg
    May 10, 2011

    The best advice for creating the perfect Act III? Surprise yourself.

  • Screenwriting

    Bold Moves, Peril Define Great Third Acts

    Lisa Rosenberg
    May 10, 2011

    The best advice for creating the perfect Act III? Surprise yourself.

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    Gifts My Mother Gave Me

    Michael Guillen
    May 8, 2011

    Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.

  • May 12, 2011

    Gifts My Mother Gave Me

    Michael Guillen
    May 8, 2011

    Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.

  • Q & A

    Gifts My Mother Gave Me

    Michael Guillen
    May 8, 2011

    Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.

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    Gifts My Mother Gave Me

    Michael Guillen
    May 8, 2011

    Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.

  • May 12, 2011

    Gifts My Mother Gave Me

    Michael Guillen
    May 8, 2011

    Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.

  • Q & A

    Gifts My Mother Gave Me

    Michael Guillen
    May 8, 2011

    Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.

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    The Unsinkable Joel Hodgson Floats New Show

    Damon O'Donnell
    May 6, 2011

    Mystery Science Theater returns to the Castro in the form of ‘Cinematic Titanic.’ Fans rejoice.

  • May 12, 2011

    The Unsinkable Joel Hodgson Floats New Show

    Damon O'Donnell
    May 6, 2011

    Mystery Science Theater returns to the Castro in the form of ‘Cinematic Titanic.’ Fans rejoice.

  • Q & A

    The Unsinkable Joel Hodgson Floats New Show

    Damon O'Donnell
    May 6, 2011

    Mystery Science Theater returns to the Castro in the form of ‘Cinematic Titanic.’ Fans rejoice.

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    SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced

    Susan Gerhard
    May 5, 2011

    Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...

  • May 5, 2011

    SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced

    Susan Gerhard
    May 5, 2011

    Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...

  • Festivals

    Unrestrained at SFIFF54, Barney Offers Live Insight

    Robert Avila
    May 2, 2011

    Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.

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    Unrestrained at SFIFF54, Barney Offers Live Insight

    Robert Avila
    May 2, 2011

    Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.

  • May 5, 2011

    Unrestrained at SFIFF54, Barney Offers Live Insight

    Robert Avila
    May 2, 2011

    Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.

  • April 28, 2011

    SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV

    Carmen Winant
    Apr 30, 2011

    In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.

  • Festivals

    SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV

    Carmen Winant
    Apr 30, 2011

    In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.

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    SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV

    Carmen Winant
    Apr 30, 2011

    In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.

  • april 22 2011

    Looking for the Moral with Bill Nichols

    Michael Fox
    Apr 20, 2011

    Social-justice filmmaking gets discussed in a Bill Nichols'-moderated salon during SFIFF.

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    Looking for the Moral with Bill Nichols

    Michael Fox
    Apr 20, 2011

    Social-justice filmmaking gets discussed in a Bill Nichols'-moderated salon during SFIFF.

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    Looking for the Moral with Bill Nichols

    Michael Fox
    Apr 20, 2011

    Social-justice filmmaking gets discussed in a Bill Nichols'-moderated salon during SFIFF.

  • April 14, 2011

    Getting Behind 'Bill Cunningham'

    Susan Gerhard
    Apr 8, 2011

    Richard Press and Philip Gefter pay tribute to a worker's devotion in making 'Bill Cunningham New York.'

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    Getting Behind 'Bill Cunningham'

    Susan Gerhard
    Apr 8, 2011

    Richard Press and Philip Gefter pay tribute to a worker's devotion in making 'Bill Cunningham New York.'

  • Q & A

    Getting Behind 'Bill Cunningham'

    Susan Gerhard
    Apr 8, 2011

    Richard Press and Philip Gefter pay tribute to a worker's devotion in making 'Bill Cunningham New York.'

  • April 7, 2011

    Kehr Recalls ‘When Movies Mattered’

    Michael Fox
    Apr 4, 2011

    A collection of Dave Kehr's analytical, entertaining pieces from 30-plus years ago offers critical enlightenment for a short-form era.

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    Kehr Recalls ‘When Movies Mattered’

    Michael Fox
    Apr 4, 2011

    A collection of Dave Kehr's analytical, entertaining pieces from 30-plus years ago offers critical enlightenment for a short-form era.

  • Reviews

    Kehr Recalls ‘When Movies Mattered’

    Michael Fox
    Apr 4, 2011

    A collection of Dave Kehr's analytical, entertaining pieces from 30-plus years ago offers critical enlightenment for a short-form era.

  • 03.31.11

    SFMOMA's Muybridge Experiments with Time, Space

    Max Goldberg
    Mar 31, 2011

    SFMOMA's Eadweard Muybridge exhibit is essential viewing for Bay Area film lovers. More than 150 years after Eadweard Muybridge set up shop on Montgomery Street, San Francisco Museum Modern Art is featuring a splendid retrospective of the photographer’s work just a few blocks away. A tireless self-promoter with chutzpah enough to adapt “Helios” as a nom de plume early in his career (this after already having left “Muggeridge” behind in England), Muybridge would surely have been pleased by this showcase. From A Trip Down Market Street

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    SFMOMA's Muybridge Experiments with Time, Space

    Max Goldberg
    Mar 31, 2011

    SFMOMA's Eadweard Muybridge exhibit is essential viewing for Bay Area film lovers. More than 150 years after Eadweard Muybridge set up shop on Montgomery Street, San Francisco Museum Modern Art is featuring a splendid retrospective of the photographer’s work just a few blocks away. A tireless self-promoter with chutzpah enough to adapt “Helios” as a nom de plume early in his career (this after already having left “Muggeridge” behind in England), Muybridge would surely have been pleased by this showcase. From A Trip Down Market Street

  • February 24, 2011

    Nakadate’s Fever Dreams Heat the Screen

    Sean Uyehara
    Feb 23, 2011

    Filmmaker/photographer Laurel Nakadate talks about acting, power and identity.

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    Nakadate’s Fever Dreams Heat the Screen

    Sean Uyehara
    Feb 23, 2011

    Filmmaker/photographer Laurel Nakadate talks about acting, power and identity.

  • Q & A

    Nakadate’s Fever Dreams Heat the Screen

    Sean Uyehara
    Feb 23, 2011

    Filmmaker/photographer Laurel Nakadate talks about acting, power and identity.

  • February 17, 2011

    On the Making of 'Crooked Beauty'

    Ken Paul Rosenthal
    Feb 15, 2011

    A filmmaker delves deep into the process of embodying 'madness' in movie form.

  • First Person

    On the Making of 'Crooked Beauty'

    Ken Paul Rosenthal
    Feb 15, 2011

    A filmmaker delves deep into the process of embodying 'madness' in movie form.

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    On the Making of 'Crooked Beauty'

    Ken Paul Rosenthal
    Feb 15, 2011

    A filmmaker delves deep into the process of embodying 'madness' in movie form.

  • February 17, 2011

    Stone Tour Cultivates the City

    Susan Gerhard
    Feb 14, 2011

    Film professor and farmer Melinda Stone tours San Francisco community centers with film and food for thought.

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    Stone Tour Cultivates the City

    Susan Gerhard
    Feb 14, 2011

    Film professor and farmer Melinda Stone tours San Francisco community centers with film and food for thought.

  • Q & A

    Stone Tour Cultivates the City

    Susan Gerhard
    Feb 14, 2011

    Film professor and farmer Melinda Stone tours San Francisco community centers with film and food for thought.

  • Feb 3 2011

    Sundance Awards 'Circumstance,' 'Another Happy Day'

    Susan Gerhard
    Jan 30, 2011

    Ten days of audience voting and jury contemplation lead to a barrel of awards for directors, writers.

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    Sundance Awards 'Circumstance,' 'Another Happy Day'

    Susan Gerhard
    Jan 30, 2011

    Ten days of audience voting and jury contemplation lead to a barrel of awards for directors, writers.

  • January 31, 2011

    Sundance Awards 'Circumstance,' 'Another Happy Day'

    Susan Gerhard
    Jan 30, 2011

    Ten days of audience voting and jury contemplation lead to a barrel of awards for directors, writers.

  • News & Blogs

    Sundance Awards 'Circumstance,' 'Another Happy Day'

    Susan Gerhard
    Jan 30, 2011

    Ten days of audience voting and jury contemplation lead to a barrel of awards for directors, writers.

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    Alexander Excavates Educational Film Treasures

    Michael Fox
    Jan 18, 2011

    Geoff Alexander opens a window into the 20th century with a book about films for/from the classroom.

  • January 20, 2011

    Alexander Excavates Educational Film Treasures

    Michael Fox
    Jan 18, 2011

    Geoff Alexander opens a window into the 20th century with a book about films for/from the classroom.

  • Q & A

    Alexander Excavates Educational Film Treasures

    Michael Fox
    Jan 18, 2011

    Geoff Alexander opens a window into the 20th century with a book about films for/from the classroom.

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    VCinema Podcast Finds Its Audience

    Adam Hartzell
    Jan 10, 2011

    An Asian cinema talk-radio show broadcasts from San Mateo to the world.

  • January 13, 2011

    VCinema Podcast Finds Its Audience

    Adam Hartzell
    Jan 10, 2011

    An Asian cinema talk-radio show broadcasts from San Mateo to the world.

  • Q & A

    VCinema Podcast Finds Its Audience

    Adam Hartzell
    Jan 10, 2011

    An Asian cinema talk-radio show broadcasts from San Mateo to the world.

  • December 28, 2010

    Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 24, 2010

    The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.

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    Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 24, 2010

    The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.

  • January 6, 2010

    Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 24, 2010

    The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.

  • Reviews

    Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 24, 2010

    The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.

  • December 23, 2010

    Film 2010: Top Tens

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 23, 2010

    Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.

  • December 28, 2010

    Film 2010: Top Tens

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 23, 2010

    Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.

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    Film 2010: Top Tens

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 23, 2010

    Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.

  • Reviews

    Film 2010: Top Tens

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 23, 2010

    Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.

  • December 23, 2010

    Film 2010: Top Tens

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 23, 2010

    Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.

  • December 28, 2010

    Film 2010: Top Tens

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 23, 2010

    Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.

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    Film 2010: Top Tens

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 23, 2010

    Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.

  • Reviews

    Film 2010: Top Tens

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 23, 2010

    Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.

  • December 16, 2010

    Film 2010: 'Social Network' Tops S.F. Film Critics Circle Awards

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 14, 2010

    San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners for 2010 included 'Social Network,' 'Black Swan,' 'The Tillman Story' and Elliot Lavine.

  • December 28, 2010

    Film 2010: 'Social Network' Tops S.F. Film Critics Circle Awards

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 14, 2010

    San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners for 2010 included 'Social Network,' 'Black Swan,' 'The Tillman Story' and Elliot Lavine.

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    Film 2010: 'Social Network' Tops S.F. Film Critics Circle Awards

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 14, 2010

    San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners for 2010 included 'Social Network,' 'Black Swan,' 'The Tillman Story' and Elliot Lavine.

  • News & Blogs

    Film 2010: 'Social Network' Tops S.F. Film Critics Circle Awards

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 14, 2010

    San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners for 2010 included 'Social Network,' 'Black Swan,' 'The Tillman Story' and Elliot Lavine.

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    Season's Screenings Bring out Best Films of the Year

    Dennis Harvey
    Nov 24, 2010

    The year closes with six weeks of strong foreign and arthouse awards-seekers as well as solid franchise holiday entertainments.

  • November 24, 2010

    Season's Screenings Bring out Best Films of the Year

    Dennis Harvey
    Nov 24, 2010

    The year closes with six weeks of strong foreign and arthouse awards-seekers as well as solid franchise holiday entertainments.

  • Reviews

    Season's Screenings Bring out Best Films of the Year

    Dennis Harvey
    Nov 24, 2010

    The year closes with six weeks of strong foreign and arthouse awards-seekers as well as solid franchise holiday entertainments.

  • November 10, 2010

    Afterimage: Filmmakers and Critics in Conversation: Kelly Reichardt with B. Ruby Rich

    Nov 11, 2010

    This event marks the debut of an exciting new filmmaker-in-person series presented by BAM/PFA. Regarded as one of the most significant voices in contemporary American indie cinema, director Kelly Reichardt presents and discusses her work with professor, author (and SF360.org contributor) B. Ruby Rich at the Pacific Film Archive. Feature films include ‘Ode,’ ‘Old Joy,’ ‘River of Grass’ and ‘Wendy and Lucy,’ as well as two shorts, ‘Then a Year,’ and ‘Travis.’ More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.

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    Essential SF: Rick Prelinger

    Dennis Harvey
    Nov 2, 2010

    Rick Prelinger’s efforts at preserving ephemeral films have made him indispensable to the cinema of San Francisco—and the world.

  • November 3 2010

    Essential SF: Rick Prelinger

    Dennis Harvey
    Nov 2, 2010

    Rick Prelinger’s efforts at preserving ephemeral films have made him indispensable to the cinema of San Francisco—and the world.

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    'Enter the Void' at Your Own Risk

    Matt Sussman/Ryland Walker Knight
    Oct 7, 2010

    Two critics offer opposing views on an audience-dividing arthouse buzz-magnet, Gaspar Noé's 'Enter the Void.'

  • October 7, 2010

    'Enter the Void' at Your Own Risk

    Matt Sussman/Ryland Walker Knight
    Oct 7, 2010

    Two critics offer opposing views on an audience-dividing arthouse buzz-magnet, Gaspar Noé's 'Enter the Void.'

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    Observing Ordinary People in 'Everyone Else'

    Dennis Harvey
    Jul 2, 2010

    Maren Ade’s second feature is striking for what it doesn't do as it follows ordinary lives through a failing relationship.

  • Reviews

    Observing Ordinary People in 'Everyone Else'

    Dennis Harvey
    Jul 2, 2010

    Maren Ade’s second feature is striking for what it doesn't do as it follows ordinary lives through a failing relationship.

  • Festivals

    Frameline34, a Festival Refreshed

    Matt Sussman
    Jun 25, 2010

    Critical consensus on Frameline34 marks it a good year. The audience wanted something different, and the festival has largely obliged.

  • Festivals

    Frameline34, a Festival Refreshed

    Matt Sussman
    Jun 25, 2010

    Critical consensus on Frameline34 marks it a good year. The audience wanted something different, and the festival has largely obliged.

  • News & Blogs

    SF Chronicle: 'S.F. Film Festival Bestows Prizes'

    May 7, 2010

    Almost $300,000 was given out Wednesday night for awards and grants honoring documentary winners.

  • Festivals

    SFIFF53: Golden Gate Awards and Juried Prizes/Grants Announced

    Susan Gerhard
    May 5, 2010

    Cash prizes totaling nearly $300,000 for filmmakers highlighted the San Francisco International Film Festival s Golden Gate Awards Wednesday night.

  • Festivals

    SFIFF53 Reports: James Schamus, Roger Ebert and the Writing Life

    Dennis Harvey
    May 3, 2010

    Few would argue that a good movie often starts with a good story. Yet it has been the screenwriter s lot to be underappreciated.

  • Festivals

    SFIFF53 Reports: California Dreamin' at Film Society Awards Night

    Susan Gerhard
    Apr 30, 2010

    San Francisco itself took a lead role at Film Society Awards Night, the dinner and awards program benefiting the Film Society s year-round Youth Education initiative.

  • Festivals

    SFIFF53: 'At the Movies' with Roger Ebert

    Dennis Harvey
    Apr 30, 2010

    You know someone is well liked when they re used as the standard by which you fall short.

  • Festivals

    SFIFF53 Reports: 'Utopia,' 'Morning'

    SF360
    Apr 27, 2010

    Live & Onstage thought globally and drafted locally with Sam Green and musician Dave Cerf s live Utopia in Four Movements, which never takes the exact same form.

  • Q & A

    'Utopia' in San Francisco

    Susan Gerhard
    Apr 18, 2010

    I found Sam Green deep in preparation, but he found time to walk me through the greatest dreams and worst nightmares of the 20th century.

  • Reviews

    'It Came from Kuchar,' 'La Mission' in Theatres

    sf360
    Apr 16, 2010

    Bay Area-made and Mission-inspired, Peter Bratt's La Mission joins Jennifer Kroot's wild and woolly It Came from Kuchar in Bay Area theaters this week.

  • Festivals

    SFIFF53: Ephemeral Film and Music, Live & Onstage

    Marc Capelle
    Apr 14, 2010

    If you imagine the S.F. International Film Festival as an circus tent, with Opening and Closing nights the main supports, the other tent poles are interactive live experiences.

  • Festivals

    San Francisco International Film Festival's 53rd Edition

    Susan Gerhard
    Mar 30, 2010

    Director of Programming Rachel Rosen and programmers Rod Armstrong, Audrey Chang and Sean Uyehara shared thoughts on 177 films from 46 countries.

  • Reviews

    As Oscars Approach, Winners Still Up in the Air

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 16, 2010

    Last month's nominations announcement was anticipated with unusual interest, largely because the Academy reverted to ten Best Picture nominees, a practice abandoned in 1943.

  • Reviews

    As Oscars Approach, Winners Still Up in the Air

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 16, 2010

    Last month's nominations announcement was anticipated with unusual interest, largely because the Academy reverted to ten Best Picture nominees, a practice abandoned in 1943.

  • Q & A

    Scott MacDonald on Art in Cinema at SFMoMA

    Max Goldberg
    Feb 7, 2010

    The film historian looks back at Frank Stauffacher's seminal mid-century series, which hatched a Bay Area avant-garde.

  • Reviews

    The Greatest Finds of My Generation

    Susan Gerhard
    Jan 26, 2010

    The harsh glare of the spotlight that brought Howl mixed reviews from critics on opening night of Sundance had melted into a warm glow by Saturday.

  • Reviews

    Val Lewton's Brooding Mood, Chilling Themes

    Dennis Harvey
    Jan 21, 2010

    Horror movies were once dismissed by most grownups (and nearly all critics) as juvenile, silly, even offensive. Val Lewton seriously challenged that thinking,

  • Q & A

    Michael House's Translation of Tati at YBCA

    Michael Guillen
    Jan 17, 2010

    Riding the crest of the Tati tsunami hitting our shores is The Magnificent Tati by Michael House, who lived in S.F. for 12 years before moving to Paris.

  • Reviews

    Citizen Critics' New Outlets, Challenges in 2009

    Adam Hartzell
    Jan 2, 2010

    The silver lining to a decade that saw traditional critics in conventional media dwindle? The explosion of socially networked citizen critics.

  • Reviews

    Citizen Critics' New Outlets, Challenges in 2009

    Adam Hartzell
    Jan 2, 2010

    The silver lining to a decade that saw traditional critics in conventional media dwindle? The explosion of socially networked citizen critics.

  • Reviews

    Thoughts On the Aughts: Best/Worst Trends

    Susan Gerard
    Dec 31, 2009

    While the U.S. moved from rebuilding decimated skyscrapers to the rebuilding of an entire economy, film moved from the multiplex to the mailbox to the mobile.

  • Reviews

    Top 10s of the 2000s

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 30, 2009

    Not surprisingly, Bay Area critics, fans, exhibitors and filmmakers did not arrive at a consensus on the best films of the decade.

  • Reviews

    Top 10s of the 2000s

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 30, 2009

    Not surprisingly, Bay Area critics, fans, exhibitors and filmmakers did not arrive at a consensus on the best films of the decade.

  • Reviews

    Top 10s of 2009: Insiders and Fans

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 29, 2009

    It was a big year for 3D, but Bay Area critics and film-industry folk found many other dimensions in the cinema of 2009.

  • Reviews

    Top 10s of 2009: Insiders and Fans

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 29, 2009

    It was a big year for 3D, but Bay Area critics and film-industry folk found many other dimensions in the cinema of 2009.

  • Reviews

    After Sept. 11, 2001, A Decade Found Its Way

    B. Ruby Rich
    Dec 23, 2009

    On Sept. 13, 2001, I stood in a Toronto park and spoke to Canadian television: Movies wouldn't be the same. I was wrong.

  • Q & A

    David Thomson Revisits 'Psycho's' Critical Moment

    Michael Fox
    Dec 14, 2009

    David Thomson's new book commemorates the golden anniversary of Hitchcock's "Psycho."

  • Reviews

    Holiday Film Preview, Part II

    Dennis Harvey
    Dec 11, 2009

    Dennis Harvey weighs in on the upcoming films of the holiday season.

  • Reviews

    Feast Your Eyes: A Holiday Film Preview

    Dennis Harvey
    Nov 25, 2009

    Dennis Harvey weighs in on the upcoming films of the holiday season.

  • Reviews

    Gerald Peary on the Rise and Fall of the Film Critic

    Susan Gerhard
    Nov 14, 2009

    Boston Phoenix film critic Gerald Peary's film tours the rise, fall and reorientation of film criticism in the United States.

  • Reviews

    Gerald Peary on the Rise and Fall of the Film Critic

    Susan Gerhard
    Nov 14, 2009

    Boston Phoenix film critic Gerald Peary's film tours the rise, fall and reorientation of film criticism in the United States.

  • Festivals

    French Cinema Now—and then

    Dennis Harvey
    Oct 29, 2009

    Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is being revived as part of San Francisco Film Society’s second annual French Cinema Now festival, which runs the week of October 29 through November 4 at the city’s Clay Theatre.

  • Festivals

    French Cinema Now—and then

    Dennis Harvey
    Oct 29, 2009

    Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is being revived as part of San Francisco Film Society’s second annual French Cinema Now festival, which runs the week of October 29 through November 4 at the city’s Clay Theatre.

  • Q & A

    Robert Mailer Anderson on Mendo Madness of 'Pig Hunt'

    Dennis Harvey
    Oct 26, 2009

    After ripping it up at various genre fests, the Bay Area indie horror flick settles in for a theatrical run at the Red Vic.

  • Reviews

    Remembering Chick Strand

    Max Goldberg
    Oct 23, 2009

    Chick Strand, a crucial pioneer of West Coast experimental cinema, died July 11 at 78.

  • Festivals

    What's up, DocFest?

    Robert Avila
    Oct 14, 2009

    Fans of the San Francisco festival, now in its eighth year, have developed a well-honed appreciation for the eccentric.

  • Festivals

    Mill Valley Film Festival's 32nd

    Dennis Harvey
    Oct 9, 2009

    The program offers a surprisingly potent mainstream industry presence, with tributes to A-list types more frequently seen at the multiplex than at the art house.

  • First Person

    A Fat Line Between Love and Hate

    David Munro
    Oct 6, 2009

    First Person: How can people respond in diametric and, at times, vitriolic opposition to the same film? Mine.

  • First Person

    A Fat Line Between Love and Hate

    David Munro
    Oct 6, 2009

    First Person: How can people respond in diametric and, at times, vitriolic opposition to the same film? Mine.

  • Reviews

    San Francisco Cinematheque Fall Program Underway

    Max Goldberg
    Oct 3, 2009

    A year after Jonathan Marlow took the helm as executive director, the organization is showing fresh signs of life.

  • Reviews

    Tangerine Dreams: Cinematheque de Tanger's Morocco Showcase

    Simona Schneider
    Oct 1, 2009

    Tangier has created an identity as a great fount of stories and light, complete with an independent cinema that opened in 2007.

  • Q & A

    Roy Andersson on "You, the Living"

    Erik Augustin Palm
    Sep 25, 2009

    A study in contrasts, Everyman and intellectual, Roy Andersson speaks about his career and new film, You, the Living.

  • Festivals

    Toronto International Film Festival 2009

    B. Ruby Rich
    Sep 19, 2009

    The Toronto International Film Festival has always allowed a generosity of pursuits to co-exist, rewarding the adventurous and satiating the lazy, all without judgment.

  • Festivals

    Toronto International Film Festival 2009

    B. Ruby Rich
    Sep 19, 2009

    The Toronto International Film Festival has always allowed a generosity of pursuits to co-exist, rewarding the adventurous and satiating the lazy, all without judgment.

  • Reviews

    Kim Longinotto and Women Make Movies Film Festival

    Adam Hartzell
    Aug 27, 2009

    A mini-retrospective of the work of Kim Longinotto plays during the Women Make Movies Film Festival at the Roxie.

  • Q & A

    Bob Goldthwait, Fate and 'World's Greatest Dad'

    Dennis Harvey
    Aug 23, 2009

    Bay Area favorite Bob Goldthwait, whose pop culture moment seemed to expire in the mid '80s, returns with comedic vengeance via World's Greatest Dad.

  • Reviews

    Lucrecia Martel and a Case for Decadence

    Sean Uyehara
    Jul 17, 2009

    Lucrecia Martel's films, including La Ciénaga and The Headless Woman feature what have come to be known as her primary concerns: classism, decay and femininity.

  • Reviews

    Frameline33: Youth in Revolt

    Lynn Rapoport
    Jun 22, 2009

    In this year's Frameline Fest, as so often in life, it's all about the one(s) that got away.

  • Reviews

    Iron Curtain Call in the Poland of 'Katyn'

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 19, 2009

    Katyn is a sizable period saga about a tragic, still-controversial chapter in Poland's 20th-century history, one with particular resonance for Andrzej Wadja.

  • Festivals

    Frameline33: Something Old, Something New

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 17, 2009

    A dose of self-affirmation arrives with Frameline33 (or, if you prefer, the multiple-breath-intake-requiring San Francisco International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Film Festival.)

  • Reviews

    Marco Ferreri's Anarchic Filmmaking

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 12, 2009

    Wild man of Italian cinema, Marco Ferreri left many films in need of rediscovery (or simply discovery) since his death in 1997.

  • Reviews

    Social Fury 'In the Realm of Oshima' at PFA

    Matt Sussman
    Jun 11, 2009

    Oshima's output grazed on familiar genres, such as the youth-gone-wild and domestic drama, while freely incorporating elements from avant-garde and documentary filmmaking.

  • Reviews

    Raimi's Return to Horror: Drag Me to Hell

    Dennis Harvey
    May 29, 2009

    Despite a few flaws in story and continuity, Drag Me to Hell offers the pleasures of a first-class entertainer thoroughly enjoying himself.

  • Reviews

    SFIFF52: Movie-Scribe Meltdown

    David Winks Gray
    May 2, 2009

    SF360.org interviews film critics about the changing landscape of film criticism. A panel discussion and screening of For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism will take place on Sunday, May 3, at 6 p.m.

  • Reviews

    SFIFF52: Movie-Scribe Meltdown

    David Winks Gray
    May 2, 2009

    SF360.org interviews film critics about the changing landscape of film criticism. A panel discussion and screening of For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism will take place on Sunday, May 3, at 6 p.m.

  • Reviews

    SFIFF52: Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in the West'

    Dennis Harvey
    Apr 30, 2009

    Once Upon a Time in the West is grand, cynical, lavish and above all huge, Sergio Leone's penchant for the iconically gargantuan (perhaps at the willing expense of relatable human detail) expressed in ultimate form.

  • Reviews

    "Observe and Report:" Seth Rogen Strikes Again

    Dennis Harvey
    Apr 9, 2009

    If it grows darker than one might expect, Observe still hesitates at becoming a true black comedy; it's more medium-gray, earning stripes for breaking from current comedy norms on a moment-to-moment basis without quite arriving at an original, fully-developed whole. But Hill has a good eye, ear (the soundtrack choices are notably sharp), sense of off-kilter pacing, and, most importantly, a firm grasp on character.

  • Festivals

    SF International Film Festival Lineup

    Susan Gerhard
    Mar 31, 2009

    The two weeks of programs offers 151 films from 55 countries, awards and prices, and a wide array of San Francisco talent, from legendary names to the fledgling artists.

  • Reviews

    'Silent Light' and Shattered Landscapes

    Max Goldberg
    Feb 27, 2009

    Carlos Reygadas' third film is an unmistakably serious work, emblematic of the kind of brooding, large-canvas filmmaking which has become a rarity.

  • Reviews

    'Strand' Follows Thread to Rep Cinema's Glory Days

    Michael Fox
    Feb 3, 2009

    In Strand: A Natural History of Cinema, Christian Bruno pays homage to the pivotal and shifting role of movie theaters in San Francisco's cultural life.

  • In Production

    'Tongues' Cracks the Language Barrier

    Michael Fox
    Jan 13, 2009

    The forthcoming film Speaking in Tongues follows four diverse local public-school students enrolled in language-immersion programs.

  • News & Blogs

    Unresolutions of 2009

    Hannah Eaves
    Jan 9, 2009

    Certain questions in 2008 endlessly plagued the film world, leading to outlandish predictions, flame-war mayhem and an outbreak of opinionated public speaking.

  • Reviews

    The Year in Film 2008: Oscar Odds

    Dennis Harvey
    Jan 2, 2009

    Instead of breaking it down strictly category-by-category, Dennis Harvey meanders through some principal heat-seeking prestige films and their various chances.

  • Reviews

    The Year in Film: What did Women Want?

    Matt Sussman
    Jan 1, 2009

    Matt Sussman draws conclusions about women and Hollywood from three big women-oriented films of 2008.

  • News & Blogs

    The Year in Film, 2008: Top Unreleased Films

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 30, 2008

    Bay Area filmmakers, critics and industry pros list their favorite unreleased films of 2008.

  • News & Blogs

    The Year in Film, 2008: Top Unreleased Films

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 30, 2008

    Bay Area filmmakers, critics and industry pros list their favorite unreleased films of 2008.

  • Reviews

    Reading Between the Frames: Fleming and Sturges

    Michael Fox
    Dec 18, 2008

    Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master and Glenn Lovell's Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges are splendid biographies by critics with local ties.

  • Q & A

    Sragow on 'An American Movie Master'

    Michael Fox
    Nov 30, 2008

    Former San Francisco Examiner film critic Michael Sragow talks about his newly released book Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master.

  • In Production

    Making 'Howl' and 'Babnik'

    Michael Fox
    Oct 14, 2008

    Epstein and Friedman bring a poem to the screen, while a South Bay director goes Russian.

  • Reviews

    'The Dark Cinema of David Goodis' at the PFA

    Dennis Harvey
    Aug 7, 2008

    The Pacific Film Archive screens a survey of Goodis-related works from both the big and small screen, spanning nearly five decades.

  • Q & A

    S.F. Jewish Film Festival's Stein and Fishman

    Michael Fox
    Jul 21, 2008

    Programmers for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Peter Stein and Nancy Fishman, speak about never taking the path of least resistance.

  • Reviews

    The Mystical and Everyday in 'A Listener's Tale'

    Max Goldberg
    Jul 15, 2008

    A Listener's Tale is a lovely if unclassifiable mixture of ethnography and poetic reverie which screened at last winter's Rotterdam Film Festival.

  • Q & A

    Catherine Breillat's 'The Last Mistress'

    Michael Fox
    Jul 14, 2008

    French author and director Catherine Breillat speaks about the fierce passion play of her latest, The Last Mistress.

  • Reviews

    New Rohmer on SFFS Screen

    Max Goldberg
    Jun 24, 2008

    Eric Rohmer's latest "moral tale," The Romance of Astrea and Cèladon, filled with evanescent beauty, plays as part of SFFS Screen.

  • Festivals

    Nights on the Towne: Film Society Awards Night

    Susan Gerhard
    May 4, 2008

    You know a festival is working its way into your brain when, in a landscape of intersecting ideas, you begin to witness the collisions.

  • Festivals

    Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy World

    Dennis Harvey
    Apr 29, 2008

    SF Film Society’s Founder’s Directing Award winner Mike Leigh's work has created a distinctive insider’s portrait of working-to-middle class English life.

  • Reviews

    Review: "Boarding Gate"

    Dennis Harvey
    Apr 8, 2008

    Boarding Gate is raw, silly, bloody, funny, carnal, intricate, coarse and self-conscious. It all suggests Olivier Assayas has a lot more surprises in him yet.

  • Q & A

    Thomas Beard exposes "Live Cinema"

    Michael Fox
    Apr 7, 2008

    Bodies of work have emerged from the intersections of performance, film and electronic art. Cinematograph 7ÑLive Cinema: A Contemporary Reader, edited by Thomas Beard's provides thoughtful writing on the subject.

  • Q & A

    Q&A: Brillante Mendoza

    Sean Uyehara
    Mar 18, 2008

    Filipino Director Brillante Mendoza discusses his aesthetic: a basic approach that resists facade and pretense and desires to depict to things as they really are.

  • Festivals

    Ten SFIAAFF Picks From Judy Stone

    Susan Gerhard
    Mar 13, 2008

    Longtime San Francisco Chronicle film critic Judy Stone offers her top ten picks from the 2008 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.

  • Reviews

    "A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich"

    Max Goldberg
    Mar 5, 2008

    "A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich" is a major coup for Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, after all these years later, he's ready for a retrospective of his own.

  • Reviews

    "A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich"

    Max Goldberg
    Mar 5, 2008

    "A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich" is a major coup for Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, after all these years later, he's ready for a retrospective of his own.

  • Reviews

    Paradjanov and Godard on DVD

    Michael Fox
    Jan 29, 2008

    Michael Fox reviews the release of a Sergei Paradjanov DVD boxed set and the arrival of a Jean-Luc Godard box spotlighting his underrated mid-'80s work.

  • Festivals

    Berlin & Beyond at 13

    Michael Fox
    Jan 10, 2008

    The Goethe-Institut's festival offers a pointed reminder that Germany, Austria and Switzerland aren't just in the center of Europe, but in the middle of international cinema.

  • Reviews

    The Best Undistributed Films of 2007

    Chris Wisniewski
    Jan 2, 2008

    If they don't get the chance to beguile the world in theaters, maybe, at the very least, they'll find their way to audiences via digital download.

  • Reviews

    The Best Undistributed Films of 2007

    Chris Wisniewski
    Jan 2, 2008

    If they don't get the chance to beguile the world in theaters, maybe, at the very least, they'll find their way to audiences via digital download.

  • Reviews

    "Holly," an Unseasonably Sobering Drama

    Dennis Harvey
    Nov 28, 2007

    U.S.-Cambodian co-production Holly might easily have gone straight to DVD, which would be a pity because it's well worth rushing to the theatre for.

  • Q & A

    Robert Lepage, "Progress" Report

    Jonathan Marlow
    Nov 26, 2007

    SF360.org sits down with a criminally little-known director of stage and screen who is arguably the most imaginative, talented multi-hyphenate of his generation.

  • Reviews

    "Redacted"

    Dennis Harvey
    Nov 13, 2007

    Sometimes even presumably good intentions can warp into artistic misdeeds most foul.

  • Reviews

    A "Flanders" Reader

    Michael Guillen
    May 6, 2007

    As Bruno Dumont's Flanders navigates festival waters, it's been leaving behind a noticeable wake.

  • Reviews

    The Critics and Antonioni

    Max Goldberg
    Mar 29, 2007

    A look at critics' responses to Antonioni through the ages shows there is, and always was, plenty to say about his work.

  • Reviews

    The Critics and Antonioni

    Max Goldberg
    Mar 29, 2007

    A look at critics' responses to Antonioni through the ages shows there is, and always was, plenty to say about his work.

  • Reviews

    Reviews: "Color Me Kubrick" and "Pride"

    Dennis Harvey
    Mar 20, 2007

    One film shows how an inspirational movie can actually inspire; the other that a con sometimes looks better on paper.

  • Reviews

    Reviews: "Color Me Kubrick" and "Pride"

    Dennis Harvey
    Mar 20, 2007

    One film shows how an inspirational movie can actually inspire; the other that a con sometimes looks better on paper.

  • Reviews

    The Breno Mello of "Black Orpheus"

    Susan Gerhard
    Jan 3, 2007

    The 1959 reworking of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is a bossa nova adventure through Brazilian Carnival, with actor Breno Mello as the black Orpheus.

  • News & Blogs

    The Cities' Critics Speak

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 15, 2006

    The language of film may be universal, as the Landmark trailer reminds us, but the critics in major U.S. cities speak their own dialects.

  • News & Blogs

    The Cities' Critics Speak

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 15, 2006

    The language of film may be universal, as the Landmark trailer reminds us, but the critics in major U.S. cities speak their own dialects.

  • News & Blogs

    SF Film Critics Circle Announces Awards

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 12, 2006

    The group chose ;Little Children as its Best Picture of 2006 and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth the Best Foreign Language Film.

  • News & Blogs

    SF Film Critics Circle Announces Awards

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 12, 2006

    The group chose ;Little Children as its Best Picture of 2006 and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth the Best Foreign Language Film.

  • Reviews

    Nathaniel Dorsky's Secret World

    Michael Fox
    Dec 5, 2006

    Song and Solitude, is a twilight sojourn to a secret world much like our own, rendered with profound patience and a hint of wistfulness.

  • Q & A

    Joseph McBride: All is Welles

    Michael Fox
    Oct 16, 2006

    Joseph McBride's What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of An Independent Career catalogs the director's amazingly prolific final 15 years.

  • Reviews

    The "remake," re-made

    Michael Fox
    Sep 26, 2006

    Why do updates of Jerry Lewis flicks get more slack from critics than Zailian's "All the King's Men" and Demme's "The Manchurian Candidate?"

  • Reviews

    The "remake," re-made

    Michael Fox
    Sep 26, 2006

    Why do updates of Jerry Lewis flicks get more slack from critics than Zailian's "All the King's Men" and Demme's "The Manchurian Candidate?"

  • News & Blogs

    Indie Distributors Strategize for Fall 2006 Releases

    Steven Rosen
    Sep 8, 2006

    Distributors of independent films reveal their strategies and assessment of the market heading into the all-important fall season.

  • News & Blogs

    Indie Distributors Strategize for Fall 2006 Releases

    Steven Rosen
    Sep 8, 2006

    Distributors of independent films reveal their strategies and assessment of the market heading into the all-important fall season.

  • Q & A

    David Thomson on Nicole Kidman

    Michael Fox
    Sep 4, 2006

    The renowned local critic and historian talks about his book about the iconic Hollywood beauty.

  • Festivals

    Fall 2006 Festival Season

    Susan Gerhard
    Aug 25, 2006

    SF360 checks in with a few Bay Area festival insiders to see what they're excited about at upcoming festivals.

  • Q & A

    Ryan Fleck: Wrestling with 'Half Nelson'

    indieWIRE
    Aug 21, 2006

    Ryan Fleck talks about his new film Half Nelson, his filmmaking career, and his creative inspirations and tastes.

  • Reviews

    Francois Ozon, Mortal

    B. Ruby Rich
    Aug 2, 2006

    Ozon's Time to Leave demonstrates how central he's become to European cinema, and reminds us that he's among gay world cinema's most accomplished writer/directors.

  • Q & A

    Preteens on Surprise Endings

    Susan Gerhard
    Jul 21, 2006

    A California Film Institute-procured class of 13somethings needed no help deciding their top ten list of surprise movie endings.

  • Festivals

    The Revolution Will Be Digitized?

    Susan Gerhard
    Apr 28, 2006

    The revolution will not be televised, but it may be digitized, run through Final Cut Pro, and projected on the screen near you.

  • Q & A

    Totally, Tenderly 20th-Century: Lopate Curates Critics

    Thomas Logoreci
    Apr 11, 2006

    With American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now, N.Y. essayist Phillip Lopate compiles nearly a century of groundbreaking and entertaining criticism.

  • Q & A

    Totally, Tenderly 20th-Century: Lopate Curates Critics

    Thomas Logoreci
    Apr 11, 2006

    With American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now, N.Y. essayist Phillip Lopate compiles nearly a century of groundbreaking and entertaining criticism.

  • Festivals

    Picks for the San Francisco International Film Festival

    Susan Gerhard
    Mar 31, 2006

    The List: B. Ruby Rich picks her favorites for the 2006 San Francisco International Film Festival.

  • First Person

    Chuck Stephens on the Set of "Citizen Dog"

    Chuck Stephens
    Mar 22, 2006

    Chuck Stephens shares his thoughts, existential and otherwise, on the Bangkok set of Citizen Dog.

  • Q & A

    David Kipen Posits New Auteur Theory

    Michael Fox
    Mar 6, 2006

    A conversation with David Kipen about his book, The Schreiber Theory, which reclaims the contribution of screenwriters to motion pictures.

  • News & Blogs

    Measuring Cities By Their Taste in Film

    Susan Gerhard
    Mar 3, 2006

    A quick guide to measuring a city's taste in films by its critics' organizations.

  • News & Blogs

    Measuring Cities By Their Taste in Film

    Susan Gerhard
    Mar 3, 2006

    A quick guide to measuring a city's taste in films by its critics' organizations.


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