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  • Festivals

    Dark Thoughts Fill TIFF’s Lightbox

    B. Ruby Rich
    Sep 18, 2011

    Sex-filled fictions dominate Toronto International Film Festival; eclectic docs inspire action.

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    Dark Thoughts Fill TIFF’s Lightbox

    B. Ruby Rich
    Sep 18, 2011

    Sex-filled fictions dominate Toronto International Film Festival; eclectic docs inspire action.

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    Dark Thoughts Fill TIFF’s Lightbox

    B. Ruby Rich
    Sep 18, 2011

    Sex-filled fictions dominate Toronto International Film Festival; eclectic docs inspire action.

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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.

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    YBCA Revisits Vintage Erotica

    Dennis Harvey
    May 19, 2011

    YBCA uncorks another era's eros.

  • 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.

  • Reviews

    The Roxie's New Leadership

    Michael Fox
    Apr 21, 2010

    The Statton era has begun. Kate and Chris Statton have officially assumed the positions of co-executive directors of the venerable Mission District cinema.

  • Q & A

    Rosen's Insights into 53rd San Francisco International

    Michael Fox
    Apr 5, 2010

    With opening night approaching, Rachel Rosen talked about her L.A. Rolodex, the function of festivals in a broadband world and her favorites in the festival.

  • Reviews

    San Francisco Cinematheque's Spring Action

    Max Goldberg
    Feb 10, 2010

    The spring edition of the Cinematheque calendar is making the rounds, and my copy is dog-eared with wishful thinking. Grab your datebook for a rundown.

  • 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,

  • 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

    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 Sherman and Wasteland Utopias

    Michael Fox
    Nov 30, 2009

    In town for the premiere of Wasteland Utopias, the artist, curator and administrative director of Canyon Cinema gives us the scoop on Wilhelm Reich and other shadowy figures.

  • Festivals

    SFFS's Debut Cinema by the Bay

    Robert Avila
    Oct 22, 2009

    A new, four-day showcase of local filmmaking doubles as a forum for the region's influence as subject and setting for filmmakers beyond the bay.

  • 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.

  • Q & A

    Ellen Schneider's Active Voice

    Michael Fox
    Aug 31, 2009

    Ellen Schneider speaks on the impact of social-issue documentaries and her San Francisco-based strategic communications company Active Voice.

  • 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.

  • Festivals

    Kiyoshi Kurosawa and a Cinema of Disaster

    Matt Sussman
    Mar 11, 2009

    The retrospective offers fascinating, if not always exemplary, viewing of what could be called a cinema of disaster: characters face the worst, or are living in its aftermath, and like the audience, they are provided with no easy answers.

  • Reviews

    Strand Releasing Turns 20

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 26, 2009

    Twenty years after its founding, Strand Releasing remains an active, irreplaceable and distinctive presence on the U.S. distribution scene.

  • Reviews

    Re-Viewing 'The Savage Eye'

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 18, 2009

    This "dramatized documentary" was a labor of love–if also a graphic portrayal of the vast LA detached from Hollywood's success-bubble glamour.

  • Q & A

    Jack Stevenson on 'The Superstars Next Door'

    Matt Sussman
    Oct 6, 2008

    Freelance curator and film fanatic Jack Stevenson brings grainy reels documenting live, nude girls to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

  • Q & A

    Ariella Ben-Dov's Madcat Archives

    Matt Sussman
    Sep 14, 2008

    What do women want to watch? With Diane English’s recent unfunny and product placement-filled re-make of The Women hitting theaters last week, Hollywood’s answer, predictably, is more of the same.

  • Reviews

    Curators at Bay Area Now 5

    Sean Uyehara
    Sep 11, 2008

    YBCA's triennial exhibition has developed a deserved reputation for presenting an energetic survey of current Bay Area artistic practice.

  • Reviews

    Curators at Bay Area Now 5

    Sean Uyehara
    Sep 11, 2008

    YBCA's triennial exhibition has developed a deserved reputation for presenting an energetic survey of current Bay Area artistic practice.

  • Q & A

    Alan K. Rode on Noir and Charles McGraw

    Michael Fox
    Jan 28, 2008

    Alan K. Rode, a cofounder of the Film Noir Foundation, sang the praises of San Francisco movie audiences on the horn from L.A., then got down to brass tacks.

  • Q & A

    Jesse Hawthorne Ficks's Midnight Movie Empire

    Dennis Harvey
    Dec 3, 2007

    Midnites for Maniacs unearths populist yet esoteric genre and exploitation flicks that have mostly disappeared into the netherworld of discarded VHS rental tapes.

  • Q & A

    Dennis Nyback and "Bad Bugs Bunny"

    Michael Guillen
    Jun 6, 2007

    "SF Indiefest: Gets Animated," piggybacking on the 4th Annual Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, co-presents an animation program with the popular archivist.

  • Festivals

    Liane Yasumoto and Superfest International Disability Film Festival

    Susan Gerhard
    May 27, 2007

    A week before the 27th festival, SF360.org spoke with the executive director on what Superfest gets about disability that the rest of the filmmaking world doesn't.

  • Reviews

    "Alternative Visions" at the PFA

    Johnny Ray Huston
    Feb 15, 2007

    The Pacific Film Archive's standing as a cinema-centric educational institution brings the avant-garde into conversation with a broad program of film history.

  • Q & A

    Frank Lee on 4 Star Theatre's Second Life

    Laura Irvine and Jennifer Young
    Dec 11, 2006

    Last week, theater operators Frank and Lida Lee won the battle to save the 4 Star, and announced they'd purchased the building.

  • Reviews

    "Radical Closure" at the PFA

    Robert Avila
    Dec 7, 2006

    This series of cinematic responses to war, curated by Lebanese video artist Akram Zaatari, opens up possibilities for re-imagining the dehumanized landscape of violence.

  • Q & A

    A Word From Our Sponsored Films

    Max Goldberg
    Nov 28, 2006

    Collector and archivist Rick Prelinger puts on a show at the Other Cinema to celebrate his new book, A Field Guide to Sponsored Films.

  • Reviews

    Jack Stevenson's vault of vice

    Michael Fox
    Sep 28, 2006

    The expat archivist and writer makes his near-annual pilgrimage to San Francisco with a flurry of shows teeming with goodies from his personal collection.

  • Reviews

    Another Other Cinema, Now on DVD

    Johnny Ray Huston
    Sep 20, 2006

    Craig Baldwin and Noel Lawrence bring their brand of smart, quirky, avant-garde and political programming into the home.

  • 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.

  • Reviews

    "Seventeen" Might be Greatest Movie Ever About Teenagers: 17 Reasons Why

    Johnny Ray Huston
    Aug 17, 2006

    Jeff Kreines and Joel DeMott's legendary and obscure 1982 documentary set in Muncie, Indiana, highlights the PFA series "Screenagers: Documents from the Teenage Years."

  • Q & A

    Stephen Parr In the Home-Movie Archives

    Michael Fox
    Aug 7, 2006

    The San Francisco Media Archive director talks about the weirdness and normality revealed on Home Movie Day.

  • Q & A

    Stephen Parr In the Home-Movie Archives

    Michael Fox
    Aug 7, 2006

    The San Francisco Media Archive director talks about the weirdness and normality revealed on Home Movie Day.

  • Q & A

    SFMOMA Curator on Matthew Barney

    Thomas Logoreci
    Jul 17, 2006

    Benjamin Weil took time out from preparations for the upcoming Barney show to answer questions about the artist's "Drawing Restraint" series.

  • Reviews

    "Kees Kino: The Film Work of Weldon Kees"

    Jenni Olson
    Jun 7, 2006

    San Francisco Cinematheque guest curator Jenni Olson reflects on her show, Kees Kino: The Film Work of Weldon Kees.

  • Reviews

    Showstopping Filmmakers Rodney Ascher and Syd Garon

    Danny Plotnick
    May 17, 2006

    Rodney Ascher and Syd Garon are only two people whose works curator Danny Plotnick would show sight unseen.

  • First Person

    Five Moments on Market Street, 1905-2006

    Melinda Stone
    Apr 14, 2006

    I first saw the remarkable A Trip Down Market Street, 1905 at the Exploratorium seven years ago, feeling chills as I gazed into the past.

  • Reviews

    Leacock-Pennebaker Tribute at SF State's Documentary Film Institute

    Susan Gerhard
    Feb 27, 2006

    With a Leacock-Pennebaker tribute, SF State's Documentary Film Institute proves there's no reason to "revive" cinema verite; it never died.


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