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Deadlines
Opportunities for Filmmakers
Dec 31, 2012The Deadlines section of sf360.org is a large but selective list of festival calls for entry, upcoming seminars, artist residencies, grant and award deadlines and other opportunities for filmmakers. Are we missing an important deadline? Please write us at sgerhard[at]sffs.org.
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Under the Spell of French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 25, 2011Love permeates SFFS's francophone film series.
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October 28, 2011
Under the Spell of French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 25, 2011Love permeates SFFS's francophone film series.
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Under the Spell of French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 25, 2011Love permeates SFFS's francophone film series.
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July 19, 2011
Marius Watz: Automatic Writing
Jul 22, 2011SFFS presents the work of pioneering software artist Marius Watz, who uses digital processes and authored algorithms to “automatically” produce numerous types of media including video, still imagery and sculpture through semi-autonomous software systems, as part of its KinoTek series. Look for sci-fi writer/theorist Bruce Sterling's essay on Watz in Thursday's SF360.org. Events: An exhibition in Super Frog Gallery at New People opens July 22; Artist Talk, July 26; Master Class, July 27. More at sffs.org.
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Graham Leggat Steps Down as Executive Director of San Francisco Film Society
Jul 5, 2011Film Society’s leader for more than five years resigns due to health issues.
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July 7, 2011
Graham Leggat Steps Down as Executive Director of San Francisco Film Society
Jul 5, 2011Film Society’s leader for more than five years resigns due to health issues.
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News & Blogs
Graham Leggat Steps Down as Executive Director of San Francisco Film Society
Jul 5, 2011Film Society’s leader for more than five years resigns due to health issues.
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Ninth Street Announces Incubator Participants
Jul 1, 2011Press release: The Ninth Street Independent Film Center announced today five new participants for the Center's Media Arts Incubator Program for 2011-2012. "This is a great group of participants," says Skye Christensen, Executive Director of the Ninth Street Independent Film Center. "Each brings a very dynamic project to the Program, and we're really looking forward to what they'll accomplish during their time here." Ninth Street’s Media Arts Incubator Program is designed to nurture socially relevant independent media projects at Ninth Street Independent Film Center. The Incubator Program supports independent filmmakers, start-up film festivals and small media nonprofits through access to workspace and shared resources, such as cross-promotional opportunities, co-productions, affordable meeting or exhibition space and community connections with established media arts partners (Center for Asian American Media, Frameline, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, and others). Participants are: Rachel Caplan (CEO) and Daniela Rible (Deputy Director) of the annual SF Green Film Festival; Jennifer Tipton and Cary McQueen Morrow, the directors of Art with Impact, which is a platform for the creation of new media on critical social issues; David Evan Harris, Executive Director of the Global Lives Project, a media arts nonprofit that seeks to collaboratively build a video library of human life experience; Scarlett Shepard is Executive Director of the SF Women’s Film Festival; and J.R. Flemming, director and producer of Guarding Dogs, which is a documentary film with a crowd-sourcing model currently in production that makes the case for adopting a dog instead breeding/buying.
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SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
Jun 23, 2011SFFS to offer daily, year-round programming, classes and events in dedicated state-of-the-art theater for the first time in its 54-year history. The San Francisco Film Society and New People today announced significant news for Bay Area filmgoers: the signing of a lease that brings the Film Society’s exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events to one primary theater on a daily, year-round basis, beginning in September. The San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema opens its doors in September in the state-of-the art...
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June 23 2011
SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
Jun 23, 2011SFFS to offer daily, year-round programming, classes and events in dedicated state-of-the-art theater for the first time in its 54-year history. The San Francisco Film Society and New People today announced significant news for Bay Area filmgoers: the signing of a lease that brings the Film Society’s exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events to one primary theater on a daily, year-round basis, beginning in September. The San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema opens its doors in September in the state-of-the art...
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June 23, 2011
SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
Jun 23, 2011SFFS to offer daily, year-round programming, classes and events in dedicated state-of-the-art theater for the first time in its 54-year history. The San Francisco Film Society and New People today announced significant news for Bay Area filmgoers: the signing of a lease that brings the Film Society’s exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events to one primary theater on a daily, year-round basis, beginning in September. The San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema opens its doors in September in the state-of-the art...
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SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
Jun 23, 2011SFFS to offer daily, year-round programming, classes and events in dedicated state-of-the-art theater for the first time in its 54-year history. The San Francisco Film Society and New People today announced significant news for Bay Area filmgoers: the signing of a lease that brings the Film Society’s exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events to one primary theater on a daily, year-round basis, beginning in September. The San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema opens its doors in September in the state-of-the art...
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June 23 2011
SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
Jun 23, 2011SFFS to offer daily, year-round programming, classes and events in dedicated state-of-the-art theater for the first time in its 54-year history. The San Francisco Film Society and New People today announced significant news for Bay Area filmgoers: the signing of a lease that brings the Film Society’s exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events to one primary theater on a daily, year-round basis, beginning in September. The San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema opens its doors in September in the state-of-the art...
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June 23, 2011
SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
Jun 23, 2011SFFS to offer daily, year-round programming, classes and events in dedicated state-of-the-art theater for the first time in its 54-year history. The San Francisco Film Society and New People today announced significant news for Bay Area filmgoers: the signing of a lease that brings the Film Society’s exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events to one primary theater on a daily, year-round basis, beginning in September. The San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema opens its doors in September in the state-of-the art...
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New Era Takes Hold at the Roxie
Michael Guillén
May 31, 2011The Roxie's new leaders offer notes on their unique vision for the rep house.
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June 2, 2011
New Era Takes Hold at the Roxie
Michael Guillén
May 31, 2011The Roxie's new leaders offer notes on their unique vision for the rep house.
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New Era Takes Hold at the Roxie
Michael Guillén
May 31, 2011The Roxie's new leaders offer notes on their unique vision for the rep house.
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On Kickstarting a Campaign to Bring Back the Parkway
Kim Nunley
May 20, 2011A local fan of a local cinema has big dreams for his favorite, now-defunct East Bay movie-theater.
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May 26, 2011
On Kickstarting a Campaign to Bring Back the Parkway
Kim Nunley
May 20, 2011A local fan of a local cinema has big dreams for his favorite, now-defunct East Bay movie-theater.
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On Kickstarting a Campaign to Bring Back the Parkway
Kim Nunley
May 20, 2011A local fan of a local cinema has big dreams for his favorite, now-defunct East Bay movie-theater.
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April 14, 2011
'Sleeping Ember' Reignites
Matt Sussman
Apr 14, 2011A 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, 2011A 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, 2011A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.
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Alexander Excavates Educational Film Treasures
Michael Fox
Jan 18, 2011Geoff Alexander opens a window into the 20th century with a book about films for/from the classroom.
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January 20, 2011
Alexander Excavates Educational Film Treasures
Michael Fox
Jan 18, 2011Geoff Alexander opens a window into the 20th century with a book about films for/from the classroom.
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Alexander Excavates Educational Film Treasures
Michael Fox
Jan 18, 2011Geoff Alexander opens a window into the 20th century with a book about films for/from the classroom.
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'Deathstalker' Muscles its Way Back to Big Screen
Dennis Harvey
Jan 6, 2011Sword, sandals and a sinister real-life epilogue: 'Deathstalker' earns top billing in a Midnite for Maniacs evening at the Castro. As one of 1982's bigger box-office hits, Conan the Barbarian accomplished two things. First, it finally made a movie star out of thick-bodied, thicker-accented Arnold Schwarzenegger after several failed attempts. Second, it spawned a legion of cheaper imitations cashing in on the early 1980s' seemingly bottomless need for films to fill cable airtime and video rental shelves. (Remember, until that time there the only commercial outlets for movies were theatrical release and network TV—so these were entirely...
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January 6, 2010
'Deathstalker' Muscles its Way Back to Big Screen
Dennis Harvey
Jan 6, 2011Sword, sandals and a sinister real-life epilogue: 'Deathstalker' earns top billing in a Midnite for Maniacs evening at the Castro. As one of 1982's bigger box-office hits, Conan the Barbarian accomplished two things. First, it finally made a movie star out of thick-bodied, thicker-accented Arnold Schwarzenegger after several failed attempts. Second, it spawned a legion of cheaper imitations cashing in on the early 1980s' seemingly bottomless need for films to fill cable airtime and video rental shelves. (Remember, until that time there the only commercial outlets for movies were theatrical release and network TV—so these were entirely...
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December 16, 2010
John Waters, New Leadership Renew Roxie
Robert Avila
Dec 15, 2010Waters’ live Christmas show at the Roxie raised money for San Francisco’s oldest continuously operating theater as it moves full-steam into its second century.
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John Waters, New Leadership Renew Roxie
Robert Avila
Dec 15, 2010Waters’ live Christmas show at the Roxie raised money for San Francisco’s oldest continuously operating theater as it moves full-steam into its second century.
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John Waters, New Leadership Renew Roxie
Robert Avila
Dec 15, 2010Waters’ live Christmas show at the Roxie raised money for San Francisco’s oldest continuously operating theater as it moves full-steam into its second century.
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December 7, 2010
'Pixar: 25 Years of Animation' Exhibition
Dec 8, 2010This popular Oakland Museum of California exhibition is an all encompassing look at the world’s leading animation studio and includes artwork from 'Ratatouille', 'Wall E', 'Up' and 'Toy Story 3.' More at museumca.org
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Essential SF: 'Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter,' 'Paulina,' 'First Person Plural'
Michael Fox
Oct 6, 2010The Bay Area's best first-person documentaries take us through a lens, darkly.
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Essential SF: 'Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter,' 'Paulina,' 'First Person Plural'
Michael Fox
Oct 6, 2010The Bay Area's best first-person documentaries take us through a lens, darkly.
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October 7, 2010
Essential SF: 'Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter,' 'Paulina,' 'First Person Plural'
Michael Fox
Oct 6, 2010The Bay Area's best first-person documentaries take us through a lens, darkly.
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'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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October 7, 2010
'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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SFGate: 'New Director at Film Festival'
Sep 13, 2010SF Chronicle: "Masashi Niwano, who most recently was executive director of the Austin Asian American Film Festival in Austin, Texas, has been named festival and exhibitions director for the San Francisco International Asian American Festival." More at SFGate.
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08-05-2010
Looking to the Skies for Cinema
Gianmaria Franchini
Aug 5, 2010Think summer's almost over? In the Bay Area, think again: Outdoor screenings are just getting started.
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Looking to the Skies for Cinema
Gianmaria Franchini
Aug 5, 2010Think summer's almost over? In the Bay Area, think again: Outdoor screenings are just getting started.
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Looking to the Skies for Cinema
Gianmaria Franchini
Aug 5, 2010Think summer's almost over? In the Bay Area, think again: Outdoor screenings are just getting started.
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08-05-2010
Media Pulse: The Closed Net Threat
Sara Dosa
Aug 4, 2010The looming prospect of a two-tiered internet may compromise the ability of independent filmmakers to fund, exhibit and distribute their films.
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Media Pulse: The Closed Net Threat
Sara Dosa
Aug 4, 2010The looming prospect of a two-tiered internet may compromise the ability of independent filmmakers to fund, exhibit and distribute their films.
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In Depth
Media Pulse: The Closed Net Threat
Sara Dosa
Aug 4, 2010The looming prospect of a two-tiered internet may compromise the ability of independent filmmakers to fund, exhibit and distribute their films.
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The Roxie's New Leadership
Michael Fox
Apr 21, 2010The Statton era has begun. Kate and Chris Statton have officially assumed the positions of co-executive directors of the venerable Mission District cinema.
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'Lesh Sabreen?' On Red Vic Screen
Robert Avila
Mar 15, 2010Muayad Alayan, a 24-year-old filmmaker from the only remaining Arab neighborhood in West Jerusalem, was not even aware there was such a thing as Palestinian cinema until, as a teenager, he came to the Bay Area to visit his brother and sister.
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San Francisco Cinematheque's Spring Action
Max Goldberg
Feb 10, 2010The 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.
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Q & A
Scott MacDonald on Art in Cinema at SFMoMA
Max Goldberg
Feb 7, 2010The film historian looks back at Frank Stauffacher's seminal mid-century series, which hatched a Bay Area avant-garde.
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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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Holiday Film Preview, Part II
Dennis Harvey
Dec 11, 2009Dennis Harvey weighs in on the upcoming films of the holiday season.
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David Sherman and Wasteland Utopias
Michael Fox
Nov 30, 2009In 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.
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SFFS's Debut Cinema by the Bay
Robert Avila
Oct 22, 2009A 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.
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San Francisco Cinematheque Fall Program Underway
Max Goldberg
Oct 3, 2009A year after Jonathan Marlow took the helm as executive director, the organization is showing fresh signs of life.
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William Klein's Restless Mind
Dennis Harvey
Sep 9, 2009The movies of William Klein are suffused with the same impudence, social commentary and aesthetic surprise found in his photos.
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In Production
Hess, Janos and the Volunteers of America
Michael Fox
Aug 25, 2009With in-process Volunteer Nation: Stories of Service, veteran producer-directors Ben Hess and Dan Janos are mobilizing the millennials.
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'Why Isn't Chris von Sneidern Famous?'
Michael Fox
Jul 21, 2009A revealing portrait of veteran local singer-songwriter-guitarist with a cult following investigates existential questions about fame with respect, empathy and self-reflection.
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News & Blogs
'The Greatest Year in Film' at the Castro
Dennis Harvey
Jul 2, 2009A series at the Castro marks 1939 as the high-water mark of cinema.
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Q & A
Richard Levien, from 'Immersion' to 'La Migra'
Jennifer Preissel
Jun 29, 2009New Zealand transplant Richard Levien, a longstanding fixture of the San Francisco indie film community, breaks out of the editing room with Immersion.
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Frameline33: Something Old, Something New
Dennis Harvey
Jun 17, 2009A 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.)
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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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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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'A Wake for Analog'
Jonathan Kiefer
May 21, 2009A Wake for Analog honors analog experimental films like Patrolling the Ether, Bassline Baseline and Zuse Strip.
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Festivals
Bruce Goldstein: From NY to SF to 'Con'
Judy Stone
May 17, 2009Bruce Goldstein recalls his adventures in film land as he prepares to host the Con Film Festival at the Film Forum in New York.
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In Production
Recession-Proof Theaters, to a Point
Michael Fox
May 14, 2009Arthouse theaters like The Roxie, Red Vic and The Balboa resist the economic downturn and adjust calendars to meet audience demands.
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SFIFF52: Golden Gate Awards Uncorked, SFFS/KRF Grant Winner Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 7, 2009SFIFF handed out approximately $100,000 and announced the winner San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grant during its Golden Gate Awards.
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In Production
SFIFF52: 'The Professionals' Unites Filmmakers
Michael Fox
Apr 28, 2009The Professionals an ambitious array of panels, case studies and discussions, makes its debut as a forum for encouraging Bay Area moviemakers to engage with guests and colleagues.
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Box set "Treasures" unearths buried avant-garde
Michael Fox
Apr 2, 2009National Film Preservation Foundation, Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986, is a splendid package of 26 films, drawn from New York and San Francisco.
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SF International Film Festival Lineup
Susan Gerhard
Mar 31, 2009The 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.
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William Kentridge at SFMOMA
Robert Avila
Mar 25, 2009The films of William Kentridge make up a significant and absorbing part of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art enthralling survey of recent work by the acclaimed South African artist
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'Medicine for Melancholy' in the City it Re-discovered
Michael Fox
Mar 5, 2009Barry Jenkins talks abut his background, making movies in San Francisco and the issues of black identity, assimilation and gentrification, which are at the heart of his film.
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Epps Unearths Buried Alcatraz History
Michael Fox
Feb 23, 2009The Black Rock focuses on the African American prisoners and guards who lived on the island when it was a federal penitentiary.
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SF Indiefest 2009
Dennis Harvey
Feb 5, 2009With a roster that sprawls from horror to softcore to verite-style drama and documentary, the only constant is that you won't be bored.
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Reviews
'Strand' Follows Thread to Rep Cinema's Glory Days
Michael Fox
Feb 3, 2009In 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.
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Q & A
SF Cinematheque: New Year, New Direction
Susan Gerhard
Feb 2, 2009SF360.org joined in on a conversation about Cinematheque's past and present when Steven Jenkins lunched with Jonathan Marlow at Caffe Centro.
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News & Blogs
Remembering Ave Montague
Tim Etheridge
Jan 31, 2009On January 24 the San Francisco film and arts community lost Ave Montague, who was well known for her hard work, creativity and passion for the arts.
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Festivals
Wim Wenders: Berlin & Beyond
Dennis Harvey
Jan 15, 2009Wenders, one of the stellar directors of "New German Cinema," is this year's honoree at the 14th annual Berlin & Beyond festival.
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In Production
'Tongues' Cracks the Language Barrier
Michael Fox
Jan 13, 2009The forthcoming film Speaking in Tongues follows four diverse local public-school students enrolled in language-immersion programs.
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Reviews
Something Wild: Martha Colburn's Collage Animations
Max Goldberg
Dec 1, 2008Martha Colburn's recent shorts plunge the interstices of Americana for a hidden history of fanaticism and double-faced hypocrisies.
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Festivals
Carnival of Nonfiction Filmmaking
Dennis Harvey
Oct 16, 2008The extreme, the strange, the silly and surreal all have big seats at the SF DocFest table.
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Q & A
Stephen Parr's Oddball Films
Sean Uyehara
Sep 21, 2008Parr licenses film and video footage, and presents some of the best screenings in town through his Oddball Films series.
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Reviews
Curators at Bay Area Now 5
Sean Uyehara
Sep 11, 2008YBCA's triennial exhibition has developed a deserved reputation for presenting an energetic survey of current Bay Area artistic practice.
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Festivals
Mill Valley's 31st Program
Susan Gerhard
Sep 10, 2008This year's Mill Valley Film Festival shows healthy signs of life for the independent film business.
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Reviews
Room for Thought at SFMOMA
Michael Fox
Sep 4, 2008A film in a darkened theater commands our undivided attention, but a video installation in a museum doesn't have the same effect.
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Festivals
Inside the Telluride Film Festival
Hilary Hart
Aug 29, 2008A Telluride veteran gives a festival overview, and explains why film lovers and filmmakers travel to a remote corner of Colorado on blind faith.
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News & Blogs
Second Stage of Film Arts Foundation's Legacy of Advocacy
Michael Fox
Aug 20, 2008Film Arts Foundation, a nonprofit organization formed by 15 independent filmmakers in 1976, joins forces with SFFS.
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Reviews
The Mystical and Everyday in 'A Listener's Tale'
Max Goldberg
Jul 15, 2008A Listener's Tale is a lovely if unclassifiable mixture of ethnography and poetic reverie which screened at last winter's Rotterdam Film Festival.
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Q & A
Strand's Marcus Hu and Frameline's Michael Lumpkin
Marcus Hu
Jun 16, 2008Strand Releasing President Marcus Hu speaks with Frameline Artistic Director Lumpkin about Frameline, queer cinema and the future of this niche festival.]
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News & Blogs
SFFS Screen at Sundance Kabuki
Robert Avila
Jun 12, 2008The SF Film Society is optimistic that its year-round screen at the Sundance Kabuki will contribute to the spectrum of films in Bay Area theaters.
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Reviews
Screen Test, San Jose
Sean Uyehara
Jun 11, 2008Exhibitions in San Jose feature art drawn from and inspired by online social networking sites, Youtube, video games and blogs.
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Screen Test, San Jose
Sean Uyehara
Jun 11, 2008Exhibitions in San Jose feature art drawn from and inspired by online social networking sites, Youtube, video games and blogs.
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Festivals
S.F. International Arts Festival
Robert Avila
May 23, 2008In addition to bringing a host of worldwide performers to the Bay Area for the first time, the San Francisco International Arts Festival (May 2-June 8), now in its fifth year, has become an indispensable showcase for collaborative work by leading Bay Area artists and their peers across all manner of geographical, cultural and disciplinary borders. The more than 40 performances in this year’s lineup, taking place at 14 separate venues across the city and in Berkeley, span the worlds of dance, music, opera, theater, visual arts and multidisciplinary work. The following four highlights are all hybrid productions with strong film and/or video components.
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Q & A
SFIFF51: Katherin McInnis Cues the Carnival Music
Jennifer Preissel
Apr 28, 2008The longtime Bay Area resident, who recently relocated to Brooklyn, screens Woodward's Gardens in the shorts program "In A Lonely Place: New Experimental Cinema."
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Q & A
'Thrillville' turns 11
Michael Fox
Apr 9, 2008Will "the Thrill" Viahro, impresario of East Bay cult movie extravaganza "Thrillville," discusses the difference between "trash" and "garbage" in film.
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Festivals
Seven from the Sonoma Valley Film Festival
Eve O'Neill
Apr 4, 2008The Sonoma Valley Film Festival has gone to great lengths to enfold the event in its culinary surroundings. Complimentary food tastings will be offered before every single screening.
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Festivals
Earthdance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival
Robert Avila
Apr 2, 2008The fifth annual EarthDance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival screens a juried compilation of 20 short films in two 90-minute installments.
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Festivals
SF Int'l announces its 51st program and year-round screen
Susan Gerhard
Apr 1, 2008The SFIFF announced its 2008 program and the June 13 launch of its year-round programming on one screen at the Sundance Kabuki
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Reviews
"Shelter"
Dennis Harvey
Mar 24, 2008Writer/director Jonah Markowitz's Shelter is a romantic gay surfer that more than earns its spurs in terms of real-world credibility and psychology.
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"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.
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Location Scouting at Sundance
Susan Gerhard
Jan 30, 2008Susan Gerhard reflects on Sundance's program with particular attention to sense of place.
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Q & A
Christopher Coppola Wants You
Robert Avila
Dec 6, 2007Somewhere between iPhone and YouTube there’s a wee festival known as miniPAH. A more slender version of PAH-FEST, the touring weeklong digital film festival founded a year and a half ago by filmmaker Christopher Coppola, “miniPAH: San Francisco” happens this weekend at Coppola’s alma mater, San Francisco Art Institute, ahead of a full-fledged Bay Area PAH sometime next year.
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Reviews
S.F. Silent Film Festival“s Third Annual Winter Event
Robert Avila
Nov 30, 2007The List: A commentary-filled list of the lineup at the silent film festival, which consists of three separate programs and an evening mixer with live music.
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International Latino Film Festival and S.F. International Animation Festival
Robert Avila
Nov 8, 2007In the wake of Mexican cinema's triumphant showing at the 2007 Oscars, these films serve to confirm how some of the biggest surprises can come from the shortest of distances.
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Reviews
Joseph Cornell at SFMOMA
Max Goldberg
Oct 11, 2007Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination comes to San Francisco for the first major west-coast exhibition of the artist's work in 40 years.
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Festivals
Five from Madcat
Susan Gerhard
Sep 14, 2007Here are a few quick takes on programs that look particularly worthwhile at Madcat.
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Festivals
Telluride in Transition
Michael Fox
Aug 29, 2007An intimate four-day buffet of tributes, premieres, restorations, and revivals laid out in the Colorado mountains, Telluride is an oasis for film lovers.
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Q & A
Irina Leimbacher and Konrad Steiner on "kino21"
Max Goldberg
Aug 13, 2007The co-programmers discuss their newest endeavor, though those already from the Bay Area will be familiar with their work at S.F. Cinematheque.
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Reviews
Abbas Kiarostami: "Image Maker"
Robert Avila
Aug 2, 2007An impressive PFA series runs alongside an exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum of Kiarostami's striking photographic work.
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Reviews
Saul Bass, "Phase IV"
Dennis Harvey
Jul 25, 2007Few people not employed as directors, producers, cinematographers, costume or production designers have had as much impact on the "look" of movies.
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Q & A
Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky on "Manufactured Landscapes"
Glen Helfand
Jul 16, 2007Manufactured Landscapes, the film, extends photographer Edward Burtynsky's vision into a new medium, the documentary, and engages a dialog about global capitalism's impact on Earth.
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Reviews
The art of Muppetry
Claire Faggioli
Jun 21, 2007Muppets, Music, and Magic, a Jim Henson career retrospective pleases not only Muppet-lovers but also people whose tastes stretch beyond.
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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.
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Festivals
Digital Festival
Michael Fox
May 2, 2007Movies are shifting at mach speed from the theater to the home. The future is at hand.
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Festivals
SF360 Film Culture Confidential: Shhhhhh....
Staff
Apr 28, 2007How did Kink.com make it to the Mission? How did Straight Outta Hunters Point get out of Hunters Point? How'd the Roxie get saved?
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Festivals
A Festival, a Half Century
B. Ruby Rich
Apr 24, 2007Is there anyone who doesn't know that the San Francisco International Film Festival is turning 50 this month?
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Reviews
Dead Channels : The San Francisco Festival of Fantastic Film
Dennis Harvey
Apr 19, 2007Taste a bit of the vintage grindhouse experience at the last of Dead Channels' Month of Sleazy Sundays triple bill of under-the-radar movies.
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Reviews
"Alternative Visions" at the PFA
Johnny Ray Huston
Feb 15, 2007The Pacific Film Archive's standing as a cinema-centric educational institution brings the avant-garde into conversation with a broad program of film history.
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Reviews
"Alternative Visions" at the PFA
Johnny Ray Huston
Feb 15, 2007The Pacific Film Archive's standing as a cinema-centric educational institution brings the avant-garde into conversation with a broad program of film history.
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Q & A
The Red Vic Movie House's Top 5
Susan Gerhard
Feb 9, 2007We asked the collectively owned and operated theater to come up with a list of their five favorite screenings over the years.
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Q & A
2006, The Remix
Susan Gerhard
Dec 27, 2006SF360.org ended the year the way we started it--asking enormous favors from some of our favorite filmmakers: Caveh Zahedi, Sam Green, and Danny Plotnick.
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Q & A
Frank Lee on 4 Star Theatre's Second Life
Laura Irvine and Jennifer Young
Dec 11, 2006Last week, theater operators Frank and Lida Lee won the battle to save the 4 Star, and announced they'd purchased the building.
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Q & A
A Word From Our Sponsored Films
Max Goldberg
Nov 28, 2006Collector and archivist Rick Prelinger puts on a show at the Other Cinema to celebrate his new book, A Field Guide to Sponsored Films.
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Q & A
Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema 2006
Susan Gerhard
Sep 1, 2006The List:10 local filmmakers describe what they love about shooting on the streets of San Francisco.
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Reviews
Pacific Film Archive's "A Theater Near You"
Max Goldberg
Aug 31, 2006This 2006 series of recent releases and restorations that played theaters for only a day or, at most, a week is exceptionally varied.
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News & Blogs
Morpho Power at SIGGRAPH
Sean Uyehara
Aug 16, 2006The Association for Computing Machinery Ôs 2006 conference and exhibition offered animation, new media art exhibits and the latest techniques in interactivity.
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Q & A
Matthew Barney, "Drawing Restraint"
Glen Helfand
Jun 19, 2006Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Barney talks to SF360 about his film and gallery project.
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Q & A
Matthew Barney, "Drawing Restraint"
Glen Helfand
Jun 19, 2006Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Barney talks to SF360 about his film and gallery project.
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Q & A
Happiness Is...Finding a Film Club? Adam Werbach Riffs
Susan Gerhard
Apr 10, 2006George Bush Senior's thousand points of light may never have materialized, but Adam Werbach believes that millions of pixels can truly accomplish something.
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Reviews
Tehran Contemporary Art Exhibit On Tour
Robert Avila
Mar 23, 2006The documentary Persian Garden chronicles the grandest art exhibition in Iran since the 1979 Revolution.
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Festivals
A Talk with SFIAAFF Directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto
Susan Gerhard
Mar 14, 2006Asian America everywhere: A talk with San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto.
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