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    Percifield Runs with Board of Supes Candidate

    Michael Fox
    Jun 19, 2011

    First-time doc-maker Dain Percifield offers notes on capturing the highs and lows of drag queen Anna Conda's 2010 run for S.F. Supervisor.

  • June 23 2011

    Percifield Runs with Board of Supes Candidate

    Michael Fox
    Jun 19, 2011

    First-time doc-maker Dain Percifield offers notes on capturing the highs and lows of drag queen Anna Conda's 2010 run for S.F. Supervisor.

  • June 23, 2011

    Percifield Runs with Board of Supes Candidate

    Michael Fox
    Jun 19, 2011

    First-time doc-maker Dain Percifield offers notes on capturing the highs and lows of drag queen Anna Conda's 2010 run for S.F. Supervisor.

  • Q & A

    Percifield Runs with Board of Supes Candidate

    Michael Fox
    Jun 19, 2011

    First-time doc-maker Dain Percifield offers notes on capturing the highs and lows of drag queen Anna Conda's 2010 run for S.F. Supervisor.

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    Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'

    Michael Fox
    Jul 23, 2010

    Three films document essential chunks of San Francisco's tragic and mythic past, told in empathetic but non-hagiographic testimony.

  • In Depth

    Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'

    Michael Fox
    Jul 23, 2010

    Three films document essential chunks of San Francisco's tragic and mythic past, told in empathetic but non-hagiographic testimony.

  • Festivals

    San Francisco International's Local Filmmakers Next Step

    Michael Fox
    May 6, 2010

    We caught up with several Bay Area makers, fresh off their high-energy screenings at SFIFF53 and primed to keep the momentum rolling.

  • 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

    Local Filmmakers In SFIFF Spotlight

    Michael Fox
    Apr 27, 2010

    Leland Orser saw his first movie at the Alexandria, and Joshua Grannell initially established himself as a S.F. character via his alter ego Peaches Christ.

  • In Production

    Joe Graham's Soulful 'Strapped'

    Michael Fox
    Jan 19, 2010

    "I wish gay cinema would die", Joe Graham declares. It s not queer movies the San Francisco filmmaker hates, but categories and pigeonholing.

  • Q & A

    Jennifer Phang On Half-Life and Identity

    Judy Stone
    Jan 8, 2010

    Jennifer Phang has experienced more than enough culture shocks in her life to empathize with the identity challenges of the characters in her debut feature.

  • In Production

    Nani Walker's 'Other Nature' At 15,000 Feet

    Michael Fox
    Jan 5, 2010

    Nani Sahra Walker went to Nepal for seven months, and returned with a one-hour documentary. OK, a rough cut. No big deal? Enlightenment guaranteed, indeed.

  • 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

    The Cockettes' Celluloid Afterglow Still Strong at 40

    Dennis Harvey
    Dec 3, 2009

    The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art honors the 40th anniversary of The Cockettes with a one-night-only program.

  • 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.

  • Reviews

    Lee, Schamus and Woodstock

    Dennis Harvey
    Aug 27, 2009

    The release of Woodstock provides an opportunity to look back on Ang Lee and Schamus's very impressive, diverse screen resume.

  • Reviews

    'Howl' is Poetry in Post

    Michael Fox
    Jul 28, 2009

    Academy Award-winning documentary filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman combine live-action period drama and animation in retelling of Ginsburg's Howl

  • Reviews

    An Ample Display of Tilda Swinton's Edge

    Dennis Harvey
    Jul 10, 2009

    Tilda Swinton's edge of riskiness is on ample display in Julia, a new film by French director Erick Zonca.

  • In Production

    Weissman's 'Heartbreak and Heroism'

    Michael Fox
    Jul 7, 2009

    David Weissman speaks on his new project, Heartbreak and Heroism, revisiting the early years of the AIDS outbreak in San Francisco.

  • In Production

    The horror, the horror: 'Tweaker With an Axe'

    Michael Fox
    Jul 1, 2009

    An interview with Flynn Witmeyer about his debut feature Tweaker With an Axe, and the desire to make genre films—horror or sci-fi or fantasy—that incorporate gay and lesbian characters.

  • Festivals

    Frameline33: Icons and Unsung Heroes

    Matt Sussman
    Jun 25, 2009

    A festival full of drama finds no more emotional screening than the homophobia-in-sports double bill of Training Rules and Claiming the Title: Gay Olympics on Trial.

  • 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.

  • Q & A

    Cronenwett's 'Maggots and Men' at Frameline

    Michael Fox
    Jun 20, 2009

    A case could be made that Cary Cronenwett's Maggots and Men isn't just the most unique work in Frameline33, but of any festival all year.

  • 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.)

  • In Production

    'All About Evil'-doer Joshua Grannell in post

    Michael Fox
    Jun 17, 2009

    Blood-soaked, darkly comic All About Evil has writer-director Joshua Grannell and editor Rick LeCompte on an express-train schedule rare for an independent feature.

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    'All About Evil'-doer Joshua Grannell in post

    Michael Fox
    Jun 17, 2009

    Blood-soaked, darkly comic All About Evil has writer-director Joshua Grannell and editor Rick LeCompte on an express-train schedule rare for an independent feature.

  • Reviews

    SFIFF52: Yun Suh's "City of Borders"

    David Winks Gray
    Apr 26, 2009

    City of Borders, the debut film by Bay Area filmmaker Yun Suh, follows several Palestinian characters seeking refuge at a gay bar. The film testifies to the intolerance that members of the LGBTQ community face in addition to all of the other walls, physical and social, separating people in the region.

  • In Production

    Leban and Szajko's Gay Marriage Doc

    Michael Fox
    Feb 18, 2009

    The tentatively titled Winter of Love uses Prop. 8 as a framework for a look at the increasing acceptance of gay marriage.

  • First Person

    Funder as Supplicant

    John R. Killacky
    Jan 20, 2009

    First-Person: A program officer at the San Francisco Foundation has a sobering experience making a documentary.

  • Reviews

    Debra Chasnoff's 'Straightlaced'

    Judy Stone
    Jan 5, 2009

    50 California students talk about their problems with gender in the new documentary Straightlaced–How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up.

  • Q & A

    Gus Van Sant and Dustin Lance Black on 'Milk'

    Michael Fox
    Nov 23, 2008

    Michael Fox chats with Gus Van Sant and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black on the eve of Milk's much-anticipated theatrical release.

  • In Production

    Mendocino's Swine Country

    Michael Fox
    Sep 17, 2008

    "Horror films can hold a lot of crazy ideas and political ideas and no one blinks," says Pig Hunt writer and producer Robert Mailer Anderson, "and that serves our purposes."

  • Q & A

    Parvez Sharma and 'A Jihad for Love'

    Judy Stone
    Aug 14, 2008

    Sharma might never have made his film had he not felt guilty about causing unhappiness to his dying mother by telling her he was homosexual.

  • Q & A

    Canyon Cinema's Dominic Angerame

    Erika Young
    Aug 4, 2008

    A conversation with the executive director of an experimental/avant-garde film distribution company, who both runs a profitable business and creates dynamic art.

  • Festivals

    Frameline's New Lesson Plan

    Lynn Rapoport
    Jul 1, 2008

    Critic's notebook: Marriage changes everything at the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.

  • Reviews

    The World of 'Derek' at Frameline32

    Max Goldberg
    Jun 25, 2008

    A documentary tribute to Derek Jarman, Isaac Julien's Derek does not seek to enlarge or complicate the filmmaker's legacy so much as succor its loss.

  • Festivals

    Critic's Notebook: Frameline32

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 24, 2008

    Critic Dennis Harvey reviews select films screened at the 32nd San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.

  • Festivals

    Argentina's New Wave at Frameline

    Matt Sussman
    Jun 19, 2008

    A look at the films in the 32nd San Francisco International LGBT FIlm Festival indicates the rise of Argentina's new wave.

  • Q & A

    Strand's Marcus Hu and Frameline's Michael Lumpkin

    Marcus Hu
    Jun 16, 2008

    Strand Releasing President Marcus Hu speaks with Frameline Artistic Director Lumpkin about Frameline, queer cinema and the future of this niche festival.]

  • Reviews

    The List: Michael Lumpkin Looks Back

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 13, 2008

    Michael Lumpkin's mini-retrospective of features that highlight some personal favorites that made waves at the Frameline Festival (and sometimes in the larger cinematic world).

  • Reviews

    San Francisco Black Film Festival's 10th

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 4, 2008

    In 2008 the San Francisco Black Film Festival marks its 10th anniversary with the most expansive program yet, flagging the theme "10 Years, 10 Days, 100 Films."

  • Festivals

    Frameline's 32nd SFLGBT Festival Program

    Susan Gerhard
    May 20, 2008

    The historic Castro Theatre, its marquee recently revamped for the Milk biopic shoot, hosted Frameline's announcement of its 2008 festival.

  • Q & A

    Johnny Symons and "Ask Not"

    Michael Fox
    Apr 12, 2008

    East Bay filmmaker Johnny Symons' documentary "Ask Not" moves beyond stereotypes to examine what experience is really like for gays and lesbians in the military.

  • Reviews

    "Shelter"

    Dennis Harvey
    Mar 24, 2008

    Writer/director Jonah Markowitz's Shelter is a romantic gay surfer that more than earns its spurs in terms of real-world credibility and psychology.

  • Reviews

    "Lover Other"

    Matt Sussman
    Jun 26, 2007

    Review: startling portraits Claude Cahun, her half-sister and lover Marcel Moore took of themselves and each other dressed in a variety of personas, costumes and genders in Lover Other.

  • Festivals

    Frameline31

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 14, 2007

    Now past its third-decade anniversary, SFILGBTFF — the producing organization keeps trying to change its public-recognition name to something more manageable, which this annum would be Frameline31 — now has filmmakers and distributors banging on its door.

  • Festivals

    Lumpkin and Morris on Frameline's Big Picture

    Susan Gerhard
    Jun 11, 2007

    Frameline directors Michael Lumpkin and Jennifer Morris speak about the programming, controversy and the landscape of LGBT films.

  • Festivals

    A Strandful at Frameline31

    Michael Guillen
    Jun 8, 2007

    Strand Releasing can always be relied upon for some of the best art films and queer indies, and it has a strong festival presence,

  • Festivals

    Frameline Announces 31st Program

    Susan Gerhard
    May 23, 2007

    The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival lineup includes several world premieres and international features from Korea, Argentina, and Cuba.

  • Festivals

    Frameline, Scalped

    Laura Irvine
    May 16, 2007

    Jeff Iorillo on the fourth festival trailer that he's written and directed for the S.F. International LGBT Film Festival.

  • News & Blogs

    Remembering Jim Lyons: 1960 - 2007

    Staff
    Apr 18, 2007

    The editor and actor, known for his frequent work with Todd Haynes, died in New York. His friends share their thoughts.

  • Reviews

    Reviews: "Black Snake Moan"; "Cinemachismo"

    Michael Guillen
    Feb 27, 2007

    risks ridiculousness in chasing down unpolished redemption, while de la Mora delivers essential reading in Mexican film, gender studies, and theories of queer spectatorship.

  • 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.

  • Reviews

    James Broughton, and a DVD Eden

    Robert Avila
    Dec 20, 2006

    The product of a true cinematic innovator and gloriously individual poet, Broughton's film work remains much too idiosyncratic to be deconstructed,

  • Q & A

    John Cameron Mitchell's long "Shortbus" ride

    Susan Gerhard
    Oct 2, 2006

    John Cameron Mitchell's latest film: A bright, sexually explicit ensemble piece featuring American friends and acquaintances who might have made good primetime TV.

  • 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.

  • Reviews

    We Want Our "Dykeback Mountain"

    Staff
    Jun 27, 2006

    Conference discusses the difficulties for lesbian features to get made and do well at the box office.

  • Reviews

    Bay Area Filmmakers at SF International LGBT Film Festival

    Susan Gerhard
    Jun 23, 2006

    16 filmmakers from the Bay Area find at least 15 minutes of fame in the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival this year.

  • Q & A

    Marc Huestis and a Wrinkle in Time

    Susan Gerhard
    Jun 13, 2006

    Marc Huestis talks about his latest film, , and the pros and cons of getting old.


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