SFMOMA presents an hour-long program of contemporary artist Helga Fanderl's formalist silent Super 8mm shorts this Thursday. More info at sfmoma.org.
SFMOMA presents an hour-long program of contemporary artist Helga Fanderl's formalist silent Super 8mm shorts this Thursday. More info at sfmoma.org.
SFMOMA's Opera on Film series continues with a screening of Otto Preminger's 'Carmen Jones,' based on George Bizet's 'Carmen' but recast as a WWII-era yarn with an all-black cast featuring Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge, who received an Oscar nom for her performance. Screening will be preceded by an introduction and live performance by entrancing New York artist Kalup Linzy. More info at sfmoma.org.
The filmmaker talks about time, life, storytelling and her new film, ‘The Future.’
The filmmaker talks about time, life, storytelling and her new film, ‘The Future.’
The filmmaker talks about time, life, storytelling and her new film, ‘The Future.’
SF Museum of Modern Art's Opera on Film series screens Jean-Jacques Beineix's under-appreciated 'Diva' on Thursday. The Caesar Award-winning romance/thriller hybrid deftly handles a complex, opera-centric plot littered with brilliant pop-art inspired chase scenes and features a number of standout performances, including those by Jeunet regular Dominique Pinon and real-life opera singer Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez. More info sfmoma.org.
PFA program Going South: American Noir in Mexico continues with Robert Mitchum's first starring role in the classic 'Out of the Past,' also featuring Kirk Douglas and a stunning Jane Greer. Going South runs through July 29. More info bampfa.berkeley.edu.
A German romance writer is transplanted to San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood, where she attends an all-girl strip show and is initiated into local lesbian culture in this racey, vintage, "sex positive" indie. More at sfmoma.org.
Potent period nostalgia and Peter Sellers' impeccable comedic timing ignite this goofy ode to tuning in, turning on, and wondering... what now? This dippy comedy was an inspiration for Mike Meyer's 'Austin Powers' franchise. More at sfmoma.org.
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
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
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Castro Theatre present ‘Exposed on Film,’ a three-day series featuring films that explore the themes presented in the concurrent San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s exhibit, Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870, including Warhol's 'The Nude Restaurant,' Antonioni's 'Blow Up' and David Lynch's 'Lost Highway.' More at castrotheatre.com and sfmoma.org.
SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.
SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.
SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.
SFMOMA has mapped out a set of unique events in conjunction the upcoming release of Rebecca Solnit's new book, 'Infinite City: a San Francisco Atlas.' Thursday, September 9, 'Housing Shadows and Projecting Fog' screens Christian Bruno's work-in-progress film about the Strand movie theater as well as Andy Black and Sam Green's atmospheric 'Fog City.' Saturday, September 11, a Film Crawl through a variety of San Francisco moviehouses—from the Balboa (where Ernie Gehr's 'Cotton Candy,' right, plays at noon) to the Roxie—offers an historic tour of the city's cinema history. More at SFMOMA: http://www.sfmoma.org/events/1722.
Bruce Conner, the sculptor, painter, photographer and filmmaker who loomed large in the Bay Area's shifting avant-garde currents for 50 years, resurfaces with Three Screen Ray.
The film historian looks back at Frank Stauffacher's seminal mid-century series, which hatched a Bay Area avant-garde.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art honors the 40th anniversary of The Cockettes with a one-night-only program.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art honors the 40th anniversary of The Cockettes with a one-night-only program.
The 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
With films that focus a patient eye on common human conditions, Belgian-born auteur Chantal Akerman is a formalist with heart–and global interests.
A film in a darkened theater commands our undivided attention, but a video installation in a museum doesn't have the same effect.
A film in a darkened theater commands our undivided attention, but a video installation in a museum doesn't have the same effect.
A series of films at SFMOMA present an outsiders take on the outmoded American staple, the Western.
As this retrospective makes clear, de Antonio's documentaries are a different species entirely from the kind of celebrity-driven, headline chasing theatricals now in favor.
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination comes to San Francisco for the first major west-coast exhibition of the artist's work in 40 years.
SFMOMA offers plenty of chances to appreciate Astaire's feather-light charm this month in Also Dances: The Films of Fred Astaire.
Mark Andrews and Andrew Jimenez co-wrote and co-directed the unexpected, surprisingly funny short about two musicians vying for a young girl's lone coin.
San Francisco Film Society programming associate Sean Uyehara has pulled off a feat with the opening program for the first San Francisco International Animation Showcase.
Benjamin Weil took time out from preparations for the upcoming Barney show to answer questions about the artist's "Drawing Restraint" series.