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  Living in the World: Films by Helga Fanderl

  Sep 22, 2011

  SFMOMA presents an hour-long program of contemporary artist Helga Fanderl's formalist silent Super 8mm shorts this Thursday. More info at sfmoma.org.

  
• September 20, 2011
  
  

  Living in the World: Films by Helga Fanderl

  Sep 22, 2011

  SFMOMA presents an hour-long program of contemporary artist Helga Fanderl's formalist silent Super 8mm shorts this Thursday. More info at sfmoma.org.

  
• August 2, 2011
  
  

  'Carmen Jones' with Kalup Linzy

  Aug 8, 2011

  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.

  
• 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.’

  
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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.’

  
• July 19, 2011
  
  

  'Diva'

  Jul 21, 2011

  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.

  
• July 12, 2011
  
  

  'Out of the Past'

  Jul 13, 2011

  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.

  
• June 28, 2011
  
  

  'The Virgin Machine'

  Jun 30, 2011

  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.

  
• June 21, 2011
  
  

  'I Love You, Alice B. Toklas'

  Jun 23, 2011

  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.

  
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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

  
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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

  
• March 1, 2011
  
  

  'Exposed on Film'

  Mar 4, 2011

  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.

  
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  Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens

  Michael Fox
  Jan 3, 2011

  SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.

  
• January 6, 2010
  
  

  Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens

  Michael Fox
  Jan 3, 2011

  SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.

  
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  Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens

  Michael Fox
  Jan 3, 2011

  SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.

  
• September 7, 2010
  
  

  Infinite City: Cinema City

  Sep 9, 2010

  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.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Conner Forever Moving Forward

  Dennis Harvey
  May 10, 2010

  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  William Kentridge at SFMOMA

  Robert Avila
  Mar 25, 2009

  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

  
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  Chantal Akerman's Everyday, and More, at SFMOMA

  Glen Helfand
  Feb 13, 2009

  With films that focus a patient eye on common human conditions, Belgian-born auteur Chantal Akerman is a formalist with heart–and global interests.

  
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  Room for Thought at SFMOMA

  Michael Fox
  Sep 4, 2008

  A 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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  Room for Thought at SFMOMA

  Michael Fox
  Sep 4, 2008

  A 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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  SFMOMA's "Nonwestern Westerns" Series

  Dennis Harvey
  Mar 26, 2008

  A series of films at SFMOMA present an outsiders take on the outmoded American staple, the Western.

  
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  SFMOMA's Emile de Antonio Series

  B. Ruby Rich
  Jan 3, 2008

  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.

  
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  Joseph Cornell at SFMOMA

  Max Goldberg
  Oct 11, 2007

  Joseph 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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  Fred Astaire, "Also Dances..."

  Dennis Harvey
  May 31, 2007

  SFMOMA offers plenty of chances to appreciate Astaire's feather-light charm this month in Also Dances: The Films of Fred Astaire.

  
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  "One Man Band," two Pixar geniuses, and "The Iron Giant" revisited

  Sean Uyehara
  Oct 13, 2006

  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.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  San Francisco International Animation Showcase

  Johnny Ray Huston
  Oct 12, 2006

  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.

  
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  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.