NFPF’s ‘Treasures 5’ Excavates 'The West'

Michael Fox
Oct 28, 2011

The National Film Preservation Foundation delivers another gem with the fascinating three-disc box set 'The West 1898-1938.'

NFPF’s ‘Treasures 5’ Excavates 'The West'

Michael Fox
Oct 28, 2011

The National Film Preservation Foundation delivers another gem with the fascinating three-disc box set 'The West 1898-1938.'

NFPF’s ‘Treasures 5’ Excavates 'The West'

Michael Fox
Oct 28, 2011

The National Film Preservation Foundation delivers another gem with the fascinating three-disc box set 'The West 1898-1938.'

NFPF’s ‘Treasures 5’ Excavates 'The West'

Michael Fox
Oct 28, 2011

The National Film Preservation Foundation delivers another gem with the fascinating three-disc box set 'The West 1898-1938.'

NFPF’s ‘Treasures 5’ Excavates 'The West'

Michael Fox
Oct 28, 2011

The National Film Preservation Foundation delivers another gem with the fascinating three-disc box set 'The West 1898-1938.'

NFPF’s ‘Treasures 5’ Excavates 'The West'

Michael Fox
Oct 28, 2011

The National Film Preservation Foundation delivers another gem with the fascinating three-disc box set 'The West 1898-1938.'

Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall

Susan Gerhard
Oct 10, 2011

Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.

Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall

Susan Gerhard
Oct 10, 2011

Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.

Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall

Susan Gerhard
Oct 10, 2011

Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.

Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive

Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011

New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.

Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive

Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011

New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.

Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive

Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011

New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.

'Meek's Cutoff' a Minimalist Masterpiece

Michael Read
May 7, 2011

Kelly Reichardt creates a moving meditation on open space with 'Meek's Cutoff.'

'Meek's Cutoff' a Minimalist Masterpiece

Michael Read
May 7, 2011

Kelly Reichardt creates a moving meditation on open space with 'Meek's Cutoff.'

'Meek's Cutoff' a Minimalist Masterpiece

Michael Read
May 7, 2011

Kelly Reichardt creates a moving meditation on open space with 'Meek's Cutoff.'

SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events

Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011

SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.

SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events

Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011

SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.

SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events

Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011

SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.

Irving Glides from Parrots to Pelicans

Michael Fox
Sep 22, 2010

Judy Irving goes from parrots to pelicans with her new documentary.

Irving Glides from Parrots to Pelicans

Michael Fox
Sep 22, 2010

Judy Irving goes from parrots to pelicans with her new documentary.

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.

San Francisco International Film Festival's 53rd Edition

Susan Gerhard
Mar 30, 2010

Director of Programming Rachel Rosen and programmers Rod Armstrong, Audrey Chang and Sean Uyehara shared thoughts on 177 films from 46 countries.

Social Justice and the S.F. Jewish Film Festival

Michael Fox
Jul 22, 2009

The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival arrives with an expansive program spotlighting the Jewish tradition of social justice and human rights.

SFIFF52 Blogs: Keeping Scores

Marc Capelle
May 11, 2009

Marc Capelle's ode to Westerns and Buddy films as well as noteworthy festival scores.

Film Society Awards: Ballard, Coppola, Redford and Toback

Susan Gerhard
May 1, 2009

The San Francisco Film Society honored Francis Ford Coppola, Carroll Ballard, Robert Redford and James Toback. Coppola surprised the audience by turning over the Founder's Directing Award he received to longtime colleague Carroll Ballard.

SFIFF52: Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in the West'

Dennis Harvey
Apr 30, 2009

Once Upon a Time in the West is grand, cynical, lavish and above all huge, Sergio Leone's penchant for the iconically gargantuan (perhaps at the willing expense of relatable human detail) expressed in ultimate form.

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.

'Medicine for Melancholy' in the City it Re-discovered

Michael Fox
Mar 5, 2009

Barry 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.

Genuflection: 'Pray the Devil Back to Hell'

Dennis Harvey
Dec 9, 2008

Gini Reiticker's fine documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell, opens at SF's Red Vic Movie House and Berkeley's Shattuck Cinemas.

SFFS Screens 'Delwende'

Dennis Harvey
Oct 28, 2008

Veteran Burkina Faso director S. Pierre Yameogo's new film shows an isolated society still vulnerable to superstition.

Niles Essanay's Voguing Eunuchs, Raving Madmen

Mary B. Scott
Jul 1, 2008

Having just spent three invigorating days in Niles watching crowds cheering to films from the years between 1903 and 1917, I can report that silent films are alive and well.

Dawn and David Katznelson

Miriam Wolf
Jun 2, 2008

Katznelson, a co-founder of the Dawn festival at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, sat down to talk about Judaism, culture, film and the festival.

SFIFF51: Katherin McInnis Cues the Carnival Music

Jennifer Preissel
Apr 28, 2008

The longtime Bay Area resident, who recently relocated to Brooklyn, screens Woodward's Gardens in the shorts program "In A Lonely Place: New Experimental Cinema."

SF Int'l announces its 51st program and year-round screen

Susan Gerhard
Apr 1, 2008

The SFIFF announced its 2008 program and the June 13 launch of its year-round programming on one screen at the Sundance Kabuki

Eran Kolirin and "The Band's Visit"

Judy Stone
Feb 12, 2008

Underneath The Band's Visit's poignant humor, the film subtly reflects the director's attempt to comprehend Israel's pull between the Middle East and the West.

Connie Field, from Berkeley to Johannesburg

Robert Avila
Nov 5, 2007

The filmmaker talks about her recent projects, including Salud!, which looks at Cuba's world-class health system.

Michael Winterbottom's "A Mighty Heart"

SF360.org
Jun 18, 2007

The prolific British director, known for a large and eclectic body of work, has done something very unusual in the past half decade.

San Francisco Black Film Festival

Dennis Harvey
Jun 7, 2007

Nine years' vintage makes the SFBFF a newcomer by Bay Area standards. In terms of programmatic diversity and premieres, it's got old-soul depth.

SFIFF50-philes

Susan Gerhard
Apr 11, 2007



Just a week out of the SFIFF50 press conference at the Westin St. Francis, and the buzz has already had a chance to build. SF360.org checked in with a few friends in the San Francisco filmmaking scene to see what they’re looking forward to in the 50th edition of the SF International Film Festival. Big winners: Guy Maddin’s “Brand Upon the Brain!” and, of course, the live and in-person tribute to Spike Lee, who — as Strand Releasing’s Marcus Hu reminds us — returns to the Bay Area to receive his Film Society Directing Award in spite of the fact the projector broke during the premiere of “She’s Gotta Have It” at the SFIFF more than 20 years ago.



I’m eager to see Camila Guzman Urzula’s documentary “The Sugar Curtain” for perspectives on life in Cuba from those in their twenties and thirties. I’m curious about how a savvy film critic like Wesley Morris will interview Spike Lee. It will be a welcome occurrence to see two Black men talking on a US festival stage about film.
Cornelius Moore
California Newsreel



“Audience of One:” I know this year the festival is honoring Lucas and Coppola and those guys as local heroes, but really. Hollywood North? What happened? Now here is a group of makers, Pentacostals no less, working on a gargantuan bible epic right down on Ocean Avenue in the old El Rey Theatre. Now that’s hot!
Christian Bruno
Strand, A Natural History of Cinema



Although I’ve already seen it, I look forward to attending the one-off screening of Guy Maddin’s “Brand Upon the Brain!” since each live performance, by design, differs somewhat from the last. No self-respecting (or, for that matter, self-deprecating) cineaste should miss it. Beyond that, I’m particularly interested in Alain Resnais’ latest, “Coeurs” (i.e., “Private Fears in Public Places,” which, due to timing conflicts, I missed in Toronto), reuniting the director with the exceptional playwright Alan Ayckbourn. I remain quite fond of his recent films even if most folks in this country seem to disregard his work after “Mon oncle d’Amerique,” released over a quarter-century ago.
Jonathan Marlow
GreenCine



I love that SFIFF is honoring Spike Lee, I saw “She’s Gotta Have It” when it had its world premiere at SFIFF and remembered what an amazing experience that was when the projector broke!
Marcus Hu
Strand Releasing



I first started attending SFIFF in 1964 while still in high school. I saw the independent “The Luck of Ginger Coffey,” directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Robert Shaw, a fascinating documentary look at a country

S.F. International Announces Lineup for 50th

Susan Gerhard
Apr 4, 2007

The festival kicks off with Emanuele Crialese's Golden Door and closes with Olivier Dahan's Edith Piaf biopic, La vie en rose.

'Seraphim Falls': Myth in the Western Canon

Dennis Harvey
Feb 6, 2007

The new western isn't really about violence, it's about Myth, in a symbolic, sort of Old Testament-meets-Sergio Leone way.

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.

24 Reasons Why

Susan Gerhard
May 11, 2006

A list of the 24 reasons why to find yourself in the Mission this Sunday and the rest of the week for the 10th annual Music and Arts Festival.

Sam Green's Tour Through "Lot 63, Grave C"

Sam Green
Apr 12, 2006

For people who know their rock trivia, or saw Gimme Shelter, Altamont represents one of the most infamous moments in Bay Area cultural history.

49th Annual SFIFF Lineup

Susan Gerhard
Mar 28, 2006

San Francisco International Film Festival announces lineup for the 49th annual festival.

Cambodian Americans Exiled in New Film, Sentenced Home

Susan Gerhard
Mar 20, 2006

A conversation with the filmmakers and one star of "Sentenced Home," about three Cambodian Americans in the process of being exiled.