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Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2011
When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.
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Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2011
When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.
September 1, 2011

Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2011
When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.
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Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2011
When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.
News & Blogs

Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2011
When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.
September 1, 2011

Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2011
When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.
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Avoiding Turbulence Leads to Plot Trouble
Lisa Rosenberg
Jul 19, 2011
Note to screenwriters: Don’t defeat the promise of your story by pulling your punches.
July 21, 2011

Avoiding Turbulence Leads to Plot Trouble
Lisa Rosenberg
Jul 19, 2011
Note to screenwriters: Don’t defeat the promise of your story by pulling your punches.
Screenwriting

Avoiding Turbulence Leads to Plot Trouble
Lisa Rosenberg
Jul 19, 2011
Note to screenwriters: Don’t defeat the promise of your story by pulling your punches.
May 17, 2011

Coen Brothers Double Feature
May 19, 2011
Castro Theatre hosts a double feature of films by writers-directors Joel and Ethan Coen, beginning with 1987's ‘Raising Arizona’ and followed by 1998's ‘The Big Lebowski.’ More at castrotheatre.com.
May 3, 2011

‘William Burroughs: A Man Within’
May 3, 2011
Red Vic Movie House presents ‘William Burroughs: A Man Within,’ a documentary that offers a look into the life of one of the first writers to address queer and drag culture in the '50s. Director Yony Leyser participates in a Q&A following select showings. More at redvicmoviehouse.com.
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Frank Pierson, 'These Amazing Shadows' Offer Inspiration
Michael Fox
May 3, 2011
Screenwriter Frank Pierson talks production at SFIFF54; Bay Area-made 'These Amazing Shadows' screens after the Festival closes.
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Frank Pierson, 'These Amazing Shadows' Offer Inspiration
Michael Fox
May 3, 2011
Screenwriter Frank Pierson talks production at SFIFF54; Bay Area-made 'These Amazing Shadows' screens after the Festival closes.
May 5, 2011

Frank Pierson, 'These Amazing Shadows' Offer Inspiration
Michael Fox
May 3, 2011
Screenwriter Frank Pierson talks production at SFIFF54; Bay Area-made 'These Amazing Shadows' screens after the Festival closes.
Festivals

Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011
Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
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Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011
Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
May 5, 2011

Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011
Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
03.31.11

Good’s ‘Vigilante’ Tags Graffiti Showdown
Michael Fox
Mar 30, 2011
A nonfiction tagging doc takes a novel approach, looking at those who erase graffiti as opposed to those who make it.
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Good’s ‘Vigilante’ Tags Graffiti Showdown
Michael Fox
Mar 30, 2011
A nonfiction tagging doc takes a novel approach, looking at those who erase graffiti as opposed to those who make it.
In Production

Good’s ‘Vigilante’ Tags Graffiti Showdown
Michael Fox
Mar 30, 2011
A nonfiction tagging doc takes a novel approach, looking at those who erase graffiti as opposed to those who make it.
03.31.11

Haynes Reaches Mainstream with Thoroughly Modern ‘Mildred’
Michael Fox
Mar 27, 2011
Todd Haynes talks melodrama, movies, TV, the Great Depression and personal motivation.
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Haynes Reaches Mainstream with Thoroughly Modern ‘Mildred’
Michael Fox
Mar 27, 2011
Todd Haynes talks melodrama, movies, TV, the Great Depression and personal motivation.
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Haynes Reaches Mainstream with Thoroughly Modern ‘Mildred’
Michael Fox
Mar 27, 2011
Todd Haynes talks melodrama, movies, TV, the Great Depression and personal motivation.
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Burroughs’ Story Still Stranger than Fiction
Dennis Harvey
Mar 11, 2011
A new Burroughs documentary revisits a familiar story, but delivers fresh insight.
March 17, 2011

Burroughs’ Story Still Stranger than Fiction
Dennis Harvey
Mar 11, 2011
A new Burroughs documentary revisits a familiar story, but delivers fresh insight.
Reviews

Burroughs’ Story Still Stranger than Fiction
Dennis Harvey
Mar 11, 2011
A new Burroughs documentary revisits a familiar story, but delivers fresh insight.
February 24, 2011

Beg For Your Life: In the Well with Laurel Nakadate
Mary Gaitskill
Feb 24, 2011
On the amoral goodness of nature, shapelessly shaped things and the hereness of bodies.
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Beg For Your Life: In the Well with Laurel Nakadate
Mary Gaitskill
Feb 24, 2011
On the amoral goodness of nature, shapelessly shaped things and the hereness of bodies.
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Beg For Your Life: In the Well with Laurel Nakadate
Mary Gaitskill
Feb 24, 2011
On the amoral goodness of nature, shapelessly shaped things and the hereness of bodies.
December 2, 2010

Writing Screenplays Is not Painting by Numbers
Lisa Rosenberg
Nov 30, 2010
When structuring a screenplay, sometimes you need to leave the "advice" behind.
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Writing Screenplays Is not Painting by Numbers
Lisa Rosenberg
Nov 30, 2010
When structuring a screenplay, sometimes you need to leave the "advice" behind.
Screenwriting

Writing Screenplays Is not Painting by Numbers
Lisa Rosenberg
Nov 30, 2010
When structuring a screenplay, sometimes you need to leave the "advice" behind.
October 26, 2010

'Left in the Dark' Photographer and Essayists in Person
Oct 30, 2010
Celebrations of photographer R.A. McBride’s and Julie Lindow's elegiac ‘Left in the Dark: Portraits of San Francisco Movie Theatres,' which features photographs cinemas of the past and present matched with scholarly essays on local industry themes, continue. Pacific Film Archive hosts a slide show presentation by McBride and readings by writers including Lindow, Katherine Petrin, Melinda Stone. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
Festivals

Berlin & Beyond Provides Genius Genre Treatments
Max Goldberg
Oct 22, 2010
A pair of expert heist films top Berlin & Beyond.
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Berlin & Beyond Provides Genius Genre Treatments
Max Goldberg
Oct 22, 2010
A pair of expert heist films top Berlin & Beyond.
October 28, 2010

Berlin & Beyond Provides Genius Genre Treatments
Max Goldberg
Oct 22, 2010
A pair of expert heist films top Berlin & Beyond.
September 14, 2010

Cinemalit: 'Love Affair'
Sep 17, 2010
The CinemaLit Film Series, curated by film critic and SF360.org contributor Michael Fox, presents Leo McCarey's 'Love Affair' at the Mechanics' Institute.
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Two Zimbalists and 'Two Escobars'
Susan Gerhard
Aug 27, 2010
The stories of an assassinated soccer star and the nation's most notorious criminal merge in a portrait of '80s-'90s Colombia.
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Two Zimbalists and 'Two Escobars'
Susan Gerhard
Aug 27, 2010
The stories of an assassinated soccer star and the nation's most notorious criminal merge in a portrait of '80s-'90s Colombia.
September 2, 2010

Two Zimbalists and 'Two Escobars'
Susan Gerhard
Aug 27, 2010
The stories of an assassinated soccer star and the nation's most notorious criminal merge in a portrait of '80s-'90s Colombia.
08-05-2010

'Winnebago Man' Hits the Road
Susan Gerhard
Aug 2, 2010
Director Ben Steinbauer and Bay Area-based producer Malcolm Pullinger talk about anger, RVs, and "going viral" with their new film.
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'Winnebago Man' Hits the Road
Susan Gerhard
Aug 2, 2010
Director Ben Steinbauer and Bay Area-based producer Malcolm Pullinger talk about anger, RVs, and "going viral" with their new film.
Q & A

'Winnebago Man' Hits the Road
Susan Gerhard
Aug 2, 2010
Director Ben Steinbauer and Bay Area-based producer Malcolm Pullinger talk about anger, RVs, and "going viral" with their new film.
Festivals

Words from Sundance Staffers: Michael Lyons
Hilary Hart
Jan 28, 2010
Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
Reviews

Citizen Critics' New Outlets, Challenges in 2009
Adam Hartzell
Jan 2, 2010
The silver lining to a decade that saw traditional critics in conventional media dwindle? The explosion of socially networked citizen critics.
Screenwriting

Carmen Madden on Watching People, Writing Characters
Lisa Rosenberg
Nov 16, 2009
Writer/director Carmen Madden's writing reflects just how intimately she comes to see and know a screenplay's world and the characters that inhabit it.
In Production

Christopher Upham Back to 'Dakto,' Vietnam
Michael Fox
Oct 13, 2009
The writer has had ample opportunity in the last 40 years to come to terms with his stint as an ambulance driver and medic.
Reviews

Tangerine Dreams: Cinematheque de Tanger's Morocco Showcase
Simona Schneider
Oct 1, 2009
Tangier has created an identity as a great fount of stories and light, complete with an independent cinema that opened in 2007.
Screenwriting

Understanding Backstory
Lisa Rosenberg
Aug 25, 2009
Behind any narrative for the screen is the story that came before it—the life that shaped the central character, who arrives fully formed as your story opens
Q & A

Lawrence Jordan: to Infinity and Beyond
Sean Uyehara
Jun 1, 2009
Leading light of avant-garde cinema Lawrence Jordan speaks on the occasion of his Gallery Extraña show and his 75th birthday.
Reviews

SFIFF52: Chris Felver's "Ferlinghetti" Captures an Icon
David Winks Gray
Apr 26, 2009
Chris Felver traces the life of antiauthoritarian Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights Books, from his days as a Navy serviceman in World War II through the landmark First Amendment trial in Ferlinghetti.
Reviews

SFIFF52: Peter Bratt's "La Mission"
Susan Gerhard
Apr 23, 2009
Peter Bratt's La Mission focuses on conflict within a family and a neighborhood, exploring what happens when a single father named Che learns a secret about his son that tests his love for his family and his community's love for him.
Q & A

Sragow on 'An American Movie Master'
Michael Fox
Nov 30, 2008
Former San Francisco Examiner film critic Michael Sragow talks about his newly released book Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master.
Reviews

The Cosmic Dance-Floor of Arthur Russell
Amy Taubin
Sep 16, 2008
Matt Wolf's biodoc is a remarkably affecting portrait that's a remembrance for those who knew the composer/vocalist/cellist and an introduction for potential fans.
Festivals

"Standard Operating Procedure" and the Stories We Tell
Staff
May 9, 2008
Joan Didion famously said, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." We've internalized the American narrative of Abu Ghraib and accepted its implications.
Festivals

In Other Words: Standard Operating Procedure
Staff
Apr 30, 2008
Joan Didion famously said, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." We have internalized the narrative of Abu Ghraib and accepted its implications.
Q & A

Jamie Meltzer on "Welcome to Nollywood"
Michael Fox
Oct 8, 2007
Jamie Meltzer talks about his new film on Nigeria, where the digital revolution enables entrepreneurs to churn out movies quickly and inexpensively.
Reviews

"American Cannibal" and Reality TV
Claire Faggioli
Jun 22, 2007
List: American Cannibal documents two down on their luck television writers, Gil Ripley and Dave Roberts, as they sell their souls to the reality television circuit.
Festivals

Liane Yasumoto and Superfest International Disability Film Festival
Susan Gerhard
May 27, 2007
A week before the 27th festival, SF360.org spoke with the executive director on what Superfest gets about disability that the rest of the filmmaking world doesn't.
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.
Q & A

Totally, Tenderly 20th-Century: Lopate Curates Critics
Thomas Logoreci
Apr 11, 2006
With American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now, N.Y. essayist Phillip Lopate compiles nearly a century of groundbreaking and entertaining criticism.
Q & A

Zahedi and Field on I Am a Sex Addict
Susan Gerhard
Apr 4, 2006

Director Caveh Zahedi and his partner, Amanda Field, speak about turning their personal lives over to the public with I Am a Sex Addict.
Deadlines

Funding: Academy Film Scholars Program

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Foundation Film Scholars Program is stimulating and supporting new and significant works of film scholarship. ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be established scholars, writers, historians or researchers possessing either a significant record of achievement, or exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments in their field. Applicants must have written and published at least one book or a comparable collection of articles or monographs. AWARDS: Two grants of $25,000 will be made to qualified and worthy applicants, as reviewed and selected by the Academy's Grants Committee and staff. The Academy will distribute the grant money in two parts: at the commencement and upon completion of the proposed project. The Academy will also cover travel, lodging and per diem expenses, if necessary, for the recipients to attend the Film Scholars awards luncheon and to make their lecture presentation. DEADLINE: Application materials must be received by October 3, 2011. WEBSITE: oscars.org/education-outreach/grants/filmscholars/apply.html.

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