-
Festivals
Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
Adam Hartzell
Oct 20, 2011Without marketing tie-ins, plastic toys or corn-syrup confections, a children’s film festival brings energy to the screen.
-
Home
Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
Adam Hartzell
Oct 20, 2011Without marketing tie-ins, plastic toys or corn-syrup confections, a children’s film festival brings energy to the screen.
-
October 20, 2011
Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
Adam Hartzell
Oct 20, 2011Without marketing tie-ins, plastic toys or corn-syrup confections, a children’s film festival brings energy to the screen.
-
August 18, 2011
Teens Tackle Production at SFFS Young Filmmakers Camp
Kim Nunley
Aug 12, 2011The second year of the Film Society's movie-making summer camp puts youth on location.
-
Home
Teens Tackle Production at SFFS Young Filmmakers Camp
Kim Nunley
Aug 12, 2011The second year of the Film Society's movie-making summer camp puts youth on location.
-
News & Blogs
Teens Tackle Production at SFFS Young Filmmakers Camp
Kim Nunley
Aug 12, 2011The second year of the Film Society's movie-making summer camp puts youth on location.
-
August 18, 2011
Teens Tackle Production at SFFS Young Filmmakers Camp
Kim Nunley
Aug 12, 2011The second year of the Film Society's movie-making summer camp puts youth on location.
-
Home
Teens Tackle Production at SFFS Young Filmmakers Camp
Kim Nunley
Aug 12, 2011The second year of the Film Society's movie-making summer camp puts youth on location.
-
News & Blogs
Teens Tackle Production at SFFS Young Filmmakers Camp
Kim Nunley
Aug 12, 2011The second year of the Film Society's movie-making summer camp puts youth on location.
-
August 2, 2011
The Animator's Art with John Musker
Aug 8, 2011Disney animation director John Musker, responsible for 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and a number of other contemporary favorites, appears at The Walt Disney Family Museum to give a short demonstration of the craft of animation to youth ages 8-12. Older aficionados of the director's work can head to PFA on Wednesday for a lecture and presentation by Musker. More info at sffs.org and bampfa.berkeley.edu.
-
July 5, 2011
Bertolucci Retrospective at PFA
Jul 8, 2011From now until mid-August, PFA screens a series of films by Italian master Bernardo Bertolucci. The series begins on Friday with Bertoluci's early-career rumination on the nature of love and youthful idealism, 'Before the Revolution.' More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
-
Home
‘Over the Edge’ Emerges from ‘Cult-Favorite’ Closet
Dennis Harvey
Jun 28, 2011Ficks’ ‘Watch out for Children’ triple bill features a long lost career-lanching teen-drama gem.
-
June 30, 2011
‘Over the Edge’ Emerges from ‘Cult-Favorite’ Closet
Dennis Harvey
Jun 28, 2011Ficks’ ‘Watch out for Children’ triple bill features a long lost career-lanching teen-drama gem.
-
Reviews
‘Over the Edge’ Emerges from ‘Cult-Favorite’ Closet
Dennis Harvey
Jun 28, 2011Ficks’ ‘Watch out for Children’ triple bill features a long lost career-lanching teen-drama gem.
-
Festivals
Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
-
Home
Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
-
June 30, 2011
Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
-
Festivals
Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
-
Home
Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
-
June 30, 2011
Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
-
Home
Celebrating a Reel Education
Jennifer Preissel
Jun 9, 2011San Francisco Film Society commemorates 20 years of education programs in 2011. Since 1991, the San Francisco Film Society has been educating youth in film, but it’s not all elementary, or middle, or high school-oriented: What began as a K–12 Schools at the Festival program that brought students and international cinema together has, 20 years later, grown into year-round educational programming that serves not just under-18s, but lifelong learners, professional and novice filmmakers and university students.
-
June 9, 2011
Celebrating a Reel Education
Jennifer Preissel
Jun 9, 2011San Francisco Film Society commemorates 20 years of education programs in 2011. Since 1991, the San Francisco Film Society has been educating youth in film, but it’s not all elementary, or middle, or high school-oriented: What began as a K–12 Schools at the Festival program that brought students and international cinema together has, 20 years later, grown into year-round educational programming that serves not just under-18s, but lifelong learners, professional and novice filmmakers and university students.
-
News & Blogs
Celebrating a Reel Education
Jennifer Preissel
Jun 9, 2011San Francisco Film Society commemorates 20 years of education programs in 2011. Since 1991, the San Francisco Film Society has been educating youth in film, but it’s not all elementary, or middle, or high school-oriented: What began as a K–12 Schools at the Festival program that brought students and international cinema together has, 20 years later, grown into year-round educational programming that serves not just under-18s, but lifelong learners, professional and novice filmmakers and university students.
-
Festivals
Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
-
Home
Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011Beginnings, 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, 2011Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
-
April 14, 2011
'Sleeping Ember' Reignites
Matt Sussman
Apr 14, 2011A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.
-
Home
'Sleeping Ember' Reignites
Matt Sussman
Apr 14, 2011A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.
-
Q & A
'Sleeping Ember' Reignites
Matt Sussman
Apr 14, 2011A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.
-
News & Blogs
54th San Francisco International Film Festival Will Present Founder’s Directing Award to Oliver Stone
Apr 7, 2011Press release: The San Francisco Film Society announced today that Oliver Stone will be the recipient of the Founder’s Directing Award at the 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21–May 5). The FDA will be presented to Stone at Film Society Awards Night, Thursday, April 28 at Bimbo’s 365 Club. The Film Society’s Youth Education program will be the beneficiary of the fundraiser honoring Stone. The soon-to-be-announced recipient of the Peter J. Owens Award for excellence in acting and Frank Pierson, recipient of the Kanbar Award for excellence in screenwriting will also be honored. More at sffs.org.
-
March 29 2011
‘Daddy I Do’
Mar 30, 2011Director Cassie Jaye and producer Nena Jaye are in person for a discussion following their documentary, ‘Daddy I Do,’ which explores the need to provide youth and young adults with sexual education. More at cafilm.org.
-
March 15, 2011
‘Heartbeats'
Mar 18, 2011Xavier Dolan’s ‘Heartbeats,’ the 2010 Winner of Un Certain Regard Youth Prize at Cannes International Film Festival, opens at Landmark Theatres in San Francisco and Landmark’s Shattuck Cinemas. The film follows two best friends and their attempt to attain the affection of a charming man they’ve just met. More at landmarktheatres.com.
-
February 8, 2011
The Lunch Love Community Documentary Project
Feb 13, 2011Pacific Film Archive presents The Lunch Love Community Documentary Project, featuring in-person presentations and webisodes that examine the impact of nutritional habits on youth and the current Berkeley School Lunch Initiative. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
-
Feb 3 2011
Schneider-Jarmel Clan Take ‘Balz’ to Cuba
Michael Fox
Feb 2, 2011Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider follow 'Speaking in Tongues' with a doc that talks baseball.
-
Home
Schneider-Jarmel Clan Take ‘Balz’ to Cuba
Michael Fox
Feb 2, 2011Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider follow 'Speaking in Tongues' with a doc that talks baseball.
-
In Production
Schneider-Jarmel Clan Take ‘Balz’ to Cuba
Michael Fox
Feb 2, 2011Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider follow 'Speaking in Tongues' with a doc that talks baseball.
-
November 16, 2010
Destroy All Movies!!!
Nov 19, 2010This Roxie Theater double feature rejoices in ‘80s punk cinema with ‘Surf II,’ a sequel to a film that was never made, and the outrageous story of a young geek who seeks to destroy surfers by turning them into zombies, plus the classic ‘Times Square,’ which tells of The Sleaze Sisters, two insane asylum runaways who become heroes of New York’s disenchanted youth and features music by Talking Heads and Roxy Music. Presented by editors of the book ‘Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film’ and Alamo Drafthouse programmers Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly. More at roxie.com.
-
Festivals
A Children's Film Festival Finds Inspiration for All Ages
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 24, 2010The NY/SF International Children's Film Festival offers a mix of animation, live action, fantasy, entertainment and insight.
-
Home
A Children's Film Festival Finds Inspiration for All Ages
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 24, 2010The NY/SF International Children's Film Festival offers a mix of animation, live action, fantasy, entertainment and insight.
-
September 30, 2010
A Children's Film Festival Finds Inspiration for All Ages
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 24, 2010The NY/SF International Children's Film Festival offers a mix of animation, live action, fantasy, entertainment and insight.
-
Festivals
A Children's Film Festival Finds Inspiration for All Ages
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 24, 2010The NY/SF International Children's Film Festival offers a mix of animation, live action, fantasy, entertainment and insight.
-
Home
A Children's Film Festival Finds Inspiration for All Ages
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 24, 2010The NY/SF International Children's Film Festival offers a mix of animation, live action, fantasy, entertainment and insight.
-
September 30, 2010
A Children's Film Festival Finds Inspiration for All Ages
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 24, 2010The NY/SF International Children's Film Festival offers a mix of animation, live action, fantasy, entertainment and insight.
-
August 31, 2010
A Digitally Restored 'Tommy'
Sep 6, 2010Ken Russell's restored 'Tommy' brings Roger Daltry's traumatic youth back to digital life at the Castro.
-
August 24, 2010
The Factory Year-End Screening
Aug 24, 2010Oakland's youth video-production collective The Factory showcases more than a dozen documentary, narrative, and experimental films made by students at the Pacific Film Archive on August 24. A panel discussion with student filmmakers follows.
-
Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: California Dreamin' at Film Society Awards Night
Susan Gerhard
Apr 30, 2010San 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.
-
Festivals
28th SF Int'l Asian American Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Mar 10, 2010The Center for Asian American Media, formerly known as NAATA and founded to nurture Asian American filmmakers as well as counter ethnic stereotypes, has accomplished that and more.
-
Reviews
Freak Flag Flying at YBCA
Dennis Harvey
Feb 17, 2010YBCA has sustained a major place in S.F.'s cultural landscape without receiving the due it would have had its mission been narrower and more easily defined.
-
Reviews
Pacific Film Archive's Young Filmmakers on Big Screen
Jane Riccobono
Feb 3, 2010In the YouTube-Facebook-viral video era, it's hard to remember the time when youth-made media was rare.
-
Reviews
Pacific Film Archive's Young Filmmakers on Big Screen
Jane Riccobono
Feb 3, 2010In the YouTube-Facebook-viral video era, it's hard to remember the time when youth-made media was rare.
-
Reviews
Unspoken Fascist Future In Wings of White Ribbon
Matt Sussman
Jan 15, 2010In Michael Haneke's masterful film, everyone lives in fear and suspicion.
-
Q & A
Jennifer Phang On Half-Life and Identity
Judy Stone
Jan 8, 2010Jennifer Phang has experienced more than enough culture shocks in her life to empathize with the identity challenges of the characters in her debut feature.
-
Reviews
Thoughts On the Aughts: Best/Worst Trends
Susan Gerard
Dec 31, 2009While 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
After Sept. 11, 2001, A Decade Found Its Way
B. Ruby Rich
Dec 23, 2009On Sept. 13, 2001, I stood in a Toronto park and spoke to Canadian television: Movies wouldn't be the same. I was wrong.
-
Reviews
Frameline33: Youth in Revolt
Lynn Rapoport
Jun 22, 2009In this year's Frameline Fest, as so often in life, it's all about the one(s) that got away.
-
Reviews
Frameline33: Youth in Revolt
Lynn Rapoport
Jun 22, 2009In this year's Frameline Fest, as so often in life, it's all about the one(s) that got away.
-
Festivals
Frameline33: Something Old, Something New
Dennis Harvey
Jun 17, 2009A 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.)
-
Q & A
Tom Shepard's 'Whiz Kids' Blinding with Science
Michael Fox
Jun 14, 2009Tom Shepard revisits the overachieving, hyper-ambitious world of science-obsessed high school seniors in his new film, Whiz Kids.
-
Reviews
Social Fury 'In the Realm of Oshima' at PFA
Matt Sussman
Jun 11, 2009Oshima's output grazed on familiar genres, such as the youth-gone-wild and domestic drama, while freely incorporating elements from avant-garde and documentary filmmaking.
-
Reviews
'Fados' finds Saura on his toes
Dennis Harvey
Jun 4, 2009Fados, about a Portuguese musical genre, reveals Carlos Saura as an effortless master at weaving together disparate performances.
-
Reviews
Film Society Awards: Ballard, Coppola, Redford and Toback
Susan Gerhard
May 1, 2009The 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.
-
Festivals
SFIFF52: Robert Redford Accepts Owens Award
Dennis Harvey
Apr 29, 2009Robert Redford braves the public and accepts the San Francisco International Film Festival's Peter J. Owens Award.
-
Reviews
SFIFF52: Yun Suh's "City of Borders"
David Winks Gray
Apr 26, 2009City 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.
-
Reviews
SFIFF52: Jarmel and Schneider's "Speaking in Tongues"
Susan Gerhard
Apr 25, 2009Jarmel and Schneider's Speaking in Tongues follows the stories of four public school children studying Mandarin, Cantonese and Spanish along with their English.
-
In Production
SFIFF52: New Narrative Trend for Bay Area Cinema
Michael Fox
Apr 21, 2009Four independent narratives - La Mission, My Suicide, Everything Strange and New and (Untitled) - are adding to the Bay Area's repertoire, historically regarded as a breeding ground for documentary filmmakers.
-
Festivals
SFIFF52: Wisdom of the Underages
Jonathan Kiefer
Apr 16, 2009Where would cinema be without good, old-fashioned youthfulness? Hence: Youth Bring the Truth, a showcase for promising pre-adult media-makers including several local teenagers from this year's San Francisco International Film Festival.
-
Festivals
SFIFF52: Wisdom of the Underages
Jonathan Kiefer
Apr 16, 2009Where would cinema be without good, old-fashioned youthfulness? Hence: Youth Bring the Truth, a showcase for promising pre-adult media-makers including several local teenagers from this year's San Francisco International Film Festival.
-
Reviews
Beloved publicist Bill McLeod dies
Apr 4, 2009William W. (Bill) McLeod, 59, one of the Bay Area's most respected film publicists died at his home on March 29th, 2009.
-
Reviews
Review: "Boarding Gate"
Dennis Harvey
Apr 8, 2008Boarding Gate is raw, silly, bloody, funny, carnal, intricate, coarse and self-conscious. It all suggests Olivier Assayas has a lot more surprises in him yet.
-
Reviews
Review: "Shotgun Stories"
Dennis Harvey
Mar 31, 2008Small-town "heartland" America that once held our majority populace is now seldom seen on screen. Jeff Nichols debut feature Shotgun Stories is an exception.
-
Q & A
Carl D. Brown and Erin Beach of "2nd Verse"
Michael Fox
Feb 11, 2008The unassuming young director and producer spent five years on their optimistic yet unsentimental doc spotlighting four teenagers from the S.F.-based Youth Speaks project.
-
Q & A
Carl D. Brown and Erin Beach of "2nd Verse"
Michael Fox
Feb 11, 2008The unassuming young director and producer spent five years on their optimistic yet unsentimental doc spotlighting four teenagers from the S.F.-based Youth Speaks project.
-
Reviews
Review: "Diva"
Dennis Harvey
Dec 4, 2007How does Jean-Jacques Beineix's breakthrough hold up a quarter-century later, duly remastered and freshly subtitle-translated?
-
Reviews
"Hannah Takes the Stairs"
Dennis Harvey
Nov 27, 2007A perfect example of the emerging genre of improv-based, digitally shot, minimally budgeted seriocomedies about twentysomethings stumbling through, you know, relationship stuff.
-
Q & A
Reverend Billy on Missionary Mall Work
Dennis Harvey
Nov 19, 2007The documentary What Would Jesus Buy? makes bad news go down easy, thanks largely to its "star," Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping.
-
Reviews
"Punk's Not Dead"
Dennis Harvey
Sep 18, 2007The freshing thing about Susan Dynner's new documentary ÔPunk's Not Dead' Ñ beyond the fact that it's not the 9,482nd recap of The Early Years (circa 1976-85) Ñ is its unabashed if not uncritical acknowledgment that punk is here to stay.
-
Reviews
SOFA, so good? "Straight outta Film Arts" (SOFA) shines a light on youth filmmaking
Matt Sussman
Sep 6, 2007Matt Sussman looks at the final products of the talented young directors in TILT's Summer Film Camp showcase (screening as part of of Straight Outta Film Arts program at YBCA).
-
Reviews
"Private Property;" "One to Another"
Dennis Harvey and Michael Koresky/indieWIRE
Jul 31, 2007A non-rich family is torn apart by money matters, and young actors lie atop, next to, and around each other with youthful, sexual abandon.
-
Q & A
Video-Diary Pioneer Spencer Nakasako
Michael Fox
Mar 17, 2007Spencer Nakasako gets the credit for starting the still-cresting wave of first-person camcorder documentaries back in 1995, but he claims it was largely an accident.
-
Festivals
Berlin & Beyond 2007
Dennis Harvey
Jan 11, 2007Rock&Roll, romantic comedy, fantasy and adventure, among the themes of this year's festival.
-
Q & A
Crossing That Bridge
Michael Fox
Oct 24, 2006Eric Steel's disturbing, controversial documentary, The Bridge, focuses on people who end their lives at the famous landmark at the edge of the continent.
-
Q & A
Amy Berg's "Deliver Us From Evil"
indieWIRE
Oct 23, 2006Segueing from network television news to documentary features, Amy Berg makes her debut with a shocking, powerful film about pedophile priest Oliver Grady.
-
Festivals
Mill Valley Film Festival 2006
Dennis Harvey
Oct 5, 2006By the youth-rhetoric standards of another era, this is the last year we can trust the Mill Valley Film Festival. Next year, it turns 30.
-
Reviews
"Seventeen" Might be Greatest Movie Ever About Teenagers: 17 Reasons Why
Johnny Ray Huston
Aug 17, 2006Jeff Kreines and Joel DeMott's legendary and obscure 1982 documentary set in Muncie, Indiana, highlights the PFA series "Screenagers: Documents from the Teenage Years."
-
Reviews
Sweet "Quinceañera" vs. MTV's greedy "My Super Sweet 16"
Johnny Ray Huston
Aug 15, 2006Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland's exploration of a teen's rite of passage is the warmhearted opposite of MTV's glorification of wasteful and selfish spending.
-
Q & A
Adrian Belic and Just Think Youth Media Educators
Susan Gerhard
Jul 26, 2006Belic helped a group of youths learn about documentary filmmaking in a program designed to offer media skills to under-served Bay Area high schoolers.
-
Q & A
Adrian Belic and Just Think Youth Media Educators
Susan Gerhard
Jul 26, 2006Belic helped a group of youths learn about documentary filmmaking in a program designed to offer media skills to under-served Bay Area high schoolers.
-
Q & A
Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga on the Weight of Words
Michael Fox
Jul 24, 2006Arriaga, who authored Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, discusses working in collaboration and across mediums.
-
Q & A
Preteens on Surprise Endings
Susan Gerhard
Jul 21, 2006A California Film Institute-procured class of 13somethings needed no help deciding their top ten list of surprise movie endings.
-
Q & A
Preteens on Surprise Endings
Susan Gerhard
Jul 21, 2006A California Film Institute-procured class of 13somethings needed no help deciding their top ten list of surprise movie endings.
-
Q & A
Best of Balboa
Susan Gerhard
Jul 7, 2006We checked in with Gary Meyer to find out what films have rocked the 1926 foundations of the Balboa in the past six years.
-
Q & A
Larry Clark's New Kids on the Block
Glen Helfand
Jul 3, 2006SF360 spoke with Clark about Impaled, in which his exploration of adolescent mores reaches in discomfiting, yet fascinating new directions.
-
Q & A
Larry Clark's New Kids on the Block
Glen Helfand
Jul 3, 2006SF360 spoke with Clark about Impaled, in which his exploration of adolescent mores reaches in discomfiting, yet fascinating new directions.
Follow Us on Twitter
Become a Fan on Facebook© Copyright 2024 San Francisco Film Society