San Francisco (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The San Francisco Bicycle Film Festival started yesterday. It continues through Saturday. Visit the Bicycle Film Festival site for schedule, locations, and other details. More ...
Matt Dentler's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Brian Gordon, one of the smartest festival programmers in the game, has announced via e-mail that he is leaving his post as the Artistic Director of the Nashville Film Festival. This seems to be effective immediately. Gordon developed a great reputation at the San Francisco Film Festival before that, where he ran the Golden Gate Awards competition for over a...
VF Daily (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
After last week's Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson closed the San Francisco Film Festival, Vanity Fair partied into the night.
Away With Words (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
I was standing in a long, stationary line at the San Francisco Film Festival, indulging in my favorite waiting-in-line activity: eavesdropping. Directly behind me were a 50-something man and his 20-something daughter, good-naturedly arguing about the correct use of the word infamous. Dad maintained that infamous could mean extremely famous,...
Metroblogging San Francisco (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Just a reminder… the 51st Annual San Francisco Film Festival comes to a close tomorrow, May 8th. Fellow Metblogger Jeremy and I have featured a handful of films here on SF Metblogs, but there are certainly more films to be appreciated! For your convenience, here is a link to tomorrow’s film lineup. Films at the Kabuki [...]
Metroblogging San Francisco (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
At 1:00 tomorrow at the Clay Theater, Kevin Kelly (Senior Maverick of WIRED Magazine) will give the State of Cinema Address at the SF International Film Festival. The address is titled “Beyond Moving Pictures: Possibilities for the Future of Film.” It promises to be very interesting. I got him on the phone yesterday, and he [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
There was a momentary groundswell at the San Francisco International Film Festival gala Thursday evening when somebody - OK, it was me - asked Warren Beatty if he'd run for president and pry his beloved Democratic Party out of its stalemate. "That would be a...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Winner, Best Television Documentary CALAVERA HIGHWAY PREMIERE SUNDAY, MAY 4, 6:15 PM Sundance Kabuki Cinemas (1881 Post St. at Fillmore)
Festival21.com (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
Graham Leggat reflects on the career, talent and momentum of this year's Peter J. Owens Award rec (...)
Hell on Frisco Bay (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
The 51st SF International Film Festival began last night, with a screening of Catherine Breillat's the Last Mistress at the Castro Theatre . Earlier tonight the festival expanded to its other venues, the PFA and the Kabuki , where it will stay for the next two weeks, drawing hardcore cinephiles and curious culture-watchers alike (the Clay and a few other venues broaden the festival's reach in the...
Hell on Frisco Bay (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
David Hudson of GreenCine Daily has handily collected extracts from and links to each of the articles in the Guardian 's consummate coverage of the 51st SF International Film Festival . But what of the other local free weekly papers? The South Bay's Metroactive doesn't appear to be covering the festival, which is understandable now that the festival has retreated from its Palo Alto screening venue....
Argentina's Travel Blog (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Attendance at this year’s Buenos Aires International Film Festival (BAFICI) set a record for ticket sales, selling 170,000 for the 13-day event. This was a 63% increase over last year’s gathering. During the almost two-week period, over 1,000 films were screened throughout the city at various venues. Mexican film “Intimacies” took the festival's top prize, [...]
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
"Movie icon Clint Eastwood will premiere his latest directorial outing, called Changeling, at the Cannes International Film Festival next month... Other films set for the event include Wim Wenders' The Palermo Shooting and Steven Soderbergh's four-hour biopic of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara."...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Organizers of the Cannes Film Festival say Clint Eastwood's "Changeling" and Wim Wenders' "Palermo Shooting" will lead this year's streamlined competition.
