People behind the wheels of Ford are most likely to throw litter from their vehicles in the UK, suggests a survey. Keep Britain Tidy found over 1,000 instances of people, especially those in the South East, creating litter from a Ford followed by just over 300 sightings from a BMW. Phil Barton, Chief Executive of Keep Britain [...] Related posts: Harrison Ford : Harrison Ford to be honoured with top...
OUTRAGE Film School (KUCI) Hosts: Nathan Callahan and Mike Kaspar An interview with Academy Award nominated filmmaker KIRBY DICK the director of OUTRAGE — a searing indictment of the hypocrisy of closeted politicians who actively campaign against the LGBT community they covertly belong to. OUTRAGE reveals the hidden lives of some of our nation’s most powerful policymakers, details the harm...
Norwegian Black Metal, Graphic Sexual Horror and a Headless Woman. Jeez, is it Halloween already ? No, it's just this summer's insouciant film/video line-up at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts . But before we dig into what curator Joel Shepard has in store through September, here's exciting news for YBCA filmgoers. Starting July 6, ticket holders will be allowed FREE admittance into YBCA's exhibition...
The Limits of Control - dir. Jim Jarmusch - 2009 - USA/Spain/Japan - Focus Features Written for Gone Cinema Poaching . Though also structured around a series of vignettes, Jim Jarmusch's latest, The Limits of Control , is a welcome departure from his last two films, Broken Flowers and Coffee and Cigarettes . Bearing a much closer resemblance to Dead Man and, perhaps, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai...
The San Francisco Film Society announced the winners of its Golden Gate Award documentary feature winners at the San Francisco Film Festival on Thursday night. Investigative documentary feature went to Anders Østergaard (Denmark/Sweden 2008) for "Burma VJ:...
Ferlinghetti poses with an audience member after the premiere of the film. ( Steve Rhodes ) Christopher Felver’s documentary about local icon and the world's most-read poet, Ferlinghetti , who is also the publisher and owner of the famed City Lights Books , premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival last night. Felver's long-time friendship with Ferlinghetti resulted in some...
This article makes just a brief mention of it but it sounds like there is a new digitally restored print of Nights of Cabiria: The festival will also premier digitally restored film prints of such classics as Sergio Leone's Once...
If there's one thing we've learned about the San Francisco International Film Festival over the past 52 years, it's that it isn't about to have any kind of midlife or identity crisis. The reason is simple: So long as there are movies being made and people to...
The San Francisco Film Festival starts tonight! We have four giveaways that we'll be posting throughout the day for the Castro Theatre screenings on Sunday. For our first giveaway, write a haiku with the words "unlucky" and "Irish," and enter to win a pair of tickets to Sunday's Noon screening of The Tiger's Tail . The winner will be notified by 11 a.m. tomorrow. Check your email...
It starts next Thursday, the full calendar is up, and the Chron and Mercury News have just put up stories about it, so you may want to get your tickets now for anything you want see. Big screenings like the opener La Mission , written and directed by SF native Benjamin Bratt, and 500 Days of Summer starring Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are already at Rush status, meaning you'll have to...
The 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival, announced its massive 150-film lineup this week. The world's oldest film festival (Federico Fellini showed his film La Strada here when he was just a pup will open with Peter Bratt's La Mission -- starring brother Benjamin Bratt -- and closes with Alexis dos Santos' Unmade Beds , with Marc Webb's 500 Days of Summer -- with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and...
The SF Film International Film Festival released its 2009 schedule today which reminds us of the oft ignored art of film festival blurbs. There are always a few that make you blink, here's this...
Washington, March 31 (ANI): Francis Ford Coppola is set to be honoured with the Founder’s Directing Award at the San Francisco Film Festival. The Godfather director will receive the award from the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas at the Film Society’s Awards [...]
Washington, March 31 (ANI): Francis Ford Coppola is set to be honoured with the Founder’s Directing Award at the San Francisco Film Festival. Click Here To Read the Full Post
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