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- Interview | March 11, 2014
Chiemi Karasawa Shines a Light on Stage Legend Elaine Stritch
Chiemi Karasawa didn’t know much about Elaine Stritch before shooting Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, an authentic, honest look at the day-to-day life of the 86-year-old Broadway icon. Stritch, who’s also had a sprawling film career (she was in A Farewell to...
- Interview | March 11, 2014
Arie Posin Talks Seeing Double in ‘The Face of Love’
In Arie Posin’s The Face of Love, we follow a widow named Nikki (Annette Bening) who meets a man named Tom (Ed Harris) who looks, impossibly, exactly like her dead husband. Memories of her husband come rushing back to her...
- News | March 10, 2014
Giveaway: 12 Years a Slave Blu-ray
This is a big one, folks! We’re giving away two blu-ray copies of 12 Years a Slave, which took home several awards this year including Oscars for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay, an armful of Independent...
- News | March 7, 2014
Maggie Q and Mekhi Phifer Attend Divergent SF Premiere
This past Wednesday, Divergent, the next potential YA phenomenon from Summit Entertainment based on the popular Veronica Roth book series, premiered in San Francisco with stars Maggie Q and Mekhi Phifer in attendence. The film, about a daring girl...
- Film Festival | March 7, 2014
SFIFF Announces Feature Film Competition Contenders
The 57th annual San Francisco International Film Festival has announced the slates for its 2014 New Directors Prize and Golden Gate Award for Documentary Feature. The festival runs April 24-May 8. From the official press release: San Francisco, CA...
- Movie | March 6, 2014
The Lunchbox
It’s hard not to like a love story whose lovers are brought together by a home-cooked meal. Make it an Indian home-cooked meal, with aromatic curries and slow-cooked vegetables, and it’s borderline irresistible. Aside from eliciting tummy rumbles, Ritesh...
- Movie | March 5, 2014
Visitors
In 1982, Godfrey Reggio altered the cinematic landscape with Koyaanisqatsi, an immaculate, haunting film composed of documentary footage of life on earth that pondered the fraught relationship between man, modernity, and nature. This film, along with the other two documentaries...
- Film Festival | March 5, 2014
Mill Valley Film Festival Announces 2014 Dates and Call For Entries
Mark Fishkin, California Film Institute (CFI) Executive Director and Founder, has announced that the 37th annual Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) will be held October 2 – October 12, 2014. MVFF’s programming team, led by Zoë Elton, Director of Programming, also announced the...
- News | March 4, 2014
SFFS Announces Finalists for Spring 2014 Filmmaking Grants
The San Francisco Film Society (SFFS) and Kenneth Rainin Foundation (KRF) have selected 15 finalists for the latest round of SFFS / KRF Filmmaking Grants; more than $300,000 will be awarded to one or more narrative feature film projects at any stage of production. SFFS /...
- News | March 4, 2014
‘If You Build It’ Subject Emily Pilloton Honored in Home Town
If You Build It, by Patrick Creadon, follows activist-designers Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller as they set up Studio H–an innovative shop class engineered to teach students the fundamentals and virtues of humanitarian design–in Bertie County, the poorest county...
- Movie | March 4, 2014
The Rocket
In an early sequence in The Rocket, a Laos-set underdog fable by Australian filmmaker Kim Mordaunt, we see our 10-year-old hero Ahlo (Sitthiphon Disamoe, whose chin is perpetually tilted upward in pride) submerged in ethereal blue-green water, exploring the bottom...
- Movie | February 28, 2014
If You Build It
In 2010 Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller, two architect-activists living in the Bay Area (who upon meeting developed a fast attraction to one another) migrated cross-country to the dilapidated rural town of Windsor in Bertie, the poorest county in...
- Movie | February 26, 2014
7 Boxes
7 Boxes is a cat-and-mouse chase movie set in a seedy marketplace in the Paraguayan capital of Asunción, whose breakneck pace is its saving grace, for better or for worse. On one hand, the rapid clip at which the film...
- Interview | February 25, 2014
Emily Pilloton Talks Inspiring Students Through Design in ‘If You Build It’
If You Build It, an uplifiting documentary directed by Patrick Creadon (I.O.U.S.A., Wordplay), follows designer-activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller, who in 2010 moved to Bertie County, the poorest county in North Carolina, to set up Studio H, a forward-thinking...
- Interview | February 24, 2014
SFFS Artist in Residence Sebastian Silva Talks The Gift of Spontaneity, ‘Magic Magic’
“My biggest fear is for my mind to control me and not the other way around,”Chilean filmmaker Sebastian Silva told us at FilmHouse in San Francisco, when asked about the inspiration behind his 2013 psychological creeper Magic Magic, starring Juno...