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- Interview | February 21, 2014
Eddie Mullins Talks Peak Oil, Cameras On Sticks, “Doomsdays”
Dirty Fred (Justin Rice) and Bruho (Leo Fitzpatrick), believe that peak oil–the theory that we will soon deplete the earth of petroleum, causing the demise of our modern lifestyles–will bring upon mass hysteria and a societal breakdown. In preparation...
- Film Festival | February 19, 2014
SF Indiefest Capsules: Hide Your Smiling Faces, Bluebird, More
Hide Your Smiling Faces Set in a beautifully photographed forested town in the rural North East, Hide Your Smiling Faces by Daniel Patrick Carbone is a moving, richly atmospheric coming-of-age film in the vein of Terrence Malick. It centers on...
- Movie | February 19, 2014
Hank: 5 Years From the Brink
A layman’s guide to the ins and outs of the 2007-08 financial crisis, Hank: 5 Years From the Brink does a good job of clearing things up for the uninformed, but doesn’t offer much else. Academy Award-nominated director Joe Berlinger sits...
- Movie | February 18, 2014
Omar
A few shades darker than your average thriller, writer-director Hany Abu-Assad’s Omar, a nominee for the 2014 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, explores the psychological trauma endured by the eponymous Palestinian twentysomething (Adam Bakri) and his childhood friends Amjad...
- Film Festival | February 17, 2014
Joanna Arnow Talks Baring All in “i hate myself :)” (SF Indiefest)
i hate myself 🙂 begins with New York filmmaker Joanna Arnow aiming her camera at her first boyfriend James, a crude, oft-drunk showman who enjoys screaming the n-word to a room of black people during open mic “performances”. He...
- Movie | February 13, 2014
Let’s Ruin it With Babies (SF Indiefest)
Star Wars had the Millennium Falcon, Batman had the Batmobile, and The NeverEnding Story had Falcor. Cheeky road trip dramedy Let’s Ruin it With Babies has the RVIP Lounge, a hulking, tricked-out RV equipped to host wild, mobile karaoke parties that everyone’s invited to...
- Movie | February 12, 2014
Tim’s Vermeer
Tim Jenison’s an inventor with deep pockets (he made a killing in the video software business) and boundless ingenuity. On his spare time, he likes building things like hovercrafts and planes made out of Home Depot materials, just to...
- Movie | February 11, 2014
See You Next Tuesday (SF Indiefest)
In See You Next Tuesday‘s long opening shot, we see a close-up of Mona (Eleanor Pienta) at her shitty job as a grocery store clerk, mouth hanging open due to weariness, utter boredom, or both. She stares straight into the...
- Interview | February 10, 2014
Did Kestrin Pantera ‘Ruin it With Babies’? (SF Indiefest)
Kestrin Pantera is an actor, writer, director, and classically trained cellist (she’s played with the likes of Weezer and Beck), but one gig on her resume stands out like a neon light in the night: she and her husband Jonathan...
- Film Festival | February 10, 2014
SF Indiefest Capsules: Proxy, A Field in England, More
A Field in England Ben Wheatley’s fever dream of a film, A Field in England, will have you scraping your brain off of the floor by the time the end credits save you from the madness. Set during the English...
- Interview | February 7, 2014
Megan Messmer and T.S. Meeks Talk ‘To Us’
To Us, a short film by indie up-and-comer T.S. Meeks, centers on a couple falling away from each other…after only being married less than 24 hours. It’s a crushing, brilliantly acted and scripted mini-drama about the hush after the...
- Film Festival | February 7, 2014
SF Indiefest: Opening Night, The Congress
SF Indiefest kicked off its “Sweet 16” celebration at the beautiful Brava Theater last night with a screening of Ari Folman’s The Congress, a buzzing after party in the theater lobby, and a live music show that had the indie-lovin’...
- News | February 6, 2014
SFFS Announces Finalists for 2014 Documentary Film Fund
Today, the San Francisco Film Society announced its 11 finalists for the 2014 SFFS Documentary Film Fund awards, totaling more than $75,000. The fund supports feature-length documentaries in postproduction, and previous winners include Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson’s American Promise,...
- Film Festival | February 4, 2014
SF Indiefest Celebrates Its Sweet Sixteen
From Febuary 6-20, SF Indiefest will be celebrating 16 years of independent film goodness with a stacked program of indie films of all kinds, from docs, to comedies, to horror flicks, to dramas, to shorts…and the list goes on. The...
- Features | January 31, 2014
Weekend Streaming Recommendations: “Alone Yet Not Alone” Edition
There was a funny bit of news floating around this week regarding an obscure (comically so) film having its Best Original Song Oscar nomination revoked by the Academy. “Alone Yet Not Alone”, the song in question from a movie...