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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...
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Actress
The one question on everyone’s mind about Best Actress is, “Can we give this to Cate Blanchett already so we can all go home?” It’s another easy category to predict, and rightfully so. Blanchett hasn’t had a proper lead...
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Documentary
If there’s one thing in common between Best Foreign Film and Best Documentary, it’s that no matter what you’re gonna piss somebody off. That’s what happened this year when two popular documentaries didn’t get past the shortlist: Stories We...
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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...
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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’...
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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,...
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Foreign Film
Where to begin with the Foreign Language Film category? The nomination process will always annoy people: Foreign countries submit one film they consider their ‘best’ for the year, said list is whittled down to 9 films, and a small...
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Adapted Screenplay
The Best Adapted Screenplay category is the lesser exciting of the two screenplay categories because of the lack of competition within the group of nominees, as well as the lack of films to choose from this year in general....
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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...
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Original Screenplay
The screenplay category is notorious for giving smaller indie films a chance for recognition that they may not receive anywhere else on Oscar night. That is not exactly the case this year as all but one (Blue Jasmine) of...
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Giveaway: Blue is the Warmest Color Free Streaming Code
One of the most controversial films of 2013 was the French film Blue is the Warmest Color, which received top honors winning the Palme d’Or at this year at the Cannes Film Festival. The film also scored high on...
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Supporting Actor
Well we can thank the Best Supporting Actress category for giving us some sense of competition. Best Supporting Actor is one of the few categories in this race that’s set in stone. Jared Leto, who plays an AIDS-infected transgender...
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SXSW 2014 Lineup Revealed
The dust is now settling in Park City after Sundance finished up a week or two ago, meanwhile the people in Austin are getting prepared for the onslaught of crowds for the SXSW festival of films, music, and technology....
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Nominated Shorts
We’re still in the thick of awards season, and with all the big dogs fighting over the coveted Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director and so forth, it’s easy to overlook three of the most interesting categories...
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