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A Fantastic Fear of Everything
Crispian Mills’ A Fantastic Fear of Everything, while it falls short of being fantastic itself, offers a character study in what it is like to be an individual coming to terms with past childhood experiences. Enter Jack (Simon Pegg), a...
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Way Too Indie Hangout #2 – Spirit Award Reactions and If Indie Film Is Cannibalizing
In our second Way Too Indie hangout, we discuss what we’ve been watching, share our reactions to the Oscars and Independent Spirit Awards, and ponder whether or not the independent film industry is cannibalizing itself. Heavy stuff this week,...
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Love & Demons
Love and Demons opens with San Francisco-based writer-director J.P. Allen, playing a demon named “Mister D.”, addressing the camera directly, delivering a chilling monologue, assessing the lives of mortals like you and I from a devil’s-eye view. “Let me...
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The Face of Love
The Face of Love has a premise that would prove a challenging sell for any filmmaker. Annette Bening plays a widow named Nikki who, five years after the death of her husband Garrett (Ed Harris), sees a man who...
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Nymphomaniac Volume 1
You know a Lars Von Trier movie is good when it feels like you’ve just spent two educationally arousing hours in the university for the cinematically gifted. As soon as Von Trier announced that his next movie was going...
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Richard Linklater to be Honored at SFIFF 2014
The San Francisco Film Society will honor Richard Linklater with the 2014 Founder’s Directing Award at the 57th annual San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from April 24-May 8. Linklater wowed the SFIFF festival goers last year with...
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SXSW 2014: Rubber Soul, Ping Pong Summer, & Open Windows
Rubber Soul Rubber Soul reenacts two in-depth interviews of John Lennon that were conducted ten years apart from each other. No words of Lennon’s were altered during this reconstruction, though the film does jump between the two interviews, sometimes...
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CAAMFest 2014 Kicks Off Tomorrow Night In San Francisco
CAAMFest, formerly known as the San Francisco International Asian Film Festival, kicks off tomorrow night, Thursday, March 13th, and runs through March 23rd. Presented by the Center for Asian American Media, the festival pays tribute to pioneers of Asian...
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Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Elaine Stritch has one of the most enduring careers of any performer on earth. She’s an irreplaceable Broadway veteran, drawing thousands of eyes and ears with her skyscraper legs and unmistakeable, gaudy vocal delivery. Her television career started in...
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In Fear
The inevitable problem that comes with a great set-up is that, at some point, questions have to be answered. Jeremy Lovering's In Fear is, as the title suggests, focused on what people do when they're overcome with fear. Lovering...
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SXSW 2014: Before I Disappear & The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
Before I Disappear Shawn Christensen converts his Academy Award winning short film featuring a man who discovers his motivation to stay alive into a full feature film with Before I Disappear. Richie (Christensen) is asked to turn the other...
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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...
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Particle Fever
Particle physics isn’t a subject that seems particularly cinematic. It’s not especially glamorous, and it’s probably safe to say that most people have no idea what it involves and have little interest in finding out. Enter Particle Fever, a...
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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...
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