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Vic + Flo Saw A Bear
If Vic + Flo Saw A Bear could be summed up in one word, that word would be "peculiar". The film opens with a young boy and his friend playing the trumpet poorly, a fact that Victoria (Pierrette Robitaille)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Video Essay: Mise En Scène & The Visual Themes of Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson has become a film genre. Even Saturday Night Live did a spoof on this notion, re-envisioning a modern horror film as a Wes Anderson comedy for one of their digital shorts. And although the auteur would not...
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Grigris (SF Indiefest)
Director Mahamat Saleh Haroun spends no time establishing the main draw of Grigris' title character; in the opening moments we see the young, disabled dancer (played by non-professional Souleymane Démé) busting some moves on the dance floor to a...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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Video Essay: Social Anthropology In Narratives of Darren Aronofsky
From the outset, the films of Darren Aronofsky seem as different from each other as any filmography can be. There’s the microbudget black and white feature debut Pi; the drug-addled, head-spinning Requiem For A Dream; the ambitious, time-spanning love...
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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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