FEATURES
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"The Greatest Year in Film" turns 70 at the Castro
What was the best year ever for painting? Music? Literature? Any answers would be arbitrary at worst, debatable at best—the truth being, of course, that these art forms are just... more
NEWS
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Telluride announces Manny Farber celebration
Press release: The Telluride Film Festival (September 4-7, 2009), announced a special program in honor of artist and film critic Manny Farber, ‘The Celebration of Manny Farber,’ a three-part... more
SEEN
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Global Film Initiative’s Santhosh Daniel (left) and Jeremy Quist (right) mingle with Kay Sato of the SF Jewish Film Festival at the GFI Happy Hour event at Custom Lounge... more
BLOGS
Hey, Watch It! - Saturday's TV Picks
Odds are, the skies will be blanketed in fog tonight, since this is San Francisco in July and all. So, if simply hearing fireworks go off (and seeing some dimly colored fog) isn't enough Fourth of...
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Events
War room: Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" plays in SFMOMA's Richard Avedon Film Series. (Still, 1964; photo courtesy Columbia Pictures/Photofest)
June 30-July 6
Fireworks for the cineaste arrive via the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on this Independence Day week. SFMOMA kicks off a terrific program of films chosen to screen alongside an exhibition of Richard Avedon photographs with two Civil Rights-era classics, Edward Pincus’s Black Natchez (1965) and Robert Drew’s The Children Were Watching (1961). Elsewhere: The Castro pays tribute to one of Hollywood’s most productive years, 1939. Meanwhile, the Red Vic has Truffaut’s Jules and Jim, and the SFFS Screen accelerates its summer program with a Belgian road flick.
"Jules and Jim"--Jul. 5-6
The Red Vic serves up a welcome screening of this early New Wave delight. If Truffaut’s not your cup of tea, perhaps you can indulge in some early 1990s nostalgia with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, screening earlier in the week.
1939: The Golden Year of Cinema--July 1-9
The Castro celebrates a banner year in Hollywood history. The Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Garfield, Cagney, Garbo and Crawford are among the stars on offer, and the week includes Boris Karloff and Jimmy Stewart double features.
SFFS Screen: "Eldorado"--Jul. 3-9
This Belgian road movie tails two loners as they drive around South Belgium in a vintage Eldorado, leavening its pessimism with a deadpan sense of humor. More at SFFS.

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