FEATURES
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SF International Asian American Film Festival Visits the Archives
A theme that emerged in this year’s San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) was the importance of archives in the film world. The existence of film... more
NEWS
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53rd San Francisco International Film Festival to Present Founder's Directing Award to Walter Salles
Press Release: The San Francisco Film Society announced this week that Walter Salles will receive the Founder’s Directing Award at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival. The Founder’s... more
SEEN
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"An Afternoon with Aasif Mandvi"
Aasif Mandvi, writer and star of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival’s opening night film, Today’s Special, charmed the audience during an interview with Festival Director Chi-Hui Yang.
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.
07.06.2009