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Scott MacDonald on Art in Cinema at SF MoMA
As part of its 75th Anniversary celebrations, SF MoMA has commissioned three trios of programs surveying different eras of the museum’s history of film exhibition. The first of these... more
NEWS
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Wired: "Macworld Expo 2010 Caters to Apple Fans — Without Apple"
"Like a Star Trek convention minus Leonard Nimoy, Macworld Conference and Expo 2010 kicks off Tuesday at San Francisco’s Moscone Center with no official presence from Apple," writes Brian X.... more
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"Alfred Leslie: Cool Man in a Golden Age"—Feb. 9-16
The work of the painter, performance artist, filmmaker and videomaker screens at the Pacific Film Archive, including older works in collaboration with Jack Kerouac and Robert Frank and the... more
Photo by Kelda McKinney.
SF Indiefest opens
Sam Fleischner (left) and Ben Chace (right) look through the SF Indiefest catalogue on opening night of the festival, where there film Wah Do Dem played.
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Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.
Scouting at Sundance
Julie Huntsinger of the Emeryville-based Telluride Film Festival and Jan Klingelhofer of Pacific Film Resources were among the many members of the Bay Area film community tromping through the snowy streets of Park City, Utah to scout for films at the newly reinvigorated and refocused Sundance Film Festival.
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Photo by Jennifer Reiley.
Poetry in motion
Rob Epstein (right) and Jeffrey Friedman’s Howl was the inaugural screening in the new Sundance Film Festival USA series that kicked off Thursday, Jan. 28, at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas. A sold out crowd stayed for the Q&A moderated by Sandip Roy that featured local Oscar winners Epstein and Friedman and members of the crew.
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Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.
'The Violent Kind' in repose
Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores, a.k.a. the "Butcher Brothers," spend a moment of peace in front of the Egyptian Theatre in Park City, Utah.
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Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.
Behind the scenes at Sundance
Sundance Programming Coordinator Landon Zakheim enjoys a cold beverage as the 2010 festival gets underway in Park City, Utah. Interviews with Zakheim and other migratory festival workers from the Bay Area can be found at SF360 Blogs.
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Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.
A moveable feast
Representatives from some of the preeminent film festivals in the Bay Area shared insights into the inner working of festivals with an audience of film students at De Anza College in early January. The Hollywood North podcast Best of the Bay Area Film Festivals produced by the De Anza film department will be available soon at iTunesU. (From left: Barak Goldman, De Anza screenwriting instructor; Vincent Lowe, 48 Hour Film Project; Daniella Jubran, Arab Film Festival; Rod Armstrong, San Francisco Film Society; Josh Moore, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival; Jennifer Morris, Frameline; Jeff Ross, SF Indie Fest; Halfdan Husssey, Cinequest and Zaki Lisha, chair De Anza film & TV department.
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Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.
"Psycho's" semantics
David Thomson went to Kepler’s Bookstore in Menlo Park to make the case, put forth in his thought-provoking new book, The Moment of Psycho, for the importance of Alfred Hitchcock’s horror classic in film and cultural history. His publisher had asked him to write about one movie that "changed everything." Psycho topped a short list that also included D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation.
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Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.
The songs remain revolutionary
Co-directors Dan Sturman and Bill Guttentag, executive producer Danny Glover and director of photography Jon Else were at the Embarcadero for a Q&A following a screening of their Oscar short-listed documentary Soundtrack for a Revolution this past week.
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Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.
Solo Banshee
An audacious Steven Severin (left) performed his "Music for Silents" Tuesday at the Mezzanine for SF360 Film+Club, the bimonthly series programmed by the Film Society’s Sean Uyehara (right); the evening featured a rare screening of the experimental classic The Seashell and the Clergyman.
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Photo by Rocio Salazar/SFFS.
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