Jesse Hawthorne Ficks

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Jesse Hawthorne Ficks is the film history coordinator at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and is part of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle. He curates and hosts “MOViES FOR MANiACS,” a film series celebrating underrated and overlooked cinema, in a neo-sincere manner.

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What we saw at Sundance

February 14, 2016

48 Hills film critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks snuck into Sundance 2016 to scope out the best flicks of the fest. 1. Anna Rose Holmer, The Fits (USA/Italy) Quite...

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SF Indiefest: A trio of top picks

February 8, 2016

SF Indiefest is celebrating its 18th anniversary of screening independent cinema, which is an admirable milestone. This year's movie lineup will light up the Mission...

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Ficks’ Picks: The best films of 2015 (spoiler-free!)

December 21, 2015

SCREEN GRABS Our esteemed film critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, who ranged from horror classics to the Toronto International Film Festival this year, picks the cream...

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Horror films save lives

October 26, 2015

A personal appreciation of the bloodiest genre of all. Plus a super-scary stalker top 10!

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks

What we saw at Sundance

SF Indiefest: A trio of top picks

Ficks’ Picks: The best films of 2015 (spoiler-free!)

Horror films save lives

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