Tag: SF Cinematheque
Screen Grabs: A globe-trotting filmmaker finally gets her due
Ulrike Ottinger in the spotlight at PFA. Plus: SF Cinematheque returns, The Sound of Metal, a Romanian tragedy, more movies
Techno-arts fest Mutek.SF recreates a trippy rave blueprint online
Last year's iteration of MUTEK.SF, the off-shoot of the the original MUTEK festival—an event dedicated to electronic music and the digital arts that began 20 years ago in Montreal—was...
Screen Grabs: Traveling the world, popcorn in hand
This week’s openings personify the movies’ appeal as armchair travel, encompassing cinematic detours to Ireland, Israel, Poland, China (twice), American backroads and various African nations, plus a tribute to...
Screen Grabs: Forget those Oscars, let’s go to Berlin & beyond
The Oscars are this Sunday, which ceremony will provide its annual mercy-killing service of putting a stop to the endless “awards season” talk—at least for the next eight months....
Screen Grabs: Battle of the giant Russian oligarchs
The big event this week is Friday’s return of Noir City, whose latest annual edition at the Castro we’ve previewed separately here.
Among commercial openings this Friday, Guy Ritchie appears...
Ficks’ Picks: The best flicks of 2019
48 Hills festival movie critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks travels the continent for us checking out the biggest film events. He also hosts the invaluable MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS series. Here...
Screen Grabs: Monsters (and wonders) of history awaken
The holiday season tends to induce nostalgia, and while Hollywood is always very interested in directing your leisure dollars towards big new commercial movies, sometimes you feel like watching...
Screen Grabs: A feast of docs and dancing
It’s a big week for non-fiction cinema, the main event being SFFilm’s fifth annual Doc Stories, which brings together several of the year’s most acclaimed documentary features and shorts....
Screen Grabs: News of the world at the Arab Film Fest
Who knows if we’ll ever see the day when the Arab Film Film Festival does not seem of urgent political relevance. But this year’s event opens amidst pure insanity...
Screen Grabs: All the latest from Iran
Fall is a busy time for Bay Area screens beyond the multiplex, and this week is no exception. There are no less than three film festivals opening: SF Green...
