SFIFF: The Demons, or: Coming of Age In Canada Is More Ominous Than You Thought
A slow creeper from the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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SF International Film Festival (SFIFF) 59: Your Exceptionally Unofficial Guide
It’s back. And it’s full of movies.
SF International Film Festival 58: Your Not Very Official Guide
It’s time for San Francisco’s big ol’ international film festival. I’ve seen a few, and am intrigued by a few more.
SFIFF Insight: How Coherence Doesn’t End
If you haven’t seen Coherence, don’t read most of this article.
SFIFF Opening Night: The Two Faces of January
That’s Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, and Oscar Isaac acting squiggly throughout the scenic Mediterranean.
SFIFF Preview: Trap Street
The innocuous looking and sounding Forest Lane is quite real. It’s the maps that pull the wool.
SFIFF Preview: Harmony Lessons, And Musings On Film Festival Films As A Genre
In which, by way of SFIFF entry Harmony Lessons, I ponder the film festival drama as its own genre, one I may have no business opining upon.
SFIFF Preview: All About the Feathers
With their bobbling heads, their self-important crowing, and their puffed-up plumage, it is quite difficult to look a rooster in the eye and take its opinions seriously.
Your San Francisco International Film Festival Cheat Sheet
Spring is here and that means it’s time to watch a mess of films that you never heard of and which you’ll likely never get another chance to see projected […]
Leviathan Washes Over You (Like Fish Guts)
Based on its hallucinogenic, immersive trailer, I was pretty excited to see Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel’s new doc Leviathan (not to be confused with the 1989 horror film of the same name). Well, […]
The East: What Films Feel Like
Do you know how sometimes you go to see a film and you just completely lose yourself within it? How, for two hours or so, your world narrows to what’s […]
The Kings of Summer Get Their Lazy Groove On
Yesterday’s San Francisco International Film Festival screenings included Jordan Vogt-Roberts and Chris Galletta’s The Kings of Summer — a lazy, sun-baked concoction that I found as enjoyable as whooping through the woods. […]
What Steven Soderbergh Doesn’t See
On Saturday I attended Steven Soderbergh’s “State of Cinema” address, part of the San Francisco International Film Festival. I’m a huge Soderbergh fan, consistently impressed by the way he challenges […]
John Dies at the End and That’s Just the Beginning
Right now there is a completely avoidable tragedy afflicting untold millions of Americans. They do not have the chance to see Don Coscarelli’s John Dies at the End in a proper […]