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This week, Chris Shields on one of Anthony Mann's existental westerns, Man of the West, screening at the Stanford on Saturday and Sunday on a Gary Cooper double bill with High Noon: www.screenslate.com/articles/man...
Man of the West
Director Anthony Mann’s name is synonymous with the psychological western of the 1950s, a variation on the genre in which obsession and revenge take precedence over heroism and justice. For his 1958 f...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This week, Chris Shields on one of Anthony Mann's existental westerns, Man of the West, screening at the Stanford on Saturday and Sunday on a Gary Cooper double bill with High Noon: www.screenslate.com/articles/man...
Essential vibe reporting by @oaklandreviewofbooks.org from the annual 9/11 Truther festival at the Grand Lake: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/i-assume-wel...
I assume we’ll be here again next year
9/11 Truth Film Festival, Grand Lake Theater, 9/11
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September 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Essential vibe reporting by @oaklandreviewofbooks.org from the annual 9/11 Truther festival at the Grand Lake: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/i-assume-wel...
This week, Cat Beckstrand on Studio 8, the black box studio at now-shuttered SF Art Institute where generations of filmmakers learned their craft and developed their vision, celebrated Fri-Sun at Shapeshifters, the Roxie, & SFMOMA with @sfartistsalumni.org: www.screenslate.com/articles/stu...
The Studio 8 Film Festival 2025
From September 19-21, the Studio 8 Film Festival will celebrate the visionary spirit of the film department at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), a core part of the development of experimental fi...
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September 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This week, Cat Beckstrand on Studio 8, the black box studio at now-shuttered SF Art Institute where generations of filmmakers learned their craft and developed their vision, celebrated Fri-Sun at Shapeshifters, the Roxie, & SFMOMA with @sfartistsalumni.org: www.screenslate.com/articles/stu...
This week, @jlalibs.com beat me to the punch posting his write-up of City on Fire, screening Saturday in the Roxie’s weekend-long Hong Kong Classics mini-series:
Wrote a few paragraphs about CITY ON FIRE for @screenslatesf.bsky.social today, which is playing in a new 4K restoration in various theaters and is now available on UHD from @shoutstudios.bsky.social
City on Fire
It’s no secret that Quentin Tarantino was largely inspired by Ringo Lam’s City on Fire (1987) when writing the script for his debut feature Reservoir Dogs (1992), ushering in an increased interest in ...
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September 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This week, @jlalibs.com beat me to the punch posting his write-up of City on Fire, screening Saturday in the Roxie’s weekend-long Hong Kong Classics mini-series:
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SFAA is proud to present the 2nd Annual Studio 8 Film Festival, taking place September 19–21 at multiple Bay Area venues — a celebration of bold, original, and experimental filmmaking rooted in the enduring legacy of the San Francisco Art Institute. Get your tickets!!
STUDIO 8 Film Festival - 2025
The Studio 8 Film Festival is a three-day celebration of bold and innovative short films by SFAI alumni, former faculty, and staff. Showcasing experimental works across generations, the festival honor...
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August 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
SFAA is proud to present the 2nd Annual Studio 8 Film Festival, taking place September 19–21 at multiple Bay Area venues — a celebration of bold, original, and experimental filmmaking rooted in the enduring legacy of the San Francisco Art Institute. Get your tickets!!
This week, Delaney Holton on Tsai Ming-liang's masterpiece of isolation and longing, Vive l'amour, screening Wednesday at @bampfa.bsky.social with Tsai and actor Lee Kang-sheng in person www.screenslate.com/articles/viv...
Vive l'amour
This past New Year’s Eve, thousands gathered in Da’an Park to watch Tsai Ming-liang’s Vive L’amour (1994) and reenact Yang Kuei-mei’s relentlessly desolate final scene. Marking the film’s thirtieth an...
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August 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This week, Delaney Holton on Tsai Ming-liang's masterpiece of isolation and longing, Vive l'amour, screening Wednesday at @bampfa.bsky.social with Tsai and actor Lee Kang-sheng in person www.screenslate.com/articles/viv...
This week, we highlight one of the unsung wonders of 1939 from the one of the most underappreciated directors of the studio era: Mitchell Leisen's Midnight, screening on 35mm Thursday and Friday at the Stanford on a double bill with The Palm Beach Story www.screenslate.com/articles/mid...
Midnight
If 1939 was “Hollywood's Greatest Year," it was a year of extravagance, spectacle, romance—and a little light on laughs. Of the outright, through-and-through comedies, only Ninotchka breaks into the y...
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August 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This week, we highlight one of the unsung wonders of 1939 from the one of the most underappreciated directors of the studio era: Mitchell Leisen's Midnight, screening on 35mm Thursday and Friday at the Stanford on a double bill with The Palm Beach Story www.screenslate.com/articles/mid...
This week, Steve Macfarlane on Popeye, Robert Altman's sublime clusterfuck disasterpiece starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall in roles they were born for, screening on 35mm Saturday afternoon at @bampfa.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/pop...
Popeye
Unwell in the head in all the right ways, the 1980 Popeye movie was the brainchild of storied Paramount producer Robert Evans, who tapped satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer to write the adaptation ...
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August 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This week, Steve Macfarlane on Popeye, Robert Altman's sublime clusterfuck disasterpiece starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall in roles they were born for, screening on 35mm Saturday afternoon at @bampfa.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/pop...
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San Francisco Cinematheque proudly announces…
CROSSROADS 2025, August 29–31
full festival line-up at: bit.ly/4nKvitY
8 Programs / 47 Artists
47 Works of Film and Video
All programs presented at
Gray Area, San Francisco
#XRDS25 #CROSSROADSFESTIVAL #sfcinematheque #experimentalfilm #filmfestival
CROSSROADS 2025, August 29–31
full festival line-up at: bit.ly/4nKvitY
8 Programs / 47 Artists
47 Works of Film and Video
All programs presented at
Gray Area, San Francisco
#XRDS25 #CROSSROADSFESTIVAL #sfcinematheque #experimentalfilm #filmfestival
July 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
San Francisco Cinematheque proudly announces…
CROSSROADS 2025, August 29–31
full festival line-up at: bit.ly/4nKvitY
8 Programs / 47 Artists
47 Works of Film and Video
All programs presented at
Gray Area, San Francisco
#XRDS25 #CROSSROADSFESTIVAL #sfcinematheque #experimentalfilm #filmfestival
CROSSROADS 2025, August 29–31
full festival line-up at: bit.ly/4nKvitY
8 Programs / 47 Artists
47 Works of Film and Video
All programs presented at
Gray Area, San Francisco
#XRDS25 #CROSSROADSFESTIVAL #sfcinematheque #experimentalfilm #filmfestival
Everybody go welcome @sfcinematheque.bsky.social to the neighborhood with a follow!
San Francisco Cinematheque (@sfcinematheque.bsky.social)
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Cinematheque is one of the most respected showcases of experimental film & video in the world, including our CROSSROADS festival.
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August 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Everybody go welcome @sfcinematheque.bsky.social to the neighborhood with a follow!
This week, Saffron Maeve on Robert Altman's Van Gogh biopic, Vincent & Theo, made immediately before his late-career renaissance began, screening Sunday evening at @bampfa.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/vin...
Vincent & Theo
After selling his production company in the early 1980s and trading Hollywood’s precarious refuge for a string of low-budget chamber pieces, Robert Altman slogged for a decade before his comeback with...
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August 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This week, Saffron Maeve on Robert Altman's Van Gogh biopic, Vincent & Theo, made immediately before his late-career renaissance began, screening Sunday evening at @bampfa.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/vin...
This week, @feuilladist.bsky.social on Gustaf Molander's Intermezzo, the movie that convinced David O. Selznick to bring Ingrid Bergman to Hollywood and which was remade for her first American film, screening Sunday, July 13, at @bampfa.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/int...
Intermezzo
Gustaf Molander can’t be credited with discovering Ingrid Bergman, but he may be most responsible for shaping her star image. Across their six films together, she moved from supporting player (Swedenh...
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July 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This week, @feuilladist.bsky.social on Gustaf Molander's Intermezzo, the movie that convinced David O. Selznick to bring Ingrid Bergman to Hollywood and which was remade for her first American film, screening Sunday, July 13, at @bampfa.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/int...
This week, @feuilladist.bsky.social on @bampfa.bsky.social's sprawling Mikio Naruse retrospective, The Auteur as Salaryman, which opens Thursday, July 3 with his best-known film, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, on 35mm: www.screenslate.com/articles/mik...
Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman
One of the descriptions that seems to follow wherever the name of Mikio Naruse is mentioned is that, after Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, and Kenji Mizoguchi, he is the “fourth great” master of Japanes...
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June 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This week, @feuilladist.bsky.social on @bampfa.bsky.social's sprawling Mikio Naruse retrospective, The Auteur as Salaryman, which opens Thursday, July 3 with his best-known film, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, on 35mm: www.screenslate.com/articles/mik...
Whoops–missed this in the roundup!
Join us tonight at 8:00 for April Captains, the first screening in our Anti-Fascist Film Series! Maria de Medeiros's 2000 film tells the story of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, when junior officers led a coup that ended decades of fascist rule and restored democracy with massive popular support.
Anti-Fascist Film Series: April Captains
Five INSPIRING Films of People Power and Democracy Overthrowing Fascism, June 27 – August 1 April Captains tells the story of Portugal’s 1974 Carnation Revolution, when junior officers, tired…
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June 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Whoops–missed this in the roundup!
This week, Matt Weinstock on Pink Narcissus, James Bidgood's DIY erotic fantasia, screening in a new restoration Wednesday at the Roxie as part of Frameline 49 (and again at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission next week): www.screenslate.com/articles/pin...
Pink Narcissus
Fifty years ago, Cosmopolitan interviewed a group of women about the pros and cons of sleeping with gay men. “They educated me,” said the Warhol superstar Cherry Vanilla. “I didn’t know what an avocad...
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June 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This week, Matt Weinstock on Pink Narcissus, James Bidgood's DIY erotic fantasia, screening in a new restoration Wednesday at the Roxie as part of Frameline 49 (and again at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission next week): www.screenslate.com/articles/pin...
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If we sell out the screenings at Frameline and The Music Box I will drop Castration Movie Chapter iii. junior ghosts—premorphic drift
May 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
If we sell out the screenings at Frameline and The Music Box I will drop Castration Movie Chapter iii. junior ghosts—premorphic drift
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more tix released for our frameline screening at the new parkway theatre on monday!
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
more tix released for our frameline screening at the new parkway theatre on monday!
This week, Chris Shields on Louise Weard's Castration Movie: Pt. 1, screening NEXT Monday, June 23rd, at the New Parkway as part of the 49th Frameline Festival—it's 4.5 hours, so we wanted to give you plenty of time to rearrange your schedule: www.screenslate.com/articles/cas...
Castration Movie: Pt. I
Castration Movie: Pt. 1 (2025) should be required viewing for anyone who claims to be human these days. The first completed part of actor, writer, and director Louise Weard’s intended series is a four...
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June 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This week, Chris Shields on Louise Weard's Castration Movie: Pt. 1, screening NEXT Monday, June 23rd, at the New Parkway as part of the 49th Frameline Festival—it's 4.5 hours, so we wanted to give you plenty of time to rearrange your schedule: www.screenslate.com/articles/cas...
Tonight at the Roxie: arguably the greatest film from arguably the greatest American documentarian roxie.com/film/welfare/
June 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Tonight at the Roxie: arguably the greatest film from arguably the greatest American documentarian roxie.com/film/welfare/
This week, Cat Beckstrand surveys @bampfa.bsky.social's two-part survey of Bruce Conner's era-defining short films, with Part 1 screening this Sunday, June 15, and Part 2 on Friday, June 27: www.screenslate.com/articles/bru...
Bruce Conner
In an age of algorithmic feeds and ragebait, the multidisciplinary artist Bruce Conner’s films feel less like artifacts and more like prophecies. American culture has always commodified dissent. Long ...
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June 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This week, Cat Beckstrand surveys @bampfa.bsky.social's two-part survey of Bruce Conner's era-defining short films, with Part 1 screening this Sunday, June 15, and Part 2 on Friday, June 27: www.screenslate.com/articles/bru...
This week, our feature pick is Nobuhiko Obayashi's His Motorbike, Her Island, a Japanese pop twist on a classic American genre, the teen motorcycle gang movie, screening Friday at the Roxie: www.screenslate.com/articles/his...
His Motorbike, Her Island
Nobuhiko Obayashi’s career is both prolific and varied. His commitment to experimenting with form carried through his entire body of work, right up until his last film, Labyrinth of Cinema (2019), whi...
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June 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This week, our feature pick is Nobuhiko Obayashi's His Motorbike, Her Island, a Japanese pop twist on a classic American genre, the teen motorcycle gang movie, screening Friday at the Roxie: www.screenslate.com/articles/his...
This week, S Topiary Landberg on "The Times of Harvey Milk," screening on 35mm this Thursday at the Roxie theater www.screenslate.com/articles/tim...
The Times of Harvey Milk
Whether you’ve flown into the Harvey Milk terminal at SFO, licked the back of a memorial postage stamp with his face on it, passed through the Harvey Milk Plaza Muni station, or visited a community ce...
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May 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This week, S Topiary Landberg on "The Times of Harvey Milk," screening on 35mm this Thursday at the Roxie theater www.screenslate.com/articles/tim...
This week, @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social on The Pilgrim, Charlie Chaplin's underseen, mid-length religious satire, screening Friday night as part of the @nilesessanay.bsky.social's annual Charlie Chaplin Days festival: www.screenslate.com/articles/pil...
The Pilgrim
Yves Jeuland’s Charlie Chaplin: Genius of Liberty (2020) builds on an idea that’s been developed by many biographers over the years, including both David Robinson and Jeffrey Vance: that his films are...
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May 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This week, @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social on The Pilgrim, Charlie Chaplin's underseen, mid-length religious satire, screening Friday night as part of the @nilesessanay.bsky.social's annual Charlie Chaplin Days festival: www.screenslate.com/articles/pil...
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CAAMFest is coming! May 8-11 in San Francisco, featuring films from Asian America and beyond. See the full lineup and get tickets at CAAMFest.com
May 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
CAAMFest is coming! May 8-11 in San Francisco, featuring films from Asian America and beyond. See the full lineup and get tickets at CAAMFest.com
This week, Rebecca Turner on Jinho Myung's Softshell as proof of mumblecore's quarter-life crisis. Softshell makes its West Coast premiere Sunday, May 11, at the Roxie as part of #CAAMFest2025 @caamedia.bsky.social
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Softshell
Haven’t you heard the news? Mumblecore has officially entered its quarter life. As evidenced in the lives of the genre’s characters, such a milestone can provoke some existential panic, or at least a ...
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May 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This week, Rebecca Turner on Jinho Myung's Softshell as proof of mumblecore's quarter-life crisis. Softshell makes its West Coast premiere Sunday, May 11, at the Roxie as part of #CAAMFest2025 @caamedia.bsky.social
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