This year, the SFiFF featured a wonderfully-restored version of Fellini’s classic film, the first time I’ve seen it on the big screen. There is something about seeing a film the way it was originally intended […]
Tag: San Francisco International Film Festival
San Francisco Film Festival: Incendies by Denis Villeneuve
This Greek tragedy of a film, which has premiered at several other film festivals and has won many awards and nominations (including the Oscar for Best Foreign Film), deserves all the acclaim. It has been […]
San Francisco Film Festival: Drawing Restraint 17 by Matthew Barney
Barney at his most restrained and linear. A compact, silent, heart-breaking, and beautifully composed short film, it had all the echoes of previous works: the textures of substances (glues, soil, plastic, wood, mud), the presence […]
San Francisco Film Festival: The Good Life by Eva Mulvad
A beautifully-composed, moving and incredibly contained documentary which has the sheen and the pace of fiction. Eva Mulvad, who directed and filmed herself, is an able and intelligent filmmaker. It was an aesthetic, emotional and […]
San Francisco Film Festival: State of the Cinema by Christine Vachon
I was thrilled to see Christine Vachon this evening, giving the highly-anticipated State of the Cinema address. I had never heard her speak before, and she was everything I imagined she would be: funny, witty, […]
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