SF INTL FILM FESTIVAL
SFIFF53 Members Night
March 31, 2010; programs 7:00 & 9:15 pm; reception 7:30–9:30 pm
March 31, 2010; programs 7:00 & 9:15 pm; reception 7:30–9:30 pm
FILM ARTS FORUM
SFFS Film Arts Forum: Tales from Terror Town
Monday, April 5, 7:00 pm
Monday, April 5, 7:00 pm
SF INTL FILM FESTIVAL
53rd San Francisco International Film Festival
April 22–May 3, 2010
April 22–May 3, 2010
SF INTL FILM FESTIVAL
An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt: Life, Death and Very Large Utensils
Friday, April 23, 7:30pm
Friday, April 23, 7:30pm
SF INTL FILM FESTIVAL
An Evening with Walter Salles
Wednesday, April 28, 6:45 pm
Wednesday, April 28, 6:45 pm
SF INTL FILM FESTIVAL
An Afternoon with James Schamus
Saturday, May 1, 1:00 pm
Saturday, May 1, 1:00 pm
SF INTL FILM FESTIVAL
An Evening with Roger Ebert and Friends
Saturday, May 1, 5:30 pm
Saturday, May 1, 5:30 pm
SF INTL FILM FESTIVAL
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with Stephin Merritt
Tuesday, May 4, 8:30 pm
Tuesday, May 4, 8:30 pm
French Cinema Now
October 29–November 4, 2009
Landmark's Clay Theatre
French Cinema Now—a new seven-day annual festival copresented with the French-American Cultural Society—brings the most significant new work from one of the world’s most renowned filmmaking countries to discerning Bay Area audiences. French Cinema Now covers a broad spectrum of subject matter and genres and builds a comprehensive picture of the current moment in French cinema. Très magnifique!
Download French Cinema Now program (pdf)
French Cinema Now sponsors and supporters
Watch French Cinema Now highlights
Landmark's Clay Theatre
French Cinema Now—a new seven-day annual festival copresented with the French-American Cultural Society—brings the most significant new work from one of the world’s most renowned filmmaking countries to discerning Bay Area audiences. French Cinema Now covers a broad spectrum of subject matter and genres and builds a comprehensive picture of the current moment in French cinema. Très magnifique!
Download French Cinema Now program (pdf)
French Cinema Now sponsors and supporters
Watch French Cinema Now highlights
Opening Night Party
Commemorate the best in contemporary French cinema with the Opening Night film The French Kissers and an exclusive post-screening reception. Read more...
Thursday, October 29, 9:00–11:00 pm
Landmark's Clay Theatre, Restaurant Cassis
The French Kissers
Riad Sattouf (Les beaux gosses, France 2009)
Raging with hormones, Hervé and best friend Camel troll their school for a glimpse of female flesh in this humorous look at adolescence among a multicultural group of French teens. Read more...
Thursday, October 29, 7:00 pm; Saturday, October 31, 4:45 pm
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
The King of Escape
Alain Guiraudie (Le roi de l’évasion, France 2009)
This eccentric comedy chronicles the midlife crisis of a pudgy, gay tractor salesman who, for a change of pace, runs away with a 16-year-old female beauty with half the town in pursuit. Read more...
Thursday, October 29, 9:30 pm; Friday, October 30, 7:00 pm
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
Yuki and Nina
Hippolyte Giradot, Nobuhiro Suwa (France 2009)
This enchantingly understated look at a child’s experience of uprooting follows two best friends, Yuki and Nina, away from Yuki’s divorcing parents to the children’s own refuge in the forest. Read more...
Friday, October 30, 5:00 pm; Saturday, October 31, 7:15 pm
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
Stella
Sylvie Verheyde (France 2008)
Sylvie Verheyde’s precisely, passionately observed drama is a semiautobiographical story about a socially isolated 11-year-old girl attending her first year of secondary school in 1977. Read more...
Saturday, October 31, 2:30 pm; Tuesday, November 3, 7:00 pm
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
OSS 117, Lost in Rio
Michel Hazanavicius (OSS 117, Rio ne répond plus, France 2009)
Temperatures are up, tops are down and cultural sensitivity at an all-time low in this deft sendup featuring super-spy Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, aka OSS 117. Read more...
Saturday, October 31, 9:30 pm
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut (Les quatre cents coups, France 1959)
On the 50th anniversary of the rise of the French New Wave, here is a chance to revisit the film that started it all. Read more...
Sunday, November 1, 2:00 pm
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
Adhen
Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche (Dernier maquis, France/Algeria 2008)
A factory owner builds a mosque for his workers in a bleak industrial strip outside Paris in this visually bold meditation on the clash of capitalism and religious traditions. Read more...
Sunday, November 1, 4:15 pm; Tuesday, November 3, 9:15 pm
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
The Wolberg Family
Axelle Ropert (La famille Wolberg, France 2009)
Simon Wolberg, Jewish mayor of a small provincial town, is a devoted but highly rigid paterfamilias struggling with the individualities of his family members in this winningly eccentric, deeply resonant family melodrama. Read more...
Friday, October 30, 9:30 pm; Sunday, November 1, 6:30 pm
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
Welcome
Philippe Lioret (France 2008)
A master swimming instructor decides to help a 17-year-old Iraqi Kurdish refugee cross the English Channel from France in this absorbing, exquisitely crafted drama from veteran director Philippe Lioret. Read more...
Sunday, November 1, 8:30 pm; Monday, November 2, 9:00 pm
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
The Thorn in the Heart
Michel Gondry (L’epine dans le coeur, France 2009)
The ever inventive and versatile Michel Gondry travels into new territory for this idiosyncratic family documentary, while keeping his inimitable cinematic flair intact. Read more...
Monday, November 2, 7:00 pm
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
Villa Amalia
Benoît Jacquot (France/Switzerland 2008)
Provoked by the sight of her husband kissing another woman, Ann (Isabelle Huppert) abandons her staid life for an open-ended journey of self-discovery. Read more...
Wednesday, November 4, 7:00 pm
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
Bellamy
Claude Chabrol (France 2009)
Claude Chabrol’s droll detective tale stars Gérard Depardieu as the titular Paris police commissioner investigating a possible murder while on vacation in the South of France. Read more...
Wednesday, November 4, 9:15 pm
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
French Cinema Now Closing Night
Celebrate Closing Night with Benoît Jacquot and Isabelle Huppert’s latest collaboration Villa Amalia and an exclusive special reception. Read more...
Wednesday, November 4, 9:00–11:00 pm
Landmark's Clay Theatre, Dosa
PRESENTING ORGANIZATIONS
WITH SPECIAL SUPPORT FROM WILLIAM R. HEARST III
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