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 Evening with Robert Duvall
Friday, April 30, 7:30 pm
Friday, April 30, 7:30 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 (2008)
The inaugural French Cinema Now was held October 8–12, 2008. This new five-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. The latest expansion in the Film Society’s year-round programming, French Cinema Now covers a broad spectrum of subject matter and genres and builds a comprehensive picture of the current moment in French cinema. As at the SF International Film Festival, the films’ directors, actors and/or writers are invited to come to San Francisco to present their films and participate in lively question and answer sessions with sophisticated Bay Area audiences
A Christmas Tale
Arnaud Desplechin (Un conte de Noël, France 2008)
Desplechin’s A Christmas Story—with Catherine Deneuve as the matriarch of a dysfunctional family and Mathieu Amalric as her estranged son—is a sprawling, wickedly funny family drama. Read more...
October 8, 2008
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
Welcome to the Sticks
Dany Boon (Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis, France, 2008)
This little charmer—a warm and uproarious send-up of regional prejudices and an embrace of inclusiveness—came out of nowhere this year to become the most successful French film of all time. Read more...
October 9 & 12, 2008
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
Actresses
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (Actrices, France 2007)
A tour de force for director/cowriter/star Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Actresses is a pointed and poignant portrait of a middle-aged woman who is artistically successful but generally unhappy. Read more...
October 9 & 12, 2008
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
Life of the Dead
Arnaud Desplechin (La vie des morts, France 1991)
In his first film, little-seen in the U.S., Arnaud Desplechin begins his revelatory investigation into the web of relationships that comprise the modern family. Read more...
October 10, 2008
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
Alibi
Pascal Bonitzer (Le grand alibi, France 2008)
In this crisply paced and witty Agatha Christie adaptation, a poolside murder reveals an intricate web of sexual intrigue and tangled romantic jilting. Read more...
October 10–11, 2008
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
Lads and Jockeys
Benjamin Marquet (Lads et jockeys, France 2006)
Benjamin Marquet’s feature-length documentary takes us into the world where young teens adopt a grueling training regimen in hopes of landing an elusive career: riding at professional horse races. Read more...
October 10–11, 2008
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
Six in Paris
Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Rouch, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, Jean Douchet, Jean-Daniel Pollet (Paris vu par, France, 1965)
In the delightful Six in Paris, a sextet of French New Wave directors write and direct stories structured around a particular Parisian neighborhood’s topography. Read more...
October 11–12, 2008
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
Eden Log
Franck Vestiel (France 2007)
Refreshingly complex, vividly unsettling, and artfully shot, Franck Vestiel’s sci-fi feature offers ample chills and much food for thought. Read more...
October 11, 2008
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
The Class
Laurent Cantet (Entre les murs, France, 2008)
Unanimously voted the Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Laurent Cantet’s The Class plunges viewers into a lively classroom set in the tough, multiethnic Paris neighborhood. Read more...
October 12, 2008
Landmark’s Clay Theatre
