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
Quebec Film Week (2008)
In December 2008, The Film Society drew attention to Quebec’s rich and singular cinematic tradition with recent work from new and established filmmakers, highlighting the best of contemporary Quebecois cinema and providing Bay Area audiences with unique opportunities to view exciting new films and engage with bold filmmakers whose voices and visions will reward the adventurous.
Missing Victor Pellerin
Sophie Deraspe (Rechercher Victor Pellerin, Canada 2006)
Québécois artist Victor Pellerin reclaimed all of his paintings, set them aflame and disappeared. This genre-busting hybrid follows a group of aging bohemians preparing an exhibition of Pellerin’s absent work. Read more...
December 10 & 13, 2008
Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinema
Mommy Is at the Hairdresser’s
Léa Pool (Maman est chez le coiffeur, Canada 2008)
A vivid film about familial dysfunction in suburban Montreal, Léa Pool’s latest charmer delves deeply into Québécois family life in the late 1960s. Read more...
December 10, 2008
Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinema
Continental, a Film Without Guns
Stéphane Lafleur (Continental, un film sans fusil, Canada 2007)
Stéphane Lafleur’s debut feature—a meditation on modern loneliness and loss—follows a collection of tragic characters and depicts their aimless attempts at connection. Read more...
December 11 & 13, 2008
Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinema
The Fight
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (Le ring, 2007)
Plunging deep into one of Montreal’s most beleaguered neighborhoods, this audacious film tells the story of a willful 12-year-old being prematurely forced to leave childhood behind. Read more...
December 11 & 13, 2008
Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinema
The Age of Ignorance
Denys Arcand (L’âge des ténèbres, Canada/France 2006)
Evoking a dystopian, near-future Montreal, Denys Arcand’s The Age of Ignorance is a wry evocation of a melancholy future and one man’s endeavor to find his true self. Read more...
December 14, 2008
Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinema
The Last Continent
Jean Lemire (Canada 2007)
Filmmaker and marine biologist Jean Lemire leads an intense 430-day expedition to Antarctica in this resonant documentary about a group of scientists investigating the effects of climate change. Read more...
December 12 & 14, 2008
Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinema
Borderline
Lyne Charlebois (Canada 2007)
Isabelle Blais turns in a fearless performance as a woman trying to write her Master’s thesis while dealing with a history of various addictions, self-abuse and childhood trauma. Read more...
Friday, December 12, 2008
Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinema
Mon Oncle Antoine
Claude Jutra (Canada 1971)
Long heralded as a stellar example of Québecois cinema, this 1971 gem looks at various denizens of a small northern town in the 1940s. Read more...
December 14, 2008
Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinema
