NEW ITALIAN CINEMA
Lecture 21
Friday, November 20, 6:30 pm; Saturday, November 21, 1:00 pm
Friday, November 20, 6:30 pm; Saturday, November 21, 1:00 pm
NEW ITALIAN CINEMA
Sea Purple
Friday, November 20, 9:15 pm; Saturday November 21, 6:30 pm
Friday, November 20, 9:15 pm; Saturday November 21, 6:30 pm
NEW ITALIAN CINEMA
Vincere
Sunday, November 22, 5:45 pm & 9:00 pm
Sunday, November 22, 5:45 pm & 9:00 pm
FILM ARTS FORUM
SFFS Film Arts Forum: Sundance Confidential
Monday, December 7, 7:30 pm (7:00 pm door)
Monday, December 7, 7:30 pm (7:00 pm door)
KINOTEK
Catherine Galasso: Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice
December 12–13, 8:00 pm
December 12–13, 8:00 pm
SF360 FILM+CLUB
Steven Severin: Music for Silents
Tuesday, January 12, doors 7:00 pm, show 8:00 pm
Tuesday, January 12, doors 7:00 pm, show 8:00 pm
Taiwan Film Days
November 6–8, 2009
This exciting three-day showcase highlights the best of contemporary Taiwanese cinema and provides Bay Area audiences with unique opportunities to view bold new Taiwanese films and engage with visionary filmmakers.
Landmark's Opera Plaza Cinema
601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
Parking is available on surrounding neighborhood streets. Underground valet parking is also available at Opera Plaza Mall.
Download Taiwan Film Days program (pdf)
Taiwan Film Days sponsors and supporters
This exciting three-day showcase highlights the best of contemporary Taiwanese cinema and provides Bay Area audiences with unique opportunities to view bold new Taiwanese films and engage with visionary filmmakers.
Landmark's Opera Plaza Cinema
601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
Parking is available on surrounding neighborhood streets. Underground valet parking is also available at Opera Plaza Mall.
Download Taiwan Film Days program (pdf)
Taiwan Film Days sponsors and supporters
Opening Night
Celebrate Taiwan Film Days! A limited number of tickets is available to an exclusive reception with complimentary wine and appetizers from 9:00–11:00 pm at Bambuddha Lounge. Read more...
Friday, November 6, 9:00–11:00 pm
Bambuddha Lounge, 601 Eddy Street (at Polk).
Cape No. 7
Wei Te-sheng (Hai chiao chi hao, 2008)
The story of the unlikely rise of an exceptional rock band comes bounded by a postwar tale of unrequited love in this spirited small-town epic, Taiwan’s all-time box-office blockbuster. Read more...
Friday, November 6, 6:30 pm & 9:30 pm
Landmark's Opera Plaza Cinema
Beyond the Arctic
Yang Li-chou (Zheng fu pei zhi, 2008)
Veteran documentary filmmaker Yang Li-chou profiles the three-man Taiwanese team on the 2008 Polar Challenge, a multinational race to the magnetic North Pole. Read more...
Saturday, November 7, 2:00 pm; Sunday, November 8, 4:30 pm
Landmark's Opera Plaza Cinema
Somewhere I Have Never Traveled
Fu Tien-yu (Dai wo qu yuan fang, 2009)
A scrappy, color-blind 15-year-old girl and her beloved older cousin engage in imaginative travels far beyond their small seaside town in this gently nuanced coming-of-age story.
Read more...
Saturday, November 7, 4:15 pm
Landmark's Opera Plaza Cinema
God Man Dog
Singing Chen (Liu lang shen gao ren, 2007)
The tenuous place of human beings between heaven and earth links three disparate stories in filmmaker Singing Chen’s thoughtful second feature that reveals the contradictions in modern Taiwanese society. Read more...
Saturday, November 7, 7:00 pm
Landmark's Opera Plaza Cinema
Yang Yang
Chen Yu-chieh (2009)
Writer-director Chen Yu-chieh’s second feature is an intimate, beautifully acted drama about a half-French competitive runner for whom family, career, and love become a tangle of contradictions. Read more...
Saturday, November 7, 9:30 pm; Sunday, November 8, 8:30 pm
Landmark's Opera Plaza Cinema
What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?
Doze Niu Chen-zer (Qing fei de yi zhi sheng cun zhi dao, 2007)
A TV star (Doze Niu Chen-zer, playing himself) needs funding for his breakout film and gets mixed up with the mob in this cutting satire of Taiwan’s film industry. Read more...
Sunday, November 8, 2:00 pm
Landmark's Opera Plaza Cinema
No Puedo Vivir sin Ti
Leon Dai (Bu neng mei you ni, 2009)
When a poor, single father has his daughter taken from him by government order, his desperation leads to a showdown that becomes a worldwide media event. Read more...
Sunday, November 8, 6:15 pm
Landmark's Opera Plaza Cinema
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