The San Francisco film world, and the film world at large, was shocked and saddened by the sudden death of Bingham Ray, the head of the San Francisco Film Society and a longtime champion of independent film. Ray accepted the job as executive director in October 2011, following the death of director Graham Leggat, who died of cancer in August. Ray suffered a series of strokes while in Utah attending ......
Pairing muscians with silent films has become a signature event of the San Franciso International Film Festival: one year Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields accompanied “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, another year it was Dengue Fever and “The Lost World”. This year, organizers looked to their own backyard. Oakland's tUnE-yArDs, the genre-deying music project fronted by Merrill Garbus, will perform a live score for a series of Buster Keaton ......
—Long-simmering HBO biopic "Hemingway & Gellhorn," which filmed around the Bay last year, finally has a trailer. The nearly five-minute peek at the project, which leaked online and was apparently taken down by request from HBO, gave us our first looks at Clive Owen as big Papa himself and Nicole Kidman as his wife Martha Gellhorn. The film boasts A-list talent behind the camera as well: co-writers Barbara Turner and Jerry ......
Do you find the requisite Valentine’s Day platitudes, particularly gifts consisting of Hallmark cards, chocolates, red roses, and heart-centric jewelry, a bit stale? San Francisco cultural institutions to the rescue! Local museums, historical societies, and research libraries in the Bay Area are standing by with V-Day specific offerings in their stores, and better yet, online. Here are fourteen gifts (ranging from $6.50 to $650) I’d love to get – ahem ......
By Alexis Coe 2/06/12 2:31 p.m. PST
The 14th Annual SF IndieFest starts Thursday, February 9th, bringing two weeks of film to the Roxy Theater. And also that other IndieFest tradition: wild theme parties all over town, like a subversive Superbowl party and a roller disco. Festival founder Jeff Ross admits he never thought the event would last this long. "The first year I was shocked that over 3,000 people came to see a dozen films they'd never heard of before. And ......
