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Festival Highlights SLOIFF 2025 was a record-breaking event, drawing large audiences to its diverse programming. For fans of Neil Young, there was the sold-out screening of Daryl Hannah’s documentary Coastal. This year’s King Vidor Award went to legendary costume designer Bob Mackie, star of the documentary Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion. The film takes you through is…
Ireland: That They May Face the Rising Sun follows a British couple. They leave London for a new life in the Irish countryside. Oh, the fantasy of escaping the big city for a simpler life. Why not Ireland? Settle in for an armchair tour. Cast of Characters: Our couple seem very much in love, bemused…
Roxie Theater hosted the Berlin & Beyond Film Festival’s North American Premiere of “Girl You Know it’s True“, a biopic about Fab Morvan, and the rise and fall of his band Milli Vanilli. Fab made a personal appearance in San Francisco to answer audience questions and graciously pose with admirers. A little history: Fab Morvan was…
SLO (that’s what the locals call it), pulled out all the stops for their 30th annual Film Festival.
I was fascinated and challenged from the moment this film started. At first I thought it was going in and out of focus or maybe the theater reel was just a bit off on timing – finally it dawned on me I was watching 2D Animation. Artist oil pastel renderings over each frame of footage….
The historic Castro Theatre hosted BELLA!, the 2023 closing night selection of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, oldest such festival in the world. If you don’t know who Bella Abzug is, you weren’t alive in the 1970s, but trust me, you want to see this documentary of an extraordinary woman, beginning her career as…
Remembering Gene Wilder opened the 2023 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, screened at the beautiful Castro Theatre. Side note: the SFJFF is the oldest Jewish film festival in the world. Through Interviews and archival footage we are given a back stage pass to rub shoulders with the likes of Richard Pryor, Zero Mostel, Gilda Radner,…