Major props to the San Francisco Film Festival for re-inventing the film-going experience in response to the Pandemic of 2021. April 9 – 18, the folks at SFFILM put together an ambitious program combining online and in-person viewing opportunities. As we all know, part of the fun of a film festival is going to the…
Booksmart, screened in advance at the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM), follows the adventures of academic over-achievers and study-buddies Amy and Molly. The besties spent their high school years mapping out the rest of their lives. Amy plans to volunteer in Botswana and complete her studies at Columbia. Molly is Valedictorian and student-body president,…
Screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM), the riveting documentary Halston introduces Roy Halston Frowick, a country boy from Iowa, who in the 1970s transformed himself into Halston, the superstar fashion designer. A master self-promoter, Halston created an aura of glamour by inviting celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor to runway shows and parties…
Is that a chicken, ET, or a mash-up of Jurassic Park? No, it’s a dog! Screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM), director Rebecca Stern‘s Well Groomed takes us into the world of competitive creative grooming, proving art is in the eye of the beholder. The doc follows four women with diverse motivations…
Wild Rose tells the story of a country singer from Glasgow working her way up towards stardom. Intrigued? That’s just one of 163 films screening and some 100 participating filmmaker guests at the 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM) April 10-23. Not only that, we’re talking about the longest-running film festival in the Americas. Sounds like a…
Did we mention Christopher Plummer stars in Boundaries? Reason enough to see this hit first screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival. We meet Laura (Vera Farmiga), an insecure single mom who can’t seem to get her life together or find a man who can live with her and a bunch of stray dogs…
KODACHROME: “Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.” — E.B. White, One Man’s Meat Kodachrome imagines one such road trip, inspired by a 2010 true story in a New York Times article chronicling the imminent demise of Kodachrome and the frantic race to Dwayne’s Photo, the last Kodachrome processing…