Two of the highlights of this year’s SFIFF were the LGBTQ coming-of-ager Bad Hair and Kelly Reichardt’s environmental terrorism thriller, Night Moves.
Film Festivals
SFIFF Film Review: Yossi Aviram’s La Dune is a story of two broken men
Yossi Aviram’s directorial debut, which he also penned, is a quiet story of two broken men — a father and his estranged son — who are always shot as lonely figures against a vast, beautiful landscape.
Review: Of Horses and Men and Club Sandwich
Two of my SFIFF favourites, Of Horses and Men and Club Sandwich, have not been picked up for US distribution, but will screen once more at the festival. Catch them on the big screen while you can.
SFIFF Day 2: From Romania to Argentina on the big screen
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism The best argument for shooting on celluloid in the digital age gets made in the Romanian film When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism, which screened Friday at SFIFF. In the first scene, Paul (Bogdan Dumitrache), a young director, explains that he prefers film because it has the […]
Hossein Amini’s The Two Faces of January kicks off SFIFF with style
The Two Faces of January kicked off the 2014 San Francisco International Film Festival with style, including a Q&A with writer-director Hossein Amini.
SFIFF capsules: It’s a hard knock life for the rich – Last Weekend and Palo Alto
Two of the San Francisco International Film Festival’s most anticipated films — The Centerpiece Film Palo Alto and the World Premiere of Last Weekend — both deal with the woes of the rich. They’re also made by Hollywood royalty: writer-director Gia Coppola, who directed Palo Alto” is the grand-daughter of director Frances Ford Coppola and […]