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 […]
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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 […]
Review: Only Lovers Left Alive — vampires ain’t what they used to be
The lovers in Jim Jarmusch’s fantastic film, Only Lovers Left Alive, are Adam (Tom Hiddleston, excellent) and Eve (Tilda Swinton, fine), a sophisticated couple both in love with each other and with art and science. They’re also vampires, but they’re far from the emotionally stunted teenagers that tend to haunt the genre. This pair are […]
An ex-lover may just be able to alleviate Rudolf Bauer’s painter’s block in the world premiere of "Bauer" at the SF Playhouse
After this review of Bauer at the SF Playhouse, read more Seventh Row writing on theatre. The first thing you notice about an SF Playhouse production is the phenomenal and detailed set. This was true even in their old, smaller location on Sutter St, but now on Post St with a bigger space, the sets […]
What to see and what to skip at the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF)
“Frank” **1/2 (Ireland) Director Lenny Abrahamson, who brought us the brilliant psychological drama What Richard Did, may not seem like the most likely candidate to make a comedy, but Frank” is a deftly handled, bizarre and charming comedy. Michael Fassbender plays the eponymous Frank, a talented musician whose main quirk is that he walks around […]