FEATURES
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Essential SF: 'Berkeley in the '60s,' 'Brother Outsider,' 'Weather Underground'
Historical documentaries have a staid, ho-hum reputation with large swaths of the citizenry, who taint them by association with either the musty educational films they watched in public schools or... more
NEWS
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SF Chronicle: "Movie Palace Owner Preserves Golden Age"
“The Grand Lake is one of a shrinking number of neighborhood theaters in the Bay Area, and one of the last that is independently owned,” writes Peter Hartlaub. “All have... more
SEEN
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Leonard Maltin interviewed director Pete Docter before the presentation of
some of the funniest moments in cinema in ‘The Cook with Fatty Arbuckle,’ ‘Pass the Gravy’ with Max Davidson... more
Events
"State of Cinema Address by Walter Murch"—April 25
Film editor, sound designer and nine-time Academy Award-nominee Walter Murch delivers the San Francisco International Film Festival’s annual State of Cinema Address this year, on the origins of cinema and how they inform its future.
04.25.2010