SFIFF: “Incendies” Was A Scorcher

The writing was all over the wall at the Kabuki theater last night that San Francisco’s 2011 International Film Festival was coming to end. Literally….

SFIFF: “Circumstance” Brings It All

The Sundance audiences were right on the money with Circumstance, the audience award winner at that festival. Circumstance, brought to life by writer and director…

SFIFF: Humor And Twists In “Living on Love Alone”

I brought along a couple girlfriends, including at least one other hopeless romantic, to check out Isabelle Czajka’s “Living on Love Alone” at the San…

SFIFF: Egyptian Artistic Uprising In “Microphone”

Microphone – Official Trailer from Ahmad on Vimeo. Headed to the San Francisco International Film Festival on Friday, I was really looking forward to an…

SFIFF: Waiting for Superman

It may be that “Waiting for Superman” is for public education what “An Inconvenient Truth” was for global warming. This isn’t a huge surprise since…

SFIFF: Linha de Passe

Walter Salles’ latest film, Linha de Passe, was absolutely brilliant, and without a doubt my favorite film of the SFIFF so far. I’ve seen several…

SFIFF: Soul Kitchen

Another film, another celebrity sighting…This time it was Patricia Clarkson, who rocked her role as Aunt Sarah in Six Feet Under (“I had a lover…

SFIFF: My Dog Tulip

Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs — “My Dog Tulip” introduction I arrived at the Kabuki yesterday afternoon, the festival…

SF IndieFest: City Island

Think The Corrections, but lighter. Put this on your calendar for this Wednesday Feb. 10 at 7:15 p.m. To do: fall out of my chair…

Indiefest/Winter Music Fest: Rykarda Parasol and Dave Smallen

We kicked off Indiefest‘s Winter Music Fest this Friday night at Bottom of the Hill with Rykarda Parasol and Dave Smallen, a couple of native…

SFISAFF: Yes, Madam, Sir

The lines wove around the block again both Saturday and Sunday evenings with folks waiting to get into the Castro Theater for this year’s International…

SFJFF: A Matter of Size

At a time when it seems everyone could use it, A Matter of Size is such a feel-good movie. Described by the directors as a…

SFIFF:  A Week Alone

SFIFF: A Week Alone

Can we just preface this with the fact that we LOVED the film festival and all of its staff this year, and we were a…

SFIFF:  Troubled Water

SFIFF: Troubled Water

Back at the film festival last night, we saw a film that topped our list this year. We found Troubled Water (the Norwegian title actually…

SFIFF: 35 Shots of Rum

What better way to spend a rainy night than at the SF International Film Festival? In spite of its title, 35 Shots of Rum has…

SFIFF: Kisses

Last night we escaped again to the film festival at the Kabuki. Who hasn’t dreamed of escaping? For most of us it’s probably from the…

SFIFF: Tribute to Robert Redford/Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

SFIFF: Tribute to Robert Redford/Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

“What I’m saying is, if you want to go, I won’t stop you.” There was nothing stopping us from attending and enjoying last night’s show…

SFIAAFF: High Noon

I’m not a guy, so I can’t say that I’ve been through it all before, but in a way I have given that I have…

SFIAAFF: Heaven on Earth

I kicked off my SFIAAFF festivities Saturday at the Castro with Heaven on Earth, and have been dreaming of cobras ever since. I was a…