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ARCTIC (Joe Penna 2018) Want to chase your Winter Doldrums with somebody else's winter horrors? Joe Penna is a Brazilian musician who became famous...

SF Indiefest 2019: Awards.

Those prizes don't seem to be highlighted at Canes either. In fact I don't think they even have prizes for cinematography and editing.

Shame no one will ever see who won the "Best Cinematography" award as the Academy decided this year NOT to show the award until after its given...

Maybe Agnès Godard is the most known, but there are a dozen more, as you'll see if you Google "women cinematographers." I wonder what awards they...

Good point: being coy about essential knowledge in a film is a modern thing, no doubt. Wouldn't another one be Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure. Also...

Agnès Godard for Claire Denis are awesome; good of you to bring them up. I posted on your 45 YEARS (2015) thread. It's been added to my list of 346...

I also think it's an instant classic if that means it feels "perfect" right away; it feels masterful and confident. I certainly would not call it...

Oscar Nominated Shorts, 2019. DOCUMENTARY. This category tends, understandably, to focus for the most part on hot button current issues. The...

Maybe I need to stop watching movies first and read Chris's commentaries on them before instead. Here we find a luscious commentary about Nicole...

A puzzling Chris commentary in which he appears to both lavish and deride this movie at the same time. He writes that "this is not that wonderful a...

Took the time to see the original version of Mary Poppins recently before I saw this sequel. I grew up experiencing Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins as...

Breaking new contemporary, mainstream ground, this animated feature film captures the very essence of reading an actual comic book in full living,...

I am in agreement with most of what Chris has described. But his commentary about the movie is more about the amazing man and his singular story...

Oscar Nominated Shorts, 2019. ANIMATION. These are more varied in style and unpredictable in tone perhaps than the live action ones.There also...

WILDLAND (Alex Jablonski, Khalil Hudson 2019) Showing today at 12:30 This documentary about the lives and work of forest fire fighters in...

COLD PURSUIT (Hans Petter Moland 2019) Cold Pursuit is a remake of Fupz Aakeson's In Order of Disappearance, the Norwegian tale of a vengeful...

SF INDIEFEST 2019 - Links to Filmleaf Reviews: #Like (Sarah Pirozek) Area, The (David Shalliol) Centerline (Takumi Shimumkai) Cruel...

WILDLAND (Alex Jablonski, Khalil Hudson 2018) A small documentary about a crew of men who come to southern Oregon to fight forest fires. Timely...

PET NAMES (Carol Brandt 2018) SF INDIEFEST . ]This looks like the gem of the festival, devastatingly precise and real portrait of a millennial couple...

CAROL BRANDT: PET NAMES (2018) Big contrast. No pretension here, only a precise ear, wit, and emotional honesty. A young couple through high...

MELORA WALTERS: WATERLILY JAGUAR (2018) Melora Walters has ninety-nine acting credits, including Magnolia and Boogie Nights, and Paul Thomas...

MISS BALA (Catherine Hardwicke 2019). This inferior Hollywood remake of Geraldo Naranjo's 2011 movie was watched as a duty, since I saw and...

DENNIS COOPER, ZAC FARLEY: PERMANENT GREEN LIGHT (2018) A Bressonian (Cooper, primarily a writer, is a big admirer of the French auteur) film with...

NIA DACOSTA: LITTLE WOODS (2018) In this Tribeca debut feature opening in theaters in April, two sisters struggle to survive economically in a...

GREEN BOOK (Peter Farrelly 2018). No, I haven't actually watched this yet, but I did buy a ticket for it today. I mean to watch it to see what all...

SF Indiefest My first year of covering this local festival. See the Festival Coverage section to read the full reviews, where there are any. ...