San Francisco International Film Festival 2011

[Chris Knipp]

FILMLEAF GENERAL FILM FORUM SFIFF 2011 COMMENTS THREAD

San Francisco International Film Festival 2011
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SFIFF 2011 (April 21-May 5)


MASTROIANNI AND EKBERG IN LA DOLCE VITA (1960). THE SFFS WILL SHOW A REMASTERED PRINT.

INDEX OF LINKS TO MY REVIEWS OF THE FESTIVAL FILMS:

(Including films seen and/or reviewed previously at NYFF 2110, R-V [Rendez-Vous with French Cinema] 2010 or 2011, or ND/NF [New Directors/New Films 2011); some were seen and reviewed after the film festival in regular theatrical release.)

L'Amour Fou (Pierre Thorreton 2010)
13 Assassins (Takashi Miike 2010)
Arbor, The (Clio Barnard 2010)
Asleep in the Sun (Alejandro Chomski 2010)
At Ellen's Age (Pia Marais 2010) ND/NF
Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari 2010) ND/NF
Aurora (Cristi Puiu 2010) NYFF
Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu, The (Andrei Uticǎ 2010) NYFF
Beginners (Mike Mills 2010)
Better This World (Kelly Duane, Katie Galloway 2011)
Black Bread (Agustí Villaronga 2010)
Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975, The (Göran Hugo Olsson: 2011) ND/NF
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog 2010)
Chantrapas (Otar Iosseliani 2010)
Circumstance (Maryam Keshavarz 2011)
City Below, The (Christoph Hochhäusler 2010)
Detroit: Wild City (Florent Tillon 2010)
Dolce Vita, La (Federico Fellini) (Restored print) (no review)
Dish and the Spoon, The (Abigail Bognall 2011)
Foreign Parts (Verena Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki, 2010) NYFF (no review)
Future, The (Miranda July 2011)
Green Wave, The (Ali Samadi Ahadi 2010)
Hands Up (Romain Goupil 2010) R-V 2011
Hospitalité (Koji Fukada 2010) ND/NF
I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive (Claude Miller, Nathan Miller 2009) R-V 2010
Incendies (Denis Villeneuve 2010) ND/NF
Journals of Musan (Park Jung-bum 2010)
Let the Wind Carry Me (Kwan, Chiang 2010)
Love in a Puff (Pang Ho-cheung 2010)
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt 2010) NYFF
Microphone (Ahmad Abdalla 2010) ND/NF
Mill and the Cross, The (Lech Majewski 2011)
My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa 2010) NYFF
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz 2010) NYFF
On Tour (Matthieu Amalric 2010)
Page One: Inside the New York Times (Andrew Rossi 2011)
Quattro Volte, Le (Michelangelo Frammartino 2010) NYFF
She Monkeys (Linda Aschan 2010)
Silent Souls (Alexei Fedorchenko 2010) NYFF
Sleeping Beauty, The (Catherine Breillat 2010) R-V 2011
Something Ventured (Dan Geller, Danya Goldfine 2011)
Tilva Rosh (Nikola Lezaic 2010)
Tiniest Place, The (Tatiana Huezo 2011)
Trip, The (Michael Winterbottom 2010)
Useful Life, A (Federico Veiroj 2010)
Walking Too Fast (Radim Spacek 2009)

The San Francisco International Film Festival, SFIFF 54, runs from April 21 to May 5, 2011, and has announced its program today with the usual press conference on the beautiful top floor of the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, with Graham Leggett, Executive Director of the SFFS, presiding in his fifth year at the Society's helm.

The San Francisco Film Society's full online program of the festival films begins here.

I will plan to attend and review films.

There are 189 films from forty-odd countries.

Opening night film is Mike Mills' Beginners with Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer. Centerpiece is Azarel Jacobs' Terri. Closing night film is Matthieu Amalric's On Tour (Tournée).

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OLIVER STONE

AWARDS.Oliver Stone will be the recipient of the Founder's Directing Award. Special awards are going to legendary screenwriter Frank Pierson; Persist ence of Vision Award to artist Matthew Barney; the Mel Novikoff Award for contribution to public appreciation of film goes to film restorer/showman Serge Bromberg (whose Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno was in the SFIFF last year).


TERENCE STAMP BEING HONORED AT SFIFF 54

Terence Stamp will receive the Peter J. Owens acting award. Stamp will also be honored with An Evening with Terence Stamp at the Castro Theatre at 7:30 pm, Friday, April 29, 2011.

SCREENING TIMES AND LOCATIONS ARE GIVEN FOR THE FILMS AND ARE:
KABUKI CINEMAS (main festival venue)
1881 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
PFI PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE (East Bay venue)
2575 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94702
NEW PEOPLE (near the Kabuki)
1746 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
CASTRO THEATER (special events venue)
429 Castro Street
San Francisco, CA 94114-2019