San Francisco International Film Festival April 4-17 2018
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Links to the reviews
Angels Wear White (Vivian Qu 2017)
Big Bad Fox & Other Tales, The/Le grand renard méchant & autres contes (Patrick Imbert, Benjamin Renner 2017)
City of the Sun (Rati Oneli 2017)
Civilization: How Do We Look? (Episode 2) (Matt Hill 2018)
Claire’s Camera/La caméra de Claire (Hong Sangsoo 2017)
The Cleaners (Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck 2018)
Dogs (The Distant Barking of Dogs) (Simon Lereng Wilmont 2018)
Djon África (João Miller Guerra, Filipa Reis 2018) (ND/NF
Godard Mon Amour (Michel Hazanavicius 2017)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross 2018) (ND/NF)
Half the Picture (Amy Adrion 2018)
Hal (Amy Scott 2018)
Human Element, The (Matthew Testa 2018)
I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni 2017)
Judge, The (Erika Cohn 2017)
Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle/Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo (Gustavo Salmerón 2017)
Minding the Gap (Bing Liu 2017)
My Life with James Dean/Ma vie avec James Dean (Dominique Choisy 2017)
No Date, No Signature (Vahid Jalilvand 2017)
The Other Side of Everything/Druga strana svega (Mila Turajlić 2017)
The Pushouts (Katie Galloway 2018)
Ravens/Korparna (Jens Assur 2017)
RBG (Julie Cohen, Betsy West 2018)
Rescue List, The (Alyssa Fedele, Zachary Fink 2017)
The Rider (Chloé Zhao 2017) (NYFF 2017)
Scary Mother (Ana Urushadze 2017) (ND/NF)
★ (Star) (Johann Lurf 2017)
Suleiman Mountain/Suleiman Too (Elizaveta Stishova 2017)
The Third Murder/三度目の殺人 (Sandome no satsujin) (Hirokazu Kore-eda 2017)
Those Who Are Fine/Dene wos guet gei (Cyril Schäublin 2017) (ND/NF)
Tigre (Ulises Porra Guardiola, Silvina Schnicer 2017)
Tre Maison Dasan (Denali Tiller 2017)
Wajib (Annemarie Jacir 2017)
The White Girl (Jenny Suen, Christopher Doyle 2017)
Winter Brothers/Vinterbrødre (Hlynur Pálmason 2017) (ND/NF)
The Workshop/L'Atelier (Laurent Cantet 2017) (R-V)
Wrestle (Suzannah Herbert, Lauren Belfer 2018)
A Kid Like Jake
A KID LIKE JAKE
The SF Film Society announced the 2018 program (from Variety).
(But it seems impossible to upload a printable list of the main selections, so far [-CK].)
Some info on the opening and closing night films of SFIFF 2018.
The Claire Danes-starred family drama “A Kid Like Jake” - a social drama centered around an ambitious white couple in NYC with a kid with pretty obvious transgender leanings - directed by Silas Howard, kicks off the San Francisco International Film Festival on April 4.
The festival also announced that its closing night film will be Gus Van Sant's “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot,” a biopic about recovering alcoholic and cartoonist John Callahan starring Joaquin Phoenix, which will screen on April 17. This has been widely reviewed (Metacritic 70%) as a so-so film, too sentimental and repetitive for some, but repping yet another terrific performance by Phoenix following up his as yet unseen (in the US) one in Lynne Ramsey's You Were Never Really Here, Cannes Best Screenplay winner in May 2017.
The 61-year-old festival, organized through the San Francisco Film Society, considers itself to be the oldest movie fest in the U.S. The SFFS organization announced most of its lineup at a news conference on Wednesday at the Dolby Theater on Market Street in San Francisco.
“A Kid Like Jake,” which premiered at Sundance in January, is directed by Silas Howard and written by Daniel Pearle, based on his 2013 play of the same name. The film also stars Jim Parsons, Octavia Spencer, and Priyanka Chopra. Danes and Parsons portray parents looking for the “right” New York primary school for their 4-year-old son who prefers Disney princesses to G.I. Joe. IFC bought domestic rights to “Jake” last month.
“Don’t Worry,” which also debuted at Sundance, is directed by Gus Van Sant and is based on late cartoonist John Callahan’s memoir of the same name. Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, and Jack Black also star in the biopic. Amazon is opening the film on July 13.From KQED (San Francisco):Setting a tone of openness and vulnerability against an often hateful national discussion is the festival’s kickoff film A Kid Like Jake. Helmed by Silas Howard (the first trans director of a Transparent episode), the film follows Jim Parsons and Claire Danes as the parents of a preschool-aged son who likes to engage in “gender-variant play.” Should they use their child’s possible transgender leanings as a “diversity” selling point in their quest for entry into New York’s exclusive private schools? What’s best for Jake?
The festival will also hold a tribute to filmmaker Wayne Wang, with a screening of “Smoke.” Wang’s credits include “Chan Is Missing,” “Maid in Manhattan,” “The Joy Luck Club,” “Anywhere but Here,” and “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.”
Other tributes unveiled Wednesday include Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (George Gund III Craft of Cinema Award), Annette Insdorf (Mel Novikoff Award), and Nathaniel Dorsky (Persistence of Vision Award).
The fest had already announced that its centerpiece film will be Boots Riley’s satire “Sorry to Bother You” on April 12. Charlize Theron will be honored at the event with a special tribute, followed by a screening of her new film “Tully” on April 8.
See a PDF file of the Festival's 2018 program HERE.
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