THE FAITHFUL: THE KING, THE POPE, THE PRINCESS (Annie Berman 2021)
The filmmaker, wo provides a constant intimate voiceover, recounts here decades-long pursuit of the nature of celebrity by following fans of Elvis, the Pope, and the late Princess Diana. And she is also recording her own obsession, with Elvis and with making this film, which began in rows and rows of little videotapes.
SFJFF SHOWTIMES:
Schedule
Monday July 25, 2022
11:15 a.m.
Castro Theatre
THE CROSSING/LA TRAVERSÉE (Florence Mialhe 2021)
Riffing off memories of her mother and great grandmother the artist-filmmaker tells a story of siblings fleeing wartime violence, through many vicissitudes, to enter a new land. The story never quite jells, but the hand painted animated images are frequently gorgeous, evoking numerous modern artists with fluid line and brilliant color.
Shown today, July 26, 2022 at the Albany Twin
SUMMER NIGHTS (Ohad Milstein 2021).
Exploring the world around his six-year-old son, a prizewinning Israeli short film of singular grace and simplicity. I thought of Nicholas Philibert's wonderful To Be and to Have; but where this film ends is where that one begins, the start of school.
SFJFF SHOWTIMES:
Schedule
Thursday July 28, 2022
6:00 p.m.
Albany Twin
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THE RESTLESS HUNGARIAN (Tom Weidlinger 2021)
The filmmaker explores the life and achievement of his father Paul Weidinger (1914-1999), an important structural engineer for major architects who escaped from Europe in 1939 and concealed for the rest of his life that he was a Jew. The life and the film trajectory don't satisfy the way Nathanial Kahn's great My Architect does, but Tom is an accomplished documentarian and provides a vivid picture of the many phases of his father's varied life.
SFJFF SHOWTIMES:
Schedule
Friday July 29, 2022
3:05 p.m.
Albany Twin
A REEL WORLD: SHALAL (Karnit Mandel)
Tomorrow:
.Friday, July 29 · 1pm
Albany Twin
Albany, CA
While digging in an Israeli archive, a film researcher stumbles across never-before-seen footage from a long-lost Palestinian Liberation Organization archive seized by Israel in the 1982 Lebanon war
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TAKE THE 'A' TRAIN (Yair Asher, Itamar Lapid 2021)
The Israeli feature film follows Yeshi, a 30-something jazz pianist with classical chops on a return visit to Tel Aviv from Paris. It's a somewhat random portrait of a directionless generation of young Israelis.
SFJFF SHOWTIMES
Schedule
Friday July 29, 2022
8:45 p.m.
Albany Twin, Albany CA
SIMCHAS AND SORROWS (Genevieve Adams 2022)
Seeking a rom com effect, with a New York and Brooklyn setting, Adams wrote, directed, and stars in this semi-autobiographical film while pregnant (as her character's written to be) about an atheist raised Catholic who consents to attend Judaism class with her Jewish fiancée to please his conservative family. Moments focused exclusively on Adams and Thomas McDonell, who plays the fiancée, work quite well; many others are less successful. I missed the light touch of HBO's "High Maintenance," which might have made something juicy out of this theme.
Already shown last Friday afternoon at the Castro Theater in San Francisco.
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