San Francisco International Film Festival 2013 (year 56)

[Chris Knipp]

Tue., April 16, 2013.

The public screenings and other events of the SFIFF begin in a week. Meanwhile I have been watching some press screenings and viewed some screener dvd's. Plus nine of the festival roster of films are ones I've already posted on before at Lincoln Center events last year and this. Links to all I've covered so far are below. More will come shortly. This week there is a screening of the closing night film, Richard Linklater's BEFORE MIDNIGHT, with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Some commercial release films I can only post "previews" of and that includes BEFORE MIDNIGHT and WHAT MAISIE KNEW (with Julianne Moore, Steve Coogan and Alexander Skarsgård), the opening night film, directed by those two guys who made THE DEEP END and the pointless UNCERTAINITY, David Siegel and Scott McGehee. I like this one probably most of anything they've done so far. Some of the titles linked below were reviewed in earlier series as indicated: NYFF (2012 New York Film Festival), ND/NF (2013 New Directors/New Films), and R-V (2013 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema) in New York.



JEM COHEN, RECIPIENT OF SFIFF 2013 POV AWARD