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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Sep 18

Essential vibe reporting by @oaklandreviewofbooks.org from the annual 9/11 Truther festival at the Grand Lake: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/i-assume-wel...

I assume we’ll be here again next year

9/11 Truth Film Festival, Grand Lake Theater, 9/11

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Sep 15

And here's the week's roundup: www.screenslate.com/articles/sep...

SEPTEMBER 15, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY

Monday, the Roxie screens the debut feature of Lithuanian filmmaker Laurynas Bareiša, Pilgrims, Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, and continues Hong Kong Cinema Classics with A Better Tomorrow, No...

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Sep 15

Coincidentally, on Wednedsay, @bampfa.bsky.social is screening—alongside works by Maya Deren and Kenneth Anger—a selection of films by Sidney Peterson, founder of the hugely influential film program at the CA School of Fine Arts, which would eventually become SFAI: bampfa.org/event/ritual...

Rituals in Transfigured Time: Maya Deren, Sidney Peterson, and Kenneth Anger

Cinematic choreography and bodies in motion are central to the films in this program. Maya Deren’s iconic psychodramas are elevated by the specificity of gesture and movement in the films, while cinem...

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Sep 15

This week, Cat Beckstrand on Studio 8, the black box studio at now-shuttered SF Art Institute where generations of filmmakers learned their craft and developed their vision, celebrated Fri-Sun at Shapeshifters, the Roxie, & SFMOMA with @sfartistsalumni.org: www.screenslate.com/articles/stu...

The Studio 8 Film Festival 2025

From September 19-21, the Studio 8 Film Festival will celebrate the visionary spirit of the film department at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), a core part of the development of experimental fi...

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Sep 1

And here’s the round-up for the week: www.screenslate.com/articles/sep...

SEPTEMBER 1, 2025 – THE WEEK IN THE BAY

Monday, the Odyssey Film Institute presents Top Gun (on 35mm) at the Balboa, the Roxie has a final matinee screening of the new 35mm print of 8 1/2 and a new restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo co...

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Sep 1

This week, @jlalibs.com beat me to the punch posting his write-up of City on Fire, screening Saturday in the Roxie’s weekend-long Hong Kong Classics mini-series:

Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · Sep 1

Wrote a few paragraphs about CITY ON FIRE for @screenslatesf.bsky.social today, which is playing in a new 4K restoration in various theaters and is now available on UHD from @shoutstudios.bsky.social

City on Fire

It’s no secret that Quentin Tarantino was largely inspired by Ringo Lam’s City on Fire (1987) when writing the script for his debut feature Reservoir Dogs (1992), ushering in an increased interest in ...

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SF Artists Alumni (SFAA) @sfartistsalumni.org · Aug 11

SFAA is proud to present the 2nd Annual Studio 8 Film Festival, taking place September 19–21 at multiple Bay Area venues — a celebration of bold, original, and experimental filmmaking rooted in the enduring legacy of the San Francisco Art Institute. Get your tickets!!

STUDIO 8 Film Festival - 2025

The Studio 8 Film Festival is a three-day celebration of bold and innovative short films by SFAI alumni, former faculty, and staff. Showcasing experimental works across generations, the festival honor...

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Aug 25

Also, don't miss Crossroads 2025 this weekend! Eight programs of 47 film, video, and performance works by 47 artists, Friday through Sunday at @grayarea.org www.sfcinematheque.org/crossroads/c...

CROSSROADS 2025 – SFCinematheque

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Aug 25

And here's the round-up for the week: www.screenslate.com/articles/aug...

AUGUST 25, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY

Monday, the Roxie has a selection of four recent documentaries from Bay Area women filmmakers, Olas de Recuerdo, a new documentary about young activists in the wake of the 2019 Sudanese revolution and...

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Aug 25

This week, Delaney Holton on Tsai Ming-liang's masterpiece of isolation and longing, Vive l'amour, screening Wednesday at @bampfa.bsky.social with Tsai and actor Lee Kang-sheng in person www.screenslate.com/articles/viv...

Vive l'amour

This past New Year’s Eve, thousands gathered in Da’an Park to watch Tsai Ming-liang’s Vive L’amour (1994) and reenact Yang Kuei-mei’s relentlessly desolate final scene. Marking the film’s thirtieth an...

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Aug 18

And here's the weekly roundup: www.screenslate.com/articles/aug...

AUGUST 18, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY

Monday, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure continues the Roxie's Keanu Summer and this month's staff pick is Cube, Familiar Touch opens at the Lark, Andrei Rublev is at the Balboa,

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Aug 18

This week, we highlight one of the unsung wonders of 1939 from the one of the most underappreciated directors of the studio era: Mitchell Leisen's Midnight, screening on 35mm Thursday and Friday at the Stanford on a double bill with The Palm Beach Story www.screenslate.com/articles/mid...

Midnight

If 1939 was “Hollywood's Greatest Year," it was a year of extravagance, spectacle, romance—and a little light on laughs. Of the outright, through-and-through comedies, only Ninotchka breaks into the y...

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Aug 11

And we've also got an interview with Julian Glander, director of Boys Go to Jupiter, the animated coming-of-age film chock full of characters voiced by alt-comedy stars, opening Friday at the Balboa theater: www.screenslate.com/articles/jup...

Jupiter Ascending: Julian Glander on Boys Go to Jupiter

Artist Julian Glander’s first feature, Boys Go to Jupiter, follows a group of Florida teenagers during a languid summer in which they hang out talking about Big Ideas between gig economy shifts and lo...

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Aug 11

And here's this week's roundup: www.screenslate.com/articles/aug...

AUGUST 11, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY

Monday, Party Girl and The Outsiders are at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM) (also at Valley Fair [VF], and Tuesday at Mountain View [MV]) and Lady Snowblood is at all three Drafthouses variously...

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Aug 11

This week, Steve Macfarlane on Popeye, Robert Altman's sublime clusterfuck disasterpiece starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall in roles they were born for, screening on 35mm Saturday afternoon at @bampfa.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/pop...

Popeye

Unwell in the head in all the right ways, the 1980 Popeye movie was the brainchild of storied Paramount producer Robert Evans, who tapped satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer to write the adaptation ...

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San Francisco Cinematheque @sfcinematheque.bsky.social · Jul 29

San Francisco Cinematheque proudly announces…
CROSSROADS 2025, August 29–31
full festival line-up at: bit.ly/4nKvitY

8 Programs / 47 Artists
47 Works of Film and Video
All programs presented at
Gray Area, San Francisco

#XRDS25 #CROSSROADSFESTIVAL #sfcinematheque #experimentalfilm #filmfestival

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Aug 4

Everybody go welcome @sfcinematheque.bsky.social to the neighborhood with a follow!

San Francisco Cinematheque (@sfcinematheque.bsky.social)

www.sfcinematheque.org Cinematheque is one of the most respected showcases of experimental film & video in the world, including our CROSSROADS festival.

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Aug 4

And here's the round-up for the week: www.screenslate.com/articles/aug...

AUGUST 4, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY

Monday, The Tale of Zatoichi and Tales from the Hood are at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM) (and at Valley Fair [VF] and Mountain View [MV], respectively, on following days), Liquid Sky is back ...

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Aug 4

This week, Saffron Maeve on Robert Altman's Van Gogh biopic, Vincent & Theo, made immediately before his late-career renaissance began, screening Sunday evening at @bampfa.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/vin...

Vincent & Theo

After selling his production company in the early 1980s and trading Hollywood’s precarious refuge for a string of low-budget chamber pieces, Robert Altman slogged for a decade before his comeback with...

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Jul 7

And in case you missed it, see our recent interview with Tsui Hark on the occasion of Shanghai Blues returning to theaters, currently at 3Below: www.screenslate.com/articles/tsu...

Tsui Hark on Shanghai Blues

When Shanghai Blues was released in 1984, it marked a rebirth for Tsui Hark, the enfant terrible of the Hong Kong New Wave, who was on the verge of quitting filmmaking altogether. The film launched Ts...

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Jul 7

And here's the round-up: www.screenslate.com/articles/jul...

JULY 7, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY

Monday, Odyssey Film Institute presents The Cable Guy (on 35mm) at the Balboa, Shall We Dance is at the Smith Rafael, Attack the Block is at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM), A.I.

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Jul 7

This week, @feuilladist.bsky.social on Gustaf Molander's Intermezzo, the movie that convinced David O. Selznick to bring Ingrid Bergman to Hollywood and which was remade for her first American film, screening Sunday, July 13, at @bampfa.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/int...

Intermezzo

Gustaf Molander can’t be credited with discovering Ingrid Bergman, but he may be most responsible for shaping her star image. Across their six films together, she moved from supporting player (Swedenh...

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Jun 30

And here's the round-up for the week: www.screenslate.com/articles/jun...

JUNE 30, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY

Monday, Damián Szifron's Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes) (repeats Saturday) is at the Roxie, Artists' Television Access has a night of live music and expanded cinema, graffiti doc Style Wars is at the B...

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Jun 30

This week, @feuilladist.bsky.social on @bampfa.bsky.social's sprawling Mikio Naruse retrospective, The Auteur as Salaryman, which opens Thursday, July 3 with his best-known film, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, on 35mm: www.screenslate.com/articles/mik...

Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman

One of the descriptions that seems to follow wherever the name of Mikio Naruse is mentioned is that, after Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, and Kenji Mizoguchi, he is the “fourth great” master of Japanes...

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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · Jun 27

Whoops–missed this in the roundup!

Artists' Television Access @ataconnect.bsky.social · Jun 27

Join us tonight at 8:00 for April Captains, the first screening in our Anti-Fascist Film Series! Maria de Medeiros's 2000 film tells the story of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, when junior officers led a coup that ended decades of fascist rule and restored democracy with massive popular support.

Anti-Fascist Film Series: April Captains

Five INSPIRING Films of People Power and Democracy Overthrowing Fascism, June 27 – August 1 April Captains tells the story of Portugal’s 1974 Carnation Revolution, when junior officers, tired…

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