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Also check out our interview with Charlie Shackleton about his new film, Zodiac Killer Project, before he shows up TONIGHT at the Roxie to present it in person: www.screenslate.com/articles/car...
The Cardinal Sin of Filmmaking: A Conversation with Charlie Shackleton
The Zodiac Killer technically only terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area for less than one year (1968 - 1969), but the serial murderer’s impact on American popular culture has been significant, especi...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Also check out our interview with Charlie Shackleton about his new film, Zodiac Killer Project, before he shows up TONIGHT at the Roxie to present it in person: www.screenslate.com/articles/car...
And here's the round-up for the week: www.screenslate.com/articles/nov...
NOVEMBER 24, 2025 — The Week in the Bay
Monday, director Charlie Shackleton is in town to present his latest, Zodiac Killer Project, at the Roxie, where Peter Hujar’s Day, Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk, and Mistress Dispeller all cont...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
And here's the round-up for the week: www.screenslate.com/articles/nov...
And here's the weekly roundup: www.screenslate.com/articles/nov...
NOVEMBER 17, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY
Monday, Sidney Lumet's River Phoenix-starring Running On Empty is at the Balboa, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover and Millennium Actress are at the Roxie, Noah Baumbach's George Clooney-starr...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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OH! And MOST IMPORTANTLY! Artists' Television Access @ataconnect.bsky.social needs your support for a rent emergency! Throw an absolutely essential org some money if you can! www.every.org/ataconnect/f...
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
OH! And MOST IMPORTANTLY! Artists' Television Access @ataconnect.bsky.social needs your support for a rent emergency! Throw an absolutely essential org some money if you can! www.every.org/ataconnect/f...
And Shelby Shaw on Virgin Machine, Monika Treut's meander through the late 80s San Francisco lesbian kink scene, screening Tuesday at the Roxie: www.screenslate.com/articles/vir...
Virgin Machine
Following 1985's portrait of a BDSM enclave in Seduction: The Cruel Woman (released with the taglines “The Women Hit Back” and “A Ticket to a Masochistic Wonderland”), Monika Treut's solo directorial ...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
And Shelby Shaw on Virgin Machine, Monika Treut's meander through the late 80s San Francisco lesbian kink scene, screening Tuesday at the Roxie: www.screenslate.com/articles/vir...
Bonus archive posts: Jonathan Mackris on António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, two of whose category-defying films "recapturing some of the oral traditions of the villages" of northeastern Portugal are screening this weekend at @bampfa.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/ant...
António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro
One of my biggest objections to many of the films that pass through the festival circuit today is the phony cosmopolitanism of many productions: films made from nowhere, but seemingly addressed to eve...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Bonus archive posts: Jonathan Mackris on António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, two of whose category-defying films "recapturing some of the oral traditions of the villages" of northeastern Portugal are screening this weekend at @bampfa.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/ant...
And the roundup for the week, featuring the Silent Film Fest, Arab Film Fest, Portuguese films, Colombian films, Trans films, Keatons Buster and Diane, Solondz on 35mm, newly restored Monika Treut, Gumby, Naruse, Doris Wishman, and more: www.screenslate.com/articles/nov...
NOVEMBER 10, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY
Monday, Ira Sachs is in person to present a sneak preview of the sublime Peter Hujar's Day (repeats Tuesday with Sachs back in person), the Arab Film Festival floats around the Bay Area all week (most...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
And the roundup for the week, featuring the Silent Film Fest, Arab Film Fest, Portuguese films, Colombian films, Trans films, Keatons Buster and Diane, Solondz on 35mm, newly restored Monika Treut, Gumby, Naruse, Doris Wishman, and more: www.screenslate.com/articles/nov...
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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September 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
And here's the week's roundup: www.screenslate.com/articles/sep...
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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September 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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...
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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September 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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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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August 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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...
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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August 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
And here's the round-up for the week: www.screenslate.com/articles/aug...
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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August 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
And here's the weekly roundup: www.screenslate.com/articles/aug...