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Film: Festival
French Cinema Now
Wednesday Oct 8 @ Landmark Clay Theatre More times »
The French invented the art of the moving image over a century ago, and they haven't stopped innovating onscreen since. The San Francisco Film Society's... View details »
French Cinema Now
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The Superstars Next Door
Thursday Oct 9 (7:30pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
Giveaway
The '60s infused San Franciscans with a recklessness and disregard for authority that affected every genre of art and ushered in an unprecedented era of... View details »
The Superstars Next Door
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Ingmar Bergman
Friday Oct 10 (6–9pm) @ CFI Rafael Film Center More times »
Giveaway
The installation Ingmar Bergman: The Man Who Asked Hard Questions explores and celebrates the influential oeuvre of one of the world's seminal filmmakers. In masterpieces... View details »
Ingmar Bergman
Film: Festival
Envisioning Russia
Friday Oct 10 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive More times »
Commemorating the centenary of Russian cinema, the PFA festival draws from an extensive catalog of films produced at Mosfilm, the most prominent Soviet film-production studio.... View details »
Envisioning Russia
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Protest-ploitation
Saturday Oct 11 (8:30pm) @ Artists' Television Access
The revolution may not have been televised, but it certainly was filmed: by 1970, it seemed that filmmakers of all stripes were focusing their cameras... View details »
Protest-ploitation
Film: Documentary
The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins
Monday Oct 13 (7:30pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Main Campus
Free
Pietra Brettkelly's remarkable documentary is a portrait of the artist as an unrestrained ego. Brettkelly follows Vanessa Beecroft — known for her controversial performances in... View details »
The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins
Film: Documentary
RR
Tuesday Oct 14 (7:30pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Canny critics have long noted the overlapping late-19th-century technologies of railroads and motion pictures, but James Benning's RR is a more fluid integration of the... View details »
RR
Film: Festival
Shock It to Me!
Friday Oct 17 @ The Castro Theatre More times »
A dark, cavernous room. Ancient curtains quiver over flickering lights. A huddled figure floats from the floor. Organ music swells. A scene from The Phantom... View details »
Shock It to Me!
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The Werewolf of Washington
Friday Oct 31 (8pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
In its annual homage to all things spooky, the Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley presents The Werewolf of Washington, an aptly timed B movie... View details »
The Werewolf of Washington

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Film: Documentary
Man on Wire
Tuesday Oct 7 @ Landmark Embarcadero More times »
In 1968, a French teen named Philippe Petit sat in a dentist's office reading a magazine that featured the plans for what would become NYC's... View details »
Man on Wire
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Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Tuesday Oct 7 @ SFMOMA More times »
In China, the years 1978-1989 were a period of unparalleled change. Deng Xiaoping's policies modernized the economy, and artists, writers, and filmmakers produced a flurry... View details »
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Film: Festival
Dead Channels
Tuesday Oct 7 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
The curators of Dead Channels never fail to fully exploit — or graphically illustrate — the many senses of the phrase "gut-wrenching." From the genuinely... View details »
Dead Channels
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Choke
Tuesday Oct 7 (noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7:20 & 9:50pm) @ Landmark Embarcadero More times »
Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all her wonderful fangs), and... View details »
Choke