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| Edward II San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Thu., December 4, 7:00pm | South of Market | |
The main takeaway from Milk -- dont worry, were not going to spoil the ending -- is the importance of gays and lesbians expressing who they truly are. Gay expression, with all its iconoclasm, eroticism, and mystery, is the overriding theme of an ongoing Derek Jarman retrospective.... More >> |
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| Bad Movie Night: Santa Claus: The Movie Dark Room Theater | Every week Sunday, 8:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
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| Milk Castro Theatre | Daily from Tue., November 25 until Tue., December 23 | Castro/Noe Valley | |
Harvey Milk was a 42-year-old nobody, a wisecracking Manhattan worker bee, when he moved to San Francisco in 1972. In fact, in his mind a homosexual who couldnt tell and live the truth was worse than a nobody. Of course, as we all know even those of us who migrated or were born... More >> |
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| "Open Eyes: Queer Film Friday" Femina Potens | First Friday of every month | Castro/Noe Valley | |
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| Quebec Film Week Opera Plaza Cinema | Daily from Wed., December 10 until Sun., December 14 | Hayes Valley/Tenderloin | |
Director Léa Pools suburbia abounds with absentee parents, cruel children, ominous neighborhood characters, and incipient tragedy. Dont be too afraid, though, for were on the kinder, gentler outskirts of Montreal, not in Lynch Land. Mommy Is at the Hairdressers,... More >> |
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| Battle in Seattle Red Vic Movie House |
Daily from Tue., December 2 until Wed., December 3, 7:15pm more dates/times |
Haight/Fillmore | |
Stuart Townsend may have been overly ambitious in making Battle in Seattle. He may have muddled his messages, trod on the feelings of others, and gotten his history wrong in places. His romance may be boring, his characters predictable. Maybe he never fully explained, or even understood, what... More >> |
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| Dream of Life Red Vic Movie House | Daily from Thu., December 4 until Sat., December 6 | Haight/Fillmore | |
If Patti Smith's narration to Dream of Life was simplified into a stanza, it might go something like this: As long as I can remember I sought to be free/Bob Dylan once tuned this guitar for me/My mission is to give people my energy/Fred, Jesse, and Jackson are my family tree/New generations,... More >> |
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| The Exiles Red Vic Movie House | Daily from Sat., December 6 until Sun., December 7 | Haight/Fillmore | |
For the length of Kent MacKenzie's rediscovered 1961 feature, the past is not distant: It's vital, concrete, immediate—a record of vanished sites and vanquished dreams suspended in an eternally looped present. An account of 14 dusk-to-dawn hours in a community of relocated Native... More >> |
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| Choke Red Vic Movie House | Daily from Tue., December 9 until Wed., December 10 | Haight/Fillmore | |
There's a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor Mancini with severe Mommy issues—fucking in a cramped airplane bathroom, on a
barnyard's itchy haystack, in a grimy toilet stall, in a... More >> |
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| "Moving Pictures" Varnish Fine Art | Last Wednesday of every month, 7:00pm | Union Square/Financial District | |
At this month's episode of one of our favorite art galleries' "Experimental Film & Video Art Series," audiences are treated to screenings of new work by Bay Area women filmmakers. Terrie Samundra, known for her short film A Short Tale of Xuan (see pic); dreamy, glowing, impressionistic work by... More >> |
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| "Enigmas and Eternity: The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet" Yerba Buena Center for the Arts |
Every week Sunday from Thu., December 4 until Thu., December 18, 2:00pm more dates/times |
South of Market | |
The groundbreaking French novelist and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet, who died in February, was a sly and good-natured provocateur. His screenplay for Alain Resnais watershed 1961 romantic drama, Last Year at Marienbad, introduced the arthouse crowd to a strain of bemused existentialism... More >> |
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| More Events | |||
| Wanted: Weapons of Fate 111 Minna Gallery | Tue., December 2, 6:00pm | Union Square/Financial District | |
| "Video Quilt" Artists' Television Access | Sun., December 7, 7:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
| Venezuela: Revolution From the Inside Out Artists' Television Access | Tue., December 9, 7:30pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
| The Soul of Morocco Jewish Community Center of San Francisco | Tue., December 9, 2:00pm | Richmond (Inner) | |
| "Strange Sinema" Oddball Film and Video | Fri., December 5, 8:00pm | Mission/Bernal Heights | |
| War Requiem San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Sat., December 6, 1:00pm | South of Market | |
| The Angelic Conversation San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Sat., December 6, 3:00pm | South of Market | |
| "Technology, Nature, and Other Matters" Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | Sun., December 7, 7:30pm | South of Market | |
| Italian Jews during Fascism Jewish Community Center of San Francisco |
Wed., November 5 more dates/times |
Richmond (Inner) | |
| Alternative Visions Pacific Film Archive | Every week Tuesday from Tue., September 2 until Tue., December 9, 7:30pm | Downtown Berkeley | |
| Cinema Japan: A Wreath for Madame Kawakita Pacific Film Archive | Daily from Sat., November 1 until Wed., December 17 | Downtown Berkeley | |
| Discovering Teuvo Tulio Pacific Film Archive | Daily from Sat., November 15 until Thu., December 4 | Downtown Berkeley | |
| A Dirty Dozen: The Films of Robert Aldrich Pacific Film Archive | Daily from Fri., November 21 until Sat., December 20 | Downtown Berkeley | |
| Moments of Truth: Italian Cinema Classics Pacific Film Archive | Daily from Sat., November 29 until Sun., December 21 | Downtown Berkeley | |