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SF DocFest Begins with Preview Nights
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SF DocFest Begins with Preview Nights

The 12th annual San Francisco Documentary Film Festival kicks off June 6-23 at the Roxie Theater but select previews will be held starting May 22.

Movie Review: Flight
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Movie Review: Flight

Posted by Martin Malloy on Nov 1, 2012

Despite a mostly good lead by Denzel Washington and a return to live-action filmmaking by Robert Zemeckis, Flight doesn’t exactly soar.

Street Style: Layers

Street Style: Layers

Posted by Chris Ellis on Oct 31, 2012

SF Station and Academy of Art University have teamed up to deliver a bi-weekly SF Street Style gallery created by AAU styling students. This week’s theme is Layers.

Movie Review: Chasing Mavericks
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Movie Review: Chasing Mavericks

Posted by Martin Malloy on Oct 26, 2012

Despite some beautiful shots of the Northern California coast, Chasing Mavericks turns the life of Jay Moriarity into a watered down melodrama.

Movie Review: Cloud Atlas

Movie Review: Cloud Atlas

Posted by Martin Malloy on Oct 26, 2012

Cloud Atlas is about humanity’s triumphs, failures and everything inbetween. An epic in every sense of the word, it’s a film that crosses worlds and generations but fails to really connect on a personal level.

Movie Review: The Sessions
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Movie Review: The Sessions

Posted by Mel Valentin on Oct 25, 2012

The Sessions (formerly “The Surrogate”) is centered around a seriously disabled man based loosely on the true story of the late Mark O’Brien, a poet, journalist and disabled rights advocate, who died at the age of 49 in 1999.

SF Film Society Presents French Cinema Now

SF Film Society Presents French Cinema Now

Posted by Martin Malloy on Oct 24, 2012

Beginning October 24 through October 30, the San Francisco Film Society will presents French Cinema Now exclusively at the Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema.

Outdoor Exhibition Making Use of Architectural Features of Bernal Hill To Open

Outdoor Exhibition Making Use of Architectural Features of Bernal Hill To Open

Posted by Zane Johnston on Oct 23, 2012

Out of town visitors and locals alike that flock to Bernal Hill for the stunning panoramic views of San Francisco now have another reason to trek to the top of the grassy knoll.

Wes Anderson Inspired Miscellany Art Show

Wes Anderson Inspired Miscellany Art Show

Posted by Zane Johnston on Oct 22, 2012

Drawing on the distinctive cinematic style of Wes Anderson that has become ubiquitous in the last decade, a group of artists pay homage in various different mediums in the annual Bad Dads exhibition at Spoke Art.

Parallels Between Avian and Human Behavior Animated at YBCA

Parallels Between Avian and Human Behavior Animated at YBCA

Posted by Zane Johnston on Oct 22, 2012

In a new exhibition, Swedish-born collaborators Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg have together hatched a series of animated films and sculptures inspired by the winged flocks that roam the skies.

SF Street Style: Colors

SF Street Style: Colors

Posted by Chris Ellis on Oct 16, 2012

SF Station and Academy of Art University have teamed up to deliver a bi-weekly SF Street Style gallery created by AAU styling students. This week’s theme is Colors.

The Paris Review Touches Down at Tosca Cafe

The Paris Review Touches Down at Tosca Cafe

Posted by Zane Johnston on Oct 16, 2012

When perusing the capacious commentary of fiction writers on writing, the  tireless researcher will find to his or her dismay a glut of contradicting advice on what makes a terrific short story, and how exactly to construct such a tale.