San Francisco International Film Festival 2013

[Chris Knipp]

San Francisco International Film Festival 2013 April 25-May 9

ALL FILMS (SFIFF WEBSITE)

FORUMS THREAD

Links to the reviews:

Act of Killing, The (Joshua Oppenheimer 2012)
After Lucia/Después de Lucía (Michel Franco 2012)
Artist and the Model, The (Fernando Truba 2012)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater 2013)
Chimeras (Mike Matilla 2013)
Cleaner, The (Adrian Saba 2012)
Cold War (Longman Leung, Sunny Luk 2013)
Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski 2013)
Ernest & Célestine Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar 2012)
Eight Deadly Shots (Mikko Niskanen 1972)
Fill the Void (Rana Burshtein 2012)
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach 2012)
Futuro, Il (Alicia Scherson 2012)
Habi, the Foreigner (María Florencia Álvarez 2012)
Hijacking, A (Tobias Lindholm2012)
In the Fog (Sergei Loznitsa 2012)
Juvenile Offender (Kang Yi-Kwan 2012)
Key of Life (Kenji Uchida 2012)
La Sirga (William Vega 2012)
Last Step, The (Ali Mosaffa 2012)
Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Peravel 2012)
Memories Look at Me (Song Fang 2012)
Museum Hours (Jem Cohen 2012)
Nights with Théodore (Sébastien Betbeder 2012)
Night Across the Street (Raul Ruiz 2012)
Patience Stone, The (Atiq Rahimi 2012)
Pearblossom Highway (Mike Ott 2012)
Penance (Kiyoahi Kurosawa 2012)
Present Tense (Belmin Söylemez 2012)
Rosie (Marcel Gisler 2013)
Sofia's Last Ambulance (Ilian Metev 2012)
Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas 2012)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley 2012)
Strange Little Cat, The (Ramon Zürcher 2013)
Tall as the Baobab Tree (Jeremy Teicher 2012)
Thérèse Desqueyroux (Claude Miller 2012)
What Maisie Knew (David Siegel, Scott McGehee 20113)
Youth (Justine Malle 2013)


SFIFF56 Opening Night: What Maisie Knew

April 25; Screening 7:00, Party 9:30 Castro Theatre and Temple Nightclub



The 56th San Francisco International Film Festival opens with a screening of What Maisie Knew.
In this loose adaptation of Henry James's 1897 novel of the same name, Scott McGehee and David Siegel focus on the effects of a marriage's unraveling as viewed through the eyes of a couple's six-year-old daughter. Shuttling between narcissistic parents and bemused but compassionate parental stand-ins, young Maisie comes face to face with the mercurial world of grown-ups who are anything but. With Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgård, Onata Aprile, Steve Coogan. Directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel and Actor Onata Aprile Expected!


SFIFF56 Centerpiece: Inequality For All

May 4; Screening 6:30, Party 8:30 Sundance Kabuki Cinemas and Roe
Director Jacob Kornbluth and Subject Robert Reich Expected!



At the center of the Festival is an extraordinary event featuring an impassioned new film by a celebrated director followed by a chic lounge party at one of San Francisco's hottest nightspots, Roe. Be part of one of the Festival's most anticipated events. For more film and party details, visit sffs.org.

In this Inconvenient Truth for the economy, the Sundance Special Jury Award-winning Inequality For All introduces former Secretary of Labor (and current UC Berkeley professor) Robert Reich as an inspirational and humorous guide in exploring the causes and consequences of the widening income gap in America and asks what is means for the future of our economy and nation. Passionate and insightful, Reich connects the dots for viewers by providing a comprehensive and significantly deeper understanding of what's at stake if we don't act.


Closing Night film: Richard Linklater's BEFORE MIDNIGHT

May 9; Screening, 7:00, Party 9:00 Castro Theatre and Ruby Skye *
Director Richard Linklater Expected!



They're still the same romantic, articulate and gorgeous couple that met on a train in Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995), but now, nearly 20 years on, Jesse and Céline (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy) are approaching middle age and facing questions of commitment, family and, as ever, the staying power of love. Before Midnight, with a funny and touching screenplay cowritten by Linklater and his two lead actors, is that rare sequel (rarer still: a sequel to a sequel) that not only delivers the charm and energy of its antecedents but adds layers of poignancy, standing firmly on its own as a mature observation of love's pleasures and discontents. With Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Prior, Charlotte Prior.