Essential vibe reporting by @oaklandreviewofbooks.org from the annual 9/11 Truther festival at the Grand Lake: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/i-assume-wel...

This week, Cat Beckstrand on Studio 8, the black box studio at now-shuttered SF Art Institute where generations of filmmakers learned their craft and developed their vision, celebrated Fri-Sun at Shapeshifters, the Roxie, & SFMOMA with @sfartistsalumni.org: www.screenslate.com/articles/stu...

This week, @jlalibs.com beat me to the punch posting his write-up of City on Fire, screening Saturday in the Roxie’s weekend-long Hong Kong Classics mini-series:

SFAA is proud to present the 2nd Annual Studio 8 Film Festival, taking place September 19–21 at multiple Bay Area venues — a celebration of bold, original, and experimental filmmaking rooted in the enduring legacy of the San Francisco Art Institute. Get your tickets!!

This week, Delaney Holton on Tsai Ming-liang's masterpiece of isolation and longing, Vive l'amour, screening Wednesday at @bampfa.bsky.social with Tsai and actor Lee Kang-sheng in person www.screenslate.com/articles/viv...

This week, we highlight one of the unsung wonders of 1939 from the one of the most underappreciated directors of the studio era: Mitchell Leisen's Midnight, screening on 35mm Thursday and Friday at the Stanford on a double bill with The Palm Beach Story www.screenslate.com/articles/mid...

This week, Steve Macfarlane on Popeye, Robert Altman's sublime clusterfuck disasterpiece starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall in roles they were born for, screening on 35mm Saturday afternoon at @bampfa.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/pop...

San Francisco Cinematheque proudly announces… CROSSROADS 2025, August 29–31 full festival line-up at: bit.ly/4nKvitY 8 Programs / 47 Artists 47 Works of Film and Video All programs presented at Gray Area, San Francisco #XRDS25 #CROSSROADSFESTIVAL #sfcinematheque #experimentalfilm #filmfestival

Everybody go welcome @sfcinematheque.bsky.social to the neighborhood with a follow!

This week, Saffron Maeve on Robert Altman's Van Gogh biopic, Vincent & Theo, made immediately before his late-career renaissance began, screening Sunday evening at @bampfa.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/vin...

This week, @feuilladist.bsky.social on Gustaf Molander's Intermezzo, the movie that convinced David O. Selznick to bring Ingrid Bergman to Hollywood and which was remade for her first American film, screening Sunday, July 13, at @bampfa.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/int...

This week, @feuilladist.bsky.social on @bampfa.bsky.social's sprawling Mikio Naruse retrospective, The Auteur as Salaryman, which opens Thursday, July 3 with his best-known film, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, on 35mm: www.screenslate.com/articles/mik...

Whoops–missed this in the roundup!

This week, Matt Weinstock on Pink Narcissus, James Bidgood's DIY erotic fantasia, screening in a new restoration Wednesday at the Roxie as part of Frameline 49 (and again at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission next week): www.screenslate.com/articles/pin...

If we sell out the screenings at Frameline and The Music Box I will drop Castration Movie Chapter iii. junior ghosts—premorphic drift

more tix released for our frameline screening at the new parkway theatre on monday!

This week, Chris Shields on Louise Weard's Castration Movie: Pt. 1, screening NEXT Monday, June 23rd, at the New Parkway as part of the 49th Frameline Festival—it's 4.5 hours, so we wanted to give you plenty of time to rearrange your schedule: www.screenslate.com/articles/cas...

Tonight at the Roxie: arguably the greatest film from arguably the greatest American documentarian roxie.com/film/welfare/

This week, Cat Beckstrand surveys @bampfa.bsky.social's two-part survey of Bruce Conner's era-defining short films, with Part 1 screening this Sunday, June 15, and Part 2 on Friday, June 27: www.screenslate.com/articles/bru...

This week, our feature pick is Nobuhiko Obayashi's His Motorbike, Her Island, a Japanese pop twist on a classic American genre, the teen motorcycle gang movie, screening Friday at the Roxie: www.screenslate.com/articles/his...

This week, S Topiary Landberg on "The Times of Harvey Milk," screening on 35mm this Thursday at the Roxie theater www.screenslate.com/articles/tim...

This week, @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social on The Pilgrim, Charlie Chaplin's underseen, mid-length religious satire, screening Friday night as part of the @nilesessanay.bsky.social's annual Charlie Chaplin Days festival: www.screenslate.com/articles/pil...

CAAMFest is coming! May 8-11 in San Francisco, featuring films from Asian America and beyond. See the full lineup and get tickets at CAAMFest.com

This week, Rebecca Turner on Jinho Myung's Softshell as proof of mumblecore's quarter-life crisis. Softshell makes its West Coast premiere Sunday, May 11, at the Roxie as part of #CAAMFest2025 @caamedia.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/sof...

This week, @feuilladist.bsky.social and Ben Rulliére-Beitler talk to Sylvain George on the occasion of his visit to the Bay, with screenings at the Roxie tonight and Tuesday (free with RSVP) and at @bampfa.bsky.social on Wednesday

An SFFILM fest bonus feature from us this week: Emerson Goo talks to Sky Hopinka about learning and teaching language and filmmaking. Hopinka will be in person to receive this year's Persistence of Vision Award at @bampfa.bsky.social on Thursday: www.screenslate.com/articles/wel...

This week, Delaney Holton reports from the last week's Light Field 2025, the Bay's all-analog, artist-paying, artist-run small-gauge film festival: www.screenslate.com/articles/lig...

The 68th SFFILM festival opens tonight!

This week, SFFILM opens for its 68th festival! To celebrate, we've got not one, not two, but THREE festival picks to highlight this week. First up, @nicopsetzer.bsky.social on Endless Cookie, Seth and Peter Scriver's "psychedelic exploration of Shamattawa life": www.screenslate.com/articles/end...

This week, @nicopsetzer.bsky.social on The Shock, Lambert Hillyer's Lon Chaney-starring, SF-set gangster melodrama, screening this Saturday at the @nilesessanay.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/sho...

this weekend, APR 11-13 at The Lab – 2948 16th St, SF 💡🌾💡🌾💡🌾💡🌾💡🌾💡🌾 💡🌾 Light Field 2025 🌾💡 🌾💡🌾💡🌾💡🌾💡🌾💡🌾💡 three days of recent and historical moving image art on celluloid www.lightfieldfilm.org/2025-program

This week, Arlin Golden, co-host of the Wiseman Podcast, talks to @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social about co-curating a selection of 7 films from Frederick Wiseman's 50+ year career for a retrospective of brand new restorations, beginning Wednesday at the Roxie: www.screenslate.com/articles/mas...

Tickets for the 2025 SFFILM Festival go on sale tomorrow tomorrow at 10 a.m. and I plucked out some gems from 150+ films for ya: www.kqed.org/arts/1397367...

For your Sunday afternoon plans! A screening at the Roxie programmed by Canyon Cinema of 40+ years of Lynn Marie Kirby's film, video and performance work (plus live singing!): www.kqed.org/arts/1397370...

The SFFILM 2025 program is live!

This week, Helen Fortescue-Pool & Jonathan Mackris (@feuilladist.bsky.social) on In Spring, the silent city symphony by Mikhail Kaufman—the Man with the Movie Camera himself!—screening on 35mm Friday at BAMPFA with live piano accompaniment by Judith Rosenberg: www.screenslate.com/articles/spr...

✨✨ shiny new things at Screen Slate Dot Com ✨✨ 🎞️ a filter for film-on-film screenings 📝 icons for films that have articles also 🕦 an "upcoming showtimes" toggle that's wonky for SF folks bc the site's on NY time but hey this whole thing is entirely volunteer-run everything can't be perfect sorry

This week, Cat Beckstrand on Shusuke Kaneko’s Summer Vacation 1999, playing on 35mm this Friday at BAMPFA in Jenni Olson's Masc II: Mascs and Muchachas series (but...sorry—it's already sold out, so get rush line ready if you want to see this rarity) www.screenslate.com/articles/sum...

This week, Arlin Golden on Hoop Dreams, playing Thursday evening at the 4 Star are part of Drunken Film Fest's Docs Are Good series: www.screenslate.com/articles/hoo...

This week, Josh Martin on Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past, playing on 35mm this Saturday night at the Grand Lake, on the second day of #NoirCity 22: www.screenslate.com/articles/out...

A centaur of the Bay Area film community needs help. Yes there many in need at this moment, do what you can where you feel it’s best directed. gofund.me/dec54c1b

This week, @jlalibs.bsky.social on George P. Cosmatos's Tombstone, playing Friday at the 4 Star: www.screenslate.com/articles/tom...

This week, we're delighted to publish an interview by @feuilladist.bsky.social with the legendary Jonathan Rosenbaum, who was in Berkeley last week to discuss his new book, the relationship between film, literature, and jazz, autobiography in criticism, and more: www.screenslate.com/articles/whe...

IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME: Screen Slate's Best of 2024 is out, and my favorite part is definitely Favorite First Viewings, where contributors and filmmakers are asked what they saw for the first time in 2024 and liked. Enjoy! And watch more movies! www.screenslate.com/articles/bes...

And the new restoration occasioning this piece is also screening Sunday afternoon at BAMPFA:

This week, Matt Simon on Inside, the Béatrice Dalle-starring New French Extremity home invasion slasher, this week's Terror Tuesday screening at the Drafthouse New Mission: www.screenslate.com/articles/ins...

Join us next week at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco for the 19th edition of @footage.bsky.social's Lost Landscapes of San Francisco. Lost Landscapes explores everyday life in the Bay Area through archival footage. Get tickets for the 12/9/24 and 12/10/24 screenings: longnow.org/ideas/lost-l...

Some SF (micro)cinema history from the @screenslate.bsky.social mothership: Rebecca Barten & David Sherman interviewed for a celebration of the Mission-born Total Mobile Home microCINEMA's "quasi-mythic status in American independent film history" www.screenslate.com/articles/ava...

Made my writing debut at Screen Slate’s SF division @screenslatesf.bsky.social , covering the upcoming retrospective for G.W. Pabst at BAMPFA: www.screenslate.com/articles/g-w...

This week, Andrew Reichel on why G.W. Pabst was "a guiding star for directors like Renoir and von Sternberg," in a survey of BAMPFA's G. W. Pabst: Selected Films, 1925-1938 series, which begins Saturday with Secrets of a Soul (35mm, w/ Judith Rosenberg on piano): www.screenslate.com/articles/g-w...