#sfiff

Saw two movies last night via the SFIFF drive in at Fort Mason- both amazing and wonderful and very much what I’ve been missing over the last year. Live music! A crowd expressing enthusiasm and appreciation for an artist (via honking)! Weird new films on large screens not in my house! 

Lost Landscapes of Oakland with a live score by Fantastic Negrito was one of the bet film/music showings the festival has had in years. I want that ‘Labor’ song and the ‘Industry’ one has stayed with me- everything paired so well with the footage and it was refreshing to see Oakland admired for once rather than just the spotlight hogging SF. 

Claire’s Camera (Review)

Claire’s Camera aka La Caméra de Claire 2017 Written and directed by Hong Sang-soo Hong Sang-soo continues to be an unstoppable movie-making machine, and with Claire’s Camera he continues his streak of producing high quality, entertaining films quickly and distinctively. I immediately pounced when I saw this was screening in this year’s SFIFF, but luckily had I missed it, 4-Star started screening…

Revenge 2017 Written and directed by Coralie Fargeat Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, Revenge is a rape and revenge movie patterned after the old school exploitation flicks. But it’s also a major deconstruction of the genre, twisting tropes and incorporating aspects from super hero movies (and some of their tropes as well!) Most importantly, it is a fun as heck movie despite the…

Mister Universo aka Mister Universe 2016 Written by Tizza Covi Directed by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel A pursuit for a lucky charm leads into a quasi-magical realism world with Mister Universo! The last of our SFIFF coverage, this time running over to the San Francisco Alamo Drafthouse for a fun Italian film that I probably wouldn’t have watched on my own if it wasn’t part of a festival and…