One wouldn’t think that Ang Lee’s seminal Brokeback Mountain would be ripe for a remake already, but damned if first time feature director Francis Lee hasn’t moved the action from the American West to the hills of Yorkshire, England and come up with a comparable film. Recently screened at the 60th Annual San Francisco International…
Sonoma County hit the big screen at the 59th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival with a screening of The Fixer, a film shot in West County last year and featuring a plethora of Sonoma County-based actors. Directors Ian Olds, a documentarian, who had covered the life (and death) of a “fixer” – a war…
I returned to the Festival on Monday for an evening screening of a film I missed catching on Sunday, which means I REALLY must have wanted to see it to be willing to drive back into the city on a weeknight. I did and I’m glad I did because, as a film buff, I’m always…
My second day at the Festival began with an attempt to see a film entitled The New Girlfriend, but Peter beat me to the Press Office and as we only get one ticket per screening, I had to decide on another film. After a few seconds trying to determine Peter’s punishment for his transgression (Doesn’t…
Hello there, readers. Thanks for joining me for my coverage of Day #4 of the San Francisco International Film Festival. It was another day filled with phenomenally enjoyable entertainment, thanks to a film from France, a documentary about the old-school political landscape and another documentary about a subject that’s very near and dear to my…
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