Early Warnings: San Francisco International Film Festival

~ Lincoln Spector

Opening night is still more than two months away, but I’m already getting press releases for this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival. Here’s what I can tell you:

  • The Festival will open April 24 with The Last Mistress, “the latest film from acclaimed director Catherine Breillat.” I tried to watch one of her films, Sex is Comedy, a year or so ago. It was not sexy, funny, nor in any other way worth watching. Hopefully this one will be better.
  • The Festival tradition of interesting silent film presentations continues, with Black Francis of the Pixies accompanying The Golem, a 1920 masterpiece of German expressionism.
  • Speaking of live entertainment, the Festival will also present three multimedia performances by Cloud Eye Control and Anna Oxygen, “followed by a special interactive aerobics set with Oxygen.”

More after the official press conference April 1. (Who picks these dates?)

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Lincoln Spector writes about cinema, technology, and cinema technology. From 1986 through 2008, he wrote Gigglebytes, the first technology-oriented humor column. From 1977 through 2016, he wrote PC World's Answer Line column and blog.