This year's San Francisco International Film Festival closed Thursday night with the local premiere of Michael Almereyda's Experimenter--a biopic about social psychologist Stanley Milgram, whose controversial experiments examined how we react when our empathy conflicts with our obedience to authority. Speaking of authority figures, when we entered the Castro Theatre, we found almost all of … Continue reading Experimenter and Closing Night at the San Francisco International Film Festival
Day: May 8, 2015
What’s Screening: May 8 – 14
The Albert Maysles Memorial Film Festival opens tonight and runs through the week. Although I've seen several of the films to be screened, I haven't seen any of them recently enough for me to offer an opinion. One other important note: With Works from the Eisner Competition tonight, the Pacific Film Archive will close for … Continue reading What’s Screening: May 8 – 14