Speaking of green roofs, Other Cinema is screening Graze the Roof Saturday Oct. 18th, 8:30pm at the ATA Gallery.
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In the show’s second half, NYU luminary Natalie Jeremijenko presents pieces from her Environmental Health Clinic (such as her Urban Space Station), a living critique of dominant medical and environmental models.
The 12th annual Arab Film Festival kicked off tonight but really gets rolling tomorrow Oct. 17th through Thursday the 23rd. It then rolls over to Berkeley and down to LA before reprising here on the 27th. For full schedule, see visit here.
Screening Oct. 17th, 7:30pm at the Premiere Theatre Letterman Digital Arts Center. Directors Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss will be present.
-from Film Arts.
From Indybay -
Despite an official government policy that states that women are not supposed to partake in direct ground combat, the five women featured in Lioness most certainly did. Together the women’s candid narratives describing their experiences in Iraq and scenes from their lives back home form a portrait of the emotional and psychological effects of war from a female point of view.
Tuesday October 28 at 6PM, SF Main Public Library.
CounterCorp is putting on an Anti-Corporate Film Festival starting today, at the Brava Theatre. I swiped & reposted their schedule below – also interesting, this interview with founder John Wilner.
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Oct. 17 |
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7:00+ |
Back to our food future 7:00 p.m. |
Short films on 7:15 p.m. |
Commodifying human needs 7:30 p.m. |
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Q & A after screening |
Q & A after screening |
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9:00+ |
Investigating 9:15 p.m. |
Co-director Scott Roberts scheduled to attend 9:15 p.m. |
Starring Zach Galifianakis 9:30 p.m. |
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Halloweird 2008 screening at Bollyhood Cafe, Oct. 29th, 8pm.
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive are having a home movie day and screening on Oct. 18th. Film archivists will be available for three hours from 12:30 on to help answer questions regarding your own old footage, and there will be a screening at 4pm (you’ll need to submit in advance to be included).
Screening of Arthur Dong’s 1989 documentary on the pre-war nightclub, screening 6pm on Oct. 17th at the Chinese Culture Center.
Monday Oct. 13th at The Lab, screening of the current version of Laura Lukitsch’s Beard Club.
Rough Cuts is a series of work-in-progress documentary screenings that are produced by The LAB. Each evening one rough cut of a feature-length documentary will be screened, followed by a moderated conversation about the film with the filmmaker. We hope that the series also provides a welcome space for local filmmakers, film professionals, and fans of documentary film to meet and catch up. $6 admission, complimentary drinks and hors d’oeuvres provided.
Tonight’s the closing night for SFFS’s French Cinema Now series. Michael Hawley recommends Entre les Murs (tonight at 6:15, Clay Theatre), this year’s unanimous Palme d’Or winner.
