(Cinema) The 8th San Francisco Latino Film Festival is up and running, bringing audiences a look into Latino life in the United States and elsewhere. Modern, innovative, and community-focus, Cine+Mas is growing each year. It runs September 16 to October 1, 2016, in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, and San Jose. Here is a quick look … More ‘Craving Cuba’ and other Latino Films must watch today.
By Lupita Peimbert (Cinema) – El Barco de Vela o ‘The Vessel’ es una película melancólica que te mantiene interesado hasta el final, a pesar de que el entendido surrealismo que la enmarca, a veces es predecible. La historia ocurre en un pueblo costero olvidado quién sabe dónde, aunque el acento del narrador suena … More Martin Sheen en ‘El Barco de Vela’.
By Lupita Peimbert (Film) The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival brings a TV series from the Arab world, filled with creativity, innovative perspectives, and wit. “The Writer,” appears to be telling the day-to-day vicissitudes of being a successful TV writer, father of three, husband, and a Palestinian living in Jerusalem –one who married a Jewish … More The crisis of a 40 year-old Arab man
(Film) – Now in its 8th edition, The Hola Mexico Film Festival is the largest festival of Mexican cinema outside Mexico. On the weekend of August 26-28, The Hola Mexico Film Festival Summer Tour 2016 brings to the Roxie 10 of the best Mexican films that appeared during the 2016 Hola Mexico Film Festival in Los … More The “Hola Mexico” film festival is set for August in San Francisco.
By Lupita Peimbert (Film) – Mark was having the life of the usual teenager, the son of a functional immigrant family in Canada: parties, free time, a few responsibilities, and a nice room to hang out and call it his own. When Natasha arrived from Latvia, she brought with her a dysfunctional upbringing: anger and … More Natasha at the Jewish Film Festival.
(Film) Every Tuesday evening, the French-language school exhibits a piece of French culture in their small theater. Add a glass of wine and the opportunity to make new friends, and you’ll have a joyful activity on a weekday. On Tuesday, July 26, come watch “Les Conquérants” or The Conquerors, 2013. Actors Mathew Demy and Denis … More Tuesday Cinema at the Alliance Française: Les Conquérants.
(Film) – At the Bay Area Premier in the Castro Theater Sunday, July 24, Norman Lear will receive the “Freedom of Expression Award,” by the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. Lear is an icon and legendary television producer, credited with writing, creating, and developing more than 100 television shows in the United States; just to … More Norman Lear, Just Another Version of You at the Castro Theater.
(Cinema) – Coming up very soon, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival will be showcasing a wide variety of films, panel discussions, special guests, and other events centered in the Jewish culture in the United States and around the world. It is a great opportunity to watch cinema that matters, and where cultural aspects of life … More It Is All About The Jewish, But Also About Taking Action.
By Lupita Peimbert. (Film) – A press conference and screening took place Tuesday, June 21, announcing the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival coming up July 21 to August 7. The films are so good and so are they corresponding awards. A special night has been designated for food and film at the Castro Theater. Berkeley … More Awards, Cinema, and a Feast.
(Film) – Wrongly accused of sexual abuse in 1994, now that they are free, they are fighting hard to be exonerated. 4 Latinas. 4 Lesbians. For their right to have their lives back. “Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four.” The documentary was presented Monday night at the Castro Theater in San … More All they want is their lives back.
Por Lupita Peimbert. (Cinema) – En una acertada movida del cine Roxie en el Distrito de la Misión en San Francisco, mostrarán algunas películas de uno de los más aclamados cineastas españoles después de Luis Buñuel: Pedro Almodóvar. Se trata de sus inicios como productor y directos, y de las cintas que le dieron fama. … More Viene Almodóvar al Cine Roxie de San Francisco.
June 2-16, 2016 Roxie Theatre, Vogue Theater and Great Star Theater San Francisco (Film Festivals) – SF IndieFest has announced the return of the 15th San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, or SF DocFest from June 2 to the 16 at the Roxie Theater, Vogue Theater and the Great Star Theater. These are three of the … More More than 40 documentaries at SF DocFest!
Content by Lupita Peimbert. (Cinema) – Look at it simply, and it appears like a drag queen’s story. Look at it a little more deeply, and you’ll see a story about love as it affects men, their dreams and conventions. Director Paddy Breathnach brings to life a set of powerful, emotional, and very real situations … More Of love and men: VIVA.
(Film, International) – A estrenarse el próximo 6 de Mayo en San Francisco, la película VIVA, del director Paddy Breathnach, producida por Benicio del Toro y con un elenco buenísimo, muestra las emociones de los hombres. El contexto es controvertido, por demás interesante, y muy sexy. En Cuba, un joven (Hector Medina) que quiere actuar en … More Por fin, una historia de hombres.
By Lupita Peimbert (Cinema) – With an interesting lineup headed by “Frank & Cindy,” almost 3 dozens of indie movies including a few Spanish-language films, and closing with “Too Late,” the 18th San Francisco Independent Film Festival is on its way. SF IndieFest will hit three movie theaters, all in the Mission District, February 11th … More SF IndieFest: Independent and Provocative.
By Lupita Peimbert (Cinema). A fictionalized biography about Vincent van Gogh’s last two months before his death. Director and writer Maurice Pialat shows different aspects of the artist’s life, providing a beautiful, unconcerned, nonchalant look into life in 1890’s rural France, in a small town not far from Paris. Beyond the image that most of … More The Films of Maurice Pialat: Van Gogh
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