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Re:Vision starts TOMORROW! 14 programs, 34 films from 18 countries across 11 decades. 4 days at the Roxie Theater, September 24–27, opening with MY NAME AIN’T SUZIE and closing with MELODY OF MURDER. Plan your weekend: filmpreserve.org/revision/
ReVision - San Francisco Film Preserve
September 24 – 27 · The Roxie Theater Re:Vision—Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery is SFFP’s inaugural film festival, celebrating the work of archives and archivists. Over four days at the […]
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We've got two more pieces on features in this weekend's Re:Vision festival from @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social. First, Arlin Golden on Margot Benacerraf's 1959 FIPRESCI winning expressionistic documentary about life in Venezualan salt mining villages, screening Saturday on 35mm at the Roxie.
Araya at Re:Vision
The heavens and sea mirror one another as they enclose a land further defined by its colonial past in the opening shots of Margot Benacerraf’s Araya (1959). These material realities in Venezuela’s Ara...
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For this week's feature, Patrick Dahl on six new digital preservations of Len Lye's eye-popping, hand-stenciled, legendary animated shorts, screening Thurs.-Sun. at the Roxie as part of @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social's inaugural Re:Vision festival: www.screenslate.com/articles/len...
Len Lye Shorts at Re:Vision
In the 1930s, at the same time Walt Disney was fine-tuning the spotless craftsmanship of film animation that still dominates the market nearly a century later, Len Lye unveiled his first revolutionary...
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Two hours to go!
Screen Slate SF Bay@screenslatesf.bsky.social · 6d agoThe Portal Kickstarter is ~$16k away from their next goal, which they need to hit to open in November. They need to hit that goal BY 6 PM TODAY. GET THEM THERE FOLKS. TELL YOUR FRIENDS. OPEN THE PORTAL. OPEN THE PORTAL. OPEN THE PORTAL. OPEN THE PORTAL. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
The Portal Kickstarter is ~$16k away from their next goal, which they need to hit to open in November. They need to hit that goal BY 6 PM TODAY. GET THEM THERE FOLKS. TELL YOUR FRIENDS. OPEN THE PORTAL. OPEN THE PORTAL. OPEN THE PORTAL. OPEN THE PORTAL. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
The Portal Cinema - San Francisco
We're just a few months away from opening a new non-profit movie theater on Mission at 29th and we need your help!
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A little over 24 hours left to donate!
Screen Slate SF Bay@screenslatesf.bsky.social · last wk.And lastly, your reminder that you have just FOUR DAYS left to OPEN THE PORTAL (Also The Portal is now registered in Benevity, so if your employer does donation matching, get your donation matched!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
An if you would like a specific reason to donate, The Portal just announced on IG that among their first programs will be a (much-needed!!!) Chick Strand retrospective: www.instagram.com/p/DdVA5vZm5j...
Screen Slate SF Bay@screenslatesf.bsky.social · last wk.And lastly, your reminder that you have just FOUR DAYS left to OPEN THE PORTAL (Also The Portal is now registered in Benevity, so if your employer does donation matching, get your donation matched!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
This week's feature is Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds, screening one night only at the Drafthouse New Mission and Mountain View this Wednesday: www.screenslate.com/articles/cas...
Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds
The second installment of Louise Weard’s Castration Movie Anthology is subtitled The Best of Both Worlds. In the 5-hour handicam epic, this fairly pedestrian phrase takes on a greater meaning and, by ...
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This week, Screen Slate is excited to be a community partner with @sfcinematheque.bsky.social for "faraway so close", the eighth and final show of this year's CROSSROADS festival, Sunday at 8PM at Gray Area
This week, @kieferama.bsky.social on Nathaniel Dorsky's Arboretum Cycle, screening Saturday afternoon at BAMPFA with Dorsky in person. www.screenslate.com/articles/arb...
Arboretum Cycle
In the spring of 2017, after the first wet winter in many dry years, Nathaniel Dorsky walked with his Bolex through Golden Gate Park’s arboretum and noticed the blooming plants. Dorsky’s way of notici...
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In case we have any non-local readers who wonder why our logo looks like that:
Peter Hartlaub@peterhartlaub.bsky.social · last mo.Wrote this one for all the transit kids. Here’s the story behind @sfmta.bsky.social’s iconic logo — and the people (including Muni and a certain Chronicle columnist) who tried to kill it. Long live the worm! 🚌🚌🚌 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
A short piece for @screenslatesf.bsky.social about Abbas Kiarostami's And Life Goes On, which screens at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts tomorrow. www.screenslate.com/articles/and...
And Life Goes On
At one unfortunate, or perhaps fortunate, film festival screening of his child-centered drama Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987), Abbas Kiarostami informed the audience that the friend’s house and ma...
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RE:VISION TICKETS ARE ON SALE! The full schedule is live: 14 screenings, 4 days, 18 countries, 11 decades of cinema, from Irish fantasy to Mexican midnight movies to American experimental film. SFFP Members save 20% on tickets, $50 on passes. https://filmpreserve.org/revision/
This week, @danschindel.bsky.social on the 25th anniversary of Wet Hot American Summer, back in theaters this weekend: www.screenslate.com/articles/wet...
Wet Hot American Summer
Watching Wet Hot American Summer (2001) as it returns to theaters could be a "What the hell is water?” experience for newcomers. When it first came out, this was a film with a cast and crew of nearly ...
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This week, an interview with director-actor-screenwriter Robert Townsend on the occasion of his residency at the Balboa and 4 Star theaters, starting Wednesday with Hollywood Shuffle on 35mm: www.screenslate.com/articles/im-...
"I'm a true hyphen": An Interview with Robert Townsend
Robert Townsend says his “mind works differently.” Talking to him, it’s hard to disagree. The kineticism of his screen persona is hardly diminished in person, quoting his own movies verbatim, flying i...
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SFC proudly announces CROSSROADS 2026, September 4–6 at Gray Area. 49 works of film, video & performance by 52 artists representing 22 countries and territories, presented across 8 curated programs. www.sfcinematheque.org/crossroads/c... #XRDS26 #experimentalfilm #filmfestival
Less than 2k to go for ATA to reach their goal!
Screen Slate SF Bay@screenslatesf.bsky.social · 2mo agoFolks! Artists' Television Access @ataconnect.bsky.social needs one last push to clear enough backrent for their landlord to forgive the rest! Get them to their goal by August 1st! www.every.org/ataconnect/f...
This week, Bernardo Rondeau on King Vidor's 1949 The Fountainhead, screening in a matinee Tuesday, July 28, at the Orinda: www.screenslate.com/articles/fou...
The Fountainhead
It should come as no surprise that Ayn Rand's 1943 bestselling paean to unbridled individualism came to Hollywood through the advocacy of an actor. Without a hint of irony, Rand's novel portrays one m...
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🎬 BIG NEWS! San Francisco Film Preserve is bringing the inaugural Re:Vision: Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery to the historic Roxie Theater from September 24–27! filmpreserve.org/rev... 1/5
Folks! Artists' Television Access @ataconnect.bsky.social needs one last push to clear enough backrent for their landlord to forgive the rest! Get them to their goal by August 1st! www.every.org/ataconnect/f...
This week, Shelby Shaw on the @sfcinematheque.bsky.social's "A Thing Brilliant and Powerful: Films on Gesture, Paint and Painting" at SFMOMA this Thursday, July 23, feat. short films by Cauleen Smith, Stan Brakhage, and others, and in memory of Fred Worden: www.screenslate.com/articles/thi...
A Thing Brilliant and Powerful: Films on Gesture, Paint and Painting
Talking about painting can bring to mind Bob Ross memes or John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. But talking about painting using the language of artists’ moving images is a different conversation altogether,...
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This week, an interview by Cat Beckstrand with Brydie O’Conner, director of Barbara Forever, and Florrie Burke, Barbara Hammer’s partner of many decades, for the doc’s local premier at Frameline: www.screenslate.com/articles/tur...
Turning the Camera On: Barbara Hammer from Birth to Death
Drawing from more than 400 hours of archival material, director Brydie O’Connor wove films, outtakes, and audio diaries that the avant-garde lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer created throughout her lif...
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'Time After Time' plays the Vogue June 13 with director Nicholas Meyer in attendance! Love this film and 💯 agree with @kieferama.bsky.social about everything but the on-screen chemistry. Never seen a more awkward kiss in my life. www.screenslate.com/articles/tim...
Time After Time
Nicholas Meyer’s Time After Time (1979) would have us believe H.G. Wells’s second wife wasn’t in fact the London student and writer with whom he’d had a home-wrecking affair, but instead a hapless San...
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This week, @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social on Amanda Kramer's By Design, a very different kind of body swap movie, screening Wednesday at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission.
By Design
There’s something all too alluring in the idea of being an inanimate object, beloved by those who use and abuse those often fragile beauties. Amanda Kramer’s By Design (2025) literalizes that concept ...
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Screen Slate has a new preview of OUR HITLER, screening at BAMPFA this Saturday, May 16, at 1:30 PM. 🎬 Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s 1977 film is one of the most ambitious works in the series. Read the preview and get tickets at bampfa.org/event/our-hitler or the link in bio. ✨
This week, @commuter4film.bsky.social on a very rare screening of Our Hitler a.k.a. Hitler: A Film From Germany, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's monumental, 7+ hour smorgasbord (including puppets), playing once and only once this Saturday at @bampfa.bsky.social
Our Hitler a.k.a. Hitler: A Film From Germany
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s German Trilogy is about men who put on a show for the nation as it slowly descends into a self-made hell. The first two entries are about relatively sympathetic figures: Ludwig...
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The Silent Film Fest starts tonight!
Screen Slate SF Bay@screenslatesf.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis week, @feuilladist.bsky.social on deeper cuts at this year's SF Silent Film Festival, including films from the too-often overlooked 1910s, a city symphony avant la lettre, and— "the true hidden gem of the festival"—the (probably) first German feature directed by a woman:
This week, @feuilladist.bsky.social on deeper cuts at this year's SF Silent Film Festival, including films from the too-often overlooked 1910s, a city symphony avant la lettre, and— "the true hidden gem of the festival"—the (probably) first German feature directed by a woman:
The 2026 San Francisco Silent Film Festival
I take for granted that readers of Screen Slate need little encouragement when it comes to the marquee titles in this year’s edition of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. A screening of F.W. Murn...
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