sffs.org - 9/15/2008
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French Cinema Now—a new five-day annual festival at Landmark’s Clay Theatre—brings the most significant new work from one of the world’s most renowned filmmaking countries to discerning Bay Area audiences. The latest expansion in the Film Society’s year-round programming, French Cinema Now ...
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FRENCH CINEMA NOW 2008—Michael Hawley's Preview
The Evening Class —
... launches its inaugural French Cinema Now series with a great big BOUM!—bookending the five-day mini-fest with the two highest-profile French films of 2008. Arnaud Desplechin's Catherine Deneuve-starring ...
Vinyl-ly Posting
Hell On Frisco Bay —
... screening tomorrow), or the mouth-watering French Cinema Now series being put on at the Clay by the San Francisco Film Society (and handily previewed by ...
October Fests
Hell On Frisco Bay —
... you want to wait in line. Luckily the film has been picked up for distribution, and probably will screen here early next year. The previously-mentioned Surveillance plays this festival as well. More coverage by: Michael Hawley and Michael Guillén at the Evening Class, Keaton Kail from indieWIRE, Dennis Harvey in the SF Bay Guardian and at sf360, Tony An, and Lincoln Spector of Bayflicks. French Cinema Now When? Technically October 8-12, but there will also be San ...
Nobel. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.
GreenCine Daily —
... in Literature for 2008 has been awarded to the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization."
What a banner year for French culture. Laurent Cantet's The Class wins the Palme d'Or and opens a French-tinged New York Film Festival; the San Francisco Film Society launches its first annual French Cinema Now series; and New French Films will be screening next month ...
So Many Festivals It's Almost Scary
Hell On Frisco Bay —
... . After a chance to catch a Thanksgiving breath, it's followed by Quebec Film Week (titles as yet unannounced) December 10-14. 2008 has been the first year that I've sampled the SFFS's fall offerings, at the successfully-inaugurated French Cinema Now where a rare opportunity to see two early films by ...
I Only Have Two Eyes: Michael Hawley
Hell On Frisco Bay —
... 's French Cinema Now series; the surprise of this 1965 omnibus was that my three favorite segments were by directors I was previously unfamiliar with: Jean Douchet, Jean-Daniel Pollet and Jean Rouch.) ...
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