TICKETS for EXISTO at 518 Val Sat Feb 3, 1p HERE Director Coke Sams – 1999 USA 94 min – IndieFest 2000 program note: The future: Jesse Helms and Bob Dornan are revered as gods, morality is state-mandated, and creativity is repressed. And a rag tag band of art revolutionaries, led by performance artist Existo, wage a guerrilla […]
TICKETS for FAR WESTERN at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 2p HERE TICKETS for FAR WESTERN at Roxie Thu Feb 8, 7p HERE Director James D. Payne – 2017 Japan 93 min California Premiere – Music/Documentary Amid the ashes of post-WWII Japan, the bittersweet sounds of American traditional country music drifted through the radio airwaves. Although intended […]
Shorts 1: What You Don’t Know About Me: Dramatic Narrative Shorts Top-notch dialogue distinguishes these stories about the difficulty of being understood. Contains some violence. TICKETS for SHORTS 1 at Roxie Feb 3, 2p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 1 at Roxie Feb 5, 7p HERE Twenty Minutes Gabriel Wilson, USA, 12 min Eric, a […]
TICKETS for THE ROAD TO NOD at 518 Val Sat Feb 3, 3p HERE Director M.A. Littler – 2007 Germany 88 min – IndieFest 2008 program note: Aptly described as a “Film Noir Road Movie,” writer/director M.A. Littler’s The Road to Nod is a bibiclly-fueledcrime outing marked by stirring performances and breathtaking black and white cnematography. […]
TICKETS for THE S WORD at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 430p HERE TICKETS for THE S WORD at Roxie Tue Feb 6, 7p HERE Director Lisa J. Klein – 2017 USA 93 min Bay Area Premiere – Documentary This powerful documentary explores one of the most feared and misunderstood topics in the human experience – suicide. Putting a […]
Shorts 2: An Animated World showcases a wide variety of animation from around the world. TICKETS for SHORTS 2 at Roxie Feb 3, 430p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 2 at Roxie Feb 6, 7p HERE Framed Marco Jemolo, Italy, 7 min FRAMED is a noir animated short-film, which explores the sensitive subject of alienation […]
TICKETS for VIVA at 518 Val Sat Feb 3, 5p HERE Director Anna Biller – 2007 USA 120 – IndieFest 2007 program note: “I am reworking old sexploitation movies from the 60s and early 70s from a woman’s point of view. Vintage sexploitation films interest me because they revolve around fantasies of a woman’s power over the […]
TICKETS for MOVING PARTS at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 7p HERE TICKETS for MOVING PARTS at Roxie Sat Mon Feb 5 7p HERE Director Emilie Upczak – 2017 Trinidad and Tobago 77 min West Coast Premiere – Drama/Narrative This quietly gripping drama puts a fresh spin on the subject of human trafficking by introducing us to a […]
TICKETS for KUPAL at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 7p HERE TICKETS for KUPAL at Roxie Sun Feb 4, 2p HERE Drector Kazem Mollaie – 2017 The Islamic Republic of Iran 81 min Bay Area Premiere – Drama / Middle Eastern Dr. Ahmad Kupal is a 50-year-old hunter and taxidermist living on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran. Recently, […]
TICKETS for SORE LOSERS at 518 Val Sat Feb 3, 730p HERE Director John Michael McCarthy – 1997 USA 90 min – IndieFest 1999 program note: The winner of Video Eyeball Magazine’s “Best Drive in Movie Award” this is the ultimate in comic magazine delicatessen for fans of punk, horror and sci fi. Featuring the ’50s […]
TICKETS for BLACK CAT at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 915p HERE TICKETS for BLACK CAT at Roxie Mon Feb 5, 915p HERE Director Peter Pardini – 2017 USA 85 min Bay Area Premiere – Mockumentary Black Cat is a satire on true crime documentaries gone wild. When a near-decade old murder case involving a movie star […]
TICKETS for TOP KNOT DETECTIVE at Roxie Sat Feb 3, 915p HERE Director Aaron McCann & Dominic Pearce – 2017 Australia 87 min – Mockumentary/Comedy A behind the scenes peak at the greatest television Samurai Drama no one knows and its enigmatic and tragically lost star, Takashi Takamoto. Robots, Product Placement, and island-sized egos fill this […]
TICKETS for KABOOM at 518 Val Sat Feb 3, 930p HERE Director Gregg Araki – 2011 USA 86 min – IndieFest 2011 program note: Kaboom is a wild and sex-drenched horror-comedy thriller that tells the story of Smith (Thomas Dekker), and ambisexual 18-year-old college freshman who stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy in a seemingly idyllic Southern […]
