TICKETS for PASSING STONES at 518 Val Sun Feb 4, 730p HERE Drector Roger Majkowski – 2001 USA 94 min – IndieFest 2001 program note: Leon (writer/director Roger Majkowski) is a ferociously bitter 30-year-old paperboy (he prefers the term “circulation manager”) still living at home with his nagging mother and dope-addled man-boy brother, Anthony. When a […]
TICKETS for BLUE RUIN at 518 Val Sun Feb 4, 930p HERE Director Jeremy Saulnier – 2013 USA 92 min – IndieFest 2014 program note: Back in 2007, SF Indie played Jeremy Saulnier’s riotous horror comedy Murder Party, and after making a name for himself as a cinematographer in the interim – most notably for the dreamy […]
TICKETS for I AM A KNIFE WITH LEGS at 518 Val Sat Feb 10, 1p HERE Director Bennet Jones – 2015 USA 90 min – IndieFest 2015 program note: First his girlfriend dies in a suicide bombing. Then a fatwa is issued against him. And now international Europop star Bené’s eclair is weird. Seven years and […]
TICKETS for HARMONY AND ME at 518 Val Sat Feb 10, 3p HERE Diector Robert Byington – 2010 USA 75 min – IndieFest 2010 program note: Harmony (a hilarious, wry Jutin Rice) is a charmingly quirky slacker in the depths of a yearlong post-breakup funk that shows no signs of abating. The highlights of his days […]
TICKETS for KILL ME PLEASE at 518 Val Sat Feb 10, 5p HERE Director Anita Rocha de Silveira – 2016 Brazil 101 min – IndieFest 2017 program note: The classic coming-of-age premise “You guys wanna go see a dead body?” from Stand By Me gets an update and twist as fifteen-year-old Bia becomes obsessed with a series of […]
TICKETS for FUNNY HA HA at 518 Val Sun Feb 11, 1p HERE Director Andrew Bujalsky – 2002 USA 89 min – IndieFest 2004 program note: Five minutes, is that so long? Marnie would like to go five minutes without something embarrassing happening to her. But for the beleaguered heroine of Andrew Bujalski’s spot-on exploration of […]
TICKETS for BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO at 518 VAL Sun Feb 11, 3p HERE Director Peter Strickland – 2012 UK 91 min – IndieFest 2013 program note: Toby Jones (The Girl) plays Gilderoy, a socially reserved British sound mixer invited to work on a film in Italy. Unbeknownst to him, his new assignment turns out to be […]
TICKETS for JIMMY AND JUDY at 518 Val Sun Feb 11, 5p HERE Directors Jonathan Schroder & Randall Rubin – 2006 USA 99 min – IndieFest 2006 program note: It’s the IndieFest late show and we’re quite sure that Jimmy and Judy is exactly what you’re looking for. Mental illness, ultraviolence, sexual perversion, meth cults, nudity, family dysfunction, […]
TICKETS for RAIN THE COLOR OF BLUE WITH A LITTLE RED IN IT at 518 Val Sun Feb 11, 730p HERE Director Christopher Kirby – 2015 Niger 75 min – IndieFest 2016 program note: Prince goes Sahel in this remake of Purple Rain in the Saharan Desert. The first feature film in the Tamashek language (which has […]
TICKETS for BUBBA HO-TEP at 518 Val Sun Feb 11, 930 HERE Director Don Coscarelli – 2001 USA 92 min – IndieFest 2003 program note: Our incredible Closing Night Gala is Don (Phantasm) Coscarelli’s hilarious ass-kicking tribute to the King of Rock n Roll. It’s also Bruce (Evil Dead) Campbell’s first starring role since Army of Darkness.What […]
