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 […]
Shorts 3: The Best of Us: Documentary Profiles From a kid boxer to an arborist prepping for the apocalypse, these five unique people are making the most of their time. 87 min TICKETS for SHORTS 3 at Roxie Feb 7, 7p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 3 at Roxie Feb 10, 2p HERE Beyond the […]
TICKETS for RAMEN HEADS at Roxie Sat Feb 10, 2p HERE TICKETS for RAMEN HEADS at Roxie Tue Feb 13, 7p HERE Director Koki Shigeno – 2017 Japan 93 min California Premiere – Food/Documentary Considered an edible embrace, comforting ephemera and an art form by master chefs and legions of fans, ramen—the perfectly slurpable combination […]
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 […]
Shorts 5: The Hustle: Dark Comedy Shorts Give us your tired, your jaded, your sellouts, and your characters making unintentionally hilarious career choices: this program finds the dark humor in “making it.” 84 min. Contains sex and violence. TICKETS for SHORTS 5 at Roxie Feb 10, 430p HERE TICKETS for SHORTS 5 at Roxie Feb […]
TICKETS for THE MANHATTAN FRONT at Roxie Sat Feb 10, 430p HERE TICKETS for THE MANHATTAN FRONT at Roxie Wed Feb 14 7p HERE Director Cathy Lee Crane – 2017 USA 89 min World Premiere – Drama / Musical / Historic In 1915, a German saboteur comes to Manhattan and tries to co-opt the progressive labor movement […]
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 […]
Live reading from this year’s award winning screenplays plus panel discussion with working writers: Tony Dushane, Sarah Kass, Bears Fonte, James Carlson. Live Read Scripts: Grace & Vengeance by James Carlson (scenes from the feature script) and Sergio and the Whale by Anna Kriegel (short script in its entirety). Complimentary drinks and nibbles. Sat Feb 10, 7p, […]
TICKETS for THE CALIFORNIA NO at Roxie Sat Feb 10, 7p HERE TICKETS for THE CALIFORNIA NO at Roxie Mon Feb 12, 915p HERE Director Ned Ehrbar – 2017 USA 84 min World Premiere – Comedy / Sexuality During his first visit to couples therapy, a Los Angeles writer discovers that he’s actually in an […]
TICKETS for FOR NOW at Roxie Sat Feb 10, 7p HERE TICKETS for FOR NOW at Roxie Wed Feb 14, 915p HERE Director Hannah Barlow – 2017 USA 79 min Bay Area Premiere – Comedy / Drama Hannah, an Australian ex-pat living in Los Angeles, organizes an audition at the San Francisco Ballet Company for her younger […]
