san francisco international film festival to feature 204 films from
san francisco international film festival to feature 204 films from
45th san francisco international film
festival offers
180 films from around the world
46 countries represented during
15-day event
the 45th san francisco international
film festival (april 18 – may 2) presents first-time directors, long-time
festival favorites, one-time-only events and films from around the globe,
including the latest work from such internationally acclaimed artists as eric
rohmer, zhang yimou, martin scorsese, bill morrison, arturo ripstein, paul
cox, kirby dick, shunji iwai, kenneth anger, catherine breillat, manoel de
oliveira, hayao miyazaki, jean-luc godard, patricio guzmán, ning ying, andre
téchiné, seijun suzuki, jonas mekas, rose troche, hirokazu kore-eda, ann hui,
mika kaurismäki, johnnie to, lynne hershman leeson, takashi miike, stan brackage
and hou hsao-hsien.
roxanne messina captor, executive director of the san francisco international
film festival, said, “the programming team of carl spence, linda blackaby
and roger garcia, with at least 50 years of festival experience between them,
along with our international advisory board and myself, have been able to
select a strong array of films from around the world that reflects the integrity
of the festival while also broadening its scope.”
the festival will be honoring several artists with awards. among them are
warren beatty (akira kurosawa award
for lifetime achievement in film directing), kevin spacey (peter j. owens award honoring an actor
whose work exemplifies brilliance, independence and integrity) and fernando
birri (golden gate persistence of vision
award honoring the lifetime achievement of a filmmaker who works in forms
other than features). david francis, a longtime film archivist and preservationist,
will receive the mel novikoff award,
bestowed on an individual or institution whose work has enhanced the filmgoing
public’s knowledge and appreciation of world cinema.
opening night will feature thirteen conversations about one thing, the new film by the director
of clockwatchers, jill sprecher, which revolves around fate and the effects
of seemingly random events on the lives of both lovers and strangers, starring
matthew mcconaughey, clea duvall, john turturro
and alan arkin.
twelve international features from eleven different countries comprise the
new next wave section of the festival.
the films in this category—first features all—will compete for the skyy
prize, sponsored by skyy vodka. the program includes the debut feature
by roman coppola, cq (that’s morse code for “seek you”).
set in paris in 1969, it’s about the travails of a frustrated film editor
working on a barbarella-esque sci-fi film; from senegal, joseph gaï ramaka’s
karmen gei, a lavish and outrageously
sexy music-and-dance spectacular based on bizet’s carmen; from germany, sven
taddicken’s my brother the vampire,
a sweet, goofy comedy about three young siblings struggling with grown-up
urges; and, from new zealand, christine jeff’s languid rain, about a mother and daughter competing for the affections of
a handsome photographer.
carl spence, director of programming, said, “we’re excited by the broad range
of films from many countries. we are equally excited by the addition of our
other side of midnight movies,
which expands and develops new festival audiences.” this collection of edgy
and in-your-face movies includes ichi the killer, a gonzo gangland gross-out epic directed by takashi
miike, shinsuke sato’s princess blade,
a potent combination of high-tech special effects and the high-flying artistry
of action choreographer donnie yen (iron monkey) set in a futuristic japan,
may, a frankenstein/argento/polanski
homage by lucky mckee and stacy peralta’s dogtown and z-boys, an adrenaline-inducing
plunge into skatepunk culture, narrated by sean penn.
in remembrance of italian master director pier paolo pasolini in what would
have been the year of his eightieth birthday the festival will screen pier paola pasolini, a portrait of the multifaceted artist compiled
by actress laura betti and pasolini’s teorema
(1968), starring betti in the performance which won her a golden lion at the
venice film festival.
always on the lookout for archival treasures, this year’s selection includes
where are my children?, the still-powerful
1916 film about abortion and women’s rights by one of the first american female
directors, lois weber, to be presented by mel novikoff award recipient david
francis.
the festival has been hosting unique events that bring together archival cinema
and contemporary musicians for years, and 2002 is no exception. superchunk
and kinogasa: a page of madness combines a new score composed and performed
live by indie rock gods superchunk
for the little-seen caligari-esque japanese avant-garde silent film, a page of madness, directed by teinosuke
kinugasa in 1926.
another film from the archives is bill morrison’s majestic decasia,
an experimental collage film composed of rapturous decomposing film images,
propelled by a cacophonous score by bang on a can’s founder michael gordon.
in addition to the live superchunk event, the festival boasts several other
music-related films, including liliana mazure and aaron vega’s van
van, let’s party, a knockout portrait of cuba’s mega-popular salsa dance
band los van van; sound of brazil, in which mika kaurismäki
(brother of aki) takes a musical journey through brazil, gloriously displaying
its many styles of music; ravi shankar:
between two worlds, mark kidel’s portrait of the world-renowned indian
musician; and tribute, directed
by rich fox and kris curry, a loving and hilarious peek into the world of
bands that impersonate the likes of queen and the monkees.
the festival brings together the best of contemporary french cinema, including
andre téchiné’s far away, a tangiers-set
character study about illegal immigration, drug smuggling and tested friendship;
the newest from controversial catherine breillat, brief
crossing, an elegant chamber piece about a brief romance between a thirtysomething
brit and a 16-year-old french lad during an overnight ferry crossing; eric
rohmer’s plunge into the french revolution, the
lady and the duke, in which he experiments with digital imaging to recreate
the period; a lively look into the african world in paris, alain gomis’s l’afrance; josée dayan’s portrait of the
extraordinary writer and intellectual marguerite duras, cet amour-la, with icon jeanne moreau
playing duras; sandrine ray’s vivante,
in which a young parisian photographer plunges into an underworld of sex,
drugs and nightclubs as a way to cope with the after-effects of a brutal attack;
and the unnerving time out by laurent
cantet, about a laid-off worker who pretends to his family that he is still
employed.
reflecting a surge of fresh new voices as well as work by established artists,
latin american and spanish films are front and center at the festival this
year, with mexican master and festival regular arturo ripstein (winner of
the akira kurosawa award in 1999) returning with
the ruination of men, a pitch-black comedy
about the botched murder of an amateur baseball player; patricio guzman’s
powerful examination of spain’s attempts to prosecute the former dictator
in the pinochet case; orlando rojas’s
comic tale from cuba, nights of constantinopole,
about a family in revolt against their tyrannical matriarch; exiled chilean
director luis r. vera’s bastards in paradise, a raw
look at south american immigrants in stockholm, sweden; from spain, el bola, about a young boy who helps a
friend overcome a violent home life; and 25
watts, the debut film by juan pablo rebella and pablo stoll, a loopy,
droll slacker comedy about a trio of aimless guys in uruguay.
asian films make up a big part of the program this year, partly due to the
influence of guest programmer roger garcia, a former director of the hong
kong international film festival and an asian cinema expert. hong kong will
be represented by the work of several well-known filmmakers—not to mention
some of the biggest stars in both the music and movie worlds—including johnnie
to and wa ka-fai (fulltime killer, a hyperactive thriller
about the rivalry between a pair of world-class assassins, starring cantopop-and-movie
superstar andy lau), ann hui (july rhapsody, a touching melodrama starring two of hong kong’s best-loved
actors in long-awaited comebacks, jackie cheung and anita mui) and andrew
lau (dance of a dream, starring,
again, anita mui and andy lau in hong kong’s buoyant answer to strictly ballroom).
the slate also boasts a choice selection of some of the best new films from
japan from new filmmakers like isao yukisada (go, about the troubles of a korean-born
teenager living in japan) and kiseki hamada (somewhere on earth, a sweet romance based on a best-selling youth-cult
story); nascent masters like hirokazu kore-eda (distance, a melancholy tale about the aftermath of a terrorist attack
on tokyo that killed and injured thousands), shunji iwai (all about lily chou-chou, in which troubled
teens find sanctuary in the music and internet fan site of a pop diva), shinobu
yaguchi (waterboys, in which a
gaggle of boys don goggles and get in touch with their inner esther williams
as synchronized swimmers, by the codirector of the kooky one piece!), and
mayhem maestro takashi miike (ichi
the killer, a gonzo gangland gross-out epic about dueling yakuza hit men,
starring japanese indie superstar tadanobu asano); and long-established geniuses
like 76-year-old shohei imamura (warm
water under a red bridge, starring mainstay koji yakusho as a dissipated
salaryman who falls in love with a woman with an oceanic sexual appetite),
61-year-old hayao miyazaki (the north american premiere of spirited away, a fabulous
ghost-infested animated adventure—the first animated film ever to win the
berlin film festival’s golden lion award—that may be the pinnacle of animated
fantasy), and 79-year-old seijun suzuki (pistol
opera, a completely nutty sort-of
sequel to his eccentric 1967 yakuza masterpiece, branded to kill).
from mainland china, the festival will be bringing the latest from zhang yimou,
happy times, ning ying’s
i love beijing and wang guangli’s
go for broke. from taiwan comes hou hsao-hsien’s
millenium mambo. from thailand comes tyro oxide pang’s thriller one take only. south korea is represented by three films: the action-adventure
epic musa the warrior, directed
by kim sung-su, song hye-sung’s melodrama failan and hur jin-ho’s delicate
romance one fine spring day.
the renowned iranian poet forough farrokhzad, who died at the age of 33, is
the subject of an in-progress documentary trilogy. the first two parts of
this trilogy, the green cold and
the mirror of the soul, both directed
by nasser saffarian, will receive their premieres, international and world
respectively, at the festival. other films from iran are abolfazl jalili’s
delberan, about a 14-year-old refugee
from the afghan civil war working at a border-town truck stop and secret
ballot, in which newcomer babak payami gives the iranian election process
a farcical working over.
the 45th san francisco international film festival is presented
by the san francisco film society, a nonprofit arts organization whose goal
is to lead in expanding the knowledge and appreciation of international film
art and its artists by showcasing the most compelling, thought-provoking international
films, special tributes and major restorations, and today’s brightest stars.
the 45th san francisco international film festival runs
april 18–may 2, 2002 at the amc kabuki 8 theatres, the castro theatre, the
pacific film archive in berkeley and landmark’s park theatre in menlo park.
advance ticket packages and festival passes go on sale beginning march 6.
individual tickets for san francisco film society members will be available
beginning march 27, with individual tickets for the general public available
starting april 2. to purchase tickets and for ticket information call 925.275.9490
or log on to www.sffs.org. the main box office, located in the atrium of the
amc kabuki 8 theatres at 1881 post street will open for film society members
on march 27 and for the general public on april 2. there will also be a satellite
box office at crocker galleria, 50 post street, second floor, opening on april
2. for up-to-date festival information, call 415.931.film.
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