San Francisco Cinemas/Movies
The 17th San Francisco Silent Film Festival
by Admin on May.14, 2012, under San Francisco Cinemas/Movies
come the best four days of summer:
This year brings a full array of beautiful new restorations, beloved favorites, rediscovered classics, and revelations
May Movie – Battle Royale
by Admin on May.12, 2012, under San Francisco Cinemas/Movies
Battle Royale (1990; NR, but not recommended for children under 16; Japanese, with English subtitles, 114mins.) is one of the most challenging and controversial films ever made… and is The Hunger Games, Lost, and Survivor mixed together, ramped up to a fever pitch. An instant classic in Japan upon release in 1990, it’s the story of how, in the future, as a way of keeping their youth in line, the Japanese government yearly captures a random class of ninth-grade students, drops them on an island, and it’s survival of the fittest…helps if you know how to use a cross-bow or semi-automatic rifle. Given three days to off your classmates and survive…how would you do? Battle Royale is based on the shockwave novel by Koushun Takami — we’ll be raffling off a copy at the movie night!
6:00PM – doors and cash bar open
7:00PM – event starts – Raffle for cool schwag, and as always, FREE POPCORN!
- donation at the door — AND cash bar and tips — benefits Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California — to date, we’ve helped raise over ,000 for the kids in our community! Learn more here!
The Variety Preview Room Theatre
The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance between Quiznos and Citibank
582 Market Street @ 2nd and Montgomery
San Francisco, CA 94104
Don’t Drive — BART/MUNI Montgomery Street station is right at our front door, and parking in San Francisco sucks!!! Street parking (.50 per hour) is metered M-Sat., til 6PM; find a parking garage here.
Vive Napoleon
by Admin on May.07, 2012, under San Francisco Cinemas/Movies
A few weeks ago, over 10,000 people experienced what is already being called a legendary event.
San Francisco Silent Film Festival thanks everyone who made NAPOLEON possible.
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The NAPOLEONposter and souvenir book are already collector’s items
Napoleon Reviews
by Admin on Apr.21, 2012, under San Francisco Cinemas/Movies
April Reading
by Admin on Apr.20, 2012, under San Francisco Cinemas/Movies
Saturday April 21st
Steven Boyett and Bruce McAllister
will be celebrating their work in the new Urban Fantasy Anthology, edited by Peter S. Beagle & Joe R. Lansdale for Tachyon Publications.
Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by a Q & A session with the audience, moderated by author Terry Bisson. Booksigning and schmoozing in the lounge follows. Books will be for sale, courtesy of our friends at Borderlands Books.
Steven Boyett also known as DJ Steve Boyett, is a writer and disc jockey based in Northern California. Boyett sold his first novel, Ariel, at the age of 21, and went on to publish The Architect of Sleep, The Gnole (with illustrator Alan Aldridge), Elegy Beach (sequel to Ariel), as well as numerous short stories and novellas. He has written Ren and Stimpy comics for Marvel and wrote the (uncredited) second draft of Toy Story 2. In the early 1990s his small-press imprint called Sneaker Press published chapbooks by poets Carrie Etter and the late Nancy Lambert.
Boyett had short work in the seminal splatterpunk anthologies Book of the Dead (ed. John Skipp and Craig Spector) and Silver Scream (ed. David J. Schow), and the foundational novella in the influential Borderland shared-world fantasy anthology (ed. Terri Windling). Boyett has taught fiction at UCLA Extension, Santa Monica Community College, and various workshops, including the annual La Jolla Writers Workshop. He posts and lectures frequently about New Media and the changing role of the writer in the digital age. An expanded reprint of Ariel was published by Ace Books in August 2009, followed by a sequel, Elegy Beach, in November 2009. A new novel, Mortality Bridge, was published in July 2011 from Subterranean Press, and won the 2011 Emperor Norton Award for best novel by a San Francisco Bay Area writer. Boyett also has a new novel in the Change series, Avalon Burning, due out in 2012.
Boyett is also an electronic dance music DJ known for his Podrunner podcast of dance music mixed at a constant BPM, intended for use on digital audio players such as the iPod during exercise. Podrunner has been one of the world’s most popular podcasts since its debut in February 2006, and has been an award-winning Top 10 Podcast (first in Music, then in Health & Fitness) on iTunes for seven years in a row. As a DJ Boyett has played clubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Las Vegas, as well as for several years at the annual Burning Man festival.
Bruce McAllister is a California-based writer, writing coach, book and screenplay consultant, workshop leader and “agent finder” for both new and established writers of non-fiction, fiction and screenplays.
His literary and genre fiction has appeared in national magazines, literary quarterlies, college textbooks and ‘year’s best’ anthologies. His second novel, Dream Baby, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship winner, was called a “stunning tour de force” by Publishers Weekly. His fiction has been translated widely and received national awards and notable mentions in the New York Times, and other U.S. newspapers, U.S. and foreign magazines and journals, and reference works. His poetry and experimental work has appeared in literary quarterlies and anthologies; he has co-edited magazines and anthologies; and his articles on popular science, writing craft and sports have appeared in publications like Life, International Wildlife, and The Writer.
At the University of Redlands in southern California, where he taught writing for twenty-four years, he helped establish and direct the Creative Writing Program, directed both the Professional Writing track of that program and its Communications Internship program, received various teaching and service awards, and was the Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of Literature and Writing from l990 to l995. The son of a career Navy officer and an anthropologist mother, he grew up in Washington, D.C., Florida, California and Italy; attended middle school and art school in Italy; received degrees in English and writing from Claremont Men’s College and the University of California at Irvine; has three wonderful children (Annie, Ben and Liz); and is married to choreographer Amelie Hunter. He lives in Orange, California.
6:00PM – doors and cash bar open
7:00PM – event starts
- donation at the door benefits Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California – to date, we’ve helped raise over ,000 for the kids in our community! Learn more here!
The Variety Preview Room Theatre
The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance between Quiznos and Citibank
582 Market Street @ 2nd and Montgomery
San Francisco, CA 94104
Don’t Drive — BART/MUNI Montgomery Street station is right at our front door, and parking in San Francisco sucks!!! Street parking (.50 per hour) is metered M-Sat., til 6PM; find a parking garage here.
Napoleon: related events
by Admin on Apr.13, 2012, under San Francisco Cinemas/Movies
a Herculean task!” – Martin Scorsese, Vanity Fair (March 2012)
NAPOLEON is only two weeks away
by Admin on Apr.10, 2012, under San Francisco Cinemas/Movies
Abel Gance’s 1927masterpiece NAPOLEON is only two weeks away! Watch formajor coverage of this event in and on…
.FOUR PERFORMANCESONLY: March 24, 25, 31,April 1
A BIG thank you to our sponsors
by Admin on Apr.10, 2012, under San Francisco Cinemas/Movies
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Bonus Reading This Saturday – Sixties Underground Press
by Admin on Apr.09, 2012, under San Francisco Cinemas/Movies
In conjunction with PM Press we are delighted to announce:
Saturday, March 31st
On The Ground
An Illustrated Anecdotal History of the Sixties Underground Press in the U.S.
With contributors
Trina Robbins
Billy X Jennings
Judy Gumbo Albert
Terry Bisson
In four short years (1965–1969), the underground press grew from five small newspapers in as many cities in the U.S. to over 500 newspapers — with millions of readers — all over the world. Circumventing and subverting the establishment media by utilizing their own news service, and freely sharing content amongst each other, at its height the underground press became the unifying institution for the counterculture of the 1960s.
A generation set out to change the world. The underground press was there documenting, participating in, and providing the resources that would guarantee the growth of this emergent youth culture. Combining bold visuals, innovative layouts, and eschewing any pretense toward objectivity, the newspapers were wildly diverse and wonderfully vibrant. On The Ground focuses on the anecdotal detail that brings the history alive. Composed of stories told by the people involved with the production and distribution of the newspapers — John Sinclair, Art Kunkin, Paul Krassner, Emory Douglas, John Wilcock, Bill Ayers, Spain Rodriguez, Trina Robbins, Al Goldstein, Harvey Wasserman, and more — and featuring over 50 full-color scans taken from a broad range of newspapers — Basta Ya, Berkeley Barb, Chicago Seed, Helix, It Ain’t Me Babe, Los Angeles Free Press, San Francisco Express Times, Screw, The Black Panther, The East Village Other, The Realist, and many more — the book provides a true window into the spirit of the times, giving the reader a feeling for the energy “on the ground.”
Contributors will read, chat, and give us insight into what drove them to be part of the counterculture; followed by Q&A from the audience moderated by author Terry Bisson. Booksigning in the lounge follows, with books for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books.
6:00PM – doors and cash bar open
7:00PM – event starts
- donation at the door benefits Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California — to date, we’ve helped raise over ,000 for the kids!
The Variety Preview Room Theatre
The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance between Quiznos and Citibank
582 Market Street @ 2nd and Montgomery
San Francisco, CA 94104
Don’t Drive — BART/MUNI Montgomery Street station is right at our front door, and parking in San Francisco sucks!!! Street parking (.50 per hour) is metered M-Sat., til 6PM; find a parking garage here.
April Movies (with date change)
by Admin on Apr.08, 2012, under San Francisco Cinemas/Movies
Our April movie night will now be on
Wednesday April 11th
But will still feature:
George Melies – a selection of short films – 30 mins.
Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès, a prolific innovator in the use of special effects, accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour in his work. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the first “Cinemagician”. Two of his most well-known films are A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904). Both stories involve strange, surreal voyages, somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy. Méliès was also an early pioneer of horror cinema, which can be traced back to his Le Manoir du diable (1896).
HUGO – PG-13 – 126 mins.
“Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is an automaton that doesn’t work without a special key which Hugo needs to find to unlock the secret he believes it contains. On his adventures, he meets with a shopkeeper, George Melies, who works in the train station and his adventure-seeking goddaughter. Hugo finds that they have a surprising connection to his father and the automaton, and he discovers it unlocks some memories the old man has buried inside regarding his past.” Written by napierslogs/IMDB.com
Refreshments & candy for sale – benefiting Variety! Raffle for prizes!! FREE POPCORN 
6:00PM – doors and cash bar open
7:00PM – event starts
- donation at the door benefits Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California – to date, we’ve helped raise over ,000 for the kids in our community! Learn more here!
The Variety Preview Room Theatre
The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance between Quiznos and Citibank
582 Market Street @ 2nd and Montgomery
San Francisco, CA 94104
Don’t Drive — BART/MUNI Montgomery Street station is right at our front door, and parking in San Francisco sucks!!! Street parking (.50 per hour) is metered M-Sat., til 6PM; find a parking garage here.