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screenslate.comEvery Human Being Is Creative: A Conversation with Wendy Clarke | Screen SlateThe artist Wendy Clarke is best known for creating the Love Tapes, an ongoing series of some 2,500 videos featuring ordinary people from all over the world, each responding to a simple prompt: what do...

This week, Nicholas Gamso talks to Wendy Clarke about her collected series of video works, The Prison Tapes, in which she works with incarcerated people to explore what love means to them, now on display at Cushion Works: www.screenslate.com/articles/eve...

screenslate.comOCTOBER 19, 2026 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY | Screen SlateMonday, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (on 35mm) continues at the Grand Lake, Mad God is at the Balboa, the Green Film Fest and SF Short Film Fest continue through Wednesday at the 4 Star, and Th...

And here's the round-up for the week, feat. A. S. Hamrah in person (twice!), a Barbara Hammer tribute, focuses on Barry Gifford and Syd Mead, Latino, Green, and Short film festivals, Pialat's La maison de bois, the first of two Marjorie Keller programs, the start of an Andrzej Wajda series, and more

screenslate.comThe CurrentsThe Argentine director Milagros Mumenthaler believes in ghosts but not villains. The Currents (2025), her third feature, presents a woman named Catalina who is haunted, completely and in the most mund...

This week, @sashafrerejones.bsky.social on Milagros Mumenthaler's The Currents, screening Sunday at Shapeshifters Cinema as part of @vitalsignsfilms.bsky.social

screenslate.comSEPTEMBER 28, 2026 — THE WEEK IN THE BAYFestival season is upon us, if last week didn't tip you off. This week, we've got two to highlight. First up is the 49th Mill Valley Film Festival.

And the round-up, feat. the 49th Mill Valley Film Fest with new Leigh, Hamaguchi, Loktev, Lee Chang-dong, Kopple, Ira Sachs, etc., the 9th Drunken Film Fest, opening with a doc about a Mumbai court run by female judges, Prime Cut and Terminator on 35mm, and more: www.screenslate.com/articles/sep...

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Re:Vision starts TOMORROW! 14 programs, 34 films from 18 countries across 11 decades. 4 days at the Roxie Theater, September 24–27, opening with MY NAME AIN’T SUZIE and closing with MELODY OF MURDER. Plan your weekend: filmpreserve.org/revision/

filmpreserve.orgReVision - San Francisco Film PreserveSeptember 24 – 27 · The Roxie Theater Re:Vision—Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery is SFFP’s inaugural film festival, celebrating the work of archives and archivists. Over four days at the […]

screenslate.comAraya at Re:VisionThe heavens and sea mirror one another as they enclose a land further defined by its colonial past in the opening shots of Margot Benacerraf’s Araya (1959). These material realities in Venezuela’s Ara...

We've got two more pieces on features in this weekend's Re:Vision festival from @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social. First, Arlin Golden on Margot Benacerraf's 1959 FIPRESCI winning expressionistic documentary about life in Venezualan salt mining villages, screening Saturday on 35mm at the Roxie.

screenslate.comThe Waiting Room at Re:VisionWhat was happening in The Waiting Room (1973), for those of us watching in a Los Angeles microcinema last Tuesday, was that every time a “good feeling,” a sense of awe or a snare of comfort that a plo...

And lastly, Corina Copp on Karen Sperling's long unseen 1970s feminist psychodrama, The Waiting Room, which Sperling will be in person to introduce on Sunday:

screenslate.comLen Lye Shorts at Re:VisionIn the 1930s, at the same time Walt Disney was fine-tuning the spotless craftsmanship of film animation that still dominates the market nearly a century later, Len Lye unveiled his first revolutionary...

For this week's feature, Patrick Dahl on six new digital preservations of Len Lye's eye-popping, hand-stenciled, legendary animated shorts, screening Thurs.-Sun. at the Roxie as part of @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social's inaugural Re:Vision festival: www.screenslate.com/articles/len...

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screenslate.comSEPTEMBER 21, 2026 — THE WEEK IN THE BAYBefore the regular round up, it's an exciting weekend of niche festivals in the Bay: Georgian Cinema Now: Part 1 takes over BAMPFA with a nearly a dozen Georgian films from the last decade and a sympo...

Meanwhile, here's the roundup, feat. recent Georgian cinema and a symposium at @bampfa.bsky.social, Brazilian cinema a the @voguetheatersf.bsky.social, Chronovisor, Nosferatu with live score, Ida Lupino's The Trouble with Angels, an AGFA mystery pick, and more: www.screenslate.com/articles/sep...

We are incredibly excited for this festival, featuring 34 films from 11 decades and 18 countries over 14 programs, ranging from the long-lost "sexy international version" of a Luchador film to a Satyajit Ray short to a pre-code boarding school pregnancy drama to Irish folk horror.

kickstarter.comThe Portal Cinema - San FranciscoWe're just a few months away from opening a new non-profit movie theater on Mission at 29th and we need your help!

18 Sept

Two hours to go!

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The Portal Kickstarter is ~$16k away from their next goal, which they need to hit to open in November. They need to hit that goal BY 6 PM TODAY. GET THEM THERE FOLKS. TELL YOUR FRIENDS. OPEN THE PORTAL. OPEN THE PORTAL. OPEN THE PORTAL. OPEN THE PORTAL. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

kickstarter.comThe Portal Cinema - San FranciscoWe're just a few months away from opening a new non-profit movie theater on Mission at 29th and we need your help!

18 Sept

kickstarter.comThe Portal Cinema - San FranciscoWe're just a few months away from opening a new non-profit movie theater on Mission at 29th and we need your help!

17 Sept

A little over 24 hours left to donate!

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And lastly, your reminder that you have just FOUR DAYS left to OPEN THE PORTAL (Also The Portal is now registered in Benevity, so if your employer does donation matching, get your donation matched!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

kickstarter.comThe Portal Cinema - San FranciscoWe're just a few months away from opening a new non-profit movie theater on Mission at 29th and we need your help!

16 Sept

An if you would like a specific reason to donate, The Portal just announced on IG that among their first programs will be a (much-needed!!!) Chick Strand retrospective: www.instagram.com/p/DdVA5vZm5j...

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screenslate.comCastration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both WorldsThe second installment of Louise Weard’s Castration Movie Anthology is subtitled The Best of Both Worlds. In the 5-hour handicam epic, this fairly pedestrian phrase takes on a greater meaning and, by ...

This week's feature is Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds, screening one night only at the Drafthouse New Mission and Mountain View this Wednesday: www.screenslate.com/articles/cas...

screenslate.comI Learned About Kindness: Cory McAbee on American Astronaut, International Collaboration, and Monarch ButterfliesQueens-based filmmaker, musician, animator, and doting father Cory McAbee has been a cross-country fixture of DIY screening spaces and rock venues for going on three decades. Before relocating to our ...

And our interview with Cory McAbee about the 20th anniversary of American Astronaut: www.screenslate.com/articles/i-l...

kickstarter.comThe Portal Cinema - San FranciscoWe're just a few months away from opening a new non-profit movie theater on Mission at 29th and we need your help!

screenslate.comTurning the Camera On: Barbara Hammer from Birth to DeathDrawing from more than 400 hours of archival material, director Brydie O’Connor wove films, outtakes, and audio diaries that the avant-garde lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer created throughout her lif...

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From the archives, our interview with Brydie O'Connor and Florrie Burke about Barbara Forever: www.screenslate.com/articles/tur...

This week, Screen Slate is excited to be a community partner with @sfcinematheque.bsky.social for "faraway so close", the eighth and final show of this year's CROSSROADS festival, Sunday at 8PM at Gray Area

screenslate.comAn Interview with Alice Diop: Language, Law, and Living HistoriesAlthough the exuberant amazement of Saint Omer’s (2022) reception has at times suggested otherwise, Alice Diop is hardly an emerging filmmaker. The sensitive and political eye behind her latest and mo...

And from the archives, first, our interview with Alice Diop on her films and work so far after her breakout hit, Saint Omer: www.screenslate.com/articles/int...

screenslate.comA Game of Inaction: A Conversation with Filipiñana director Rafael ManuelAfter the United States took the Philippines from Spain in 1898, the American occupying forces initiated nothing less than a race war. The conflict, according to the historian Ken De Bevoise, “contrib...

And another interview, this one with Rafael Manuel, whose new film, Filipiñana, opens this week at the Roxie: www.screenslate.com/articles/gam...

screenslate.comCROSSROADS 2026This year’s edition of the Crossroads Film Festival opens with a shorts program that includes the filmmaker Amy Reid’s sensitively textured Bay Area Sampler Quilt (2026), a small-gauge paean to the ar...

Read our festival preview from Elise Schierbeek about what else you might find this year Friday through Sunday at CROSSROADS 2026: www.screenslate.com/articles/cro...

screenslate.comAUGUST 31, 2026 — THE WEEK IN THE BAYMonday, The Time Masters is at the Roxie, Downtown 81 is at the Balboa, RRR is at the New Parkway, Free Willy and Days of

And here's the week's round-up, feat. Alice Diop in person at @bampfa.bsky.social, a newly struck print of Tsai's The Hole, Murnau's Faust and Nosferatu with live scores, Giant on 35mm, Diamonds of the Night, Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3D on 35mm & more: www.screenslate.com/articles/aug...

kickstarter.comThe Portal Cinema - San FranciscoWe're just a few months away from opening a new movie theater on Mission at 29th and we need your help!

28 Aug

YOUR FRIDAY AFTERNOON REMINDER TO

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screenslate.comArboretum CycleIn the spring of 2017, after the first wet winter in many dry years, Nathaniel Dorsky walked with his Bolex through Golden Gate Park’s arboretum and noticed the blooming plants. Dorsky’s way of notici...

24 Aug

This week, @kieferama.bsky.social on Nathaniel Dorsky's Arboretum Cycle, screening Saturday afternoon at BAMPFA with Dorsky in person. www.screenslate.com/articles/arb...

screenslate.comAUGUST 24, 2026 — THE WEEK IN THE BAYMonday, Satyajit Ray's The Big City is at the New Parkway, the new Butthole Surfers doc is at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM) with a live-streamed Q&A (before a sold-out in-person appearance on ...

24 Aug

And the round-up, featuring Satyajit Ray, queer comics, Eastwood on 35mm, goth gays, Cassavetes, Basement's VHS fest, Dominic Angerame, Marilyn Monreo's final two films on 35mm, Eisenstein's October, Southland Tales, and more: www.screenslate.com/articles/aug...

sfchronicle.comThis man designed Muni’s ‘worm’ logo. Critics wanted to kill itIn 1975, Walter Landor’s new Muni logo was disparaged and ignored. Fifty years later, it has become the ultimate San Francisco icon.

22 Aug

In case we have any non-local readers who wonder why our logo looks like that:

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Wrote this one for all the transit kids. Here’s the story behind @sfmta.bsky.social’s iconic logo — and the people (including Muni and a certain Chronicle columnist) who tried to kill it. Long live the worm! 🚌🚌🚌 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

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21 Aug

A short piece for @screenslatesf.bsky.social about Abbas Kiarostami's And Life Goes On, which screens at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts tomorrow. www.screenslate.com/articles/and...

screenslate.comAnd Life Goes OnAt one unfortunate, or perhaps fortunate, film festival screening of his child-centered drama Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987), Abbas Kiarostami informed the audience that the friend’s house and ma...

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20 Aug

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11 Aug

RE:VISION TICKETS ARE ON SALE! The full schedule is live: 14 screenings, 4 days, 18 countries, 11 decades of cinema, from Irish fantasy to Mexican midnight movies to American experimental film. SFFP Members save 20% on tickets, $50 on passes. https://filmpreserve.org/revision/

screenslate.comWet Hot American SummerWatching Wet Hot American Summer (2001) as it returns to theaters could be a "What the hell is water?” experience for newcomers. When it first came out, this was a film with a cast and crew of nearly ...

This week, @danschindel.bsky.social on the 25th anniversary of Wet Hot American Summer, back in theaters this weekend: www.screenslate.com/articles/wet...

screenslate.comIn girum imus nocte et consumimur igniThe French theorist and filmmaker Guy Debord’s In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (We go round and round in the night and are consumed by fire, 1979) presents a montage of archival photographs and...

On Guy Debord's IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI, which "stages an adversarial relationship between image and sound, until each medium wears itself out and the two are reunited in their mutual dissolution", screening Friday at @ataconnect.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/gir...

screenslate.comTake Care of My CatMovies and TV shows often struggle to depict digital communication in a cinematic way, which has generated no end of discourse over the past 20 or so years—particularly around how much this is to blam...

And on Jeong Jae-eun's long hard-to-see Take Care of my Cat, screening Tuesday and Thursday at the Roxie www.screenslate.com/articles/tak...

This week, @danschindel.bsky.social on the 25th anniversary of Wet Hot American Summer, back in theaters this weekend: www.screenslate.com/articles/wet...

screenslate.comAUGUST 10, 2026 — THE WEEK IN THE BAYMonday, Mikey and Nicky is at the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM) and Mountain View (MV), Raising Cain is at the Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair (VF) (also at NM and MV on Wed.), Drunken Noodles and A...

And the round-up for the week, featuring a new restoration of Richard Lester's under-appreciated gay bathhouse farce The Ritz, at the Castro, The Apartment on 35mm, more Guy Debord, the new cut of Mann's Manhunter, Take Care of my Cat, Mysterious Skin, and more: www.screenslate.com/articles/aug...

screenslate.comWhat the World Is: Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome HilerNathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler first laid eyes on each other at the premiere of Ingreen, Dorsky’s first film, at the Washington Square Gallery in August of 1964, though whether they actually met th...

From the archives, check out our interview with Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, who will be in person at @bampfa.bsky.social for four screenings from Aug. 14-29: www.screenslate.com/articles/wha...

screenslate.com"I'm a true hyphen": An Interview with Robert TownsendRobert Townsend says his “mind works differently.” Talking to him, it’s hard to disagree. The kineticism of his screen persona is hardly diminished in person, quoting his own movies verbatim, flying i...

3 Aug

This week, an interview with director-actor-screenwriter Robert Townsend on the occasion of his residency at the Balboa and 4 Star theaters, starting Wednesday with Hollywood Shuffle on 35mm: www.screenslate.com/articles/im-...

screenslate.comAUGUST 3, 2026 — THE WEEK IN THE BAYMonday, the Balboa screens a new restoration of Guy Maddin's Careful, the classic 1933 throuple comedy Design for Living continues the Roxie's Wild, Weird, Wicked: Films From Before the Code, Jane Sch...

3 Aug

And our round-up for the week, feat. Pelham 123 on 35mm, a John Wilson rec, Guy Debord as filmmaker, more Marilyn at Stanford & Hector Babenco at the Smith Rafael, Jurassic Park on 35mm, von Sternberg's Underworld on 16mm, A League of Their Own on 35mm and more: www.screenslate.com/articles/aug...

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31 July

SFC proudly announces CROSSROADS 2026, September 4–6 at Gray Area. 49 works of film, video & performance by 52 artists representing 22 countries and territories, presented across 8 curated programs. www.sfcinematheque.org/crossroads/c... #XRDS26 #experimentalfilm #filmfestival

29 July

Less than 2k to go for ATA to reach their goal!

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Folks! Artists' Television Access @ataconnect.bsky.social needs one last push to clear enough backrent for their landlord to forgive the rest! Get them to their goal by August 1st! www.every.org/ataconnect/f...

screenslate.comThe FountainheadIt should come as no surprise that Ayn Rand's 1943 bestselling paean to unbridled individualism came to Hollywood through the advocacy of an actor. Without a hint of irony, Rand's novel portrays one m...

This week, Bernardo Rondeau on King Vidor's 1949 The Fountainhead, screening in a matinee Tuesday, July 28, at the Orinda: www.screenslate.com/articles/fou...

screenslate.comA Fundamental Loneliness: A Conversation with Patrick Wang on A. RimbaudFor over two decades, the Texas-born filmmaker Patrick Wang has created deeply human works anchored by empathy. This thread of sensitivity runs through the sprawling, three-hour custody saga of In The...

And from the archive, an interview with Patrick Wang, director of A. Rimbaud, which screens one day only as part of @vitalsignsfilms.bsky.social, on Sunday at Shapeshifters Cinema: www.screenslate.com/articles/fun...

screenslate.comReverse Hagiography: Mary Harron on I Shot Andy WarholFew directors have navigated both knee-jerk revulsion and repentant revaluation so deftly as Mary Harron. Though now considered staples of American independent cinema, the writer-director’s films have...

And an interview with Marry Harron whose I Shot Andy Warhol screens in a new restoration starting on Saturday at the Roxie: www.screenslate.com/articles/rev...

This week, Bernardo Rondeau on King Vidor's 1949 The Fountainhead, screening in a matinee Tuesday, July 28, at the Orinda: www.screenslate.com/articles/fou...

screenslate.comJULY 27, 2026 — THE WEEK IN THE BAYMonday, Pedro Almodovar's Law of Desire (on 35mm) returns once more to the Roxie alongside a free with RSVP screening of Bob Fosse's All That Jazz, Shunji Iwai's Love Letter (repeats Sunday), and the ...

And the week's round-up, featuring Jawbreaker from our friends Rewind at the Roxie, Almodovar on 35, a Héctor Babenco series at the Smith Rafael, some other bleached blondes besides Marilyn at the Stanford, a Cher triplet at the Vogue, Glitter on 35, and more: www.screenslate.com/articles/jul...

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San Francisco Film Preserve

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21 July

🎬 BIG NEWS! San Francisco Film Preserve is bringing the inaugural Re:Vision: Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery to the historic Roxie Theater from September 24–27! filmpreserve.org/rev... 1/5

20 July

screenslate.comA Thing Brilliant and Powerful: Films on Gesture, Paint and PaintingTalking about painting can bring to mind Bob Ross memes or John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. But talking about painting using the language of artists’ moving images is a different conversation altogether,...

20 July

This week, Shelby Shaw on the @sfcinematheque.bsky.social's "A Thing Brilliant and Powerful: Films on Gesture, Paint and Painting" at SFMOMA this Thursday, July 23, feat. short films by Cauleen Smith, Stan Brakhage, and others, and in memory of Fred Worden: www.screenslate.com/articles/thi...