Acclaimed for its excellence in world cinema, the San Francisco International Film Festival is the first such event in the Americas to reach the 50-year milestone. This year SFMOMA will be part of the celebration, presenting a selection of contemporary international and American films from the more than 200 on offer. The program will cross a range of styles and genres, with filmmakers in attendance.
Ticketing information and complete film festival schedule available at www.sffs.org.
Arrows of Time
Ken McMullen, 2007, 60 min.
6:30 p.m.
Documentary footage of Jacques Derrida and John Berger collides with interviews of physicists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and a fictional crime story in this live cinema performance by Ken McMullen.
Murch
Edie Ichioka, 2006, 78 min.
9:00 p.m.
There are film editors, and then there’s Walter Murch. Widely considered the world’s greatest cutter for his contributions to Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, and many other masterworks, he’s a generous and erudite man, eager to share his passion for film in this revealing documentary.