It's springtime and the San Francisco International Film Festival is here again to enlighten us with the latest best film and commentary. May I say YAY? There is tons of good stuff in the program, so here's just a bit of what I'm looking forward to: 1st: As usual, The State of the Cinema Address. The seductive combination of academia + film and you have the best event of the year for film nerds. Every time I've been my hand is sore after from excitedly taking so many notes. Hmmm, maybe I'll bri...

FOX STORY #4702: SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE AND FAMILY (Fox News, US 1922)  James Seebach; New York, 24.6.1922;  Fox Movietone News Collection, University of South Carolina, Columbia. . On 9 April 1922 Conan Doyle arrived on the White Star Liner SS Baltic in New York City to give several lectures on Spiritualism. When they boarded the RMS Adriatic for their return sail on 24 June 1922, Fox News cameraman James Seebach recorded the family, as did crews from Pathé News and Kinograms. The officia...

PRESS CONFERENCE SHOULD I REALLY DO IT – THE SOLITARY LIFE OF CRANES – ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL – HUXLEY ON HUXLEY - ANTOINE On Monday, March 16 at noon, a press conference was given by Ismail Necmi (Should I Really Do It), Eva Weber (The Solitary Life Of Cranes), Ozgur Dogan (On The Way To School), Mary Ann Braubach (Huxley on Huxley) and Laura Bari (Antoine). On the way to school recounts the adventures of a young Turkish teach...

Madeinusa/ClaudiaLlosa Madeinusa is a sweet girl who lives in an isolated religiously zealous village in mountainous Peru. Everything changes when a geologist from Lima arrives and unknowingly reshapes Madeinusa's destiny. Kinky Boots/Julian JarroldIn an effort to save his father's small town shoe factory, a man finds an unlikely ally in Lola, a brassy cabaret singer. DeNADIE/Tin DirdamalThe story of Maria, a Central American immigrant forced to leave her family in search of a better life. O...