SFIFF run-up, 4/24.

"Is there anyone who doesn't know that the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) is turning 50 this month?" asks B Ruby Rich. "The drumbeat in the Bay Area has been celebratory, from the Pacific Film Archive tribute program of films drawn from its history to the daily bulletins in the San Francisco Chronicle, where Ruthe Stein has been publishing 50 items over 50 days, all drawn from the festival's archive. Instead of focusing on the usual festival squibs, forecasts, and must-sees, then, this writer headed over to the fabled Presidio on an unusually sunny day to talk to the festival staff about the past."

Also at SF360, Michael Fox talks with Jon Else about Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic, screening at SFIFF.

Justin Lowe, too, looks back over 50 years for Filmmaker.

Posted by dwhudson at April 24, 2007 3:13 PM