GreenCine Daily: SFIFF and SF stuff.

May 9, 2007

SFIFF and SF stuff.

"The rollcall encompassed George Lucas, producer Saul Zaentz, Chris Columbus, John Lasseter, Robin Williams, Walter Murch, Brad Bird, John Korty, Rob Nilsson, Peter Coyote and... well, I couldn't write down all the names fast enough. It was a whole lotta history in one place." Dennis Harvey introduces the Cabinetic footage of the Fog City Mavericks Q&A at SF360.

A few somewhat related items:

Jason Kottke: "I know it's only 2007, but this is the headline of the decade. For a story about people crossing a tightrope strung across the Han River in South Korea, AP came up with this masterpiece: Skywalkers in Korea cross Han solo."

"Cinematically, [CODA: Thirty Years Later] is a far cry from Eleanor Coppola's last foray into behind-the-scenes documentary filmmaking, the Apocalypse Now on-set account Hearts of Darkness," writes Matt Dentler. "CODA feels much more like a DVD extra, but still delivers some interesting perspectives into the world of Francis Ford Coppola's highly anticipated new film," Youth Without Youth. Matt follows up with notes and pix from the post-screening Q&A in an entry that, in turn, follows another on Francis Ford Coppola's appearance on a radio show. Both are peppered with terrific snippets.
Craig Phillips on Fog City Mavericks.

"The 50th annual SF International Film Festival is as good a time as any to put forth an argument," writes Johnny Ray Huston at SF360. "Here's one: The most compelling movie stars of the current era are athletes, and the most dynamic 21st-century cinema is sports cinema."

Lawrence Jordan: Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass "The more than 40 experimental short (as well as three feature-length) films [Lawrence] Jordan has made over his 40 years in the Bay Area are as much documents of the fanciful flight paths of his free associations - what he calls his 'inner world' - as they are fleeting glimpses of a precinematic visual culture that has long since vanished," writes Matt Sussman in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. "Thanks to an upcoming program put on by the San Francisco Cinematheque as part of its Bay Area Roots series, audiences will get the chance to discover - or perhaps rediscover with fresh eyes - the work of a filmmaker and advocate (Jordan helped found Canyon Cinema) who truly deserves to be called a Fog City maverick."