San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
October E-newsletter
September 30, 2010
October E-newsletter
September 30, 2010
As a new Jewish year begins, so does a new cycle of year-round Jewish film and media events as SFJFF enters its 31st year. We are pleased to continue our popular series on Jewish gangster films at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and to bring you a diverse selection of features this fall at the JCC East Bay. Planning is already under way for next summer's festival, too, under the guidance of returning Program Director Jay Rosenblatt. If you are planning a trip to New York this month, stop by the Museum of Modern Art October 13-18, where Jay is being honored with a series of screenings of his recent films. But if you're staying close to home, there's plenty on offer. Read on, and may it be a sweet year for all!
Sincerely,Peter L. Stein
Executive Director, SFJFF
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is now accepting entries for the 31st Festival, July 21-August 8, 2011. SFJFF seeks dynamic short and feature-length dramatic, documentary, experimental and animated works that reflect Jewish culture and identity. For guidelines and entry forms, click here. All submissions must be received by February 18, 2011.
The series Tough Guys: Images of Jewish Gangsters in Film continues this October. Please join us at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on the first four Sunday afternoons in October for four more films featuring Jewish gangsters or iconic Jewish actors in lead gangster roles. Our fall presentations include EIGHT MEN OUT on October 3; MURDER, INC. and on October 10; LITTLE CAESAR on October 17; STRAIGHT IS THE WAY on October 24. Tough Guys is co-presented by YBCA, curated by Nancy K. Fishman, and supported by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
This weekend @YBCA
SFJFF PRESENTS:by John Sayles
U.S.A., 1988, English
Screenwriter and director John Sayles knocks it out of the park with this drama about the intersection between baseball and the shadowy world of organized crime. Q&A after film with series curator Nancy K. Fishman and author Ron Arons (The Jews of Sing Sing).
U.S.A., 1988, English
Screenwriter and director John Sayles knocks it out of the park with this drama about the intersection between baseball and the shadowy world of organized crime. Q&A after film with series curator Nancy K. Fishman and author Ron Arons (The Jews of Sing Sing).
Screening Room
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
All Tough Guys screenings are $8 general/$6 YBCA and Jewish Film Forum Members. Tickets available at the box office, over the phone at (415)978-2787 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (415)978-2787 end_of_the_skype_highlighting, and online. To purchase tickets online now, click here.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
All Tough Guys screenings are $8 general/$6 YBCA and Jewish Film Forum Members. Tickets available at the box office, over the phone at (415)978-2787 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (415)978-2787 end_of_the_skype_highlighting, and online. To purchase tickets online now, click here.
Next weekend @YBCA
SFJFF PRESENTS:
Sunday, October 10th, 2:00PM @YBCA
MURDER, INC.
MURDER, INC.
by Burt Balaban & Stuart Rosenberg
U.S.A., 1960, 103 min.
Edward G. Robinson (born Emmanuel Goldenberg) is riveting as the ruthless Italian American mobster Caesar Enrico Bandello in this classic gangster film set in Prohibition-era Chicago.
Screening Room
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
All Tough Guys screenings are $8 general/$6 YBCA and Jewish Film Forum Members. Tickets available at the box office, over the phone at (415)978-2787, and online. To purchase tickets online now, click here.
SFJFF @JCC EAST BAY
SFJFF PRESENTS:
U.S.A., 1960, 103 min.
Edward G. Robinson (born Emmanuel Goldenberg) is riveting as the ruthless Italian American mobster Caesar Enrico Bandello in this classic gangster film set in Prohibition-era Chicago.
Screening Room
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
All Tough Guys screenings are $8 general/$6 YBCA and Jewish Film Forum Members. Tickets available at the box office, over the phone at (415)978-2787, and online. To purchase tickets online now, click here.
SFJFF @JCC EAST BAY
SFJFF PRESENTS:
by Marek Najbrt
2009, Czech Republic, Czech, w/Eng. Subtitles
If you missed PROTEKTOR at SFJFF30, you can see it this month in Berkeley. Set in German-occupied Prague, this visually stunning, highly original thriller explores how much we might compromise for love.
2009, Czech Republic, Czech, w/Eng. Subtitles
If you missed PROTEKTOR at SFJFF30, you can see it this month in Berkeley. Set in German-occupied Prague, this visually stunning, highly original thriller explores how much we might compromise for love.
East Bay Jewish Community Center
1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA
Tickets are $8.00 general admission and $6.00 for students, seniors, and members of the Jewish Film Forum or JCC East Bay. Tickets available at the door and online. To purchase tickets now, click here.
PERFECT MOTHER
by Theo Rigby
U.S.A, 2010, 6 min.
Through home movies captured on Super 8 and 16mm, a mother tries to understand what happened to the "perfect" image of her own departed mother.
Click here to watch PERFECT MOTHER on SFJFF's Youtube channel now.
Saturday, October 16, @5:00PM
THE WEDDING SONG
by Karin Albou
France/Tunisia, 2008, 100 min.
SFJFF is proud to co-present a 2009 SFJFF fan-favorite, THE WEDDING SONG, at the upcoming Arab Film Festival. In Nazi-occupied Tunis, Nour and Myriam-a Muslim and a Jew respectively-struggle to maintain their friendship as war further divides the city. This intimate film examines femininity and sisterhood in the Arab and Jewish cultures at a time when hate and violence threaten to take over.
Embarcadero Theatre
One Embarcadero Center, Promenade Level, San Francisco, CA
One Embarcadero Center, Promenade Level, San Francisco, CA
Tickets: $10-$12. Click here to purchase tickets online now.
Sun. Oct 17th, 2010 @ 2:00 PM NUREMBERG: ITS LESSONS FOR TODAY
U.S.A., 78 min.
SFJFF is proud to co-present
NUREMBERG: ITS LESSONS FOR TODAY, screening at the Mill Valley Film Festival. Recently restored by the filmmaker's daughter, Sandra Schulberg, and Josh Waletzky, this is the official account of one of the most important, groundbreaking trials of all time and the first incorporating extensive use of film as evidence. Yet, for political reasons, it was not released in US theaters in its own time. It is a time capsule containing essential wisdom and, indeed, holds a lesson for today and for all time.
NUREMBERG: ITS LESSONS FOR TODAY, screening at the Mill Valley Film Festival. Recently restored by the filmmaker's daughter, Sandra Schulberg, and Josh Waletzky, this is the official account of one of the most important, groundbreaking trials of all time and the first incorporating extensive use of film as evidence. Yet, for political reasons, it was not released in US theaters in its own time. It is a time capsule containing essential wisdom and, indeed, holds a lesson for today and for all time.
Sequoia Theatre
25 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, CA
25 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, CA
Tickets: $12.50 general/$10 seniors. Click here to purchase tickets online now.
A FILM UNFINISHED
by Yael Hersonski
Israel, 2009, 89 min.
A FILM UNFINISHED OPENS IN SAN FRANCISCO THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1.
Filmmaker Yael Hersonski discovers that the Warsaw Ghetto footage that we've seen in countless documentaries was actually staged by the Nazis using the actual Jewish inhabitants of the Ghetto as "actors." A Film Unfinished (SFJFF 2010) is a rigorous and profound documentary that simultaneously exposes the perversity of Nazi propaganda, honors its victims and pays tribute to the resiliency of the filmmaker's own grandmother and the other survivors of the Ghetto.
THEATERS:
Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley, CA
Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco, CA
Century 16 Cinemark CineArts in Pleasant Hill, CA
Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley, CA
Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco, CA
Century 16 Cinemark CineArts in Pleasant Hill, CA
SFJFF RECOMMENDS:Stories on Stage is Litquake'e version of NPR's Selected Shorts. New to the festival this year, actors will bring the short fiction from the Bay Area's brightest literary stars to life on the stage. Including Daniel Handler, who in another guise is known as the notorious Lemony Snicket, Daniel Alarcón, and Yiyun Li (the last two on The New Yorker's list of 20 best fiction writers under 40). Directed by Sean San José, co-founder of Campo Santo, the award-winning resident theater company of San Francisco's Intersection for the Arts, all the stories circle love-love lost, love never found, love perpetually out of touch.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2025 Addison St, Berkeley CA
Admission: $22.50 in advance (at brownpapertickets.com) or by phone 800-838-3006); $25 at the door
About the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Founded in 1980, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is the first and largest of its kind in the world. Today, we are more than a festival: we are the leading advocate for independent Jewish cinema.
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival receives generous support from Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties; and National Endowment for the Arts.
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival receives generous support from Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties; and National Endowment for the Arts.























