Let's All Go To The Movies
SFist Sara S. on this weekend's movie offerings. She tells us "There is nothing good coming out in mainstream movies this weekend," so it's all the little microcinemas around town this week! C'mon, what about Sandra Bullock in "Premonition"? Okay, Sara, point taken.
At the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Wednesday the 21st, the Film Arts Foundation is presenting a documentary on twenty years of the SF Graffiti scene, called Piece by Piece.
Also at the YBCA, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival will screen its closing feature Rosita on Thursday the 22nd, with two screenings at 7pm and 8:45. This film has traveled around the country and created a bit of buzz. About a 9-year-old girl who is impregnated as the result of rape, Rosita’s parents try to protect her by seeking an illegal abortion. Much like a (far more tragic) true to life Citizen Ruth Rosita becomes the center of an all out battle between two governments, the medical establishment and the Catholic Church.
After the jump: the Women of Color Film Fest, free Spanish film through the Cinema del Barrio, and "heavy sonic hurt." Image still from Rosita.
The Cinematheque is holding two screenings as part of the Women of Color Film Festival. The program will screen two programs of shorts: the first on “Revisioning” (at 7pm) and the second on “Queering the Image” (at 9pm).
Sunday the 18th at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission Street) Film Arts Foundation, with the support of the San Francisco Foundation will be honoring Melinda Stone and Alfonso Alvares with the 2007 Phelan Awards, for California non-commercial filmmakers. The honorees will be in attendance and will introduce and present a few of their works.
Artist Television Access holds a music show on the 22nd called “Club Sandwich Presents a Bleak Future” (8pm, $6) (described as "heavy sonic hurt"), and on the 23rd, they revive their narrative short series under the title “The Return of CINEMATASTIC.” The screening promises the work of 5 local auteurs on the relationship between pop music and unemployment, hitchhiking, and a basketball player nicknamed “yellow fever,” to name a few.
At the Roxie, and in association with the New College’s Media Department, “Cinema del Barrio” series will be presenting curator Adrian Zanini’s own film Nicaragua for the First Time. These screenings are free every Sunday morning at 11:30am. They are planned with the Mission District’s Latino population in mind but are open to the public.