La Vie En Rose (the Embarcadero) is a full course, all four food groups, soup and cocktails, dinner of a film. (It screened at the SFIFF, and we loved it then too!) And if you haven’t had your fill by the end of Olivier Dahan’s homage to the great Parisian icon Edith Piaf (breathtakingly portrayed by Marion Cotillard), you can always watch it again.
You’ll find some modern soul food in Denis Henry Hennelly and Casey doc on the titular So-Cal Hip Hop festival, Rock the Bells, playing Saturday and Sunday at the Red Vic. People are talking big about this one. Invoking titles like Gimme Shelter and Dave Chapelle’s Block Party.
Friday at 7:30, the PFA is screening one of Imamura’s classically and quietly erotic Eijanaika. By 1981, when Imamura made Eijanaika his hand had been steadied by experience and this film aobut a farming couple in transition produces endless commentary on the subject of “natural order.” Talk about, talking about the birds, bees, fruits and veggies.
If you’re feeling depleted of cinematic nutrients, nothing fulfills like human rights documentaries. Local Great Ellen Bruno will be attending a screening of three of her films: and Sacrifice. The screening is entitled World’s Unseen and encompasses a piece of Bruno’s oeuvre dedicated to human struggles in the Far East otherwise unseen by westerners. Screens at the YBCA, (Sat, 6/9, 7:30p)
Finally, if you’re looking for burgers and fries, people all over the bay are talking about the upcoming (and semi-ritual) Grease Sing-a-long at the Castro: 140 minutes long, projected in scope, playing from the 8th to the 13th.
SFist Sara, contributing.
Leper, Sky Burial