Photo Courtesy of Fox Searchlight PicturesPhoto Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures Fox Searchlight Pictures Chairmen Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula together with Presidents of Production Matthew Greenfield and David Greenbaum announced today that the company has acquired worldwide rights to writer-director Chloé Zhao’s (The Rider) third feature Nomandland. The film stars Frances McDormand in her first role since winning the …

Tommy Lau Photography for SFIFF A episodic opener will be the first for SFIFF and features an all-star cast including Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, and Ellen Page SFFILM today announced that the 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival will kick off with the World Premiere of Netflix’s new original series Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, Wednesday, April 10, 7:00 pm at the Castro Theatre. The evening will …

Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. This takes him into the outbreak of World War I, which threatens to tear the “fellowship” apart. All of these experiences would inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-Earth novels. The film is directed by …

Cinematography has been the cornerstone of film from its very inception. Before anything else there was the camera. From its birth on paper film to going from black and white to color to 3D to the extraordinarily advanced high definition digital cameras used today, cinematography has been one of most evolutionary elements of filmmaking. On Monday, The Academy announced it …

While the other three acting categories seem pretty close to as locked as possible, Supporting Actress remains not so much a mystery but a real nail-biting race. Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk) pulled of two surprise wins last month when she took both the Golden Globe and the Critics’ Choice after being snubbed at the Screen Actors Guild …

The Academy today revealed the categories that the viewing audiences will not see and will instead be presented during commercial breaks and edited into the show later. They are: Film Editing, Cinematography, Makeup & Hairstyling and Live Action Short. While four is fewer than the “6-9” rumors that were floating around since the initial announcement was made last August, it’s …

Living in a small town, away from LA and the glitz and glam of Hollywood, I’m always supportive of my local film festivals, be it the long and well-known Mill Valley Film Festival or San Francisco International Film Festival to the young upstarts like the Alexander Valley Film Festival put on by the Alexander Valley Film Society up in Sonoma …

Elle Fanning (20th Century Women) stars as Violet Valesnki, a shy teenager who dreams of escaping her small town and pursuing her passion to sing. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a local singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition. Driven by a pop-fueled soundtrack and featuring music by Robyn, Ellie Goulding (that’s “Lights” …

Album of the Year winner Kacey Musgraves (Golden Hour) Country singer Kacey Musgraves won the Grammy Album of the Year, part of her clean sweep. She won all four of her nominations tonight that also included Country Album (Golden Hour), Country Song (“Space Cowboy”) and Country Solo Performance (“Butterflies”). She became the first country performer to win Album of the …

Roma (Netflix)The Favourite (Fox Searchlight) Alfonso Cuarón intimate epic Roma, which he directed, wrote, edited and shot, has won the 2019 BAFTA for Best Film. It also picked up wins for Director, Cinematography and Film Not in the English Language. Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite was the big winner of the evening though, taking seven wins of its field-best 12 nominations …