Category Archives: SIFF

SIFF “Face the Music” preview: Damien Jurado and the Russian Avant-Garde

By Leigh Bezezekoff | Published: June 7, 2011

Each year SIFF organizes a live score event matching current musicians with silent filmmakers from a by-gone era. Past artists have included the Album Leaf, No Age and The Maldives. This year pairs local indie rock singer/songwriter Damien Jurado and Russian-born French avant-garde filmmaker Dimitri Kirsanoff in Damien Jurado and the Russian Avant-Garde. Festival Screenings:Read more...

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SIFF “Face the Music” preview: Roadie

By Chris Estey | Published: June 6, 2011

Directed by Michael Cuesta, Roadie is a superbly acted and sublimely written character study about a worker on the fringes of the rock and roll scene. This well-researched and seemingly lived-through fiction follows a roadie for Blue Oyster Cult going back home after a tour’s end, where the drama continues as he deals with issuesRead more...

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SIFF “Face The Music” preview: Killing Bono

By Chris Estey | Published: June 1, 2011

Directed by Nick Hamm (Talk Of Angels and BBC’s Off The Hook), Killing Bono depicts the complicated relationship of two brothers in 1970s Ireland as they struggle as bandmates against the rising success of their rivals (and inspiration), who, as history proves, will become one of the largest selling bands in history. Festival Screenings: Thursday,Read more...

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SIFF “Face the Music” preview: Kinshasa Symphony

By Chris Estey | Published: May 28, 2011

Despite its widespread poverty, Kinshasa, the capitol city of the Congo, remains a major cultural and intellectual center and is home to Central Africa’s only symphony orchestra. In Kinshasa Symphony, directed by Claus Wischmann, several dozen extremely committed musicians, arrangers, and performers collaborate to plan a major open-air concert for thousands of fans. Festival Screenings:Read more...

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SIFF preview: Saigon Electric

By Masa, Expansions | Published: May 28, 2011

In Saigon Electric, the second feature film by director Stephane Gauger, a young Vietnamese traditional ribbon dancer from the countryside toes to Saigon to study at the big academy but learns more about life, love, friendship, and kicking some ass through break dance and hip-hop battles. Festival Screenings: May 28, 7:15pm Neptune Theater (Follow byRead more...

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SIFF “Face The Music” previews: Juan

By Chris Estey | Published: May 27, 2011

A roiling, cantankerous, licentious, modern introduction to Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Juan follows a compulsive seducer who enlists a friend to help him capture his conquests on digital film, as the law, angry mates of lovers, and other adversaries move in to stop his habitual rampage of romance. Shot with lean special effects but still gorgeous,Read more...

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SIFF “Face the Music” Preview: Surrogate Valentine

By Leigh Bezezekoff | Published: May 26, 2011

A San Franciscan singer/songwriter (Goh Nakamura) is hired to teach an over-the-top actor how to play the guitar for a film and ends up taking him on tour in Dave Boyle’s Surrogate Valentine. Festival Screenings: May 29 - 9:30 PM - Harvard Exit May 30 - 3:30 PM - Admiral Theater Buddy movies have enjoyedRead more...

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SIFF “Face the Music” preview: Backyard

By Jim Beckmann | Published: May 25, 2011

In Icelandic filmmaker Arni Sveinsson’s documentary Backyard, musician Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson brings together his friends and other musicians for an outdoor performance behind his house in Reykjavik. Festival screenings: May 26 - 4:00 PM - Neptune Theatre May 29 - 8:30 PM - Admiral Theatre As its title implies, Backyard is a familiar, comfortable andRead more...

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SIFF “Face The Music” preview: Hit So Hard

By Chris Estey | Published: May 24, 2011

Seattle-area drumming icon for Hole (and before that Sybil and other bands) Patty Schemel intimately confesses what it was like to rock both grunge clubs and headline major festivals playing for Courtney Love. P. David Ebersole’s first feature-length documentary, Hit So Hard, features cameos by Love, and pals like Faith No More’s Roddy Bottom, punk-folkRead more...

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SIFF “Face The Music” preview: Microphone

By Masa, Expansions | Published: May 24, 2011

Every culture deserves their Rock ‘n’ Roll High School or Style Wars, and and Microphone, a film by Ahmad Abdalla, might be that movie for Egypt.

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