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Reviews From SFFILM 2021 by Peter Wong on April 13, 2021 The documentary “Radiograph Of A Family” may primarily be filmmaker Firouzeh Khosrovani’s account of her parents’ marriage. But it also manages to be an affecting metaphorical mid-20th century history of Iran’s two major cultural strands without being cloying or blatantly obvious. The film’s narration begins with the quietly odd statement “Mother married Father’s photog...
"Valley Of Souls" After getting cancelled thanks to last year’s coronavirus lockdowns, the San Francisco International Film Festival (hereafter SFFILM) returns this year with its 2021 edition. Running from April 9-18, 2021, this year’s SFFILM mixes together online streaming and live events at the Fort Mason Center drive-in. This year’s program presents 103 films from 41 different countries. 13 of these films are World Premieres. One of these World Premieres takes Opening Night honors at the Fort Mason Center venue. Chase Palmer’s crime drama “Naked Singularity” stars John ...
by Steve Newton on April 7th, 2021 at 10:56 AM 1 of 4 2 of 4 The 2021 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, which streams online from May 6 to 16, has announced four films from this year's program. The featured documentaries include directors Paul Sng and Celeste Bell's Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché , which chronicles the life of Anglo-Somali punk-rocker Poly Styrene, the influential frontwoman for 1970s British band X-Ray Spex . Other highights of the festival are director Shannon Walsh’s The Gig is Up, which takes a close look at gig labour; Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers' Kímmapii...
Save This past week, Timehop apps across the world have been cheerfully notifying users that yes, it has been an entire year since they naively tweeted that they were about to spend “two weeks, maybe even a month” barricaded inside their apartments. (And they’re the lucky ones.) But when you’re a writer for The A.V. Club, you mark time in Kinja posts, not Facebook memories. That means that I’m pulling out a half-deflated balloon and a frostbitten slice of ice-cream cake for myself while writing this dispatch, because SXSW 2020 was the first major cultural event of last year that we...
Gigulate Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché Is Hardly Cliché: SXSW Review Daughter Celeste Bell and co-director Paul Sng deliver an incredibly personal tribute to the famous X-Ray Spex frontwoman. Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché Is Hardly Cliché: SXSW Review Rachel Reeves