Jesse Hawthorne Ficks: IOHTE

The San Francisco Bay Area is still home to a rich cinephilic culture nurtured in large part by a diverse array of cinemas, programmers and moviegoers. I'm honored to present a selection of favorite screenings experienced by local cinephiles in 2015. An index of participants can be found here. 

IOHTE contributor Jesse Hawthorne Ficks is the Film History Coordinator at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and curates/hosts the Midnites for Maniacs series at the Castro Movie Theatre, Alamo Drafthouse & Roxie Theater. He also writes film festival reviews for many Bay Area outlets..

Ficks' Picks of Films Seen in 2015 For the First Time

1. Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World: 288 Minute Director's Cut (1991) - DCP @ The Castro

2. John Ford's Four Sons (1928) - 35mm @ The Stanford

3. Vittorio DeSica's Marriage Italian Style - DCP @ The Castro

4. James Glickenhaus' Shakedown - 35mm @ The Castro

5. Dimitri Kirsanoff's Menilmontant - DCP @The Castro

6. Henry King's The Gunfighter - 35mm @ The Yerba Buena Center

7. King Vidor's War & Peace - 35mm @ The Stanford

8. Sidney Bernstein & Alfred Hitchcock's Holocaust Concentration Camp - DCP @ The Castro

9. Floyd Mutrux's Dusty & Sweets McGee - 35mm @ The Castro

10. John Ford's The Iron Horse (1925) - 35mm w/ Dennis James on Organ @ The Stanford