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 2018. An index of participants can be found here.
Seven-time IOHTE contributor Jesse Hawthorne Ficks is a film history educator at the Academy of Art University, a writer for 48 Hills, and a programmer of screenings under the MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS moniker.
Ficks' Picks of films watched in 2018 that were new to me on the big screen.
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Eight Hours Don't Make A Day image provided by contributor |
Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (Rainer Werner
Fassbinder, 1972) @ Alamo Drafthouse New Mission - DCP, 495 minutes
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Chameleon Street image provided by contributor |
Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris, Jr.,
1989) @ SFMOMA - 35mm print, 94 minutes
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Belfast, Maine image provided by contributor |
Belfast, Maine (Frederick Wiseman, 1999) @
BAMPFA - 16mm print, 248 minutes
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Grey Area image provided by contributor |
Beginnings: Black Female Cinema in 16mm: Diary of an
African Nun (Julie Dash, 1977, 13 minutes), Killing
Time (Fronza Woods, 1979, 10 minutes), Fanny's Films (Fronza
Woods, 15 minutes), Grey Area (Monona Wali, 1981, 40
minutes) @ Roxie Theater (Staff Pick by Semaj Peltier)
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Fanny and Alexander image provided by contributor |
Fanny and Alexander: Director's Cut Television Version (Ingmar
Bergman, 1982) @ BAMPFA - DCP, 312 minutes
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Scenes From a Marriage image provided by contributor |
Scenes From a Marriage: Director's Cut Television Version (Ingmar
Bergman, 1973) @ BAMPFA - DCP, 284 minutes
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Storm Center image provided by contributor |
Storm Center (Daniel Taradash, 1956) @ SFMOMA -
35mm, 86 minutes
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The Spook Who Sat By the Door image provided by contributor |
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973, Ivan
Dixon) @ SFMOMA - 35mm, 102 minutes
Without Paths or Boundaries: Films of Sky Hopinka: wawa (2014,
6 minutes), Jáaji Approx. (2015, 7
minutes), Venite et Loquamur (2015, 12 minutes), I’ll
Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become (2016, 12
minutes), Visions of an Island (2016, 15
minutes), Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary (2017,
13 minutes) @ ATA Artists' Television Access - Digital
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Chromatic Wheels image provided by contributor |
Chromatic
Wheels part of Astro Trilogy (Kerry
Laitala, 2016) @ CROSSROADS Experimental Film Festival, SFMOMA - 16mm
print, 10 minutes
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Image provided by contributor |
Canyon School Turns 100 Centennial 16mm Outdoor Salon: The
Sun’s Gonna Shine (1969, Les Blank, 10 minutes), Yellow
Horse (1965, Bruce Baillie, 9 minutes), Baby In A Rage (1983,
Chuck Hudina, 5 minutes), Termination (1966, Bruce
Baillie, 5 minutes), Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966,
Chick Strand, 3 minutes), God Respects Us When We Work But Loves Us
When We Dance (1968, Les Blank, 20 minutes) @ CANYON
SCHOOL
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