The Crooked Timber: A Conversation with William Friedkin
Michael GuillenThe great American director on his new movie, the classic The Exorcist and the controversial Cruising.
Michael Guillen
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Memory as Mise-en-scène: A Conversation with Terence Davies
Michael GuillenOn the English auteur’s first fictional feature in eleven years—"The Deep Blue Sea".
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Pina's Eyes: A Conversation With Wim Wenders
Michael GuillenAn interview with director Wim Wenders on his new 3D documentary Pina.
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Dialogue as Context: A Conversation with Santiago Mitre
Michael GuillenAn interview with the Argentine director of the Locarno, TIFF and NYFF-selected film, El Estudiante.
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Mothers and Movies
Michael Guillen"Mothers of America, let your kids go to the movies! ...It's true that fresh air is good for the body but what about the soul that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images?"—Frank
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The Politics and Poetics of Obsolescence: Brunch with Thomas Elsaesser
Michael GuillenDedicated in solidarity to Béla Tarr. * * * During my stint with the San Francisco C.G. Jung Institute, I learned that the original context of the "symposium" was a strategic shift away from hierarchy
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Meditating On Meteorites: A Conversation with Patricio Guzmán
Michael GuillenPatricio Guzmán was born in 1941 in Santiago de Chile. He studied at the Official Film School in Madrid where he specialized in documentary cinema. His work is regularly selected for and awarded prizes
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Cinema Is Dead / Long Live Cinema: A Conversation with Federico Veiroj
Michael GuillenUruguayan filmmaker Federico Veiroj was born in Montevideo in 1976. In 2000 he obtained a Degree in Social Communication at the Catholic University in Montevideo, coursing one semester at VCU (Virginia
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Raven in the Rain: A Conversation with Bruno Dumont
Michael GuillenAn interview with the director about his film Hadewijch.
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Regrets & Memories: A Conversation With Hirokazu Kore-Eda
Michael GuillenA talk with the Japanese director about his film Still Walking.
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A Critical Moment: Three Perspectives
Michael GuillenEarlier this year the San Francisco International Film Festival screened Gerald Peary's For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism, and followed it up with a free-to-the-public panel
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SFIFF52: 14 x 75
Michael GuillenAbove: Lake Tahoe. Now that the 52nd edition of the San Francisco International Film Festival is well on its way, let us consider the boon and bane of the 75-word hold review capsule. There are 40