Posts Tagged ‘movies’
Friday, June 9th, 2017
Before and After, STYX-style:
And Before…
…and After, eventually, Presidio-style:
Read all about it via Adam Brinklow at CurbedSF.
Hey, did local movie theater-owning interests invest tens of thousands of dollars trying to make sure that this isolated building located deep within the Presidio would never reopen and therefore never compete with said local movie theater-owning interests? Yep, about a decade ago.
Oh well.
Anyway, here’s your FAQ and here are all the deets:
PRESS RELEASE The Presidio Theatre’s Next Act – Margaret E. Haas Fund to Rehabilitate the Presidio’s Historic Presidio Theatre as a Multipurpose Performance Space
San Francisco, CA (June 06, 2017) – The Margaret E. Haas Fund in partnership with the Presidio Trust today announced plans to rehabilitate the Presidio Theatre, located in the heart of the national park site on the Presidio’s Main Post. Vacant since 1995, the building will be rehabilitated into a high quality and affordable multipurpose space for live theatre, film, dance, music, lectures, educational programming and special events. The two-year rehabilitation will commence this summer, and is expected to be completed in mid-2019.
“I am grateful for the opportunity to create a modern and accessible performing space for artists in San Francisco and the Bay Area,” said Margaret “Peggy” Haas, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Margaret E. Haas Fund. “There is a dearth of high quality theatres for live performances – and many of the available spaces are not accessible to smaller performing arts organizations. The Presidio Theatre will offer a place for these groups to showcase their work to a wide range of audiences.”
Located near the historic Presidio Officers’ Club and the expansive green Main Parade Ground, the Presidio Theatre is among the last buildings on the Main Post to be rehabilitated. Originally built in 1939 as a movie theatre for the officers and enlisted men at the post, during World War Two, in 1942, both Jack Benny and Bob Hope brought full casts to perform and record their hugely popular radio shows in the theatre. The theatre was renovated by the Army in 1962, and the last movie was shown in 1994.
The rehabilitation will breathe new life into the historic building while adding great benefit for the Bay Area arts community. When completed, the state-of-the-art theatre will reflect its original 1939 Spanish Colonial Revival design, with approximately 650 seats, a functionally expanded stage, new accessible seating, and code-compliant restrooms. A new pavilion will be created in the open area to the west of the existing theatre that opens onto a new courtyard. The project architect is Hornberger + Worstell and the historic preservation consultant is Knapp Architects, both of San Francisco.
“We are pleased to move forward with this new partnership to bring back a beloved space,” said Francene Gonek, Chief of Business Operations for the Presidio Trust. “This mutually beneficial relationship serves the mandate of the Presidio Trust to be financially self-sufficient while, at the same time, creating new opportunities for public use and enjoyment.”
The Presidio Theatre will be operated and managed by a new non-profit organization set up expressly to support the theatre. It will be host to a mix of theatre, film, dance and music performances as well as lectures, educational programming and special events. Theatre operations will be funded through a mixture of facility rental fees, ticket sales and fundraising.
About the Presidio Trust
The Presidio Trust is an innovative federal agency created to save the Presidio and employ a partnership approach to transform it into a new kind of national park. Spanning 1,500 acres in a spectacular setting at the Golden Gate, the Presidio now operates without federal appropriations, is home to a community of residents and commercial tenants, and offers unique recreation, hospitality, and educational opportunities to people throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and the world. To learn more please visit www.presidio.gov.
Tags:2015, 2017, 25019, 99, 99 moraga, bay area, bldg. 99, blob, building 99, california, competition, Film in the Fog, fund, haas, Main Post, margaret, Margaret E. Haas, Margaret E. Haas Fund, mcqueen, movies, presidio, presidio theatre, Presidio Trust, reopened, San Francisco, theater, theatre, them, trust
Posted in film | No Comments »
Monday, August 17th, 2015
Here it is, the Presidio Theatre, Building 99, 99 Moraga, The Presidio, 94129:
It’s been shut down for a while. Here’s how the moribund lobby looked in 2008:
There was a plan to open it up again, from back in aught-ten for instance:
…but that plan failed, in part, due to concerns over it competing with other movie theatres about town. So, some interested parties (known as the Xxx Family) donated money to “lobby” against the real Presidio Theatre ever being reopened.
That effort must have worked, ’cause here’s how the Presidio Theatre looks today in 2015:
So that’s it, Paradise Theatre closed, for good, due to your “friendly,” local, millionaire, theatre-hating, theatre-owning merchants.
On It Goes…
(more…)
Tags:2015, 99, 99 moraga, bay area, bldg. 99, blob, building 99, california, competition, Film in the Fog, Main Post, mcqueen, movies, presidio, presidio theatre, Presidio Trust, San Francisco, theater, theatre, them
Posted in film | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
All the deets:
Friday, December 19, 2014
A Coppola Family Affair
5:30 Pre-“Apocalypse Now” Roxie Benefit Party
Join us for wine, micro-brews, signature drink and local bites
and an opportunity to mingle with one of the team
behind the award-winning sound design of Apocalypse Now, Richard Beggs.
7:30: Award-winning Sound Designer Richard Beggs in Conversation with Jim McKee
8:00: Francis Ford Coppola’s APOCALYPSE NOW
Tickets to Benefit Party and Friday Screening – $50.00
Space Limited. Buy Now
Can’t attend but want to support the Roxie?
Donate Here!
Richard Beggs is an American sound designer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Apocalypse Now. He has worked on over 60 films since 1979. See full bio below.
Saturday, December 20, 2014
A Coppola Family Affair
2:00pm: Roman Coppola In Conversation With Michael Fox
2:30pm: Roman Coppola’s A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III(87min)
4:45 Sofia Coppola’s THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (97 min)
Preceded by The Making of The Virgin Suicides, by Eleanor Coppola
7:30 Eleanor Coppola In Conversation With Michael Fox
8:00 Eleanor Coppola’s HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER’S APOCALYPSE(97mi)
Sunday, December 21, 2014
A Coppola Family Affair
4:00 Gia Coppola’s PALO ALTO, (100 min)
Q&A Afterwards With Gia Coppola and James Franco,
Moderated by Cheryl Eddy
7:00 Francis Ford Coppola’s APOCALYPSE NOW
Tags:Apocalypse Now", Benefit, coppola, coppola familiy affair, district, Eleanor Coppola, film, francis ford, Gia Coppola, GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III, James Franco, mission, movies, palo alto, party, Richard Beggs, Roman Coppola, roxie, roxie theatre, Sofia Coppola, theater, tickets, VIRGIN SUICIDES
Posted in film | No Comments »
Friday, May 30th, 2014
Boy, if you’re lost on the way to your local motion picture palace, you know, one that has not yet shut down, these signs will show you the way:
Tags:2014, bay area, california, film, movies, San Francisco, sign, signs, theatre
Posted in film | No Comments »
Friday, June 7th, 2013
Here’s the quote, from the 1960’s:
“Up at Fulton and Scott is a great shambling old Gothic house, a freaking decayed giant, known as The Russian Embassy”
And here she is now, getting one shade of muddy green replaced with another:
Click to expand
It would take me all summer to paint this monster…
UPDATE: Apparently, someone spray painted “NO PERMIT PARKING IN ALAMO SQUARE” on the side of this hulk last month. As opposed to just hanging a sign? Would a frustrated, car-owning Alamo Square NIMBY do that to a house as an ironic punishment or did the owners themselves do it? It’s a mystery. Haighteration, the Lower Haight Blog, has the latest on the issue of the SFMTA’s horrible horrible permit parking scheme.*
*I’m eligible to pay MUNI $104 per year for a permit but I don’t believe in the system so I don’t buy the permit. I’m sure the SFMTA would love to jack up the cost to like $1000 but they can only charge a “fee” based on expenses. I believe that the “expenses” included the pay, benefits and retirement of 15 Parking Control Officers / meter maids but I don’t know that for sure. Quite sneaky to do that, SFMTA.
Tags:1198 fulton, 198 fulton, 2012, 2013, alamo sqare, alamo square, Author, bay area, book, california, DPT, electric kool-aid acid test, film, fulton, Great Shambling Old Gothic House, green, hippies, house, Jim Siegel, movies, not to permit parking, Owners, paint, painting brown, park, parking, Paul Rose, permit, rent, room, rpp, Russian Embassy, San Francisco, scott, SFMTA, sheet, sidewalk, sign, street, tom wolfe, westerfeld, Westerfeld House, western addition, WILLIAM WESTERFELD, wOMAN
Posted in buildings | No Comments »
Friday, February 15th, 2013
All the deets from your Sundance Kabuki Cinemas at Post and Fillmore in Japantown:
“Starts Friday: A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN lll is a playful comedy of lost love, friendship and revenge starring Charlie Sheen as a successful LA graphic designer whose money and charm have provided him with a seemingly perfect life. His true love dumps him, and it all falls apart. With Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray and Patricia Arquette. Join us in welcoming Director Roman Coppola for Q+A’s after the 7.15pm shows Friday and Saturday nights.”
Looks Andersonian, non?
Tags:15, 16, 2013, ason Schwartzman, bay area, bill murray, california, CHARLES SWAN lll, Cinema, director, February, friday, GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN lll, kabuki, movies, Patricia Arquette, Roman Coppola, San Francisco, sundance, Sundance Kabuki Cinema, theatre]film, tickets
Posted in film | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
Does the “Scene in San Francisco” program work? I’m sure it does for some people, but does it succeed overall, you know, for the Commonweal?
No.
It’s the same deal with the CA state film subsidy program, which was recently looked at by the CA State Legislative Analyst’s Office.
See below.
Did San Francisco subsidize the horrible NBC non-hit show Trauma? Yes. Should it have? No.
Click to expand
All the deets:
“Net Credit Benefit Likely Much Less Than Reported.
We have discussed five issues that could affect the results of the LAEDC and/or UCLA-IRLE studies:
Unknown assumptions embedded in the LAEDC economic models and their failure to consider the benefits of alternative public or private uses of tax credit funds (which could result in the credit program having significantly less net benefit than shown in the studies).
In-state film activity that would occur in California without any tax credit (which results in the credit program having less economic and tax net benefits than shown in the LAEDC study).
In-state economic and employment activity resulting from out-of-state productions (which results in the credit program having less net benefit than shown in the studies).
Crowding out effects (which result in the credit program having less net benefit than shown in the studies in at least some years).
Effects of film-related tourism (which would likely not result in significant changes in net benefits in most years).
While the total effects of these issues are impossible to quantify, their combined effects are likely to be negative in any given fiscal year—that is, resulting in the net benefit of the credit program being less than shown in both the LAEDC and UCLA-IRLE studies.
Given the conclusion that the net benefit of the credit program is likely less than shown in the LAEDC study, the LAEDC’s finding that the output-to-credit ratio was about 20-to-1 is likely overstated, as is its estimate of job gains resulting from the credit program. Moreover, given that UCLA-IRLE adjusted downward to $1.04 the projected state and local tax revenue return from every credit dollar and given that we find that this also was overstated, we believe it is likely that the state and local tax revenue return would be under $1.00 for every tax credit dollar—perhaps well under $1.00 for every tax credit dollar in many years.
In any event, even if the combined state and local tax revenue return is right around $1.00 for every tax credit dollar, the state government’s tax revenue return would by definition be less than $1.00 for every tax credit dollar. The credit program, therefore, appears to result in a net decline in state revenues.”
Tags:2012, bay area, ca, cable, california, commission, commissioner, Debbie Brubaker, Denise Bradley, Don Canady, film, film commission, film@sfgov.org, filming, Janet Austin, Jon Rubin, lao, Lauren Machado, Legislative Analyst’s Office, Lorrae Rominger, Los Angeles Economic Development Corp, Marlene Saritzky, Marlene Sharon Saritzky, Melanie Blum, movies, nbc, peter bratt, production, Robert Morales, Room 473, runaway, San Francisco, San Francisco Film Commission, Scene in San Francisco, subsidy, Susannah Greason Robbins, Susannah Robbins, trauma, TV, UCLA, Video, William Adams, William E. Adams
Posted in government | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
As they say:
“NightLife events in July 2012 at the California Academy of Sciences – every Thursday night is different.”
Which one will you attend next?
Deets below.
Put a little swaggr into your Thorsdagr why not? Thusly:
Click to boogie
California Academy of Sciences
Remember, I love the Nightlife…
See you there!
June 21
Pride NightLife
Kick off your celebration of SF Pride weekend at NightLife. In the Piazza, Heklina of Trannyshack will host a fabulous drag performance and “tranimal” costume contest. Carol Queen & Robert Lawrence, co-founders of the Center for Sex and Culture, will give a talk titled “Seven Billion Sexual Orientations” about supporting sexual individuality and diversity. In the planetarium, don’t miss “Stargayzing” at 6:30—a look at the mythology behind some of your favorite constellations—followed by two showings of Earthquake. Plus, hear tales of sex-changing fish and other fascinating animals from an aquarium biologist, and enjoy activities and information from organizations like Hard French SF, Rainbow World Fund, Gay & Lesbian Sierrans, and AIDS Memorial Grove. Entertainment in the east pavilion by San Francisco icon Juanita More and the Stay Gold DJs. Additional music by Hard French DJs Carnita & Brown Amy in the coral reef.
June 28
Gallery Crawl NightLife
For one night only, the Academy will transform into a pop-up art museum, featuring guest curators who will each take over a portion of the space with hand-picked collections that reflect their take on the intersection of art and science. See the selections of Tenderloin art pushers Ever Gold Gallery; Michael Cuffe, founder of online arts publication Warholian; Spoke Art, San Francisco’s newest art gallery and publishing house; writer/curator/street art aficionado Adam Reed Rozan; and Electric Works Gallery, which tends to focus on contemporary art work balancing strong graphic and conceptual elements; and other guest curators others to be announced. Live music performance by Tim Cohen’s band Magic Trick, whose music evokes the early era of rock ‘n’ roll with hints of psychedelic pop. Additional music by Britt Govea, DJ and founder of (((folkYEAH!))), whose sets feature contemporary and cutting edge artists who bridge a large gap of musical sounds and styles. Music presented by (((folkYEAH!))).
July 5
Soundwave NightLife
Celebrate opening night of San Francisco’s innovative three-month art and music festival, Soundwave, presented by MEDIATE and The Bold Italic. The night features a blend of art, science and sound around this year’s festival theme: challenging audiences to question their perspectives on the present and our hopes and fears about the future. Futuristic space rock band Lumerians performs in the piazza, musician Matt Baldwin will play amongst the fish in the coral reef, and guitarist Danny Paul Grody will play the skies of the Aurora Borealis in a mini-planetarium, with DJ Tristes Tropiques spinning the night away with disco house/post-punk tunes. Select Soundwave artists will present interactive demonstrations that explore future experiences of sound and technology, including Les Stuck’s video dance sensors, The Cellar Ensemble’s sound/light oracle instrument, Jay Kreimer’s empathic facial responder and instruments, Drew Detweiler’s Lumisketch, and Stephen Hurrel’s live sounds of the moving Earth. Plus, Apocalypse Cakes author Shannon O’Malley will serve samples and read from her guide to doomsday desserts.
July 12
Disposable Film Fest NightLife
This week, NightLife and the Disposable Film Festival want you to do it yourself. What’s a disposable film, you ask? A short film made on a non-professional device, so DIY is the phrase of the night. At Disposable Filmmaking 101, pick up tips and tricks for creating a masterpiece with whatever camera you have on you (even your cell phone). Discover the latest and greatest gadgets, apps and hacks you should have in your toolkit from the experts at PhotoJoJo, Boom Grip and Veetle, and then practice your storytelling at the flipbook animation booth and interviewing workshop. Attend a food filmmaking workshop and learn how to make food prep look glamorous on-camera. Stop by the Public Bikes station and contribute your story to their bike advocacy video. Disposable Film Festival’s 2012 competitive shorts will be shown throughout the night in the Forum Theater. Music by Slayers Club.
July 19
Mixology, Mixtapes and Remixes at NightLife
NightLife stirs things up with Noise Pop this week. Watch the mixologists at Cocktail Lab work their magic during demonstrations using seasonal ingredients. The San Francisco Mixtape Society will host a mixtape swap, so come prepared with a mix tape, mix CD or mix USB stick inspired by the theme of Night Creatures. You’ll walk away with someone else’s mix and a smile on your face. Watch masterful DJs remix a track before your eyes and ears in the Remix Lounge, featuring Friendzone at 6:00, Yalls at 7:00, and Giraffage at 8:00. Music in the Piazza, presented by Noise Pop, is by Heathered Pearls [Ghostly International, ISO50], followed by Dan the Automator. Renowned in underground circles for spearheading critically acclaimed underground projects Handsome Boy Modeling School with Prince Paul, and Deltron 3030 with Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Dan the Automator is perhaps best known as a co-founder of the widely successful anime influenced trip-hop project Gorillaz.
July 26
Runner’s NightLife
In honor of the 35th annual San Francisco Marathon, NightLife celebrates athletes who hit the pavement to push their limits mile after mile. Learn how to take care of your soles with a talk on foot and grounding massage by the SF School of Massage; stop by African Hall for a deep tissue massage and Jamba Juice sample; and make your own headbands and wristbands with SCRAP. Learn why ostriches are the fastest animals on two feet, clocking in at up to 43 mph. In the planetarium, catch the “Messier Marathon” at 6:30, a look at some of the 110 deep sky objects documented by astronomer Charles Messier, followed by two screenings of Earthquake: Evidence of a Restless Planet. Enter the “Runners Have Soul” fashion contest with your best 60s-70s soul–inspired look. Plus, Academy microbiologist Shannon Bennett will be on-hand to discuss her work with mosquitoes, and to conduct a eyebrow mite survey of NightLife guests. Hint: chances are you have them, and no, you can’t outrun them. But the good news is, they’re harmless! Music by the soul/boogie DJs Gordo Cabeza & Timoteo Gigante (MOMSF).
NightLife Basics:
What: NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences (for adults ages 21+) featuring music, cutting-edge science, and food and cocktails available for purchase
When: Every Thursday, 6-10 pm
Where: California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Cost: $12 per person ($10 for Academy members); Tickets available at the door or online at https://www.calacademy.org/tickets/nl.phpWeekly Details: Available at www.calacademy.org/nightlife
Tags:21, academy of science, academy of sciences, adult, alcohol, art, california, california academy of science, California Academy of Sciences, concourse, Crawl, Dance, Disposable Film Fest, Disposable Film Fest NightLife, dj, djs, drag, Drinks, film, gallery, Gallery Crawl, Gallery Crawl NightLife, Gay, golden gate park, Heklina, jigger, jogging, july, june, June 21, Mixology, Mixtapes, Mixtapes and Remixes at NightLife, month, movies, museum, music, night, nights, party, pride, Pride NightLife, Remixes, Runner’s NightLife, runners, running, science, Soundwave, Soundwave NightLife, summer, thursday, thursdays, tranimal, Trannyshack
Posted in science | No Comments »
Saturday, November 12th, 2011
It’s back! It’s New Italian Cinema from the SFFS.
See?
“November 13–20, 2011
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema
Celebrating 15 years in San Francisco, New Italian Cinema 2011 offers Opening and Closing Night presentations with work by prominent Italian directors. A three-film tribute to Daniele Luchetti will open the Festival, followed by seven features by up-and-coming directors in the City of Florence competition. The films in this year’s program investigate topics including corporate malfeasance, office politics, rural life and war, as experienced by Italians from every walk of life. Closing Night offers the latest by one of Italy’s most respected filmmakers, Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam. A festive Closing Night reception at a nearby restaurantwill finish out the festival.
Download the program (PDF)
New Italian Cinema Sponsors & Supporters“
The SFFS has tons of stuff like this going on all the time, year in and year out. Check it:
Anyway, here are two of the Italian films they have coming up and the rest you can see after the jump.
Ci vediamo al teatro! Perche no?
A Quiet Life
Claudio Cupellini
Buried secrets and a criminal past lead the proprietor of a swank hotel in Germany to desperate acts in this powerful drama from the director of
Lessons in Chocolate (NIC 2008). When Diego and Eduardo, two young hotheads visiting from Italy on shady business, arrive at Rosario’s establishment, it is soon evident that they want more from him than just a place to lie low. The motivations behind their visit become increasingly fraught on all sides until the hotelier is forced to protect the new life he’s built—at all costs.
Read more…
Sunday, November 13, 1:00 pm; Friday, November 18, 6:30 pm
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinemas
The First Assignment
Giorgia Cecere
In 1950s Puglia, headstrong young Nena is sent to a mountain village many miles away for her first teacher placement. Unhappily leaving her wealthy boyfriend behind, she faces a scruffy set of undereducated pupils and a group of locals suspicious of outsiders. With a style that tells the story visually rather than verbally, this is a moving portrait of an independent woman attempting to overcome the restrictions places against her.
Read more…
Sunday November 13, 3:45 pm; Saturday November 19, 6:30 pm
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinemas
Tags:2011, bay area, california, center, Cinema, City, competition, Daniele Luchetti, Embarcadero, Embarcadero Center Cinema, features, Festival, film, films, First Assignment, Florence, Giorgia Cecere, Habemus Papam, italian, italy, landmark, landmarks, movies, Nanni Moretti, New Italian Cinema, Nov 13-20, San Francisco, San Francisco Film Society, sffs, tribute
Posted in events, film | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
San Francisco’s Academy of Art University is crowing all about the:
“…upcoming annual Epidemic Film Festival (May 6 – 7), which will feature work from students in our School of Motion Pictures & Television. We are very proud of our students, and are excited to help them showcase their work to a broad and diverse audience.
The film festival is Friday, May 6, from 4–8 p.m. at the Golden Gate Theatre on 1 Taylor St. Industry panels are Saturday, May 7, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. at the Academy’s Morgan Auditorium, 491 Post St.
Admission is free to the public, but space is limited, so please RSVP at the following URL to get tickets: http://www.academyart.edu/050611-epidemic-film-festival.html.”
All the deets:
See you there!
Tags:2011, academy of art, academy of art university, actors, art, bay area, california, epidemic film festival, film festival, golden gate theatre, movies, San Francisco, school, School of Motion Pictures & Television, students, university
Posted in art, events | No Comments »
