July 4–10
SFFS SCREEN
Hank and Mike
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
Matthiew Klinck (Canada 2008)
Two Easter bunnies who are roommates and best friends consider their future after being downsized by their employer and left with only their fuzzy pink costumes and chocolate-filled baskets.
July 7
SF360 MOVIE SCENE
8:00 pm
July SF360 Movie Scene
Comcast-SF Channel 11
Hosted by Rod Armstrong and Cheryl Eddy
Featuring the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, filmmaker Mitch Braff, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Film Night in the Park and SFFS Screen at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas. The 30-minute show, a coproduction by the Film Society and Comcast-SF, rebroadcasts throughout the month. Check showtimes.
July 10
MEMBERS SCREENING
Brideshead Revisited
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema
Julian Jarrold (England 2007)
Actor Matthew Goode expected to attend
A dapper young college student becomes enchanted by the mesmerizing, aristocratic and highly dysfunctional Marchmain family. Director Julian Jarrold has recreated Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel of forbidden love in grand style.
July 11–17
SFFS SCREEN
Blind Mountain
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
Li Yang (Mang shan, China 2007)
A naïve young college student is sold as a bride to a brutish peasant. Director Li Yang exposes the brutality of rural Chinese life with a harshly realistic gaze.
July 17
SPECIAL SCREENING
7:30 pm
CSNY: Déjà Vu
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
Neil Young, USA 2008, 96 min
Neil Young and other special guests in person
The war in Iraq is the backdrop as the Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young Freedom of Speech tour crisscrosses North America. Echoes of Vietnam-era antiwar sentiment abound as the band connects with today's audiences.
July 25–31
SFFS SCREEN
Wonderful Town
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
Aditya Assarat (Thailand 2007)
This melancholy Thai “ghost story,” about an architect who falls in love with a hotel maid, substitutes dreamlike scenes of the tsunami-ravaged seacoast for shock cuts.