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Thursday, June 1
 International Latino Film Festival presents:
Música Brasil with invited
guest Jesse Acevedo, Director Tudo azul/ Everything Blue
Preceded by: Chavez 101
Thursday, June 1, 2006, 6:45pm
Tickets $8 general admission
Location: Roxie Cinema
 Queer Latino Cinema – Viva
México! Muxes: Authentic, Fearless Seekers of Danger
Thursday, June 1, 9pm
Tickets $8 general admission
Location: Roxie Cinema
Friday, June 2 –
Thursday, June 8
Nightly: 7:00 & 8:40. Sat. & Sun. mats: (2:00), 3:45 & 5:20.
 Songbirds
"Britain locks
up more people than any other country in Western Europe. In the last 10
years, the female prison population has risen 173 percent. In Songbirds,
Brian Hill transports us to Downview Prison in Surrey to bring us a
documentary musical, a new genre, which takes the stories of women behind
bars and allows audiences to experience them in a fresh way. Maggie, a
burglar; Theresa, who stabbed her neighbor to death; Mary, who has spent
the last 20 years in prison; and Sam, an arsonist, tell us of their lives
and experiences through song. After conducting extensive research within
the prison, Brian Hill sent his interviews to poet and lyricist Simon
Armitage and composer Simon Boswell to create songs appropriate for each
character–ranging from rap to lullaby. The showstopper of the film is the
big song-and-dance number by a multinational group of drug mules about the
perils of carrying drugs across international borders. Although the film
deals with depressing issues of drug addiction, abuse, and serious crime,
Songbirds manages to find humor and tenderness. The songs mix with classic
observational documentary techniques and candid interviews, but it is
through the vulnerability of singing that we are able to glean another
image, another portrait of who these women are beyond their prison
sentences."- Sundance Film Festival. For more info, Check out centuryfilmltd.com.
Songbirds is
shown in conjunction with Interrupted
Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States,a photography exhibit
and series of events at New College of California. Visit www.newcollege.edu
for more information. SONGBIRDS: Directed by Brian Hill. United Kingdom. 2005. 80 mins.
Nightly: 7:00 & 8:40. Sat. & Sun. mats: (2:00), 3:45 & 5:20.
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Friday, June 2 -
Wednesday, June 7
Nightly at 7:00 Additional Sat, Sun & Wed mats at (2:00)
NO SHOWS: Mon, June 5 or Tues. June 6
 4
An apocalyptic
journey through the dark heart of the new Russia. Three strangers meet in a
Moscow bar one late night and spin fantastic stories, all of them lies.
They depart and journey their separate ways through a landscape filled with
de øcaying meat, wild dogs, ravenous crones, cloned piglets, and modern
industrial horrors. A completely unique and disturbing film, 4 was held up
by Russian censors who wanted 40 minutes cut, but relented after the film
won acclaim at film festivals around the world. Official Selection: Venice
Film Festival; Rotterdam Film Festival (Winner: Best Film); Los Angeles
Seattle (Winner: Best New Director) Tribeca Check out the Official Website.
Directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky. With Marina Vovchenko, Irina Vovchenko,
Svetlana Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov, Yuri Laguta, Konstantin Murzenko
Russia, Russian with English subtitles. 35mm. Running time: 128 mins.
Showtimes: Nightly at 7:00 Additional Sat, Sun & Wed mats at (2:00). NO
SHOWS: Mon, June 5 or Tues. June 6
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"The stark surreal images evoke a
mixture of terror and absurdity that comes as close to the experience of an
actual nightmare as anything Ive seen on the screen." -Stephen Holden,
NEW YORK
TIMES.
"Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s nightmarish Russian tone poem stunned audiences
at January’s Rotterdam Film Festival. We can safely tell you to believe the
hype...."4" will haunt you for days." -TIME OUT NEW YORK
"This jaw-dropping whatsit is a grandiose study of barbarism and
decay, a treatise on the way of all flesh." -Dennis Lim, VILLAGE
VOICE
"This film does not imitate life, it creates it —- it lives and
breathes a little different from anything you’ve seen before....
Khrzhanovsky’s film demands nothing less than a genuine confrontation with
what it means to be a human in an inhumane world, which is what makes its
fascinating filthiness necessary."
-- INDIEWIRE.
Friday, June 2 -
Wednesday, June 7
Nightly at 9:30. Additional Sat, Sun & Wed mats at (4:30)
NO SHOWS: Mon, June 5 or Tues. June 6
 Guys And
Balls
Ecki is a young man
who works in a bakery in Dortmund and plays soccer on his local team.
Already under pressure for playing badly, his homophobic team-members find
out that he is gay and throw him off the team. With the help of his sister
and a cranky former soccer star, he tries to form an all-gay football team
to challenge his old team in a grudge match. Ecki's journey in
self-realization is filled with wonderful surprises and interesting
characters in this delightful romantic comedy from Germany. Directed by Sherry
Hormann. With Maximilian Brückner, Lisa Maria Potthoff, Dietmar Bär &
Saskia Vester. In German with English subtitles. Running time: 106 mins.
Showtimes: Nightly at 9:30. Additional Sat, Sun & Wed mats at (4:30). NO
SHOWS: Mon, June 5 or Tues. June 6
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Saturday, June 3
12:00 midnight ONLY!
$10.00, $5.00 When you bring an non-perishable food item.
One hot hour
of collisions between video, music, dance & theater, performance &
activism, reverence & irreverence, back and forth across the spectrum
of gender and sexual orientation.
Local performance
mavericks join forces in all corners of this historic movie-house for one
hot hour of collisions between video, music, dance and theater, performance
and activism, reverence and irreverence and back and forth across the
spectrum of gender and sexual orientation. The audience is welcomed into
the Roxie along a red carpet that is flanked by prankster paparazzi from
the San Francisco Clown Conservatory. Inside, the salty emcee works the
crowd as quickie vaudevillian acts pop up among the rows of seats, in the
lobby and behind the concession stand. Multi-media performance pieces make
innovative use of the film screen and are followed up with such updated
favorites as Karaoke Sing-Offs and Stranger Than Usual Tricks. Be there in
all your splendor to kick-off this new monthly series of late-night
experiments with San Francisco’s finest Dragon Queens and Kings, Dirty
Dykes on Motor-Cross Bikes, Punk-Rock Trannys, Artsy-Fartsy Fairies,
Holistic Homos, Anarchists and Cosmetologists, Lizzies and Boy-Girls and
Bears! It's Carnival, Vaudeville, Scary Movie, Show-Time at the Apollo and
Star Search Spokesmodel Competition regurgitated into a Gigantic Cuisinart
and poured into a glass of Spectacle worth Chugging. A portion of the
proceeds will be donated to a local non-profit working to help underserved
members of the community. Check out more info about the Experimental
Performance Institute. Showtime: 12:00 midnight ONLY! $10.00, $5.00
When you bring an non-perishable food item.
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Monday, June 5
The DO MORE THAN VOTE COALITION presents:
 THE BIG
BUY:
TOM
DELAY'S STOLEN CONGRESS
Framing the story as
political Film Noir, The Big Buy chronicles the rise of Tom DeLay from
backbencher in the Texas Legislature to the architect of the largest money
machine ever constructed on Capitol Hill, and also chronicles Texas DA
Ronnie Earl as he investigates that machine. It's this local DA who wins 41
indictments against the operatives, groups, corporations and congressman
who tGrand Juries say broke the law in order to funnel illegal corporate
money to Texas Republicans. The film lays open the confluence of events
that led multinational corporations to pour donations into an obscure DeLay
PAC dedicated to changing the political landscape of the nation by changing
the congressional lines of a state. This showing marks the start of a
massive grassroots outreach program to screen the film for hundreds of
thousands of voters across the nation, including grassroots premieres in
Los Angeles, New York, Washington, DC and San Francisco and thousands of
house parties in competitive House Districts around the country. Directed
by Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck. For more info, log onto
tomdelaymovie.com. For more info about the Party Progressive, check out
www.partyprogressive.com. Showtimes: 7:30.
Tuesday, June 6
7:30 Only!
5:30 - 6:30 PM: New College Media Studies MA Program - Info Session.
KPFA PRESENTS
 A Night With Greg
Palast
Kick-off of
Greg's book tour for ARMED MADNESS
Greg Palast's The
Best Democracy Money Can Buy topped the New York Times bestseller list for
seven months. The winner of the George Orwell Courage in Journalism prize
for his reports for BBC Television and Harper's, Guerilla News Network's
reporter of the year, Palast takes readers on his new global tour, from
Baghdad to New Orleans, from Osama's cave to the Pentagon's back rooms,
exposing official mendacity and corporate piggery. Here's the latest of
what Britain’s Guardian calls, “investigations up there with Woodward and
Bernstein – and a lot funnier.” In ARMED MADHOUSE: Who’s Afraid of Osama
Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal ’08, No Child’s Behind
Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class Wars Palast,
former racketeering investigator, gives you the facts you don't get from
the Powers That Be, as brutal as they are funny. Showtime: 7:30. Admission:
$12-15.00 sliding scale.
5:30 - 6:30 PM: New College Media Studies MA Program - Information Session.
Make media that makes a difference! Come by between 5:30 and 6:30 PM to
learn about New College's Media Studies graduate program. Visit: www.newcollege.edu/media_studie.
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Thursday, June 8
SNEAK PREVIEW! Tonight at 7:30 only! DIRECTOR IN PERSON!
 Gram Parsons:
Fallen
Angel
"Three decades
after the untimely drug-related death of 26 -year-old trust fund baby,
former Byrd and father of “alt country,” comes this definitive portrait of
the fearless life and musical legend of Gram Parsons. Born Ingram Cecil
Connor III to a wealthy Florida citrus-growing family, whose history reads
like a Tennessee Williams play complete with suicide and alcoholism taking
his parents by the time he was 18, Gram’s life had a privilege-tragedy
dichotomy running through it, subtly underlined by director Gandulf Hennig
(a musician himself). Hennig balances period footage with extensive
interviews to great effect, while underpinning the visuals with sublime
songs from the one of the greatest canons in popular music, sung in Gram’s
heartbreaking broken angel voice. His all-too-short career  saw him revitalize The Byrds,
form The Flying Burrito brothers, hang out with the Rolling Stones and
produce two timeless solo albums, all in pursuit of his vision of Cosmic
American Music--a previously unthinkable synthesis of rock, soul and
country. His life and its infamous aftermath, in which his body was
kidnapped and ceremonially burned at the Joshua Tree, spawned a million
myths, and his music has inspired countless imitators. The interviewees
include such key witnesses to the Parsons phenomenon as acknowledged keeper
of the flame Emmylou Harris, former hang-out buddy Keith Richards, wife
Gretchen, former manager and self-confessed body burner Phil Kaufmann and
other musical legends like ex-Byrd Chris Hillman, Steve Earle, Dwight
Yoakam and Bernie Leadon of the Eagles. " -- Seattle Film Festival. DIRECTOR
IN PERSON! Check out gramparsons.com.
Directed and produced by Gandulf Hennig. Written by Gandulf Hennig and Sid
Griffin. Germany, 2004, Running Time: 103 mins. Showtimes: Tonight 7:30
only.
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Friday, June 9 -
Thursday, June 15
Nightly at 7:00 & 9:00. Sat. & Sun. mats at (2:00) & 4:30.
 Gram Parsons:
Fallen
Angel
"Three decades
after the untimely drug-related death of 26 -year-old trust fund baby,
former Byrd and father of “alt country,” comes this definitive portrait of
the fearless life and musical legend of Gram Parsons. Born Ingram Cecil
Connor III to a wealthy Florida citrus-growing family, whose history reads
like a Tennessee Williams play complete with suicide and alcoholism taking
his parents by the time he was 18, Gram’s life had a privilege-tragedy
dichotomy running through it, subtly underlined by director Gandulf Hennig
(a musician himself). Hennig balances period footage with extensive
interviews to great effect, while underpinning the visuals with sublime
songs from the one of the greatest canons in popular music, sung in Gram’s
heartbreaking broken angel voice. His all-too-short career  saw him revitalize The Byrds,
form The Flying Burrito brothers, hang out with the Rolling Stones and
produce two timeless solo albums, all in pursuit of his vision of Cosmic
American Music--a previously unthinkable synthesis of rock, soul and
country. His life and its infamous aftermath, in which his body was
kidnapped and ceremonially burned at the Joshua Tree, spawned a million
myths, and his music has inspired countless imitators. The interviewees include
such key witnesses to the Parsons phenomenon as acknowledged keeper of the
flame Emmylou Harris, former hang-out buddy Keith Richards, wife Gretchen,
former manager and self-confessed body burner Phil Kaufmann and other
musical legends like ex-Byrd Chris Hillman, Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakam and
Bernie Leadon of the Eagles. " -- Seattle Film Festival. Check out gramparsons.com. Directed and
produced by Gandulf Hennig. Written by Gandulf Hennig and Sid Griffin.
Germany, 2004, Running Time: 103 mins. Showtimes: Nightly at 7:00 &
9:00. Sat. & Sun. mats at (2:00) & 4:30.
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Friday, June 9 -
Thursday, June 15
8 Days Of Horror, Sci-Fi &
Fantasy… All The Mayhem That Fits On Print
SF IndieFest offers
a week of demented behavior, ghastly gore, merry mayhem and just general
blood-sucking fun at Another Hole in the Head from June 8-15, 2006. If the
myriad traumas of daily life in the big city get to be too much, and it
seems like only neuron-shattering screams or a trip to an alternate
universe will ease your mind, then Another Hole in the Head is just what
the mad doctor ordered. With more than 20 features films and a number of
short films on the menu, you will be able to sample the finest in
contemporary horror, horror-comedy, sci-fi and dark fantasy from America,
Greece, Japan, France, the UK, South Korea, Australia and Thailand. Boo!
For more information and a complete film schedule visit
www.myspace.com/sfindie . Advance tickets and passes are available at www.holehead.org .
Friday, June 16 –
Saturday, June 24
S.F.
Int'l. LGBT Film Festival
The San Francisco International
LGBT Film Festival celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year with
Frameline30, 11 days of the best queer cinema from home and abroad.
Cinematic stories of love, lust, friends, family, good deeds and bad
behavior span countries and communities, revealing a stunning diversity of
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender aesthetics and experiences. For more
information, visit www.frameline.org.
Advance
Tickets go on sale May 26 at the Frameline30 ticket outlet located
inside Superstar Satellite, 474 Castro Street (between Market and 18th).
Ticket Outlet hours are 1:00 pm–8:00 pm daily beginning Friday, May 26 (for
Frameline members) and Friday, June 2 (for general). Tickets also are
available online,
by phone (925.866.9559), and by fax (925.866.9597). Unless otherwise noted,
tickets are $10 general, $9 members; and $7 general, $6 members for
screenings beginning at 5:00 pm or earlier. The Program Guide will be
available May 23!
Friday, June 16-
Thursday, June 22
Nightly at 6:30, 8:00 & 9:30. Sat. & Sun mats. at (2:00) , 3:30
& 5:00.
 Banking On
Heaven
Profit and prophets
are incestuous twins in this unflinching infiltration of the closed society
of Warren Jeffs and the fundamentalist Latter Day Saints. The film alleges
that the polygamist communities of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale,
Utah, are home to a culture that routinely practices child rape, welfare
fraud, and systematic mind-control of its followers. Director Dot
Reidelbach and writer/producer Laurie Allen have constructed a documentary
out of secret camera footage (outsiders are looked upon as agents of Satan
and consistently shunned), interviews from polygamist escapees, "lost
boys" (young men and children cast out of the community for such
infractions as not rolling their sleeves down), and government officials.
The prophet and profiteer of the polygamist splinter group is Warren Jeffs,
(now topping the FBI’s most wanted list), a man whose rhetoric traffics in
false hope, hatred, xenophobia and the ritual subjugation of women and
children. The world that this film portrays is so rife with horrors, the
very fact of its continued existence is a blot on America. An unholy
trinity of sex, power and wealth are at the dark heart of this deeply
troubling story. - Vancouver Film Festival. The film contains up-dated
interviews that include Elaine Jeffs, Warren’s sister, who’s been in hiding
for almost 30 years. For more info concernng Jeffs' warrant, log into www.fbi.com.
Directed By Dot Reidelbach. USA, 2005. Running time: 75 min. Showtimes:
Nightly at 6:30, 8:00 & 9:30. Additional Sat. & Sun matinees at
(2:00) , 3:30 & 5:00.
Sunday, June 25
2:00 & 7:00
 Bad Reception:
The
Wireless Revolution in San Francisco
With Mayor Gavin
Newsom's citywide Wi-Fi initiative, San Francisco moves one step closer to
joining other "wireless" cities around the world. But as the
timely documentary "Bad Reception: The Wireless Revolution in San
Francisco" dramatically illustrates, embracing wireless technology may
come with a steep price for the health and well-being of San Francisco
residents and their environment. Exploring the dangers of microwave
radiation used by cellular phones, cellular antennas, and other new
wireless technologies, "Bad Reception" tells the compelling story
of residents from backgrounds as diverse as the city itself taking to the
streets and taking on City Hall to protest the politically powerful and
poorly regulated wireless industry. "Though there are triumphs
recorded here, including an emotional victory over a proposed antenna in the
upper Fillmore, Bad Reception . . . ominously hints that the fight is far
from over." - San Francisco Bay Guardian. Produced and directed by
Doug Loranger co-produced by Gordon Winiemko Running time: 56 min. Show
times: 2:00 & 7:00.
Monday, June 26
The
DO MORE THAN VOTE COALITION -- The Party Progressive, Hammering the Issues,
LitPAC, GoodStorm and Friends presents:
Another scorchingly provocative
political documentary To Be Announced.
Tuesday, June 27-
Thursday, June 29
7:00 & 9:30
2006
Caffeine, adrenaline
and one wild ride! Filmmaking teams make a movie from scratch in only one
weekend! At the Kickoff Event, each team will draw the genre for its film
out of a hat. In addition, a character, prop and line of dialogue will be
announced and must appear in each film. Exactly two days later, the films
must be turned in, edited, complete, and ready to roll. These newly-minted
short films will have their premiere here at the Roxie Cinema in front of
packed audiences. In each of the cities on the 48 Hour Film Project tour,
teams then compete to be named the "Best Film" for that city. Of
those, one special film will win the prestigious "Best 48 Hour Film of
the Year." For more info including a list of teams, check out 48hourfilm.com. Showtimes: 7:00
& 9:30. Showtimes: 7:00 & 9:30
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