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I wrote the movie Around the Sun and sometimes write about other movies and work for the Roxie Theater and teach at California College of the Arts. East Bay, CA | jonathankiefer.com

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Donate to Support Shapeshifters Cinema, Brewery & Café, organized by Shapeshifters Cinema, Brewery and Café All around us we are witnessing the collapse of the San Franc… Shapeshifters Cinema, Brewery and Café needs your support for Support Shapeshifters Cinema, Brewery & Café

Worthy GoFundMe Alert: Support Shapeshifters Cinema, Brewery & Café
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03.03.2026 20:43 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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San Francisco There is the city, and then there's the movie, and then there's the song. The latter two emerged together in 1936 by way of an MGM Best Picture nominee. It stars Clark Gable as a scoundrel with a code...

Wrote about San Francisco (the movie) for Screen Slate
www.screenslate.com/articles/san...

23.02.2026 19:17 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A store with a sign that says “ADULT NOVELTIES - BJORK ALBUMS - MAGIC POKEMON YUGIOH - AIRSOFT GUNS”

A store with a sign that says “ADULT NOVELTIES - BJORK ALBUMS - MAGIC POKEMON YUGIOH - AIRSOFT GUNS”

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

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Our film’s on Letterboxd, and, if you are too, we'd love for you to log/rate/review/list/love/loathe/destroy/defend it on there.

Available as a Vimeo rental, but you can hit us up now through Valentine’s Day for a code to watch for free.

letterboxd.com/film/around-...

10.02.2026 23:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Amazing project!

03.02.2026 04:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Notebook on Cities and Clothes Wim Wenders tells us his first Yohji Yamamoto fashion experience was as a consumer, having bought a Yamamoto shirt and jacket that made Wenders feel “more me than before,” partly on account of the gar...

Well, to take your mind off it, how about an arguably under-appreciated Wenders film playing in SF tonight? I wrote up Notebook on Cities and Clothes for @screenslate.bsky.social:

www.screenslate.com/articles/not...

26.01.2026 20:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

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Incredible. Thanks for sharing this!

16.01.2026 06:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you, Sarah.

16.01.2026 04:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Films of Ideas extra: The Designated Mourner 252

Today's tone-setter for 2026: David Runciman's discussion of Wallace Shawn's play The Designated Mourner

www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fil...

06.01.2026 19:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

all these fucks are like bro you don't understand how precise this operation was bro no one's ever done this bro it was epic, expecting us to be like oh well in that case

03.01.2026 17:06 👍 2066 🔁 231 💬 46 📌 20

Very refreshing conversation — much appreciated!

24.12.2025 17:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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And so again came the time of writing down the titles of movies (for @screenslate.bsky.social)

24.12.2025 16:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The bird takes its revenge on the kings in The Thieving Magpie (1964), dir. Emanuele Luzzati and Giulio Gianini

Federico Fellini loved this film: "it makes me furious that I don't know how to draw so I could resolve my films in the same way"

24.10.2025 16:13 👍 454 🔁 151 💬 5 📌 10
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The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye 2011

Nice to see The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye is free to watch on Le Cinema Club this week.

I reviewed it back in the day, and a rewatch seems in order: kieferama.substack.com/p/the-ballad...

11.07.2025 16:02 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hi, I’ll be moderating a couple of Q&As at the Roxie this week.

Tomorrow evening: Kathleen Chalfant, who stars, most recently, in FAMILIAR TOUCH

Sunday afternoon: Sezin Devi Koehler, discussing her book Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory, and in particular, SPEED

Join us!
#movies

30.06.2025 23:32 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Dogma 25 Explodes at Cannes, Spearheaded by New Quintet Led by May el-Toukhy: ‘A Rescue Mission and a Cultural Uprising’ DOGMA 25 Launches at Cannes, Spearheaded by New Quintet Led by May el-Toukhy

Good idea

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

17.05.2025 18:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Convinced his job is to make Congress even more hesitant to dump Trump.

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Joke's on You Answering 300+ brutally honest film market professionals

Another bracing good read from Estelle Artus estelleartus.substack.com/p/jokes-on-you

25.04.2025 20:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy Easter!

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“Humans Can Be Very Depressing”: David Cronenberg, By Jim Jarmusch Moments after they learned about the passing of David Lynch, the 82-year-old movie master called his fellow director to discuss mortality, memory, and the end of cinema as we know it.

Good conversation www.interviewmagazine.com/film/david-c...

19.04.2025 17:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Important news alert: Franco Piavoli’s enduringly beautiful film The Blue Planet is free to watch on Le Cinéma Club this week.

www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...

18.04.2025 17:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive: Roxie Theater launches capital campaign to purchase its building Exclusive: Roxie Theater launches capital campaign to purchase its building; Mission District arthouse theater will also be given SFFilm's Mel Novikoff Award

www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

14.04.2025 22:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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With your help, the people who run the Roxie can actually buy the Roxie: roxie.com/forever/

14.04.2025 17:51 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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there he is

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Happily I'll be back at the Roxie in person moderating a Q&A with Leslie Buchbinder about her film WESTERMANN this Sunday, March 16, and one with Jenni Olson about her films THE ROYAL ROAD and 575 CASTRO ST. on Tuesday, April 1. Please join us — tickets at Roxie.com.

11.03.2025 22:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Guillermo del Toro's Picks for March | Director Picks | TCM
Guillermo del Toro's Picks for March | Director Picks | TCM YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies

Guillermo del Toro likes the classics. It's always a pleasure to hear how he expresses his passion and taste:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=74NV...

06.03.2025 16:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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from the trailer for Matías Piñeiro’s You Burn Me

04.03.2025 22:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

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