"If by your art, my dearest father, you have/Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them./The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,/But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheeck,/Dashes the fire out." -more-
The 36th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival—"the world's first and largest Jewish film festival"—is set to screen 67 films from 15 countries before 35,000 filmgoers in five different Bay Area cities (SF, Oakland, Marin, Palo Alto and Berkeley) in 17 days (July 21-August 7). Shep Naches.
This year, the packed SFJFF calendar is bringing 30 films to Berkeley where they will screen at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Roda Theater.
"This year's Festival honors depth and complexity over formula and promotes an evolving definition of what constitutes Jewish film and media," says Jewish Film Institute Executive Director Lexi Leban. "We are proud to introduce new voices and emerging talent while honoring the contributions of iconic artists among us."
Ironically, SFJFF's two standout events have more to do with the TV Tube than the Big Screen. This year's SFJFF calendar includes a section devoted to "Televisionaries," including screenings of samplers from three episodic Israeli TV shows—False Flag, Shtisel, and The Writer.
The can't-miss screenings include a pair of documentaries profiling two of the tube's most iconic "televisionaries"—Norman Lear and Mr. Spock (memorably personified by the beloved Jewish actor, Leonard Nimroy).
For the Love of Spock, Adam Nimroy's "loving tribute" to his father, will have its West Coast Premiere at the Castro on July 31, with the director in attendance. There will be an added screening of the film in Berkeley on August 1 (See below for the full schedule of Berkeley screenings).
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On Friday evening, July 22, the San Francisco Symphony offered an all-Russian program at Davies Hall led by conductor Edwin Outwater, Music Director of the Symphony’s Summer concerts. On tap were the Festive Overture by Dimitri Shostakovich, the Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff, and the Fourth Symphony in F minor by Piotr Tchaikovsky. Many Russians and Russian-Americans were noticeably in attendance for this concert. -more-
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