Apr 21, 2010
Festival
The 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 22-May 6) announces that Bill Cunningham New York and Splice have recently been added to the Festival schedule.
Bill Cunningham has two weekly columns in the Style section of the New York Times: On the Street, in which he identifies fashion trends as he spots them emerging on the street; and Evening Hours, his ongoing coverage of the social whirl of charities that benefit the cultural life of the city. Director Richard Press’s intimate portrait captures the contradictions and passion of this de facto anthropologist, photographer and unlikely man-about-town who has for years been absorbed in a sole pursuit: documenting the way people dress. Bill Cunningham New York (USA 2010) will play in the documentary section of SFIFF, 12:30 pm, Sunday, May 2 and 8:15 pm, Thursday, May 6 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, with Press and producer Philip Gefter expected to attend.
Director Vincenzo Natali’s cautionary science fiction tale Splice stars Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley as superstar genetic engineers who want to use human DNA in a hybrid that could revolutionize science and medicine. The result of their secret experiments is an amazing, strangely beautiful creature that exhibits uncommon intelligence, an array of unexpected physical developments and, as she begins to grow and learn at an accelerated rate, a taste for mayhem. Splice (USA 2009) will play in The Late Show section of SFIFF, 10:00 pm, Tuesday, May 4 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, with Natali expected to attend. Warner Bros. Pictures will release Splice in theatres June 4.
SFIFF previously announced an added screening of “Waiting For ‘Superman,'” the Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary from Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim, at 6:45 pm, Wednesday, May 5 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, with Guggenheim expected to attend.
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