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    • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
      The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

      February 4 - 5

      SIFF Cinema at the Fim Center
      Films4Families
      Terry Gilliam's whimsical and fantastical story follows the improbable exploits of 18th-century adventurer Baron von Munchausen, whose tall tales include being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, taking a balloon to the moon, and dancing with Venus.

    • Screenwriter Claudia Johnson Comments on Tootsie
      Screenwriter Claudia Johnson Comments on Tootsie

      February 6

      SIFF Cinema at the Film Center
      Film Craft Commentary
      On February 6, Claudia Johnson will offer a brief introduction to the screenwriter’s craft, before embarking on her live audio commentary throughout the film, and conclude with audience/artist Q&A.

    • Miss Minoes
      Miss Minoes

      February 4 - 9

      SIFF Cinema at the Film Center
      This utterly charming and colorful fairy tale was a favorite at SIFF in 2002, but has been unseen in US—until now! Miss Minoes is a cat transformed into a beguiling young woman who befriends a cub reporter and helps him land scoops thanks to the neighborhood felines and their rooftop newswire of pussycat gossip.

    • Harold and Maude
      Harold and Maude

      February 14

      SIFF Cinema at the Uptown
      A love story that transcends the ages, Hal Ashby's outsider classic Harold and Maude shows the relationship between the faux-suicidal young man Harold (Bud Cort in an iconic role) and his unlikely kindred spirit, goofy octogenarian Maude (the unstoppable Ruth Gordon).

    • Tommy
      Tommy

      February 9

      SIFF Cinema at the Film Center
      Face the Music
      In December the film world lost one of its greatest visionary mavericks, British director Ken Russell. We celebrate his legacy with this special presentation of his psychedelic take on The Who's rock opera Tommy in a stunning new Quadrophonic digital restoration.

    • Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
      Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      February 20 - 26

      SIFF Cinema at the Film Center
      San Francisco Opera Cinema
      Mozart's Don Giovanni is often lauded as the greatest opera ever composed. All the comedy, seduction, love, and tragedy crackle to life in this fast-paced production with extraordinary Polish baritone, and Seattle Opera favorite, Mariusz Kwiecien in the title role.

    • Coriolanus
      Coriolanus

      February 4 - 9

      SIFF Cinema at the Uptown
      Ralph Fiennes makes his directorial debut with this modern-day update of Shakespeare's tragic play about a revered and feared Roman General who is banished from Rome, only to ally himself with his sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

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    Now Playing

    • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
      The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

      February 4 - 5

      SIFF Cinema at the Fim Center
      Films4Families
      Terry Gilliam's whimsical and fantastical story follows the improbable exploits of 18th-century adventurer Baron von Munchausen, whose tall tales include being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, taking a balloon to the moon, and dancing with Venus.

    • Coriolanus
      Coriolanus

      February 4 - 9

      SIFF Cinema at the Uptown
      Ralph Fiennes makes his directorial debut with this modern-day update of Shakespeare's tragic play about a revered and feared Roman General who is banished from Rome, only to ally himself with his sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

    • Margaret
      Margaret

      February 4 - 9

      SIFF Cinema at the Uptown
      Kenneth Longeran's (You Can Count On Me) sophomore film is densely-layered tale of teenage angst, starring Anna Paquin as a NYC high school student who feels certain she played a role in a traffic accident that claimed a woman’s life.

    • Norwegian Wood
      Norwegian Wood

      February 4 - 9

      SIFF Cinema at the Uptown
      Adapted from the best selling novel by Haruki Murakami, director Tran Anh Hung (The Scent of Green Papaya) follows a young Japanese couple who find their tentative relationship blighted by the tragedy of their best friend’s death.

    • Miss Minoes
      Miss Minoes

      February 4 - 9

      SIFF Cinema at the Film Center
      This utterly charming and colorful fairy tale was a favorite at SIFF in 2002, but has been unseen in US—until now! Miss Minoes is a cat transformed into a beguiling young woman who befriends a cub reporter and helps him land scoops thanks to the neighborhood felines and their rooftop newswire of pussycat gossip.

    • Week End
      Week End

      February 4 - 9

      SIFF Cinema at the Film Center
      New 35mm print! Jean-Luc Godard's scathing late-'60s satire is a surreally funny and anarchic expression of social oblivion that follows a bourgeois couple as they travel across the French countryside while consumerist society crashes and burns around them.

    • (500) Days of Summer
      (500) Days of Summer

      February 4

      SIFF Cinema at the Film Center
      (1) Month of Joseph Gordon-Levitt
      Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel star in director Marc Webb's wry, nonlinear romantic comedy about a man who falls head over heels for a woman who doesn't believe in love.

    Coming Soon

    • SFFSFF 2012 Encore Screening
      SFFSFF 2012 Encore Screening

      February 5

      Missed your chance to get tickets to the 2012 Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Film Festival? Want to see your favorites again? Come experience some of the Jury Award winners, Audience Award winners, and Curator's choices from the 2011 Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Film Festival. Don't miss these amazing films from around the world.

    • Screenwriter Claudia Johnson Comments on Tootsie
      Screenwriter Claudia Johnson Comments on Tootsie

      February 6

      SIFF Cinema at the Film Center
      Film Craft Commentary
      On February 6, Claudia Johnson will offer a brief introduction to the screenwriter’s craft, before embarking on her live audio commentary throughout the film, and conclude with audience/artist Q&A.

    • Tommy
      Tommy

      February 9

      SIFF Cinema at the Film Center
      Face the Music
      In December the film world lost one of its greatest visionary mavericks, British director Ken Russell. We celebrate his legacy with this special presentation of his psychedelic take on The Who's rock opera Tommy in a stunning new Quadrophonic digital restoration.