Inner life and the power of the unsaid. Filmmaker Sofía Camargo in person.

The Currents, by Milagros Mumenthaler – Shapeshifters Cinema, Sun Oct 4, 2026 - At the height of her career, Lina, a 34-year-old Argentine stylist, is driven by a sudden impulse after an award ceremon...

Plus: A feast of cinematic demonics, from 'Creature from the Black Lagoon" (in 3D!) to endlessly crying babies and fuzzy orange unicorns.

In the spring of 2017, after the first wet winter in many dry years, Nathaniel Dorsky walked with his Bolex through Golden Gate Park’s arboretum and noticed the blooming plants. Dorsky’s way of notici...

At one unfortunate, or perhaps fortunate, film festival screening of his child-centered drama Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987), Abbas Kiarostami informed the audience that the friend’s house and ma...

"The perfect cinematic antidote to technological burnout"

In Oakland, Jonathan Kiefer’s Vital Signs screens ‘new good films to watch with new good friends.’

Launching Vital Signs at Shapeshifters Cinema with a springtime Sunday matinee

A free screening in San Francisco

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

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...

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...

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DOGMA 25 Launches at Cannes, Spearheaded by New Quintet Led by May el-Toukhy

Answering 300+ brutally honest film market professionals

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.

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He won multiple awards during his 50-year career, including the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and spent his life championing African cinema.

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

Killian was a humanist of a sort, re-centering the individual experience on a site premised on selling to the collective.

Dune Part Two and the Return of Socialist Realism We are living through an era of thudding cultural literalism. In our narrative products (movies, TV and to a lesser but noticeable extent, novels) th...