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San Francisco Film Preserve

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SFFP's mission is to restore, preserve, and provide access to the world’s cinematic heritage, ensuring that films—of all genres and eras—remain accessible for future generations. linktr.ee/sffilmpreserve

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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WOW! Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who came out to the Roxie Theater for Re:Vision — Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery! Four days of restored films on the big screen, shared with all of you, September 24–27. We are so grateful.
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ATTENTION PETALUMA! After a glorious Bay Area premiere at our Re:Vision Festival on Sunday, THE GARDEN OF EDEN screens tonight at SRJC Petaluma’s Carole L. Ellis Auditorium with a live score by Club Foot Quintet. 6 PM intro & short, 7 PM screening. $8 🎟️ petalumafilmalliance.org/cinema-series/
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Final day of Re:Vision! TRI (1965), 11:00 AM; THE WAITING ROOM (1973), 1:20 PM; THE GARDEN OF EDEN (1928), 3:40 PM; 8 GIRLS IN A BOAT (1934), 6:10 PM; MELODY OF MURDER (1944), 8:40 PM. All movies @ the Roxie. Tag us in photos/videos; use #SFFPReVision26 🎟️ TIX: filmpreserve.org/revision/#tickets
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s day 3 of Re:Vision! I AM WITH A MONK (1984), 11:00 AM; ARAYA (1959), 2:00 PM; THE DISLOCATION OF AMBER (1972), 4:20 PM; GEHENU LAMAI (1978), 6:00 PM; LEPERS & SEX (1970), 9:00 PM; All shows @ the Roxie. Tag us in photos/videos; use #SFFPReVision26 🎟️ TIX: filmpreserve.org/revision/#tickets
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s day 2 of Re:Vision! THE VALLEY OF THE BEES (1968), 3:00 PM; DAKAN (1997), 5:45 PM; THE OUTCASTS (1982), 8:30 PM. All shows @ the Roxie and incl. short film, special guests & other surprises! Tag us in photos/videos; use #SFFPReVision26 🎟️ PROGRAM & TICKETS: filmpreserve.org/revision/#tickets
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Old Movies for Young Stoners @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Definitely see THE OUTCASTS tonight if you're in San Francisco!
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thank you, @hoodline.bsky.social, for writing about Re:Vision! Day 2 continues today with THE VALLEY OF THE BEES (3 PM), DAKAN (5:45 PM), and THE OUTCASTS (8:30 PM), all at the Roxie. #SFFPReVision26
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Re:Vision Film Festival Opens at SF's Roxie Theater
A Jean Harlow cameo, a banned 1928 comedy, and a 50-year-lost feminist film all surface at the Roxie this week.
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AJ in Hell…. BOO! @bunnyhuunq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you’re available for this & you don’t go you’re making a big mistake!
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
RE:VISION — FESTIVAL OF RESTORATION AND REDISCOVERY STARTS TODAY! 34 FILMS. 11 DECADES. 18 COUNTRIES. 12 LANGUAGES. 7 LIVE MUSICIANS. COUNTLESS GENRES. Kicks off at 7PM at the Roxie w/ Angie Chen’s astonishing masterwork MY NAME AIN’T SUZIE (1985) TICKETS: roxie.com/film/revision-my-name-aint-suzie/
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Re:Vision starts TOMORROW! 14 programs, 34 films from 18 countries across 11 decades. 4 days at the Roxie Theater, September 24–27, opening with MY NAME AIN’T SUZIE and closing with MELODY OF MURDER. Plan your weekend: filmpreserve.org/revision/
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ReVision - San Francisco Film Preserve
September 24 – 27 · The Roxie Theater Re:Vision—Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery is SFFP’s inaugural film festival, celebrating the work of archives and archivists. Over four days at the […]
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rick Prelinger W6XBE introduces a program of outtakes shot right here in San Francisco, screening with MELODY OF MURDER (Bodil Ipsen, 1944) as part of Re:Vision. Sunday, Sept 27, 8:40 PM at the Roxie 🎟️ roxie.com/film/revision-melody-of-murder/
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The full RE:VISION lineup is live on Letterboxd: 14 programs, four days at the Roxie (Sept 24 to 27), four on 35mm. One list, everything you need. letterboxd.com/sffilmpreserve/list/re-vision-festival-of-restoration-and-rediscovery/
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Re:Vision—Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery, Roxie Theater, September 24-27, 2026
San Francisco Film Preserve's Re:Vision—Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery September 24-27, 2026 at Roxie Theater Tickets | Official Website Re:Vision is SFFP's inaugural film festival, celebrating the work of archives and archivists. Over four days at the Roxie, we're spotlighting astounding works of cinema across decades, borders, and genres. The festival's 14 programs pair a feature length film with a short film. Six programs include an additional animated short by Len Lye. The films are listed below with the feature first and then the accompanying short. Four films will be shown on...
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Queer experience runs through Re:Vision: Mohamed Camara’s DAKAN, opening night’s MY NAME AIN’T SUZIE with Deanie Ip’s fierce Wong Ying, the long-unavailable short NANCY, HENRI AND ELIZABETH, and Maude George’s devious Madame Bauer in THE GARDEN OF EDEN. filmpreserve.org/revision/#program
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Old Movies for Young Stoners @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW EPISODE: We've got LEPERS AND SEX (1970) as we pair weed with the weirdest double feature coming to @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social's Re:Vision Fest & pay tribute to TIM CURRY with TIMES SQUARE (80). Streaming on SoundCloud and other pod apps. soundcloud.com/omfys/s5e11-...
Image of the masked wrestler El Santo with a western sheriff and another older man wearing a cowboy hat and a string tie. Insert images of a DJ (Tim Curry) speaking into a microphone (top) and a voluptuous woman on a sofa (bottom). Text reads: Old Movies for Young Stoners. S5E11: Santo Y Curry with Lepers and Sex (1970), Pteryphlegia (1986) and Times Square (1980).
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Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For this week's feature, Patrick Dahl on six new digital preservations of Len Lye's eye-popping, hand-stenciled, legendary animated shorts, screening Thurs.-Sun. at the Roxie as part of @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social's inaugural Re:Vision festival: www.screenslate.com/articles/len...
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Len Lye Shorts at Re:Vision
In the 1930s, at the same time Walt Disney was fine-tuning the spotless craftsmanship of film animation that still dominates the market nearly a century later, Len Lye unveiled his first revolutionary...
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Re:Vision incl. several restorations from SFFP: Bay Area premiere of Lewis Milestone’s THE GARDEN OF EDEN (1928), live w/ Club Foot Quintet; plus ultra rare, early Jean Harlow short & 6 Len Lye films on the big screen all festival long filmpreserve.org/revision Members SAVE 20% on tickets 🎟️
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Melody of Murder,” co-presented by @noirfoundation.bsky.social, screens next Sunday, September 27, at the Roxie, closing out the inaugural Re:Vision — Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery! 🎟️ TICKETS: roxie.com/film/revision-melody-of-murder/ 🎥
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Female Gaze at SFFP’s Re:Vision: women-directed films open & close the festival, from Angie Chen’s MY NAME AIN’T SUZIE on Thurs to Bodil Ipsen’s MELODY OF MURDER on Sun, w/ Margot Benacerraf, Sumitra Peries, Karen Sperling (in person!), and more in between. 👉 filmpreserve.org/revision/#program
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🎬 4 days, 34 restored films. SFFP Members get in for less: Re:Vision — Festival of Restoration & Rediscovery runs Sept 24–27 at the Roxie Theater, SF. Your membership helps fund film restoration, then gets it back on screen. 🎟️ $50 off the pass, 20% off tickets: filmpreserve.org/revision/#tickets
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Re:Vision pairs PTERYPHLEGIA, Louis Smits' 1986 sci-fi short, with a legendary lost cult film screening in SF for the first time: LEPERS & SEX AKA SANTO VS THE RIDERS OF TERROR. Co-presented by RoxCine. Sat 9/26, 9pm, Roxie. 🎟️ roxie.com/film/revision-lepers-sex-aka-santo-vs-the-riders-of-terror/
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Re:Vision unearths NANCY, HENRI, AND ELIZABETH, a long-unavailable 1973 documentary on trans and queer lives, screening with DAKAN, the landmark 1997 West African film on gay love. Co-presented by Frameline & Tenderloin Museum. Fri 9/25, 5:45 pm, Roxie. 🎟️ roxie.com/film/revision-dakan/
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
MELODY OF MURDER (1944), Bodil Ipsen’s Danish noir following a killer stalking women named Sonja through rainswept Copenhagen, screens Sunday, September 27, 8:40 PM at the Roxie for SFFP’s Re:Vision, co‑presented by Film Noir Foundation 🎟️ roxie.com/film/revision-melody-of-murder/
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Next three rare Len Lye films at Re:Vision: COLOUR FLIGHT [fragment] (9/26), THE BIRTH OF THE ROBOT (9/26), KALEIDOSCOPE (9/27). Restored by SFFP, scanned by Scan2Screen, preserved at the British Film Institute, with the Len Lye Foundation. 🌈 filmpreserve.org/revision/#program #FilmSky
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
She’s the star of the rowing team, about to lose it all over a secret. 8 GIRLS IN A BOAT (1934) screens at the Roxie as part of SFFP’s Re:Vision — Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery, Sun, Sept 27, 6:10 PM 🎟️ roxie.com/film/revision-8-girls-in-a-boat/
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Before Jean Harlow was “Jean Harlow,” she stole scenes uncredited in the short film WEAK BUT WILLING (1929), screening with THE GARDEN OF EDEN at SFFP’s Re:Vision. Sept 27, 3:40 PM at the Roxie 🎟️ roxie.com/film/revision-the-garden-of-eden/ #FilmSky #FilmFest #JeanHarlow
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What does it take to bring Len Lye’s films back to life? Join us Friday, 9/11, for ONLINE WITH SFFP as Barbara Flueckiger explores scanning & restoring his pioneering color films. 12 pm PT 👉 filmpreserve.org/event/online-with-sffp-investigating-and-scanning-len-lyes-outstanding-experimental-films/
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A 1928 critic called Lewis Milestone’s THE GARDEN OF EDEN “cheap pandering to dirty-minded people.” Montreal censors cut the last reel. See it uncensored, restored, and on 35mm at SFFP’s Re:Vision film fest. Sun 9/27, 3:40 pm, Roxie Theater. 🎟️ roxie.com/film/revision-the-garden-of-eden #FilmSky
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Watch a film that vanished for 50 years! Karen Sperling wrote, directed, produced, and starred in THE WAITING ROOM (1973), shot by a 35-woman crew on Manhattan’s Wards Island. Screens Sept 27 at the Roxie for SFFP’s Re:Vision fest. 🎟️ roxie.com/film/revision-the-waiting-room
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
TRI (Aleksandar Petrović, 1965), a landmark of New Yugoslav Film nominated for an Academy Award, screens at Re:Vision with LES ENFANTS DE LA GUERRE (Jocelyne Saab, 1976). Sunday, September 27, 11:00 AM at the Roxie. 🎟️ roxie.com/film/revision-tri/ #FilmSky #FilmFest
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
SFFP partners with San Francisco Cinematheque for CROSSROADS 2026, Program 7: “before the great palaces, everything was still.” Six international premieres screen this Sunday, Sept 6, 5 pm at Gray Area. 🎟️ tickets.grayarea.org/events/019fd8dd-9aa5-8e0d-8189-970e3d2eda56 #FilmSky #avantgarde
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
El Santo battles a mob of murderous lepers in the legendary “sexy” cut of LEPERS & SEX, unseen until 2022 and never screened in SF before. Part of SFFP’s Re:Vision, intro by Peter Conheim. Sat, Sept 26 at the Roxie. 🎟️ roxie.com/film/revision-lepers-sex-aka-santo-vs-the-riders-of-terror/ #FilmSky
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Watch our before/after restoration clip from Sumitra Peries’s GEHENU LAMAI [The Girls], the first feature directed by a woman in Sri Lanka. Screens with Satyajit Ray’s TWO at Re:Vision, Sat. Sept. 26 at the Roxie. 👉 roxie.com/film/revision-gehenu-lamai-the-girls/ #FilmSky #FilmFest
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
ONLINE WITH SFFP: Len Lye redefined film color, hand-painting animation onto Gasparcolor, Dufaycolor & Technicolor. SFFP, Len Lye Foundation, BFI & Scan2Screen are restoring it. Free talk Sept 11, 12 pm w/ Dr. Barbara Flueckiger 👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ekhh0-rBQLKEMiolt5cnXA #FilmSky
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
THE DISLOCATION OF AMBER (Hussein Shariffe, Sudan, 1972) screens Sat 9/26, 4:20 pm at the Roxie as part of SFFP’s Re:Vision, co-presented by San Francisco IndieFest and the Sudanese Association for Northern California. 🎟️ roxie.com/film/revision-the-dislocation-of-amber/ #FilmSky
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Watch the ARAYA trailer, then clear your evening for one of the most stunning documentaries ever made. Margot Benacerraf’s 1959 film won acclaim at Cannes but was rarely seen again. Screens 9/26 @ SFFP’s Re:Vision, co-presented by San Francisco IndieFest 🎟️ roxie.com/film/revision-araya
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Golden Decade of Thai action cinema, restored. 🥋 I AM WITH A MONK (1984) stars Sombat Metanee and Sorapong Chatree in Khom Akadet's actioner. Part of SFFP's Re:Vision. Restored 2024 by the Thai Film Archive. No trailer survives, so here's the opening credits: roxie.com/film/revision-i-am-with-a-monk
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
SFFP is proud to partner with San Francisco Cinematheque for CROSSROADS, a festival of contemporary artist-made, global avant-garde films. Join us for ‘Program 7: before the great palaces, everything was still,’ at Gray Area on 9/6 at 5 pm. sfcinematheque.org/screening/crossroads-2026-program-7/
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Six rare Len Lye films screen at Re:Vision this year. First three: RAINBOW DANCE (9/24), A COLOUR BOX (9/25), SWINGING THE LAMBETH WALK (9/26). Restored by SFFP, scanned by Scan2Screen, preserved at the British Film Institute, with the Len Lye Foundation. filmpreserve.org/revision/#program #FilmSky
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
IT’S HERE! The Re:Vision trailer just dropped, and we cannot contain ourselves. 🎬✨ SFFP’s first-ever film festival: 14 programs, 34 films, 18 countries, 1896 to 2008. Sept 24–27 at the Roxie. 🎟️ Tickets on sale now; SFFP members save: filmpreserve.org/revision/ #FilmSky #FilmFestival
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
THE OUTCASTS (1982), the 1st major Irish feature funded in 40 years, screens 9/25 at SFFP’s Re:Vision Fest. Paired w/ short WITCH (1973). Tickets/passes on sale; members save: filmpreserve.org/revision/ Co-presented by @filmpreservation.bsky.social @deafcrocodile.bsky.social #FilmSky #FilmFestival
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Watch the trailer for DAKAN (1997), the first West African film to explore gay love onscreen: youtube.com/watch?v=w4RATTXGZs8. Screens with Len Lye’s COLOUR BOX & the short NANCY, HENRI, AND ELIZABETH, Sept 25 @ Roxie. 🎟️ Tickets & passes on sale now; members save: roxie.com/film/revision-dakan/
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Re:Vision: Dakan
This screening will open with Len Lye’s animated short film COLOUR BOX. The film was restored by San Francisco Film Preserve and scanned utilizing Scan2Screen’s multispectral scanning technology.
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Sept. 25 at Re:Vision: Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery: THE VALLEY OF THE BEES (1968), František Vláčil’s stunning period drama, newly restored in 2025 by the Národní filmový archiv. Screens with the short ATOM OF ETERNITY. Get tickets/passes: filmpreserve.org/revision/#tickets
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Devo built a visual language as strange as their sound, video art predating MTV. Join us tomorrow, 8/14 @ 12 pm PT for ONLINE WITH SFFP: Peter Conheim on restoring Devo’s film archive. Register: filmpreserve.org/event/online-with-…
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🎬 SFFP Members: your Re:Vision discount is live! $50 off the all‑festival pass + 20% off single tickets. Not a member yet? Join to unlock it. filmpreserve.org/memberships/ Check your email for your code, or ask us to resend it. Sept 24–27, Roxie Theater. filmpreserve.org/revision 🍿
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
RE:VISION TICKETS ARE ON SALE! The full schedule is live: 14 screenings, 4 days, 18 countries, 11 decades of cinema, from Irish fantasy to Mexican midnight movies to American experimental film. SFFP Members save 20% on tickets, $50 on passes. filmpreserve.org/revision
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Every restoration is a series of choices. Join us Fri, Aug 14 at 12 pm PT for ONLINE WITH SFFP: restorer Peter Conheim on preserving Devo’s film and video archive. FREE! 👉 Register: filmpreserve.org/event/online-with-…
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Members, you’re first in line. 🎬 Re:Vision festival passes go on sale today, for SFFP members only! Priority access to discounted passes before the public. #FilmSky 👉 Become a member: filmpreserve.org/memberships 📽️ More info: filmpreserve.org/revision Photo: The Outcasts, 1982; Deaf Crocodile
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This close-up has outlived the country it was filmed in. 👀 Can you guess the film? One of 14 programs at the inaugural Re:Vision: Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery, Sept 24–27 at SF’s historic Roxie Theater. #FilmSky #FilmFest 👉 filmpreserve.org/revision
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
What does it actually take to restore a beloved new wave band’s film archive? On August 14, ONLINE WITH SFFP finds out! 1/4
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It took a century, six archives, and a festival full of strangers in Italy falling for it all over again. Next week, SUNRISE lands in New York. US PREMIERE — SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS 📍 The Museum of Modern Art 🕖 Tuesday, August 4, 7:00 pm 🎹 Live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura 1/5
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