San Francisco Cinematheque (Venue Partner)
145 9th St, Suite 240
415.552.1990
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McBride
- When
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Saturday Apr 3, 2010 (7–9pm)
- Where
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Directions: Screenings are held at venues across the Bay Area. Check event listings for venue information.
- Price
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members: $6 / non-members: $10
Screening at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (map)
Stanton Kaye and Jim McBride in-person
presented in association with Tosca Cafe & Cabinetic
Cinematheque’s cinematic pairings from these two preeminent filmmakers continues with My Girlfriend's Wedding, Jim McBride’s vérité interview with his girlfriend about her pending marriage to someone else. Together with its short companion piece, the similarly themed My Son’s Wedding to My Sister-in-Law, McBride takes the “diary film” genre and turns it inside-out. Then he inverts it again.
Thereafter, Stanton Kaye’s stunning Brandy in the Wilderness tills a similar soil for an entirely different crop, cultivating a work that deliberately distorts the tenuous intersection between fiction and reality. For viewers that prefer their evening’s entertainment to fit nicely within predefined definitions, beware: Brandy strays well beyond the conventional borders of narrative or documentary filmmaking. (JONATHAN MARLOW)
Jim McBride: My Girlfriend’s Wedding (1969), 60 min.
» : My Son’s Wedding to My Sister-in-Law (2008), 9 min.
Stanton Kaye: Brandy in the Wilderness (1971), 87 min.
