Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney came to USF last Thursday as part of the Davies Forum: Re-making the News and the Human Rights Film Festival. This co-sponsorship is actually symbolic of Gibney’s work: it is part news, part film; part giving people the facts, and part telling people a compelling story in an artistic manner.

USF's Human Rights Film Festival, confronted social issues by showing a range of highly celebrated, respected and acclaimed films.

"Two Lovers" starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joaquin Phoenix may be about love, but certainly doesn't end happily ever after.

"The Black Rock" tells the untold story of black inmates at Alcatraz Prison. Directed by local filmmaker and activist Kevin Epps.

THE BLACK ROCK (Dir. Kevin Epps, US 2009, 60m) By Kevin Kunze The Black Rock tells the untold story about the black inmates of Alcatraz and their struggle to survive in a primarily white maximum-security prison. Superbly directed by local filmmaker and activist, Kevin Epps (Straight Outta Hunters Point), the film examines the lives of the few African-American [...]

Sky Madden went to an exclsive screening of the new Focus Feature film Coraline and sat down with director Henry Selick, famous for his direction of "Nightmare Before Christmas" and "James and the Giant Peach."

The San Francisco Film Society presented a screening of 13 screen tests from acclaimed pop icon Andy Warhol.

Kevin Smith is one of the original “bromantic” comedy writers and directors. He also has the classic rags to riches story. In 1994, Smith made a simple, low-budget, black-and-white movie called “Clerks” that quickly formed a word-of-mouth cult following. Flash forward to “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” Smith’s newest film. The story revolves around [...]

The porn industry produces 13,000 films a year, generating $10 to 15 billion in revenue. In comparison, the Hollywood film industry produces about 600 films a year and generates around nine to 10 billion dollars. These surprising figures on the presence of porn in our society were presented in Robert Jensen’s discussion last week, “Pornography [...]

“Burn After Reading” is bound to receive mixed reviews, but I left the viewing not feeling all that mixed up about whether or not I liked it. I laughed and cringed in all the right ways. The film is directed by some very famous brothers, stars very famous names and depicts one of Hollywood’s very [...]