69th San Francisco International Film Festival<\/p>\n
When: Friday, April 24, through May 4.<\/p>\n
Where: San Francisco: Castro Theatre, 420 Castro St.; Premier Theater at One Letterman, 1 Letterman Drive # B; Marina Theatre, 2149 Chestnut St.; Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California St.; San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 200 Van Ness Ave. \u2022 Berkeley: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center St. \u2022 Oakland: Grand Lake Theatre, 3200 Grand Ave.<\/p>\n
Programs: 79, featuring films from 40 countries.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Opening night: Friday, April 24, Castro Theatre: Kent Jones\u2019 \u201cLate Fame\u201d (5:30 p.m.), about an aging poet\u2019s newfound popularity starring Greta Lee (in person), followed by opening night party at the Swedish American Hall, 2174 Market St., S.F.; and Olivia Wilde\u2019s \u201cThe Invite\u201d (8:30 p.m.), about the sexcapades of two couples (Wilde and Seth Rogen; Pen\u00e9lope Cruz and Edward Norton) during one night in a San Francisco apartment.<\/p>\n
Centerpiece: April 28, Grand Lake Theatre: \u201cI Love Boosters\u201d (6:30 p.m and 9:30 p.m.) Unique comedy by Oakland filmmaker Boots Riley (in person, with selected cast) about a Bay Area shoplifting gang.<\/p>\n
Closing night: May 4, Castro Theatre: \u201cStar Wars: Episode V \u2014 The Empire Strikes Back\u201d (7 p.m.), the 1980 science fiction classic, with actor Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) in person.<\/p>\n
Tickets: $16-$19 for general admission programs; premium priced programs vary. Note: When a show is listed as \u201cat rush,\u201d all advance tickets have sold out. But rush tickets may be available on a first-come, first-served basis to those standing in line at the venue 30-60 minutes before\u00a0showtime. For a full schedule, tickets and more information, visit www.sffilm.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"69th San Francisco International Film Festival When: Friday, April 24, through May 4. Where: San Francisco: Castro Theatre,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[329,838,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-272627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-arts-and-entertainment","9":"tag-movies-and-tv","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","12":"tag-san-francisco-news","13":"tag-sf","14":"tag-sf-headlines","15":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}