March 29, 2005

48th SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
HOLD REVIEW FILMS

The following films, playing in the 48th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21-May 5) have U.S. distributors or expect to shortly. Please hold full reviews for the following films until they open commercially. We do however encourage capsule reviews, feature pieces or mentions in overview articles. The San Francisco theatrical opening date, if known, is listed. We would appreciate it if, when your review runs, you would mention that the film premiered (if appropriate) or screened at the 48th San Francisco International Film Festival. Thank you.

Hold Review Films

3-IRON (Sony Pictures Classics) opens May 6

5 x 2 (Thinkfilm)

THE 10TH DISTRICT COURT: MOMENTS OF TRIALS (Koch Lorber Films)

ABEL RAISES CAIN (CrashCourse)

THE AX (Canel Plus Distribution)

THE BOYS OF BARAKA

BROTHERS (IFC Films) opens May 20

CRASH (Lions Gate Entertainment)

CRONICAS (Palm Pictures)

DUCK SEASON (Traction Media)

THE DYING GAUL (Holedigger Studios)

ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM (Magnolia Pictures) opens April 29

FOLLOWING SEAN (Timed Exposures)

THE HERO (California Newsreel)

THE HOLY GIRL (Fine Line Features opens May 13

KINGS AND QUEEN (Wellspring Media, Inc.) opens May 13

LAYER CAKE (Sony Pictures Classics) opens May 20

LITTLE SKY (Sundance Channel)

MAD HOT BALLROOM (Paramount Classics)

ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (IFC Films)

MURDERBALL (Thinkfilm)

NOVEMBER (Sony Pictures Classics)

THE OVERTURE (Kino International) opens Early Summer

PALINDROMES (Wellspring Media, Inc.)

PRIVATE (Avatar Films)

THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN (Collective Eye, Inc.)

SARABAND (Sony Pictures Classics)

SEQUINS (New Yorker Films)

TAKE MY EYES (New Yorker Films)

THREE…EXTREMES (Lions Gate Entertainment)

TOUCH THE SOUND (Shadow Distribution)

WHEN THE TIDE COMES IN

THE WORLD (Zeitgeist Films)

YES (Sony Pictures Classics)

The 48th San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 21—May 5, 2005 at the AMC Kabuki 8 Theatres, the Home of the Festival, the Castro Theatre, the Palace of Fine Arts, Kanbar Hall at the Jewish Community Center and the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco; the Pacific Film Archive Theater in Berkeley; and Landmark's Aquarius Theatre in Palo Alto. Tickets for San Francisco Film Society members will be available on March 29 and for the general public on April 5. To purchase tickets and for ticket information log on to www.sffs.org, call 925.866.9559 or visit the Main Ticket Outlet, located in the atrium of the AMC Kabuki 8 Theatres, 1881 Post Street or the Satellite Ticket Outlet at the Virgin Megastore, 2 Stockton Street. For up-to-date Festival information log on to www.sffs.org or call 415.561.5000.

The 48th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21—May 5, 2005) is presented by the San Francisco Film Society, a nonprofit arts and educational organization dedicated to celebrating international film and the moving image.