S.F. Film Festival screenings on May 3 & 5

On Monday May 3rd and again Wednesday, May 5th, Litquake is proud to co-present The Practice of the Wild, directed by John J. Healy, at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival.?? Beautifully attuned to the cycles of nature and the transcendent power of the written word, this warm portrait of Beat poet Gary Snyder and his cantankerous compadre Jim Harrison intertwines Bay Area bohemia, Zen Buddhism and musings on ecology and spirituality with the complex simplicity of a perfectly crafted stanza.

The film screens Monday, May 3rd at 6:45 pm and Wednesday, May 5th at 1:30 pm at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, 1881 Post Street in San Francisco. For more information and advance tickets, click here or call 925-866-9559.

Also of interest: on Wednesday, April 28th, Walter Salles will receive the Founder's Directing Award at the Film Festival. The onstage tribute at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas will include a clip reel of career highlights, an onstage interview and a special screening of In Search of On the Road (a Work in Progress), an hour-long edit prepared specifically for the Festival of a documentary about Salles's effort to make a documentary about Jack Kerouac, the seminal novel On the Road and the Beat Generation.
Evening with Walter Salles takes place Wednesday, April 28 at 6:45 pm, also at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas. Click here for screening info and tickets.