Karl the Fog Gets Own Movie at SF Film Festival

This year happens to be the 60th year of the San Francisco International Film Festival, and the festival will be closing the proper San Francisco way — with fog. The Green Fog — A San Francisco Fantasia is an entirely new film made with some of San Francisco’s best film footage. The film, created by the San Francisco Film Society and Stanford Live and scored by Kronos Quartet, is a collage styled film, meaning it is a compilation of different movies that were shot in San Francisco.

The Green Fog is an adaptation of the famous film Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock, which was filmed and based in San Francisco. It was commissioned by the SF Film Society and is loosely based off of the Hitchcock film, but doesn’t use any footage from Vertigo. The Green Fog creators won’t give out any details about the specific story just yet, but we can assume from the title that our cities famous fog, given the nickname of Karl the Fog, has a role in the film.

San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet scored the soundtrack for this highly anticipated movie. Kronos Quartet is a modern string quartet that have been calling San Francisco home for over 40 years. Guy Maddin, head creator of The Green Fog, said in an interview for SF weekly that “…No matter how gorgeous or ugly it may be, at times, all the scar tissue is beautifully swathed in Kronos Quartet music, and the whole thing makes a really strange night’s entertainment.”

The Green Fog will be shown at the historic Castro Theater as the closing show for the San Francisco International Film Festival on April 16th at 7:00 pm. An after-party will be held at Mezzanine on Jessie Street at 8:30 pm. Be sure to buy tickets to see scenes of San Francisco and Karl the Fog that will be sure to leave you with a stronger love for the city by the Bay.