Since 1988 the Bookshelf Cinema has been providing the Guelph and area community with film programming that featured independent and local productions, foreign films and documentaries, as well as commercial and classic movie titles in rep.
Due to COVID-19, the entire Bookshelf (bookstore, cinema and eBar) closed on March 16,2020. In the time since, we have been offering online and telephone sales of books and wine. The cinema has offered a limited number of films to stream online courtesy of a couple of our longtime distribution partners. We are pleased to accept an additional partner, levelFILM, who has offered to share the revenues generated in streaming their films. Many of these titles were to appear in our upcoming program prior to the current COVID-19 restrictions and some films you may recognize from our previous programs.
We thank levelFILM for the opportunity to share these new and return engagement titles to stream at home until we might be able to enjoy films in the cinema again.
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation.
A wistful odyssey populated by skaters, squatters, street preachers, playwrights, and other locals on the margins, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a poignant and sweeping story of hometowns and how they’re made—and kept alive—by the people who love them.
- Year2019
- Runtime120 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- Rating14A
- DirectorJoe Talbot
- ScreenwriterJoe Talbot, Jimmie Fails, Rob Richert
- ProducerDede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Khaliah Neal, Christina Oh, Joe Talbot
- CastJimmie Fails; Jonathan Majors; Tichina Arnold; Danny Glover
Since 1988 the Bookshelf Cinema has been providing the Guelph and area community with film programming that featured independent and local productions, foreign films and documentaries, as well as commercial and classic movie titles in rep.
Due to COVID-19, the entire Bookshelf (bookstore, cinema and eBar) closed on March 16,2020. In the time since, we have been offering online and telephone sales of books and wine. The cinema has offered a limited number of films to stream online courtesy of a couple of our longtime distribution partners. We are pleased to accept an additional partner, levelFILM, who has offered to share the revenues generated in streaming their films. Many of these titles were to appear in our upcoming program prior to the current COVID-19 restrictions and some films you may recognize from our previous programs.
We thank levelFILM for the opportunity to share these new and return engagement titles to stream at home until we might be able to enjoy films in the cinema again.
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation.
A wistful odyssey populated by skaters, squatters, street preachers, playwrights, and other locals on the margins, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a poignant and sweeping story of hometowns and how they’re made—and kept alive—by the people who love them.
- Year2019
- Runtime120 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- Rating14A
- DirectorJoe Talbot
- ScreenwriterJoe Talbot, Jimmie Fails, Rob Richert
- ProducerDede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Khaliah Neal, Christina Oh, Joe Talbot
- CastJimmie Fails; Jonathan Majors; Tichina Arnold; Danny Glover