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November
2011
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October
2011
- Mill Valley Brings Oscar Contenders Close to Home
- Graham Leggat and the Art of Engagement
- The Facts Behind Great Fiction
- Goldmacher IDs Perps Behind Financial Crisis
- Kelly, Pickert Interpret ‘Cherokee’ Words
- GOT Low Budgets, High Production Values?
- Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall
- ‘New Environmentalists’ Salutes Gutsy Grassroots Guerillas
- In Orbit with ‘An Injury to One’
- Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
- Clean White Lines Demos DIY Ethos
- Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
- Where Are their Stories?
- Joshua Moore, on Location
- NFPF’s ‘Treasures 5’ Excavates 'The West'
- Under the Spell of French Cinema Now
- Signs of the Times
- Essential SF: Karen Larsen
- Unbound by Genre, Taiwan's Films Travel Unique Paths
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September
2011
- Tiffany Shlain Connects the Dots
- Jean-Luc Godard Sets Course for Adventure
- Kuchar, Belson Bid Adieu
- Radical Light: ‘Movie Factory’
- He-Men Command Belief in MMA Film 'Warrior'
- Stigma, Satisfaction Drive Indian 'Match' Game
- More than Cute Keeps 'Hedgehog' Going
- ‘Aurora’ Startles, Subtly
- Mill Valley Announces Titles in 34th
- Iranian Teenage Love Sparks ‘Circumstance’
- ‘Puzzle’ Pieces Together a Life
- SFFS's Hong Kong Cinema Series Brings Fan Fare to New Screen
- Weimberg, Ryan Pick Berkeley ‘Brain’
- Identifying Your Documentary’s Signature Style
- Dark Thoughts Fill TIFF’s Lightbox
- Turturro Makes a Case for 'Passione'
- Gordon-Levitt's Chances Better than '50/50'
- Slade Channels Broughton’s ‘Big Joy’
- On Chronicling Criminals
- Broadly Comedic ‘My Afternoons with Margueritte’ a Harmless Indulgence
- Guy Maddin: Ann Savage and the Osmonds
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August
2011
- Essential SF: Lynn Hershman Leeson
- McDonagh Finds Success in Family Path with 'The Guard'
- Minott Tracks ‘Illness’ to Guam
- Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
- In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'
- Pagnol's Foodie Oeuvre Appreciated in East Bay
- Field Shoots ‘MLK in Palestine’ on the Fly
- High Energy 'Point Blank' Is a Rush
- Miranda July Throws Cautionary Tale to the Wind with ‘The Future’
- 'Between Two Worlds' Places Politics of Speech in Spotlight
- ‘The Arbor’s’ ‘Verbatim Theatre’ Approach Strikes Chord
- ‘Dawn’ Salutes Lost Girls, Sainted Sister
- What’s So Bleeping Funny?!
- Teens Tackle Production at SFFS Young Filmmakers Camp
- ITVS Celebrates 20th Tuned to Multi-Platform World
- PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
- Susannah Greason Robbins on Growing the City’s Film Industry
- San Francisco, Open Your Golden Gates
- Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember
- Graham Leggat and a Film Society Transformed
- Graham Leggat, 1960-2011
- 'Vigilante, Vigilante' Opens Can of Worms
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July
2011
- Fassbinder's Funky Futurism Speaks to the Moment
- Weitz Explores the Other L.A. with 'A Better Life'
- Essential SF: ‘Off the Charts,’ ‘Double Dare’
- Graham Leggat Steps Down as Executive Director of San Francisco Film Society
- Roko Belic Charts Path to ‘Happy’
- Silverdocs 2011: A Festival with Legs
- Torres Story Gains Focus
- The Naked Truth on Nudity in Film
- Generator Everything
- Essential SF: ‘North Beach,’ ‘Medicine For Melancholy’
- Avoiding Turbulence Leads to Plot Trouble
- Striking Skolimowski Films Rescued from Obscurity at PFA
- Rapaport Brings Depth to Tribe Called Quest Doc
- Essential SF: ‘Freedom On My Mind,’ ‘The Good War’
- Notes on Leveraging the Big Bash Climax
- Ben Berkowitz Offers Sound Advice
- Voices Converge at San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
- Cinematographer Cardiff's Eye Prized in 'Cameraman' Doc
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June
2011
- Another Hole in the Head Scares Up New Round
- ‘Kiss the Cook’ Sparks Weidlinger’s Appetite
- Celebrating a Reel Education
- Richardson Wraps Circus ‘Net’
- Production Values: Michael Whalen
- 'Blank City' Looks Back at Underground 'B' Heyday
- Frameline35 Opens, Features Wildly Diverse Program
- We Want Answers
- Lewis Rides Herd on Lusty ‘Longhorns’
- Soap-Operatic 'Bride Flight' Is an Entertaining Ride
- Percifield Runs with Board of Supes Candidate
- A City’s Smutty History, Embraced
- Voluntary Organ Donor Inspires Krawitz
- SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
- Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'
- Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
- Dues and Taxes Paid, Kornbluth Brothers Shoot for Glory
- ‘Over the Edge’ Emerges from ‘Cult-Favorite’ Closet
- Critic's Notebook: A Day in the Life
- Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
- Vintage Kinski Uncorked at YBCA
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May
2011
- SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced
- SFIFF Brings in Burlesque as Closer
- Snapshots Reveal Personal Side of SFIFF54
- Frank Pierson, 'These Amazing Shadows' Offer Inspiration
- Unrestrained at SFIFF54, Barney Offers Live Insight
- We Are All Made of Stars in Patrico Guzmán's Universe
- Bold Moves, Peril Define Great Third Acts
- Gifts My Mother Gave Me
- 'Meek's Cutoff' a Minimalist Masterpiece
- The Unsinkable Joel Hodgson Floats New Show
- YBCA Revisits Vintage Erotica
- Antonelli Contrasts Africa’s ‘Killing Seasons’
- New Approaches Embolden Doc Genre
- Park Jung-bum Offers Notes on his Unique POV
- Lost Legends Haunt Roxie's Latest Noir Series
- Elizabeth Taylor Tribute Maps Unusual Star Path
- Frameline Announces Titles in 2011 Festival
- Patrick Raises Child ‘Booksellers’
- Topp Twins Agitate, Yodel, Entertain
- New Era Takes Hold at the Roxie
- 'Into Eternity' Ponders a Present-Day Paradox
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April
2011
- The Power of ‘Poetry’
- Juelich Rides ‘Neon’ Roller Coaster
- Uncomplicating the Casting Process
- Kehr Recalls ‘When Movies Mattered’
- Ozon's 'Trophy Wife' Is a Winner
- 'Sleeping Ember' Reignites
- Film Globally, Screen Locally
- The Art of the Steal
- Journalist-Activist Chakarova Exposes ‘Price of Sex’
- Getting Behind 'Bill Cunningham'
- SFIFF54 Finds Life Among the Ruins
- Looking for the Moral with Bill Nichols
- Production Values: Debbie Brubaker
- On Producing Killer Films
- Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
- SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
- Bay Area Doc-makers of SFIFF54 Map Future
- Tindersticks Fuel the Claire Denis Film Fire
- Terence Stamp Honored with Owens Award
- Explosive Actors, Anecdotes Light Up SFIFF54’s Midnight Awards
- SFIFF54's 'Beginners' Brings Surprises
- Stone not Cold in Castro Conversation
- Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
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March
2011
- Hope Springs Eternal at Green Film Festival
- 'Boonmee's' Magic Lights Up SFFS Screen
- Ehrlich Clicks with Icelandic ‘Mouse’
- Poetry in Motion: Working in Action
- SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
- Wolos’s ‘Trattoria’ Serves Up Spicy Comedy
- What you Need to Know to License Music for Film
- YBCA Brings Attention to Embattled Iranian Artists
- Seely Treks Long Distances for Shorts
- Nonfiction's Future Lies in Optimism
- SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
- Burroughs’ Story Still Stranger than Fiction
- Jay Rosenblatt Talks ‘Darkness’
- Merk Mixes ‘Cocktails’ for Television
- Filmmakers Bring Stories to New Platforms
- Kiarostami’s Enigmatic ‘Copy’ Fascinates
- SFMOMA's Muybridge Experiments with Time, Space
- Good’s ‘Vigilante’ Tags Graffiti Showdown
- SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
- Haynes Reaches Mainstream with Thoroughly Modern ‘Mildred’
- Talent Emerges at SXSW 2011
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February
2011
- Eclectic Expectations Met at SF Indiefest
- Schneider-Jarmel Clan Take ‘Balz’ to Cuba
- How to Fix Your Documentary's Structural Problems, Part Two
- Silent Film Festival Is in the Money
- Scary Cow Stampede Continues Apace
- Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
- Mostly British Looks Beyond Speechifying Kings
- SFFS Screen Returns with New Suleiman
- Noise Pop 2011's Film Series Rawks
- Soderbergh's Spalding Gray Rings True
- Stone Tour Cultivates the City
- Lagarde, Lozano Jam with NY Jazzman
- On the Making of 'Crooked Beauty'
- Beg For Your Life: In the Well with Laurel Nakadate
- Nakadate’s Fever Dreams Heat the Screen
- 'We Were Here' Wrings Hope from the AIDS Crisis
- Mitchell Block Brings Oscar Attention to Vets
- Ido Haar Seeks Justice, Searches Soul
- 'Come Undone' Disrupts Domesticity
- Arctic 'Summer' Story Chills Screen
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January
2011
- 'Deathstalker' Muscles its Way Back to Big Screen
- Politics, Sacrifice Define 'Bhutto,' Director
- How to Fix Your Documentary's Structural Problems, Part One
- Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens
- German Gems Program Shines
- Nanstad Tracks Down 'Sisters' Act
- American Doc Showcase Visits Angola
- VCinema Podcast Finds Its Audience
- De Oliveira's 'Angelica' Balming, Enlivening
- Costa's 'Ne change rien' Captures Singer's Dreaminess, Rigor
- Bay Area Doc Makers Breathe Deep Before Sundance Debuts
- Alexander Excavates Educational Film Treasures
- Patrick Marks Takes a Green Eye to Noir
- 'Somewhere' Seizes on Discontent
- Olsson Feels ‘Soldier’s Heart’ Beat
- SF360 Live at Sundance: Strange and Charmed Visions
- Red Lantern Meetup Reels in Film Fans
- Temporary Insanity Takes Hold at Noir City
- Sundance Awards 'Circumstance,' 'Another Happy Day'
- SF360 Live at Sundance: 285 Steps
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December
2010
- Essential SF: Anne McGuire
- 'The Sound of Music' Offers Simpler Times, Strange Complications
- Sundance Announces Films in Competition
- De Michiel and Constantinou Offer Food for Thought
- Stanford's MFA Doc Program Teaches Cardinal Rules, and How to Break Them
- Film Festival Season: Five Last-Minute Music Clearance Tips
- Film 2010: Big Pictures Light up the Small Screen
- John Waters, New Leadership Renew Roxie
- 'Ghost Bird' Returns to Roost
- Film 2010: Top Tens
- Film 2010: YouTube, WeTube
- Film 2010: We’re Not Here to Make Friends
- Film 2010: Think Globally, View Locally
- Film 2010: The Year in Quotes
- Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area
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November
2010
- Essential SF: Les Blank
- Essential SF: Rick Prelinger
- Essential SF: Gail Silva
- Essential SF: Marlon Riggs
- The View from Here
- Essential SF
- New Italian Cinema Puts Focus on Ferzan Ozpetek
- Manning’s ‘Al Capp’ Sketches Grandpa
- 'Client 9' Reclaims Spitzer
- Copyright Crosses Borders
- New to SFIAF: Online Screening Room
- Season's Screenings Bring out Best Films of the Year
- Going Guerrilla with Zombies
- Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
- Writing Screenplays Is not Painting by Numbers
- Malmberg Builds a Following with 'Marwencol'
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October
2010
- 'Enter the Void' at Your Own Risk
- Mill Valley's 33rd Launches
- 'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
- 'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival
- 'Better This World' Takes a Look at Criminal Injustice
- Are You Expecting Your Producer to Save You?
- Savoring Fishbone in its Third Insane Decade
- Pitchers Craft Hits at SFFS Film Arts Forum
- Charles Ferguson Solves ‘Inside Job’
- Marquee Names Light Up French Cinema Now
- Brown Follows Injuries in ‘Going the Distance’
- Mike Ott on the Guileless Filmmaking of 'Littlerock'
- Berlin & Beyond Provides Genius Genre Treatments
- Ed Burns Looks to Future by Getting Back to Basics
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September
2010
- Going McCarey's Way
- 'Sweet' Beat Drives Fruchtmans’ Rwanda Doc
- 'Change of Plans' Finds Humor in Mid-Life
- Mallimson surveys 'Edge of the Wild' on San Bruno Mountain
- 'Them Greeks' Tests Independent Digital Production Model
- Telluride Unveils 37th Film Festival
- Toronto's New Lightbox Offers Transcendence
- Tushinski Brings San Francisco into 'Dirty Poole'
- Online Film Contests: Friend or Foe?
- Innovative Characters, Concepts Inform New California Website
- Irving Glides from Parrots to Pelicans
- Altman Versus the World
- Radical Light: 'Image Dissectors'
- Rwanda Moves Forward in New Documentary
- Local Filmmakers Pour into Mill Valley
- Gardner's Global Views Unnerve at YBCA
- A Children's Film Festival Finds Inspiration for All Ages
- A Family Implodes in Biting 'Dogtooth'
- Phil Spector, the Spectacle, Viewed in New Doc
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August
2010
- Looking to the Skies for Cinema
- Media Pulse: The Closed Net Threat
- Subtext: Catching the Drift Beneath the Dialogue
- 'Winnebago Man' Hits the Road
- Kirschenbaum’s ‘Looking’ Provides Alzheimer’s Patient P.O.V.
- Overcoming Your Fear of Fundraising
- Schneider and Zanuck on the Highs of 'Get Low'
- Of Longing and Laforgue
- Maoz Speaks of the Limits of Language in 'Lebanon'
- Back with a 'Vengeance'
- A Vampire Weekend at YBCA
- Medina Stokes SF-set ‘Furnace’
- Getting Perspective on your Story
- Eat, Pray, Love, Direct
- 'Army of Crime' Revisits the Not-Always French Resistance
- The Price of Fame
- Bar-Lev on the True 'Tillman Story'
- Two Zimbalists and 'Two Escobars'
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July
2010
- Wilson-Shepard Doc Blooms in AIDS Grove
- Reeling in the Years with the Red Vic
- Lisa Cholodenko Makes High Art of Family Hijinx
- The San Francisco Silent Film Festival Speaks Volumes
- Media Pulse: A Crude Interpretation of the Law
- Observing Ordinary People in 'Everyone Else'
- Storylines of Silverdocs 2010
- Crafting Motifs in Documentary Films
- Charlotte Buchen, Wheels Turning
- Koons Garcia Runs Fingers Through 'Soil'
- Crowd Control
- 'Wild Grass' Finds Resnais Still Growing
- 7th Heaven: Another Hole in the Head
- Perkins Places 'Trust' in Convicts and Parolees
- Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'
- SF Jewish Film Festival Lights 30 Candles
- Getting Down, Dirty with Bob Ray and Chad Holt
- Essential SF: 'Berkeley in the Sixties,' 'Brother Outsider,' 'Weather Underground'
- Why Hire a Producer of Marketing, Distribution
- Crime on the Mind
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June
2010
- Kore-eda Breathes Life into 'Air Doll'
- Guevara-Flanagan Soars with 'Wonder Woman'
- On Loving the Best Worst Movie of All Time
- Field's Anti-Apartheid Series Returns to Bay Area
- Jordan's Magic Moments with Ondine
- Breaux Leads Search Party Through Southwestern Country
- Koppelman Maps International Cybercrime, Cuban Opera
- Frameline34 Focuses on Warhol and Worlds of LGBT Cinema
- Frameline34, a Festival Refreshed
- Frameline's History Lessons
- On the Road with 'Joan,' Stern and Sundberg Talk Big Picture
- Bowden Exposes San Francisco in Full Picture
- Polk Street Lures Boswell's 'Stranger'
- San Francisco Habitue John Waters Offers Role Models
- The Story Beyond the Story
- A Digital Glossary
- Fast-Track Filmmaking with the 48 Hour Film Project
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May
2010
- Conner Forever Moving Forward
- 'Typeface' Makes Art of a Lost Craft
- Getting Shatnered with Thrillville
- Stevenson's Oddball Scandinavian Cinema
- Merchant-Ivory: A Look Back
- Looking for Comedy in Ken Loach's 'Eric'
- Griffin and Jordan Getting Nails Done
- Omori, Hardy Conspire to Tattoo the World
- SFIFF53: Women's Worlds
- SFIFF53 Reports: James Schamus, Roger Ebert and the Writing Life
- SFIFF53 Reports: Divine Madness at 'All About Evil' Premiere
- SFIFF53: War Stories
- SFIFF53: Golden Gate Awards and Juried Prizes/Grants Announced
- San Francisco International's Local Filmmakers Next Step
- Ideas that Last at the Disposable Film Festival
- New York-set Charlie Barker's Big S.F. Break
- Dialogues: Gary Snyder on Art, Anarchy and the Environment
- Behind the Music with 'Simonal'
- Poitras's Unexpected Path to 'The Oath'
- Judge's Crude Behavior Infuriates Documentary Makers
- Festivals from Cannes to Marfa, San Francisco Filmmakers Reporting
- A Short Guide to Funding Short Narratives
- Thinking Like a Screenwriter for your Documentary
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April
2010
- Link TV's ViewChange Launch
- Epic Expectations in 'The Warlords'
- Independent Inuit Films at YBCA
- Can-Can Do: Silent Shooting at the Victoria
- 'It Came from Kuchar,' 'La Mission' in Theatres
- The Roxie's New Leadership
- SFIFF53: Deft Dussollier In 'Micmacs,' 'Wild Grass'
- Living on Default line in Bakalian Doc
- Rajendra Serber's Confident Steps into Film
- SFIFF53: Ephemeral Film and Music, Live & Onstage
- SFIFF53 Reports: The Butcher Block; Opening Night
- SFIFF s Porchlight On For Guests
- SFIFF53 Reports: 'Utopia,' 'Morning'
- Local Filmmakers In SFIFF Spotlight
- SFIFF53: The Art of Revival
- SFIFF53: 'At the Movies' with Roger Ebert
- SFIFF53 Reports: California Dreamin' at Film Society Awards Night
- Rosen's Insights into 53rd San Francisco International
- Christina Yao's solid Empire of Silver
- 'Utopia' in San Francisco
- Dialogues: Jim Harrison on Poetry, Documentary
- Hernandez's Guilty Verdict
- Do You Pass the Test?
- The Empathetic Storyteller
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March
2010
- Hurt and Belief in 'The Yellow Handkerchief'
- Pixar's Latest Oscar High
- West with 'Sweetgrass'
- Bong Joon-ho's 'Mother' Pleases
- Unresolved Conflict in 'American Radical,' 'Promised Lands'
- Green by Design: Purebred Productions
- Streetfilms' Two-Wheeled Revolution
- Laotian Tourists Focus Murray's Camera
- Hiler and Brown's Visionary Music
- Riffe's Raw Milk Germ
- Nuclear Family Secrets in Silvia's Atomic Mom
- 28th SF Int'l Asian American Film Festival
- SF International Asian American Film Festival's Archival Tour
- San Francisco International Film Festival's 53rd Edition
- Reed's Promise of Prodigal Sons
- 'Village' a New Look at New Orleans
- Borshay Liem's Double Exposure of Korean Adoptions
- 'Lesh Sabreen?' On Red Vic Screen
- Karim Ahmad on ITVS's Forward-Thinking FUTURESTATES
- Do Ask, Do Tell
- Childhood's Richness on Film
- Sights and Sounds of South by Southwest
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February
2010
- Bay Area's Strong Presence at 82nd Oscars
- Pacific Film Archive's Young Filmmakers on Big Screen
- San Francisco Cinematheque's Spring Action
- Buscemi in Fine, Droll Form in 'St. John of Las Vegas'
- As Oscars Approach, Winners Still Up in the Air
- Freak Flag Flying at YBCA
- Herzog's Unexpected 'My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done'
- Beyond 'Berlin,' Eggers' New German Gems
- Wendy Slick's 'Virtuoso' Turn
- Final Chapter in Kelly and Yamamoto's Art Trilogy
- Cohen and Lipman's Recovering Friend in Forest
- SF Indiefest at Twelve
- Mostly British and Very Entertaining
- Cinequest at 20
- Scott MacDonald on Art in Cinema at SFMoMA
- Ehrlich, Goldsmith on Pentagon Papers
- Sid Ganis on Hollywood South and North
- Public, Private: A Need-to-Know Guide
- Best Length for Documentary Films
- Chat It Up: Livestream, UStream and Justin.tv
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January
2010
- Citizen Critics' New Outlets, Challenges in 2009
- It's 'Playtime' with Jacques Tati in New Series
- Unspoken Fascist Future In Wings of White Ribbon
- Val Lewton's Brooding Mood, Chilling Themes
- The Greatest Finds of My Generation
- Can't Stop the Musical: PFA's Classics
- 'Fish Tank's Essex truth
- Nani Walker's 'Other Nature' At 15,000 Feet
- Connie Field's Magnum Opus on Anti-Apartheid Movement
- Joe Graham's Soulful 'Strapped'
- Nao Bustamante's 'Silver and Gold' in Park City
- Darkness Of Noir City On Castro Screen
- Words from Sundance Staffers: Landon Zakheim
- Words from Sundance Staffers: Robyn Arville
- Words from Sundance Staffers: Natalie Mulford
- Words from Sundance Staffers: Krissy Bailey
- Words from Sundance Staffers: Ashley Soares
- Words from Sundance Staffers: Ilya Tovbis
- Words from Sundance Staffers: Jennie-Marie Adler
- Words from Sundance Staffers: Jon Ho
- Words from Sundance Staffers: Michael Lyons
- Words from Sundance Staffers: Duc Bieu Pham
- Words from Sundance Staffers: Jesse Dubus
- Words from Sundance Staffers: Elizabeth Duran
- George Csicsery's Hard Problems
- Animal-Rescue Mine In Katrina's Emotional Aftermath
- Jennifer Phang On Half-Life and Identity
- Steven Severin On His Silent Spring
- Michael House's Translation of Tati at YBCA
- Butchers Chop Shop at Sundance
- Stephen Talbot's World Music
- Sam Green's 'Utopia' at Sundance
- Road-Tested Rules For Bang-up Fundraising Events
- What's In a Name?
- Talking Heads to Storytellers
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December
2009
- The Cockettes' Celluloid Afterglow Still Strong at 40
- Workin' It: 'La Danse" and "Everything Strange and New'
- Holiday Film Preview, Part II
- Shannon and Ryan own the screen in "The Missing Person"
- Soulful "35 Shots of Rum" Gently Intoxicating
- After Sept. 11, 2001, A Decade Found Its Way
- 3D Reloaded: Where Does 3D Go From Here?
- Top 10s of 2009: Insiders and Fans
- Top 10s of the 2000s
- Thoughts On the Aughts: Best/Worst Trends
- Antonelli's 'Crossing Over' and Cooke's Soulful Genius
- Legal Eagle Eye Kristine Enea Zooms 'Off the Grid'
- Bay Area Narrative Filmmakers Thriving in Doc Capital
- Wintering with the SF Silent Film Festival
- Catherine Galasso's 'Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice'
- David Thomson Revisits 'Psycho's' Critical Moment
- Filmmakers Stuff 'Bag!' With Self-Distribution Dreams
- Sequence Names
- Best Practices For Naming Sequences
- Coming Around to 'Convergence'
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November
2009
- The Exiled Ingrid Bergman at PFA
- On the Road Before 'The Recess Ends'
- Chilean Film 'The Maid' and the Liberation of a Genre
- Gerald Peary on the Rise and Fall of the Film Critic
- Daven Gee Docs on the New American Family
- Shamir's 'Defamation' a Vintage Documentary Dust-up
- New Social Issue Dramas from Rainin Grant-Winners
- Feast Your Eyes: A Holiday Film Preview
- Marissa Aroy Unearths Forgotten California history
- A Tour Through the 2009 Taiwan Film Days
- New Italian Cinema's Fact, Fiction, Fascination
- Parker and di Napoli on Parody and High Art
- Russell Merritt at the SF International Animation Festival
- Frazer Bradshaw on "Everything Strange and New"
- David Sherman and Wasteland Utopias
- How to Entice and Reward Potential Donors
- A Challenge to Filmmakers
- Carmen Madden on Watching People, Writing Characters
- The Upside of Downtime
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October
2009
- Tangerine Dreams: Cinematheque de Tanger's Morocco Showcase
- Heddy Honigmann and the Art of Interview
- San Francisco Cinematheque Fall Program Underway
- The Turn-off Sex Cinema of Koji Wakamatsu
- Remembering Chick Strand
- Clough's Rough Time in 'Damned United'
- Yes Men Take On the World
- Christopher Upham Back to 'Dakto,' Vietnam
- Anne, Anne, Anne: McGuire Comes Alive
- Don't Criticize it: 'Holding On to Jah'
- Mill Valley Film Festival's 32nd
- What's up, DocFest?
- Live from Mill Valley: Woody Harrelson and Uma Thurman
- SFFS's Debut Cinema by the Bay
- French Cinema Now—and then
- 'Sorry, Thanks' Lavishes Love on the Mission
- Pamela Jean Smith Brings Home Movies to Big Screen
- Dave Eggers, Spike Jonze and 'Wild Things'
- Robert Mailer Anderson on Mendo Madness of 'Pig Hunt'
- The Importance of Supporting Characters
- Structuring Your Doc With Your Voice - and Vision
- A Fat Line Between Love and Hate
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September
2009
- High Drama in High school in 'The Beautiful Person'
- William Klein's Restless Mind
- Columbia Pictures' noir lights at the Roxie
- War Vets as Stars in 'Common Sky'
- Foraging for 'Swamp Cabbage'
- Telles charts 'Storm' of Mexican Revolution
- Simon and Gosling Play Strachwitz's Tunes
- Montalbano's "The Recondite Heart"
- Toronto International Film Festival 2009
- Cory McAbee and 'Stingray Sam'
- The Sad Dance of 'Tony Manero'
- Lucrecia Martel and "The Headless Woman"
- Franny Armstrong's S.O.S. to the World
- Roy Andersson on "You, the Living"
- The Impact of Joe Berlinger's 'Crude'
- Writing a Kick-Ass Funding Proposal
- Organizing your bins effectively
- TechCrunch 50: Clicker and AnyClip
- E-news You Can Use
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August
2009
- 'Desert of the Tartars' Saved from Obscurity
- 'Thirst' and the Vampire Genre Still Bleeding
- Josef von Sternberg Gem
- 'District 9' a Summer Sci-fi Surprise
- WWII as Genre Busted by 'Flame & Citron'
- Kim Longinotto and Women Make Movies Film Festival
- Lee, Schamus and Woodstock
- Dina Ciraulo's 'Opal'
- Pete Nicks Impatient in 'Waiting Room'
- Hess, Janos and the Volunteers of America
- How Scary Cow co-op is making indie filmmaking in SF a little less frightening
- Swedish Muckrakers Enlist Local Help
- Seiji Horibuchi on VIZ Cinema
- Bob Goldthwait, Fate and 'World's Greatest Dad'
- Ellen Schneider's Active Voice
- Fine points on Festivals
- Understanding Backstory
- How a Story Consultant Saved Me
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July
2009
- An Ample Display of Tilda Swinton's Edge
- 'Why Isn't Chris von Sneidern Famous?'
- Lucrecia Martel and a Case for Decadence
- Whip-smart, Witty 'In the Loop'
- Social Justice and the S.F. Jewish Film Festival
- 'Until the Light Takes Us'
- 'Howl' is Poetry in Post
- 'Lion's Den' and '24 City'
- The horror, the horror: 'Tweaker With an Axe'
- Weissman's 'Heartbreak and Heroism'
- J.P. Allen and the Landscape of Love
- SF Silent Film Festival
- Kutner and Goldstein on 'The Snake'
- Anita Monga and the SF Silent Film Festival
- Britta Sjogren and "Women's Film"
- Berkeley-based writer Barry Gifford's wild screen-rides
- Shelley Diekman Reflects on Well-Spent life
- 'The Greatest Year in Film' at the Castro
- Are Your "Friends" Worthless?
- Beyond Words: Comedy That Sticks
- The Real Deal
- Free and Open: Video's Cambrian Explosion
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June
2009
- 'Fados' finds Saura on his toes
- Social Fury 'In the Realm of Oshima' at PFA
- Marco Ferreri's Anarchic Filmmaking
- Iron Curtain Call in the Poland of 'Katyn'
- Frameline33: Youth in Revolt
- Suspense, Stillness and Beauty in 'Three Monkeys'
- Nutritious eating on the cheap for Potash film
- 'All About Evil'-doer Joshua Grannell in post
- Tejada-Flores on "Road" for a Change
- Another Hole in the Head
- Frameline33: Something Old, Something New
- Frameline33: Icons and Unsung Heroes
- Lawrence Jordan: to Infinity and Beyond
- Miller Brothers Touch Home at AT&T Park
- Weimberg/Ryan on Conflict and Conscience
- Tom Shepard's 'Whiz Kids' Blinding with Science
- Lee Isaac Chung on 'Munyurangabo'
- Cronenwett's 'Maggots and Men' at Frameline
- Richard Levien, from 'Immersion' to 'La Migra'
- "Just Make Them Love It"
- Facing the Music (Rights)
- Story Structures that Funders Love
- When the Personal is Political
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May
2009
- Film Society Awards: Ballard, Coppola, Redford and Toback
- SFIFF52 Blogs: Five Reasons why SF Loves Coppola
- SFIFF52: Movie-Scribe Meltdown
- SFIFF52 Blogs: Wilkerson's Proving Strong
- SFIFF52 Blogs: Coppola & Lucas at the Castro
- SFIFF52 Blogs: Cataloguing California
- Kubrick and Altman's Fear, Desire, and Delinquency
- Elliot Lavine: 'I Wake Up Dreaming'
- SFIFF52 Blogs: Dinosaurs, Disease, and Delirium
- Garrel's 'Frontier of Dawn'
- 'A Wake for Analog'
- 'Night and Day:' Location, Location, Locution
- Berkeley Hosts Karel Vachek Retrospective
- Raimi's Return to Horror: Drag Me to Hell
- Kaufman and Snitow: New Jewish Identity
- Recession-Proof Theaters, to a Point
- 'In-World War:' Brant Smith's Directorial Debut
- Dinner and a Movie Discussion: Igor Sinyak
- Cyrus Omoomian's 'Democracy': From Iran to Chile
- Local Makers Line Up Next Shot after SFIFF
- SFIFF52: Planet Armstrong
- SFIFF52: Golden Gate Awards Uncorked, SFFS/KRF Grant Winner Announced
- SFIFF52 Blogs: Keeping Scores
- Bruce Goldstein: From NY to SF to 'Con'
- Six Degrees of Bringing Home the Bacon
- The Hero, Deconstructed
- Crafting an Elegant Essay Documentary
- The Future of Video—In Our Hands?
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April
2009
- Box set "Treasures" unearths buried avant-garde
- Walsh sets off on Rainer's parade
- "Fans, Friends & Followers"—an excerpt
- "Observe and Report:" Seth Rogen Strikes Again
- Bahrani Earns Ebert's Praise for "Goodbye Solo"
- SFIFF52: Jim Granato's "D tour"
- SFIFF52: Peter Bratt's "La Mission"
- SFIFF52: "Lightness of Being" – Eight Wry Films
- SFIFF52: Jarmel and Schneider's "Speaking in Tongues"
- SFIFF52: Yun Suh's "City of Borders"
- SFIFF52: Chris Felver's "Ferlinghetti" Captures an Icon
- SFIFF52: Lourdes Portillo, Persistence of Vision Award Recipient
- SFIFF52 Blogs: Mission, Midnight and Under the Influence
- SFIFF52 Blogs: Portillo's 'Al Más Allá'
- SFIFF52: Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in the West'
- Holtzman: Psychedelic Cambodian Rock in 'Dengue Fever'
- SFIFF52: New Narrative Trend for Bay Area Cinema
- SFIFF52: 'The Professionals' Unites Filmmakers
- SFIFF52: Jennifer Maytorena Taylor and a 'New Muslim Cool'
- SFIFF52: Wisdom of the Underages
- SFIFF52: Robert Redford Accepts Owens Award
- SFIFF52: Light and Saraf's 'Empress Hotel'
- Risky (Film) Business - What (Not) to Do
- Character, Stripped to the Bone
- Repeating Yourself?
- Augmented Reality at SXSWi
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March
2009
- 'Examined Life' Puts Ideas into Action
- Troell in Fine Form with 'Everlasting Moments'
- Back to Nature with Ben Rivers
- William Kentridge at SFMOMA
- On the Road, in Search of a Film
- Sam Green's Utopian Experiment
- Kitchell on Another Hot Topic with Environmental Movement Doc
- Cinequest, Transforming
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa and a Cinema of Disaster
- SXSW: From the Producer's Chair
- Politics Get Personal in 'Project Kashmir'
- Connecting Here and There at the 27th SFIAAFF
- SF International Film Festival Lineup
- 'Medicine for Melancholy' in the City it Re-discovered
- The Buzz on H.P. Mendoza's 'Fruit Fly'
- Cary Joji Fukunaga on the (Very) Bay Area Story Behind 'Sin Nombre'
- Livin' la Vida Arnold with Lyndall Grant
- Michael Jacobs 'Audience of One' at the Roxie
- 'Medicine for Melancholy' and the Art of DIY Legal Agreements
- How to Rate Your Doc's Story Potential
- Sound Advice
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February
2009
- Warhol's Screen Tests Get Dean & Britta Treatment
- 'Strand' Follows Thread to Rep Cinema's Glory Days
- Stephane Gauger on 'Owl and the Sparrow'
- Terence Davies' 'Of Time and the City' is Poetic, Personal
- Re-Viewing 'The Savage Eye'
- 'Just Another Love Story' Offers Shock Treatment
- Chantal Akerman's Everyday, and More, at SFMOMA
- Gangster Life Verite in 'Gomorrah'
- 'Silent Light' and Shattered Landscapes
- Epps Unearths Buried Alcatraz History
- Strand Releasing Turns 20
- Ellen Lake's Miniatures Fit Right In
- Leban and Szajko's Gay Marriage Doc
- Peled's Globalization Trilogy in India's Cotton Fields
- SF Indiefest 2009
- San Francisco Silent Film Festival Winter Event
- Noise Pop Film Festival 2009
- SF Cinematheque: New Year, New Direction
- Intersections of 'Harrison Montgomery' with Daniel Davila
- Lightening Your Fundraising Load
- The Alchemy of Adaptation
- Growing a Good Story, Naturally
- Ten Commandments Before Diving into Digital Delivery
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January
2009
- The Year in Film 2008: Oscar Odds
- The Year in Film: What did Women Want?
- Debra Chasnoff's 'Straightlaced'
- Autobio-Animation and the Horrors of War
- 'Che: The Roadshow' reclaims a legend
- Bruce LaBruce's 'Otto': Zombies With Heart
- 'Scott Walker: 30 Century Man'
- Bud Cort Honored at Sketchfest
- Sundance Blogs: 'Everything Strange and New' and 'La Mission'
- Sundance '09: Award-Winners, Bloggers, and More
- César Charlone Directs 'The Pope's Toilet'
- Essay Films at the Pacific Film Archive
- Elizabeth Pepin's 'Wasted!'
- 'Tongues' Cracks the Language Barrier
- A Composer Almost Ready for His Close-Up
- Veteran Berkeley Filmmaker's Baseball Doc
- Wim Wenders: Berlin & Beyond
- Sundance Blog: Midnight at the Egyptian
- Sundance Blog: Urban Hiker's Guide
- Wendy Levy on the Politics of Participation
- Eddie Muller and Noir City
- Unresolutions of 2009
- Social Justice Filmmaking Grants Announced
- Remembering Ave Montague
- Casting: Names and Numbers
- Funder as Supplicant
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December
2008
- 'Discovering Teuvo Tulio'
- Something Wild: Martha Colburn's Collage Animations
- Genuflection: 'Pray the Devil Back to Hell'
- Season's Gleanings, a Holiday Preview
- Reading Between the Frames: Fleming and Sturges
- Bursting with 'Button'
- New at Frameline: K.C. Price
- Case Studies in Screenwriting: Pam Gray
- Pamela Harris, GFEM, and Filmmaker Funding
- Tom E. Brown on 'Pushing Dead' and Stayin' Alive
- Québec Film Week's Unprovincial Pleasures
- Sundance Harvests an Eclectic Crop of Local Films
- The Year in Film, 2008: Top Unreleased Films
- What Crisis? Fundraising During an Economic Meltdown
- From Gauche to Great
- Audience of One?
- Greenscreen Envy
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November
2008
- Supernaturalism with 'Let the Right One In'
- Another Ingmar Bergman in 'Monika'
- SF360 Film+Club: 'Silver Jew'
- Soviet-Critical 'Cargo 200' at YBCA
- Global Lens on Link TV
- Kroot's Planet Kuchar
- Sean Uyehara On the S.F. International Animation Festival
- Scott MacDonald's 'Canyon Cinema' Book--Both History and How-to
- David Thomson and 1,000 Unusual Suspects
- Gus Van Sant and Dustin Lance Black on 'Milk'
- Sragow on 'An American Movie Master'
- Perfect Pitch
-
October
2008
- 'Full Battle Rattle' On the Endless War
- Crossing Borders with 'Fraulein'
- 'Secrecy' Up For Debate
- SFFS Screens 'Delwende'
- 'Christmas on Mars' Non Halloween
- Straight and Not So Narrow 'Crooked Beauty' In Production
- Making 'Howl' and 'Babnik'
- A Documentary on Death and Survival in Paradise
- Mill Valley Film Festival's Maher Moment
- Dead Channels 2008 Comes Alive
- SFFS's Inaugural French Cinema Now
- MVFF: Mulford and Cruz On Chile's Dark Past
- Carnival of Nonfiction Filmmaking
- 12th Arab Film Festival
- Jack Stevenson on 'The Superstars Next Door'
- Documenting the Lyme Epidemic
- A Talk With Arab Film Festival's Executive Director
- Lance Hammer on Beauty and 'Ballast'
- Susan Oxtoby and the Pacific Film Archive
- Notes on Digital Distribution
- Trailer Talk
- The Dimensions of Dialogue
- Basics of Web 3.0?
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September
2008
- Chris Marker Comes Home, At Last
- Room for Thought at SFMOMA
- The Fantastical Imagination of 'Wind Man'
- Curators at Bay Area Now 5
- Toronto 2008: Slow Food, Fast Festival
- The Cosmic Dance-Floor of Arthur Russell
- Baloney Sandwiches With No Cheese: Ted V. Mikels' Wild World
- 'Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer'
- Jerusalem's Lone Gay Bar
- Educational 'Split' Helps Troubled Children of Divorce
- Scott Crocker's 'Ghost Bird' Phenomenon
- Mendocino's Swine Country
- Mill Valley's 31st Program
- 7th SF DocFest Program
- Ariella Ben-Dov's Madcat Archives
- Stephen Parr's Oddball Films
- Vida Ghahremani: Star is Reborn in Wayne Wang's Latest
- Yiyun Li, The Voice of 'A Thousand'
- James Savoca's 'Around June' Casts Spell Around Potrero Hill
- SWAG: Free Feature Films On the Web
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August
2008
- Saluting the Ultimate Whistleblower
- Not About Royalty
- 'The Dark Cinema of David Goodis' at the PFA
- Nik Sheenan's 'FliCKer'
- Vertigo's 50th Anniversary
- In Spain with 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona'
- Global Film Initiative: Funding the Bigger Picture
- 'Hats Off' Fascinated With 93-Years-Young Actress
- 'Days and Clouds' Finds Changes in the Weather
- Inside the Telluride Film Festival
- Exhuming History with "The Judge and the General"
- Canyon Cinema's Dominic Angerame
- Stephen Olsson and Link TV
- Parvez Sharma and 'A Jihad for Love'
- Rob Nilsson on Himself
- Second Stage of Film Arts Foundation's Legacy of Advocacy
- Not Quite Quiet Desperation
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July
2008
- 'The Gits,' the Movie
- Niles Essanay's Voguing Eunuchs, Raving Madmen
- Fatih Akin and 'The Edge of Heaven'
- Swinging '60s suburbs in 'Viva'
- The Mystical and Everyday in 'A Listener's Tale'
- 'CSNY: Deja Vu'
- Jacques Nolot and 'Before I Forget'
- 'The Exiles,' a Return Engagement
- Beard world and Swenson's Salton Sea
- Frameline's New Lesson Plan
- The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
- The 28th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
- Riffling through '1000 Journals' with Someguy
- SFFS Screen's 'Hank and Mike'
- Hard Look at China in 'Blind Mountain'
- Catherine Breillat's 'The Last Mistress'
- S.F. Jewish Film Festival's Stein and Fishman
- Muayad Alayan, Christian Bruno
- In Memoriam: Bruce Conner (1933-2008)
- A Week at Flaherty
- What's Fair is not Foul
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June
2008
- Review: 'Surfwise'
- Travel Guide Through Another Hole in the Head Film Festival
- Review: 'Love Songs'
- 'Mongol's' Mr. Nice Guy: Genghis Khan
- Herzog's 'Encounters at the End of the World'
- San Francisco Black Film Festival's 10th
- Screen Test, San Jose
- The List: Michael Lumpkin Looks Back
- Hong Sang Soo on the SFFS Screen
- Critic's Notebook: Hole Head, Week One
- New Rohmer on SFFS Screen
- The World of 'Derek' at Frameline32
- Argentina's New Wave at Frameline
- Critic's Notebook: Frameline32
- Alex Gibney on Going 'Gonzo'
- Dawn and David Katznelson
- 'Up the Yangtze' with Yung Chang
- Strand's Marcus Hu and Frameline's Michael Lumpkin
- Ruby Yang on 'A Double Life'
- SFFS Screen at Sundance Kabuki
-
May
2008
- Review: 'The Living End,' remixed and remastered
- Finding Warren Sonbert
- Review: "Mister Lonely"
- Jimmy Stewart at 100
- Review: "Postal"
- Capelle on Composers: Day Two
- Nights on the Towne: Film Society Awards Night
- Cinemania at the SF International
- Capelle on Composers: Back to Back
- SF International's Golden Gate Awards: Alive and Cooking
- In Other Words: States of Cinema, Music and Mind
- In Other Words: Pacific Whims
- Capelle on Composers: Day Three
- "Standard Operating Procedure" and the Stories We Tell
- Frameline's 32nd SFLGBT Festival Program
- S.F. International Arts Festival
- SFIAF: 'Mordake' and Week Two -- Reviewed, Previewed
- 'Shampoo.' Rinse. Repeat.
- Gibney Going "Gonzo," Part Two
- Q&A: Alex Rivera, 'Sleep Dealer'
- The Doctor and the Documentarian Behind "The English Surgeon"
- Contemporary Jewish Museum's DAWN
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April
2008
- Review: "Boarding Gate"
- "Cachao: Uno Mas"
- SF Int'l announces its 51st program and year-round screen
- Earthdance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival
- Seven from the Sonoma Valley Film Festival
- "Palestine: Interior/Exterior"
- SFIFF51: Renee Tajima- Pe–a's trip down “Calavera Highway'
- SFIFF51: Dawn Logsdon, on new hope in an old neighborhood, "Faubourg TremŽ"
- SFIFF51: The Miller Brothers on writing, pitching, acting, directing, and hitting one out of the ballpark
- Asia Argento, In Full Flower
- I [heart] Jason Lee
- Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy World
- Capelle and Composers: Day One
- In Other Words: Standard Operating Procedure
- Thomas Beard exposes "Live Cinema"
- 'Thrillville' turns 11
- Johnny Symons and "Ask Not"
- SFIFF51: Craig Baldwin Shoots the Moon, and the Desert
- SFIFF51: California Newsreel at 40
- SFIFF51: On the Breeding Behind "Evolution: The Musical!"
- SFIFF51: Barry Jenkins' San Francisco Story
- SFIFF51: Eddie Muller's Muses
- SFIFF51: Katherin McInnis Cues the Carnival Music
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March
2008
- "Warts & All: The Films of Danny Plotnick"
- "A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich"
- "Paranoid Park"
- Ira Sachs on "Married Life"
- "Shelter"
- SFMOMA's "Nonwestern Westerns" Series
- Review: "Shotgun Stories"
- The San Francisco Irish Film Festival
- Cinequest's surprises
- San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 2008
- Ten SFIAAFF Picks From Judy Stone
- San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
- SFIAAFF's winners
- "Girls Rock" with Arne Johnson & Shane King
- Donnie Yen, "Flashpoint"
- "2 Husbands," One Amazing Race?
- Q&A: Brillante Mendoza
- SFIAAFF's Taro Goto, Moving On
- Jeff Nichols on "Shotgun Stories"
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February
2008
- Review: "Taxi to the Dark Side"
- "Shrooms" Screams Bloody Horror
- Cinema, Israeli Style
- Bollywood By the Bay
- Undying Love for George A. Romero
- Review: "The Signal"
- Kiarostami Firsts, Plus "Five"
- Danny Glover, "Honeydripper," and Us
- 10 Reasons to See "Cinema Piemonte"
- Sundance, In Stitches
- SF Indiefest at 10
- SF Indiefest, From Day One
- Noise Pop Film Festival
- Cristian Mungiu's 24 Hours of "4 Months, 3 Weeks"
- SF Indiefest Opening Night: Riding "Shotgun" With Jeff Nichols
- Carl D. Brown and Erin Beach of "2nd Verse"
- Eran Kolirin and "The Band's Visit"
- Emiko Omori and Wendy Slick's "Passion & Power"
- L.Q. Jones Talks Dogs and Cult Movies
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January
2008
- The Best Undistributed Films of 2007
- SFMOMA's Emile de Antonio Series
- Review: "The Violin"
- "Joy Division" on Screen
- Cassandra's Dreamer, Woody Allen
- Art Stars of Sundance
- Paradjanov and Godard on DVD
- "The Medieval Remake" at the PFA
- Berlin & Beyond at 13
- Noir City 2008
- Location Scouting at Sundance
- Gail Silva's Sundance Primer
- "Teeth" Actor Has a Sundance Flashback
- Peter Galison, "Secrecy," and Sundance
- Amanda Micheli Going for La Corona
- Alan K. Rode on Noir and Charles McGraw
- 'Be Kind Rewind' Brings Michel Gondry to SF
- SF-Based Distributor Viz Pictures
- Heath Ledger, a Loss
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December
2007
- Review: "Diva"
- Five Great Skate Features
- Reviews: "Walk Hard"; "Charlie Wilson's War"
- Les Blank's "All in this Tea"
- Jesse Hawthorne Ficks's Midnight Movie Empire
- Q&A with "Holly" Filmmakers
- Christopher Coppola Wants You
- Jessica Yu, "Protagonist"
- "Starting Out in the Evening" With Andrew Wagner
- Bollyhood, a Concept, a Cafe
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November
2007
- Jumping the Shark
- "Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten"
- "Redacted"
- Phil Chambliss, Arkansas Auteur
- The Short Films of Big Ugly Review
- The Many Faces of Dylan
- "RKO Lost & Found" at the Roxie
- "Hannah Takes the Stairs"
- "Holly," an Unseasonably Sobering Drama
- S.F. Silent Film Festival“s Third Annual Winter Event
- The 32nd American Indian Film Festival
- International Latino Film Festival and S.F. International Animation Festival
- Second S.F. International Animation Festival
- Connie Field, from Berkeley to Johannesburg
- Sean Uyehara Talks S.F. International Animation Festival
- Herzog, Docs, and Truth at AFI Fest
- Reverend Billy on Missionary Mall Work
- Robert Lepage, "Progress" Report
- 'Her Name is Sabine' With SF360 Movie Night
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October
2007
- "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
- Joseph Cornell at SFMOMA
- Your Al Gore, and More
- "Lars and the Real Girl"
- Mill Valley Film Festival at 30
- Mill Valley Film Festival 30
- The 11th Arab Film Festival
- Anywhere Road's Robert Ogden Barnum
- Nine Questions for Rob Nilsson
- Jamie Meltzer on "Welcome to Nollywood"
- Robert Arnold, in "The Key of G"
- Shooting People's Ingrid Kopp
- Aaron Woolf Seeding Doubt in "King Corn"
- MobMov and the New-School Drive-In Movie
- Mister Jalopy's Urban Guerrilla Movie House
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September
2007
- "Discovering Orson Welles"
- SOFA, so good? "Straight outta Film Arts" (SOFA) shines a light on youth filmmaking
- "Punk's Not Dead"
- Tomo Uchida at the PFA
- "In Search of Mozart"
- A Sean Penn Top 10
- Lucy Gray's Telluride
- Five from Madcat
- SF Docfest Report
- Finn Taylor on Natural Selection and "The Darwin Awards"
- George Kuchar, Neither Boil nor Blister
- Lynn Hershman Leeson's "Culture" war
- Ariella Ben-Dov, Madcat Mastermind
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August
2007
- Jewish Humor, After Woody
- Abbas Kiarostami: "Image Maker"
- "Crossing the Line" and "Death at a Funeral"
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- "This is England;" "Rocket Science"
- Blood, Sweat, Tears
- "The King of Kong;" "2 Days in Paris"
- "Coffy" and Other Tales of Female Revenge
- "From the Tsars to the Stars: A Journey Through Russian Fantastik Cinema"
- Laurent Tirard on "Moliere"
- "Arctic Tale" and the Melting of Hearts
- "Revolution Summer"
- Telluride in Transition
- Bruce Fletcher, Dead Channels and the Living
- Irina Leimbacher and Konrad Steiner on "kino21"
- Jeffrey Blitz and Reece Thompson on "Rocket Science"
- A Mighty Wurlitzer Player
- Peaches Christ Superstar
- "2 Days in Paris" with Julie Delpy
- Off the Lot With Mateen Kemet
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July
2007
- Parker Posey's return in "Broken English"
- Rodents we love
- "Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox;" "Ten Canoes"
- Fabulous Fashion in Film
- Saul Bass, "Phase IV"
- "Private Property;" "One to Another"
- International Stories Find Audiences at L.A. Film Fest
- A Frozen Film Festival five
- The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
- In the ring with Jewish boxers at SFJFF
- Jasmine Dellal on her "Gypsy Caravan"
- Stacey Wisnia, talking silent pictures
- 'Joshua's' George Ratliff
- Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky on "Manufactured Landscapes"
- "Sunshine" on my shoulders
- Shonali Bose on "Amu"
- Mateen Kemet, "On the Lot"
- Marc Huestis on the Runway
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June
2007
- Reviews: "La Vie en Rose;" "Crazy Love"
- Reviews: "Brand Upon the Brain!", "Golden Door"
- The art of Muppetry
- "American Cannibal" and Reality TV
- "Lover Other"
- "SiCKO"-time
- Macbeths we have known
- San Francisco Black Film Festival
- A Strandful at Frameline31
- Lumpkin and Morris on Frameline's Big Picture
- Jackson Hole Film Festival
- Frameline31
- Dennis Nyback and "Bad Bugs Bunny"
- "Once" Again -- A Date With Carney, Hansard, and Irglova
- Dan Klores and "Crazy Love"
- Michael Winterbottom's "A Mighty Heart"
- Richard Wong and H.P. Mendoza, reanimating "Colma: The Musical"
- Andrea Sperling, powering up
- Movies and Martinis, A Movement
- Laura Albert, The Real J.T. Leroy, Charged With Fraud
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May
2007
- A "Flanders" Reader
- "Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait"
- Guillen's Top Five from Another Hole in the Head
- Reviews: "Bamako" and "Angel-A"
- "The Prodigy," The Roxie, Delirium, God
- Fred Astaire, "Also Dances..."
- Picturing Politics at SFIFF50
- Digital Festival
- Spike Lee
- Film Society Awards Night
- SFIFF50, Diving In
- Live from Fog City
- Golden Gate Award to "The Key of G"
- Frameline, Scalped
- Meet the Jury/A Palme d'Or 20
- Frameline Announces 31st Program
- 2007 Mendocino Film Festival
- Liane Yasumoto and Superfest International Disability Film Festival
- Hal Hartley, Not So simple
- Hal Hartley, Not So Simple: Part II
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April
2007
- Reviews: "Police Beat"; "The Page Turner"
- Loach's Palme d'Or Winner
- Reviews: "I Don't Want to Sleep Alone"; "Mafioso"
- Reviews: 'Comedy of Power'
- Dead Channels : The San Francisco Festival of Fantastic Film
- S.F. International Announces Lineup for 50th
- SFIFF50-philes
- Sonoma Valley Film Festival
- Uyehara Hits High Notes on Music of SFIFF50
- A Festival, a Half Century
- SFIFF50
- SF360 Film Culture Confidential: Shhhhhh....
- Amanda Micheli's Wonder Women
- Weerasethakul Talks Hospitals, Aerobics, and a Boy From Mars
- Paul Verhoeven and His "Black Book"
- Mike White's Alter Egos
- Jon Else On Acts of Creation
- Kerry Laitala and Her New "Muse"
- A Rob Nilsson 10
- Daniel Wu, Heavenly King
- Remembering Jim Lyons: 1960 - 2007
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March
2007
- Reviews: "Color Me Kubrick" and "Pride"
- Now and Zen and an Imperial Adventure
- The Critics and Antonioni
- Favorite Artists at the SFIAAFF
- The SF International's GreenWorld contest turns a big issue over to the makers of shorts
- Video-Diary Pioneer Spencer Nakasako
- Grace Lee on the Zombie in You and Me
- Phillip Haas on "The Situation"
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February
2007
- 15 Minutes of YouTube
- The Eye Candy of 'Tears of the Black Tiger'
- "Iraq in Fragments, "The Lives of Others"
- "Alternative Visions" at the PFA
- Reviews: "Family Law"; "Amazing Grace"
- The Countercultures of "Commune"
- Reviews: "Black Snake Moan"; "Cinemachismo"
- 'Seraphim Falls': Myth in the Western Canon
- The Other Side of Indie at SF Indiefest's 9th
- S.F. International Asian American Announces '07 Program
- Film Arts Foundation's 'Bay Area Film Festivals'
- A Royal Family
- Cheryl Eddy, Behind the New "SF360 Movie Scene"
- Von Donnersmarck's Oscar-nominated "The Lives of Others"
- The Red Vic Movie House's Top 5
- Rory Kennedy and 'The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib'
- Michael Arndt, Little Mr. Sunshine
- Food, Funding
- 'The Departed' Wins Best Picture, Scorsese Best Director at 79th Oscars
- Signs of the Zodiac
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January
2007
- The Breno Mello of "Black Orpheus"
- A "Backstage" Breakdown
- "Absolute Wilson"; "Army of Shadows"
- A Chilean Top Four
- "Samoan Wedding"; "Romantico"
- "The Lubitsch Touch"
- Lynn Hershman Leeson and "Strange Culture"
- Berlin & Beyond 2007
- Indiefest Lineup Announcement
- Key Events of 50th SFIFF Announced at Sundance
- Noir City5, Fun with Dicks and Janes
- A Superdance and a Superbowl
- Tom Tykwer and the scent of a serial killer
- Mark Becker's Mission-Inspired "Romantico"
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December
2006
- Cheryl Eddy's Badder Santas
- Nathaniel Dorsky's Secret World
- "Radical Closure" at the PFA
- Written and Directed by Preston Sturges
- "Candy" keeps up with the Joneses
- I, Spy
- James Broughton, and a DVD Eden
- A Whole Lotta Holiday Film
- SF to Sundance
- 2006, The Remix
- "Man Push Cart" Director's New York-by-Way-of-Pakistan Story
- Frank Lee on 4 Star Theatre's Second Life
- James T. Hong on Heidegger, Hitler, and His New Film
- SF Film Critics Circle Announces Awards
- The Cities' Critics Speak
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November
2006
- The Mafia Doc "Excellent Cadavers"
- More Made Men
- Reopening "Pandora's Box"
- 50 Years of Janus Films
- KQED's Wild West in "Truly CA"
- Music Videos At the Museum
- Teshigahara at The Castro
- Otto Motives, A Preminger Perspective
- Truman Capote , 1974
- Cinema, New Italian Style
- Second Look at 3rd I
- A Cinequest 35
- 51 Birch Street, Revisited
- A Marc Huestis Presents 20
- Mary Badham, On a "Mockingbird" Mission
- InDplay and The New Art of Film Distribution
- Killing My Lobster Gets Krunk With Andrew Bancroft
- Robert Altman 1925-2006
- Adrian Belic Goes 'Beyond the Call'
- A Word From Our Sponsored Films
- Case Studies in Indie Distribution at Digimart
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October
2006
- Fighting for Freedom: Exploring Vachon's "Killer Life"
- A War Movie Lost to Time
- City Poet Bruce Baillie Returns
- Found: 'Marie Antoinette' in Paris
- Things You May or May Not Know About Miranda July
- A U.N. Ten
- Stand Up, Be Counted: Grassroots Docs Warn of Electronic Voting
- Mill Valley Film Festival 2006
- Dog Day Afternoon in the Castro
- San Francisco International Animation Showcase
- John Cameron Mitchell's long "Shortbus" ride
- "One Man Band," two Pixar geniuses, and "The Iron Giant" revisited
- Joseph McBride: All is Welles
- Poetic Terrorism and Wholphin #2
- Amy Berg's "Deliver Us From Evil"
- Crossing That Bridge
- Stanley Nelson on the Jonestown Tragedy
- Arnold On the Auction Block
- Roxie, The Vote
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September
2006
- Gallery on Demand
- Peter Whitehead's '60s
- Another Other Cinema, Now on DVD
- The "remake," re-made
- Jack Stevenson's vault of vice
- Two Wheels, Five Films
- Telluride Film Festival 2006
- Arab Film Festival 2006
- Ariella Ben-Dov on View-Mastery and "Women's Work"
- Mill Valley Film Festival 2006 Announcement
- Global Lens 2006
- Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema 2006
- David Thomson on Nicole Kidman
- MPAA in Sights of This Film Is Not Yet Rated
- Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre on Border Life
- Opening "Red Doors" in Asian American Family
- Ian Inaba on Stolen and Influenced Elections
- Indie Distributors Strategize for Fall 2006 Releases
- Voting Protection-Related Sites
- Netflix 101, a Dispatch from IFP's Filmmaker Conference
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August
2006
- Francois Ozon, Mortal
- All About Eva
- Sweet "Quinceañera" vs. MTV's greedy "My Super Sweet 16"
- "Seventeen" Might be Greatest Movie Ever About Teenagers: 17 Reasons Why
- Bukowski By the Bunch
- Pacific Film Archive's "A Theater Near You"
- ZeroOne Through Ten
- A Tale of Two Shorts Festivals
- Academy Grant Jump Starts SF International's 50th
- Fall 2006 Festival Season
- Netflix Rolling Roadshow: Return to Alcatraz
- Amos Gitai's Reality
- Mary Woronov Visits Midnight Mass
- Stephen Parr In the Home-Movie Archives
- Keith Fulton and "Brothers of the Head"
- Night Listening with Patrick Stettner
- TurnHere's Travel Videos
- Ryan Fleck: Wrestling with 'Half Nelson'
- Naut Humon, Recombinant Media Labs Explore Limits of Sight, Sound
- Laura Poitras" "My Country, My Country"
- Morpho Power at SIGGRAPH
- Current TV and the Audience as Auteur
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July
2006
- Celebrating "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"
- Visconti's Signature Features
- The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
- Overview of the S.F. Jewish Film Festival
- Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer, from the Salton Sea to San Francisco
- SFMOMA Curator on Matthew Barney
- Tracy Flannigan Watches Tribe 8 "Rise Above"
- Larry Clark's New Kids on the Block
- Best of Balboa
- Car Talk with Chris Paine
- Patsy Desmond, Survivor on Screen
- 25 Years of Sundance at the CFI's Rafael
- Filmmaking in 48 Hours
- Preteens on Surprise Endings
- Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga on the Weight of Words
- A Documentary on Peru's Terror War
- Adrian Belic and Just Think Youth Media Educators
- Hip Hop Cinema
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June
2006
- "Songbirds" New Tune
- "An Inconvenient Truth" Strikes a Nerve
- "Kees Kino: The Film Work of Weldon Kees"
- "Broken Sky" and "Two Drifters" at the San Francisco LGBT Film Festival
- Bay Area Filmmakers at SF International LGBT Film Festival
- Army of Shadows and France's Soul
- We Want Our "Dykeback Mountain"
- Would Football By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet?
- Zack Bazzi, War Correspondent
- Rare Horror
- The San Francisco Black Film Festival
- San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
- Critic's Notebook, Frameline30
- Jesse Ficks and "Midnites for Maniacs"
- Marc Huestis and a Wrinkle in Time
- The Outsiders
- Benjamin Morgan's "Quality of Life" out on DVD
- Matthew Barney, "Drawing Restraint"
- By the Numbers -- The Making of "Colma: The Musical"
- Mat Whitecross and the Rough "Road to Guantanamo"
- Zero Hour
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May
2006
- Kidlat Tahimik's "Perfumed Nightmare" Remains an Unlikely Masterpiece
- Showstopping Filmmakers Rodney Ascher and Syd Garon
- Four Performers on Getting "Fired!"
- Ten Near Masterpieces Rescued from the Dustbin
- Words on work with Michael Glawogger
- San Francisco International Film Festival, Week Two
- Addictive TV's VJ-style "Eye of the Pilot" at the Kabuki
- Tilda Swinton: The 2006 SFIFF "State of Cinema" Address
- San Francisco International Film Festival's Award Winners
- Werner Herzog, Setting the Record Straight
- Docfest: Not to Be Believed?
- 24 Reasons Why
- Creative Offerings at the Icelandic Film Festival
- Frameline's 30th San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
- 2006 San Francisco International Arts Festival
- Terry Zwigoff, "Confidential" and Uncensored
- A Writer and Filmmaker Bring "Alice" to the Screen
- One Screen, Three San Francisco Cinephiles
- Filmmaker William Farley's Peripheral Vision
- New Executive Director of S.F. Cinematheque on Experimental Film
- A Conversation with Farmer John (Peterson)
- Dominic Angerame on Making "Consume"
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April
2006
- "Reel SF" Finds a Tough, Moody Kinda Town
- Masharawi Finds Palestinians In States of Suspended Animation
- 'Hot Fuzz' a Cheeky Riposte to H-wood
- Cinephiles and Oenophiles: Sommelier Pairings for Sonoma Valley Fest
- International REMIX
- Graham Leggat, SFIFF Executive Director, Indexed
- Unleash the Blogs
- From Here to Iberia at SFIFF
- The Revolution Will Be Digitized?
- Unleash the Blogs, II
- Zahedi and Field on I Am a Sex Addict
- Happiness Is...Finding a Film Club? Adam Werbach Riffs
- Totally, Tenderly 20th-Century: Lopate Curates Critics
- "Full Grown Men" On the Road
- Tommy Pallotta's Reanimation of "A Scanner Darkly"
- Andy Lau, The Magic Man
- Choose Your Words
- Sam Green's Tour Through "Lot 63, Grave C"
- Five Moments on Market Street, 1905-2006
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March
2006
- Tehran Contemporary Art Exhibit On Tour
- Human Rights Watch Film Festival: More Than "Watching"
- Tiburon Film Festival Turns a Tourist Town Around
- A Talk with SFIAAFF Directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto
- Shigeta's Presence at the SFIAAFF
- Transnational Tales at This Year's SFIAAFF
- Future Stars of SFIAAFF
- 49th Annual SFIFF Lineup
- Noise Pop: The Movie
- Picks for the San Francisco International Film Festival
- David Kipen Posits New Auteur Theory
- The Roxie, Resurrected
- Interview With Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker
- Public Defender Jeff Adachi Adds Filmmaker to Resume
- Cambodian Americans Exiled in New Film, Sentenced Home
- Filmmaker Ham Tran Rights an Historical Wrong
- Nothing and Everything Sacred in Reygadas' Films
- Measuring Cities By Their Taste in Film
- Garrett Scott, Filmmaker, 1968-2006
- A JT LeRoy Reader
- Sundance Cinemas Buys Kabuki 8
- Chuck Stephens on the Set of "Citizen Dog"
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