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NFPF’s ‘Treasures 5’ Excavates 'The West'
Michael Fox Oct 28, 2011The National Film Preservation Foundation delivers another gem with the fascinating three-disc box set 'The West 1898-1938.'
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Under the Spell of French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 25, 2011
Love permeates SFFS's francophone film series.
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In Orbit with ‘An Injury to One’
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 21, 2011
Accompanied by a program of solar system shorts, Travis Wilkerson’s 2003 look at ruthless union-busting and the rise and fall of Butte, Montana, offers eerie resonance.
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Where Are their Stories?
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 17, 2011
The best is yet come for Mexican wunderkind Nicolás Pereda, whose elliptical narratives allow room meditation and imagination on the part of a viewer.
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Gordon-Levitt's Chances Better than '50/50'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 30, 2011
Up-and-comer Joseph Gordon-Levitt is so good he compensates for the cancer comedy's shortcomings, even if he can't erase them.
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Turturro Makes a Case for 'Passione'
Max Goldberg
Sep 29, 2011
John Turturro shares his passion for the Neapolitan songbook.
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Broadly Comedic ‘My Afternoons with Margueritte’ a Harmless Indulgence
Dennis Harvey
Sep 26, 2011
Sentimental French film is no top-shelf vehicle, but Depardieu savors it as if it were the rarest vintage Bordeaux.
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He-Men Command Belief in MMA Film 'Warrior'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 13, 2011
Gavin O'Connor does a remarkable job making his two-and-a-half-hour fight film gritty, involving and as credible as humanly possible.
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‘Puzzle’ Pieces Together a Life
Jonathan Kiefer
Sep 9, 2011
Maria Onetto quietly dazzles in Argentine film about a midlife jigsaw puzzler.
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More than Cute Keeps 'Hedgehog' Going
Dennis Harvey
Sep 6, 2011
Mona Achache's first feature relies heavily on an 11-year-old narrator, but it's 60- and 65-year-old actors who steal the show.
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Jean-Luc Godard Sets Course for Adventure
Robert Avila
Sep 1, 2011
The first feature to play SFFS | New People Cinema, Godard's ‘Film Socialisme’ is both poetic rumination and urgent intervention.
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PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011
SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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Essential SF: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Aug 23, 2011
Lynn Hershman Leeson catalogues revolutions past and pushes the art and technology envelope well into the future.
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‘The Arbor’s’ ‘Verbatim Theatre’ Approach Strikes Chord
Dennis Harvey
Aug 16, 2011
Clio Barnard's ‘The Arbor’ takes a fascinating and unconventional look at Andrea Dunbar's brief, brilliant career.
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Pagnol's Foodie Oeuvre Appreciated in East Bay
Max Goldberg
Aug 11, 2011
Pacific Film Archive serves a full course of films by Marcel Pagnol.
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High Energy 'Point Blank' Is a Rush
Dennis Harvey
Aug 9, 2011
Thrill ride 'Point Blank' loses nothing in translation—it's a prime example of cinematic globalization.
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McDonagh Finds Success in Family Path with 'The Guard'
Dennis Harvey
Aug 4, 2011
John Michael McDonagh's first feature echos the blackly comedic tenor of his ('In Bruges') brother Martin's oeuvre.
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In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'
Jackson Scarlett
Aug 2, 2011
Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.
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Cinematographer Cardiff's Eye Prized in 'Cameraman' Doc
Dennis Harvey
Jul 29, 2011
'Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff' is a lovely portrait of an innovator and consummate craftsman.
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Fassbinder's Funky Futurism Speaks to the Moment
Dennis Harvey
Jul 26, 2011
Fassbinder's retro-chic, thought-provoking 'World on a Wire' finds the 'future' is now.
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Striking Skolimowski Films Rescued from Obscurity at PFA
Dennis Harvey
Jul 18, 2011
Pacific Film Archive’s ‘Hands Up! Essential Skolimowski’ surveys the Polish director’s confounding oeuvre.
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Weitz Explores the Other L.A. with 'A Better Life'
Dennis Harvey
Jul 8, 2011
'A Better Life' succeeds as an L.A.-set remake of bleak Italian neorealist classic 'The Bicycle Thief.'
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Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011
New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.
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‘Over the Edge’ Emerges from ‘Cult-Favorite’ Closet
Dennis Harvey
Jun 28, 2011
Ficks’ ‘Watch out for Children’ triple bill features a long lost career-lanching teen-drama gem.
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Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'
Adam Hartzell
Jun 24, 2011
Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.
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Vintage Kinski Uncorked at YBCA
Dennis Harvey
Jun 17, 2011
YBCA digs a delightfully disturbing live Kinski document from the archives.
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Soap-Operatic 'Bride Flight' Is an Entertaining Ride
Dennis Harvey
Jun 10, 2011
An historical-romantic novel in screen form, 'Bride Flight' offers all the pleasures (some guilty ones) of a film made half a century ago.
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'Blank City' Looks Back at Underground 'B' Heyday
Dennis Harvey
Jun 3, 2011
A documentary digs into New York's 'No Wave' movement that briefly flourished in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
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'Into Eternity' Ponders a Present-Day Paradox
Susan Gerhard
May 27, 2011
Danish filmmaker/artist Michael Madsen turns questions around a European nuclear-waste project into an operatic doc.
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Lost Legends Haunt Roxie's Latest Noir Series
Matt Sussman
May 13, 2011
The devil is in the details of I Wake Up Screaming, the Roxie's annual two-week spring celebration of noir's shadiest titles.
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We Are All Made of Stars in Patrico Guzmán's Universe
B. Ruby Rich
May 12, 2011
'Nostalgia for the Light' may be the most optimistic film in Guzmán's oeuvre, but he still knows how to make us cry, mourn and remember.
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