• August 2, 2011
  
  

  'Crime After Crime'

  Aug 8, 2011

  San Francisco International Film Festival audience-award winner and Sundance standout 'Crime After Crime' opens Friday at the Roxie. This week in SF360, Judy Stone profiles Yoav Potash, the director of the doc, which covers five years of the life and trials of Deborah Peagler, a woman serving 25-years-to-life for her involvement in the murder of her abuser. Potash will appear with guests for Q&A following some screenings. More info at roxie.com.

  
• August 4, 2011
  
  

  Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience

  Judy Stone
  Aug 1, 2011

  Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.

  
• Home
  
  

  Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience

  Judy Stone
  Aug 1, 2011

  Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience

  Judy Stone
  Aug 1, 2011

  Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.

  
• Home
  
  

  Ido Haar Seeks Justice, Searches Soul

  Judy Stone
  Feb 26, 2011

  SFFS Artist in Residence speaks on cities, Siberia, family and life in the Middle East.

  
• March 3, 2011
  
  

  Ido Haar Seeks Justice, Searches Soul

  Judy Stone
  Feb 26, 2011

  SFFS Artist in Residence speaks on cities, Siberia, family and life in the Middle East.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Ido Haar Seeks Justice, Searches Soul

  Judy Stone
  Feb 26, 2011

  SFFS Artist in Residence speaks on cities, Siberia, family and life in the Middle East.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  'Village' a New Look at New Orleans

  Judy Stone
  Mar 10, 2010

  S. Leo Chiang knew what it was like to be an outsider in the U.S., so the rebellion of Vietnamese residents in New Orleans was an ideal subject.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Jennifer Phang On Half-Life and Identity

  Judy Stone
  Jan 8, 2010

  Jennifer Phang has experienced more than enough culture shocks in her life to empathize with the identity challenges of the characters in her debut feature.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  Bruce Goldstein: From NY to SF to 'Con'

  Judy Stone
  May 17, 2009

  Bruce Goldstein recalls his adventures in film land as he prepares to host the Con Film Festival at the Film Forum in New York.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Cary Joji Fukunaga on the (Very) Bay Area Story Behind 'Sin Nombre'

  Judy Stone
  Mar 15, 2009

  His personal curiosity on family histories and some actual events, are behind this movie about complex families Ñthose in Mexican gangs and those traveling immigrants looking for a better life in the U.S.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Stephane Gauger on 'Owl and the Sparrow'

  Judy Stone
  Feb 9, 2009

  In this fable-like movie, an indomitable young orphan finds friendship with a lonely flight attendant and a teen-age caretaker of elephants.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Debra Chasnoff's 'Straightlaced'

  Judy Stone
  Jan 5, 2009

  50 California students talk about their problems with gender in the new documentary Straightlaced–How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Global Lens on Link TV

  Judy Stone
  Nov 20, 2008

  Global Film Initiative's Global Lens series offers a regular spot in your home theater for edgy world-cinema narratives don't often get a place at local multiplexes.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Yiyun Li, The Voice of 'A Thousand'

  Judy Stone
  Sep 30, 2008

  The title story of her Hemingway/Pen Award-winning collection of short stories, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, has been adapted by Wayne Wang.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Vida Ghahremani: Star is Reborn in Wayne Wang's Latest

  Judy Stone
  Sep 24, 2008

  When Vida Ghahremani became a movie star at 16 in the Shah's Iran, she felt as if she were in prison.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Parvez Sharma and 'A Jihad for Love'

  Judy Stone
  Aug 14, 2008

  Sharma might never have made his film had he not felt guilty about causing unhappiness to his dying mother by telling her he was homosexual.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Hard Look at China in 'Blind Mountain'

  Judy Stone
  Jul 11, 2008

  Li Yang speaks about commercial pressures in Chinese film and the story behind Blind Mountain.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  'Up the Yangtze' with Yung Chang

  Judy Stone
  Jun 6, 2008

  Filmmaker Yung Chang talks about 'Up the Yangtze,' his superb documentary that examines the surreal changes in China around the controversial Three Gorges Dam.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  'Shampoo.' Rinse. Repeat.

  Judy Stone
  May 4, 2008

  Warren Beatty on the sexual and political message of Shampoo and a new film in the works about romantic revolutionary journalist John Reed.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  'Shampoo.' Rinse. Repeat.

  Judy Stone
  May 4, 2008

  Warren Beatty on the sexual and political message of Shampoo and a new film in the works about romantic revolutionary journalist John Reed.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  Nights on the Towne: Film Society Awards Night

  Susan Gerhard
  May 4, 2008

  You know a festival is working its way into your brain when, in a landscape of intersecting ideas, you begin to witness the collisions.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  Ten SFIAAFF Picks From Judy Stone

  Susan Gerhard
  Mar 13, 2008

  Longtime San Francisco Chronicle film critic Judy Stone offers her top ten picks from the 2008 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Kiarostami Firsts, Plus "Five"

  Judy Stone
  Feb 26, 2008

  Fresh insight into the Iranian director is offered in a remarkable DVD featuring Five, an experimental, meditative film set on the shores of the Caspian.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Eran Kolirin and "The Band's Visit"

  Judy Stone
  Feb 12, 2008

  Underneath The Band's Visit's poignant humor, the film subtly reflects the director's attempt to comprehend Israel's pull between the Middle East and the West.