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Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011
It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
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Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011
It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
June 30, 2011

Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011
It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
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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.
May 19, 2011

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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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.
april 22 2011

SFIFF54 Finds Life Among the Ruins
Matt Sussman
Apr 21, 2011
As the San Francisco International Film Festival opens, key films consider the value of place.
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SFIFF54 Finds Life Among the Ruins
Matt Sussman
Apr 21, 2011
As the San Francisco International Film Festival opens, key films consider the value of place.
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SFIFF54 Finds Life Among the Ruins
Matt Sussman
Apr 21, 2011
As the San Francisco International Film Festival opens, key films consider the value of place.
April 14, 2011

'Sleeping Ember' Reignites
Matt Sussman
Apr 14, 2011
A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.
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'Sleeping Ember' Reignites
Matt Sussman
Apr 14, 2011
A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.
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'Sleeping Ember' Reignites
Matt Sussman
Apr 14, 2011
A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.
Feb 3 2011

Eclectic Expectations Met at SF Indiefest
Matt Sussman
Feb 3, 2011
SF Indiefest brings drama, doc, fact, fiction and physique into its annual showcase.
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Eclectic Expectations Met at SF Indiefest
Matt Sussman
Feb 3, 2011
SF Indiefest brings drama, doc, fact, fiction and physique into its annual showcase.
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Eclectic Expectations Met at SF Indiefest
Matt Sussman
Feb 3, 2011
SF Indiefest brings drama, doc, fact, fiction and physique into its annual showcase.
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'Enter the Void' at Your Own Risk
Matt Sussman/Ryland Walker Knight
Oct 7, 2010
Two critics offer opposing views on an audience-dividing arthouse buzz-magnet, Gaspar Noé's 'Enter the Void.'
October 7, 2010

'Enter the Void' at Your Own Risk
Matt Sussman/Ryland Walker Knight
Oct 7, 2010
Two critics offer opposing views on an audience-dividing arthouse buzz-magnet, Gaspar Noé's 'Enter the Void.'
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'Enter the Void' at Your Own Risk
Matt Sussman/Ryland Walker Knight
Oct 7, 2010
Two critics offer opposing views on an audience-dividing arthouse buzz-magnet, Gaspar Noé's 'Enter the Void.'
October 7, 2010

'Enter the Void' at Your Own Risk
Matt Sussman/Ryland Walker Knight
Oct 7, 2010
Two critics offer opposing views on an audience-dividing arthouse buzz-magnet, Gaspar Noé's 'Enter the Void.'
August 19 2010

Back with a 'Vengeance'
Matt Sussman
Aug 13, 2010
Johnnie To delivers on his trademark themes with 'Vengeance.'
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Back with a 'Vengeance'
Matt Sussman
Aug 13, 2010
Johnnie To delivers on his trademark themes with 'Vengeance.'
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Back with a 'Vengeance'
Matt Sussman
Aug 13, 2010
Johnnie To delivers on his trademark themes with 'Vengeance.'
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7th Heaven: Another Hole in the Head
Matt Sussman
Jul 7, 2010
SF Indiefest unveils its 7th annual showcase of the wildest and weirdest in independently produced sci-fi, horror and fantasy.
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7th Heaven: Another Hole in the Head
Matt Sussman
Jul 7, 2010
SF Indiefest unveils its 7th annual showcase of the wildest and weirdest in independently produced sci-fi, horror and fantasy.
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Frameline34, a Festival Refreshed
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2010
Critical consensus on Frameline34 marks it a good year. The audience wanted something different, and the festival has largely obliged.
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SFIFF53: War Stories
Matt Sussman
May 5, 2010
Films about our species enduring capacity to be inhumane toward its own are perennials at festivals, and will be so as long as wars are waged.
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SF Indiefest at Twelve
Matt Sussman
Feb 4, 2010
It s a strange time for independent film, with scaled-back specialty divisions and online self-distribution, but SF Indiefest remains a champion of the unsung and un-buzzable.
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Unspoken Fascist Future In Wings of White Ribbon
Matt Sussman
Jan 15, 2010
In Michael Haneke's masterful film, everyone lives in fear and suspicion.
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Frameline33: Icons and Unsung Heroes
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2009
A festival full of drama finds no more emotional screening than the homophobia-in-sports double bill of Training Rules and Claiming the Title: Gay Olympics on Trial.
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Social Fury 'In the Realm of Oshima' at PFA
Matt Sussman
Jun 11, 2009
Oshima's output grazed on familiar genres, such as the youth-gone-wild and domestic drama, while freely incorporating elements from avant-garde and documentary filmmaking.
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Connecting Here and There at the 27th SFIAAFF
Matt Sussman
Mar 20, 2009
This year, the festival feels like it has truly arrived as an internationally recognized platform for cross-Pacific cinematic exchange, in this disparate cross-section of films from home, abroad and places in between.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa and a Cinema of Disaster
Matt Sussman
Mar 11, 2009
The retrospective offers fascinating, if not always exemplary, viewing of what could be called a cinema of disaster: characters face the worst, or are living in its aftermath, and like the audience, they are provided with no easy answers.
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The Year in Film: What did Women Want?
Matt Sussman
Jan 1, 2009
Matt Sussman draws conclusions about women and Hollywood from three big women-oriented films of 2008.
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Soviet-Critical 'Cargo 200' at YBCA
Matt Sussman
Nov 11, 2008
The controversial Cargo 200, a take-down of the Soviet era, makes its U.S. theatrical debut at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
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'Full Battle Rattle' On the Endless War
Matt Sussman
Oct 16, 2008
Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss's film candidly explores 'the ground truth' of Iraq without setting foot in the country.
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Jack Stevenson on 'The Superstars Next Door'
Matt Sussman
Oct 6, 2008
Freelance curator and film fanatic Jack Stevenson brings grainy reels documenting live, nude girls to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
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Baloney Sandwiches With No Cheese: Ted V. Mikels' Wild World
Matt Sussman
Sep 18, 2008
'It takes your guts and your entrails and your soul to make a film,' Mikels once proclaimed. 'It takes everything you possess within you!'
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Ariella Ben-Dov's Madcat Archives
Matt Sussman
Sep 14, 2008
What do women want to watch? With Diane English’s recent unfunny and product placement-filled re-make of The Women hitting theaters last week, Hollywood’s answer, predictably, is more of the same.
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Nik Sheenan's 'FliCKer'
Matt Sussman
Aug 5, 2008
A documentary looks into a machine designed to harness the hallucinatory potential of flickering light, and sketches a portrait of its troubled creator.
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Argentina's New Wave at Frameline
Matt Sussman
Jun 19, 2008
A look at the films in the 32nd San Francisco International LGBT FIlm Festival indicates the rise of Argentina's new wave.
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Tomo Uchida at the PFA
Matt Sussman
Sep 19, 2007
Does Tomo Uchida, whose retrospective is currently at the PFA, merit the same sort of reverent revival treatment that has been given many times over to other Japanese filmmakers of his generation?
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SOFA, so good? "Straight outta Film Arts" (SOFA) shines a light on youth filmmaking
Matt Sussman
Sep 6, 2007
Matt Sussman looks at the final products of the talented young directors in TILT's Summer Film Camp showcase (screening as part of of Straight Outta Film Arts program at YBCA).
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Off the Lot With Mateen Kemet
Matt Sussman
Aug 28, 2007
SF360.org caught up with the Oakland director, who was one of seven finalists on the Fox reality show On the Lot.
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Mateen Kemet, "On the Lot"
Matt Sussman
Jul 24, 2007
While reality television may have reduced Warhol's 15 minutes to a 15 second sound byte, Kemet is setting his sights well beyond his time.
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Macbeths we have known
Matt Sussman
Jun 29, 2007
List: While the following list may hold few such surprises, these adaptations are some of the most intensely unsettling (and most cinematically rich) re-stagings of Shakespeare's dark plays.
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"Lover Other"
Matt Sussman
Jun 26, 2007
Review: startling portraits Claude Cahun, her half-sister and lover Marcel Moore took of themselves and each other dressed in a variety of personas, costumes and genders in Lover Other.
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Richard Wong and H.P. Mendoza, reanimating "Colma: The Musical"
Matt Sussman
Jun 20, 2007
Roadside Pictures signed Colma: The Musical for national release. A sort of anti-"High School Musical," "Colma" follows three friends in their new post-high school freedom.
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Reviews: "Brand Upon the Brain!", "Golden Door"
Matt Sussman
Jun 12, 2007
Brand is no short supply of Guy Maddin's usual firecrackers: apostrophe, hyperbole, and of course, catastrophe.

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