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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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Turturro Makes a Case for 'Passione'
Max Goldberg
Sep 29, 2011
John Turturro shares his passion for the Neapolitan songbook.
September 29 2011

Turturro Makes a Case for 'Passione'
Max Goldberg
Sep 29, 2011
John Turturro shares his passion for the Neapolitan songbook.
August 11, 2011

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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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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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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Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011
New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.
June 30, 2011

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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Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011
New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.
april 22 2011

Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Apr 15, 2011
Films in the 54th SFIFF immerse viewers in distant times, unique places.
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Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Apr 15, 2011
Films in the 54th SFIFF immerse viewers in distant times, unique places.
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Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Apr 15, 2011
Films in the 54th SFIFF immerse viewers in distant times, unique places.
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Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Apr 15, 2011
Films in the 54th SFIFF immerse viewers in distant times, unique places.
03.31.11

SFMOMA's Muybridge Experiments with Time, Space
Max Goldberg
Mar 31, 2011
SFMOMA's Eadweard Muybridge exhibit is essential viewing for Bay Area film lovers. More than 150 years after Eadweard Muybridge set up shop on Montgomery Street, San Francisco Museum Modern Art is featuring a splendid retrospective of the photographer’s work just a few blocks away. A tireless self-promoter with chutzpah enough to adapt “Helios” as a nom de plume early in his career (this after already having left “Muggeridge” behind in England), Muybridge would surely have been pleased by this showcase. From A Trip Down Market Street
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SFMOMA's Muybridge Experiments with Time, Space
Max Goldberg
Mar 31, 2011
SFMOMA's Eadweard Muybridge exhibit is essential viewing for Bay Area film lovers. More than 150 years after Eadweard Muybridge set up shop on Montgomery Street, San Francisco Museum Modern Art is featuring a splendid retrospective of the photographer’s work just a few blocks away. A tireless self-promoter with chutzpah enough to adapt “Helios” as a nom de plume early in his career (this after already having left “Muggeridge” behind in England), Muybridge would surely have been pleased by this showcase. From A Trip Down Market Street
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Jay Rosenblatt Talks ‘Darkness’
Max Goldberg
Mar 24, 2011
Rosenblatt’s meditative essay on the difficult subject of suicide finds its way to HBO. Narrative films may occasionally conjure the shock of a suicide—last year’s The Father of My Children is a fine example—but it’s the nature of character dramas to keep pace with the living rather than meditate in the shadow of loss. In his most recent lyrical essay-film, The Darkness of Day, local filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt creates such a meditative space, intertwining different stories and perspectives of suicide: near and far, first-person and third, male and female, young and old, anonymous and notable. Rosenblatt cues the multiple narratives to a poetic stream of found...
March 24, 2011

Jay Rosenblatt Talks ‘Darkness’
Max Goldberg
Mar 24, 2011
Rosenblatt’s meditative essay on the difficult subject of suicide finds its way to HBO. Narrative films may occasionally conjure the shock of a suicide—last year’s The Father of My Children is a fine example—but it’s the nature of character dramas to keep pace with the living rather than meditate in the shadow of loss. In his most recent lyrical essay-film, The Darkness of Day, local filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt creates such a meditative space, intertwining different stories and perspectives of suicide: near and far, first-person and third, male and female, young and old, anonymous and notable. Rosenblatt cues the multiple narratives to a poetic stream of found...
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YBCA Brings Attention to Embattled Iranian Artists
Max Goldberg
Mar 17, 2011
YBCA rallies behind Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof with its ‘Iran Beyond Censorship’ series.
March 17, 2011

YBCA Brings Attention to Embattled Iranian Artists
Max Goldberg
Mar 17, 2011
YBCA rallies behind Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof with its ‘Iran Beyond Censorship’ series.
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YBCA Brings Attention to Embattled Iranian Artists
Max Goldberg
Mar 17, 2011
YBCA rallies behind Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof with its ‘Iran Beyond Censorship’ series.
February 17, 2011

Soderbergh's Spalding Gray Rings True
Max Goldberg
Feb 18, 2011
Steven Soderbergh's Spalding Gray tribute gives us the true beating heart of the artist instead of talking-head punditry.
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Soderbergh's Spalding Gray Rings True
Max Goldberg
Feb 18, 2011
Steven Soderbergh's Spalding Gray tribute gives us the true beating heart of the artist instead of talking-head punditry.
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Soderbergh's Spalding Gray Rings True
Max Goldberg
Feb 18, 2011
Steven Soderbergh's Spalding Gray tribute gives us the true beating heart of the artist instead of talking-head punditry.
February 10, 2011

SFFS Screen Returns with New Suleiman
Max Goldberg
Feb 4, 2011
Elia Suleiman’s 'The Time That Remains' recalls his parents’ Nazareth.
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SFFS Screen Returns with New Suleiman
Max Goldberg
Feb 4, 2011
Elia Suleiman’s 'The Time That Remains' recalls his parents’ Nazareth.
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SFFS Screen Returns with New Suleiman
Max Goldberg
Feb 4, 2011
Elia Suleiman’s 'The Time That Remains' recalls his parents’ Nazareth.
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Temporary Insanity Takes Hold at Noir City
Max Goldberg
Jan 21, 2011
Noir City 9's "madness" theme means a few more gothic titles and a fresh context to appreciate noir’s signature motifs.
January 27, 2011

Temporary Insanity Takes Hold at Noir City
Max Goldberg
Jan 21, 2011
Noir City 9's "madness" theme means a few more gothic titles and a fresh context to appreciate noir’s signature motifs.
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Temporary Insanity Takes Hold at Noir City
Max Goldberg
Jan 21, 2011
Noir City 9's "madness" theme means a few more gothic titles and a fresh context to appreciate noir’s signature motifs.
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Berlin & Beyond Provides Genius Genre Treatments
Max Goldberg
Oct 22, 2010
A pair of expert heist films top Berlin & Beyond.
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Berlin & Beyond Provides Genius Genre Treatments
Max Goldberg
Oct 22, 2010
A pair of expert heist films top Berlin & Beyond.
October 28, 2010

Berlin & Beyond Provides Genius Genre Treatments
Max Goldberg
Oct 22, 2010
A pair of expert heist films top Berlin & Beyond.
August 26 ,2010

A Vampire Weekend at YBCA
Max Goldberg
Aug 26, 2010
Three vampire films capture more than the imagination. That the vogue for vampire melodramas may have run its course is clear enough from the appearance of Vampires Suck (in theaters as of this writing, though not likely much past it) and the news that the American redo of the 2008 Swedish indie hit, Let the Right One In, will be titled "Let Me In." Just like that, a lovely slice of pop-baroque gets reprocessed as a pathetic whine. No matter: as long there is cinema, the vampire will reemerge. Ever since the twin pinnacles of Nosferatu (1922) and Vampyr (1932), in which two of early cinema’s. . .
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A Vampire Weekend at YBCA
Max Goldberg
Aug 26, 2010
Three vampire films capture more than the imagination. That the vogue for vampire melodramas may have run its course is clear enough from the appearance of Vampires Suck (in theaters as of this writing, though not likely much past it) and the news that the American redo of the 2008 Swedish indie hit, Let the Right One In, will be titled "Let Me In." Just like that, a lovely slice of pop-baroque gets reprocessed as a pathetic whine. No matter: as long there is cinema, the vampire will reemerge. Ever since the twin pinnacles of Nosferatu (1922) and Vampyr (1932), in which two of early cinema’s. . .
August 26 ,2010

'Army of Crime' Revisits the Not-Always French Resistance
Max Goldberg
Aug 20, 2010
'Army of Crime’s' portraits in heroism remain admirably restrained, unlike so many Resistance fantasies.
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'Army of Crime' Revisits the Not-Always French Resistance
Max Goldberg
Aug 20, 2010
'Army of Crime’s' portraits in heroism remain admirably restrained, unlike so many Resistance fantasies.
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'Army of Crime' Revisits the Not-Always French Resistance
Max Goldberg
Aug 20, 2010
'Army of Crime’s' portraits in heroism remain admirably restrained, unlike so many Resistance fantasies.
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Frameline's History Lessons
Max Goldberg
Jun 24, 2010
Frameline34 brought together a wide array of programs following the retrospective impulse.
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SFIFF53: Women's Worlds
Max Goldberg
May 1, 2010
Don t let Hollywood crow about The Hurt Locker and the year of the woman until more filmmakers of the sort featured at this year s festival benefit.
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San Francisco Cinematheque's Spring Action
Max Goldberg
Feb 10, 2010
The spring edition of the Cinematheque calendar is making the rounds, and my copy is dog-eared with wishful thinking. Grab your datebook for a rundown.
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Scott MacDonald on Art in Cinema at SFMoMA
Max Goldberg
Feb 7, 2010
The film historian looks back at Frank Stauffacher's seminal mid-century series, which hatched a Bay Area avant-garde.
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Remembering Chick Strand
Max Goldberg
Oct 23, 2009
Chick Strand, a crucial pioneer of West Coast experimental cinema, died July 11 at 78.
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Pamela Jean Smith Brings Home Movies to Big Screen
Max Goldberg
Oct 12, 2009
Though often made for private reasons, home movies are treasure troves of culture ephemera and social history.
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San Francisco Cinematheque Fall Program Underway
Max Goldberg
Oct 3, 2009
A year after Jonathan Marlow took the helm as executive director, the organization is showing fresh signs of life.
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Heddy Honigmann and the Art of Interview
Max Goldberg
Oct 2, 2009
With the Netherlands-based filmmaker's latest portrait in resilience, Oblivion, opening Friday, it's a good time to celebrate one of documentary's most engaging storytellers.
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High Drama in High school in 'The Beautiful Person'
Max Goldberg
Sep 4, 2009
The story of teenagers living like a savage, roaming pack of animals, The Beautiful Person locates a classic in a contemporary setting.
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Britta Sjogren and "Women's Film"
Max Goldberg
Jul 16, 2009
Sjogren threads her vexations with feminist film theory into a study of sound and voice in "women's film" touchstones like Letter from an Unknown Woman.
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'Night and Day:' Location, Location, Locution
Max Goldberg
May 21, 2009
Hong Sang-soo's Night and Day is a comedic unraveling of a South Korean art student's gaffes throughout Paris.
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'Silent Light' and Shattered Landscapes
Max Goldberg
Feb 27, 2009
Carlos Reygadas' third film is an unmistakably serious work, emblematic of the kind of brooding, large-canvas filmmaking which has become a rarity.
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Something Wild: Martha Colburn's Collage Animations
Max Goldberg
Dec 1, 2008
Martha Colburn's recent shorts plunge the interstices of Americana for a hidden history of fanaticism and double-faced hypocrisies.
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SFFS's Inaugural French Cinema Now
Max Goldberg
Oct 7, 2008
The SFFS has added a Gallic counterpart to its long-running New Italian Cinema series.
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The Mystical and Everyday in 'A Listener's Tale'
Max Goldberg
Jul 15, 2008
A Listener's Tale is a lovely if unclassifiable mixture of ethnography and poetic reverie which screened at last winter's Rotterdam Film Festival.
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The World of 'Derek' at Frameline32
Max Goldberg
Jun 25, 2008
A documentary tribute to Derek Jarman, Isaac Julien's Derek does not seek to enlarge or complicate the filmmaker's legacy so much as succor its loss.
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New Rohmer on SFFS Screen
Max Goldberg
Jun 24, 2008
Eric Rohmer's latest "moral tale," The Romance of Astrea and Cèladon, filled with evanescent beauty, plays as part of SFFS Screen.
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Review: "Mister Lonely"
Max Goldberg
May 19, 2008
Part Luis Bunuel parable, Artforum spread, Jonestown ballet and Warhol camp, Harmony Korine's latest is a prime, insomniac two hours of midnight-movie drifting.
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Finding Warren Sonbert
Max Goldberg
May 14, 2008
Unlike most experimental filmmakers, Sonbert's collected works have had the benefit of full retrospectives at major museums (SFMOMA, NYMOMA, Guggenheim) and a strong preservation effort.
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San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Mar 18, 2008
SFIAAFF has grown from a niche event to a major international festival - with more than enough voices to justify its unwieldy moniker.
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"A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich"
Max Goldberg
Mar 5, 2008
"A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich" is a major coup for Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, after all these years later, he's ready for a retrospective of his own.
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Noir City 2008
Max Goldberg
Jan 24, 2008
Noir City 6 offers a spread of special guests, rare titles, and newly struck prints across ten nights of double-features.
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Joseph Cornell at SFMOMA
Max Goldberg
Oct 11, 2007
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination comes to San Francisco for the first major west-coast exhibition of the artist's work in 40 years.
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"In Search of Mozart"
Max Goldberg
Sep 25, 2007
"In Search of Mozart" is a comprehensive overview of the composer's generous genius and one of the finest examples of the PBS-style, talking heads-and-cutaways documentaries in recent memory.
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"Discovering Orson Welles"
Max Goldberg
Sep 4, 2007
Max Goldberg on Jonathan Rosenbaum's critical survey of director Orson Welles.
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"Discovering Orson Welles"
Max Goldberg
Sep 4, 2007
Max Goldberg on Jonathan Rosenbaum's critical survey of director Orson Welles.
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Irina Leimbacher and Konrad Steiner on "kino21"
Max Goldberg
Aug 13, 2007
The co-programmers discuss their newest endeavor, though those already from the Bay Area will be familiar with their work at S.F. Cinematheque.
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Reviews: "I Don't Want to Sleep Alone"; "Mafioso"
Max Goldberg
Apr 10, 2007
“I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone” puts its melodrama and comedy within a Malaysian mattress. 1962’s “Mafioso” may be the mob-chronicle genre’s ground zero.
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The Critics and Antonioni
Max Goldberg
Mar 29, 2007
A look at critics' responses to Antonioni through the ages shows there is, and always was, plenty to say about his work.
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"Iraq in Fragments, "The Lives of Others"
Max Goldberg
Feb 13, 2007
James Longley's Fragments stands out amongst the crowded field of Iraqumentaries, while Others pulls back the Iron Curtain to powerful effect.
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The Other Side of Indie at SF Indiefest's 9th
Max Goldberg
Feb 8, 2007
The alarm has been sounding for some time now that "indie" doesn't mean what it used to. Jeff Ross simply ignores the cranky clamor.
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Written and Directed by Preston Sturges
Max Goldberg
Dec 13, 2006
It would not seem to bode well for the stewardship of studio classics that Preston Sturges's indomitable comedies have been so slow to DVD.
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Music Videos At the Museum
Max Goldberg
Nov 29, 2006
MTV's boat has long since sailed, but music videos are as ubiquitous on YouTube and Myspace as YBCA brings music videos to its downstairs gallery.
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A Word From Our Sponsored Films
Max Goldberg
Nov 28, 2006
Collector and archivist Rick Prelinger puts on a show at the Other Cinema to celebrate his new book, A Field Guide to Sponsored Films.
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50 Years of Janus Films
Max Goldberg
Nov 15, 2006
It doesn't seem like a stretch to group Janus with those American institutions which have represented a vision of what art is and can be.
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Found: 'Marie Antoinette' in Paris
Max Goldberg
Oct 18, 2006
After weeks of Western Europe, what better way for the young cineaste to crash the City of Light than a trip to the silver screen?
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Peter Whitehead's '60s
Max Goldberg
Sep 14, 2006
The provocative documentary filmmaker is recalled with a retrospective at Yerba Buena Center For the Arts.
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Pacific Film Archive's "A Theater Near You"
Max Goldberg
Aug 31, 2006
This 2006 series of recent releases and restorations that played theaters for only a day or, at most, a week is exceptionally varied.
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Jesse Ficks and "Midnites for Maniacs"
Max Goldberg
Jun 5, 2006
Film programmer Jesse Hawthrone Ficks talks about the enduring appeal of midnight movies.
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Kidlat Tahimik's "Perfumed Nightmare" Remains an Unlikely Masterpiece
Max Goldberg
May 18, 2006
Perfumed Nightmare, a Filipino art film in which process is ultimately indivisible from form, is largely forgotten today but created a minor sensation upon its release.

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