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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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October 28, 2011
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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Reviews
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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Events
'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
Oct 28, 2011PFA plays Rainer Werner Fassbinder's magnum opus 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' in four recently restored 199-minute segments in a rare screening. Although this Friday's screening finds the series already in its second movement, film buffs are advised to enjoy at least a piece of this expansive exploration of Berlin's underworld on film before catching up with the Criterion DVD set. More info bampfa.berkeley.edu
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News & Blogs
SF Chronicle: "Netflix Kills Plan to Split Off DVD Rentals"
Oct 10, 2011"Netflix Inc. is abandoning its widely panned decision to separate its DVD-by-mail and Internet streaming services," reports Peter Svensson, "because it would make them more difficult to use." More at sfgate.com.
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July 12, 2011
'Skatetown, U.S.A.'
Jul 15, 2011Roxie presents as-yet-unreleased-to-DVD 'Skatetown, U.S.A.,' Patrick Swayze's first on-screen appearance. The big-budget camp classic, presented on film in all its sparkling, neon-pink, disco-soaked glory, will be accompanied by a "roller disco" at Cellspace. More info roxie.com.
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May 17, 2011
‘Eatrip’
May 21, 2011Viz Cinema at New People hosts the DVD release of the establishment's personal favorite food film, ‘Eatrip,’ a lyrical documentary that explores the impact that sharing food has on personal relationships by specifically looking at the food culture of Japan. Those that attend the screening can purchase a poster and the DVD. More at newpeopleworld.com.
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December 23, 2010
Film 2010: Think Globally, View Locally
Adam Hartzell
Dec 20, 2010Why one local cineaste has made a resolution to support his local theater, the Bridge.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: Think Globally, View Locally
Adam Hartzell
Dec 20, 2010Why one local cineaste has made a resolution to support his local theater, the Bridge.
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Film 2010: Think Globally, View Locally
Adam Hartzell
Dec 20, 2010Why one local cineaste has made a resolution to support his local theater, the Bridge.
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In Depth
Film 2010: Think Globally, View Locally
Adam Hartzell
Dec 20, 2010Why one local cineaste has made a resolution to support his local theater, the Bridge.
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December 16, 2010
Film 2010: Big Pictures Light up the Small Screen
Michael Fox
Dec 16, 2010Perhaps it's OK to bring art film home for the holidays with sophisticated collections of DVDs and must-buy film books.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: Big Pictures Light up the Small Screen
Michael Fox
Dec 16, 2010Perhaps it's OK to bring art film home for the holidays with sophisticated collections of DVDs and must-buy film books.
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Home
Film 2010: Big Pictures Light up the Small Screen
Michael Fox
Dec 16, 2010Perhaps it's OK to bring art film home for the holidays with sophisticated collections of DVDs and must-buy film books.
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Film 2010: Big Pictures Light up the Small Screen
Michael Fox
Dec 16, 2010Perhaps it's OK to bring art film home for the holidays with sophisticated collections of DVDs and must-buy film books.
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December 16, 2010
Film 2010: Big Pictures Light up the Small Screen
Michael Fox
Dec 16, 2010Perhaps it's OK to bring art film home for the holidays with sophisticated collections of DVDs and must-buy film books.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: Big Pictures Light up the Small Screen
Michael Fox
Dec 16, 2010Perhaps it's OK to bring art film home for the holidays with sophisticated collections of DVDs and must-buy film books.
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Home
Film 2010: Big Pictures Light up the Small Screen
Michael Fox
Dec 16, 2010Perhaps it's OK to bring art film home for the holidays with sophisticated collections of DVDs and must-buy film books.
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Reviews
Film 2010: Big Pictures Light up the Small Screen
Michael Fox
Dec 16, 2010Perhaps it's OK to bring art film home for the holidays with sophisticated collections of DVDs and must-buy film books.
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Going McCarey's Way
Dennis Harvey
Sep 2, 2010A Mechanics' Institute series appreciates Leo McCarey's genius with comedy.
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Reviews
Going McCarey's Way
Dennis Harvey
Sep 2, 2010A Mechanics' Institute series appreciates Leo McCarey's genius with comedy.
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September 2, 2010
Going McCarey's Way
Dennis Harvey
Sep 2, 2010A Mechanics' Institute series appreciates Leo McCarey's genius with comedy.
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Festivals
Darkness Of Noir City On Castro Screen
Dennis Harvey
Jan 20, 2010In late January, many tune their radar to the snowy, showy glare of Sundance. With Noir City here, the stay-at-homes are the luckier ones.
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In Production
Joe Graham's Soulful 'Strapped'
Michael Fox
Jan 19, 2010"I wish gay cinema would die", Joe Graham declares. It s not queer movies the San Francisco filmmaker hates, but categories and pigeonholing.
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Q & A
Jennifer Phang On Half-Life and Identity
Judy Stone
Jan 8, 2010Jennifer Phang has experienced more than enough culture shocks in her life to empathize with the identity challenges of the characters in her debut feature.
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Legal
What's In a Name?
George Rush
Jan 5, 2010The thing about titles is they re too short to receive copyright protection. For copyright purposes, a title is like a label of a copyrighted work.
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Reviews
After Sept. 11, 2001, A Decade Found Its Way
B. Ruby Rich
Dec 23, 2009On Sept. 13, 2001, I stood in a Toronto park and spoke to Canadian television: Movies wouldn't be the same. I was wrong.
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First Person
E-news You Can Use
Michael Fox
Sep 1, 2009The rapid adoption of e-newsletters by documentary filmmakers is the latest example of resourcefulness and efficiency among contemporary independents.
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Reviews
Marco Ferreri's Anarchic Filmmaking
Dennis Harvey
Jun 12, 2009Wild man of Italian cinema, Marco Ferreri left many films in need of rediscovery (or simply discovery) since his death in 1997.
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Reviews
Kubrick and Altman's Fear, Desire, and Delinquency
Dennis Harvey
May 8, 2009The Roxie present Fear and Desire and Delinquents by Stanley Kubrick and Robert Altman
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Reviews
Box set "Treasures" unearths buried avant-garde
Michael Fox
Apr 2, 2009National Film Preservation Foundation, Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986, is a splendid package of 26 films, drawn from New York and San Francisco.
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Reviews
Box set "Treasures" unearths buried avant-garde
Michael Fox
Apr 2, 2009National Film Preservation Foundation, Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986, is a splendid package of 26 films, drawn from New York and San Francisco.
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First Person
Ten Commandments Before Diving into Digital Delivery
Larry Daressa
Feb 24, 2009First-Person: Larry Daressa provides helpful hints on distribution strategy.
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Reviews
'Discovering Teuvo Tulio'
Dennis Harvey
Dec 4, 2008The Pacific Film Archive shows Discovering Teuvo Tulio, a four-film retrospective of works from Finland's master of over-the-top melodrama in the 1930s and '40s.
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Digital
SWAG: Free Feature Films On the Web
Hannah Eaves
Sep 26, 2008The Sixth Screen: Here are some browser-based legal zones for free online feature film viewing pleasure. No installation required.
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Reviews
Chris Marker Comes Home, At Last
Michael Fox
Sep 1, 2008I confess that for a long while I had the misperception, based on almost no exposure to his work, that French essayist Chris Marker made dense, dry films steeped in political theory and inaccessible to anyone but a narrow strata of irrelevant European intellectuals.
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Reviews
Chris Marker Comes Home, At Last
Michael Fox
Sep 1, 2008I confess that for a long while I had the misperception, based on almost no exposure to his work, that French essayist Chris Marker made dense, dry films steeped in political theory and inaccessible to anyone but a narrow strata of irrelevant European intellectuals.
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Reviews
Review: 'Love Songs'
Dennis Harvey
Jun 3, 2008'Love Songs', a truly gay musical utterly devoid of camp, causes critic Dennis Harvey to reassess France's take on the genre.
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Reviews
Review: 'The Living End,' remixed and remastered
Dennis Harvey
May 13, 2008Gregg Araki's "irresponsible" movie was the first to respond to the AIDS crisis with ACT UP-style radical rage rather than lamentation or case-pleading.
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Festivals
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Mar 18, 2008SFIAAFF 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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Festivals
Cinequest's surprises
Dennis Harvey
Mar 7, 2008A "discovery" festival from Day OneÑmeaning they premiere a lot of films, including many other fests might pass overÑSan Jose's Cinequest actually adopted "Discover" as motto for its 16th year.
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Reviews
"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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Reviews
"Warts & All: The Films of Danny Plotnick"
Michael Fox
Mar 3, 2008Warts & All: The Films of Danny Plotnick: 10 short comic narratives are exemplars of an unpolished, unpretentious school of moviemaking that aims at every moment to be audience-friendly.
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Reviews
"Warts & All: The Films of Danny Plotnick"
Michael Fox
Mar 3, 2008Warts & All: The Films of Danny Plotnick: 10 short comic narratives are exemplars of an unpolished, unpretentious school of moviemaking that aims at every moment to be audience-friendly.
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Reviews
Kiarostami Firsts, Plus "Five"
Judy Stone
Feb 26, 2008Fresh insight into the Iranian director is offered in a remarkable DVD featuring Five, an experimental, meditative film set on the shores of the Caspian.
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Reviews
"Shrooms" Screams Bloody Horror
Dennis Harvey
Feb 8, 2008The Irish flick might put the leper back in leprechaun, but it's still at heart a reassuringly formulaic hunk of bloody commercial horror.
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Reviews
Paradjanov and Godard on DVD
Michael Fox
Jan 29, 2008Michael Fox reviews the release of a Sergei Paradjanov DVD boxed set and the arrival of a Jean-Luc Godard box spotlighting his underrated mid-'80s work.
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Reviews
Paradjanov and Godard on DVD
Michael Fox
Jan 29, 2008Michael Fox reviews the release of a Sergei Paradjanov DVD boxed set and the arrival of a Jean-Luc Godard box spotlighting his underrated mid-'80s work.
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News & Blogs
'Her Name is Sabine' With SF360 Movie Night
Susan Gerhard
Nov 29, 2007The entire Bay Area is invited to watch a film simultaneously in the comfort of home, and the selection is a delicate and heartfelt depiction of the director's autistic sister.
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News & Blogs
'Her Name is Sabine' With SF360 Movie Night
Susan Gerhard
Nov 29, 2007The entire Bay Area is invited to watch a film simultaneously in the comfort of home, and the selection is a delicate and heartfelt depiction of the director's autistic sister.
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Reviews
"Holly," an Unseasonably Sobering Drama
Dennis Harvey
Nov 28, 2007U.S.-Cambodian co-production Holly might easily have gone straight to DVD, which would be a pity because it's well worth rushing to the theatre for.
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Reviews
"RKO Lost & Found" at the Roxie
Dennis Harvey
Nov 23, 2007Six features in the week-long series had not been seen in 50 (and in one case 70) years due to legal complications.
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Q & A
Shooting People's Ingrid Kopp
Susan Gerhard
Oct 22, 2007Kopp's organization is helping filmmakers collaborate by accessing virtual communities, facilitating live gatherings, expanding into book publishing, and more.
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Q & A
Jamie Meltzer on "Welcome to Nollywood"
Michael Fox
Oct 8, 2007Jamie Meltzer talks about his new film on Nigeria, where the digital revolution enables entrepreneurs to churn out movies quickly and inexpensively.
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Reviews
The Eye Candy of 'Tears of the Black Tiger'
Dennis Harvey
Feb 6, 2007Tears of the Black Tiger is Thai eye candy, an exercise pastiche where color just about leaps off the screen, and a star-crossed love story.
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Reviews
James Broughton, and a DVD Eden
Robert Avila
Dec 20, 2006The product of a true cinematic innovator and gloriously individual poet, Broughton's film work remains much too idiosyncratic to be deconstructed,
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Reviews
James Broughton, and a DVD Eden
Robert Avila
Dec 20, 2006The product of a true cinematic innovator and gloriously individual poet, Broughton's film work remains much too idiosyncratic to be deconstructed,
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Reviews
Written and Directed by Preston Sturges
Max Goldberg
Dec 13, 2006It 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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Q & A
InDplay and The New Art of Film Distribution
Justin Juul
Nov 20, 2006The Redwood City-based startup InDplay is like an online dating service for the film industry.
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Festivals
A Cinequest 35
Susan Gerhard
Nov 17, 2006Cinequest announces a plan to distribute indie films via DVD, the Internet, TV, and some traditional theatrical sales.
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Reviews
50 Years of Janus Films
Max Goldberg
Nov 15, 2006It 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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Q & A
Poetic Terrorism and Wholphin #2
Sean Uyehara
Oct 17, 2006When Brent Hoff was checking into a hotel for a film festival, the concierge thrust a business card into his hand, “Remember me next time you’re casting a film." So he asked the biggest directors he knows to cast the concierge in a series of short films.
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Q & A
Poetic Terrorism and Wholphin #2
Sean Uyehara
Oct 17, 2006When Brent Hoff was checking into a hotel for a film festival, the concierge thrust a business card into his hand, “Remember me next time you’re casting a film." So he asked the biggest directors he knows to cast the concierge in a series of short films.
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News & Blogs
Netflix 101, a Dispatch from IFP's Filmmaker Conference
Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE
Sep 22, 2006A panel discussion yields insights into the presentÑand futureÑof indie distribution.
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Reviews
Another Other Cinema, Now on DVD
Johnny Ray Huston
Sep 20, 2006Craig Baldwin and Noel Lawrence bring their brand of smart, quirky, avant-garde and political programming into the home.
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Reviews
Another Other Cinema, Now on DVD
Johnny Ray Huston
Sep 20, 2006Craig Baldwin and Noel Lawrence bring their brand of smart, quirky, avant-garde and political programming into the home.
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Festivals
Netflix Rolling Roadshow: Return to Alcatraz
Jennifer Young
Aug 30, 2006Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Cinema touring program brings classics to the locations they made famous, with a mobile outdoor projection unit and inflatable screen.
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Q & A
Preteens on Surprise Endings
Susan Gerhard
Jul 21, 2006A California Film Institute-procured class of 13somethings needed no help deciding their top ten list of surprise movie endings.
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Q & A
SFMOMA Curator on Matthew Barney
Thomas Logoreci
Jul 17, 2006Benjamin Weil took time out from preparations for the upcoming Barney show to answer questions about the artist's "Drawing Restraint" series.
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Reviews
Celebrating "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"
Dennis Harvey
Jul 6, 2006The beloved cult classic will screen in conjunction with a live cast reunion at Peaches Christ's Midnight Mass series.
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Reviews
Would Football By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet?
Susan Gerhard
Jun 30, 2006Bay Area soccer fans offer their takes on the best football films.
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Q & A
Benjamin Morgan's "Quality of Life" out on DVD
Susan Gerhard
Jun 16, 2006Benjamin Morgan talks about his San Francisco-made drama, Quality of Life, and his favorite graffiti sites on the web.
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Reviews
"Kees Kino: The Film Work of Weldon Kees"
Jenni Olson
Jun 7, 2006San Francisco Cinematheque guest curator Jenni Olson reflects on her show, Kees Kino: The Film Work of Weldon Kees.
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Q & A
Happiness Is...Finding a Film Club? Adam Werbach Riffs
Susan Gerhard
Apr 10, 2006George Bush Senior's thousand points of light may never have materialized, but Adam Werbach believes that millions of pixels can truly accomplish something.
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Q & A
Happiness Is...Finding a Film Club? Adam Werbach Riffs
Susan Gerhard
Apr 10, 2006George Bush Senior's thousand points of light may never have materialized, but Adam Werbach believes that millions of pixels can truly accomplish something.
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Festivals
Cinephiles and Oenophiles: Sommelier Pairings for Sonoma Valley Fest
Miriam Wolf
Apr 7, 2006You can sunbathe topless at Cannes and ski at Sundance, and drink your fill of fine wine at the Sonoma Valley Film Festival.
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