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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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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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Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.
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June 30, 2011
Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.
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Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.
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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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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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November 4, 2010
Essential SF
Susan Gerhard, Editor
Nov 5, 2010SF360.org profiles the 2011 roster of Essential SF, an ongoing compendium of the film community’s vital figures and institutions.
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Essential SF: Rick Prelinger
Dennis Harvey
Nov 2, 2010Rick Prelinger’s efforts at preserving ephemeral films have made him indispensable to the cinema of San Francisco—and the world.
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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Rick Prelinger
Dennis Harvey
Nov 2, 2010Rick Prelinger’s efforts at preserving ephemeral films have made him indispensable to the cinema of San Francisco—and the world.
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'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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October 7, 2010
'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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Q & A
'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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Independent Inuit Films at YBCA
Dennis Harvey
Apr 8, 2010Inuit peoples—the indigenous cultures rooted in Arctic regions from Alaska to Greenland—have an honored place in film history, dating to Flaherty's Nanook of the North.
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Q & A
Rosen's Insights into 53rd San Francisco International
Michael Fox
Apr 5, 2010With opening night approaching, Rachel Rosen talked about her L.A. Rolodex, the function of festivals in a broadband world and her favorites in the festival.
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Herzog's Unexpected 'My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done'
Dennis Harvey
Feb 19, 2010With its comfortable suburban setting, flashback structure and mystery-suspense framework, My Son, My Son is, by Herzogian standards, almost mainstream-conventional. I said almost.
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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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Q & A
David Thomson Revisits 'Psycho's' Critical Moment
Michael Fox
Dec 14, 2009David Thomson's new book commemorates the golden anniversary of Hitchcock's "Psycho."
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Festivals
Wintering with the SF Silent Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Dec 9, 2009Highlights from the 2009 San Francisco Silent Film Festival winter event.
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The Cockettes' Celluloid Afterglow Still Strong at 40
Dennis Harvey
Dec 3, 2009The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art honors the 40th anniversary of The Cockettes with a one-night-only program.
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Gerald Peary on the Rise and Fall of the Film Critic
Susan Gerhard
Nov 14, 2009Boston Phoenix film critic Gerald Peary's film tours the rise, fall and reorientation of film criticism in the United States.
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Festivals
SFFS's Debut Cinema by the Bay
Robert Avila
Oct 22, 2009A new, four-day showcase of local filmmaking doubles as a forum for the region's influence as subject and setting for filmmakers beyond the bay.
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William Klein's Restless Mind
Dennis Harvey
Sep 9, 2009The movies of William Klein are suffused with the same impudence, social commentary and aesthetic surprise found in his photos.
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Q & A
Shelley Diekman Reflects on Well-Spent life
Hilary Hart
Jul 27, 2009Newly-retired Pacific Film Archive publicist Shelley Diekman discusses her cinephile tastes, her past and her future.
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Reviews
An Ample Display of Tilda Swinton's Edge
Dennis Harvey
Jul 10, 2009Tilda Swinton's edge of riskiness is on ample display in Julia, a new film by French director Erick Zonca.
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Festivals
SF Silent Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Jul 9, 2009Douglas Fairbanks in The Gaucho is one of the many highlights on screen during the three-day San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
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Q & A
Cronenwett's 'Maggots and Men' at Frameline
Michael Fox
Jun 20, 2009A case could be made that Cary Cronenwett's Maggots and Men isn't just the most unique work in Frameline33, but of any festival all year.
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Festivals
Frameline33: Something Old, Something New
Dennis Harvey
Jun 17, 2009A dose of self-affirmation arrives with Frameline33 (or, if you prefer, the multiple-breath-intake-requiring San Francisco International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Film Festival.)
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Festivals
SFIFF52 Blogs: Keeping Scores
Marc Capelle
May 11, 2009Marc Capelle's ode to Westerns and Buddy films as well as noteworthy festival scores.
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SFIFF52 Blogs: Coppola & Lucas at the Castro
Dennis Harvey
May 3, 2009An Evening with Francis Ford Coppola & Friends honored Coppola with the Founder Directing Award and included a moderated discussion with editing/sound design genius Walter Murch, director Carroll Ballard, scenarist-turned-director Matthew Robbins, and George Lucas.
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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
Re-Viewing 'The Savage Eye'
Dennis Harvey
Feb 18, 2009This "dramatized documentary" was a labor of love–if also a graphic portrayal of the vast LA detached from Hollywood's success-bubble glamour.
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Festivals
San Francisco Silent Film Festival Winter Event
Jonathan Kiefer
Feb 12, 2009The S.F. Silent Film Festival's Winter Event allows you to spend hours in the dark with the madcap movie entertainments of 80-plus years ago.
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Festivals
SF Indiefest 2009
Dennis Harvey
Feb 5, 2009With a roster that sprawls from horror to softcore to verite-style drama and documentary, the only constant is that you won't be bored.
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Reviews
Bruce LaBruce's 'Otto': Zombies With Heart
Dennis Harvey
Jan 13, 2009A look at Otto; or, Up with Dead People, from a late arrival in the New Queer Cinema wave.
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Debra Chasnoff's 'Straightlaced'
Judy Stone
Jan 5, 200950 California students talk about their problems with gender in the new documentary Straightlaced–How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up.
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Q & A
Sragow on 'An American Movie Master'
Michael Fox
Nov 30, 2008Former San Francisco Examiner film critic Michael Sragow talks about his newly released book Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master.
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Q & A
A Talk With Arab Film Festival's Executive Director
Michael Fox
Oct 13, 2008We sat down with Michel Shehadeh, who joined the festival earlier this year, for a wide-ranging interview on Arab film.
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Reviews
Toronto 2008: Slow Food, Fast Festival
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 12, 2008Every year, people grumble. Every year, someone points out how much worse it is than before. And every year, there are films that pull everyone out of the doldrums and guarantee it all continues. Welcome to this season’s Toronto International Film Festival.
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News & Blogs
Second Stage of Film Arts Foundation's Legacy of Advocacy
Michael Fox
Aug 20, 2008Film Arts Foundation, a nonprofit organization formed by 15 independent filmmakers in 1976, joins forces with SFFS.
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News & Blogs
Second Stage of Film Arts Foundation's Legacy of Advocacy
Michael Fox
Aug 20, 2008Film Arts Foundation, a nonprofit organization formed by 15 independent filmmakers in 1976, joins forces with SFFS.
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Reviews
Vertigo's 50th Anniversary
Miguel Pendás
Aug 8, 2008Not many movies call for a celebration of their anniversaries, but one exception is what many have called 'the ultimate San Francisco film.'
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Q & A
A Word From Our Sponsored Films
Max Goldberg
Nov 28, 2006Collector 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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Reviews
"Reel SF" Finds a Tough, Moody Kinda Town
Dennis Harvey
Apr 13, 2006Until the 1960s, Hollywood cast S.F. as a city where everyone was too busy brawling, floozing,and plotting intrigue to exclaim,"Look at that view!"
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David Kipen Posits New Auteur Theory
Michael Fox
Mar 6, 2006A conversation with David Kipen about his book, The Schreiber Theory, which reclaims the contribution of screenwriters to motion pictures.
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