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Under the Spell of French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 25, 2011Love permeates SFFS's francophone film series.
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October 28, 2011
Under the Spell of French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 25, 2011Love permeates SFFS's francophone film series.
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Reviews
Under the Spell of French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 25, 2011Love permeates SFFS's francophone film series.
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August 11, 2011
High Energy 'Point Blank' Is a Rush
Dennis Harvey
Aug 9, 2011Thrill ride 'Point Blank' loses nothing in translation—it's a prime example of cinematic globalization.
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High Energy 'Point Blank' Is a Rush
Dennis Harvey
Aug 9, 2011Thrill ride 'Point Blank' loses nothing in translation—it's a prime example of cinematic globalization.
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High Energy 'Point Blank' Is a Rush
Dennis Harvey
Aug 9, 2011Thrill ride 'Point Blank' loses nothing in translation—it's a prime example of cinematic globalization.
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April 7, 2011
Ozon's 'Trophy Wife' Is a Winner
Dennis Harvey
Apr 1, 2011Ozon's Deneuve vehicle, filled with comedy and politics, travels well.
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Ozon's 'Trophy Wife' Is a Winner
Dennis Harvey
Apr 1, 2011Ozon's Deneuve vehicle, filled with comedy and politics, travels well.
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Ozon's 'Trophy Wife' Is a Winner
Dennis Harvey
Apr 1, 2011Ozon's Deneuve vehicle, filled with comedy and politics, travels well.
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November 2, 2010
French Cinema Now Continues
Nov 2, 2010The SFFS fall festival of French cinema continues at Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema. Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Certified Copy,’ starring Juliet Binoche (in a role that won her a best actress prize at Cannes) closes the festival. More at sffs.org.
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Marquee Names Light Up French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 28, 2010The latest finds from France's national cinema play in an SFFS showcase.
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Marquee Names Light Up French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 28, 2010The latest finds from France's national cinema play in an SFFS showcase.
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October 28, 2010
Marquee Names Light Up French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 28, 2010The latest finds from France's national cinema play in an SFFS showcase.
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October 26, 2010
French Cinema Now
Oct 28, 2010SFFS’s annual showcase of modern French filmmaking includes some of the country’s most important work from the past year, from Éléonore Faucher's 'Sisters' to Katell Quillévéré's 'Love Like Poison.' Mark Fitoussi's ‘Copacabana,’ starring Isabelle Huppert, opens the festival; it's followed by a reception at the Bubble Lounge, 714 Montgomery Street. All films play at Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema. More at sffs.org.
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'Wild Grass' Finds Resnais Still Growing
Dennis Harvey
Jul 9, 2010Resnais remains elusive and detached, his films beautiful abstracts of intellectual rather than emotional impact.
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'Wild Grass' Finds Resnais Still Growing
Dennis Harvey
Jul 9, 2010Resnais remains elusive and detached, his films beautiful abstracts of intellectual rather than emotional impact.
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SFIFF53: Deft Dussollier In 'Micmacs,' 'Wild Grass'
Dennis Harvey
Apr 21, 2010How many foreign stars do U.S. moviegoers know? Not many, alas. My favorite living French actor, André Dussollier, appears prominently in two high-profile festival films.
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Q & A
Michael House's Translation of Tati at YBCA
Michael Guillen
Jan 17, 2010Riding the crest of the Tati tsunami hitting our shores is The Magnificent Tati by Michael House, who lived in S.F. for 12 years before moving to Paris.
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Soulful "35 Shots of Rum" Gently Intoxicating
Dennis Harvey
Dec 17, 2009Claire Denis proves her unpredictability and versatility as a director with the 2008 release 35 Shots of Rum.
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Festivals
French Cinema Now—and then
Dennis Harvey
Oct 29, 2009Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is being revived as part of San Francisco Film Society’s second annual French Cinema Now festival, which runs the week of October 29 through November 4 at the city’s Clay Theatre.
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Festivals
French Cinema Now—and then
Dennis Harvey
Oct 29, 2009Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is being revived as part of San Francisco Film Society’s second annual French Cinema Now festival, which runs the week of October 29 through November 4 at the city’s Clay Theatre.
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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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High Drama in High school in 'The Beautiful Person'
Max Goldberg
Sep 4, 2009The 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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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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Garrel's 'Frontier of Dawn'
Dennis Harvey
May 15, 2009Philippe Garrel sticks to his highly-personal aesthetic in Frontier of Dawn.
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Chantal Akerman's Everyday, and More, at SFMOMA
Glen Helfand
Feb 13, 2009With films that focus a patient eye on common human conditions, Belgian-born auteur Chantal Akerman is a formalist with heart–and global interests.
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Essay Films at the Pacific Film Archive
David Winks Gray
Jan 30, 2009The PFA's series of "essay films," a collection of diverse work, offers the viewer an opportunity to adapt to the peculiar tone of these films.
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Festivals
SFFS's Inaugural French Cinema Now
Max Goldberg
Oct 7, 2008The SFFS has added a Gallic counterpart to its long-running New Italian Cinema series.
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Festivals
SFFS's Inaugural French Cinema Now
Max Goldberg
Oct 7, 2008The SFFS has added a Gallic counterpart to its long-running New Italian Cinema series.
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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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Jacques Nolot and 'Before I Forget'
Dennis Harvey
Jul 31, 2008Dyspeptic rather than tragic, Jacques Nolot's Before I Forget may be the best gay feel-bad movie ever.
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New Rohmer on SFFS Screen
Max Goldberg
Jun 24, 2008Eric 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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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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Review: "Boarding Gate"
Dennis Harvey
Apr 8, 2008Boarding Gate is raw, silly, bloody, funny, carnal, intricate, coarse and self-conscious. It all suggests Olivier Assayas has a lot more surprises in him yet.
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Festivals
SF Int'l announces its 51st program and year-round screen
Susan Gerhard
Apr 1, 2008The SFIFF announced its 2008 program and the June 13 launch of its year-round programming on one screen at the Sundance Kabuki
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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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Review: "Diva"
Dennis Harvey
Dec 4, 2007How does Jean-Jacques Beineix's breakthrough hold up a quarter-century later, duly remastered and freshly subtitle-translated?
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Laurent Tirard on "Moliere"
Erica Abeel/indieWIRE
Aug 3, 2007Tirard takes an ingenious tack in conjuring the creative evolution of France's master of satiric comedy.
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Laurent Tirard on "Moliere"
Erica Abeel/indieWIRE
Aug 3, 2007Tirard takes an ingenious tack in conjuring the creative evolution of France's master of satiric comedy.
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"Private Property;" "One to Another"
Dennis Harvey and Michael Koresky/indieWIRE
Jul 31, 2007A non-rich family is torn apart by money matters, and young actors lie atop, next to, and around each other with youthful, sexual abandon.
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Reviews: "La Vie en Rose;" "Crazy Love"
Steve Ramos
Jun 5, 2007Despite the best efforts of method actors, methodical directors, and talented costume designers, biopics can usually be relied upon to disappoint.
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Reviews: "Bamako" and "Angel-A"
Robert Avila
May 29, 2007A masterful stroke by writer-director Abderrahmane Sissako; Luc Besson returns to American theaters after a nearly decade-long absence.
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A "Flanders" Reader
Michael Guillen
May 6, 2007As Bruno Dumont's Flanders navigates festival waters, it's been leaving behind a noticeable wake.
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Reviews: 'Comedy of Power'
Robert Avila
Apr 17, 2007in Claude Chabrol's latest film, Isabelle Huppert plays a judge plunging headlong into a dangerous investigation of french corruption and gender dynamics.
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Reviews: "Police Beat"; "The Page Turner"
Dennis Harvey
Apr 3, 2007It's taken over two years for Police Beat to go from one of the most praised films at Sundance to a theatre near you.
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"Absolute Wilson"; "Army of Shadows"
Robert Avila
Jan 9, 2007A documentary provides an in-depth description of Robert Wilson's life and art. Melville's spy story on a Resistance cell in Nazi-occupied French challenges our idea of heroism.
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A "Backstage" Breakdown
Dennis Harvey
Jan 4, 2007Teenager Lucie's (Islid Le Besco) encounter with her idol, the pop diva Lauren Waks (Emmanuelle Seigner), turns into a twisted and creepy psychological relationship.
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Army of Shadows and France's Soul
Michael Fox
Jun 29, 2006Jean-Pierre Melville's remarkable 1969 nail biter is on a different plane than contemporary spy thrillers.
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