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Percifield Runs with Board of Supes Candidate
Michael Fox
Jun 19, 2011First-time doc-maker Dain Percifield offers notes on capturing the highs and lows of drag queen Anna Conda's 2010 run for S.F. Supervisor.
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June 23 2011
Percifield Runs with Board of Supes Candidate
Michael Fox
Jun 19, 2011First-time doc-maker Dain Percifield offers notes on capturing the highs and lows of drag queen Anna Conda's 2010 run for S.F. Supervisor.
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June 23, 2011
Percifield Runs with Board of Supes Candidate
Michael Fox
Jun 19, 2011First-time doc-maker Dain Percifield offers notes on capturing the highs and lows of drag queen Anna Conda's 2010 run for S.F. Supervisor.
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Q & A
Percifield Runs with Board of Supes Candidate
Michael Fox
Jun 19, 2011First-time doc-maker Dain Percifield offers notes on capturing the highs and lows of drag queen Anna Conda's 2010 run for S.F. Supervisor.
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Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'
Michael Fox
Jul 23, 2010Three films document essential chunks of San Francisco's tragic and mythic past, told in empathetic but non-hagiographic testimony.
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In Depth
Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'
Michael Fox
Jul 23, 2010Three films document essential chunks of San Francisco's tragic and mythic past, told in empathetic but non-hagiographic testimony.
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Festivals
San Francisco International's Local Filmmakers Next Step
Michael Fox
May 6, 2010We caught up with several Bay Area makers, fresh off their high-energy screenings at SFIFF53 and primed to keep the momentum rolling.
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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: James Schamus, Roger Ebert and the Writing Life
Dennis Harvey
May 3, 2010Few would argue that a good movie often starts with a good story. Yet it has been the screenwriter s lot to be underappreciated.
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Festivals
Local Filmmakers In SFIFF Spotlight
Michael Fox
Apr 27, 2010Leland Orser saw his first movie at the Alexandria, and Joshua Grannell initially established himself as a S.F. character via his alter ego Peaches Christ.
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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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In Production
Nani Walker's 'Other Nature' At 15,000 Feet
Michael Fox
Jan 5, 2010Nani Sahra Walker went to Nepal for seven months, and returned with a one-hour documentary. OK, a rough cut. No big deal? Enlightenment guaranteed, indeed.
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Reviews
Thoughts On the Aughts: Best/Worst Trends
Susan Gerard
Dec 31, 2009While the U.S. moved from rebuilding decimated skyscrapers to the rebuilding of an entire economy, film moved from the multiplex to the mailbox to the mobile.
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Reviews
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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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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Reviews
Lee, Schamus and Woodstock
Dennis Harvey
Aug 27, 2009The release of Woodstock provides an opportunity to look back on Ang Lee and Schamus's very impressive, diverse screen resume.
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Reviews
'Howl' is Poetry in Post
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2009Academy Award-winning documentary filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman combine live-action period drama and animation in retelling of Ginsburg's Howl
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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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In Production
Weissman's 'Heartbreak and Heroism'
Michael Fox
Jul 7, 2009David Weissman speaks on his new project, Heartbreak and Heroism, revisiting the early years of the AIDS outbreak in San Francisco.
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In Production
The horror, the horror: 'Tweaker With an Axe'
Michael Fox
Jul 1, 2009An interview with Flynn Witmeyer about his debut feature Tweaker With an Axe, and the desire to make genre films—horror or sci-fi or fantasy—that incorporate gay and lesbian characters.
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Festivals
Frameline33: Icons and Unsung Heroes
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2009A 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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Reviews
Frameline33: Youth in Revolt
Lynn Rapoport
Jun 22, 2009In this year's Frameline Fest, as so often in life, it's all about the one(s) that got away.
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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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In Production
'All About Evil'-doer Joshua Grannell in post
Michael Fox
Jun 17, 2009Blood-soaked, darkly comic All About Evil has writer-director Joshua Grannell and editor Rick LeCompte on an express-train schedule rare for an independent feature.
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Popular
'All About Evil'-doer Joshua Grannell in post
Michael Fox
Jun 17, 2009Blood-soaked, darkly comic All About Evil has writer-director Joshua Grannell and editor Rick LeCompte on an express-train schedule rare for an independent feature.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Yun Suh's "City of Borders"
David Winks Gray
Apr 26, 2009City of Borders, the debut film by Bay Area filmmaker Yun Suh, follows several Palestinian characters seeking refuge at a gay bar. The film testifies to the intolerance that members of the LGBTQ community face in addition to all of the other walls, physical and social, separating people in the region.
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In Production
Leban and Szajko's Gay Marriage Doc
Michael Fox
Feb 18, 2009The tentatively titled Winter of Love uses Prop. 8 as a framework for a look at the increasing acceptance of gay marriage.
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First Person
Funder as Supplicant
John R. Killacky
Jan 20, 2009First-Person: A program officer at the San Francisco Foundation has a sobering experience making a documentary.
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Reviews
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
Gus Van Sant and Dustin Lance Black on 'Milk'
Michael Fox
Nov 23, 2008Michael Fox chats with Gus Van Sant and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black on the eve of Milk's much-anticipated theatrical release.
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In Production
Mendocino's Swine Country
Michael Fox
Sep 17, 2008"Horror films can hold a lot of crazy ideas and political ideas and no one blinks," says Pig Hunt writer and producer Robert Mailer Anderson, "and that serves our purposes."
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Q & A
Parvez Sharma and 'A Jihad for Love'
Judy Stone
Aug 14, 2008Sharma might never have made his film had he not felt guilty about causing unhappiness to his dying mother by telling her he was homosexual.
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Q & A
Canyon Cinema's Dominic Angerame
Erika Young
Aug 4, 2008A conversation with the executive director of an experimental/avant-garde film distribution company, who both runs a profitable business and creates dynamic art.
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Festivals
Frameline's New Lesson Plan
Lynn Rapoport
Jul 1, 2008Critic's notebook: Marriage changes everything at the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.
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Reviews
The World of 'Derek' at Frameline32
Max Goldberg
Jun 25, 2008A 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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Festivals
Critic's Notebook: Frameline32
Dennis Harvey
Jun 24, 2008Critic Dennis Harvey reviews select films screened at the 32nd San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.
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Festivals
Argentina's New Wave at Frameline
Matt Sussman
Jun 19, 2008A 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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Q & A
Strand's Marcus Hu and Frameline's Michael Lumpkin
Marcus Hu
Jun 16, 2008Strand Releasing President Marcus Hu speaks with Frameline Artistic Director Lumpkin about Frameline, queer cinema and the future of this niche festival.]
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Reviews
The List: Michael Lumpkin Looks Back
Dennis Harvey
Jun 13, 2008Michael Lumpkin's mini-retrospective of features that highlight some personal favorites that made waves at the Frameline Festival (and sometimes in the larger cinematic world).
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Reviews
San Francisco Black Film Festival's 10th
Dennis Harvey
Jun 4, 2008In 2008 the San Francisco Black Film Festival marks its 10th anniversary with the most expansive program yet, flagging the theme "10 Years, 10 Days, 100 Films."
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Festivals
Frameline's 32nd SFLGBT Festival Program
Susan Gerhard
May 20, 2008The historic Castro Theatre, its marquee recently revamped for the Milk biopic shoot, hosted Frameline's announcement of its 2008 festival.
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Q & A
Johnny Symons and "Ask Not"
Michael Fox
Apr 12, 2008East Bay filmmaker Johnny Symons' documentary "Ask Not" moves beyond stereotypes to examine what experience is really like for gays and lesbians in the military.
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Reviews
"Shelter"
Dennis Harvey
Mar 24, 2008Writer/director Jonah Markowitz's Shelter is a romantic gay surfer that more than earns its spurs in terms of real-world credibility and psychology.
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Reviews
"Lover Other"
Matt Sussman
Jun 26, 2007Review: 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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Festivals
Frameline31
Dennis Harvey
Jun 14, 2007Now past its third-decade anniversary, SFILGBTFF — the producing organization keeps trying to change its public-recognition name to something more manageable, which this annum would be Frameline31 — now has filmmakers and distributors banging on its door.
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Festivals
Lumpkin and Morris on Frameline's Big Picture
Susan Gerhard
Jun 11, 2007Frameline directors Michael Lumpkin and Jennifer Morris speak about the programming, controversy and the landscape of LGBT films.
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Festivals
A Strandful at Frameline31
Michael Guillen
Jun 8, 2007Strand Releasing can always be relied upon for some of the best art films and queer indies, and it has a strong festival presence,
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Festivals
Frameline Announces 31st Program
Susan Gerhard
May 23, 2007The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival lineup includes several world premieres and international features from Korea, Argentina, and Cuba.
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Festivals
Frameline, Scalped
Laura Irvine
May 16, 2007Jeff Iorillo on the fourth festival trailer that he's written and directed for the S.F. International LGBT Film Festival.
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News & Blogs
Remembering Jim Lyons: 1960 - 2007
Staff
Apr 18, 2007The editor and actor, known for his frequent work with Todd Haynes, died in New York. His friends share their thoughts.
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Reviews
Reviews: "Black Snake Moan"; "Cinemachismo"
Michael Guillen
Feb 27, 2007
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Reviews
"Alternative Visions" at the PFA
Johnny Ray Huston
Feb 15, 2007The Pacific Film Archive's standing as a cinema-centric educational institution brings the avant-garde into conversation with a broad program of film history.
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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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Q & A
John Cameron Mitchell's long "Shortbus" ride
Susan Gerhard
Oct 2, 2006John Cameron Mitchell's latest film: A bright, sexually explicit ensemble piece featuring American friends and acquaintances who might have made good primetime TV.
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Reviews
Francois Ozon, Mortal
B. Ruby Rich
Aug 2, 2006Ozon's Time to Leave demonstrates how central he's become to European cinema, and reminds us that he's among gay world cinema's most accomplished writer/directors.
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Reviews
We Want Our "Dykeback Mountain"
Staff
Jun 27, 2006Conference discusses the difficulties for lesbian features to get made and do well at the box office.
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Reviews
Bay Area Filmmakers at SF International LGBT Film Festival
Susan Gerhard
Jun 23, 200616 filmmakers from the Bay Area find at least 15 minutes of fame in the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival this year.
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Q & A
Marc Huestis and a Wrinkle in Time
Susan Gerhard
Jun 13, 2006Marc Huestis talks about his latest film,
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