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Deadlines
Festival: Hot Docs
Jan 13, 2012Hot Docs – Canadian International Documentary Festival (April 26–May 6, 2012) is a competitive event seeking Canadian and international documentaries of all lengths (feature length: 60 min. or longer; mid-length: 30 to 59 min.; short: under 30 min.) and subject matter. ELIGIBILITY: Submissions must have been completed after January 1, 2011; cannot have been screened publicly prior to January 1, 2011; must be Toronto premieres; must be in English, subtitled in English; must be exhibited in one of the following screening formats: 35mm film, DigiBeta (NTSC or PAL) and HDCAM. Entry fees: $33.90 CDN for short films; $67.80 CDN (before December 2, 2011) or $118.65 CDN (before January 13, 2012) for mid and feature length films. AWARDS: Hot Docs features two juried competition programs and several noncompetitive programs. DEADLINE: December 2, 2011 (early); January 13, 2012 (late). WEBSITE: hotdocs.ca/.
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Opportunities: International Film Festival Summit
Dec 4, 2011International Film Festival Summit (December 4–6, 2011), held in Austin, Texas, is the largest international organization representing the film festival industry. The IFFS mission is to promote and strengthen the global film festival industry through education, networking, dissemination of information, and the cultivation of high standards. This year's featured topics include Anatomy of a Festival: South by Southwest, Programming: The Fine Art of Film Selection, Marketing Strategies: Integrating Social Media and Technology, The Festival Mission, Sponsorship Strategy, Box Office Technology Solutions, among others. Notable speakers include Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset), as well as SFFS' very own Steve Jenkins, Sarah Cathers, and Linda Butler. DEADLINE: Register by September 25, 2011 to receive discounted rate. WEBSITE: filmfestivalsummit.com/iffshome.html.
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Joshua Moore, on Location
Michael Fox
Oct 28, 2011Filmmaker and programmer Moore talks process, offers perspective on his debut feature and Cinema by the Bay opener, ‘I Think It’s Raining.’
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October 28, 2011
Joshua Moore, on Location
Michael Fox
Oct 28, 2011Filmmaker and programmer Moore talks process, offers perspective on his debut feature and Cinema by the Bay opener, ‘I Think It’s Raining.’
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Q & A
Joshua Moore, on Location
Michael Fox
Oct 28, 2011Filmmaker and programmer Moore talks process, offers perspective on his debut feature and Cinema by the Bay opener, ‘I Think It’s Raining.’
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News & Blogs
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Announces New Executive Director
Oct 24, 2011Press release: The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival announced its new Executive Director: Lexi Leban, who begins working with the festival November 7, 2011. A longtime member of the Bay Area film community, Lexi has worked in all aspects of film, from production to distribution. She’s also worked with numerous film festivals, including the Mill Valley Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Global Social Change Film Festival in Bali. Lexi is currently Academic Director of the Digital Filmmaking & Video Production Program at the Art Institute of California, where she built the department from its inception. Her most recent feature documentary, Girl Trouble, which follows young girls in San Francisco’s juvenile justice system, aired on PBS’s acclaimed series Independent Lens in January of 2006, and won Best Bay Area Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival. More at sfjff.org.
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Events
NY/SF International Children's Film Festival
Oct 21, 2011The San Francisco Film Society joins the New York International Children’s Film Festival to present a three-day kid-ready fest of animated and non-animated shorts and features from around the world. The brief fest kicks off with a child-friendly opening night party on Friday, and for offers another chance to enjoy Alex Law's sweet Hong Kong Film Days entry, 'Echoes of the Rainbow.' More info sffs.org.
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Festivals
Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
Adam Hartzell
Oct 20, 2011Without marketing tie-ins, plastic toys or corn-syrup confections, a children’s film festival brings energy to the screen.
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Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
Adam Hartzell
Oct 20, 2011Without marketing tie-ins, plastic toys or corn-syrup confections, a children’s film festival brings energy to the screen.
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October 20, 2011
Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
Adam Hartzell
Oct 20, 2011Without marketing tie-ins, plastic toys or corn-syrup confections, a children’s film festival brings energy to the screen.
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Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall
Susan Gerhard
Oct 10, 2011Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.
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October 14, 2011
Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall
Susan Gerhard
Oct 10, 2011Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.
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Q & A
Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall
Susan Gerhard
Oct 10, 2011Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.
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Festivals
Mill Valley Brings Oscar Contenders Close to Home
Dennis Harvey
Oct 6, 2011Mill Valley amps up the star wattage in its annual mix of local, international titles.
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Mill Valley Brings Oscar Contenders Close to Home
Dennis Harvey
Oct 6, 2011Mill Valley amps up the star wattage in its annual mix of local, international titles.
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October 6, 2011
Mill Valley Brings Oscar Contenders Close to Home
Dennis Harvey
Oct 6, 2011Mill Valley amps up the star wattage in its annual mix of local, international titles.
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Guy Maddin: Ann Savage and the Osmonds
Johnny Ray Huston
Sep 23, 2011Guy Maddin talks about movies, writing, himself—and the allure of the Osmonds, re-published on the occasion of Fandor's Maddin blogathon.
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Q & A
Guy Maddin: Ann Savage and the Osmonds
Johnny Ray Huston
Sep 23, 2011Guy Maddin talks about movies, writing, himself—and the allure of the Osmonds, re-published on the occasion of Fandor's Maddin blogathon.
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Guy Maddin: Ann Savage and the Osmonds
Johnny Ray Huston
Sep 23, 2011Guy Maddin talks about movies, writing, himself—and the allure of the Osmonds, re-published on the occasion of Fandor's Maddin blogathon.
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Q & A
Guy Maddin: Ann Savage and the Osmonds
Johnny Ray Huston
Sep 23, 2011Guy Maddin talks about movies, writing, himself—and the allure of the Osmonds, re-published on the occasion of Fandor's Maddin blogathon.
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Festivals
Dark Thoughts Fill TIFF’s Lightbox
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 18, 2011Sex-filled fictions dominate Toronto International Film Festival; eclectic docs inspire action.
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Dark Thoughts Fill TIFF’s Lightbox
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 18, 2011Sex-filled fictions dominate Toronto International Film Festival; eclectic docs inspire action.
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september 22 2011
Dark Thoughts Fill TIFF’s Lightbox
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 18, 2011Sex-filled fictions dominate Toronto International Film Festival; eclectic docs inspire action.
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‘Aurora’ Startles, Subtly
Dennis Harvey
Sep 15, 2011Unhurried, character-driven story demonstrates the filmmaking finesse that’s brought Romanian cinema to the fore. Though it had made an occasional international impression before—notably with a long history of Cannes entries and prize winners—few could have anticipated the splash Romanian cinema would create in the last few years. Or that the attention paid it would bring a number of often long, difficult, obtuse movies out of their usual habitat (the festival circuit) into theaters around the world. The collapse of Communism and execution of Romania's quarter-century dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 freed the filmmaking industry from strict governmental control and propagandic content. But it took until the middle...
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September 15, 2011
‘Aurora’ Startles, Subtly
Dennis Harvey
Sep 15, 2011Unhurried, character-driven story demonstrates the filmmaking finesse that’s brought Romanian cinema to the fore. Though it had made an occasional international impression before—notably with a long history of Cannes entries and prize winners—few could have anticipated the splash Romanian cinema would create in the last few years. Or that the attention paid it would bring a number of often long, difficult, obtuse movies out of their usual habitat (the festival circuit) into theaters around the world. The collapse of Communism and execution of Romania's quarter-century dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 freed the filmmaking industry from strict governmental control and propagandic content. But it took until the middle...
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September 13 2011
Cine+Mas San Francisco Latino Film Festival 2011
Sep 13, 2011The Cine+Mas 2011 San Francisco Latino Film Festival kicks off this Wednesday with a screening of 'Being: Cafe´ Tacvba' at Landmark's Embarcadero Center Cinema and screens through next week at venues throughout the Bay Area. The festival offers a number of new works by Latino directors based locally and internationally. More info and kickoff RSVP at sflatinofilmfestival.com.
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Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2011When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.
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News & Blogs
Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2011When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.
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September 1, 2011
Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2011When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.
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Graham Leggat and a Film Society Transformed
Susan Gerhard
Aug 26, 2011Leggat’s eventful six-year tenure with the San Francisco Film Society changed an institution as well as the filmmaking landscape in the Bay Area and beyond.
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In Depth
Graham Leggat and a Film Society Transformed
Susan Gerhard
Aug 26, 2011Leggat’s eventful six-year tenure with the San Francisco Film Society changed an institution as well as the filmmaking landscape in the Bay Area and beyond.
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September 1, 2011
Graham Leggat and a Film Society Transformed
Susan Gerhard
Aug 26, 2011Leggat’s eventful six-year tenure with the San Francisco Film Society changed an institution as well as the filmmaking landscape in the Bay Area and beyond.
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Graham Leggat, 1960-2011
Susan Gerhard
Aug 25, 2011Graham Leggat (b. March 12, 1960), executive director of the San Francisco Film Society, died at his San Francisco home on August 25, 2011, after an 18-month battle with cancer. He was 51.
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News & Blogs
Graham Leggat, 1960-2011
Susan Gerhard
Aug 25, 2011Graham Leggat (b. March 12, 1960), executive director of the San Francisco Film Society, died at his San Francisco home on August 25, 2011, after an 18-month battle with cancer. He was 51.
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September 1, 2011
Graham Leggat, 1960-2011
Susan Gerhard
Aug 25, 2011Graham Leggat (b. March 12, 1960), executive director of the San Francisco Film Society, died at his San Francisco home on August 25, 2011, after an 18-month battle with cancer. He was 51.
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August 11, 2011
Miranda July Throws Cautionary Tale to the Wind with ‘The Future’
Sean Uyehara
Aug 8, 2011The filmmaker talks about time, life, storytelling and her new film, ‘The Future.’
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Miranda July Throws Cautionary Tale to the Wind with ‘The Future’
Sean Uyehara
Aug 8, 2011The filmmaker talks about time, life, storytelling and her new film, ‘The Future.’
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Q & A
Miranda July Throws Cautionary Tale to the Wind with ‘The Future’
Sean Uyehara
Aug 8, 2011The filmmaker talks about time, life, storytelling and her new film, ‘The Future.’
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August 4, 2011
McDonagh Finds Success in Family Path with 'The Guard'
Dennis Harvey
Aug 4, 2011John Michael McDonagh's first feature echos the blackly comedic tenor of his ('In Bruges') brother Martin's oeuvre.
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McDonagh Finds Success in Family Path with 'The Guard'
Dennis Harvey
Aug 4, 2011John Michael McDonagh's first feature echos the blackly comedic tenor of his ('In Bruges') brother Martin's oeuvre.
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Reviews
McDonagh Finds Success in Family Path with 'The Guard'
Dennis Harvey
Aug 4, 2011John Michael McDonagh's first feature echos the blackly comedic tenor of his ('In Bruges') brother Martin's oeuvre.
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August 4, 2011
Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
Judy Stone
Aug 1, 2011Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.
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Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
Judy Stone
Aug 1, 2011Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.
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Q & A
Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
Judy Stone
Aug 1, 2011Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.
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april 22 2011
Fassbinder's Funky Futurism Speaks to the Moment
Dennis Harvey
Jul 26, 2011Fassbinder's retro-chic, thought-provoking 'World on a Wire' finds the 'future' is now.
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April 28, 2011
Fassbinder's Funky Futurism Speaks to the Moment
Dennis Harvey
Jul 26, 2011Fassbinder's retro-chic, thought-provoking 'World on a Wire' finds the 'future' is now.
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Fassbinder's Funky Futurism Speaks to the Moment
Dennis Harvey
Jul 26, 2011Fassbinder's retro-chic, thought-provoking 'World on a Wire' finds the 'future' is now.
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July 28, 2011
Fassbinder's Funky Futurism Speaks to the Moment
Dennis Harvey
Jul 26, 2011Fassbinder's retro-chic, thought-provoking 'World on a Wire' finds the 'future' is now.
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Reviews
Fassbinder's Funky Futurism Speaks to the Moment
Dennis Harvey
Jul 26, 2011Fassbinder's retro-chic, thought-provoking 'World on a Wire' finds the 'future' is now.
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april 22 2011
Fassbinder's Funky Futurism Speaks to the Moment
Dennis Harvey
Jul 26, 2011Fassbinder's retro-chic, thought-provoking 'World on a Wire' finds the 'future' is now.
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April 28, 2011
Fassbinder's Funky Futurism Speaks to the Moment
Dennis Harvey
Jul 26, 2011Fassbinder's retro-chic, thought-provoking 'World on a Wire' finds the 'future' is now.
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Fassbinder's Funky Futurism Speaks to the Moment
Dennis Harvey
Jul 26, 2011Fassbinder's retro-chic, thought-provoking 'World on a Wire' finds the 'future' is now.
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July 28, 2011
Fassbinder's Funky Futurism Speaks to the Moment
Dennis Harvey
Jul 26, 2011Fassbinder's retro-chic, thought-provoking 'World on a Wire' finds the 'future' is now.
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Reviews
Fassbinder's Funky Futurism Speaks to the Moment
Dennis Harvey
Jul 26, 2011Fassbinder's retro-chic, thought-provoking 'World on a Wire' finds the 'future' is now.
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Rapaport Brings Depth to Tribe Called Quest Doc
Adam Hartzell
Jul 15, 2011Actor’s first documentary outing pays tribute to Quest’s influence.
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July 21, 2011
Rapaport Brings Depth to Tribe Called Quest Doc
Adam Hartzell
Jul 15, 2011Actor’s first documentary outing pays tribute to Quest’s influence.
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Q & A
Rapaport Brings Depth to Tribe Called Quest Doc
Adam Hartzell
Jul 15, 2011Actor’s first documentary outing pays tribute to Quest’s influence.
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Graham Leggat Steps Down as Executive Director of San Francisco Film Society
Jul 5, 2011Film Society’s leader for more than five years resigns due to health issues.
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July 7, 2011
Graham Leggat Steps Down as Executive Director of San Francisco Film Society
Jul 5, 2011Film Society’s leader for more than five years resigns due to health issues.
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News & Blogs
Graham Leggat Steps Down as Executive Director of San Francisco Film Society
Jul 5, 2011Film Society’s leader for more than five years resigns due to health issues.
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Graham Leggat Steps Down as Executive Director of San Francisco Film Society
Jul 5, 2011Film Society’s leader for more than five years resigns due to health issues.
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July 7, 2011
Graham Leggat Steps Down as Executive Director of San Francisco Film Society
Jul 5, 2011Film Society’s leader for more than five years resigns due to health issues.
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News & Blogs
Graham Leggat Steps Down as Executive Director of San Francisco Film Society
Jul 5, 2011Film Society’s leader for more than five years resigns due to health issues.
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Festivals
Critic's Notebook: A Day in the Life
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Jun 26, 2011One day of Frameline35 finds Witi Ihimaera offering insight into the writing of 'Kawa,' dour Norweigan drag kings processing endlessly and Ma Rainey being well-remembered.
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Critic's Notebook: A Day in the Life
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Jun 26, 2011One day of Frameline35 finds Witi Ihimaera offering insight into the writing of 'Kawa,' dour Norweigan drag kings processing endlessly and Ma Rainey being well-remembered.
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June 30, 2011
Critic's Notebook: A Day in the Life
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Jun 26, 2011One day of Frameline35 finds Witi Ihimaera offering insight into the writing of 'Kawa,' dour Norweigan drag kings processing endlessly and Ma Rainey being well-remembered.
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Festivals
Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
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Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
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June 30, 2011
Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
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Festivals
Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
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Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
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June 30, 2011
Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
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Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'
Adam Hartzell
Jun 24, 2011Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.
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June 23 2011
Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'
Adam Hartzell
Jun 24, 2011Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.
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Reviews
Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'
Adam Hartzell
Jun 24, 2011Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.
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Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'
Adam Hartzell
Jun 24, 2011Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.
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June 23 2011
Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'
Adam Hartzell
Jun 24, 2011Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.
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Reviews
Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'
Adam Hartzell
Jun 24, 2011Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.
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SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
Jun 23, 2011SFFS to offer daily, year-round programming, classes and events in dedicated state-of-the-art theater for the first time in its 54-year history. The San Francisco Film Society and New People today announced significant news for Bay Area filmgoers: the signing of a lease that brings the Film Society’s exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events to one primary theater on a daily, year-round basis, beginning in September. The San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema opens its doors in September in the state-of-the art...
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June 23 2011
SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
Jun 23, 2011SFFS to offer daily, year-round programming, classes and events in dedicated state-of-the-art theater for the first time in its 54-year history. The San Francisco Film Society and New People today announced significant news for Bay Area filmgoers: the signing of a lease that brings the Film Society’s exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events to one primary theater on a daily, year-round basis, beginning in September. The San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema opens its doors in September in the state-of-the art...
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June 23, 2011
SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
Jun 23, 2011SFFS to offer daily, year-round programming, classes and events in dedicated state-of-the-art theater for the first time in its 54-year history. The San Francisco Film Society and New People today announced significant news for Bay Area filmgoers: the signing of a lease that brings the Film Society’s exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events to one primary theater on a daily, year-round basis, beginning in September. The San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema opens its doors in September in the state-of-the art...
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A City’s Smutty History, Embraced
Julia Barbosa
Jun 21, 2011Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.
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June 23 2011
A City’s Smutty History, Embraced
Julia Barbosa
Jun 21, 2011Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.
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June 23, 2011
A City’s Smutty History, Embraced
Julia Barbosa
Jun 21, 2011Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.
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A City’s Smutty History, Embraced
Julia Barbosa
Jun 21, 2011Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.
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Vintage Kinski Uncorked at YBCA
Dennis Harvey
Jun 17, 2011YBCA digs a delightfully disturbing live Kinski document from the archives.
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Reviews
Vintage Kinski Uncorked at YBCA
Dennis Harvey
Jun 17, 2011YBCA digs a delightfully disturbing live Kinski document from the archives.
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Festivals
Frameline35 Opens, Features Wildly Diverse Program
Dennis Harvey
Jun 16, 2011The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival delivers internationally as well as locally made films of every identity and genre stripe.
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Frameline35 Opens, Features Wildly Diverse Program
Dennis Harvey
Jun 16, 2011The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival delivers internationally as well as locally made films of every identity and genre stripe.
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June 16, 2011
Frameline35 Opens, Features Wildly Diverse Program
Dennis Harvey
Jun 16, 2011The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival delivers internationally as well as locally made films of every identity and genre stripe.
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Lewis Rides Herd on Lusty ‘Longhorns’
Michael Fox
Jun 13, 2011An SF Chronicle editor speaks about his third feature, a Texas-set sex comedy making its debut at Frameline35.
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June 16, 2011
Lewis Rides Herd on Lusty ‘Longhorns’
Michael Fox
Jun 13, 2011An SF Chronicle editor speaks about his third feature, a Texas-set sex comedy making its debut at Frameline35.
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Q & A
Lewis Rides Herd on Lusty ‘Longhorns’
Michael Fox
Jun 13, 2011An SF Chronicle editor speaks about his third feature, a Texas-set sex comedy making its debut at Frameline35.
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June 7, 2011
‘The Hush’
Jun 11, 2011The Historic Bal Theatre brings us a screening of Bay Area filmmaker Vincent Cortez’s latest feature, ‘The Hush,’ a 2011 Oakland International Film Festival selection and LA Festival honorable mention. The film is a locally shot supernatural film noir piece that has a hitman looking for redemption. More at mitchellstreetpictures.com.
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June 9, 2011
‘The Hush’
Jun 11, 2011The Historic Bal Theatre brings us a screening of Bay Area filmmaker Vincent Cortez’s latest feature, ‘The Hush,’ a 2011 Oakland International Film Festival selection and LA Festival honorable mention. The film is a locally shot supernatural film noir piece that has a hitman looking for redemption. More at mitchellstreetpictures.com.
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News & Blogs
Fandor Partners with Microcinema International and Kino Lorber
Jun 7, 2011Press release: Fandor, a new on-demand provider of independent films, along with distributors Kino Lorber and Microcinema International, today announced it is pioneering the coordinated theatrical and digital premier, a first for the industry. The first film to be released under the coordinated theatrical and digital premier paradigm will be the June 15 re-release of 'David Holzman's Diary.' More at microcinema.com and fandor.com.
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Festivals
Frameline Announces Titles in 2011 Festival
Susan Gerhard/Michael Fox
May 25, 2011Margaret Cho, transgender cinema are highlights of 2011 LGBT festival.
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Frameline Announces Titles in 2011 Festival
Susan Gerhard/Michael Fox
May 25, 2011Margaret Cho, transgender cinema are highlights of 2011 LGBT festival.
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May 26, 2011
Frameline Announces Titles in 2011 Festival
Susan Gerhard/Michael Fox
May 25, 2011Margaret Cho, transgender cinema are highlights of 2011 LGBT festival.
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Festivals
Frameline Announces Titles in 2011 Festival
Susan Gerhard/Michael Fox
May 25, 2011Margaret Cho, transgender cinema are highlights of 2011 LGBT festival.
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Frameline Announces Titles in 2011 Festival
Susan Gerhard/Michael Fox
May 25, 2011Margaret Cho, transgender cinema are highlights of 2011 LGBT festival.
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May 26, 2011
Frameline Announces Titles in 2011 Festival
Susan Gerhard/Michael Fox
May 25, 2011Margaret Cho, transgender cinema are highlights of 2011 LGBT festival.
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Park Jung-bum Offers Notes on his Unique POV
Adam Hartzell
May 16, 2011The director of South Korean film 'The Journals of Musan,' a prize winner at SFIFF54, speaks about bringing cinematic light to social darkness.
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May 19, 2011
Park Jung-bum Offers Notes on his Unique POV
Adam Hartzell
May 16, 2011The director of South Korean film 'The Journals of Musan,' a prize winner at SFIFF54, speaks about bringing cinematic light to social darkness.
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Q & A
Park Jung-bum Offers Notes on his Unique POV
Adam Hartzell
May 16, 2011The director of South Korean film 'The Journals of Musan,' a prize winner at SFIFF54, speaks about bringing cinematic light to social darkness.
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Park Jung-bum Offers Notes on his Unique POV
Adam Hartzell
May 16, 2011The director of South Korean film 'The Journals of Musan,' a prize winner at SFIFF54, speaks about bringing cinematic light to social darkness.
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May 19, 2011
Park Jung-bum Offers Notes on his Unique POV
Adam Hartzell
May 16, 2011The director of South Korean film 'The Journals of Musan,' a prize winner at SFIFF54, speaks about bringing cinematic light to social darkness.
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Q & A
Park Jung-bum Offers Notes on his Unique POV
Adam Hartzell
May 16, 2011The director of South Korean film 'The Journals of Musan,' a prize winner at SFIFF54, speaks about bringing cinematic light to social darkness.
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'Meek's Cutoff' a Minimalist Masterpiece
Michael Read
May 7, 2011Kelly Reichardt creates a moving meditation on open space with 'Meek's Cutoff.'
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May 12, 2011
'Meek's Cutoff' a Minimalist Masterpiece
Michael Read
May 7, 2011Kelly Reichardt creates a moving meditation on open space with 'Meek's Cutoff.'
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Reviews
'Meek's Cutoff' a Minimalist Masterpiece
Michael Read
May 7, 2011Kelly Reichardt creates a moving meditation on open space with 'Meek's Cutoff.'
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SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2011Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...
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May 5, 2011
SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2011Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...
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SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2011Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...
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May 5, 2011
SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2011Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...
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SFIFF Brings in Burlesque as Closer
Stephanie Rosenbaum
May 4, 2011Cabaret New Burlesque gets the French art-house treatment with ‘On Tour.’
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May 5, 2011
SFIFF Brings in Burlesque as Closer
Stephanie Rosenbaum
May 4, 2011Cabaret New Burlesque gets the French art-house treatment with ‘On Tour.’
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SFIFF Brings in Burlesque as Closer
Stephanie Rosenbaum
May 4, 2011Cabaret New Burlesque gets the French art-house treatment with ‘On Tour.’
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SFIFF Brings in Burlesque as Closer
Stephanie Rosenbaum
May 4, 2011Cabaret New Burlesque gets the French art-house treatment with ‘On Tour.’
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May 5, 2011
SFIFF Brings in Burlesque as Closer
Stephanie Rosenbaum
May 4, 2011Cabaret New Burlesque gets the French art-house treatment with ‘On Tour.’
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Reviews
SFIFF Brings in Burlesque as Closer
Stephanie Rosenbaum
May 4, 2011Cabaret New Burlesque gets the French art-house treatment with ‘On Tour.’
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Frank Pierson, 'These Amazing Shadows' Offer Inspiration
Michael Fox
May 3, 2011Screenwriter Frank Pierson talks production at SFIFF54; Bay Area-made 'These Amazing Shadows' screens after the Festival closes.
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Frank Pierson, 'These Amazing Shadows' Offer Inspiration
Michael Fox
May 3, 2011Screenwriter Frank Pierson talks production at SFIFF54; Bay Area-made 'These Amazing Shadows' screens after the Festival closes.
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May 5, 2011
Frank Pierson, 'These Amazing Shadows' Offer Inspiration
Michael Fox
May 3, 2011Screenwriter Frank Pierson talks production at SFIFF54; Bay Area-made 'These Amazing Shadows' screens after the Festival closes.
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Festivals
Unrestrained at SFIFF54, Barney Offers Live Insight
Robert Avila
May 2, 2011Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.
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Unrestrained at SFIFF54, Barney Offers Live Insight
Robert Avila
May 2, 2011Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.
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May 5, 2011
Unrestrained at SFIFF54, Barney Offers Live Insight
Robert Avila
May 2, 2011Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.
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Festivals
Snapshots Reveal Personal Side of SFIFF54
Michael Read, editor
May 1, 2011Writers for the Festival’s daily ‘Scoop’ capture live director-audience interactions.
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Snapshots Reveal Personal Side of SFIFF54
Michael Read, editor
May 1, 2011Writers for the Festival’s daily ‘Scoop’ capture live director-audience interactions.
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May 5, 2011
Snapshots Reveal Personal Side of SFIFF54
Michael Read, editor
May 1, 2011Writers for the Festival’s daily ‘Scoop’ capture live director-audience interactions.
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April 28, 2011
SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
Carmen Winant
Apr 30, 2011In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
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Festivals
SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
Carmen Winant
Apr 30, 2011In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
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SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
Carmen Winant
Apr 30, 2011In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
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April 26, 2011
SFIFF Centerpiece: ‘Terri’
Apr 30, 2011San Francisco International Film Festival’s 2011 Centerpiece selection, ‘Terri,’ featuring John C. Reilly as a vice principle who befriends an insecure junior high student, plays at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas with director Azazel Jacobs and actor Jacob Wysocki in attendance. The evening’s after party is at Clift's Velvet Room. More at fest11.sffs.org.
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April 28, 2011
SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
Carmen Winant
Apr 30, 2011In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
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Festivals
SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
Carmen Winant
Apr 30, 2011In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
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SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
Carmen Winant
Apr 30, 2011In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
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Festivals
Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
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Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
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May 5, 2011
Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
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Festivals
Stone not Cold in Castro Conversation
Dennis Harvey
Apr 28, 2011Oliver Stone reflects on his own heated past, and the world’s, as he accepts the Founder’s Directing Award onstage at the Castro Theatre during SFIFF54.
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Stone not Cold in Castro Conversation
Dennis Harvey
Apr 28, 2011Oliver Stone reflects on his own heated past, and the world’s, as he accepts the Founder’s Directing Award onstage at the Castro Theatre during SFIFF54.
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May 5, 2011
Stone not Cold in Castro Conversation
Dennis Harvey
Apr 28, 2011Oliver Stone reflects on his own heated past, and the world’s, as he accepts the Founder’s Directing Award onstage at the Castro Theatre during SFIFF54.
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Festivals
Stone not Cold in Castro Conversation
Dennis Harvey
Apr 28, 2011Oliver Stone reflects on his own heated past, and the world’s, as he accepts the Founder’s Directing Award onstage at the Castro Theatre during SFIFF54.
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Stone not Cold in Castro Conversation
Dennis Harvey
Apr 28, 2011Oliver Stone reflects on his own heated past, and the world’s, as he accepts the Founder’s Directing Award onstage at the Castro Theatre during SFIFF54.
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May 5, 2011
Stone not Cold in Castro Conversation
Dennis Harvey
Apr 28, 2011Oliver Stone reflects on his own heated past, and the world’s, as he accepts the Founder’s Directing Award onstage at the Castro Theatre during SFIFF54.
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April 28, 2011
Bay Area Doc-makers of SFIFF54 Map Future
Michael Fox
Apr 27, 2011The region's nonfiction filmmakers consider next steps after their SFIFF debuts.
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Bay Area Doc-makers of SFIFF54 Map Future
Michael Fox
Apr 27, 2011The region's nonfiction filmmakers consider next steps after their SFIFF debuts.
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Bay Area Doc-makers of SFIFF54 Map Future
Michael Fox
Apr 27, 2011The region's nonfiction filmmakers consider next steps after their SFIFF debuts.
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April 28, 2011
Bay Area Doc-makers of SFIFF54 Map Future
Michael Fox
Apr 27, 2011The region's nonfiction filmmakers consider next steps after their SFIFF debuts.
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Bay Area Doc-makers of SFIFF54 Map Future
Michael Fox
Apr 27, 2011The region's nonfiction filmmakers consider next steps after their SFIFF debuts.
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In Production
Bay Area Doc-makers of SFIFF54 Map Future
Michael Fox
Apr 27, 2011The region's nonfiction filmmakers consider next steps after their SFIFF debuts.
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News & Blogs
SFIFF Joins Festival Scope
Apr 25, 2011Press release: The San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21 - May 5) announced that the Festival has been invited to join Festival Scope, a new Internet platform that allows programming of selected film festivals to be viewed online by film professionals around the world. More at sffs.org.
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April 28, 2011
Terence Stamp Honored with Owens Award
Dennis Harvey
Apr 25, 2011Terence Stamp has treated acting not as a job, but as a restless quest for new frontiers.
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Festivals
Terence Stamp Honored with Owens Award
Dennis Harvey
Apr 25, 2011Terence Stamp has treated acting not as a job, but as a restless quest for new frontiers.
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Terence Stamp Honored with Owens Award
Dennis Harvey
Apr 25, 2011Terence Stamp has treated acting not as a job, but as a restless quest for new frontiers.
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April 28, 2011
Explosive Actors, Anecdotes Light Up SFIFF54’s Midnight Awards
Kim Nunley
Apr 24, 2011Zoe Saldana and Clifton Collins, Jr., share candid thoughts with a raucous audience.
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Festivals
Explosive Actors, Anecdotes Light Up SFIFF54’s Midnight Awards
Kim Nunley
Apr 24, 2011Zoe Saldana and Clifton Collins, Jr., share candid thoughts with a raucous audience.
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Explosive Actors, Anecdotes Light Up SFIFF54’s Midnight Awards
Kim Nunley
Apr 24, 2011Zoe Saldana and Clifton Collins, Jr., share candid thoughts with a raucous audience.
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April 28, 2011
Explosive Actors, Anecdotes Light Up SFIFF54’s Midnight Awards
Kim Nunley
Apr 24, 2011Zoe Saldana and Clifton Collins, Jr., share candid thoughts with a raucous audience.
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Festivals
Explosive Actors, Anecdotes Light Up SFIFF54’s Midnight Awards
Kim Nunley
Apr 24, 2011Zoe Saldana and Clifton Collins, Jr., share candid thoughts with a raucous audience.
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Explosive Actors, Anecdotes Light Up SFIFF54’s Midnight Awards
Kim Nunley
Apr 24, 2011Zoe Saldana and Clifton Collins, Jr., share candid thoughts with a raucous audience.
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April 28, 2011
SFIFF54's 'Beginners' Brings Surprises
Susan Gerhard
Apr 23, 2011Mike Mills and Ewan McGregor lit up the Castro on San Francisco International's opening night.
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Festivals
SFIFF54's 'Beginners' Brings Surprises
Susan Gerhard
Apr 23, 2011Mike Mills and Ewan McGregor lit up the Castro on San Francisco International's opening night.
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SFIFF54's 'Beginners' Brings Surprises
Susan Gerhard
Apr 23, 2011Mike Mills and Ewan McGregor lit up the Castro on San Francisco International's opening night.
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April 19, 2011
SFIFF's Midnight Awards
Apr 23, 2011The San Francisco International's Midnight Awards at the W hotel honor Zoe Saldana and Clifton Collins, Jr., with a spirited talk-show style discussion featuring the inimitable Beth Lisick, actress, author and Porchlight Storytelling Series co-host. More at fest.sffs.org.
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April 28, 2011
SFIFF54's 'Beginners' Brings Surprises
Susan Gerhard
Apr 23, 2011Mike Mills and Ewan McGregor lit up the Castro on San Francisco International's opening night.
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Festivals
SFIFF54's 'Beginners' Brings Surprises
Susan Gerhard
Apr 23, 2011Mike Mills and Ewan McGregor lit up the Castro on San Francisco International's opening night.
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SFIFF54's 'Beginners' Brings Surprises
Susan Gerhard
Apr 23, 2011Mike Mills and Ewan McGregor lit up the Castro on San Francisco International's opening night.
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News & Blogs
Terence Stamp to Receive Peter J. Owens Award at 54th San Francisco International Film Festival
Apr 22, 2011Press release: The San Francisco Film Society announced today that Terence Stamp will be the recipient of the Peter J. Owens Award at the 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21–May 5). The Owens Award, named for the longtime San Francisco benefactor of arts and charitable organizations and Film Society board member, honors an actor whose work exemplifies brilliance, independence and integrity. The award will be presented to Stamp at Film Society Awards Night, Thursday, April 28 at Bimbo’s 365 Club. More at fest11.sffs.org.
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april 22 2011
SFIFF54 Finds Life Among the Ruins
Matt Sussman
Apr 21, 2011As the San Francisco International Film Festival opens, key films consider the value of place.
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SFIFF54 Finds Life Among the Ruins
Matt Sussman
Apr 21, 2011As the San Francisco International Film Festival opens, key films consider the value of place.
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SFIFF54 Finds Life Among the Ruins
Matt Sussman
Apr 21, 2011As the San Francisco International Film Festival opens, key films consider the value of place.
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April 19, 2011
San Francisco International Opens
Apr 21, 2011The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival opens with a film about fresh starts, in the form of a 75-year-old living life romantically, possibly for the first time, in Mike Mills' 'Beginners.' One can't go wrong with a cast featuring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Melanie Laurent. Better: Mills and McGregor are present. A party follows at Terra Gallery. More at fest.sffs.org.
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april 22 2011
SFIFF54 Finds Life Among the Ruins
Matt Sussman
Apr 21, 2011As the San Francisco International Film Festival opens, key films consider the value of place.
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SFIFF54 Finds Life Among the Ruins
Matt Sussman
Apr 21, 2011As the San Francisco International Film Festival opens, key films consider the value of place.
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SFIFF54 Finds Life Among the Ruins
Matt Sussman
Apr 21, 2011As the San Francisco International Film Festival opens, key films consider the value of place.
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april 22 2011
Looking for the Moral with Bill Nichols
Michael Fox
Apr 20, 2011Social-justice filmmaking gets discussed in a Bill Nichols'-moderated salon during SFIFF.
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Looking for the Moral with Bill Nichols
Michael Fox
Apr 20, 2011Social-justice filmmaking gets discussed in a Bill Nichols'-moderated salon during SFIFF.
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Looking for the Moral with Bill Nichols
Michael Fox
Apr 20, 2011Social-justice filmmaking gets discussed in a Bill Nichols'-moderated salon during SFIFF.
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april 22 2011
Production Values: Debbie Brubaker
Adrianne Anderson
Apr 19, 2011A veteran producer talks about the art, craft and industry behind her work.
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First Person
Production Values: Debbie Brubaker
Adrianne Anderson
Apr 19, 2011A veteran producer talks about the art, craft and industry behind her work.
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Production Values: Debbie Brubaker
Adrianne Anderson
Apr 19, 2011A veteran producer talks about the art, craft and industry behind her work.
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april 22 2011
On Producing Killer Films
Dennis Harvey
Apr 18, 2011Christine Vachon examines her varied indie successes while offering notes on the world of change engulfing cinema.
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On Producing Killer Films
Dennis Harvey
Apr 18, 2011Christine Vachon examines her varied indie successes while offering notes on the world of change engulfing cinema.
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On Producing Killer Films
Dennis Harvey
Apr 18, 2011Christine Vachon examines her varied indie successes while offering notes on the world of change engulfing cinema.
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April 12, 2011
Afterimage: The Films of Patricio Guzmán
Apr 16, 2011Pacific Film Archive's Patricio Guzmán series continues with ‘The Pinochet Case’ and ‘Chile, Obstinate Memory.’ Later this month, Guzman's latest, a poignant and provocative reflection called 'Nostalgia for the Light,' closes the collection and screens as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival, April 26 and 28. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu and fest11.sffs.org.
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News & Blogs
SFIFF Presents Midnight Award to Clifton Collins, Jr., Zoe Saldana
Apr 16, 2011The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21 - May 5) announced that Clifton Collins Jr. will be honored at the fourth Midnight Awards, 10:30 pm, Saturday, April 23 at the W San Francisco. The Midnight Awards takes the form of a late night talk show, hosted by Beth Lisick, New York Times best-selling author and coorganizer of the Porchlight Storytelling Series, with live musical accompaniment by the Darren Johnston Trio. Lisick will interview Collins and his previously announced Midnight Award corecipient Zoe Saldana. Clips of their work will be shown prior to the presentation of the awards. More at fest11.sffs.org.
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april 22 2011
Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Apr 15, 2011Films in the 54th SFIFF immerse viewers in distant times, unique places.
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Festivals
Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Apr 15, 2011Films 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, 2011Films 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, 2011Films in the 54th SFIFF immerse viewers in distant times, unique places.
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April 12, 2011
‘Henry’s Crime’
Apr 15, 2011Keanu Reeves, James Caan and Vera Farmiga star in Malcolm Venvile’s ‘Henry’s Crime,’ which opens at Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco, Landmark’s Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley and other Bay Area theaters. The film was an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival. More at landmarktheatres.com.
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april 22 2011
Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Apr 15, 2011Films in the 54th SFIFF immerse viewers in distant times, unique places.
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Festivals
Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Apr 15, 2011Films 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, 2011Films 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, 2011Films in the 54th SFIFF immerse viewers in distant times, unique places.
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April 14, 2011
Film Globally, Screen Locally
Michael Fox
Apr 13, 2011Local filmmakers reflect on the opportunities presented by screenings at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Film Globally, Screen Locally
Michael Fox
Apr 13, 2011Local filmmakers reflect on the opportunities presented by screenings at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Film Globally, Screen Locally
Michael Fox
Apr 13, 2011Local filmmakers reflect on the opportunities presented by screenings at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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April 5, 2011
The 10th Annual Tiburon International Film Festival
Apr 7, 2011The 10th Annual Tiburon International Film Festival begins with Tomas Barina’s ‘Novel for Men,’ which will be making its International Premiere at the Tiburon Playhouse Theater. Over 140 films from 55 countries play over 11 days. More at tiburonfilmfestival.com.
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News & Blogs
54th San Francisco International Film Festival Will Present Founder’s Directing Award to Oliver Stone
Apr 7, 2011Press release: The San Francisco Film Society announced today that Oliver Stone will be the recipient of the Founder’s Directing Award at the 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21–May 5). The FDA will be presented to Stone at Film Society Awards Night, Thursday, April 28 at Bimbo’s 365 Club. The Film Society’s Youth Education program will be the beneficiary of the fundraiser honoring Stone. The soon-to-be-announced recipient of the Peter J. Owens Award for excellence in acting and Frank Pierson, recipient of the Kanbar Award for excellence in screenwriting will also be honored. More at sffs.org.
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IndieWIRE: "Meet the San Francisco International Film Fest Programmers (In Their Own Words)"
Apr 2, 2011IndieWIRE reports: "With the sheer number of arts-related events in San Francisco, one might mistake the city as one of America’s largest metropolises, but in fact it’s California’s fourth largest city. San Francisco has however had a long tradition of embracing arts on the cusp, reflecting its vibrant and diverse citizens." More at indieWIRE.com.
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03.31.11
SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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03.31.11
SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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Festivals
SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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March 15, 2011
‘Battleship Potemkin’
Mar 18, 2011Those in the mood for mutiny or early-century montage will enjoy Sergei Eisenstein's 'Battleship Potemkin,' which receives 35mm treatment courtesy Kino International at the Castro this week. More at castrotheatre.com.
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March 15, 2011
‘Heartbeats'
Mar 18, 2011Xavier Dolan’s ‘Heartbeats,’ the 2010 Winner of Un Certain Regard Youth Prize at Cannes International Film Festival, opens at Landmark Theatres in San Francisco and Landmark’s Shattuck Cinemas. The film follows two best friends and their attempt to attain the affection of a charming man they’ve just met. More at landmarktheatres.com.
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SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
Adam Hartzell
Mar 14, 2011'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.
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March 17, 2011
SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
Adam Hartzell
Mar 14, 2011'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.
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SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
Adam Hartzell
Mar 14, 2011'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.
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SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
Adam Hartzell
Mar 14, 2011'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.
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March 17, 2011
SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
Adam Hartzell
Mar 14, 2011'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.
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SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
Adam Hartzell
Mar 14, 2011'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.
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March 8, 2011
SF Int'l Asian American Film Festival
Mar 11, 2011San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival begins March 10 and runs for 11 days, celebrating Opening Night at the Castro Theatre with Andy De Emmony’s 2009 ‘West Is West,’ the sequel to the successful 1999 ‘East Is East.’ About 120 films will play at a variety of venues around San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose. More at festival.asianamericanmedia.org.
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SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Adam Hartzell
Mar 10, 2011At nearly 30, SF Int’l Asian American Film Festival fulfills a multifacted programming mission. The 29th edition of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival stretches across the Bay Area, from San Francisco to Berkeley to San Jose March 10–20, bringing “Stories to Light” as the Center for Asian American Media's new tagline says. Indeed, both the stories and their potential audiences would be left in the dark without the solid efforts of new festival steward Misashi Niwano and Christine Kwon (festival director and managing director, respectively). In a city privileged with a vast...
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March 10, 2011
SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Adam Hartzell
Mar 10, 2011At nearly 30, SF Int’l Asian American Film Festival fulfills a multifacted programming mission. The 29th edition of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival stretches across the Bay Area, from San Francisco to Berkeley to San Jose March 10–20, bringing “Stories to Light” as the Center for Asian American Media's new tagline says. Indeed, both the stories and their potential audiences would be left in the dark without the solid efforts of new festival steward Misashi Niwano and Christine Kwon (festival director and managing director, respectively). In a city privileged with a vast...
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SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Adam Hartzell
Mar 10, 2011At nearly 30, SF Int’l Asian American Film Festival fulfills a multifacted programming mission. The 29th edition of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival stretches across the Bay Area, from San Francisco to Berkeley to San Jose March 10–20, bringing “Stories to Light” as the Center for Asian American Media's new tagline says. Indeed, both the stories and their potential audiences would be left in the dark without the solid efforts of new festival steward Misashi Niwano and Christine Kwon (festival director and managing director, respectively). In a city privileged with a vast...
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March 10, 2011
SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Adam Hartzell
Mar 10, 2011At nearly 30, SF Int’l Asian American Film Festival fulfills a multifacted programming mission. The 29th edition of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival stretches across the Bay Area, from San Francisco to Berkeley to San Jose March 10–20, bringing “Stories to Light” as the Center for Asian American Media's new tagline says. Indeed, both the stories and their potential audiences would be left in the dark without the solid efforts of new festival steward Misashi Niwano and Christine Kwon (festival director and managing director, respectively). In a city privileged with a vast...
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SFIAFF Director Primed for Debut
Michael Fox
Mar 7, 2011Masashi Niwano, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival's new director, speaks about bringing new worlds to this world cinema event.
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March 10, 2011
SFIAFF Director Primed for Debut
Michael Fox
Mar 7, 2011Masashi Niwano, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival's new director, speaks about bringing new worlds to this world cinema event.
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SFIAFF Director Primed for Debut
Michael Fox
Mar 7, 2011Masashi Niwano, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival's new director, speaks about bringing new worlds to this world cinema event.
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News & Blogs
SFIFF54 Announces Documentaries in Golden Gate Awards, Films in New Directors Competition
Mar 4, 2011Press release: The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21 - May 5) today announced its documentaries in competition for the Golden Gate Awards and films in competition for the New Directors Prize. The International will award close to $100,000 in total prizes this year. Sixty thousand dollars will be awarded to winners in three categories: investigative documentary feature ($25,000), documentary feature ($20,000) and Bay Area documentary feature ($15,000). The New Directors Prize of $15,000 is given to a narrative first feature that exhibits a unique artistic sensibility and deserves to be seen by as wide an audience as possible. Seventeen countries contributed to the production of the 11 films in this year's competition. Click through for titles or visit sffs.org.
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February 17, 2011
Noise Pop 2011's Film Series Rawks
Dennis Harvey
Feb 17, 2011Noise Pop brings the noise as well as great filmmaking to its annual music-and-movie event.
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Noise Pop 2011's Film Series Rawks
Dennis Harvey
Feb 17, 2011Noise Pop brings the noise as well as great filmmaking to its annual music-and-movie event.
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Noise Pop 2011's Film Series Rawks
Dennis Harvey
Feb 17, 2011Noise Pop brings the noise as well as great filmmaking to its annual music-and-movie event.
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February 10, 2011
Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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February 10, 2011
Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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February 1, 2011
SFFS Screen: 'The Time That Remains'
Feb 4, 2011SFFS Screen returns to the Sundance Kabuki with a new one from Elia Suleiman, a story about the the lives and hardships of Palestinians who were branded "Israeli Arabs." It's a film that the Toronto International Film Festival calls a "fusion of the political and personal, the historical and hysterical." More at sffs.org.
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Home
De Oliveira's 'Angelica' Balming, Enlivening
Dennis Harvey
Jan 7, 2011'The Strange Case of Angelica' finds Manoel de Oliveira, at 102 years old, in fine form.
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January 13, 2011
De Oliveira's 'Angelica' Balming, Enlivening
Dennis Harvey
Jan 7, 2011'The Strange Case of Angelica' finds Manoel de Oliveira, at 102 years old, in fine form.
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Reviews
De Oliveira's 'Angelica' Balming, Enlivening
Dennis Harvey
Jan 7, 2011'The Strange Case of Angelica' finds Manoel de Oliveira, at 102 years old, in fine form.
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De Oliveira's 'Angelica' Balming, Enlivening
Dennis Harvey
Jan 7, 2011'The Strange Case of Angelica' finds Manoel de Oliveira, at 102 years old, in fine form.
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January 13, 2011
De Oliveira's 'Angelica' Balming, Enlivening
Dennis Harvey
Jan 7, 2011'The Strange Case of Angelica' finds Manoel de Oliveira, at 102 years old, in fine form.
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Reviews
De Oliveira's 'Angelica' Balming, Enlivening
Dennis Harvey
Jan 7, 2011'The Strange Case of Angelica' finds Manoel de Oliveira, at 102 years old, in fine form.
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December 2, 2010
Malmberg Builds a Following with 'Marwencol'
Jessica Sapick
Nov 29, 2010A first-team non-fiction feature filmmaker hits it big with miniatures story.
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Home
Malmberg Builds a Following with 'Marwencol'
Jessica Sapick
Nov 29, 2010A first-team non-fiction feature filmmaker hits it big with miniatures story.
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Q & A
Malmberg Builds a Following with 'Marwencol'
Jessica Sapick
Nov 29, 2010A first-team non-fiction feature filmmaker hits it big with miniatures story.
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December 2, 2010
Malmberg Builds a Following with 'Marwencol'
Jessica Sapick
Nov 29, 2010A first-team non-fiction feature filmmaker hits it big with miniatures story.
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Home
Malmberg Builds a Following with 'Marwencol'
Jessica Sapick
Nov 29, 2010A first-team non-fiction feature filmmaker hits it big with miniatures story.
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Q & A
Malmberg Builds a Following with 'Marwencol'
Jessica Sapick
Nov 29, 2010A first-team non-fiction feature filmmaker hits it big with miniatures story.
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News & Blogs
IndieWIRE: "'Zeitgeist Latches Onto a 'Revolution'"
Nov 17, 2010"Following its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in September, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s '!Women Art Revolution' has been acquired by Zeitgeist Films for North American distribution," reports Nigel M. Smith. More at indiewire.com.
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Festivals
New to SFIAF: Online Screening Room
Andrew Provost
Nov 13, 2010SFIAF's Online Screening Room gives the festival's animation another dimension.
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New to SFIAF: Online Screening Room
Andrew Provost
Nov 13, 2010SFIAF's Online Screening Room gives the festival's animation another dimension.
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November 18, 2010
New to SFIAF: Online Screening Room
Andrew Provost
Nov 13, 2010SFIAF's Online Screening Room gives the festival's animation another dimension.
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Festivals
New to SFIAF: Online Screening Room
Andrew Provost
Nov 13, 2010SFIAF's Online Screening Room gives the festival's animation another dimension.
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Home
New to SFIAF: Online Screening Room
Andrew Provost
Nov 13, 2010SFIAF's Online Screening Room gives the festival's animation another dimension.
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November 18, 2010
New to SFIAF: Online Screening Room
Andrew Provost
Nov 13, 2010SFIAF's Online Screening Room gives the festival's animation another dimension.
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Home
Semiconductor's Binary Opposition
Sean Uyehara
Nov 12, 2010San Francisco International Animation Festival: Semiconductor's Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt talk about their work in music, movies and animation. What do you call a duo that considers itself a trio? Or videomakers who call themselves sculptors? Semiconductor has been making video and installation work for over ten years. They consist of Joseph Gerhardt, Ruth Jarman and a computer. They create animations and present live music and visual shows. Everything they do is slightly inside out. The computer is more or less an antagonist in their midst. They haven’t quite broken up the band yet, because the....
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November 11, 2010
Semiconductor's Binary Opposition
Sean Uyehara
Nov 12, 2010San Francisco International Animation Festival: Semiconductor's Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt talk about their work in music, movies and animation. What do you call a duo that considers itself a trio? Or videomakers who call themselves sculptors? Semiconductor has been making video and installation work for over ten years. They consist of Joseph Gerhardt, Ruth Jarman and a computer. They create animations and present live music and visual shows. Everything they do is slightly inside out. The computer is more or less an antagonist in their midst. They haven’t quite broken up the band yet, because the....
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November 10, 2010
San Francisco International Animation Festival
Nov 11, 2010Animated stories from around the world gather at Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema for the fifth SFIAF. Six wide-ranging shorts programs as well as features like Brent Green’s ‘Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then’ and Sunao Katabuchi’s ‘Mai Mai Miracle’ take the screen. Four diverse animators interpret folk rock band The Decemberists’ 2009 concept album in ‘Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized,’ which opens the festival. Opening Night party follows the screening at La Mar Cebichería Peruana at Pier One and One-Half on the Embarcadero. More at sffs.org.
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Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
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November 11, 2010
Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
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November 2, 2010
3rd I South Asian Film Festival
Nov 3, 2010The latest cinema from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet, U.K. and USA comprise the 8th annual 3rd I San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival: Bollywood and Beyond. Opening night plays at VIZ Cinema before festival moves to the Brava Theater, and concludes at the Castro. Browse the films at thirdi.org.
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October 26, 2010
Nicole Krauss in Conversation with Andrew Sean Greer
Nov 1, 2010Poet turned novelist Nicole Krauss, whose international bestseller ‘The History of Love’ was optioned before completion as a project for Alfonso Cuaron to direct, discusses art and process with bestselling author Andrew Sean Greer. More at cityarts.net.
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Mike Ott on the Guileless Filmmaking of 'Littlerock'
Jessica Sapick
Oct 25, 2010Mike Ott, now up for a Gotham Award, speaks on filmmaking process and his indie film 'Littlerock.'
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October 28, 2010
Mike Ott on the Guileless Filmmaking of 'Littlerock'
Jessica Sapick
Oct 25, 2010Mike Ott, now up for a Gotham Award, speaks on filmmaking process and his indie film 'Littlerock.'
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Q & A
Mike Ott on the Guileless Filmmaking of 'Littlerock'
Jessica Sapick
Oct 25, 2010Mike Ott, now up for a Gotham Award, speaks on filmmaking process and his indie film 'Littlerock.'
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Mike Ott on the Guileless Filmmaking of 'Littlerock'
Jessica Sapick
Oct 25, 2010Mike Ott, now up for a Gotham Award, speaks on filmmaking process and his indie film 'Littlerock.'
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October 28, 2010
Mike Ott on the Guileless Filmmaking of 'Littlerock'
Jessica Sapick
Oct 25, 2010Mike Ott, now up for a Gotham Award, speaks on filmmaking process and his indie film 'Littlerock.'
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Q & A
Mike Ott on the Guileless Filmmaking of 'Littlerock'
Jessica Sapick
Oct 25, 2010Mike Ott, now up for a Gotham Award, speaks on filmmaking process and his indie film 'Littlerock.'
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september 29, 2010
'Ferlinghetti'
Oct 3, 2010Photographer Christopher Felver's documentary on the San Francisco poet and publisher played at the 2009 San Francisco International Film Festival and gets another date to capture the current 'Howl' fever. It plays at the Smith Rafael Film Center.
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September 21, 2010
Distro 2010: Distribution for Independent Filmmakers Today
Sep 29, 2010This Bay Area Video Coalition panel includes representatives from Microcinema International and Filmmakers Collaborative discussing the many emerging choices independent filmmakers have for releasing their films.
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september 29, 2010
Distro 2010: Distribution for Independent Filmmakers Today
Sep 29, 2010This Bay Area Video Coalition panel includes representatives from Microcinema International and Filmmakers Collaborative discussing the many emerging choices independent filmmakers have for releasing their films.
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Festivals
A Children's Film Festival Finds Inspiration for All Ages
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 24, 2010The NY/SF International Children's Film Festival offers a mix of animation, live action, fantasy, entertainment and insight.
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A Children's Film Festival Finds Inspiration for All Ages
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 24, 2010The NY/SF International Children's Film Festival offers a mix of animation, live action, fantasy, entertainment and insight.
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September 30, 2010
A Children's Film Festival Finds Inspiration for All Ages
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 24, 2010The NY/SF International Children's Film Festival offers a mix of animation, live action, fantasy, entertainment and insight.
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September 21, 2010
NY/SF International Children's Film Festival
Sep 24, 2010San Francisco Film Society and the New York International Children's Film Festival offer three days of films for kids, teens and their families, from 'Turtle—the Incredible Journey' (pictured) to Santosh Sivan's Kashmir story, 'Tahaan,' to shorts and animated films, kicking off Friday, September 24, with a kid-friendly opening night party at the Punch Line Comedy Club.
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Home
Lixin Fan's 'Train' Arrives
Michael Fox
Sep 20, 2010The creator of award-winning documentary 'Last Train Home' speaks about the new China.
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Q & A
Lixin Fan's 'Train' Arrives
Michael Fox
Sep 20, 2010The creator of award-winning documentary 'Last Train Home' speaks about the new China.
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September 23, 2010
Lixin Fan's 'Train' Arrives
Michael Fox
Sep 20, 2010The creator of award-winning documentary 'Last Train Home' speaks about the new China.
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Festivals
Toronto's New Lightbox Offers Transcendence
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 16, 2010A festival transforms itself and transports audiences with a visionary new theater.
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Toronto's New Lightbox Offers Transcendence
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 16, 2010A festival transforms itself and transports audiences with a visionary new theater.
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September 16, 2010
Toronto's New Lightbox Offers Transcendence
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 16, 2010A festival transforms itself and transports audiences with a visionary new theater.
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Festivals
Toronto's New Lightbox Offers Transcendence
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 16, 2010A festival transforms itself and transports audiences with a visionary new theater.
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Home
Toronto's New Lightbox Offers Transcendence
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 16, 2010A festival transforms itself and transports audiences with a visionary new theater.
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September 16, 2010
Toronto's New Lightbox Offers Transcendence
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 16, 2010A festival transforms itself and transports audiences with a visionary new theater.
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Digital
Online Film Contests: Friend or Foe?
Hannah Eaves
Sep 14, 2010Contemplating the pros and cons of entering online film contests.
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Online Film Contests: Friend or Foe?
Hannah Eaves
Sep 14, 2010Contemplating the pros and cons of entering online film contests.
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September 16, 2010
Online Film Contests: Friend or Foe?
Hannah Eaves
Sep 14, 2010Contemplating the pros and cons of entering online film contests.
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News & Blogs
SFGate: 'New Director at Film Festival'
Sep 13, 2010SF Chronicle: "Masashi Niwano, who most recently was executive director of the Austin Asian American Film Festival in Austin, Texas, has been named festival and exhibitions director for the San Francisco International Asian American Festival." More at SFGate.
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'Them Greeks' Tests Independent Digital Production Model
Jessica Sapick
Sep 7, 2010An animator collaborates over the ether to bring 'Them Greeks....!' to life.
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Q & A
'Them Greeks' Tests Independent Digital Production Model
Jessica Sapick
Sep 7, 2010An animator collaborates over the ether to bring 'Them Greeks....!' to life.
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September 9 2010
'Them Greeks' Tests Independent Digital Production Model
Jessica Sapick
Sep 7, 2010An animator collaborates over the ether to bring 'Them Greeks....!' to life.
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Festivals
Telluride Unveils 37th Film Festival
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 3, 2010Surprising themes and high profile documentaries are among the highlights of the Telluride 2010 lineup.
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Telluride Unveils 37th Film Festival
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 3, 2010Surprising themes and high profile documentaries are among the highlights of the Telluride 2010 lineup.
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September 9 2010
Telluride Unveils 37th Film Festival
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 3, 2010Surprising themes and high profile documentaries are among the highlights of the Telluride 2010 lineup.
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Home
A Family Implodes in Biting 'Dogtooth'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 3, 2010A Greek film incriminates the viewer.
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Reviews
A Family Implodes in Biting 'Dogtooth'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 3, 2010A Greek film incriminates the viewer.
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August 26 ,2010
Medina Stokes SF-set ‘Furnace’
Michael Fox
Aug 25, 2010Dolissa Medina uncovers more ashes in a new, historical piece on San Francisco and its many great fires.
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Medina Stokes SF-set ‘Furnace’
Michael Fox
Aug 25, 2010Dolissa Medina uncovers more ashes in a new, historical piece on San Francisco and its many great fires.
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In Production
Medina Stokes SF-set ‘Furnace’
Michael Fox
Aug 25, 2010Dolissa Medina uncovers more ashes in a new, historical piece on San Francisco and its many great fires.
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August 24, 2010
'Micmacs' at the Red Vic
Aug 25, 2010Jean-Pierre Jeunet's San Francisco International Film Festival opening night film, an arms-trade satire, plays at the Red Vic this week. It's a visually intoxicating story of a man who finds acceptance with a group of creative, scrap-heap dwelling misfits.
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August 26 ,2010
Eat, Pray, Love, Direct
Jessica Sapick
Aug 23, 2010Ruba Nadda speaks of sultry actors and tenacious directors in the making of 'Cairo Time.'
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Eat, Pray, Love, Direct
Jessica Sapick
Aug 23, 2010Ruba Nadda speaks of sultry actors and tenacious directors in the making of 'Cairo Time.'
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Q & A
Eat, Pray, Love, Direct
Jessica Sapick
Aug 23, 2010Ruba Nadda speaks of sultry actors and tenacious directors in the making of 'Cairo Time.'
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August 19 2010
Maoz Speaks of the Limits of Language in 'Lebanon'
Jessica Sapick
Aug 16, 2010The Lebanon War of 1982 informs Samuel Maoz's 'Lebanon.'
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Maoz Speaks of the Limits of Language in 'Lebanon'
Jessica Sapick
Aug 16, 2010The Lebanon War of 1982 informs Samuel Maoz's 'Lebanon.'
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Q & A
Maoz Speaks of the Limits of Language in 'Lebanon'
Jessica Sapick
Aug 16, 2010The Lebanon War of 1982 informs Samuel Maoz's 'Lebanon.'
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August 19 2010
Maoz Speaks of the Limits of Language in 'Lebanon'
Jessica Sapick
Aug 16, 2010The Lebanon War of 1982 informs Samuel Maoz's 'Lebanon.'
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Home
Maoz Speaks of the Limits of Language in 'Lebanon'
Jessica Sapick
Aug 16, 2010The Lebanon War of 1982 informs Samuel Maoz's 'Lebanon.'
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Q & A
Maoz Speaks of the Limits of Language in 'Lebanon'
Jessica Sapick
Aug 16, 2010The Lebanon War of 1982 informs Samuel Maoz's 'Lebanon.'
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August 19 2010
Back with a 'Vengeance'
Matt Sussman
Aug 13, 2010Johnnie To delivers on his trademark themes with 'Vengeance.'
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Back with a 'Vengeance'
Matt Sussman
Aug 13, 2010Johnnie To delivers on his trademark themes with 'Vengeance.'
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Reviews
Back with a 'Vengeance'
Matt Sussman
Aug 13, 2010Johnnie To delivers on his trademark themes with 'Vengeance.'
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August 10 2010
Sausalito Film Festival
Aug 13, 2010This year's Sausalito Film Festival, held at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge at Cavallo Point, carries an international collection of films that examine everything from Brazilian catadores and rural American farmers with problems of conscience to the first woman to head Pakistan's government.
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August 19 2010
Back with a 'Vengeance'
Matt Sussman
Aug 13, 2010Johnnie To delivers on his trademark themes with 'Vengeance.'
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Home
Back with a 'Vengeance'
Matt Sussman
Aug 13, 2010Johnnie To delivers on his trademark themes with 'Vengeance.'
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Reviews
Back with a 'Vengeance'
Matt Sussman
Aug 13, 2010Johnnie To delivers on his trademark themes with 'Vengeance.'
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08-12-10
Schneider and Zanuck on the Highs of 'Get Low'
Jessica Sapick
Aug 6, 2010Filmmakers working with Duvall, Murray and Spacek talk about humor, perseverance, and process.
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Schneider and Zanuck on the Highs of 'Get Low'
Jessica Sapick
Aug 6, 2010Filmmakers working with Duvall, Murray and Spacek talk about humor, perseverance, and process.
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Q & A
Schneider and Zanuck on the Highs of 'Get Low'
Jessica Sapick
Aug 6, 2010Filmmakers working with Duvall, Murray and Spacek talk about humor, perseverance, and process.
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Home
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
SF Jewish Film Festival Lights 30 Candles
Michael Fox
Jul 22, 2010The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival finds fans beyond its identity-based target audience with a wide array of international films and topics.
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SF Jewish Film Festival Lights 30 Candles
Michael Fox
Jul 22, 2010The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival finds fans beyond its identity-based target audience with a wide array of international films and topics.
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Festivals
SF Jewish Film Festival Lights 30 Candles
Michael Fox
Jul 22, 2010The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival finds fans beyond its identity-based target audience with a wide array of international films and topics.
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Home
SF Jewish Film Festival Lights 30 Candles
Michael Fox
Jul 22, 2010The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival finds fans beyond its identity-based target audience with a wide array of international films and topics.
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Festivals
Frameline34, a Festival Refreshed
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2010Critical consensus on Frameline34 marks it a good year. The audience wanted something different, and the festival has largely obliged.
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Festivals
Frameline34, a Festival Refreshed
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2010Critical consensus on Frameline34 marks it a good year. The audience wanted something different, and the festival has largely obliged.
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Festivals
Frameline34 Focuses on Warhol and Worlds of LGBT Cinema
Dennis Harvey
Jun 17, 2010Frameline34 takes a fresh look at Andy Warhol's world while offering a view to the world of international LGBT cinema 2010.
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Q & A
On the Road with 'Joan,' Stern and Sundberg Talk Big Picture
Michael Fox
Jun 14, 2010The makers of Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work speak about their latest, as well as the state of documentary filmmaking.
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In Production
Koppelman Maps International Cybercrime, Cuban Opera
Michael Fox
Jun 9, 2010Charles Koppelman's documentary in progress, Zero Day, exposes each of three threats to the Internet: cybercrime, cyberespionage and cyberwarfare.
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Digital
A Digital Glossary
Hannah Eaves
Jun 8, 2010What s the difference between streaming and download rights? Here s a glossary of terms filmmakers should know before signing a contract or hiring a web developer.
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Reviews
Merchant-Ivory: A Look Back
Dennis Harvey
May 27, 2010A literary adaptation filled with first-class actors in sumptuous settings, City doesn't fall too far from the familiar Merchant-Ivory tree.
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News & Blogs
Festivals from Cannes to Marfa, San Francisco Filmmakers Reporting
Emile Bokaer, Cynthia Mitchell
May 21, 2010Bay Area filmmakers report back from film festivals far (Cannes) and wide (Marfa).
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Q & A
Poitras's Unexpected Path to 'The Oath'
Jessica Sapick
May 16, 2010Laura Poitras speaks during SFIFF53 about the process of creating The Oath from the stories of Osama Bin Laden's former bodyguard and driver.
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Q & A
Poitras's Unexpected Path to 'The Oath'
Jessica Sapick
May 16, 2010Laura Poitras speaks during SFIFF53 about the process of creating The Oath from the stories of Osama Bin Laden's former bodyguard and driver.
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News & Blogs
SF Chronicle: 'S.F. Film Festival Bestows Prizes'
May 7, 2010Almost $300,000 was given out Wednesday night for awards and grants honoring documentary winners.
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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
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: Golden Gate Awards and Juried Prizes/Grants Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2010Cash prizes totaling nearly $300,000 for filmmakers highlighted the San Francisco International Film Festival s Golden Gate Awards Wednesday night.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: Golden Gate Awards and Juried Prizes/Grants Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2010Cash prizes totaling nearly $300,000 for filmmakers highlighted the San Francisco International Film Festival s Golden Gate Awards Wednesday night.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: War Stories
Matt Sussman
May 5, 2010Films about our species enduring capacity to be inhumane toward its own are perennials at festivals, and will be so as long as wars are waged.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: War Stories
Matt Sussman
May 5, 2010Films about our species enduring capacity to be inhumane toward its own are perennials at festivals, and will be so as long as wars are waged.
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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: Divine Madness at 'All About Evil' Premiere
Dennis Harvey
May 4, 2010Judging from Saturday night s festivities, half the capacity Castro Theatre audience had worked on or otherwise invested in Joshua Grannell a.k.a. Peaches Christ s debut feature.
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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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Q & A
Behind the Music with 'Simonal'
Julia Barbosa
May 3, 2010The documentary Simonal: No One Knows How Tough it Was explores the polemic surrounding a man considered by many to be the greatest singer in Brazilian history.
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Q & A
Behind the Music with 'Simonal'
Julia Barbosa
May 3, 2010The documentary Simonal: No One Knows How Tough it Was explores the polemic surrounding a man considered by many to be the greatest singer in Brazilian history.
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In Depth
Dialogues: Gary Snyder on Art, Anarchy and the Environment
Robert Avila
May 3, 2010Poet, essayist, environmentalist, Buddhist, public intellectual and teacher Gary Snyder speaks on life and the making of 'The Practice of the Wild.'
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Q & A
Dialogues: Gary Snyder on Art, Anarchy and the Environment
Robert Avila
May 3, 2010Poet, essayist, environmentalist, Buddhist, public intellectual and teacher Gary Snyder speaks on life and the making of 'The Practice of the Wild.'
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In Depth
Dialogues: Gary Snyder on Art, Anarchy and the Environment
Robert Avila
May 3, 2010Poet, essayist, environmentalist, Buddhist, public intellectual and teacher Gary Snyder speaks on life and the making of 'The Practice of the Wild.'
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Q & A
Dialogues: Gary Snyder on Art, Anarchy and the Environment
Robert Avila
May 3, 2010Poet, essayist, environmentalist, Buddhist, public intellectual and teacher Gary Snyder speaks on life and the making of 'The Practice of the Wild.'
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Q & A
New York-set Charlie Barker's Big S.F. Break
Michael Fox
May 2, 2010Along with selfless sacrifices and random luck, low-budget independent films often depend on the timely intervention of an angel.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: Women's Worlds
Max Goldberg
May 1, 2010Don 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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Festivals
SFIFF53: Women's Worlds
Max Goldberg
May 1, 2010Don 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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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: California Dreamin' at Film Society Awards Night
Susan Gerhard
Apr 30, 2010San Francisco itself took a lead role at Film Society Awards Night, the dinner and awards program benefiting the Film Society s year-round Youth Education initiative.
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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: California Dreamin' at Film Society Awards Night
Susan Gerhard
Apr 30, 2010San Francisco itself took a lead role at Film Society Awards Night, the dinner and awards program benefiting the Film Society s year-round Youth Education initiative.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: 'At the Movies' with Roger Ebert
Dennis Harvey
Apr 30, 2010You know someone is well liked when they re used as the standard by which you fall short.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: The Art of Revival
Dennis Harvey
Apr 29, 2010Through most of its history, the Festival has featured revivals of restored classics and little-known gems. This year s selections run an unusually wide gamut.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: The Art of Revival
Dennis Harvey
Apr 29, 2010Through most of its history, the Festival has featured revivals of restored classics and little-known gems. This year s selections run an unusually wide gamut.
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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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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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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: 'Utopia,' 'Morning'
SF360
Apr 27, 2010Live & Onstage thought globally and drafted locally with Sam Green and musician Dave Cerf s live Utopia in Four Movements, which never takes the exact same form.
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Q & A
Hernandez's Guilty Verdict
Michael Fox
Apr 26, 2010If there's a sure-fire crowd-pleaser in this year's San Francisco International Film Festival, it s Roberto Hernandez and Geoffrey Smith's Presumed Guilty.
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Q & A
Hernandez's Guilty Verdict
Michael Fox
Apr 26, 2010If there's a sure-fire crowd-pleaser in this year's San Francisco International Film Festival, it s Roberto Hernandez and Geoffrey Smith's Presumed Guilty.
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Festivals
SFIFF s Porchlight On For Guests
Michael Fox
Apr 24, 2010Ch‚ Sandoval of Chile, Kaspar Astrup Schroder of Denmark, Pedro Gonzal‚z-Rubio of Mexico, John Herschend and Claudia Gonson don t have much in common except stories to tell.
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Festivals
SFIFF s Porchlight On For Guests
Michael Fox
Apr 24, 2010Ch‚ Sandoval of Chile, Kaspar Astrup Schroder of Denmark, Pedro Gonzal‚z-Rubio of Mexico, John Herschend and Claudia Gonson don t have much in common except stories to tell.
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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: The Butcher Block; Opening Night
SF360
Apr 24, 2010To be from the Bay Area and called The Butcher Brothers might mean you get mixed up with purveyors of grass fed meats.
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In Depth
Dialogues: Jim Harrison on Poetry, Documentary
Robert Avila
Apr 23, 2010Writer Jim Harrison offers thoughts about his relationship to Gary Snyder and his contributions to 'The Practice of the Wild.'
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Q & A
Dialogues: Jim Harrison on Poetry, Documentary
Robert Avila
Apr 23, 2010Writer Jim Harrison offers thoughts about his relationship to Gary Snyder and his contributions to 'The Practice of the Wild.'
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In Depth
Dialogues: Jim Harrison on Poetry, Documentary
Robert Avila
Apr 23, 2010Writer Jim Harrison offers thoughts about his relationship to Gary Snyder and his contributions to 'The Practice of the Wild.'
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Q & A
Dialogues: Jim Harrison on Poetry, Documentary
Robert Avila
Apr 23, 2010Writer Jim Harrison offers thoughts about his relationship to Gary Snyder and his contributions to 'The Practice of the Wild.'
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Reviews
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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Reviews
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
'Utopia' in San Francisco
Susan Gerhard
Apr 18, 2010I found Sam Green deep in preparation, but he found time to walk me through the greatest dreams and worst nightmares of the 20th century.
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Reviews
'It Came from Kuchar,' 'La Mission' in Theatres
sf360
Apr 16, 2010Bay Area-made and Mission-inspired, Peter Bratt's La Mission joins Jennifer Kroot's wild and woolly It Came from Kuchar in Bay Area theaters this week.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: Ephemeral Film and Music, Live & Onstage
Marc Capelle
Apr 14, 2010If you imagine the S.F. International Film Festival as an circus tent, with Opening and Closing nights the main supports, the other tent poles are interactive live experiences.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: Ephemeral Film and Music, Live & Onstage
Marc Capelle
Apr 14, 2010If you imagine the S.F. International Film Festival as an circus tent, with Opening and Closing nights the main supports, the other tent poles are interactive live experiences.
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Reviews
Can-Can Do: Silent Shooting at the Victoria
Jane Riccobono
Apr 13, 2010The Victoria Theater is shut up tight, with no sign of life. After a few raps on the door, a woman peeks out and leads me inside.
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Q & A
Christina Yao's solid Empire of Silver
Michael Fox
Apr 12, 2010First-time filmmaker Christina Yao is soft-spoken and exceedingly polite, but it s apparent that very little intimidates her.
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Q & A
Christina Yao's solid Empire of Silver
Michael Fox
Apr 12, 2010First-time filmmaker Christina Yao is soft-spoken and exceedingly polite, but it s apparent that very little intimidates her.
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Reviews
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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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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Festivals
San Francisco International Film Festival's 53rd Edition
Susan Gerhard
Mar 30, 2010Director of Programming Rachel Rosen and programmers Rod Armstrong, Audrey Chang and Sean Uyehara shared thoughts on 177 films from 46 countries.
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Reviews
Unresolved Conflict in 'American Radical,' 'Promised Lands'
Dennis Harvey
Mar 25, 2010YBCA s month-long, six-part Human Rights and Film series closes with two documentaries on the Arab-Israeli conflict made 35 years apart.
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Q & A
Karim Ahmad on ITVS's Forward-Thinking FUTURESTATES
Adam Hartzell
Mar 21, 2010Think of U.S. public television and science fiction or any type of fiction doesn't spring to mind. ITVS aims to change that perception with a series of mini-features.
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Festivals
SF International Asian American Film Festival's Archival Tour
Adam Hartzell
Mar 19, 2010A theme that emerged in this year s SFIAFF was the importance of archives in the film world.
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Festivals
SF International Asian American Film Festival's Archival Tour
Adam Hartzell
Mar 19, 2010A theme that emerged in this year s SFIAFF was the importance of archives in the film world.
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Reviews
Bong Joon-ho's 'Mother' Pleases
Dennis Harvey
Mar 18, 2010One of the heroes of South Korean cinema's recent renaissance wisely sticks to home terrain with his follow-up to The Host.
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Q & A
Borshay Liem's Double Exposure of Korean Adoptions
Michael Fox
Mar 12, 2010Deann Borshay Liem's 1999 doc First Person Plural recounted her experience as an orphaned Korean adoptee raised in an East Bay suburb.
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Q & A
Borshay Liem's Double Exposure of Korean Adoptions
Michael Fox
Mar 12, 2010Deann Borshay Liem's 1999 doc First Person Plural recounted her experience as an orphaned Korean adoptee raised in an East Bay suburb.
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Festivals
28th SF Int'l Asian American Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Mar 10, 2010The Center for Asian American Media, formerly known as NAATA and founded to nurture Asian American filmmakers as well as counter ethnic stereotypes, has accomplished that and more.
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Festivals
28th SF Int'l Asian American Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Mar 10, 2010The Center for Asian American Media, formerly known as NAATA and founded to nurture Asian American filmmakers as well as counter ethnic stereotypes, has accomplished that and more.
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Q & A
Reed's Promise of Prodigal Sons
Michael Fox
Mar 3, 2010If Kimberly Reed took a not particularly unique path into filmmaking, she certainly took an interesting road out of it.
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Reviews
Beyond 'Berlin,' Eggers' New German Gems
Michael Fox
Feb 26, 2010The moving arrow anoints a new hot spot of contemporary cinema every few years, and then moves on. Yet Germany never makes the cool list.
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Reviews
Beyond 'Berlin,' Eggers' New German Gems
Michael Fox
Feb 26, 2010The moving arrow anoints a new hot spot of contemporary cinema every few years, and then moves on. Yet Germany never makes the cool list.
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Reviews
Freak Flag Flying at YBCA
Dennis Harvey
Feb 17, 2010YBCA has sustained a major place in S.F.'s cultural landscape without receiving the due it would have had its mission been narrower and more easily defined.
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Festivals
Mostly British and Very Entertaining
Dennis Harvey
Feb 4, 2010Tragically underrepresented in the Bay Area's densely packed world of globally oriented film festivals is the land(s) of our erstwhile colonial rulers!
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Krissy Bailey
Hilary Hart
Jan 27, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Landon Zakheim
Hilary Hart
Jan 21, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Reviews
It's 'Playtime' with Jacques Tati in New Series
Dennis Harvey
Jan 13, 2010You could make a case for Tati as the last great silent comedian even if he didn't begin making features until two decades into the sound era.
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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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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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Q & A
George Csicsery's Hard Problems
Michael Fox
Jan 4, 2010With more than 25 documentaries to his credit, many on mathematicians and scientists, George Csicsery is arguably the most prolific filmmaker in the Bay Area.
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In Production
Bay Area Narrative Filmmakers Thriving in Doc Capital
Michael Fox
Dec 23, 2009Michael Fox shows independent filmmakers who are thriving in the Bay Area.
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Q & A
Frazer Bradshaw on "Everything Strange and New"
Susan Gerhard
Nov 23, 2009Susan Gerhard caught up with the director of an Oakland-shot domestic drama whose first-time feature was chosen for Sundance.
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Reviews
Daven Gee Docs on the New American Family
Michael Fox
Nov 17, 2009Two films from Oakland filmmakers, Dhana & Indra and Family 2469, illuminate the changing face of the country as the 21st Century unfolds.
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Screenwriting
Carmen Madden on Watching People, Writing Characters
Lisa Rosenberg
Nov 16, 2009Writer/director Carmen Madden's writing reflects just how intimately she comes to see and know a screenplay's world and the characters that inhabit it.
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Q & A
Russell Merritt at the SF International Animation Festival
Sura Wood
Nov 9, 2009A conversation on Walt Disney's Alice Comedies with a lively raconteur and Professor of Film Studies at UC Berkeley.
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Q & A
Parker and di Napoli on Parody and High Art
Adam Hartzell
Nov 1, 2009Bay Area locals Jonathan Parker and Catherine di Napoli discuss (Untitled), a hilarious romp through the world of conceptual art and atonal music.
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Q & A
Parker and di Napoli on Parody and High Art
Adam Hartzell
Nov 1, 2009Bay Area locals Jonathan Parker and Catherine di Napoli discuss (Untitled), a hilarious romp through the world of conceptual art and atonal music.
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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
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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Festivals
Mill Valley Film Festival's 32nd
Dennis Harvey
Oct 9, 2009The program offers a surprisingly potent mainstream industry presence, with tributes to A-list types more frequently seen at the multiplex than at the art house.
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Festivals
Mill Valley Film Festival's 32nd
Dennis Harvey
Oct 9, 2009The program offers a surprisingly potent mainstream industry presence, with tributes to A-list types more frequently seen at the multiplex than at the art house.
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Reviews
Heddy Honigmann and the Art of Interview
Max Goldberg
Oct 2, 2009With 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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Reviews
Heddy Honigmann and the Art of Interview
Max Goldberg
Oct 2, 2009With 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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In Production
Montalbano's "The Recondite Heart"
Michael Fox
Sep 29, 2009East Bay filmmaker Miles Montalbano is in preproduction on dark coming-of-age story The Recondite Heart, his followup to his lauded debut, Revolution Summer.
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Q & A
Roy Andersson on "You, the Living"
Erik Augustin Palm
Sep 25, 2009A study in contrasts, Everyman and intellectual, Roy Andersson speaks about his career and new film, You, the Living.
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Q & A
Franny Armstrong's S.O.S. to the World
Sean Uyehara
Sep 19, 2009Franny Armstrong talks about the moral imperative of her films, the importance of Hopenhagen, and the unexpected magnitude of her success.
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Q & A
Franny Armstrong's S.O.S. to the World
Sean Uyehara
Sep 19, 2009Franny Armstrong talks about the moral imperative of her films, the importance of Hopenhagen, and the unexpected magnitude of her success.
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Festivals
Toronto International Film Festival 2009
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 19, 2009The Toronto International Film Festival has always allowed a generosity of pursuits to co-exist, rewarding the adventurous and satiating the lazy, all without judgment.
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Festivals
Toronto International Film Festival 2009
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 19, 2009The Toronto International Film Festival has always allowed a generosity of pursuits to co-exist, rewarding the adventurous and satiating the lazy, all without judgment.
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Q & A
The Sad Dance of 'Tony Manero'
Michael Guillen
Sep 9, 2009Chilean director Pablo Larraín offers insight into his sophomore feature, Tony Manero, on a man obsessed with the idea of impersonating John Travolta.
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Reviews
Kim Longinotto and Women Make Movies Film Festival
Adam Hartzell
Aug 27, 2009A mini-retrospective of the work of Kim Longinotto plays during the Women Make Movies Film Festival at the Roxie.
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Reviews
'Lion's Den' and '24 City'
Susan Gerhard
Jul 31, 2009Veteran filmmakers Pablo Trapero and Jia Zhang-ke complicate their genres with Lion's Den and 24 City.
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Reviews
'Lion's Den' and '24 City'
Susan Gerhard
Jul 31, 2009Veteran filmmakers Pablo Trapero and Jia Zhang-ke complicate their genres with Lion's Den and 24 City.
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Reviews
Whip-smart, Witty 'In the Loop'
Dennis Harvey
Jul 23, 2009Director Armando Iannucci's razor-sharp satire is about how the politics of spin can determine critical decisions on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Q & A
Anita Monga and the SF Silent Film Festival
Sura Wood
Jul 11, 2009During her tenure at the venerable Castro Theatre, film programmer Anita Monga made her mark shepherding the venue to international prominence.
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Q & A
Richard Levien, from 'Immersion' to 'La Migra'
Jennifer Preissel
Jun 29, 2009New Zealand transplant Richard Levien, a longstanding fixture of the San Francisco indie film community, breaks out of the editing room with Immersion.
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Q & A
Richard Levien, from 'Immersion' to 'La Migra'
Jennifer Preissel
Jun 29, 2009New Zealand transplant Richard Levien, a longstanding fixture of the San Francisco indie film community, breaks out of the editing room with Immersion.
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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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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
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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Q & A
Miller Brothers Touch Home at AT&T Park
Michael Fox
Jun 2, 2009The Miller brothers take their memoir-release to the local ballpark.
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Q & A
Miller Brothers Touch Home at AT&T Park
Michael Fox
Jun 2, 2009The Miller brothers take their memoir-release to the local ballpark.
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In Production
Dinner and a Movie Discussion: Igor Sinyak
Michael Fox
May 24, 2009Michael Fox interviews Igor Sinyak, founder of Subtitles & Subtleties, about his dinner and a movie discussion forum.
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Festivals
Bruce Goldstein: From NY to SF to 'Con'
Judy Stone
May 17, 2009Bruce Goldstein recalls his adventures in film land as he prepares to host the Con Film Festival at the Film Forum in New York.
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Festivals
Bruce Goldstein: From NY to SF to 'Con'
Judy Stone
May 17, 2009Bruce Goldstein recalls his adventures in film land as he prepares to host the Con Film Festival at the Film Forum in New York.
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In Production
Recession-Proof Theaters, to a Point
Michael Fox
May 14, 2009Arthouse theaters like The Roxie, Red Vic and The Balboa resist the economic downturn and adjust calendars to meet audience demands.
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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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Festivals
SFIFF52: Golden Gate Awards Uncorked, SFFS/KRF Grant Winner Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 7, 2009SFIFF handed out approximately $100,000 and announced the winner San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grant during its Golden Gate Awards.
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Golden Gate Awards Uncorked, SFFS/KRF Grant Winner Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 7, 2009SFIFF handed out approximately $100,000 and announced the winner San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grant during its Golden Gate Awards.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Dinosaurs, Disease, and Delirium
Robert Avila
May 7, 2009The Lost World, the 1925 silent fantasy
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Planet Armstrong
Lynn Rapoport
May 6, 2009Franny Armstrong's The Age of Stupid is a documentary encased like a time capsule inside a fictive but science-based, frighteningly possible future
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Planet Armstrong
Lynn Rapoport
May 6, 2009Franny Armstrong's The Age of Stupid is a documentary encased like a time capsule inside a fictive but science-based, frighteningly possible future
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Story Structure
Crafting an Elegant Essay Documentary
Karen Everett
May 4, 2009The Edit Room: How do you keep your audience engaged rather than putting them to sleep?
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Festivals
Local Makers Line Up Next Shot after SFIFF
Michael Fox
May 4, 2009The 2009 SFIFF has been a launching pad for the numerous Bay Area filmmaker
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Story Structure
Crafting an Elegant Essay Documentary
Karen Everett
May 4, 2009The Edit Room: How do you keep your audience engaged rather than putting them to sleep?
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Festivals
Local Makers Line Up Next Shot after SFIFF
Michael Fox
May 4, 2009The 2009 SFIFF has been a launching pad for the numerous Bay Area filmmaker
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Cataloguing California
Jennifer Preissel
May 4, 2009California Company Town, blends the sights and sounds of the state's economically depressed towns, industrial wastelands and failed utopian communities.
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Reviews
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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Reviews
SFIFF52: Movie-Scribe Meltdown
David Winks Gray
May 2, 2009SF360.org interviews film critics about the changing landscape of film criticism. A panel discussion and screening of For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism will take place on Sunday, May 3, at 6 p.m.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Wilkerson's Proving Strong
David Winks Gray
May 2, 2009On May Day Eve, Travis Wilkerson performed Proving Ground, probably the first multimedia Leninist rant to have ever graced the Sundance Kabuki.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Wilkerson's Proving Strong
David Winks Gray
May 2, 2009On May Day Eve, Travis Wilkerson performed Proving Ground, probably the first multimedia Leninist rant to have ever graced the Sundance Kabuki.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Five Reasons why SF Loves Coppola
Justin Juul
May 1, 2009The San Francisco Film Society awarded Francis Ford Coppola the Founder & Directing Award this week. Justin Juul offers us five reasons why San Francisco loves Coppola.
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Reviews
Film Society Awards: Ballard, Coppola, Redford and Toback
Susan Gerhard
May 1, 2009The San Francisco Film Society honored Francis Ford Coppola, Carroll Ballard, Robert Redford and James Toback. Coppola surprised the audience by turning over the Founder's Directing Award he received to longtime colleague Carroll Ballard.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in the West'
Dennis Harvey
Apr 30, 2009Once Upon a Time in the West is grand, cynical, lavish and above all huge, Sergio Leone's penchant for the iconically gargantuan (perhaps at the willing expense of relatable human detail) expressed in ultimate form.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in the West'
Dennis Harvey
Apr 30, 2009Once Upon a Time in the West is grand, cynical, lavish and above all huge, Sergio Leone's penchant for the iconically gargantuan (perhaps at the willing expense of relatable human detail) expressed in ultimate form.
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Robert Redford Accepts Owens Award
Dennis Harvey
Apr 29, 2009Robert Redford braves the public and accepts the San Francisco International Film Festival's Peter J. Owens Award.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Portillo's 'Al Más Allá'
David Winks Gray
Apr 29, 2009Lourdes Portillo's partly autobiographical documentary Al Más Allá draws a laugh from the San Francisco International Film Festival crowd.
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Robert Redford Accepts Owens Award
Dennis Harvey
Apr 29, 2009Robert Redford braves the public and accepts the San Francisco International Film Festival's Peter J. Owens Award.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Portillo's 'Al Más Allá'
David Winks Gray
Apr 29, 2009Lourdes Portillo's partly autobiographical documentary Al Más Allá draws a laugh from the San Francisco International Film Festival crowd.
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In Production
SFIFF52: 'The Professionals' Unites Filmmakers
Michael Fox
Apr 28, 2009The Professionals an ambitious array of panels, case studies and discussions, makes its debut as a forum for encouraging Bay Area moviemakers to engage with guests and colleagues.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Mission, Midnight and Under the Influence
Marc Capelle
Apr 28, 2009Marc Capelle meets and greets with actress Gena Rowlands, composer Bo Harwood and other film mavens and mavericks at a post-screening party for Cassavette's A Woman Under the Influence and the Mission Awards
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In Production
SFIFF52: 'The Professionals' Unites Filmmakers
Michael Fox
Apr 28, 2009The Professionals an ambitious array of panels, case studies and discussions, makes its debut as a forum for encouraging Bay Area moviemakers to engage with guests and colleagues.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Mission, Midnight and Under the Influence
Marc Capelle
Apr 28, 2009Marc Capelle meets and greets with actress Gena Rowlands, composer Bo Harwood and other film mavens and mavericks at a post-screening party for Cassavette's A Woman Under the Influence and the Mission Awards
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Lourdes Portillo, Persistence of Vision Award Recipient
Robert Avila
Apr 27, 2009The San Francisco-based and internationally acclaimed documentarian Lourdes Portillo speaks about her work; she wins the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival Persistence of Vision Award.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Lourdes Portillo, Persistence of Vision Award Recipient
Robert Avila
Apr 27, 2009The San Francisco-based and internationally acclaimed documentarian Lourdes Portillo speaks about her work; she wins the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival Persistence of Vision Award.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Chris Felver's "Ferlinghetti" Captures an Icon
David Winks Gray
Apr 26, 2009Chris Felver traces the life of antiauthoritarian Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights Books, from his days as a Navy serviceman in World War II through the landmark First Amendment trial in Ferlinghetti.
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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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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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Reviews
SFIFF52: Jarmel and Schneider's "Speaking in Tongues"
Susan Gerhard
Apr 25, 2009Jarmel and Schneider's Speaking in Tongues follows the stories of four public school children studying Mandarin, Cantonese and Spanish along with their English.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Jarmel and Schneider's "Speaking in Tongues"
Susan Gerhard
Apr 25, 2009Jarmel and Schneider's Speaking in Tongues follows the stories of four public school children studying Mandarin, Cantonese and Spanish along with their English.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: "Lightness of Being" – Eight Wry Films
Dennis Harvey
Apr 24, 2009The eight films in the San Francisco International Film Festival's Lightness of Being spotlight are Laila's Birthday, Small Crime, Mid-August Lunch, Every Little Step, (Untitled), In the Loop, Our Beloved Month of August and Still Walking.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: "Lightness of Being" – Eight Wry Films
Dennis Harvey
Apr 24, 2009The eight films in the San Francisco International Film Festival's Lightness of Being spotlight are Laila's Birthday, Small Crime, Mid-August Lunch, Every Little Step, (Untitled), In the Loop, Our Beloved Month of August and Still Walking.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Peter Bratt's "La Mission"
Susan Gerhard
Apr 23, 2009Peter Bratt's La Mission focuses on conflict within a family and a neighborhood, exploring what happens when a single father named Che learns a secret about his son that tests his love for his family and his community's love for him.
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In Production
SFIFF52: New Narrative Trend for Bay Area Cinema
Michael Fox
Apr 21, 2009Four independent narratives - La Mission, My Suicide, Everything Strange and New and (Untitled) - are adding to the Bay Area's repertoire, historically regarded as a breeding ground for documentary filmmakers.
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In Production
SFIFF52: New Narrative Trend for Bay Area Cinema
Michael Fox
Apr 21, 2009Four independent narratives - La Mission, My Suicide, Everything Strange and New and (Untitled) - are adding to the Bay Area's repertoire, historically regarded as a breeding ground for documentary filmmakers.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Jim Granato's "D tour"
Dan Cowles
Apr 19, 2009Local filmmaker Jim Granato, whose movie D tour follows the band Rogue Wave and its ailing drummer Pat Spurgeon, on tour and on dialysis, is competing for the San Francisco International Film Festival's Golden Gate Award in Documentary.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Jim Granato's "D tour"
Dan Cowles
Apr 19, 2009Local filmmaker Jim Granato, whose movie D tour follows the band Rogue Wave and its ailing drummer Pat Spurgeon, on tour and on dialysis, is competing for the San Francisco International Film Festival's Golden Gate Award in Documentary.
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Wisdom of the Underages
Jonathan Kiefer
Apr 16, 2009Where would cinema be without good, old-fashioned youthfulness? Hence: Youth Bring the Truth, a showcase for promising pre-adult media-makers including several local teenagers from this year's San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Wisdom of the Underages
Jonathan Kiefer
Apr 16, 2009Where would cinema be without good, old-fashioned youthfulness? Hence: Youth Bring the Truth, a showcase for promising pre-adult media-makers including several local teenagers from this year's San Francisco International Film Festival.
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In Production
Holtzman: Psychedelic Cambodian Rock in 'Dengue Fever'
Michael Fox
Apr 15, 2009Zac Holtzman scores The Lost World with Dengue Fever, creating a sound that has been described as a psychedelic version of vintage Cambodian rock'n'roll, fueled by Cambodian singer Chhom Nimol's vocal stylings and Ethan Holtzman's organ and accordion shadings.
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Q & A
SFIFF52: Light and Saraf's 'Empress Hotel'
David Winks Gray
Apr 13, 2009Local filmmakers Allie Light and Irving Saraf's latest film Empress Hotel delves into the lives of the residents at the titular building, a Tenderloin housing facility for the recently homeless. The film makes visible an area many city dwellers may only experience in the fringe of their consciousness and provides insight into the lives of the residents within.
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Jennifer Maytorena Taylor and a 'New Muslim Cool'
Sura Wood
Apr 6, 2009Jennifer Maytorena Taylor's documentary, New Muslim Cool, focuses on Hamza Perez, a Catholic hip hop artist, who converted to Islam; whose life is now a crucible of disparate urban influences.
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Jennifer Maytorena Taylor and a 'New Muslim Cool'
Sura Wood
Apr 6, 2009Jennifer Maytorena Taylor's documentary, New Muslim Cool, focuses on Hamza Perez, a Catholic hip hop artist, who converted to Islam; whose life is now a crucible of disparate urban influences.
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Festivals
SF International Film Festival Lineup
Susan Gerhard
Mar 31, 2009The two weeks of programs offers 151 films from 55 countries, awards and prices, and a wide array of San Francisco talent, from legendary names to the fledgling artists.
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Q & A
Michael Jacobs 'Audience of One' at the Roxie
Susan Gerhard
Mar 30, 2009Michael Jacobs talks about his documentary, which follows Pentecostal Pastor Richard Gazowsky engaged in the creation of an ambitious, multi-million dollar sci-fi-feature on God.
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Q & A
Michael Jacobs 'Audience of One' at the Roxie
Susan Gerhard
Mar 30, 2009Michael Jacobs talks about his documentary, which follows Pentecostal Pastor Richard Gazowsky engaged in the creation of an ambitious, multi-million dollar sci-fi-feature on God.
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Reviews
William Kentridge at SFMOMA
Robert Avila
Mar 25, 2009The films of William Kentridge make up a significant and absorbing part of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art enthralling survey of recent work by the acclaimed South African artist
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Festivals
Connecting Here and There at the 27th SFIAAFF
Matt Sussman
Mar 20, 2009This year, the festival feels like it has truly arrived as an internationally recognized platform for cross-Pacific cinematic exchange, in this disparate cross-section of films from home, abroad and places in between.
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Festivals
Connecting Here and There at the 27th SFIAAFF
Matt Sussman
Mar 20, 2009This year, the festival feels like it has truly arrived as an internationally recognized platform for cross-Pacific cinematic exchange, in this disparate cross-section of films from home, abroad and places in between.
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Festivals
Politics Get Personal in 'Project Kashmir'
Jonathan Kiefer
Mar 19, 2009Co-directors Senain Kheshgi and Geeta V. Patel, two American friends with family ties to opposite sides of the conflict, went to Kashmir together to see what they could learn–and what the rest of us could.
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Reviews
Troell in Fine Form with 'Everlasting Moments'
Dennis Harvey
Mar 12, 2009Troell keeps everything emotionally intimate in this lovely film full of grace moments, that chronicles the early 20th-century travails of the Larsson family.
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Festivals
Kiyoshi Kurosawa and a Cinema of Disaster
Matt Sussman
Mar 11, 2009The retrospective offers fascinating, if not always exemplary, viewing of what could be called a cinema of disaster: characters face the worst, or are living in its aftermath, and like the audience, they are provided with no easy answers.
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Q & A
The Buzz on H.P. Mendoza's 'Fruit Fly'
Sura Wood
Mar 9, 2009H.P. Mendoza talks about being a filmmaker in the Bay Area and the opening of his last musical, where he is both director and composer of the film 19 original songs.
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Q & A
'Medicine for Melancholy' in the City it Re-discovered
Michael Fox
Mar 5, 2009Barry Jenkins talks abut his background, making movies in San Francisco and the issues of black identity, assimilation and gentrification, which are at the heart of his film.
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Q & A
'Medicine for Melancholy' in the City it Re-discovered
Michael Fox
Mar 5, 2009Barry Jenkins talks abut his background, making movies in San Francisco and the issues of black identity, assimilation and gentrification, which are at the heart of his film.
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Legal
'Medicine for Melancholy' and the Art of DIY Legal Agreements
George Rush
Mar 3, 2009For many narrative filmmakers, hiring a lawyer is either an afterthought or not a financial reality, but moving forward with a film without considering legal is a huge mistake.
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In Production
A Composer Almost Ready for His Close-Up
Michael Fox
Jan 23, 2009Michael Fox looks behind the scenes of a film on the maverick Seattle composer-performer-inventor Trimpin.
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Festivals
Wim Wenders: Berlin & Beyond
Dennis Harvey
Jan 15, 2009Wenders, one of the stellar directors of "New German Cinema," is this year's honoree at the 14th annual Berlin & Beyond festival.
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Reviews
Autobio-Animation and the Horrors of War
Dennis Harvey
Jan 6, 2009Waltz with Bashir is another animated feature that embraces a more grown-up story and audience than anything in the long history of "cartoons."
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In Production
Elizabeth Pepin's 'Wasted!'
Michael Fox
Jan 6, 2009If you've been waiting for a punk-rock doc about sewage and wastewater treatment–admit it–it's in the pipeline and heading your way by year's end.
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Reviews
The Year in Film 2008: Oscar Odds
Dennis Harvey
Jan 2, 2009Instead of breaking it down strictly category-by-category, Dennis Harvey meanders through some principal heat-seeking prestige films and their various chances.
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Q & A
New at Frameline: K.C. Price
Michael Fox
Dec 8, 2008Frameline's new executive director discusses his non-profit background and graduate school pipe dream of being a novelist.
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Q & A
New at Frameline: K.C. Price
Michael Fox
Dec 8, 2008Frameline's new executive director discusses his non-profit background and graduate school pipe dream of being a novelist.
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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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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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Festivals
Sean Uyehara On the S.F. International Animation Festival
Michael Guillen
Nov 10, 2008If, in the ol' days, they were called "'toons," these days, some heavy-duty words are required to express the strength and breadth of contemporary animation.
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Q & A
Lance Hammer on Beauty and 'Ballast'
Michael Guillen
Oct 17, 2008Hammer discusses his debut feature premiered at Sundance to resounding critical fanfare, winning prizes for best director and cinematography.
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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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Festivals
7th SF DocFest Program
Susan Gerhard
Sep 25, 2008The seventh San Francisco International Documentary Film Festival has the potential to be every bit as raucous as the other festivals under the organization's umbrella.
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Q & A
Ariella Ben-Dov's Madcat Archives
Matt Sussman
Sep 14, 2008What do women want to watch? With Diane English’s recent unfunny and product placement-filled re-make of The Women hitting theaters last week, Hollywood’s answer, predictably, is more of the same.
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Q & A
Ariella Ben-Dov's Madcat Archives
Matt Sussman
Sep 14, 2008What do women want to watch? With Diane English’s recent unfunny and product placement-filled re-make of The Women hitting theaters last week, Hollywood’s answer, predictably, is more of the same.
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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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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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Reviews
The Fantastical Imagination of 'Wind Man'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 9, 2008When Wind Man appeared on the SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas' schedule, moral crisis ensued.
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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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Festivals
Inside the Telluride Film Festival
Hilary Hart
Aug 29, 2008A Telluride veteran gives a festival overview, and explains why film lovers and filmmakers travel to a remote corner of Colorado on blind faith.
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Q & A
Stephen Olsson and Link TV
Michael Fox
Aug 17, 2008SF360.org talks to the senior director of original programming at Link TV, which provides an antidote to the standard television news mix.
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Reviews
Global Film Initiative: Funding the Bigger Picture
Robert Avila
Aug 12, 2008The Legend of the Holy Net Potato, the first feature by Kerala-based filmmaker Vipin Vijay, concerns a cyborg, black magic, and a hacker.
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Q & A
Exhuming History with "The Judge and the General"
Susan Gerhard
Aug 11, 2008SF360.org asked Bay Area filmmaker Elizabeth Farnsworth about her film, which follows Judge Juan Guzmán as he investigates General Pinochet's crimes.
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Q & A
Exhuming History with "The Judge and the General"
Susan Gerhard
Aug 11, 2008SF360.org asked Bay Area filmmaker Elizabeth Farnsworth about her film, which follows Judge Juan Guzmán as he investigates General Pinochet's crimes.
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Reviews
'The Exiles,' a Return Engagement
Dennis Harvey
Jul 30, 2008A film from 1961, The Exiles is a long-in-making unvarnished look at 12 hours in the lives of a group of American Indians who have come to Los Angeles.
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Q & A
Riffling through '1000 Journals' with Someguy
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2008Andrea Kreuzhage speaks about her documentary, 1000 Journals, which raises a host of fascinating questions about creativity, collaboration, community, and communication.
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Reviews
The Mystical and Everyday in 'A Listener's Tale'
Max Goldberg
Jul 15, 2008A 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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Q & A
Catherine Breillat's 'The Last Mistress'
Michael Fox
Jul 14, 2008French author and director Catherine Breillat speaks about the fierce passion play of her latest, The Last Mistress.
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Q & A
Catherine Breillat's 'The Last Mistress'
Michael Fox
Jul 14, 2008French author and director Catherine Breillat speaks about the fierce passion play of her latest, The Last Mistress.
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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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Q & A
Alex Gibney on Going 'Gonzo'
Cathleen Rountree
Jun 30, 2008SF360.org sits down with director Alex Gibney, whose film, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson played at the 51st SFIFF.
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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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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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Q & A
'Up the Yangtze' with Yung Chang
Judy Stone
Jun 6, 2008Filmmaker Yung Chang talks about 'Up the Yangtze,' his superb documentary that examines the surreal changes in China around the controversial Three Gorges Dam.
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Q & A
'Up the Yangtze' with Yung Chang
Judy Stone
Jun 6, 2008Filmmaker Yung Chang talks about 'Up the Yangtze,' his superb documentary that examines the surreal changes in China around the controversial Three Gorges Dam.
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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
SFIAF: 'Mordake' and Week Two -- Reviewed, Previewed
Robert Avila
May 28, 2008Composer Erling Wold's solo chamber opera enjoys a thrillingly intimate world premiere this week under the banner of the San Francisco International Arts Festival.
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Festivals
S.F. International Arts Festival
Robert Avila
May 23, 2008In addition to bringing a host of worldwide performers to the Bay Area for the first time, the San Francisco International Arts Festival (May 2-June 8), now in its fifth year, has become an indispensable showcase for collaborative work by leading Bay Area artists and their peers across all manner of geographical, cultural and disciplinary borders. The more than 40 performances in this year’s lineup, taking place at 14 separate venues across the city and in Berkeley, span the worlds of dance, music, opera, theater, visual arts and multidisciplinary work. The following four highlights are all hybrid productions with strong film and/or video components.
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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
The Doctor and the Documentarian Behind "The English Surgeon"
Jennifer Preissel
May 19, 2008When The English Surgeon had its U.S. premiere at the SFIFF this month, Geoffrey Smith and Henry Marsh received a standing ovation.
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Q & A
Q&A: Alex Rivera, 'Sleep Dealer'
Michael Guillen
May 14, 2008Rivera's debut centers on a young man grappling with a technological future in which neural implants, telerobotics and ubiquitous computing serve a global economy.
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Festivals
"Standard Operating Procedure" and the Stories We Tell
Staff
May 9, 2008Joan Didion famously said, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." We've internalized the American narrative of Abu Ghraib and accepted its implications.
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Festivals
In Other Words: Pacific Whims
Laura Irvine
May 8, 2008As an Asian film fan, it's a miracle I keep my day job at this time of year.
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Festivals
In Other Words: Pacific Whims
Laura Irvine
May 8, 2008As an Asian film fan, it's a miracle I keep my day job at this time of year.
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Festivals
In Other Words: States of Cinema, Music and Mind
Eve O'Neill
May 8, 2008"There are no movies without music," Kevin Kelly asserted last Saturday in his State of Cinema address.
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Festivals
SF International's Golden Gate Awards: Alive and Cooking
Susan Gerhard
May 8, 2008Food scents and film sensibilities mingled in a pungent party atmosphere at the California Culinary Academy.
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Festivals
Capelle on Composers: Day Three
Staff
May 8, 2008The final installment in the San Francisco composer and musician's blog from the 2008 SFIFF.
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Festivals
SF International's Golden Gate Awards: Alive and Cooking
Susan Gerhard
May 8, 2008Food scents and film sensibilities mingled in a pungent party atmosphere at the California Culinary Academy.
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Festivals
Capelle on Composers: Day Three
Staff
May 8, 2008The final installment in the San Francisco composer and musician's blog from the 2008 SFIFF.
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Festivals
Capelle on Composers: Back to Back
Marc Capelle
May 7, 2008Back to music.
I have some friends that were in a Sub Pop band that pre-dated Nirvana. They were known as the Dwarves. Their music is and was a snotty suburban unholy mixture of the Sonics, the Orlons, the Stooges and a vat of amphetamines. Their record covers usually featured midgets and half-naked woman covered in either blood or some sort of Nestle syrup of some sort. Here is one of their lines.
[Editor’s note: For the San Francisco International’s 51st edition, SF360.org has asked Bay Area musician/composer/cineaste Marc Capelle to blog his thoughts on movies, music, and the films showing in the Festival. This is the third of three installments.]
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Q & A
Gibney Going "Gonzo," Part Two
Cathleen Rountree
May 7, 2008The second installment of Alex Gibney's interview about Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, which closes the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Q & A
Gibney Going "Gonzo," Part Two
Cathleen Rountree
May 7, 2008The second installment of Alex Gibney's interview about Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, which closes the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Festivals
Cinemania at the SF International
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2008The Jules Feiffer quote at the bottom of festival superfan Sue Jean Halvorsen's email reads, "Movies are better than real life."
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Festivals
Cinemania at the SF International
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2008The Jules Feiffer quote at the bottom of festival superfan Sue Jean Halvorsen's email reads, "Movies are better than real life."
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Q & A
'Shampoo.' Rinse. Repeat.
Judy Stone
May 4, 2008Warren Beatty on the sexual and political message of Shampoo and a new film in the works about romantic revolutionary journalist John Reed.
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Festivals
Nights on the Towne: Film Society Awards Night
Susan Gerhard
May 4, 2008You know a festival is working its way into your brain when, in a landscape of intersecting ideas, you begin to witness the collisions.
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Festivals
Capelle on Composers: Day Two
Staff
May 2, 2008Errol Morris has a giant brain. Anybody who wants to argue against that thesis does not have a giant brain. So let's move on.
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Festivals
In Other Words: Standard Operating Procedure
Staff
Apr 30, 2008Joan Didion famously said, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." We have internalized the narrative of Abu Ghraib and accepted its implications.
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Festivals
Capelle and Composers: Day One
Staff
Apr 30, 2008Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts is a very close-quartered and loving documentary, a year in the life of the composer.
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Festivals
Capelle and Composers: Day One
Staff
Apr 30, 2008Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts is a very close-quartered and loving documentary, a year in the life of the composer.
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Festivals
Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy World
Dennis Harvey
Apr 29, 2008SF Film Society’s Founder’s Directing Award winner Mike Leigh's work has created a distinctive insider’s portrait of working-to-middle class English life.
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Q & A
SFIFF51: Katherin McInnis Cues the Carnival Music
Jennifer Preissel
Apr 28, 2008The longtime Bay Area resident, who recently relocated to Brooklyn, screens Woodward's Gardens in the shorts program "In A Lonely Place: New Experimental Cinema."
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Q & A
SFIFF51: Katherin McInnis Cues the Carnival Music
Jennifer Preissel
Apr 28, 2008The longtime Bay Area resident, who recently relocated to Brooklyn, screens Woodward's Gardens in the shorts program "In A Lonely Place: New Experimental Cinema."
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Q & A
SFIFF51: Barry Jenkins' San Francisco Story
Michael Fox
Apr 26, 2008Medicine for Melancholy is a graceful and poignant film about fleeting urban connections, black identity and invisibility, cultural adventures and this gentrified city's lost soul.
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Q & A
SFIFF51: Barry Jenkins' San Francisco Story
Michael Fox
Apr 26, 2008Medicine for Melancholy is a graceful and poignant film about fleeting urban connections, black identity and invisibility, cultural adventures and this gentrified city's lost soul.
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Q & A
SFIFF51: Eddie Muller's Muses
Jennifer Preissel
Apr 26, 2008A self-described "cultural archeologist," the noir expert's debut short, The Grand Inquisitor, pays homage to the Dashiell Hammett-style detective story.
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Q & A
SFIFF51: Eddie Muller's Muses
Jennifer Preissel
Apr 26, 2008A self-described "cultural archeologist," the noir expert's debut short, The Grand Inquisitor, pays homage to the Dashiell Hammett-style detective story.
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Festivals
I [heart] Jason Lee
Dennis Harvey
Apr 25, 2008The star of My Name Is Earl is (alongside Grindhouse superstarlet Rose McGowan) the recipient of this year's SFIFF Midnight Award.
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Festivals
Asia Argento, In Full Flower
Dennis Harvey
Apr 23, 2008Motherhood has supposedly had a slowing-down effect on Asia Argento, though at present evidence points rather wildly to the contrary. Not only does she star in this week’s San Francisco International Film Festival official opener, Catherine Breillat’s costume intrigue The Last Mistress, she also figures heavily in two other SFIFF features. Both are programmed in the culty "Late Show" section: Go Go Tales, Abel Ferrara’s most acclaimed film in years, and The Mother of Tears, a latest horror opus directed by her own fan-idolized gorehound dad Dario Argento. A couple weeks ago yet another vehicle opened commercially, Olivier Assayas’ Boarding Gate, which is entirely dominated by her feverish and highly physical performance.
Conventional logic might suggest all this visibility means it’s "breakthrough" time for Asia Argento, that moment when an actor goes from being a familiar face to a marquee name that can singlehandedly draw folks into the multiplex, or at least the arthouse. (In Europe she’s already quite well-known.) But as her project choices among other things bear out, Argento probably isn’t very interested in becoming a "star" in the conventional sense. In fact, she seems the girl most likely to run from any such fate.
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Festivals
Asia Argento, In Full Flower
Dennis Harvey
Apr 23, 2008Motherhood has supposedly had a slowing-down effect on Asia Argento, though at present evidence points rather wildly to the contrary. Not only does she star in this week’s San Francisco International Film Festival official opener, Catherine Breillat’s costume intrigue The Last Mistress, she also figures heavily in two other SFIFF features. Both are programmed in the culty "Late Show" section: Go Go Tales, Abel Ferrara’s most acclaimed film in years, and The Mother of Tears, a latest horror opus directed by her own fan-idolized gorehound dad Dario Argento. A couple weeks ago yet another vehicle opened commercially, Olivier Assayas’ Boarding Gate, which is entirely dominated by her feverish and highly physical performance.
Conventional logic might suggest all this visibility means it’s "breakthrough" time for Asia Argento, that moment when an actor goes from being a familiar face to a marquee name that can singlehandedly draw folks into the multiplex, or at least the arthouse. (In Europe she’s already quite well-known.) But as her project choices among other things bear out, Argento probably isn’t very interested in becoming a "star" in the conventional sense. In fact, she seems the girl most likely to run from any such fate.
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Q & A
SFIFF51: On the Breeding Behind "Evolution: The Musical!"
Robert Avila
Apr 22, 2008Think of it as The Sound of Music meets Quest for Fire, or Jesus Christ Superstar rocks Land of the Lost.
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Q & A
SFIFF51: Craig Baldwin Shoots the Moon, and the Desert
Michael Fox
Apr 18, 2008The Mission filmmaker has slaved in the underground for some three decades, a guide and shaman for other artists working on the fringes.
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Festivals
SFIFF51: The Miller Brothers on writing, pitching, acting, directing, and hitting one out of the ballpark
Susan Gerhard
Apr 16, 2008Touching Home by Bay Area-raised identical twins Logan and Noah Miller is a largely autobiographical coming-of-age film that radiates sincerity.
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Festivals
SFIFF51: The Miller Brothers on writing, pitching, acting, directing, and hitting one out of the ballpark
Susan Gerhard
Apr 16, 2008Touching Home by Bay Area-raised identical twins Logan and Noah Miller is a largely autobiographical coming-of-age film that radiates sincerity.
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Festivals
SFIFF51: Dawn Logsdon, on new hope in an old neighborhood, "Faubourg TremŽ"
Susan Gerhard
Apr 15, 2008Dawn Logsdon and Lolis Eric Elie dig through the rubble of Hurricane Katrina to tell the story of Faubourg TremŽ, which was home to African Americans and fertile ground for political activism, music and literary life.
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Festivals
SFIFF51: Dawn Logsdon, on new hope in an old neighborhood, "Faubourg TremŽ"
Susan Gerhard
Apr 15, 2008Dawn Logsdon and Lolis Eric Elie dig through the rubble of Hurricane Katrina to tell the story of Faubourg TremŽ, which was home to African Americans and fertile ground for political activism, music and literary life.
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Festivals
SFIFF51: Renee Tajima- Pe–a's trip down “Calavera Highway'
Michael Fox
Apr 15, 2008If making a movie about one’s family could be equated with a fire-walk in August, then making a documentary about one’s partner’s family might be akin to a midsummer sauna. Yet veteran L.A. filmmaker Renee Tajima-Pe–a (Who Killed Vincent Chin?) signed on to a road trip with her husband from L.A. to Washington state to Texas in search of "la verdad" about the father that abandoned Armando’s mother Rosa and his six brothers several decades ago. An intimate and elegantly crafted work of cinema verita, Calavera Highway encompasses universal familial tensions, Mexican-American identity, the responsibilities of fathers (and sons) and the psychic malleability of map-drawn borders.
Tajima-Pe–a, who’s an associate professor at UC Santa Cruz, will receive the Golden Gate Award for long-form television documentary at the S.F. International Film Festival, where Calavera Highway screens three times in early May. Via email, she talked about searching for "Calaveras" hidden in closets and elsewhere.
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Festivals
SFIFF51: Renee Tajima- Pe–a's trip down “Calavera Highway'
Michael Fox
Apr 15, 2008If making a movie about one’s family could be equated with a fire-walk in August, then making a documentary about one’s partner’s family might be akin to a midsummer sauna. Yet veteran L.A. filmmaker Renee Tajima-Pe–a (Who Killed Vincent Chin?) signed on to a road trip with her husband from L.A. to Washington state to Texas in search of "la verdad" about the father that abandoned Armando’s mother Rosa and his six brothers several decades ago. An intimate and elegantly crafted work of cinema verita, Calavera Highway encompasses universal familial tensions, Mexican-American identity, the responsibilities of fathers (and sons) and the psychic malleability of map-drawn borders.
Tajima-Pe–a, who’s an associate professor at UC Santa Cruz, will receive the Golden Gate Award for long-form television documentary at the S.F. International Film Festival, where Calavera Highway screens three times in early May. Via email, she talked about searching for "Calaveras" hidden in closets and elsewhere.
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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
"Cachao: Uno Mas"
Chuy Varela
Apr 10, 2008Cachao: Uno Mas documents acclaimed bassist and cuban music innovator Israel "Cachao" Lopez's work and San Francisco concert at Bimbo's
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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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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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Festivals
SFIAAFF's winners
Susan Gerhard
Mar 21, 2008Two top winners at the SFIAAFF focused on breakadancing, an art form taken up with vengeance by Asians, with Koran teams a particularly dominant force.
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Q & A
SFIAAFF's Taro Goto, Moving On
Sean Uyehara
Mar 19, 2008Outgoing SFIAAFF's Associate Director reflects on what made him happy during his last year of work.
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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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Q & A
Q&A: Brillante Mendoza
Sean Uyehara
Mar 18, 2008Filipino Director Brillante Mendoza discusses his aesthetic: a basic approach that resists facade and pretense and desires to depict to things as they really are.
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Festivals
Ten SFIAAFF Picks From Judy Stone
Susan Gerhard
Mar 13, 2008Longtime San Francisco Chronicle film critic Judy Stone offers her top ten picks from the 2008 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.
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Festivals
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 2008
Erika Young
Mar 12, 2008The 26th annual SFIAAFF plays in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose, and kicks off with Wayne Wang's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
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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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Q & A
Amanda Micheli Going for La Corona
Sean Uyehara
Jan 23, 2008A reprinting of an interview with Amanda Micheli because her film, now playing Sundance, has just made the final cut for an Academy Award.
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Festivals
Berlin & Beyond at 13
Michael Fox
Jan 10, 2008The Goethe-Institut's festival offers a pointed reminder that Germany, Austria and Switzerland aren't just in the center of Europe, but in the middle of international cinema.
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Reviews
Review: "The Violin"
Dennis Harvey
Jan 8, 2008Francisco Vargas' first feature has won a pile of international awards to date, and might have garnered more had it arrived on the scene earlier.
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Reviews
Review: "The Violin"
Dennis Harvey
Jan 8, 2008Francisco Vargas' first feature has won a pile of international awards to date, and might have garnered more had it arrived on the scene earlier.
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Reviews
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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Festivals
Second S.F. International Animation Festival
Susan Gerhard
Nov 12, 2007The S.F. International Animation Festival experienced a major bounce, with a number of sold-out shows in its venue at the Embarcadero Center Cinema.
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Festivals
International Latino Film Festival and S.F. International Animation Festival
Robert Avila
Nov 8, 2007In the wake of Mexican cinema's triumphant showing at the 2007 Oscars, these films serve to confirm how some of the biggest surprises can come from the shortest of distances.
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Q & A
Sean Uyehara Talks S.F. International Animation Festival
Eve O'Neil
Nov 7, 2007SFFS programmer Sean Uyehara gives some perspective on the shifting dimensions of animated filmmaking.
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Reviews
"Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten"
Dennis Harvey
Nov 6, 2007There are a lot of Strummer stories to tell, and a good share of them are in Julien Temple's terrific new documentary.
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Festivals
The 32nd American Indian Film Festival
Eve O'Neill
Nov 1, 2007This festival is home to an array of talent that promotes Indians in roles other than that of Indians, in movies other than westerns.
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Q & A
Robert Arnold, in "The Key of G"
Susan Gerhard
Oct 19, 2007We spoke with the filmmaker about his own intersections with his award-winning film on a young man with Mowat-Wilson syndrome.
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Festivals
Mill Valley Film Festival 30
Dennis Harvey
Oct 15, 2007Mill Valley retains its genuinely alterna-vibe and local (rather than professional outta-towner) audience after 30 years.
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Q & A
Anywhere Road's Robert Ogden Barnum
Susan Gerhard
Oct 1, 2007SF360.org spoke with Robert Ogden Barnum on guiding four future pop stars onto the big screen in Antonia and his new distribution company.
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Reviews
A Sean Penn Top 10
Susan Gerhard
Sep 28, 2007Let SF360 count the ways Penn can take on the President, the paparazzi, and the possibilities for peace in our time.
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Reviews
"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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Q & A
Ariella Ben-Dov, Madcat Mastermind
Susan Gerhard
Sep 24, 2007As the Madcat Women's International Film Festival heads into its final stretch this coming week in San Francisco, SF360.org felt it was important to catch up with its chief curator, Ariella Ben-Dov.
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Reviews
Tomo Uchida at the PFA
Matt Sussman
Sep 19, 2007Does Tomo Uchida, whose retrospective is currently at the PFA, merit the same sort of reverent revival treatment that has been given many times over to other Japanese filmmakers of his generation?
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Festivals
Five from Madcat
Susan Gerhard
Sep 14, 2007Here are a few quick takes on programs that look particularly worthwhile at Madcat.
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Festivals
Lucy Gray's Telluride
Lucy Gray's
Sep 12, 2007Lucy Gray reports from the 35th Telluride Film Festival.
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Reviews
"Crossing the Line" and "Death at a Funeral"
Dennis Harvey and Kristi Mitsuda
Aug 14, 2007One film takes us from the American South to the Korean North, another to Frank Oz's last gasp.
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Q & A
Jeffrey Blitz and Reece Thompson on "Rocket Science"
Michael Guillen
Aug 8, 2007A conversation with the Oscar-nominated Jeffrey Blitz (Spellbound) on his new feature, which screened at the S.F. International Film Festival.
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Q & A
Marc Huestis on the Runway
Michael Guillen
Jul 30, 2007SF360.org talks to Marc Huestis, who exhibits a playful flair to his showmanship, putting the "imp" back in impresario.
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Q & A
Shonali Bose on "Amu"
indieWIRE
Jul 23, 2007The '05 feature imagines a 21-year-old Indian American returning to India to visit her family and discover where she was born.
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Festivals
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Michael Fox
Jul 19, 2007Savvy moviegoers outside the target demographic have learned to scout the niche fests' programs for films that premiered to raves at Berlin or Cannes.
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Festivals
International Stories Find Audiences at L.A. Film Fest
Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE
Jul 3, 2007"People in this town are coming to realize that Los Angeles needs a world-class film festival," proclaimed Rich Raddon, who's led LAFF since 1999.
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News & Blogs
Laura Albert, The Real J.T. Leroy, Charged With Fraud
Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE
Jun 26, 2007The story of literary sensation and media darling J.T. Leroy, a persona created by Laura Albert, took another dramatic turn Friday in New York.
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News & Blogs
Movies and Martinis, A Movement
Susan Gerhard
Jun 15, 2007For some movies, Sprite and popcorn aren't enough. You need gin and vodka and a room of unruly bodies shouting when they're not supposed to,
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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
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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Reviews
Reviews: "Brand Upon the Brain!", "Golden Door"
Matt Sussman
Jun 12, 2007Brand is no short supply of Guy Maddin's usual firecrackers: apostrophe, hyperbole, and of course, catastrophe.
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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
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
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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Reviews
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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Reviews
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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Festivals
Liane Yasumoto and Superfest International Disability Film Festival
Susan Gerhard
May 27, 2007A week before the 27th festival, SF360.org spoke with the executive director on what Superfest gets about disability that the rest of the filmmaking world doesn't.
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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 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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Reviews
"Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait"
Susan Gerhard
May 17, 2007Not even widely released yet in the States, Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon's "ZidaneÉ" has already been considered a portrait of the century.
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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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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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Q & A
Hal Hartley, Not So simple
Robert Avila
May 13, 2007Changes in Hal Hartley's geography and work styles have put distance between his early films and also given the director a chance to experiment with form.
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Festivals
Golden Gate Award to "The Key of G"
Brian Brooks/indieWIRE
May 10, 2007Mexican director Francisco Vargas Quevedo’s "The Violin" (El violin) won the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Skyy Prize, while Israeli duo Shahar Cohen and Halil Efrat’s "Souvenirs" took best documentary feature (West Coast premiere), capping the Golden Gate Awards ceremony Wednesday evening for the festival’s landmark 50th edition.
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Festivals
Golden Gate Award to "The Key of G"
Brian Brooks/indieWIRE
May 10, 2007Mexican director Francisco Vargas Quevedo’s "The Violin" (El violin) won the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Skyy Prize, while Israeli duo Shahar Cohen and Halil Efrat’s "Souvenirs" took best documentary feature (West Coast premiere), capping the Golden Gate Awards ceremony Wednesday evening for the festival’s landmark 50th edition.
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Festivals
Live from Fog City
Dennis Harvey
May 9, 2007While the SF International Film Festival has always had celebrity guests, the 50th edition featured a particular concentration of unique one-offs.
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Festivals
Live from Fog City
Dennis Harvey
May 9, 2007While the SF International Film Festival has always had celebrity guests, the 50th edition featured a particular concentration of unique one-offs.
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Festivals
SFIFF50, Diving In
Johnny Ray Huston
May 8, 2007The 50th annual SF International Film Festival is as good a time to put forth an argument. Here’s one: The most compelling movie stars of the current era are athletes, and the most dynamic 21st-century cinema is sports cinema.
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Festivals
SFIFF50, Diving In
Johnny Ray Huston
May 8, 2007The 50th annual SF International Film Festival is as good a time to put forth an argument. Here’s one: The most compelling movie stars of the current era are athletes, and the most dynamic 21st-century cinema is sports cinema.
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Q & A
Hal Hartley, Not So Simple: Part II
Robert Avila
May 7, 2007The Unbelievable Truth helped jumpstart the independent film movement in the U.S. in 1989, followed by eight more Hartley features in the next decade.
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Q & A
Hal Hartley, Not So Simple: Part II
Robert Avila
May 7, 2007The Unbelievable Truth helped jumpstart the independent film movement in the U.S. in 1989, followed by eight more Hartley features in the next decade.
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Reviews
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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Festivals
Film Society Awards Night
Brian Brooks/indieWIRE
May 4, 2007If the Bay Area oozed self-regard last night, it couldn't exactly be blamed.
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Festivals
Film Society Awards Night
Brian Brooks/indieWIRE
May 4, 2007If the Bay Area oozed self-regard last night, it couldn't exactly be blamed.
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Festivals
Spike Lee
Dennis Harvey
May 3, 2007When then-unknown Spike Lee premiered She's Gotta Have It at the SF International in 1986, there was an instance of filmus interruptus.
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Festivals
Spike Lee
Dennis Harvey
May 3, 2007When then-unknown Spike Lee premiered She's Gotta Have It at the SF International in 1986, there was an instance of filmus interruptus.
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Festivals
Digital Festival
Michael Fox
May 2, 2007Movies are shifting at mach speed from the theater to the home. The future is at hand.
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Festivals
Picturing Politics at SFIFF50
Robert Avila
May 1, 2007A shot in Wonders Are Many makes visual reference to Guernica as shorthand for art's charge to speak for the voiceless.
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Festivals
Picturing Politics at SFIFF50
Robert Avila
May 1, 2007A shot in Wonders Are Many makes visual reference to Guernica as shorthand for art's charge to speak for the voiceless.
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Q & A
Daniel Wu, Heavenly King
Jennifer Young
Apr 30, 2007Daniel Wu and fictitious boy band Alive from his directorial debut The Heavenly Kings on Cantpop, the Bay Area, and Hong Kong film.
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Q & A
Daniel Wu, Heavenly King
Jennifer Young
Apr 30, 2007Daniel Wu and fictitious boy band Alive from his directorial debut The Heavenly Kings on Cantpop, the Bay Area, and Hong Kong film.
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Festivals
SF360 Film Culture Confidential: Shhhhhh....
Staff
Apr 28, 2007How did Kink.com make it to the Mission? How did Straight Outta Hunters Point get out of Hunters Point? How'd the Roxie get saved?
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Festivals
SF360 Film Culture Confidential: Shhhhhh....
Staff
Apr 28, 2007How did Kink.com make it to the Mission? How did Straight Outta Hunters Point get out of Hunters Point? How'd the Roxie get saved?
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Festivals
SFIFF50
Dennis Harvey
Apr 26, 2007A decade might be long enough in dog years, but in film festival terms it takes a bit more time to impress.
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Festivals
SFIFF50
Dennis Harvey
Apr 26, 2007A decade might be long enough in dog years, but in film festival terms it takes a bit more time to impress.
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Q & A
Kerry Laitala and Her New "Muse"
Katherin McInnis
Apr 25, 2007The artist's filmsÑsensual, intricate, tactileÑare a magical combination of optical artistry, snippets of forgotten films, and bits of lace, tape, and glitter.
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Festivals
A Festival, a Half Century
B. Ruby Rich
Apr 24, 2007Is there anyone who doesn't know that the San Francisco International Film Festival is turning 50 this month?
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Festivals
A Festival, a Half Century
B. Ruby Rich
Apr 24, 2007Is there anyone who doesn't know that the San Francisco International Film Festival is turning 50 this month?
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Q & A
Jon Else On Acts of Creation
Michael Fox
Apr 23, 2007Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic blends World War II history with composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars’ staging of a new opera on the subject.
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Festivals
Uyehara Hits High Notes on Music of SFIFF50
Sean Uyehara
Apr 20, 2007Thinking about the upcoming SFIFF, music may not be the first thing that pops into your head. It may not even be the second.
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Festivals
Uyehara Hits High Notes on Music of SFIFF50
Sean Uyehara
Apr 20, 2007Thinking about the upcoming SFIFF, music may not be the first thing that pops into your head. It may not even be the second.
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Q & A
Paul Verhoeven and His "Black Book"
Howard Feinstein/indieWIRE
Apr 13, 2007Verhoeven's career can be divided between the character-driven movies he made in Holland and the slick genre films he directed in Hollywood after 1985.
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Festivals
SFIFF50-philes
Susan Gerhard
Apr 11, 2007Just a week out of the SFIFF50 press conference at the Westin St. Francis, and the buzz has already had a chance to build. SF360.org checked in with a few friends in the San Francisco filmmaking scene to see what they’re looking forward to in the 50th edition of the SF International Film Festival. Big winners: Guy Maddin’s “Brand Upon the Brain!” and, of course, the live and in-person tribute to Spike Lee, who — as Strand Releasing’s Marcus Hu reminds us — returns to the Bay Area to receive his Film Society Directing Award in spite of the fact the projector broke during the premiere of “She’s Gotta Have It” at the SFIFF more than 20 years ago.
I’m eager to see Camila Guzman Urzula’s documentary “The Sugar Curtain” for perspectives on life in Cuba from those in their twenties and thirties. I’m curious about how a savvy film critic like Wesley Morris will interview Spike Lee. It will be a welcome occurrence to see two Black men talking on a US festival stage about film.
Cornelius Moore
California Newsreel“Audience of One:” I know this year the festival is honoring Lucas and Coppola and those guys as local heroes, but really. Hollywood North? What happened? Now here is a group of makers, Pentacostals no less, working on a gargantuan bible epic right down on Ocean Avenue in the old El Rey Theatre. Now that’s hot!
Christian Bruno
Strand, A Natural History of CinemaAlthough I’ve already seen it, I look forward to attending the one-off screening of Guy Maddin’s “Brand Upon the Brain!” since each live performance, by design, differs somewhat from the last. No self-respecting (or, for that matter, self-deprecating) cineaste should miss it. Beyond that, I’m particularly interested in Alain Resnais’ latest, “Coeurs” (i.e., “Private Fears in Public Places,” which, due to timing conflicts, I missed in Toronto), reuniting the director with the exceptional playwright Alan Ayckbourn. I remain quite fond of his recent films even if most folks in this country seem to disregard his work after “Mon oncle d’Amerique,” released over a quarter-century ago.
Jonathan Marlow
GreenCineI love that SFIFF is honoring Spike Lee, I saw “She’s Gotta Have It” when it had its world premiere at SFIFF and remembered what an amazing experience that was when the projector broke!
Marcus Hu
Strand ReleasingI first started attending SFIFF in 1964 while still in high school. I saw the independent “The Luck of Ginger Coffey,” directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Robert Shaw, a fascinating documentary look at a country
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Festivals
SFIFF50-philes
Susan Gerhard
Apr 11, 2007Just a week out of the SFIFF50 press conference at the Westin St. Francis, and the buzz has already had a chance to build. SF360.org checked in with a few friends in the San Francisco filmmaking scene to see what they’re looking forward to in the 50th edition of the SF International Film Festival. Big winners: Guy Maddin’s “Brand Upon the Brain!” and, of course, the live and in-person tribute to Spike Lee, who — as Strand Releasing’s Marcus Hu reminds us — returns to the Bay Area to receive his Film Society Directing Award in spite of the fact the projector broke during the premiere of “She’s Gotta Have It” at the SFIFF more than 20 years ago.
I’m eager to see Camila Guzman Urzula’s documentary “The Sugar Curtain” for perspectives on life in Cuba from those in their twenties and thirties. I’m curious about how a savvy film critic like Wesley Morris will interview Spike Lee. It will be a welcome occurrence to see two Black men talking on a US festival stage about film.
Cornelius Moore
California Newsreel“Audience of One:” I know this year the festival is honoring Lucas and Coppola and those guys as local heroes, but really. Hollywood North? What happened? Now here is a group of makers, Pentacostals no less, working on a gargantuan bible epic right down on Ocean Avenue in the old El Rey Theatre. Now that’s hot!
Christian Bruno
Strand, A Natural History of CinemaAlthough I’ve already seen it, I look forward to attending the one-off screening of Guy Maddin’s “Brand Upon the Brain!” since each live performance, by design, differs somewhat from the last. No self-respecting (or, for that matter, self-deprecating) cineaste should miss it. Beyond that, I’m particularly interested in Alain Resnais’ latest, “Coeurs” (i.e., “Private Fears in Public Places,” which, due to timing conflicts, I missed in Toronto), reuniting the director with the exceptional playwright Alan Ayckbourn. I remain quite fond of his recent films even if most folks in this country seem to disregard his work after “Mon oncle d’Amerique,” released over a quarter-century ago.
Jonathan Marlow
GreenCineI love that SFIFF is honoring Spike Lee, I saw “She’s Gotta Have It” when it had its world premiere at SFIFF and remembered what an amazing experience that was when the projector broke!
Marcus Hu
Strand ReleasingI first started attending SFIFF in 1964 while still in high school. I saw the independent “The Luck of Ginger Coffey,” directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Robert Shaw, a fascinating documentary look at a country
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Q & A
Weerasethakul Talks Hospitals, Aerobics, and a Boy From Mars
Johnny Ray Huston
Apr 9, 2007One of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Ôs goals as a filmmaker is to simply show what he likes, and what he likes to see.
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Festivals
S.F. International Announces Lineup for 50th
Susan Gerhard
Apr 4, 2007The festival kicks off with Emanuele Crialese's Golden Door and closes with Olivier Dahan's Edith Piaf biopic, La vie en rose.
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Festivals
S.F. International Announces Lineup for 50th
Susan Gerhard
Apr 4, 2007The festival kicks off with Emanuele Crialese's Golden Door and closes with Olivier Dahan's Edith Piaf biopic, La vie en rose.
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Q & A
Amanda Micheli's Wonder Women
Sean Uyehara
Apr 2, 2007When Bay Area filmmaker Amanda Micheli approaches, you can see that she is an athlete. She's sure of herself.
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Reviews
The Critics and Antonioni
Max Goldberg
Mar 29, 2007A 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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Reviews
The Critics and Antonioni
Max Goldberg
Mar 29, 2007A 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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Q & A
Grace Lee on the Zombie in You and Me
Miljenko Skoknic
Mar 23, 2007Director Grace Lee talks about the personal horror movie genre in American Zombie and the ethical dilemmas documentary filmmakers face.
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Q & A
Grace Lee on the Zombie in You and Me
Miljenko Skoknic
Mar 23, 2007Director Grace Lee talks about the personal horror movie genre in American Zombie and the ethical dilemmas documentary filmmakers face.
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Festivals
The SF International's GreenWorld contest turns a big issue over to the makers of shorts
Miljenko Skoknic
Mar 21, 2007The SFIFF GreenWorld Contest brings the vision of filmmakers to the forefront of environmental discourse through fiction, documentary, experimental, and essayistic films.
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Festivals
The SF International's GreenWorld contest turns a big issue over to the makers of shorts
Miljenko Skoknic
Mar 21, 2007The SFIFF GreenWorld Contest brings the vision of filmmakers to the forefront of environmental discourse through fiction, documentary, experimental, and essayistic films.
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Festivals
Favorite Artists at the SFIAAFF
Jennifer Young
Mar 21, 2007SF360.org checked in with actors and filmmakers roaming this year's festival to give props to their favorite Asian American artist, past or present.
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Festivals
Favorite Artists at the SFIAAFF
Jennifer Young
Mar 21, 2007SF360.org checked in with actors and filmmakers roaming this year's festival to give props to their favorite Asian American artist, past or present.
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Q & A
Video-Diary Pioneer Spencer Nakasako
Michael Fox
Mar 17, 2007Spencer Nakasako gets the credit for starting the still-cresting wave of first-person camcorder documentaries back in 1995, but he claims it was largely an accident.
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Q & A
Video-Diary Pioneer Spencer Nakasako
Michael Fox
Mar 17, 2007Spencer Nakasako gets the credit for starting the still-cresting wave of first-person camcorder documentaries back in 1995, but he claims it was largely an accident.
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Festivals
A Royal Family
Susan Gerhard
Feb 21, 2007It's a big week for Peter Morgan, partly because the SFFS announced he'll receive the Kanbar Award for excellence in screenwriting at the 50th SFIFF.
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Reviews
Reviews: "Family Law"; "Amazing Grace"
Michael Fox
Feb 20, 2007Daniel Burman's smartest play was casting Daniel Hendler as his onscreen alter ego. Michael Apted's worthy Grace, reminds that period pieces make effective message movies.
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Festivals
S.F. International Asian American Announces '07 Program
Susan Gerhard
Feb 14, 2007This year's 125 films follow the fest's growth from 13 films in 1982 in the wake of Wayne Wang's Chan is Missing.
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Festivals
S.F. International Asian American Announces '07 Program
Susan Gerhard
Feb 14, 2007This year's 125 films follow the fest's growth from 13 films in 1982 in the wake of Wayne Wang's Chan is Missing.
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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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Festivals
Key Events of 50th SFIFF Announced at Sundance
Susan Gerhard
Jan 23, 2007Highlights of the upcoming festival were presented by the San Francisco Film Society Executive Director.
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Festivals
Key Events of 50th SFIFF Announced at Sundance
Susan Gerhard
Jan 23, 2007Highlights of the upcoming festival were presented by the San Francisco Film Society Executive Director.
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Reviews
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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Q & A
James T. Hong on Heidegger, Hitler, and His New Film
Cheryl Eddy
Dec 18, 2006San Francisco artist James T. Hong is currently working on a documentary, tentatively titled New History Zero, which explores his interest in revisionist World War II history.
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News & Blogs
SF Film Critics Circle Announces Awards
Susan Gerhard
Dec 12, 2006The group chose ;Little Children as its Best Picture of 2006 and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth the Best Foreign Language Film.
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Reviews
"Radical Closure" at the PFA
Robert Avila
Dec 7, 2006This series of cinematic responses to war, curated by Lebanese video artist Akram Zaatari, opens up possibilities for re-imagining the dehumanized landscape of violence.
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Q & A
"Man Push Cart" Director's New York-by-Way-of-Pakistan Story
Brian Brooks/indieWIRE
Dec 4, 2006Ramin Bahrani's debut feature follows a solitary, quiet immigrant struggling to make a go of it in New York City.
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Q & A
Adrian Belic Goes 'Beyond the Call'
Justin Juul
Nov 27, 2006The filmmaker talks about tagging along with three renegade activists on their self-funded humanitarian excursions to war zones and disaster sites.
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Reviews
Teshigahara at The Castro
Dennis Harvey
Nov 23, 2006Filmmaking was just one among many creative outlets for Japanese multimedia artist Hiroshi Teshigahara.
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Q & A
Robert Altman 1925-2006
Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE
Nov 22, 2006One month ago today, the maverick filmmaker was at the Hamptons International Film Festival reflecting upon his career at a tribute in his honor.
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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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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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Festivals
Second Look at 3rd I
Jennifer Young
Nov 14, 2006Three days, nine films, eight shorts, and endless bliss courtesy of last weekend's fourth annual 3rd I South Asian Film Festival.
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Festivals
Cinema, New Italian Style
Michael Fox
Nov 9, 2006The relationship between intellectualism and passion, a distinctly Italian concern, propels the 2006 edition of New Italian Cinema.
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Q & A
51 Birch Street, Revisited
indieWIRE
Nov 6, 2006Through a close examination of his own family, filmmaker Doug Block explores universal questions about our own mothers and fathers in 51 Birch Street.
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Festivals
Truman Capote , 1974
Susan Gerhard
Nov 1, 2006A visit to the 50th anniversary portion of San Francisco Film Society’s web site nets not just the real Truman Capote candidly essaying on life and the movies in a 1974 visit to the SF International Film Festival.
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Festivals
Truman Capote , 1974
Susan Gerhard
Nov 1, 2006A visit to the 50th anniversary portion of San Francisco Film Society’s web site nets not just the real Truman Capote candidly essaying on life and the movies in a 1974 visit to the SF International Film Festival.
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Q & A
"One Man Band," two Pixar geniuses, and "The Iron Giant" revisited
Sean Uyehara
Oct 13, 2006Mark Andrews and Andrew Jimenez co-wrote and co-directed the unexpected, surprisingly funny short about two musicians vying for a young girl's lone coin.
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Q & A
"One Man Band," two Pixar geniuses, and "The Iron Giant" revisited
Sean Uyehara
Oct 13, 2006Mark Andrews and Andrew Jimenez co-wrote and co-directed the unexpected, surprisingly funny short about two musicians vying for a young girl's lone coin.
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Festivals
San Francisco International Animation Showcase
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 12, 2006San Francisco Film Society programming associate Sean Uyehara has pulled off a feat with the opening program for the first San Francisco International Animation Showcase.
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Festivals
San Francisco International Animation Showcase
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 12, 2006San Francisco Film Society programming associate Sean Uyehara has pulled off a feat with the opening program for the first San Francisco International Animation Showcase.
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Festivals
Mill Valley Film Festival 2006
Dennis Harvey
Oct 5, 2006By the youth-rhetoric standards of another era, this is the last year we can trust the Mill Valley Film Festival. Next year, it turns 30.
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Festivals
Global Lens 2006
Michael Fox
Sep 21, 2006The annual series of films from countries with less developed or out-of-favor national cinemas has several winners.
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Festivals
Global Lens 2006
Michael Fox
Sep 21, 2006The annual series of films from countries with less developed or out-of-favor national cinemas has several winners.
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Q & A
Opening "Red Doors" in Asian American Family
Susan Gerhard
Sep 19, 2006Filmmaker Georgia Lee discusses her narrative feature with family member Frances Chang.
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Q & A
Opening "Red Doors" in Asian American Family
Susan Gerhard
Sep 19, 2006Filmmaker Georgia Lee discusses her narrative feature with family member Frances Chang.
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Q & A
Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre on Border Life
Susan Gerhard
Sep 18, 2006The Maquilapolis filmmakers talk about empowering their subjectsÑwomen factory workers in Tijuana.
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Festivals
Ariella Ben-Dov on View-Mastery and "Women's Work"
Susan Gerhard
Sep 11, 2006The founder of the Madcat International Film Festival talks about the 2006 lineup.
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Q & A
Laura Poitras" "My Country, My Country"
indieWIRE
Aug 28, 2006Director Laura Poitras’ traveled to Iraq for her latest film, “My Country, My Country.”
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Festivals
Fall 2006 Festival Season
Susan Gerhard
Aug 25, 2006SF360 checks in with a few Bay Area festival insiders to see what they're excited about at upcoming festivals.
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Festivals
Academy Grant Jump Starts SF International's 50th
Susan Gerhard
Aug 23, 2006The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Academy Foundation bestowed a surprise grant of $150,000 over three years.
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Festivals
Academy Grant Jump Starts SF International's 50th
Susan Gerhard
Aug 23, 2006The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Academy Foundation bestowed a surprise grant of $150,000 over three years.
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Q & A
Night Listening with Patrick Stettner
indieWIRE
Aug 14, 2006The director of The Business of Strangers talks about his second feature, starring Robin Williams.
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Festivals
A Tale of Two Shorts Festivals
Robert Avila
Aug 10, 2006SF Shorts and the SF Underground Short Film Festival provide a big-screen showcase for oft-overlooked short subjects.
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Q & A
Keith Fulton and "Brothers of the Head"
indieWIRE
Aug 8, 2006The co-director talks about his provocative fictional documentary about conjoined twins groomed for rock Ôn' roll stardom.
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Q & A
Amos Gitai's Reality
Michael Fox
Aug 1, 2006The veteran Israeli filmmaker, in town for the Jewish Film Festival, talks about radical art and Free Zone.
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Q & A
Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga on the Weight of Words
Michael Fox
Jul 24, 2006Arriaga, who authored Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, discusses working in collaboration and across mediums.
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Q & A
Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga on the Weight of Words
Michael Fox
Jul 24, 2006Arriaga, who authored Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, discusses working in collaboration and across mediums.
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Q & A
Car Talk with Chris Paine
Susan Gerhard
Jul 11, 2006SF360 talked to the director of Who Killed the Electric Car?, which opened last week, after his recent stop through the City.
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Q & A
Tracy Flannigan Watches Tribe 8 "Rise Above"
Dennis Harvey
Jul 10, 2006SF360 spoke to the director of Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary, showing at the Red Vic Movie House and an imminent DVD release.
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Q & A
Tracy Flannigan Watches Tribe 8 "Rise Above"
Dennis Harvey
Jul 10, 2006SF360 spoke to the director of Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary, showing at the Red Vic Movie House and an imminent DVD release.
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Reviews
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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Reviews
Zack Bazzi, War Correspondent
Susan Gerhard
Jun 28, 2006In The War Tapes, Deborah Scranton exposes war as an industry - for those who fight it and for those who don't.
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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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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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Festivals
Critic's Notebook, Frameline30
Dennis Harvey
Jun 22, 2006S.F. International LGBT Film Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary as a forum for the LGBT community to celebrate its own hard-won survival and progress.
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Festivals
Critic's Notebook, Frameline30
Dennis Harvey
Jun 22, 2006S.F. International LGBT Film Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary as a forum for the LGBT community to celebrate its own hard-won survival and progress.
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Reviews
"Broken Sky" and "Two Drifters" at the San Francisco LGBT Film Festival
Johnny Ray Huston
Jun 20, 2006Julián Hernández and João Pedro Rodrigues show their second features at the S.F. International LGBT Film Festival.
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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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Festivals
San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Jun 15, 2006Highlights from San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival's 30th annual edition.
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Festivals
San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Jun 15, 2006Highlights from San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival's 30th annual edition.
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Q & A
A Conversation with Farmer John (Peterson)
Susan Gerhard
May 30, 2006A conversation with John Peterson on his unusual farming practices, and the documentary that captures them.
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Reviews
Ten Near Masterpieces Rescued from the Dustbin
Jonathan Marlow
May 26, 2006An alphabetical accounting of ten titles well worth watching that somehow slipped through the cracks.
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Festivals
2006 San Francisco International Arts Festival
Robert Avila
May 25, 2006The 2006 San Francisco International Arts Festival focuses on Latino culture across North and South America.
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Festivals
2006 San Francisco International Arts Festival
Robert Avila
May 25, 2006The 2006 San Francisco International Arts Festival focuses on Latino culture across North and South America.
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Festivals
Frameline's 30th San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
Susan Gerhard
May 23, 2006The 2006 program for the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival features an eclectic mix of genres and narrative types.
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Festivals
Frameline's 30th San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
Susan Gerhard
May 23, 2006The 2006 program for the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival features an eclectic mix of genres and narrative types.
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Festivals
Creative Offerings at the Icelandic Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
May 21, 2006The third annual Icelandic Film Festival offers just two features and one short, but it's all very, very good.
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Reviews
Kidlat Tahimik's "Perfumed Nightmare" Remains an Unlikely Masterpiece
Max Goldberg
May 18, 2006Perfumed 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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Festivals
Werner Herzog, Setting the Record Straight
Robert Avila
May 9, 2006The 2006 recipient of the Film Society Directing Award was full of raised-finger pronouncements, self-effacing demurrals, and unsolicited rebuttals at a Q&A preceding his film.
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Festivals
San Francisco International Film Festival's Award Winners
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2006A complete list of the winners of the Golden Gate Awards show, which was all about celebrating the city, with filmmakers of all genres saying a kind word or two about it.
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Festivals
San Francisco International Film Festival's Award Winners
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2006A complete list of the winners of the Golden Gate Awards show, which was all about celebrating the city, with filmmakers of all genres saying a kind word or two about it.
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Festivals
Tilda Swinton: The 2006 SFIFF "State of Cinema" Address
Marshall Plan
May 4, 2006An address delivered by Tilda Swinton to an audience at the Kabuki Theatre on April 29, 2006, during the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Festivals
Tilda Swinton: The 2006 SFIFF "State of Cinema" Address
Marshall Plan
May 4, 2006An address delivered by Tilda Swinton to an audience at the Kabuki Theatre on April 29, 2006, during the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Festivals
Addictive TV's VJ-style "Eye of the Pilot" at the Kabuki
Michael Fox
May 3, 2006An intimate group caught Addictive TV's VJ-style show of ÔEye of the Pilot' at the Kabuki, and stayed late for an enthusiastic Q&A.
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Festivals
Addictive TV's VJ-style "Eye of the Pilot" at the Kabuki
Michael Fox
May 3, 2006An intimate group caught Addictive TV's VJ-style show of ÔEye of the Pilot' at the Kabuki, and stayed late for an enthusiastic Q&A.
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Festivals
San Francisco International Film Festival, Week Two
Cheryl Eddy
May 1, 2006The second week of the 49th SFIFF was packed with tributes and special events, luring diverse crowds with honorees like Werner Herzog and Ed Harris.
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Festivals
San Francisco International Film Festival, Week Two
Cheryl Eddy
May 1, 2006The second week of the 49th SFIFF was packed with tributes and special events, luring diverse crowds with honorees like Werner Herzog and Ed Harris.
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Festivals
Words on work with Michael Glawogger
Michael Fox
May 1, 2006A conversation with director Michael Glawogger on his film, Workingman's Death, which screens at the 2006 SFIFF.
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Festivals
Words on work with Michael Glawogger
Michael Fox
May 1, 2006A conversation with director Michael Glawogger on his film, Workingman's Death, which screens at the 2006 SFIFF.
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Festivals
Unleash the Blogs, II
Susan Gerhard
Apr 30, 2006Is it possible that Big Tilda in the real is bigger than Lucy Gray's larger-than-life projections of her onto City Hall?
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Festivals
Unleash the Blogs, II
Susan Gerhard
Apr 30, 2006Is it possible that Big Tilda in the real is bigger than Lucy Gray's larger-than-life projections of her onto City Hall?
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Festivals
The Revolution Will Be Digitized?
Susan Gerhard
Apr 28, 2006The revolution will not be televised, but it may be digitized, run through Final Cut Pro, and projected on the screen near you.
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Festivals
The Revolution Will Be Digitized?
Susan Gerhard
Apr 28, 2006The revolution will not be televised, but it may be digitized, run through Final Cut Pro, and projected on the screen near you.
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Q & A
Choose Your Words
Robert Avila
Apr 27, 2006Memorize these words that supposedly can bring you under government scrutiny when said over the phone, or written in a text message or email.
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Q & A
Andy Lau, The Magic Man
Jennifer Young
Apr 26, 2006The Kabuki turned into a mosh pit at the Sunday screening of All About Love as Andy Lau's fans rushed the stage to greet him.
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Festivals
From Here to Iberia at SFIFF
Cheryl Eddy
Apr 25, 2006Heroic firefighters, eerie simian costumes, a Baywatch star-as-activist, fierce flamenco dancers, and a rushing tide of watermelon juice.
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Festivals
From Here to Iberia at SFIFF
Cheryl Eddy
Apr 25, 2006Heroic firefighters, eerie simian costumes, a Baywatch star-as-activist, fierce flamenco dancers, and a rushing tide of watermelon juice.
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Festivals
Unleash the Blogs
Susan Gerhard
Apr 23, 2006The S.F. International Film Festival opened the gates this year to an accredited citizen press corps of bloggers and vloggers.
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Festivals
Unleash the Blogs
Susan Gerhard
Apr 23, 2006The S.F. International Film Festival opened the gates this year to an accredited citizen press corps of bloggers and vloggers.
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Festivals
Graham Leggat, SFIFF Executive Director, Indexed
Susan Gerhard
Apr 21, 2006"I got a call out of the blue," Graham Leggat says, explaining how he left the Film Society of Lincoln Center for the left coast.
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Festivals
Graham Leggat, SFIFF Executive Director, Indexed
Susan Gerhard
Apr 21, 2006"I got a call out of the blue," Graham Leggat says, explaining how he left the Film Society of Lincoln Center for the left coast.
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Reviews
Masharawi Finds Palestinians In States of Suspended Animation
Robert Avila
Apr 20, 2006Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi's Waiting intricately and ingeniously intertwines irony, humor, and pathos.
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Festivals
International REMIX
Susan Gerhard
Apr 19, 2006If you haven't yet found your repurpose in life, SFIFF's International Remix site might be of use.
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Festivals
International REMIX
Susan Gerhard
Apr 19, 2006If you haven't yet found your repurpose in life, SFIFF's International Remix site might be of use.
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Q & A
Tommy Pallotta's Reanimation of "A Scanner Darkly"
Daniel Cowles
Apr 18, 2006The producer talks about the barriers filmmakers have faced in bringing Philip K. Dick's novel to the screen.
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Q & A
Tommy Pallotta's Reanimation of "A Scanner Darkly"
Daniel Cowles
Apr 18, 2006The producer talks about the barriers filmmakers have faced in bringing Philip K. Dick's novel to the screen.
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Festivals
Picks for the San Francisco International Film Festival
Susan Gerhard
Mar 31, 2006The List: B. Ruby Rich picks her favorites for the 2006 San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Festivals
Picks for the San Francisco International Film Festival
Susan Gerhard
Mar 31, 2006The List: B. Ruby Rich picks her favorites for the 2006 San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Festivals
49th Annual SFIFF Lineup
Susan Gerhard
Mar 28, 2006San Francisco International Film Festival announces lineup for the 49th annual festival.
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Festivals
49th Annual SFIFF Lineup
Susan Gerhard
Mar 28, 2006San Francisco International Film Festival announces lineup for the 49th annual festival.
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News & Blogs
Sundance Cinemas Buys Kabuki 8
Susan Gerhard
Mar 24, 2006Sundance Cinemas buys the Kabuki 8 and announces plans to reopen as the Sundance Kabuki in early fall 2006.
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Reviews
Tehran Contemporary Art Exhibit On Tour
Robert Avila
Mar 23, 2006The documentary Persian Garden chronicles the grandest art exhibition in Iran since the 1979 Revolution.
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Reviews
Tehran Contemporary Art Exhibit On Tour
Robert Avila
Mar 23, 2006The documentary Persian Garden chronicles the grandest art exhibition in Iran since the 1979 Revolution.
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Q & A
Filmmaker Ham Tran Rights an Historical Wrong
Thomas Logoreci
Mar 21, 2006Vietnamese American filmmaker Ham Tran rights an historical wrong in his debut feature film on the Vietnam War.
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Festivals
Future Stars of SFIAAFF
Jennifer Young
Mar 17, 2006The List: Taro Goto posits who will go on to superstardom from the 2006 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.
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Festivals
Transnational Tales at This Year's SFIAAFF
Johnny Ray Huston
Mar 16, 2006Transnational tales stand out at the 2006 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.
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Festivals
Shigeta's Presence at the SFIAAFF
Chi-Hui Yang
Mar 15, 2006Six degrees of James Shigeta: an actor ahead of his time sustains a presence in American and Asian American cinema.
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Festivals
A Talk with SFIAAFF Directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto
Susan Gerhard
Mar 14, 2006Asian America everywhere: A talk with San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto.
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Festivals
Tiburon Film Festival Turns a Tourist Town Around
Louise Carroll
Mar 9, 2006The newest film festival on the dock, Tiburon International, turns a tourist town around.
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Festivals
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: More Than "Watching"
Robert Avila
Mar 2, 2006HRW's series of films chosen for aesthetic value and human rights content continues to grow as it stays true to its roots.
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Festivals
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: More Than "Watching"
Robert Avila
Mar 2, 2006HRW's series of films chosen for aesthetic value and human rights content continues to grow as it stays true to its roots.
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