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Deadlines
Opportunities for Filmmakers
Dec 31, 2012The Deadlines section of sf360.org is a large but selective list of festival calls for entry, upcoming seminars, artist residencies, grant and award deadlines and other opportunities for filmmakers. Are we missing an important deadline? Please write us at sgerhard[at]sffs.org.
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Deadlines
Opportunities: Cinequest Screenwriting Competition
Oct 17, 2011Cinequest Screenwriting Competition, held in conjunction with the Cinequest Film Festival (February 28-March 11, 2012), is accepting submissions. ELIGIBILITY: The competition is open to screenplays of all genres and lengths up to 140 pages that have not been optioned, purchased, produced, or put into production. Scripts should be in English, properly formatted, and submitted in PDF format. Scripts written as adaptations of other works must have secured rights before being submitted. Entry fee $45-65. AWARDS: Finalists receive non-cash prizes, including exposure to literary agents, film studios, and producers. Top prize is $5,000. DEADLINE: September 26, 2011 (early); October 17, 2011 (late). WEBSITE: cinequest.org/sp_agent.php.
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Home
‘New Environmentalists’ Salutes Gutsy Grassroots Guerillas
Michael Fox
Oct 7, 2011Goldman Prize-winning environmentalists' work highlighted in short-form pieces by Parrinello, Antonelli and Dusenbery.
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In Production
‘New Environmentalists’ Salutes Gutsy Grassroots Guerillas
Michael Fox
Oct 7, 2011Goldman Prize-winning environmentalists' work highlighted in short-form pieces by Parrinello, Antonelli and Dusenbery.
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October 14, 2011
‘New Environmentalists’ Salutes Gutsy Grassroots Guerillas
Michael Fox
Oct 7, 2011Goldman Prize-winning environmentalists' work highlighted in short-form pieces by Parrinello, Antonelli and Dusenbery.
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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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April 19, 2011
SFIFF: 'The Troll Hunter'
Apr 23, 2011Norwegian countryside, student journalists, giant trolls: How could this Late Show screening go wrong? Especially with the director in person to help us through it? More at fest11.sffs.org.
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March 29 2011
SFFS Film Arts Forum: Beyond Film School
Apr 4, 2011Tiffany Shlain keynotes a discussion of education and opportunity, while panelists Mark Decena, Rob Epstein, Barry Jenkins, Lexi Leban and Jenni Olson share their experiences and stories of how they’ve sustained their careers over time. It begins at 7:30 pm at the Lab. More at sffs.org.
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Festivals
Hope Springs Eternal at Green Film Festival
Michael Fox
Mar 3, 2011An environmental film festival with exceptional flair enters the San Francisco scene.
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Hope Springs Eternal at Green Film Festival
Michael Fox
Mar 3, 2011An environmental film festival with exceptional flair enters the San Francisco scene.
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March 3, 2011
Hope Springs Eternal at Green Film Festival
Michael Fox
Mar 3, 2011An environmental film festival with exceptional flair enters the San Francisco scene.
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Bay Area Doc Makers Breathe Deep Before Sundance Debuts
Michael Fox
Jan 19, 2011Filmmakers make plans, stay calm, hone their messages for Park City audiences in days before festival opens.
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In Production
Bay Area Doc Makers Breathe Deep Before Sundance Debuts
Michael Fox
Jan 19, 2011Filmmakers make plans, stay calm, hone their messages for Park City audiences in days before festival opens.
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January 20, 2011
Bay Area Doc Makers Breathe Deep Before Sundance Debuts
Michael Fox
Jan 19, 2011Filmmakers make plans, stay calm, hone their messages for Park City audiences in days before festival opens.
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January 31, 2011
Bay Area Doc Makers Breathe Deep Before Sundance Debuts
Michael Fox
Jan 19, 2011Filmmakers make plans, stay calm, hone their messages for Park City audiences in days before festival opens.
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December 23, 2010
Film 2010: Top Tens
Susan Gerhard
Dec 23, 2010Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: Top Tens
Susan Gerhard
Dec 23, 2010Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
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Film 2010: Top Tens
Susan Gerhard
Dec 23, 2010Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
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Reviews
Film 2010: Top Tens
Susan Gerhard
Dec 23, 2010Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
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December 23, 2010
Film 2010: Top Tens
Susan Gerhard
Dec 23, 2010Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: Top Tens
Susan Gerhard
Dec 23, 2010Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
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Film 2010: Top Tens
Susan Gerhard
Dec 23, 2010Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
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Reviews
Film 2010: Top Tens
Susan Gerhard
Dec 23, 2010Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
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November 30, 2010
'The Temptation of St. Tony'
Dec 3, 2010Veiko Õunpuu's dream-like study of a middle-aged man’s morality struggle has drawn comparisons to the work of cinema’s most notorious surrealists. ‘The Temptation of St. Tony’ is Estonia’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. Plays at the Roxie. More at roxie.com.
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News & Blogs
San Francisco Film Society Announces Finalists for SFFS/Hearst Screenwriting Grant
Nov 11, 2010Press release: The San Francisco Film Society announced today the finalists and honorable mention for the second SFFS/Hearst Screenwriting Grant. The grant of $15,000 will be awarded to a mid-career screenwriter who has been a practicing writer for at least five years and who has previously written a minimum of one feature screenplay. Finalists are Topaz Adizes, Eric Escobar, Brent Hoff, Roja Gashtili, Maryam Keshavarz, Beverly Kopf and Bobbi Birleffi, Paul Lobo Portuges, David Munro, Jennifer Phang and Dominac Mah. Honorable mention went to Richard Strasser. More at sffs.org.
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News & Blogs
SF Chronicle: 'Rainin Foundation selects 10 finalists'
Oct 27, 2010"Ten Bay Area filmmakers got good news this month when the San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced that they had narrowed their choices to a short list of contenders competing for $225,000 in cash," writes Hugh Hart. "The awards will go toward funding projects that explore civil rights, discrimination, gender and sexual identity. Winners will be named in November." More at SFGate.
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Festivals
Berlin & Beyond Provides Genius Genre Treatments
Max Goldberg
Oct 22, 2010A pair of expert heist films top Berlin & Beyond.
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Berlin & Beyond Provides Genius Genre Treatments
Max Goldberg
Oct 22, 2010A pair of expert heist films top Berlin & Beyond.
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October 28, 2010
Berlin & Beyond Provides Genius Genre Treatments
Max Goldberg
Oct 22, 2010A pair of expert heist films top Berlin & Beyond.
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Home
Mallimson surveys 'Edge of the Wild' on San Bruno Mountain
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2010A filmmaker shows environmentalists who are changing the way we as Americans relate to nature.
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In Production
Mallimson surveys 'Edge of the Wild' on San Bruno Mountain
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2010A filmmaker shows environmentalists who are changing the way we as Americans relate to nature.
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September 9 2010
Mallimson surveys 'Edge of the Wild' on San Bruno Mountain
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2010A filmmaker shows environmentalists who are changing the way we as Americans relate to nature.
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Home
Two Zimbalists and 'Two Escobars'
Susan Gerhard
Aug 27, 2010The stories of an assassinated soccer star and the nation's most notorious criminal merge in a portrait of '80s-'90s Colombia.
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Reviews
Two Zimbalists and 'Two Escobars'
Susan Gerhard
Aug 27, 2010The stories of an assassinated soccer star and the nation's most notorious criminal merge in a portrait of '80s-'90s Colombia.
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September 2, 2010
Two Zimbalists and 'Two Escobars'
Susan Gerhard
Aug 27, 2010The stories of an assassinated soccer star and the nation's most notorious criminal merge in a portrait of '80s-'90s Colombia.
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News & Blogs
'Chevron's 'Crude' Attempt to Suppress Free Speech'
May 15, 2010A Federal Judge has ordered documentary producer and director Joe Berlinger to turn over to Chevron 600 hours of footage used to create Crude: The Real Price of Oil.
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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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Reviews
Top 10s of the 2000s
Susan Gerhard
Dec 30, 2009Not surprisingly, Bay Area critics, fans, exhibitors and filmmakers did not arrive at a consensus on the best films of the decade.
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Reviews
Top 10s of 2009: Insiders and Fans
Susan Gerhard
Dec 29, 2009It was a big year for 3D, but Bay Area critics and film-industry folk found many other dimensions in the cinema of 2009.
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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
Noise Pop Film Festival 2009
Dennis Harvey
Feb 26, 2009About as far from the ever-increasing corporatization of popular music as you can get is the annual dose from the Noise Pop Festival.
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Reviews
Sundance Blogs: 'Everything Strange and New' and 'La Mission'
Susan Gerhard
Jan 22, 2009Susan Gerhard blogs on what is strange and new about watching movies in these particular mountains.
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Festivals
Sundance Blog: Midnight at the Egyptian
Hilary Hart
Jan 18, 2009Hilary Hart blogs her 14th year at Sundance, back on the midnight shift at the Egyptian Theatre.
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News & Blogs
Unresolutions of 2009
Hannah Eaves
Jan 9, 2009Certain questions in 2008 endlessly plagued the film world, leading to outlandish predictions, flame-war mayhem and an outbreak of opinionated public speaking.
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Reviews
Bollywood By the Bay
Laura Irvine
Feb 16, 2008Every morning I wake up with Bollywood movie tunes going through my head. Every. Single. Morning.
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Reviews
Undying Love for George A. Romero
Dennis Harvey
Feb 14, 2008It probably wasn't Romero's original dream to become semi-famous for movies about the flesh-eating undead.
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Reviews
"Shrooms" Screams Bloody Horror
Dennis Harvey
Feb 8, 2008The Irish flick might put the leper back in leprechaun, but it's still at heart a reassuringly formulaic hunk of bloody commercial horror.
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Reviews
Cassandra's Dreamer, Woody Allen
Dennis Harvey
Jan 17, 2008Even when just stringing gags together in his early comedies, Woody raised the level of the game, making humor intellectual and the intellectual humorous.
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Reviews
The Best Undistributed Films of 2007
Chris Wisniewski
Jan 2, 2008If they don't get the chance to beguile the world in theaters, maybe, at the very least, they'll find their way to audiences via digital download.
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Reviews
The Many Faces of Dylan
Dennis Harvey
Nov 21, 2007Todd Haynes' I'm Not There both replicates and examines the hazy landscape of fact, fiction, art and myth comprising Dylanology.
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Reviews
The Short Films of Big Ugly Review
Susan Gerhard
Nov 16, 2007The List: We take the opportunity to link you to four short films from the Big Ugly Review, an online publication that includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more.
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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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Reviews
Jumping the Shark
Doug Young
Nov 2, 2007The List: While Rob Stewart's film is winning awards around the world, he offered his thoughts on the five films that have done the most damage to sharks' reputation.
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Reviews
Your Al Gore, and More
Susan Gerhard
Oct 12, 2007The List: SF360.org has compiled a short list of environmental filmmakers we hope will one day find a Peace Prize coming their way, too.
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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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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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Q & A
Off the Lot With Mateen Kemet
Matt Sussman
Aug 28, 2007SF360.org caught up with the Oakland director, who was one of seven finalists on the Fox reality show On the Lot.
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Reviews
"Coffy" and Other Tales of Female Revenge
Claire Faggioli
Aug 17, 2007The List: While one might take comfort that the following list lies isolated in the filmic realm, do play it safe: don't piss off the ladies in your life.
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Reviews
Blood, Sweat, Tears
Claire Faggioli
Aug 10, 2007The List: The following list consists of the most interesting or important moments in the visualization of blood, from sheer abundance to aesthetic appreciation.
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Reviews
Blood, Sweat, Tears
Claire Faggioli
Aug 10, 2007The List: The following list consists of the most interesting or important moments in the visualization of blood, from sheer abundance to aesthetic appreciation.
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Festivals
A Frozen Film Festival five
Claire Faggioli
Jul 13, 2007The List: Frozen Film Festival is a small festival that hopes to capitalize on the fact that San Franciscans like to stay indoors in the summer.
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Reviews
Rodents we love
Claire Faggioli
Jul 6, 2007List: Most of us talk to our pets, but very few of us talk our Camrys or toasters. That's where animation fills our need to fantasize about our interactions with animals.
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Reviews
Macbeths we have known
Matt Sussman
Jun 29, 2007List: While the following list may hold few such surprises, these adaptations are some of the most intensely unsettling (and most cinematically rich) re-stagings of Shakespeare's dark plays.
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Reviews
Macbeths we have known
Matt Sussman
Jun 29, 2007List: While the following list may hold few such surprises, these adaptations are some of the most intensely unsettling (and most cinematically rich) re-stagings of Shakespeare's dark plays.
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Reviews
"SiCKO"-time
Susan Gerhard
Jun 28, 2007Sicko's story of the mismanagement of U.S. healthcare takes Michael Moore from the U.S. to Canada to Europe, and most notably, to Cuba.
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Reviews
"American Cannibal" and Reality TV
Claire Faggioli
Jun 22, 2007List: American Cannibal documents two down on their luck television writers, Gil Ripley and Dave Roberts, as they sell their souls to the reality television circuit.
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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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Reviews
Guillen's Top Five from Another Hole in the Head
Michael Guillen
May 25, 2007Five recommendations chosen from among the gore, ghouls, ghosts, gags, and animation at Indiefest's Holehead festival.
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Festivals
2007 Mendocino Film Festival
Robert Avila
May 24, 2007The four-day festival offered over 100 films, with an emphasis on documentaries, and attracted some 60 filmmakers, including Albert Maysles.
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Festivals
Meet the Jury/A Palme d'Or 20
Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE
May 18, 2007No sooner does the Festival de Cannes open than attendees start buzzing about the potential award-winners.
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News & Blogs
'The Departed' Wins Best Picture, Scorsese Best Director at 79th Oscars
Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE
Feb 26, 2007When all was said and done in Los Angeles tonight, The Departed was the big winner at the 79th Academy Awards.
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Q & A
Rory Kennedy and 'The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib'
Michael Fox
Feb 19, 2007Filmmaker Rory Kennedy talks about her process and approach with making her new chilling documentary Ghosts of Abu Ghraib.
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Festivals
Film Arts Foundation's 'Bay Area Film Festivals'
Michael Read
Feb 16, 2007Boasting dozens upon dozens of homegrown events anchored by the country's most visible festivals, San Francisco has evolved into the quintessential festival town.
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Reviews
15 Minutes of YouTube
Justin Juul
Feb 2, 2007The List: A collection of individuals who caught my eye in an intense week of YouTube scouring. Most have gotten upwards of one million views.
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News & Blogs
The Cities' Critics Speak
Susan Gerhard
Dec 15, 2006The language of film may be universal, as the Landmark trailer reminds us, but the critics in major U.S. cities speak their own dialects.
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Reviews
Cheryl Eddy's Badder Santas
Susan Gerhard
Dec 1, 2006You can't imagine a critic like Cheryl Eddy,with her dazzlingly caustic skepticism, ever believed in Santa Claus.
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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
A Marc Huestis Presents 20
Susan Gerhard
Nov 10, 2006The List: The impresario Ôs remarkable 11 years of A-to-Z-list celebrity-repurposing projects.
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Reviews
More Made Men
Dennis Harvey
Nov 3, 2006The List: Lesser remembered and/or excellent Mafia films that might make you an offer you can't refuse.
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News & Blogs
Roxie, The Vote
Susan Gerhard
Oct 6, 2006The List: 25 Bay Area landmarks, including the Roxie and the Fox Oakland, are vying for $1 million in preservation grants from American Express.
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Reviews
The "remake," re-made
Michael Fox
Sep 26, 2006Why do updates of Jerry Lewis flicks get more slack from critics than Zailian's "All the King's Men" and Demme's "The Manchurian Candidate?"
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Q & A
Preteens on Surprise Endings
Susan Gerhard
Jul 21, 2006A California Film Institute-procured class of 13somethings needed no help deciding their top ten list of surprise movie endings.
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Q & A
Best of Balboa
Susan Gerhard
Jul 7, 2006We checked in with Gary Meyer to find out what films have rocked the 1926 foundations of the Balboa in the past six years.
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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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News & Blogs
SFFS and Kenneth Rainin Foundation Announce Fall 2010 Grant Finalists
SFFS Press Release: "The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced the ten finalists for the fourth round of SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants of up to a total of $225,000, to be given to one or more feature films that through plot, character, theme or setting significantly explore human and civil rights, discrimination, gender and sexual identity and other urgent social justice issues of our time." More at sffs.org
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