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Kuchar, Belson Bid Adieu
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2011San Francisco loses two of its cinema icons, pioneering 'camp humorist' George Kuchar and seminal experimental filmmaker Jordan Belson. George Kuchar, the beloved San Francisco filmmaker, teacher, mentor and friend, died Tuesday night, September 6, at the age of 69. He passed away at Coming Home Hospice in the Castro, where he resided for the last month. Kuchar had been diagnosed with cancer a year and a half ago, but the sad news was not conveyed beyond a circle of close friends until recently. Kuchar and his twin brother, Mike, began making movies in their teens in their Bronx neighborhood in the late ’50s. Inspired by the florid emotions of Hollywood melodramas, they made 8mm narratives that were funny...
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September 8 2011
Kuchar, Belson Bid Adieu
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2011San Francisco loses two of its cinema icons, pioneering 'camp humorist' George Kuchar and seminal experimental filmmaker Jordan Belson. George Kuchar, the beloved San Francisco filmmaker, teacher, mentor and friend, died Tuesday night, September 6, at the age of 69. He passed away at Coming Home Hospice in the Castro, where he resided for the last month. Kuchar had been diagnosed with cancer a year and a half ago, but the sad news was not conveyed beyond a circle of close friends until recently. Kuchar and his twin brother, Mike, began making movies in their teens in their Bronx neighborhood in the late ’50s. Inspired by the florid emotions of Hollywood melodramas, they made 8mm narratives that were funny...
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Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.
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June 30, 2011
Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.
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Border Trouble Comes to Pacific Film Archive
Max Goldberg
Jun 30, 2011New series spotlights the fascination with Mexico in American noir.
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Soap-Operatic 'Bride Flight' Is an Entertaining Ride
Dennis Harvey
Jun 10, 2011An historical-romantic novel in screen form, 'Bride Flight' offers all the pleasures (some guilty ones) of a film made half a century ago.
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June 16, 2011
Soap-Operatic 'Bride Flight' Is an Entertaining Ride
Dennis Harvey
Jun 10, 2011An historical-romantic novel in screen form, 'Bride Flight' offers all the pleasures (some guilty ones) of a film made half a century ago.
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Soap-Operatic 'Bride Flight' Is an Entertaining Ride
Dennis Harvey
Jun 10, 2011An historical-romantic novel in screen form, 'Bride Flight' offers all the pleasures (some guilty ones) of a film made half a century ago.
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03.31.11
Haynes Reaches Mainstream with Thoroughly Modern ‘Mildred’
Michael Fox
Mar 27, 2011Todd Haynes talks melodrama, movies, TV, the Great Depression and personal motivation.
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Haynes Reaches Mainstream with Thoroughly Modern ‘Mildred’
Michael Fox
Mar 27, 2011Todd Haynes talks melodrama, movies, TV, the Great Depression and personal motivation.
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Haynes Reaches Mainstream with Thoroughly Modern ‘Mildred’
Michael Fox
Mar 27, 2011Todd Haynes talks melodrama, movies, TV, the Great Depression and personal motivation.
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August 26 ,2010
A Vampire Weekend at YBCA
Max Goldberg
Aug 26, 2010Three vampire films capture more than the imagination. That the vogue for vampire melodramas may have run its course is clear enough from the appearance of Vampires Suck (in theaters as of this writing, though not likely much past it) and the news that the American redo of the 2008 Swedish indie hit, Let the Right One In, will be titled "Let Me In." Just like that, a lovely slice of pop-baroque gets reprocessed as a pathetic whine. No matter: as long there is cinema, the vampire will reemerge. Ever since the twin pinnacles of Nosferatu (1922) and Vampyr (1932), in which two of early cinema’s. . .
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A Vampire Weekend at YBCA
Max Goldberg
Aug 26, 2010Three vampire films capture more than the imagination. That the vogue for vampire melodramas may have run its course is clear enough from the appearance of Vampires Suck (in theaters as of this writing, though not likely much past it) and the news that the American redo of the 2008 Swedish indie hit, Let the Right One In, will be titled "Let Me In." Just like that, a lovely slice of pop-baroque gets reprocessed as a pathetic whine. No matter: as long there is cinema, the vampire will reemerge. Ever since the twin pinnacles of Nosferatu (1922) and Vampyr (1932), in which two of early cinema’s. . .
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August 17, 2010
Film on Film Foundation's 'Endless Love'
Aug 22, 2010The second screening in Film on Film Foundation's Film Maudit program, a curated reconsideration of oft-maligned and misunderstood films, is Franco Zeffirelli's unabashed melodrama 'Endless Love.'
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Observing Ordinary People in 'Everyone Else'
Dennis Harvey
Jul 2, 2010Maren Ade’s second feature is striking for what it doesn't do as it follows ordinary lives through a failing relationship.
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Observing Ordinary People in 'Everyone Else'
Dennis Harvey
Jul 2, 2010Maren Ade’s second feature is striking for what it doesn't do as it follows ordinary lives through a failing relationship.
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Festivals
Wintering with the SF Silent Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Dec 9, 2009Highlights from the 2009 San Francisco Silent Film Festival winter event.
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Chilean Film 'The Maid' and the Liberation of a Genre
Dennis Harvey
Nov 13, 2009This little no-budget film has picked up a slew of festival prizes for its character depth, unpredictable storytelling, humor and warmth.
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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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'Silent Light' and Shattered Landscapes
Max Goldberg
Feb 27, 2009Carlos Reygadas' third film is an unmistakably serious work, emblematic of the kind of brooding, large-canvas filmmaking which has become a rarity.
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'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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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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10 Reasons to See "Cinema Piemonte"
Staff
Feb 29, 2008The Associazone Piemontesi of Northern California, with the Italian Cultural Institute and Regione Piemonte, presents "Cinema Piemonte," four movies made in that beautiful region.
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Q & A
George Kuchar, Neither Boil nor Blister
Michael Fox
Sep 13, 2007Michael Fox interviews director and Mission District icon George Kuchar
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"Private Property;" "One to Another"
Dennis Harvey and Michael Koresky/indieWIRE
Jul 31, 2007A non-rich family is torn apart by money matters, and young actors lie atop, next to, and around each other with youthful, sexual abandon.
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Reviews: "I Don't Want to Sleep Alone"; "Mafioso"
Max Goldberg
Apr 10, 2007“I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone” puts its melodrama and comedy within a Malaysian mattress. 1962’s “Mafioso” may be the mob-chronicle genre’s ground zero.
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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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Francois Ozon, Mortal
B. Ruby Rich
Aug 2, 2006Ozon's Time to Leave demonstrates how central he's become to European cinema, and reminds us that he's among gay world cinema's most accomplished writer/directors.
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Festivals
Overview of the S.F. Jewish Film Festival
Michael Fox
Jul 20, 2006The sudden climate change in the Middle East has had a tone-altering effect on the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, where the war will be Topic A.
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