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Events
Tom Tykwer's '3'
Sep 23, 2011After delighting audiences at this year's Frameline festival with its sexy, stylish update on the classic Hollywood screwball formula, 'Run Lola Run' director Tom Tykwer's '3' gets a full run at Sundance Kabuki and other venues around the Bay starting this Friday. More info sundancecinemas.com.
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September 20, 2011
Tom Tykwer's '3'
Sep 23, 2011After delighting audiences at this year's Frameline festival with its sexy, stylish update on the classic Hollywood screwball formula, 'Run Lola Run' director Tom Tykwer's '3' gets a full run at Sundance Kabuki and other venues around the Bay starting this Friday. More info sundancecinemas.com.
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Events
IXFF Indie Erotic Film Festival
Sep 22, 2011Peaches Christ and Dr. Carol Queen host the Sixth Annual Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Festival Short Film Competition this Thursday, boasting a Barbary Coast-themed party featuring food, drinks and an array of appropriately sexed-up performers and a curated screening of sexy short films from this year. Each event costs $10, more info castrotheatre.com.
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September 20, 2011
IXFF Indie Erotic Film Festival
Sep 22, 2011Peaches Christ and Dr. Carol Queen host the Sixth Annual Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Festival Short Film Competition this Thursday, boasting a Barbary Coast-themed party featuring food, drinks and an array of appropriately sexed-up performers and a curated screening of sexy short films from this year. Each event costs $10, more info castrotheatre.com.
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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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August 16, 2011
'The African Queen'
Aug 18, 2011Canonized director John Huston's 'The African Queen,' now mostly remembered for its tumultuous production history, was also the director's biggest grossing film, securing Humphrey Bogart his first Oscar for acting. The Alameda Theatre screens this battle-of-the-sexes classic on film Wednesday and Thursday only. More info at alamedatheatres.com.
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July 12, 2011
'Smut Capital of America'
Jul 14, 2011YBCA kicks off its Smut Captial of America series with a film of the same name by Michael Stabile, who will be present for discussion at the screening. The in-progress doc chronicles the sex scene in San Francisco in the ’60s and ’70s and the city's rise to prominence as the country's porn capital. SCoA runs through August 18. More info at ybca.org.
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The Naked Truth on Nudity in Film
George Rush
Jul 12, 2011A legal expert offers advice on staying within the law while shedding extra layers.
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July 14, 2011
The Naked Truth on Nudity in Film
George Rush
Jul 12, 2011A legal expert offers advice on staying within the law while shedding extra layers.
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Legal
The Naked Truth on Nudity in Film
George Rush
Jul 12, 2011A legal expert offers advice on staying within the law while shedding extra layers.
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The Naked Truth on Nudity in Film
George Rush
Jul 12, 2011A legal expert offers advice on staying within the law while shedding extra layers.
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July 14, 2011
The Naked Truth on Nudity in Film
George Rush
Jul 12, 2011A legal expert offers advice on staying within the law while shedding extra layers.
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Legal
The Naked Truth on Nudity in Film
George Rush
Jul 12, 2011A legal expert offers advice on staying within the law while shedding extra layers.
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Home
Weitz Explores the Other L.A. with 'A Better Life'
Dennis Harvey
Jul 8, 2011'A Better Life' succeeds as an L.A.-set remake of bleak Italian neorealist classic 'The Bicycle Thief.'
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July 14, 2011
Weitz Explores the Other L.A. with 'A Better Life'
Dennis Harvey
Jul 8, 2011'A Better Life' succeeds as an L.A.-set remake of bleak Italian neorealist classic 'The Bicycle Thief.'
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July 7, 2011
Weitz Explores the Other L.A. with 'A Better Life'
Dennis Harvey
Jul 8, 2011'A Better Life' succeeds as an L.A.-set remake of bleak Italian neorealist classic 'The Bicycle Thief.'
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Reviews
Weitz Explores the Other L.A. with 'A Better Life'
Dennis Harvey
Jul 8, 2011'A Better Life' succeeds as an L.A.-set remake of bleak Italian neorealist classic 'The Bicycle Thief.'
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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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Home
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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Q & A
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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Home
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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Q & A
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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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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Home
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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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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May 19, 2011
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Reviews
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May 19, 2011
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Reviews
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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 12, 2011
‘The Price of Sex’
Apr 12, 2011Filmmaker Mimi Chakarova is at Sutardja Hall Auditorium, UC Berkeley, to present her documentary, ‘The Price of Sex,’ which is an award-winning investigation into sex trafficking throughout Europe and the Middle East. More at priceofsex.org.
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April 14, 2011
Journalist-Activist Chakarova Exposes ‘Price of Sex’
Michael Fox
Apr 11, 2011Mimi Chakarova gains a new perspective on journalism as well as international crime in investigating 'The Price of Sex.'
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Journalist-Activist Chakarova Exposes ‘Price of Sex’
Michael Fox
Apr 11, 2011Mimi Chakarova gains a new perspective on journalism as well as international crime in investigating 'The Price of Sex.'
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Reviews
Journalist-Activist Chakarova Exposes ‘Price of Sex’
Michael Fox
Apr 11, 2011Mimi Chakarova gains a new perspective on journalism as well as international crime in investigating 'The Price of Sex.'
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April 7, 2011
The Power of ‘Poetry’
Adam Hartzell
Apr 7, 2011A South Korean gem, Lee Chang-dong’s ‘Poetry’ inspires.
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The Power of ‘Poetry’
Adam Hartzell
Apr 7, 2011A South Korean gem, Lee Chang-dong’s ‘Poetry’ inspires.
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Reviews
The Power of ‘Poetry’
Adam Hartzell
Apr 7, 2011A South Korean gem, Lee Chang-dong’s ‘Poetry’ inspires.
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March 29 2011
‘Daddy I Do’
Mar 30, 2011Director Cassie Jaye and producer Nena Jaye are in person for a discussion following their documentary, ‘Daddy I Do,’ which explores the need to provide youth and young adults with sexual education. More at cafilm.org.
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February 24, 2011
Nakadate’s Fever Dreams Heat the Screen
Sean Uyehara
Feb 23, 2011Filmmaker/photographer Laurel Nakadate talks about acting, power and identity.
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Nakadate’s Fever Dreams Heat the Screen
Sean Uyehara
Feb 23, 2011Filmmaker/photographer Laurel Nakadate talks about acting, power and identity.
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Q & A
Nakadate’s Fever Dreams Heat the Screen
Sean Uyehara
Feb 23, 2011Filmmaker/photographer Laurel Nakadate talks about acting, power and identity.
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February 24, 2011
'We Were Here' Wrings Hope from the AIDS Crisis
Dennis Harvey
Feb 22, 2011Weissman and Weber's 'We Were Here' pulls a surprising degree of hope and inspiration out of the AIDS tragedy.
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'We Were Here' Wrings Hope from the AIDS Crisis
Dennis Harvey
Feb 22, 2011Weissman and Weber's 'We Were Here' pulls a surprising degree of hope and inspiration out of the AIDS tragedy.
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Reviews
'We Were Here' Wrings Hope from the AIDS Crisis
Dennis Harvey
Feb 22, 2011Weissman and Weber's 'We Were Here' pulls a surprising degree of hope and inspiration out of the AIDS tragedy.
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Feb 3 2011
Eclectic Expectations Met at SF Indiefest
Matt Sussman
Feb 3, 2011SF Indiefest brings drama, doc, fact, fiction and physique into its annual showcase.
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Festivals
Eclectic Expectations Met at SF Indiefest
Matt Sussman
Feb 3, 2011SF Indiefest brings drama, doc, fact, fiction and physique into its annual showcase.
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Eclectic Expectations Met at SF Indiefest
Matt Sussman
Feb 3, 2011SF Indiefest brings drama, doc, fact, fiction and physique into its annual showcase.
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Feb 3 2011
Sundance Awards 'Circumstance,' 'Another Happy Day'
Susan Gerhard
Jan 30, 2011Ten days of audience voting and jury contemplation lead to a barrel of awards for directors, writers.
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Sundance Awards 'Circumstance,' 'Another Happy Day'
Susan Gerhard
Jan 30, 2011Ten days of audience voting and jury contemplation lead to a barrel of awards for directors, writers.
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January 31, 2011
Sundance Awards 'Circumstance,' 'Another Happy Day'
Susan Gerhard
Jan 30, 2011Ten days of audience voting and jury contemplation lead to a barrel of awards for directors, writers.
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News & Blogs
Sundance Awards 'Circumstance,' 'Another Happy Day'
Susan Gerhard
Jan 30, 2011Ten days of audience voting and jury contemplation lead to a barrel of awards for directors, writers.
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December 2, 2010
'The Sound of Music' Offers Simpler Times, Strange Complications
Dennis Harvey
Dec 3, 2010'The Sound of Music' stretches its music empire into a new century with popular sing-alongs and a new home-entertainment release. When we look back at the 1960s, the phenomenon that was—and still somewhat is—The Sound of Music seems like an anomaly. But at the time it was more like the solid rock of reassuring constancy that masses clung to as waters of bewildering change rose all around them, a three-hour oasis of clean living and cheerful melody that wouldn't go away—no matter how many antiwar protesting, unisex...
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'The Sound of Music' Offers Simpler Times, Strange Complications
Dennis Harvey
Dec 3, 2010'The Sound of Music' stretches its music empire into a new century with popular sing-alongs and a new home-entertainment release. When we look back at the 1960s, the phenomenon that was—and still somewhat is—The Sound of Music seems like an anomaly. But at the time it was more like the solid rock of reassuring constancy that masses clung to as waters of bewildering change rose all around them, a three-hour oasis of clean living and cheerful melody that wouldn't go away—no matter how many antiwar protesting, unisex...
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October 26, 2010
'The Freebie'
Oct 29, 2010Katie Aselton stars in her heartfelt and humorous directorial debut as one half of a married couple struggling with fading desire. They decide that a ‘freebie,’ a guilt-free night with a stranger, may serve as a sexual reawakening and help save their relationship. More at landmarktheatres.com.
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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
SF Docfest Still Stranger than Fiction
Matt Sussman
Oct 15, 2010A critic offers not-to-be-missed entries in the ninth annual SF Docfest.
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SF Docfest Still Stranger than Fiction
Matt Sussman
Oct 15, 2010A critic offers not-to-be-missed entries in the ninth annual SF Docfest.
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October 21, 2010
SF Docfest Still Stranger than Fiction
Matt Sussman
Oct 15, 2010A critic offers not-to-be-missed entries in the ninth annual SF Docfest.
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Home
Essential SF: 'Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter,' 'Paulina,' 'First Person Plural'
Michael Fox
Oct 6, 2010The Bay Area's best first-person documentaries take us through a lens, darkly.
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In Depth
Essential SF: 'Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter,' 'Paulina,' 'First Person Plural'
Michael Fox
Oct 6, 2010The Bay Area's best first-person documentaries take us through a lens, darkly.
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October 7, 2010
Essential SF: 'Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter,' 'Paulina,' 'First Person Plural'
Michael Fox
Oct 6, 2010The Bay Area's best first-person documentaries take us through a lens, darkly.
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Home
Tushinski Brings San Francisco into 'Dirty Poole'
Michael Fox
Sep 15, 2010A filmmaker revisits '70s gay erotic life in the work of Wakefield Poole.
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In Production
Tushinski Brings San Francisco into 'Dirty Poole'
Michael Fox
Sep 15, 2010A filmmaker revisits '70s gay erotic life in the work of Wakefield Poole.
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September 16, 2010
Tushinski Brings San Francisco into 'Dirty Poole'
Michael Fox
Sep 15, 2010A filmmaker revisits '70s gay erotic life in the work of Wakefield Poole.
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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
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
Rubio Rolls Cameras in 'Too Perfect' Orinda
Michael Fox
Aug 18, 2010Drawing from reality, and yoga practice, an independent production team catalogues childhood's end.
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Rubio Rolls Cameras in 'Too Perfect' Orinda
Michael Fox
Aug 18, 2010Drawing from reality, and yoga practice, an independent production team catalogues childhood's end.
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07-21-2010
Lisa Cholodenko Makes High Art of Family Hijinx
Dennis Harvey
Jul 16, 2010A festival and awards-buzz favorite since its January Sundance premiere, The Kids Are All Right has real depth and drama yet is largely comedic in tone.
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Lisa Cholodenko Makes High Art of Family Hijinx
Dennis Harvey
Jul 16, 2010A festival and awards-buzz favorite since its January Sundance premiere, The Kids Are All Right has real depth and drama yet is largely comedic in tone.
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Reviews
Lisa Cholodenko Makes High Art of Family Hijinx
Dennis Harvey
Jul 16, 2010A festival and awards-buzz favorite since its January Sundance premiere, The Kids Are All Right has real depth and drama yet is largely comedic in tone.
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Festivals
7th Heaven: Another Hole in the Head
Matt Sussman
Jul 7, 2010SF Indiefest unveils its 7th annual showcase of the wildest and weirdest in independently produced sci-fi, horror and fantasy.
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7th Heaven: Another Hole in the Head
Matt Sussman
Jul 7, 2010SF Indiefest unveils its 7th annual showcase of the wildest and weirdest in independently produced sci-fi, horror and fantasy.
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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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Q & A
Polk Street Lures Boswell's 'Stranger'
Michael Fox
Jun 23, 2010Scott Boswell’s marvelous debut feature, The Stranger In Us, plays out on Polk Street and in the Tenderloin, far from the oft-photographed glamour spots of San Francisco.
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Documentary
The Story Beyond the Story
Fernanda Rossi
Jun 11, 2010Screens are getting smaller. From the cineplex to TV to the computer or iPhone screen, surfaces have shrunk but creativity and resourcefulness have expanded.
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News & Blogs
SF Chronicle: 'Frameline film festival to showcase 219 films'
May 26, 2010Frameliine 34 presents a Beat movement mini-theme and 10 gay-themed films from South America.
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Reviews
Stevenson's Oddball Scandinavian Cinema
Dennis Harvey
May 21, 2010Former San Franciscan Jack Stevenson returns from Denmark to promote the U.S. publication of Scandinavian Blue: The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Reviews
'Fish Tank's Essex truth
Dennis Harvey
Jan 28, 2010Writer-director Andrea Arnold created a stir with her first feature Red Road, but her new film is arguably an even stronger work.
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In Production
Nani Walker's 'Other Nature' At 15,000 Feet
Michael Fox
Jan 5, 2010Nani Sahra Walker went to Nepal for seven months, and returned with a one-hour documentary. OK, a rough cut. No big deal? Enlightenment guaranteed, indeed.
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Reviews
The Turn-off Sex Cinema of Koji Wakamatsu
Dennis Harvey
Oct 16, 2009Probably no one pushed the artistic carte blanche of "pink" films further—at least into the realm of serious political engagement—than the Japanese auteur.
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Reviews
Josef von Sternberg Gem
Dennis Harvey
Aug 12, 2009Josef von Sternberg's The Salvation Hunters caused a small sensation within the industry when it appeared, and is visually assured time capsule of urban poverty.
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Reviews
'Thirst' and the Vampire Genre Still Bleeding
Dennis Harvey
Aug 7, 2009Vampires are still the It Ghoul of our cultural moment and South Korean film Thirst is as precisely crafted as it is gleefully over-the-top in content both carnal and carnivorous.
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In Production
J.P. Allen and the Landscape of Love
Michael Fox
Jul 14, 2009J.P. Allen and Janis DeLucia Allen's latest imagining, Sex and Imagining, is a two-character piece thick with dialogue and psychological undercurrents.
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In Production
J.P. Allen and the Landscape of Love
Michael Fox
Jul 14, 2009J.P. Allen and Janis DeLucia Allen's latest imagining, Sex and Imagining, is a two-character piece thick with dialogue and psychological undercurrents.
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Screenwriting
Beyond Words: Comedy That Sticks
Lisa Rosenberg
Jul 7, 2009What's the key to writing comedy that sticks with us, despite perhaps an overblown story line or how lost and low-down the characters seem at the time?
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Q & A
Kutner and Goldstein on 'The Snake'
Michael Fox
Jul 6, 2009Adam Goldstein and Eric Kutner discuss their debut, The Snake, an unapologetically impertinent, made-in-S.F, comedy that marks its creators as resourceful wiseguys.
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In Production
The horror, the horror: 'Tweaker With an Axe'
Michael Fox
Jul 1, 2009An interview with Flynn Witmeyer about his debut feature Tweaker With an Axe, and the desire to make genre films—horror or sci-fi or fantasy—that incorporate gay and lesbian characters.
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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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Reviews
'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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Reviews
Strand Releasing Turns 20
Dennis Harvey
Feb 26, 2009Twenty years after its founding, Strand Releasing remains an active, irreplaceable and distinctive presence on the U.S. distribution scene.
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In Production
Leban and Szajko's Gay Marriage Doc
Michael Fox
Feb 18, 2009The tentatively titled Winter of Love uses Prop. 8 as a framework for a look at the increasing acceptance of gay marriage.
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Reviews
The Year in Film: What did Women Want?
Matt Sussman
Jan 1, 2009Matt Sussman draws conclusions about women and Hollywood from three big women-oriented films of 2008.
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Reviews
Season's Gleanings, a Holiday Preview
Dennis Harvey
Dec 15, 2008Dennis Harvey reviews some of 2008's year-end sobering dramas.
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News & Blogs
Sundance Harvests an Eclectic Crop of Local Films
Michael Fox
Dec 11, 2008Bay Area filmmakers represented at Sundance.
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Reviews
Global Lens on Link TV
Judy Stone
Nov 20, 2008Global Film Initiative's Global Lens series offers a regular spot in your home theater for edgy world-cinema narratives don't often get a place at local multiplexes.
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Reviews
Another Ingmar Bergman in 'Monika'
Dennis Harvey
Nov 6, 2008A newly restored print of Bergman's Monika, which deals with underage, guiltlessly unfaithful femininity, plays the Red Vic.
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Q & A
Jack Stevenson on 'The Superstars Next Door'
Matt Sussman
Oct 6, 2008Freelance curator and film fanatic Jack Stevenson brings grainy reels documenting live, nude girls to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
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Q & A
James Savoca's 'Around June' Casts Spell Around Potrero Hill
Michael Fox
Sep 28, 2008It used to be standard for San Francisco to be portrayed in movies as a magical, mythical, and slightly mysterious catalyst for transformation.
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Q & A
Parvez Sharma and 'A Jihad for Love'
Judy Stone
Aug 14, 2008Sharma might never have made his film had he not felt guilty about causing unhappiness to his dying mother by telling her he was homosexual.
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Q & A
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
Hard Look at China in 'Blind Mountain'
Judy Stone
Jul 11, 2008Li Yang speaks about commercial pressures in Chinese film and the story behind Blind Mountain.
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Reviews
Swinging '60s suburbs in 'Viva'
Dennis Harvey
Jul 8, 2008Viva's cautionary tale is aptly encapsuled by the poster line: 'They were housewives seeking kicks, in a world of swingers, orgies, booze, and sin.'
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Reviews
Swinging '60s suburbs in 'Viva'
Dennis Harvey
Jul 8, 2008Viva's cautionary tale is aptly encapsuled by the poster line: 'They were housewives seeking kicks, in a world of swingers, orgies, booze, and sin.'
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Festivals
Frameline's New Lesson Plan
Lynn Rapoport
Jul 1, 2008Critic's notebook: Marriage changes everything at the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.
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Reviews
The World of 'Derek' at Frameline32
Max Goldberg
Jun 25, 2008A documentary tribute to Derek Jarman, Isaac Julien's Derek does not seek to enlarge or complicate the filmmaker's legacy so much as succor its loss.
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Reviews
Critic's Notebook: Hole Head, Week One
Dennis Harvey
Jun 17, 2008Dennis Harvey covers the first week of low-budget geeks, weirdos and gore on display at the Another Hole in the Head Festival.
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Reviews
The List: Michael Lumpkin Looks Back
Dennis Harvey
Jun 13, 2008Michael Lumpkin's mini-retrospective of features that highlight some personal favorites that made waves at the Frameline Festival (and sometimes in the larger cinematic world).
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Reviews
Review: 'Surfwise'
Dennis Harvey
Jun 10, 2008In 'Surfwise', documentarian Doug Pray examines the eccentric Paskowitz clan, whose patriarch and nine children have been legends in the surfing world for decades.
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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
'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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Q & A
Johnny Symons and "Ask Not"
Michael Fox
Apr 12, 2008East Bay filmmaker Johnny Symons' documentary "Ask Not" moves beyond stereotypes to examine what experience is really like for gays and lesbians in the military.
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Reviews
"Shelter"
Dennis Harvey
Mar 24, 2008Writer/director Jonah Markowitz's Shelter is a romantic gay surfer that more than earns its spurs in terms of real-world credibility and psychology.
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Reviews
Ira Sachs on "Married Life"
Dennis Harvey
Mar 11, 2008Ira Sachs' third feature Married Life is both a crime thriller and a satire of complacency and intrigue in the restless climate of Eisenhower-era suburbia.
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Festivals
Noise Pop Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Feb 26, 2008In addition to practically every extant band you’d want to see, an art exhibit, and comedy shows, there are movies at Noise Pop.
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Q & A
Emiko Omori and Wendy Slick's "Passion & Power"
Susan Gerhard
Feb 18, 2008“Passion & Power, the Technology of Orgasm” gives Rachel Maines’ entertaining academic book on the subject a new life onscreen.
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Q & A
Emiko Omori and Wendy Slick's "Passion & Power"
Susan Gerhard
Feb 18, 2008“Passion & Power, the Technology of Orgasm” gives Rachel Maines’ entertaining academic book on the subject a new life onscreen.
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Festivals
Sundance, In Stitches
Dennis Harvey
Feb 1, 2008Sundance is like being in a car accident: Everything seems to be in slow-motion, but later you can hardly remember what happened.
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Q & A
"Teeth" Actor Has a Sundance Flashback
Jason Guerrasio
Jan 21, 2008Mitchell Lichtenstein's directorial debut has made Jess Weixler the newest "it girl" on the indie scene.
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Reviews
Reviews: "Walk Hard"; "Charlie Wilson's War"
Dennis Harvey
Dec 18, 2007Judd Apatow has come to so dominate American comedy that I often find myself thinking, "If only this movie had been written by Apatow..."
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Reviews
Five Great Skate Features
Justin Juul
Dec 7, 2007In honor of Gus Van Sant's new film, 'Paranoid Park,' five skate films that matter to the skate junkie, and three honorable mentions.
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Reviews
"Hannah Takes the Stairs"
Dennis Harvey
Nov 27, 2007A perfect example of the emerging genre of improv-based, digitally shot, minimally budgeted seriocomedies about twentysomethings stumbling through, you know, relationship stuff.
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Reviews
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
Dennis Harvey
Oct 2, 2007Slow your rhythms down to this film's idiosyncratic tempo, and you'll get a striking, authentic-feeling epic that's often rivetingly tense.
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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
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Dennis Harvey
Aug 16, 2007S.F.Ôs Italian Cultural Institute is launching an extensive if not quite exhaustive retrospective of Pasolini's features.
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Reviews
"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
"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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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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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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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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Q & A
Dennis Nyback and "Bad Bugs Bunny"
Michael Guillen
Jun 6, 2007"SF Indiefest: Gets Animated," piggybacking on the 4th Annual Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, co-presents an animation program with the popular archivist.
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Reviews
Fred Astaire, "Also Dances..."
Dennis Harvey
May 31, 2007SFMOMA offers plenty of chances to appreciate Astaire's feather-light charm this month in Also Dances: The Films of Fred Astaire.
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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
Dead Channels : The San Francisco Festival of Fantastic Film
Dennis Harvey
Apr 19, 2007Taste a bit of the vintage grindhouse experience at the last of Dead Channels' Month of Sleazy Sundays triple bill of under-the-radar movies.
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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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Reviews
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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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
Amy Berg's "Deliver Us From Evil"
indieWIRE
Oct 23, 2006Segueing from network television news to documentary features, Amy Berg makes her debut with a shocking, powerful film about pedophile priest Oliver Grady.
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Q & A
John Cameron Mitchell's long "Shortbus" ride
Susan Gerhard
Oct 2, 2006John Cameron Mitchell's latest film: A bright, sexually explicit ensemble piece featuring American friends and acquaintances who might have made good primetime TV.
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Q & A
John Cameron Mitchell's long "Shortbus" ride
Susan Gerhard
Oct 2, 2006John Cameron Mitchell's latest film: A bright, sexually explicit ensemble piece featuring American friends and acquaintances who might have made good primetime TV.
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Q & A
MPAA in Sights of This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Michael Fox
Sep 12, 2006Filmmaker Kirby Dick talks about censorship, and discrimination against independent films.
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Reviews
Francois Ozon, Mortal
B. Ruby Rich
Aug 2, 2006Ozon's Time to Leave demonstrates how central he's become to European cinema, and reminds us that he's among gay world cinema's most accomplished writer/directors.
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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
Larry Clark's New Kids on the Block
Glen Helfand
Jul 3, 2006SF360 spoke with Clark about Impaled, in which his exploration of adolescent mores reaches in discomfiting, yet fascinating new directions.
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Q & A
Larry Clark's New Kids on the Block
Glen Helfand
Jul 3, 2006SF360 spoke with Clark about Impaled, in which his exploration of adolescent mores reaches in discomfiting, yet fascinating new directions.
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Reviews
We Want Our "Dykeback Mountain"
Staff
Jun 27, 2006Conference discusses the difficulties for lesbian features to get made and do well at the box office.
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Q & A
Matthew Barney, "Drawing Restraint"
Glen Helfand
Jun 19, 2006Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Barney talks to SF360 about his film and gallery project.
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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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News & Blogs
Zero Hour
Carrie Lozano
Jun 6, 2006Carrie Lozano talks about her inspiration to make Reporter Zero, a documentary on Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts, who documented the early years of the AIDS epidemic.
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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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Q & A
Zahedi and Field on I Am a Sex Addict
Susan Gerhard
Apr 4, 2006Director Caveh Zahedi and his partner, Amanda Field, speak about turning their personal lives over to the public with I Am a Sex Addict.
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Q & A
Nothing and Everything Sacred in Reygadas' Films
Susan Gerhard
Mar 27, 2006Filmmaker Carlos Reygadas discusses his life and work upon the release of his second film, Battle in Heaven.
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Q & A
Nothing and Everything Sacred in Reygadas' Films
Susan Gerhard
Mar 27, 2006Filmmaker Carlos Reygadas discusses his life and work upon the release of his second film, Battle in Heaven.
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News & Blogs
A JT LeRoy Reader
Susan Gerhard
Mar 23, 2006The List: How JT LeRoy went from fiction to fact in the media.
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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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