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March 1, 2011
SFFS Screen: ‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’
Mar 8, 2011Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s much anticipated ‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,' a dramatic feature that tells the story of a dying man who visits the incarnations of his past lives in his final days, remains at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas for a few days. More at sffs.org.
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March 8, 2011
SFFS Screen: ‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’
Mar 8, 2011Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s much anticipated ‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,' a dramatic feature that tells the story of a dying man who visits the incarnations of his past lives in his final days, remains at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas for a few days. More at sffs.org.
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'Boonmee's' Magic Lights Up SFFS Screen
Dennis Harvey
Mar 4, 2011Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns to the jungle, and full-on magic realism, with 'Uncle Boonmee.'
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March 10, 2011
'Boonmee's' Magic Lights Up SFFS Screen
Dennis Harvey
Mar 4, 2011Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns to the jungle, and full-on magic realism, with 'Uncle Boonmee.'
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March 3, 2011
'Boonmee's' Magic Lights Up SFFS Screen
Dennis Harvey
Mar 4, 2011Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns to the jungle, and full-on magic realism, with 'Uncle Boonmee.'
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'Boonmee's' Magic Lights Up SFFS Screen
Dennis Harvey
Mar 4, 2011Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns to the jungle, and full-on magic realism, with 'Uncle Boonmee.'
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'Boonmee's' Magic Lights Up SFFS Screen
Dennis Harvey
Mar 4, 2011Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns to the jungle, and full-on magic realism, with 'Uncle Boonmee.'
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March 10, 2011
'Boonmee's' Magic Lights Up SFFS Screen
Dennis Harvey
Mar 4, 2011Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns to the jungle, and full-on magic realism, with 'Uncle Boonmee.'
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March 3, 2011
'Boonmee's' Magic Lights Up SFFS Screen
Dennis Harvey
Mar 4, 2011Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns to the jungle, and full-on magic realism, with 'Uncle Boonmee.'
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'Boonmee's' Magic Lights Up SFFS Screen
Dennis Harvey
Mar 4, 2011Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns to the jungle, and full-on magic realism, with 'Uncle Boonmee.'
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February 22, 2011
SFFS Screen: 'How I Ended This Summer'
Feb 25, 2011SFFS Screen presents Alexei Popogrebsky’s, ‘How I Ended This Summer,’ a psychological drama about two men's relationship over a summer of working at a meteorological station in the Arctic Circle. The film plays at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas. More at sffs.org.
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Arctic 'Summer' Story Chills Screen
Dennis Harvey
Feb 25, 2011SFFS Screen's 'How I Ended This Summer' is a taut drama set in the Arctic.
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Arctic 'Summer' Story Chills Screen
Dennis Harvey
Feb 25, 2011SFFS Screen's 'How I Ended This Summer' is a taut drama set in the Arctic.
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February 15, 2011
SFFS Screen: 'And Everything Is Going Fine'
Feb 18, 2011Steven Soderbergh’s 2010 film pays biographical tribute to performer Spalding Gray, beloved for his monologues of the late 1970s and early ’80s and last seen on the Staten Island Ferry in 2004. ‘And Everything Is Going Fine’ plays at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas. More at sffs.org.
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'Come Undone' Disrupts Domesticity
Dennis Harvey
Feb 11, 2011Neither tragedy nor grand romance, 'Come Undone' captures an evocative everyday mess.
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'Come Undone' Disrupts Domesticity
Dennis Harvey
Feb 11, 2011Neither tragedy nor grand romance, 'Come Undone' captures an evocative everyday mess.
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February 8, 2011
SFFS Screen: 'Come Undone'
Feb 11, 2011SFFS Screen offers ‘Come Undone,’ Silvio Soldini’s recent dramatic film featuring Alba Rohrwacher of ‘I Am Love.’ The film examines the reasons behind and subsequent emotional effects of a couple's extramarital affair. The film plays at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas. More at sffs.org.
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'Come Undone' Disrupts Domesticity
Dennis Harvey
Feb 11, 2011Neither tragedy nor grand romance, 'Come Undone' captures an evocative everyday mess.
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'Come Undone' Disrupts Domesticity
Dennis Harvey
Feb 11, 2011Neither tragedy nor grand romance, 'Come Undone' captures an evocative everyday mess.
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February 10, 2011
SFFS Screen Returns with New Suleiman
Max Goldberg
Feb 4, 2011Elia Suleiman’s 'The Time That Remains' recalls his parents’ Nazareth.
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SFFS Screen Returns with New Suleiman
Max Goldberg
Feb 4, 2011Elia Suleiman’s 'The Time That Remains' recalls his parents’ Nazareth.
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SFFS Screen Returns with New Suleiman
Max Goldberg
Feb 4, 2011Elia Suleiman’s 'The Time That Remains' recalls his parents’ Nazareth.
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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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February 10, 2011
SFFS Screen Returns with New Suleiman
Max Goldberg
Feb 4, 2011Elia Suleiman’s 'The Time That Remains' recalls his parents’ Nazareth.
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SFFS Screen Returns with New Suleiman
Max Goldberg
Feb 4, 2011Elia Suleiman’s 'The Time That Remains' recalls his parents’ Nazareth.
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SFFS Screen Returns with New Suleiman
Max Goldberg
Feb 4, 2011Elia Suleiman’s 'The Time That Remains' recalls his parents’ Nazareth.
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November 10, 2010
‘Carlos’ continues at Kabuki
Nov 10, 2010Olivier Assayas’s five-and-a-half hour masterpiece about Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal continues on SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas. A 15-minute intermission divides the epic. More at sffs.org.
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November 2, 2010
SFFS Screen: 'Carlos'
Nov 9, 2010Olivier Assayas's five-and-a-half hour epic (with a 15-minute intermission) about Venezuelan terrorist Carlos The Jackal is being regarded as the director’s masterpiece. ‘Carlos’ plays for a week at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas. More at sffs.org.
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September 7, 2010
SFFS Screen: 'Change of Plans'
Sep 10, 2010Danièle Thompson's film offers comedy from the lives of fortysomethings on a post-dinner party collision course.
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'Change of Plans' Finds Humor in Mid-Life
Dennis Harvey
Sep 9, 2010'Change of Plans' charts an eventful year in the lives of a dozen or so disparate Parisians.
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'Change of Plans' Finds Humor in Mid-Life
Dennis Harvey
Sep 9, 2010'Change of Plans' charts an eventful year in the lives of a dozen or so disparate Parisians.
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September 16, 2010
'Change of Plans' Finds Humor in Mid-Life
Dennis Harvey
Sep 9, 2010'Change of Plans' charts an eventful year in the lives of a dozen or so disparate Parisians.
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September 9 2010
'Change of Plans' Finds Humor in Mid-Life
Dennis Harvey
Sep 9, 2010'Change of Plans' charts an eventful year in the lives of a dozen or so disparate Parisians.
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'Change of Plans' Finds Humor in Mid-Life
Dennis Harvey
Sep 9, 2010'Change of Plans' charts an eventful year in the lives of a dozen or so disparate Parisians.
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'Change of Plans' Finds Humor in Mid-Life
Dennis Harvey
Sep 9, 2010'Change of Plans' charts an eventful year in the lives of a dozen or so disparate Parisians.
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September 16, 2010
'Change of Plans' Finds Humor in Mid-Life
Dennis Harvey
Sep 9, 2010'Change of Plans' charts an eventful year in the lives of a dozen or so disparate Parisians.
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September 9 2010
'Change of Plans' Finds Humor in Mid-Life
Dennis Harvey
Sep 9, 2010'Change of Plans' charts an eventful year in the lives of a dozen or so disparate Parisians.
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August 31, 2010
SFFS Screen: 'Dogtooth'
Sep 3, 2010In Yorgos Lanthimos' bizarre and enchanting world, children are ready to leave their walled-in, hyper-protective homes only when their 'dogtooth' comes out. Presented on the SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki.
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A Family Implodes in Biting 'Dogtooth'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 3, 2010A Greek film incriminates the viewer.
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A Family Implodes in Biting 'Dogtooth'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 3, 2010A Greek film incriminates the viewer.
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August 24, 2010
SFFS Screen: 'The Two Escobars'
Aug 30, 2010In Jeff and Michael Zimbalist's documentary, sports, drugs, money, and the peaks and valleys of success and failure are intertwined by the parallell lives of Escobars Andres and Pablo, one an assassinated soccer star, the other a government-hunted drug lord. It's presented on the SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki.
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August 17, 2010
SFFS Screen: 'Army of Crime'
Aug 20, 2010SFFS Screen presents Robert Guédiguian’s 'Army of Crime,' a historical drama that follows a cell of Jewish and communist resistance fighters led by French Armenian poet Missak Manouchian and his wife Mélinée.
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August 26 ,2010
'Army of Crime' Revisits the Not-Always French Resistance
Max Goldberg
Aug 20, 2010'Army of Crime’s' portraits in heroism remain admirably restrained, unlike so many Resistance fantasies.
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'Army of Crime' Revisits the Not-Always French Resistance
Max Goldberg
Aug 20, 2010'Army of Crime’s' portraits in heroism remain admirably restrained, unlike so many Resistance fantasies.
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'Army of Crime' Revisits the Not-Always French Resistance
Max Goldberg
Aug 20, 2010'Army of Crime’s' portraits in heroism remain admirably restrained, unlike so many Resistance fantasies.
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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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Back with a 'Vengeance'
Matt Sussman
Aug 13, 2010Johnnie To delivers on his trademark themes with 'Vengeance.'
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August 10 2010
SFFS Screen: 'Vengeance'
Aug 13, 2010Actor and legendary French rocker Johnny Hallyday sets the brooding, stylish tone in this cold dish of a film served by director Johnny To on SFFS Screen.
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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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Back with a 'Vengeance'
Matt Sussman
Aug 13, 2010Johnnie To delivers on his trademark themes with 'Vengeance.'
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08-05-2010
Alamar Re-opens SFFS Screen
Max Goldberg
Jul 30, 2010The engrossing seascapes of 'Alamar' bring a deeper understanding of a father-son bond.
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Alamar Re-opens SFFS Screen
Max Goldberg
Jul 30, 2010The engrossing seascapes of 'Alamar' bring a deeper understanding of a father-son bond.
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Alamar Re-opens SFFS Screen
Max Goldberg
Jul 30, 2010The engrossing seascapes of 'Alamar' bring a deeper understanding of a father-son bond.
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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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Lucrecia Martel and "The Headless Woman"
Gail Spilsbury
Sep 18, 2009To viewers of Lucrecia Martel's earlier work, The Headless Woman is the crowning achievement; the filmmaker speaks about her vision of the world.
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High Drama in High school in 'The Beautiful Person'
Max Goldberg
Sep 4, 2009The story of teenagers living like a savage, roaming pack of animals, The Beautiful Person locates a classic in a contemporary setting.
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'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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An Ample Display of Tilda Swinton's Edge
Dennis Harvey
Jul 10, 2009Tilda Swinton's edge of riskiness is on ample display in Julia, a new film by French director Erick Zonca.
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Suspense, Stillness and Beauty in 'Three Monkeys'
Dennis Harvey
Jun 26, 2009Turkey may be lonely, but it is indeed beautiful in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys.
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Iron Curtain Call in the Poland of 'Katyn'
Dennis Harvey
Jun 19, 2009Katyn is a sizable period saga about a tragic, still-controversial chapter in Poland's 20th-century history, one with particular resonance for Andrzej Wadja.
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Q & A
Lee Isaac Chung on 'Munyurangabo'
Elizabeth Rader
Jun 12, 2009One can't help but think about the concept of cinematic language, as well as spoken language, when talking with Munyurangabo filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung.
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'Fados' finds Saura on his toes
Dennis Harvey
Jun 4, 2009Fados, about a Portuguese musical genre, reveals Carlos Saura as an effortless master at weaving together disparate performances.
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'Examined Life' Puts Ideas into Action
Dennis Harvey
Mar 6, 2009An engaging documentary sampler of nine leading contemporary theorists, interviewed in settings that one way or another in real world terms illustrate (or contrast with) the concepts they discuss.
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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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'Just Another Love Story' Offers Shock Treatment
Dennis Harvey
Feb 17, 2009A title like this is its own disclaimer, hinting there will be nothing "normal," or very loving, about this story.
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Stephane Gauger on 'Owl and the Sparrow'
Judy Stone
Feb 9, 2009In this fable-like movie, an indomitable young orphan finds friendship with a lonely flight attendant and a teen-age caretaker of elephants.
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SFFS Screens 'Delwende'
Dennis Harvey
Oct 28, 2008Veteran Burkina Faso director S. Pierre Yameogo's new film shows an isolated society still vulnerable to superstition.
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SFFS Screens 'Delwende'
Dennis Harvey
Oct 28, 2008Veteran Burkina Faso director S. Pierre Yameogo's new film shows an isolated society still vulnerable to superstition.
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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
'Days and Clouds' Finds Changes in the Weather
Dennis Harvey
Aug 26, 2008Economic troubles reveal the true depths of a couple's long-taken-for-granted bond in a film by Italian director Silvio Soldini.
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'Hats Off' Fascinated With 93-Years-Young Actress
Lynn Rapoport
Aug 21, 2008A local filmmaker looks at Mimi Weddell, a perennial bit part-player with a jaw-dropping collection of hats and endless show biz energy.
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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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Q & A
SFFS Screen's 'Hank and Mike'
Pam Grady
Jul 3, 2008Thomas Michael remembers well the birth of Hank and Mike, the titular blue-collar Easter bunnies in director Matthiew Klinck's absurdist workplace comedy.
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SFFS Screen's 'Hank and Mike'
Pam Grady
Jul 3, 2008Thomas Michael remembers well the birth of Hank and Mike, the titular blue-collar Easter bunnies in director Matthiew Klinck's absurdist workplace comedy.
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Reviews
New Rohmer on SFFS Screen
Max Goldberg
Jun 24, 2008Eric Rohmer's latest "moral tale," The Romance of Astrea and Cèladon, filled with evanescent beauty, plays as part of SFFS Screen.
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Hong Sang Soo on the SFFS Screen
Adam Hartzell
Jun 18, 2008Woman on the Beach is a wonderful introduction to South Korean director Hong Sang Soo's films, in large part due to its subtle comedy.
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News & Blogs
SFFS Screen at Sundance Kabuki
Robert Avila
Jun 12, 2008The SF Film Society is optimistic that its year-round screen at the Sundance Kabuki will contribute to the spectrum of films in Bay Area theaters.
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