• November 10, 2010
  
  

  ‘Carlos’ continues at Kabuki

  Nov 10, 2010

  Olivier 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.

  
• August 24, 2010
  
  

  SFFS Screen: 'The Two Escobars'

  Aug 30, 2010

  In 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.

  
• August 19 2010
  
  

  Back with a 'Vengeance'

  Matt Sussman
  Aug 13, 2010

  Johnnie To delivers on his trademark themes with 'Vengeance.'

  
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  Back with a 'Vengeance'

  Matt Sussman
  Aug 13, 2010

  Johnnie To delivers on his trademark themes with 'Vengeance.'

  
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  Back with a 'Vengeance'

  Matt Sussman
  Aug 13, 2010

  Johnnie To delivers on his trademark themes with 'Vengeance.'

  
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  Lucrecia Martel and "The Headless Woman"

  Gail Spilsbury
  Sep 18, 2009

  To 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, 2009

  The 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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  Suspense, Stillness and Beauty in 'Three Monkeys'

  Dennis Harvey
  Jun 26, 2009

  Turkey may be lonely, but it is indeed beautiful in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys.

  
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  Lee Isaac Chung on 'Munyurangabo'

  Elizabeth Rader
  Jun 12, 2009

  One 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, 2009

  Fados, 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, 2009

  An 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, 2009

  Twenty 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, 2009

  A 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, 2009

  In 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, 2008

  Veteran 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, 2008

  When Wind Man appeared on the SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas' schedule, moral crisis ensued.

  
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  'Days and Clouds' Finds Changes in the Weather

  Dennis Harvey
  Aug 26, 2008

  Economic 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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  SFFS Screen's 'Hank and Mike'

  Pam Grady
  Jul 3, 2008

  Thomas Michael remembers well the birth of Hank and Mike, the titular blue-collar Easter bunnies in director Matthiew Klinck's absurdist workplace comedy.