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Deadlines
Funding: TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund
Oct 10, 2011The TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund supports innovative film and video artists who are living or working in Mexico, Central and South America and working independently in their efforts to reach a larger audience. ELIGIBILITY: Submissions must be animation, documentary and/or hybrid feature-length films with an intended length of at least 70 minutes. Submissions must be in production or post-production and must not have aired on any form of television, been screened publicly or have been distributed in theaters or via the internet. Projects may be in any language or dialect. Applicants must be over 18 years old. Student films and stand-alone short films are not eligible for submission. $25 entry fee. AWARDS: Last year, the Fund administered $10,000 grants to four selected films. In addition to funding, each grantee will receive a U.S. based advisor and guidance from the Tribeca Film Institute. DEADLINE: October 10, 2011. WEBSITE: tribecafilminstitute.org/filmmakers/latin_fund/.
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‘Aurora’ Startles, Subtly
Dennis Harvey
Sep 15, 2011Unhurried, character-driven story demonstrates the filmmaking finesse that’s brought Romanian cinema to the fore. Though it had made an occasional international impression before—notably with a long history of Cannes entries and prize winners—few could have anticipated the splash Romanian cinema would create in the last few years. Or that the attention paid it would bring a number of often long, difficult, obtuse movies out of their usual habitat (the festival circuit) into theaters around the world. The collapse of Communism and execution of Romania's quarter-century dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 freed the filmmaking industry from strict governmental control and propagandic content. But it took until the middle...
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September 15, 2011
‘Aurora’ Startles, Subtly
Dennis Harvey
Sep 15, 2011Unhurried, character-driven story demonstrates the filmmaking finesse that’s brought Romanian cinema to the fore. Though it had made an occasional international impression before—notably with a long history of Cannes entries and prize winners—few could have anticipated the splash Romanian cinema would create in the last few years. Or that the attention paid it would bring a number of often long, difficult, obtuse movies out of their usual habitat (the festival circuit) into theaters around the world. The collapse of Communism and execution of Romania's quarter-century dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 freed the filmmaking industry from strict governmental control and propagandic content. But it took until the middle...
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August 4, 2011
In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'
Jackson Scarlett
Aug 2, 2011Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.
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In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'
Jackson Scarlett
Aug 2, 2011Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.
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Reviews
In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'
Jackson Scarlett
Aug 2, 2011Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.
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August 4, 2011
Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
Judy Stone
Aug 1, 2011Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.
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Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
Judy Stone
Aug 1, 2011Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.
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Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
Judy Stone
Aug 1, 2011Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.
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On Kickstarting a Campaign to Bring Back the Parkway
Kim Nunley
May 20, 2011A local fan of a local cinema has big dreams for his favorite, now-defunct East Bay movie-theater.
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May 26, 2011
On Kickstarting a Campaign to Bring Back the Parkway
Kim Nunley
May 20, 2011A local fan of a local cinema has big dreams for his favorite, now-defunct East Bay movie-theater.
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Q & A
On Kickstarting a Campaign to Bring Back the Parkway
Kim Nunley
May 20, 2011A local fan of a local cinema has big dreams for his favorite, now-defunct East Bay movie-theater.
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April 12, 2011
‘Henry’s Crime’
Apr 15, 2011Keanu Reeves, James Caan and Vera Farmiga star in Malcolm Venvile’s ‘Henry’s Crime,’ which opens at Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco, Landmark’s Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley and other Bay Area theaters. The film was an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival. More at landmarktheatres.com.
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December 23, 2010
Film 2010: Think Globally, View Locally
Adam Hartzell
Dec 20, 2010Why one local cineaste has made a resolution to support his local theater, the Bridge.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: Think Globally, View Locally
Adam Hartzell
Dec 20, 2010Why one local cineaste has made a resolution to support his local theater, the Bridge.
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Film 2010: Think Globally, View Locally
Adam Hartzell
Dec 20, 2010Why one local cineaste has made a resolution to support his local theater, the Bridge.
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In Depth
Film 2010: Think Globally, View Locally
Adam Hartzell
Dec 20, 2010Why one local cineaste has made a resolution to support his local theater, the Bridge.
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'Client 9' Reclaims Spitzer
Dennis Harvey
Nov 18, 2010'Client 9' makes the case that Wall Street, not women, brought Eliot Spitzer down. This month commenced with the most stellar edition yet of what's become America's favorite political pasttime, a game we call Out with the (Sorta) Old, In with the (Kinda) New. Payback was especially directed at the current administration's failure to get the economy back to booming. Yet as one of the year's biggest documentaries, Charles Ferguson's Inside Job, noted, conservative politicos and their allies were very much in on the policies that got our collective piggy bank broken and looted in the first place. Though it can certainly stand on its own merits, Client 9 (which opens at local theaters this...
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November 18, 2010
'Client 9' Reclaims Spitzer
Dennis Harvey
Nov 18, 2010'Client 9' makes the case that Wall Street, not women, brought Eliot Spitzer down. This month commenced with the most stellar edition yet of what's become America's favorite political pasttime, a game we call Out with the (Sorta) Old, In with the (Kinda) New. Payback was especially directed at the current administration's failure to get the economy back to booming. Yet as one of the year's biggest documentaries, Charles Ferguson's Inside Job, noted, conservative politicos and their allies were very much in on the policies that got our collective piggy bank broken and looted in the first place. Though it can certainly stand on its own merits, Client 9 (which opens at local theaters this...
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'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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October 7, 2010
'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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Festivals
Toronto's New Lightbox Offers Transcendence
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 16, 2010A festival transforms itself and transports audiences with a visionary new theater.
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Toronto's New Lightbox Offers Transcendence
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 16, 2010A festival transforms itself and transports audiences with a visionary new theater.
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September 16, 2010
Toronto's New Lightbox Offers Transcendence
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 16, 2010A festival transforms itself and transports audiences with a visionary new theater.
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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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News & Blogs
KQED Forum: 'Endangered Cinemas'
Aug 25, 2010The Clay theater in San Francisco's Pacific Heights became the latest neighborhood movie theater to announce it would go dark. Wednesday's KQED Forum offered multiple takes on the fight to save the city's remaining historic single-screen theaters; listen to the podcast here.
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08-12-10
Sausalito Film Festival Views New Horizons
Adam Hartzell
Aug 12, 2010Run, walk, bike, or bus to Sausalito for a festival filled with environmental (and other) surprises. The Sausalito Film Festival at Cavallo Point offers an impressive natural/urban backdrop to complement the worlds on view inside its theaters. Situated in the less-crowded film festival calendar space of August, it offers residents of the Bay Area ample room for their eyes to roam, with gorgeous vistas to greet those coming and going from its two restored theaters, the Mission Blue and Callippe. (Cavallo Point, a backdrop for the 22nd century in Star Trek: Enterprise, also provides a view of the San Francisco that will never get old.)
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Sausalito Film Festival Views New Horizons
Adam Hartzell
Aug 12, 2010Run, walk, bike, or bus to Sausalito for a festival filled with environmental (and other) surprises. The Sausalito Film Festival at Cavallo Point offers an impressive natural/urban backdrop to complement the worlds on view inside its theaters. Situated in the less-crowded film festival calendar space of August, it offers residents of the Bay Area ample room for their eyes to roam, with gorgeous vistas to greet those coming and going from its two restored theaters, the Mission Blue and Callippe. (Cavallo Point, a backdrop for the 22nd century in Star Trek: Enterprise, also provides a view of the San Francisco that will never get old.)
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Crime on the Mind
Sura Wood
Jul 29, 2010The Pacific Film Archive's Criminal Minds series offers a liberating mix of asocial outlaws and sordid stories based on the ripped-from-the-headlines exploits of real-life gangsters and killers.
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Reviews
Crime on the Mind
Sura Wood
Jul 29, 2010The Pacific Film Archive's Criminal Minds series offers a liberating mix of asocial outlaws and sordid stories based on the ripped-from-the-headlines exploits of real-life gangsters and killers.
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Q & A
On the Road with 'Joan,' Stern and Sundberg Talk Big Picture
Michael Fox
Jun 14, 2010The makers of Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work speak about their latest, as well as the state of documentary filmmaking.
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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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Legal
What's In a Name?
George Rush
Jan 5, 2010The thing about titles is they re too short to receive copyright protection. For copyright purposes, a title is like a label of a copyrighted work.
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Q & A
Parker and di Napoli on Parody and High Art
Adam Hartzell
Nov 1, 2009Bay Area locals Jonathan Parker and Catherine di Napoli discuss (Untitled), a hilarious romp through the world of conceptual art and atonal music.
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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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Q & A
Franny Armstrong's S.O.S. to the World
Sean Uyehara
Sep 19, 2009Franny Armstrong talks about the moral imperative of her films, the importance of Hopenhagen, and the unexpected magnitude of her success.
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Q & A
How Scary Cow co-op is making indie filmmaking in SF a little less frightening
Elizabeth Rader
Aug 2, 2009Jager McConnell speaks about Scary Cow, a filmmakers' co-op that offers experience, people, money and equipment to aspiring filmmakers with ideas to burn.
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Q & A
Shelley Diekman Reflects on Well-Spent life
Hilary Hart
Jul 27, 2009Newly-retired Pacific Film Archive publicist Shelley Diekman discusses her cinephile tastes, her past and her future.
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Reviews
Whip-smart, Witty 'In the Loop'
Dennis Harvey
Jul 23, 2009Director Armando Iannucci's razor-sharp satire is about how the politics of spin can determine critical decisions on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Q & A
Miller Brothers Touch Home at AT&T Park
Michael Fox
Jun 2, 2009The Miller brothers take their memoir-release to the local ballpark.
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In Production
Recession-Proof Theaters, to a Point
Michael Fox
May 14, 2009Arthouse theaters like The Roxie, Red Vic and The Balboa resist the economic downturn and adjust calendars to meet audience demands.
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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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Reviews
'Strand' Follows Thread to Rep Cinema's Glory Days
Michael Fox
Feb 3, 2009In Strand: A Natural History of Cinema, Christian Bruno pays homage to the pivotal and shifting role of movie theaters in San Francisco's cultural life.
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Q & A
Ariella Ben-Dov's Madcat Archives
Matt Sussman
Sep 14, 2008What do women want to watch? With Diane English’s recent unfunny and product placement-filled re-make of The Women hitting theaters last week, Hollywood’s answer, predictably, is more of the same.
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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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Q & A
'Up the Yangtze' with Yung Chang
Judy Stone
Jun 6, 2008Filmmaker Yung Chang talks about 'Up the Yangtze,' his superb documentary that examines the surreal changes in China around the controversial Three Gorges Dam.
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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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Festivals
Location Scouting at Sundance
Susan Gerhard
Jan 30, 2008Susan Gerhard reflects on Sundance's program with particular attention to sense of place.
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Festivals
Second S.F. International Animation Festival
Susan Gerhard
Nov 12, 2007The S.F. International Animation Festival experienced a major bounce, with a number of sold-out shows in its venue at the Embarcadero Center Cinema.
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Q & A
Connie Field, from Berkeley to Johannesburg
Robert Avila
Nov 5, 2007The filmmaker talks about her recent projects, including Salud!, which looks at Cuba's world-class health system.
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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
Frameline, Scalped
Laura Irvine
May 16, 2007Jeff Iorillo on the fourth festival trailer that he's written and directed for the S.F. International LGBT Film Festival.
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Festivals
Digital Festival
Michael Fox
May 2, 2007Movies are shifting at mach speed from the theater to the home. The future is at hand.
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Q & A
Von Donnersmarck's Oscar-nominated "The Lives of Others"
Miljenko Skoknic
Feb 12, 2007Von Donnersmarck talks about his Lola-winning and Oscar-nominated debut during a visit to San Francisco.
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Q & A
The Red Vic Movie House's Top 5
Susan Gerhard
Feb 9, 2007We asked the collectively owned and operated theater to come up with a list of their five favorite screenings over the years.
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Reviews
"Samoan Wedding"; "Romantico"
Robert Avila
Jan 16, 2007A delightfully funny movie on boy-men redeeming themselves from New Zealand, and Mark Becker's absorbing documentary on a musician in the Mission.
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Q & A
Mark Becker's Mission-Inspired "Romantico"
indieWIRE
Jan 15, 2007Hailed as one of the best films of 2005 without distribution, Becker's doc hits theaters nearly two years after it debuted at Sundance.
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Reviews
"Absolute Wilson"; "Army of Shadows"
Robert Avila
Jan 9, 2007A documentary provides an in-depth description of Robert Wilson's life and art. Melville's spy story on a Resistance cell in Nazi-occupied French challenges our idea of heroism.
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Q & A
Frank Lee on 4 Star Theatre's Second Life
Laura Irvine and Jennifer Young
Dec 11, 2006Last week, theater operators Frank and Lida Lee won the battle to save the 4 Star, and announced they'd purchased the building.
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Festivals
A Cinequest 35
Susan Gerhard
Nov 17, 2006Cinequest announces a plan to distribute indie films via DVD, the Internet, TV, and some traditional theatrical sales.
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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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News & Blogs
Voting Protection-Related Sites
Susan Gerhard
Sep 15, 2006The List: American Blackout director Ian Inaba names the top four Web sites.
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Festivals
Ariella Ben-Dov on View-Mastery and "Women's Work"
Susan Gerhard
Sep 11, 2006The founder of the Madcat International Film Festival talks about the 2006 lineup.
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Q & A
Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema 2006
Susan Gerhard
Sep 1, 2006The List:10 local filmmakers describe what they love about shooting on the streets of San Francisco.
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Reviews
Pacific Film Archive's "A Theater Near You"
Max Goldberg
Aug 31, 2006This 2006 series of recent releases and restorations that played theaters for only a day or, at most, a week is exceptionally varied.
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Q & A
Naut Humon, Recombinant Media Labs Explore Limits of Sight, Sound
Johnny Ray Huston
Aug 22, 2006Through Asphodel Records and RML, Humon pursues his fascination with sound's spatial properties.
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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
Car Talk with Chris Paine
Susan Gerhard
Jul 11, 2006SF360 talked to the director of Who Killed the Electric Car?, which opened last week, after his recent stop through the City.
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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
Would Football By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet?
Susan Gerhard
Jun 30, 2006Bay Area soccer fans offer their takes on the best football films.
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Reviews
"An Inconvenient Truth" Strikes a Nerve
Jonny Leahan
Jun 2, 2006Al Gore's documentary keeps the viewer thoroughly engaged while offering what may be the most comprehensive explanation of global warming for the layperson that exists.
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Q & A
One Screen, Three San Francisco Cinephiles
Johnny Ray Huston
May 15, 2006Christian Bruno, Julie Lindow and R.A. McBride discuss their love of San Francisco and its theaters over beers at the Uptown.
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