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Deadlines
Festival: Hot Docs
Jan 13, 2012Hot Docs – Canadian International Documentary Festival (April 26–May 6, 2012) is a competitive event seeking Canadian and international documentaries of all lengths (feature length: 60 min. or longer; mid-length: 30 to 59 min.; short: under 30 min.) and subject matter. ELIGIBILITY: Submissions must have been completed after January 1, 2011; cannot have been screened publicly prior to January 1, 2011; must be Toronto premieres; must be in English, subtitled in English; must be exhibited in one of the following screening formats: 35mm film, DigiBeta (NTSC or PAL) and HDCAM. Entry fees: $33.90 CDN for short films; $67.80 CDN (before December 2, 2011) or $118.65 CDN (before January 13, 2012) for mid and feature length films. AWARDS: Hot Docs features two juried competition programs and several noncompetitive programs. DEADLINE: December 2, 2011 (early); January 13, 2012 (late). WEBSITE: hotdocs.ca/.
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Deadlines
Funding: California Story Fund
Nov 15, 2011The California Story Fund, presented by California Council for the Humanities (CCH), supports public humanities programs that bring light to compelling stories from California's diverse communities and provide opportunities for collective reflection and public discussion. ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must have California tax-exempt organizational status or partner with a California tax-exempt organization that will serve as a fiscal sponsor, not have an open grant with CCH, and be in good standing with CCH. Projects should be based on stories gathered from community members, include a public discussion component and at least one humanities expert. Film/video projects should not exceed a total budget of $50,000. AWARDS: Applicants may request up to $10,000, which must be matched by at least an equivalent contribution of non-federal funds or in-kind services. DEADLINE: November 15, 2011. WEBSITE: calhum.org/guidelines/guidelines_csf.htm.
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Deadlines
Funding: San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Cultural Equity Grants
Nov 10, 2011San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Cultural Equity Grants provide "financial support for the enrichment of San Francisco's multicultural landscape." ELIGIBILITY: Organization Project Grants provide up to $15,000 to support the presentation of high quality works of art and arts activities, including film and video screenings and arts festivals. All art forms will be considered. To be eligible, organizations must have 501(c)(3) status or use a fiscal sponsor. Grant Period: June 15, 2012 - December 31, 2013. AWARDS: Grants awards are up to 15,000 to support the enhancement of arts facilities in the city. DEADLINE: November 10, 2011. WEBSITE: sfartscommission.org/ceg/grants/index.html#opg.
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Deadlines
Funding: Catapult Film Fund
Nov 7, 2011Catapult Film Fund provides early development funding to documentary filmmakers who have a compelling story to tell. It supports powerful stories, and moving storytelling, across a broad spectrum of issues and perspectives. ELIGIBILITY: Applicant must be 18 or older. Catapult Film Fund does not award grants for student films. Documentary projects must be 28 minutes or longer. Development funds must specifically be used to complete early writing, shooting and editing once story and characters are in place. Applicants must be independent producers. They must own the copyright of their production, and have artistic, budgetary and editorial control of their project. Applicants must have previous film or television production experience in a principal role as demonstrated by submitting previously completed work sample. Applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have successfully fund-raised for an independent documentary film, in line with its original budget. AWARDS: Catapult Film Fund development grants range from $5,000 to $20,000. DEADLINE: November 7, 2011. WEBSITE: catapultfilmfund.org/.
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News & Blogs
Shoot Online: "Bodega Goes Bicoastal, Opens San Francisco Office Under Exec Producer/Partner Clint Goldman"
Nov 3, 2011"Bodega, a New York-based content creation/production company, has extended its reach Westward with the opening of a San Francisco shop headed by executive producer/partner Clint Goldman." More at shootonline.com.
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Home
Essential SF: Susan Gerhard
Johnny Ray Huston
Nov 2, 2011Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Susan Gerhard
Johnny Ray Huston
Nov 2, 2011Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.
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November 3, 2011
Essential SF: Susan Gerhard
Johnny Ray Huston
Nov 2, 2011Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.
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Home
Essential SF: Joshua Grannell
Johnny Ray Huston
Nov 1, 2011Since its first event in 1998, Midnight Mass has become an SF institution, and Peaches Christ, well, she's its peerless warden and cult leader.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Joshua Grannell
Johnny Ray Huston
Nov 1, 2011Since its first event in 1998, Midnight Mass has become an SF institution, and Peaches Christ, well, she's its peerless warden and cult leader.
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November 3, 2011
Essential SF: Joshua Grannell
Johnny Ray Huston
Nov 1, 2011Since its first event in 1998, Midnight Mass has become an SF institution, and Peaches Christ, well, she's its peerless warden and cult leader.
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Deadlines
Funding: Durfee Foundation Artists' Resource for Completion Grants
Nov 1, 2011Durfee Foundation Artists' Resource for Completion Grants give individual artists money to complete work for a specific, imminent opportunity that may significantly benefit their career. AWARDS: up to $3,500. ELIGIBILITY Artists must be Los Angeles County residents, 21 years or older and have secured an invitation from an established organization to present the work. Full-time students are ineligible. Current DEADLINE: Quarterly, current November 1, 2011. WEBSITE: durfee.org/programs/arc/index.html.
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Deadlines
Opportunities: Rough Cuts
Nov 1, 2011Rough Cuts is a series of work-in-progress documentary screenings that are produced at a variety of locations throughout San Francisco. The next event (November 14, 2011; 7:30 p.m.) features one rough cut of a feature-length documentary and then a conversation about the film. The post-screening discussion is designed to give the filmmaker a better, more objective sense of what is working and not working with the film, with particular attention paid to improving the film's structure and narrative clarity. ELIGIBILITY: Rough Cuts is currently accepting submissions for the next event. If you are editing a documentary that is over 40 minutes long and are seeking feedback, they encourage you to submit. Principal photography should have been completed, and filmmakers tare encouraged to submit films that are in the later stages of post-production. AWARDS: Invaluable feedback and constructive criticism. DEADLINE: November 1, 2011. Submissions must arrive by 5:00 p.m. WEBSITE: sfroughcuts.com/index.html.
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Home
Essential SF: Karen Larsen
Michael Fox
Oct 31, 2011Universally warm sentiment is attached to the Bay Area's hardest working indie/art film publicist.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Karen Larsen
Michael Fox
Oct 31, 2011Universally warm sentiment is attached to the Bay Area's hardest working indie/art film publicist.
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November 3, 2011
Essential SF: Karen Larsen
Michael Fox
Oct 31, 2011Universally warm sentiment is attached to the Bay Area's hardest working indie/art film publicist.
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Home
Under the Spell of French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 25, 2011Love permeates SFFS's francophone film series.
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October 28, 2011
Under the Spell of French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 25, 2011Love permeates SFFS's francophone film series.
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Reviews
Under the Spell of French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 25, 2011Love permeates SFFS's francophone film series.
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News & Blogs
Thompson on Hollywood: "Film Independent Names Lab Participants, Sloan Award Winners"
Oct 24, 2011"After their weekend-long Film Independent Forum," reports Sophia Savage, "FIND announced eleven filmmakers and nine projects for their 11th annual Producers Lab, and named Brent Hoff and Malcom Pullinger the winners of the 5th annual $25,000 Sloan Producers Grant." More at indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood.
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Festivals
Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
Adam Hartzell
Oct 20, 2011Without marketing tie-ins, plastic toys or corn-syrup confections, a children’s film festival brings energy to the screen.
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Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
Adam Hartzell
Oct 20, 2011Without marketing tie-ins, plastic toys or corn-syrup confections, a children’s film festival brings energy to the screen.
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October 20, 2011
Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
Adam Hartzell
Oct 20, 2011Without marketing tie-ins, plastic toys or corn-syrup confections, a children’s film festival brings energy to the screen.
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Home
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
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November 3, 2011
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
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October 20, 2011
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
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Home
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
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November 3, 2011
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
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October 20, 2011
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
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Home
Where Are their Stories?
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 17, 2011The best is yet come for Mexican wunderkind Nicolás Pereda, whose elliptical narratives allow room meditation and imagination on the part of a viewer.
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October 20, 2011
Where Are their Stories?
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 17, 2011The best is yet come for Mexican wunderkind Nicolás Pereda, whose elliptical narratives allow room meditation and imagination on the part of a viewer.
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Reviews
Where Are their Stories?
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 17, 2011The best is yet come for Mexican wunderkind Nicolás Pereda, whose elliptical narratives allow room meditation and imagination on the part of a viewer.
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Deadlines
Opportunities: Cinequest Screenwriting Competition
Oct 17, 2011Cinequest Screenwriting Competition, held in conjunction with the Cinequest Film Festival (February 28-March 11, 2012), is accepting submissions. ELIGIBILITY: The competition is open to screenplays of all genres and lengths up to 140 pages that have not been optioned, purchased, produced, or put into production. Scripts should be in English, properly formatted, and submitted in PDF format. Scripts written as adaptations of other works must have secured rights before being submitted. Entry fee $45-65. AWARDS: Finalists receive non-cash prizes, including exposure to literary agents, film studios, and producers. Top prize is $5,000. DEADLINE: September 26, 2011 (early); October 17, 2011 (late). WEBSITE: cinequest.org/sp_agent.php.
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Deadlines
Opportunities: Center for Asian American Media Fellowship Program
Oct 17, 2011Furthering CAAM's work to nurture Asian American media professionals and advance the field of Asian American media, the second annual CAAM Fellowship Program will connect young, talented individuals with leading professionals in the field. ELIGIBILITY: Participating fellows will have access to the leading Asian American talent in film, television and digital media. Each fellowship will be individually tailored to best fit the needs of the fellows and advisers. Fellowships will range from fully integrated collaborations to regular feedback on current projects to an ongoing dialogue about professional development. AWARDS: The CAAM Fellowship Program Retreat will allow the mentor-mentee pairs to spend two full days together in a quiet and peaceful environment where they can focus on the mentees' career, whether it is a script being developed or an acting career that needs some guidance. DEADLINE: October 17, 2011. WEBSITE: caamedia.org/filmmaker-resources/fellowship/caam-fellowship-program-2011/.
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News & Blogs
Wall Street Journal: "George Lucas Self-Finances Action Movie About Tuskegee Airmen"
Oct 17, 2011"Star Wars creator George Lucas is betting millions of his own dollars that moviegoers will be drawn to an action movie about African-American fighter pilots in World War II," reports Christopher John Farley. "Mr. Lucas has self-financed a new film entitled Red Tails inspired by the true story of the first organized group of African-American fighter pilots in the U.S. armed forces." More at wsj.com.
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Unbound by Genre, Taiwan's Films Travel Unique Paths
Adam Hartzell
Oct 13, 2011Expectations defied in Taiwan Film Days. It could be argued that Taiwanese cinema, best known through the work of three auteurs, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang, is not tied to audience-generating genres. It’s certainly been able to travel more diverse cinematic avenues than some of its neighbors. San Francisco Film Society's Taiwan Film Days running from October 14–16, however, offers evidence for any number of arguments you’d like to make about Asian cinema and Taiwan in particular. On the docket this year are ...
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Deadlines
Funding: TFI Documentary Fund
Oct 10, 2011The TFI Documentary Fund provides grants and guidance to exceptional filmmakers developing engaging feature-length documentaries which emphasize character and that allow audiences to consider history, culture and society through the experiences of extraordinary individuals. ELIGIBILITY: Submissions must be non-fiction motion pictures with an intended length of at least 70 minutes and should creatively document unique character(s); submissions can be in the advanced stages of development, production or post-production and must not have aired on any form. Foreign language documentaries are eligible, but must be subtitled and suitable for an American audience. Applicants must be over 18-years old. $25 entry fee. AWARDS: Grants of at least $10,000 will be awarded in 2012. DEADLINE: October 10, 2011. WEBSITE: tribecafilminstitute.org/tfi_documentary/.
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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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Festivals
Mill Valley Brings Oscar Contenders Close to Home
Dennis Harvey
Oct 6, 2011Mill Valley amps up the star wattage in its annual mix of local, international titles.
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Mill Valley Brings Oscar Contenders Close to Home
Dennis Harvey
Oct 6, 2011Mill Valley amps up the star wattage in its annual mix of local, international titles.
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October 6, 2011
Mill Valley Brings Oscar Contenders Close to Home
Dennis Harvey
Oct 6, 2011Mill Valley amps up the star wattage in its annual mix of local, international titles.
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Home
Gordon-Levitt's Chances Better than '50/50'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 30, 2011Up-and-comer Joseph Gordon-Levitt is so good he compensates for the cancer comedy's shortcomings, even if he can't erase them.
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October 6, 2011
Gordon-Levitt's Chances Better than '50/50'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 30, 2011Up-and-comer Joseph Gordon-Levitt is so good he compensates for the cancer comedy's shortcomings, even if he can't erase them.
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Reviews
Gordon-Levitt's Chances Better than '50/50'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 30, 2011Up-and-comer Joseph Gordon-Levitt is so good he compensates for the cancer comedy's shortcomings, even if he can't erase them.
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September 29 2011
Gordon-Levitt's Chances Better than '50/50'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 30, 2011Up-and-comer Joseph Gordon-Levitt is so good he compensates for the cancer comedy's shortcomings, even if he can't erase them.
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Events
'Peace Unveiled'
Sep 27, 2011ITVS, Global Fund for Women, Spark and Women's Funding Network present a prescreening of issues doc 'Peace Unveiled,' part of a new PBS miniseries, 'Women, War & Peace,' launching this fall. Producer Abigail Disney and guests will be present for post-screening panel discussion. More info at pbs.org.
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September 27 2011
'Peace Unveiled'
Sep 27, 2011ITVS, Global Fund for Women, Spark and Women's Funding Network present a prescreening of issues doc 'Peace Unveiled,' part of a new PBS miniseries, 'Women, War & Peace,' launching this fall. Producer Abigail Disney and guests will be present for post-screening panel discussion. More info at pbs.org.
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Events
SFFS Film Arts Forum
Sep 27, 2011SFFS's bi-monthly forum and industry show-and-tell makes its first appearance at Film Society Cinema this Tuesday. Panel discussion will be moderated by music rights exec Brooke Wentz and feature Kim Aubry of Zoetrope Aubry productions alongside Academy Award-winning soundmen Michael Semanick and Richard Beggs. More info at sffs.org.
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September 27 2011
SFFS Film Arts Forum
Sep 27, 2011SFFS's bi-monthly forum and industry show-and-tell makes its first appearance at Film Society Cinema this Tuesday. Panel discussion will be moderated by music rights exec Brooke Wentz and feature Kim Aubry of Zoetrope Aubry productions alongside Academy Award-winning soundmen Michael Semanick and Richard Beggs. More info at sffs.org.
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News & Blogs
UC Berkeley: " ‘Presumed Guilty’ Wins Emmy for Best Investigative Journalism"
Sep 27, 2011“Presumed Guilty was nominated for three Emmys — outstanding investigative journalism (long form), best documentary and best research — and has received some 20 festival awards," reports Cathy Cockrell. More at berkeley.edu.
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News & Blogs
Beyond the Box: " 'Art & Copy' Wins News and Doc Emmy Award"
Sep 27, 2011"The documentary, which aired last season on Independent Lens, reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time." More at beyondthebox.org.
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Home
Guy Maddin: Ann Savage and the Osmonds
Johnny Ray Huston
Sep 23, 2011Guy Maddin talks about movies, writing, himself—and the allure of the Osmonds, re-published on the occasion of Fandor's Maddin blogathon.
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Q & A
Guy Maddin: Ann Savage and the Osmonds
Johnny Ray Huston
Sep 23, 2011Guy Maddin talks about movies, writing, himself—and the allure of the Osmonds, re-published on the occasion of Fandor's Maddin blogathon.
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Events
'A Sixth Part of the World'
Sep 21, 2011Dziga Vertov completed the epic documentary 'A Sixth Part of the World' after his ejection from the Cold War-era Soviet documentary film unit Sovkino. The breathtaking and broad-reaching doc, praised by revered experimentalist Chris Marker, screens Wednesday as part of PFA's annual avant-garde film program Alternative Visions. More info at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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September 20, 2011
'A Sixth Part of the World'
Sep 21, 2011Dziga Vertov completed the epic documentary 'A Sixth Part of the World' after his ejection from the Cold War-era Soviet documentary film unit Sovkino. The breathtaking and broad-reaching doc, praised by revered experimentalist Chris Marker, screens Wednesday as part of PFA's annual avant-garde film program Alternative Visions. More info at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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News & Blogs
SFFS Announces Winners of Documentary Film Fund Awards
Sep 21, 2011Press release: The San Francisco Film Society today announced the three winners of the inaugural SFFS Documentary Film Fund grants. The Fund was created to support the postproduction of singular feature-length nonfiction film work that is distinguished by compelling stories, intriguing characters and an innovative visual approach. Each year from 2011 to 2013, a total of $100,000 will be disbursed to further new work by documentary filmmakers nationwide. Winners are: Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, An American Promise, $25,000; Priya Desai and Ann Kim, Match +, $25,000; Zachary Heinzerling, Cutie & the Boxe, $50,000. For more information go to: sffs.org/filmmaker-services.
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News & Blogs
SF Chronicle: "Oakland Shines for 'Moneyball' Premiere'"
Sep 21, 2011"Brad Pitt, Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman and Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin were among those on the red carpet at the Paramount Theater in Oakland on Monday evening as Moneyball, the movie based on A's general manager Billy Beane and the 2002 Oakland team, made its national premiere," reports Susan Slusser. More at www.sfgate.com.
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Tiffany Shlain Connects the Dots
Michael Read
Sep 16, 2011With 'Connected,' Tiffany Shlain weaves hope into a high risk story.
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January 27, 2011
Tiffany Shlain Connects the Dots
Michael Read
Sep 16, 2011With 'Connected,' Tiffany Shlain weaves hope into a high risk story.
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January 31, 2011
Tiffany Shlain Connects the Dots
Michael Read
Sep 16, 2011With 'Connected,' Tiffany Shlain weaves hope into a high risk story.
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Q & A
Tiffany Shlain Connects the Dots
Michael Read
Sep 16, 2011With 'Connected,' Tiffany Shlain weaves hope into a high risk story.
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Home
He-Men Command Belief in MMA Film 'Warrior'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 13, 2011Gavin O'Connor does a remarkable job making his two-and-a-half-hour fight film gritty, involving and as credible as humanly possible.
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Reviews
He-Men Command Belief in MMA Film 'Warrior'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 13, 2011Gavin O'Connor does a remarkable job making his two-and-a-half-hour fight film gritty, involving and as credible as humanly possible.
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September 15, 2011
He-Men Command Belief in MMA Film 'Warrior'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 13, 2011Gavin O'Connor does a remarkable job making his two-and-a-half-hour fight film gritty, involving and as credible as humanly possible.
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September 8 2011
He-Men Command Belief in MMA Film 'Warrior'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 13, 2011Gavin O'Connor does a remarkable job making his two-and-a-half-hour fight film gritty, involving and as credible as humanly possible.
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Home
More than Cute Keeps 'Hedgehog' Going
Dennis Harvey
Sep 6, 2011Mona Achache's first feature relies heavily on an 11-year-old narrator, but it's 60- and 65-year-old actors who steal the show.
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Reviews
More than Cute Keeps 'Hedgehog' Going
Dennis Harvey
Sep 6, 2011Mona Achache's first feature relies heavily on an 11-year-old narrator, but it's 60- and 65-year-old actors who steal the show.
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September 8 2011
More than Cute Keeps 'Hedgehog' Going
Dennis Harvey
Sep 6, 2011Mona Achache's first feature relies heavily on an 11-year-old narrator, but it's 60- and 65-year-old actors who steal the show.
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Festivals
Telluride’s 38th Festival Underway in Colorado
Jackson Scarlett
Sep 2, 2011Berkeley-programmed Festival is a favorite for cinephiles; features Caetano Veloso as 2011 Guest Director.
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Telluride’s 38th Festival Underway in Colorado
Jackson Scarlett
Sep 2, 2011Berkeley-programmed Festival is a favorite for cinephiles; features Caetano Veloso as 2011 Guest Director.
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September 8 2011
Telluride’s 38th Festival Underway in Colorado
Jackson Scarlett
Sep 2, 2011Berkeley-programmed Festival is a favorite for cinephiles; features Caetano Veloso as 2011 Guest Director.
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August 30, 2011
Cary Grant: Definitive Star
Aug 31, 2011Castro Theatre sets a whole week aside to celebrate the slick charms of the screen legend. Beginning on Wednesday, the institution will screen 14 of the star's films, from suspenseful actioneers 'North By Northwest' and 'Suspicion' to slap-happy comedies 'His Girl Friday' and 'I Was a Male War Bride'. The centerpiece of the retro is a new print of the beloved 'Bringing Up Baby,' also starring Katherine Hepburn. More info at castrotheatre.com.
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Deadlines
Funding: The Roy W. Dean LA August Grant
Aug 30, 2011The Roy W. Dean Film and Writing Grants fund shorts, documentaries and low budget independent features. ELIGIBILITY: New film and video projects (including works-in-progress) that are unique and benefit the society. Student filmmakers, independent producers or independent production companies are all welcome. AWARDS: Winner gets a variety of awards including scholarships and cash prizes for different production fields. DEADLINE: August 30, 2011. WEBSITE: fromtheheartproductions.com/grant-lavideo.shtml.
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August 25, 2011
PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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Reviews
PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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August 18, 2011
‘Dawn’ Salutes Lost Girls, Sainted Sister
Michael Fox
Aug 17, 2011A collaborative project recounts the life and work of a German-born nun located outside Nairobi and the Sudanese Lost Girls she helped find.
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‘Dawn’ Salutes Lost Girls, Sainted Sister
Michael Fox
Aug 17, 2011A collaborative project recounts the life and work of a German-born nun located outside Nairobi and the Sudanese Lost Girls she helped find.
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‘Dawn’ Salutes Lost Girls, Sainted Sister
Michael Fox
Aug 17, 2011A collaborative project recounts the life and work of a German-born nun located outside Nairobi and the Sudanese Lost Girls she helped find.
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August 9,2011
Akira Kurosawa's 'Ikiru' & 'I Live In Fear'
Aug 15, 2011Viz Cinema, slated to begin programming as Film Society Cinema next month, continues its Classic Summer Weekends series with 35mm screenings of Akira Kurosawa's postwar lamentations 'Ikiru' and 'I Live In Fear,' playing on Friday and Saturday respectively. More info newpeopleworld.com.
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News & Blogs
SFFS Announces Winners of Spring 2011 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants
Aug 15, 2011The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation today announced the five winners and two honorable mentions of the fifth round of SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants. The grants are awarded twice annually to filmmakers for narrative feature films with social justice themes that will have significant economic or professional impact on the Bay Area filmmaking community. Between 2009 and 2013 the SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants will award nearly $2.5 million, including a total of $788,000 already awarded in the first five grant rounds.
Carlton Evans and Matthew Lessner (Ross), $50,000 for screenwriting; Aurora Guerrero (Mosquita y Mari), $88,000 for postproduction; Adam Keker (National Park), $35,000 for screenwriting; Timothy Kelly (The Cherokee Word for Water), $75,000 for production; Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of a Southern Wild), $55,000 for postproduction. Honorable Mentions went to: John Dilly (Rubbish), development and Ian Olds (The Western Habit), screenwriting. More at sffs.org.
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August 11, 2011
Pagnol's Foodie Oeuvre Appreciated in East Bay
Max Goldberg
Aug 11, 2011Pacific Film Archive serves a full course of films by Marcel Pagnol.
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Pagnol's Foodie Oeuvre Appreciated in East Bay
Max Goldberg
Aug 11, 2011Pacific Film Archive serves a full course of films by Marcel Pagnol.
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Reviews
Pagnol's Foodie Oeuvre Appreciated in East Bay
Max Goldberg
Aug 11, 2011Pacific Film Archive serves a full course of films by Marcel Pagnol.
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August 9,2011
'Days of Heaven'
Aug 10, 2011Film fans willing to make the trek to El Cerrito's Rialto Cinemas will be rewarded with a screening of Terrence Malick classic (and 'Badlands' companion-piece) 'Days of Heaven.' Concerning the desperate lives of a farm laborer and his lady love, Malick's bleak gem screens only once on Thursday, on the original celluloid. More info rialtocinemas.com.
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August 11, 2011
Miranda July Throws Cautionary Tale to the Wind with ‘The Future’
Sean Uyehara
Aug 8, 2011The filmmaker talks about time, life, storytelling and her new film, ‘The Future.’
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Miranda July Throws Cautionary Tale to the Wind with ‘The Future’
Sean Uyehara
Aug 8, 2011The filmmaker talks about time, life, storytelling and her new film, ‘The Future.’
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Q & A
Miranda July Throws Cautionary Tale to the Wind with ‘The Future’
Sean Uyehara
Aug 8, 2011The filmmaker talks about time, life, storytelling and her new film, ‘The Future.’
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August 2, 2011
'Crime After Crime'
Aug 8, 2011San Francisco International Film Festival audience-award winner and Sundance standout 'Crime After Crime' opens Friday at the Roxie. This week in SF360, Judy Stone profiles Yoav Potash, the director of the doc, which covers five years of the life and trials of Deborah Peagler, a woman serving 25-years-to-life for her involvement in the murder of her abuser. Potash will appear with guests for Q&A following some screenings. More info at roxie.com.
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August 4, 2011
Cinematographer Cardiff's Eye Prized in 'Cameraman' Doc
Dennis Harvey
Jul 29, 2011'Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff' is a lovely portrait of an innovator and consummate craftsman.
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Cinematographer Cardiff's Eye Prized in 'Cameraman' Doc
Dennis Harvey
Jul 29, 2011'Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff' is a lovely portrait of an innovator and consummate craftsman.
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Reviews
Cinematographer Cardiff's Eye Prized in 'Cameraman' Doc
Dennis Harvey
Jul 29, 2011'Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff' is a lovely portrait of an innovator and consummate craftsman.
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July 26, 2011
'World on a Wire'
Jul 29, 2011Recently rescued from obscurity via a new digital master, Fassbinder's high concept/high reward 1973 science-fiction epic 'World On A Wire' made a big impression on critics and viewers when it screened at SFIFF this past year. Roxie screens this wildly prescient, highly satisfying three-and-a-half-hour masterpiece beginning Friday. More info at roxie.com.
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Essential SF: ‘Freedom On My Mind,’ ‘The Good War’
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2011The best of the Bay Area's historical docs transform our understanding of previous eras, and, consequently, our own.
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In Depth
Essential SF: ‘Freedom On My Mind,’ ‘The Good War’
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2011The best of the Bay Area's historical docs transform our understanding of previous eras, and, consequently, our own.
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July 28, 2011
Essential SF: ‘Freedom On My Mind,’ ‘The Good War’
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2011The best of the Bay Area's historical docs transform our understanding of previous eras, and, consequently, our own.
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July 19, 2011
Marius Watz: Automatic Writing
Jul 22, 2011SFFS presents the work of pioneering software artist Marius Watz, who uses digital processes and authored algorithms to “automatically” produce numerous types of media including video, still imagery and sculpture through semi-autonomous software systems, as part of its KinoTek series. Look for sci-fi writer/theorist Bruce Sterling's essay on Watz in Thursday's SF360.org. Events: An exhibition in Super Frog Gallery at New People opens July 22; Artist Talk, July 26; Master Class, July 27. More at sffs.org.
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Festivals
Voices Converge at San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Michael Fox
Jul 22, 2011SFJFF covers broad geographic, political terrain.
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Voices Converge at San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Michael Fox
Jul 22, 2011SFJFF covers broad geographic, political terrain.
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July 28, 2011
Voices Converge at San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Michael Fox
Jul 22, 2011SFJFF covers broad geographic, political terrain.
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July 19, 2011
'Diva'
Jul 21, 2011SF Museum of Modern Art's Opera on Film series screens Jean-Jacques Beineix's under-appreciated 'Diva' on Thursday. The Caesar Award-winning romance/thriller hybrid deftly handles a complex, opera-centric plot littered with brilliant pop-art inspired chase scenes and features a number of standout performances, including those by Jeunet regular Dominique Pinon and real-life opera singer Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez. More info sfmoma.org.
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July 19, 2011
Rough Cuts Presents 'Bitter Seeds'
Jul 21, 2011Counterpulse's Rough Cuts series continues with an in-progress screening of 'Bitter Seeds,' the latest globalization doc by Micha Peled ('Store Wars'). Emmy winners Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine will moderate a post-film discussion. More info and RSVP at sfroughcuts.com.
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July 19, 2011
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Jul 21, 2011The 31st San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the world's largest showcase of Jewish film, opens at the Castro Theatre on Thursday with Israeli drama 'Mabul' (The Flood, nominated for six of Israel's 'Oscars'), and runs through August 8 at a number of Bay Area venues. An Opening Night bash follows at the Swedish American Hall. More info sfjff.org.
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Avoiding Turbulence Leads to Plot Trouble
Lisa Rosenberg
Jul 19, 2011Note to screenwriters: Don’t defeat the promise of your story by pulling your punches.
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July 21, 2011
Avoiding Turbulence Leads to Plot Trouble
Lisa Rosenberg
Jul 19, 2011Note to screenwriters: Don’t defeat the promise of your story by pulling your punches.
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Screenwriting
Avoiding Turbulence Leads to Plot Trouble
Lisa Rosenberg
Jul 19, 2011Note to screenwriters: Don’t defeat the promise of your story by pulling your punches.
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Striking Skolimowski Films Rescued from Obscurity at PFA
Dennis Harvey
Jul 18, 2011Pacific Film Archive’s ‘Hands Up! Essential Skolimowski’ surveys the Polish director’s confounding oeuvre.
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July 21, 2011
Striking Skolimowski Films Rescued from Obscurity at PFA
Dennis Harvey
Jul 18, 2011Pacific Film Archive’s ‘Hands Up! Essential Skolimowski’ surveys the Polish director’s confounding oeuvre.
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Reviews
Striking Skolimowski Films Rescued from Obscurity at PFA
Dennis Harvey
Jul 18, 2011Pacific Film Archive’s ‘Hands Up! Essential Skolimowski’ surveys the Polish director’s confounding oeuvre.
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Torres Story Gains Focus
Kim Nunley
Jul 11, 2011Chusy Jardine has set out to tell the Andres Torres ADHD-to-World Series glory story in a feature-length documentary.
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July 14, 2011
Torres Story Gains Focus
Kim Nunley
Jul 11, 2011Chusy Jardine has set out to tell the Andres Torres ADHD-to-World Series glory story in a feature-length documentary.
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Q & A
Torres Story Gains Focus
Kim Nunley
Jul 11, 2011Chusy Jardine has set out to tell the Andres Torres ADHD-to-World Series glory story in a feature-length documentary.
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Home
Roko Belic Charts Path to ‘Happy’
Susan Gerhard
Jul 6, 2011A former Bay Area filmmaker travels the world in search of the secrets of contentment.
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July 7, 2011
Roko Belic Charts Path to ‘Happy’
Susan Gerhard
Jul 6, 2011A former Bay Area filmmaker travels the world in search of the secrets of contentment.
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Q & A
Roko Belic Charts Path to ‘Happy’
Susan Gerhard
Jul 6, 2011A former Bay Area filmmaker travels the world in search of the secrets of contentment.
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News & Blogs
Ninth Street Announces Incubator Participants
Jul 1, 2011Press release: The Ninth Street Independent Film Center announced today five new participants for the Center's Media Arts Incubator Program for 2011-2012. "This is a great group of participants," says Skye Christensen, Executive Director of the Ninth Street Independent Film Center. "Each brings a very dynamic project to the Program, and we're really looking forward to what they'll accomplish during their time here." Ninth Street’s Media Arts Incubator Program is designed to nurture socially relevant independent media projects at Ninth Street Independent Film Center. The Incubator Program supports independent filmmakers, start-up film festivals and small media nonprofits through access to workspace and shared resources, such as cross-promotional opportunities, co-productions, affordable meeting or exhibition space and community connections with established media arts partners (Center for Asian American Media, Frameline, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, and others). Participants are: Rachel Caplan (CEO) and Daniela Rible (Deputy Director) of the annual SF Green Film Festival; Jennifer Tipton and Cary McQueen Morrow, the directors of Art with Impact, which is a platform for the creation of new media on critical social issues; David Evan Harris, Executive Director of the Global Lives Project, a media arts nonprofit that seeks to collaboratively build a video library of human life experience; Scarlett Shepard is Executive Director of the SF Women’s Film Festival; and J.R. Flemming, director and producer of Guarding Dogs, which is a documentary film with a crowd-sourcing model currently in production that makes the case for adopting a dog instead breeding/buying.
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June 28, 2011
'Cultures of Resistance'
Jun 30, 2011Award-winning 2010 doc 'Cultures of Resistance' captures the ways artists, musicians and other cultural producers create political change through art, from Iran to China to other points worldwide. The event features a live interview with director Iara Lee via Skype after screening; ticket sales benefit clean water efforts for children in Gaza. Plays at Berkeley City College. More at mecaforpeace.org.
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June 28, 2011
Rediscovered North Korean Cinema
Jun 30, 2011YBCA screens a North Korean drama about a young soccer player and the lengths he'll go to for team and country. Considered a classic in its homeland and helmed by famed director Pak Chong-song, infrequently seen 'Centre Forward' shows Thursday. More at ybca.org.
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Dues and Taxes Paid, Kornbluth Brothers Shoot for Glory
Michael Fox
Jun 29, 2011Jakob Kornbluth hopes to turn another of brother Josh’s monologues, ‘Love & Taxes,’ into celluloid gold.
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In Production
Dues and Taxes Paid, Kornbluth Brothers Shoot for Glory
Michael Fox
Jun 29, 2011Jakob Kornbluth hopes to turn another of brother Josh’s monologues, ‘Love & Taxes,’ into celluloid gold.
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June 30, 2011
Dues and Taxes Paid, Kornbluth Brothers Shoot for Glory
Michael Fox
Jun 29, 2011Jakob Kornbluth hopes to turn another of brother Josh’s monologues, ‘Love & Taxes,’ into celluloid gold.
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June 21, 2011
'The Cove' Benefit Screening
Jun 23, 2011Louie Psihoyos' and Roc O'Barry's immersive, award-winning eco-doc 'The Cove' screens with a live performance by Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and post-film discussion with both directors at the Smith Rafael. Ticket sales benefit the Earth Island Institute and Save Japan Dolphins. More at cafilm.org.
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Dutch Director's Obsession Leads to Bay Area
Michael Fox
Jun 15, 2011One film was not enough to quench Frans Weisz’s fascination with Nazi-era artist Charlotte Salomon.
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In Production
Dutch Director's Obsession Leads to Bay Area
Michael Fox
Jun 15, 2011One film was not enough to quench Frans Weisz’s fascination with Nazi-era artist Charlotte Salomon.
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June 16, 2011
Dutch Director's Obsession Leads to Bay Area
Michael Fox
Jun 15, 2011One film was not enough to quench Frans Weisz’s fascination with Nazi-era artist Charlotte Salomon.
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Home
We Want Answers
Karen Everett
Jun 14, 2011Asking the right questions is an art; a consultant speaks on how to conduct documentary interviews that will help structure your film.
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June 16, 2011
We Want Answers
Karen Everett
Jun 14, 2011Asking the right questions is an art; a consultant speaks on how to conduct documentary interviews that will help structure your film.
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Story Structure
We Want Answers
Karen Everett
Jun 14, 2011Asking the right questions is an art; a consultant speaks on how to conduct documentary interviews that will help structure your film.
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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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June 7, 2011
‘Kuroneko’
Jun 10, 2011Red Vic Movie House offers up Kaneto Shindo’s 1968 Japanese horror masterpiece ‘Kuroneko.’ More at redvicmoviehouse.com.
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June 9, 2011
‘Kuroneko’
Jun 10, 2011Red Vic Movie House offers up Kaneto Shindo’s 1968 Japanese horror masterpiece ‘Kuroneko.’ More at redvicmoviehouse.com.
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First Person
Production Values: Michael Whalen
Adrianne Anderson
Jun 6, 2011Whalen speaks from experience on the importance of story and drama in nonfiction filmmaking.
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Production Values: Michael Whalen
Adrianne Anderson
Jun 6, 2011Whalen speaks from experience on the importance of story and drama in nonfiction filmmaking.
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June 9, 2011
Production Values: Michael Whalen
Adrianne Anderson
Jun 6, 2011Whalen speaks from experience on the importance of story and drama in nonfiction filmmaking.
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Home
'Into Eternity' Ponders a Present-Day Paradox
Susan Gerhard
May 27, 2011Danish filmmaker/artist Michael Madsen turns questions around a European nuclear-waste project into an operatic doc.
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June 2, 2011
'Into Eternity' Ponders a Present-Day Paradox
Susan Gerhard
May 27, 2011Danish filmmaker/artist Michael Madsen turns questions around a European nuclear-waste project into an operatic doc.
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Reviews
'Into Eternity' Ponders a Present-Day Paradox
Susan Gerhard
May 27, 2011Danish filmmaker/artist Michael Madsen turns questions around a European nuclear-waste project into an operatic doc.
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Home
Patrick Raises Child ‘Booksellers’
Michael Fox
May 24, 2011S. Smith Patrick shares purpose with the children she films.
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In Production
Patrick Raises Child ‘Booksellers’
Michael Fox
May 24, 2011S. Smith Patrick shares purpose with the children she films.
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May 26, 2011
Patrick Raises Child ‘Booksellers’
Michael Fox
May 24, 2011S. Smith Patrick shares purpose with the children she films.
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Home
Park Jung-bum Offers Notes on his Unique POV
Adam Hartzell
May 16, 2011The director of South Korean film 'The Journals of Musan,' a prize winner at SFIFF54, speaks about bringing cinematic light to social darkness.
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May 19, 2011
Park Jung-bum Offers Notes on his Unique POV
Adam Hartzell
May 16, 2011The director of South Korean film 'The Journals of Musan,' a prize winner at SFIFF54, speaks about bringing cinematic light to social darkness.
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Q & A
Park Jung-bum Offers Notes on his Unique POV
Adam Hartzell
May 16, 2011The director of South Korean film 'The Journals of Musan,' a prize winner at SFIFF54, speaks about bringing cinematic light to social darkness.
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Home
Devor Mulls Odd Journey of Sara Jane Moore
Michael Fox
May 11, 2011'Zoo' director Robinson Devor uncovers the strange history behind the Gerald Ford assassination attempt in ’70s San Francisco.
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In Production
Devor Mulls Odd Journey of Sara Jane Moore
Michael Fox
May 11, 2011'Zoo' director Robinson Devor uncovers the strange history behind the Gerald Ford assassination attempt in ’70s San Francisco.
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May 12, 2011
Devor Mulls Odd Journey of Sara Jane Moore
Michael Fox
May 11, 2011'Zoo' director Robinson Devor uncovers the strange history behind the Gerald Ford assassination attempt in ’70s San Francisco.
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The Unsinkable Joel Hodgson Floats New Show
Damon O'Donnell
May 6, 2011Mystery Science Theater returns to the Castro in the form of ‘Cinematic Titanic.’ Fans rejoice.
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May 12, 2011
The Unsinkable Joel Hodgson Floats New Show
Damon O'Donnell
May 6, 2011Mystery Science Theater returns to the Castro in the form of ‘Cinematic Titanic.’ Fans rejoice.
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Q & A
The Unsinkable Joel Hodgson Floats New Show
Damon O'Donnell
May 6, 2011Mystery Science Theater returns to the Castro in the form of ‘Cinematic Titanic.’ Fans rejoice.
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SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2011Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...
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May 5, 2011
SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2011Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...
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SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2011Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...
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May 5, 2011
SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2011Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...
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SFIFF Brings in Burlesque as Closer
Stephanie Rosenbaum
May 4, 2011Cabaret New Burlesque gets the French art-house treatment with ‘On Tour.’
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May 5, 2011
SFIFF Brings in Burlesque as Closer
Stephanie Rosenbaum
May 4, 2011Cabaret New Burlesque gets the French art-house treatment with ‘On Tour.’
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Reviews
SFIFF Brings in Burlesque as Closer
Stephanie Rosenbaum
May 4, 2011Cabaret New Burlesque gets the French art-house treatment with ‘On Tour.’
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Frank Pierson, 'These Amazing Shadows' Offer Inspiration
Michael Fox
May 3, 2011Screenwriter Frank Pierson talks production at SFIFF54; Bay Area-made 'These Amazing Shadows' screens after the Festival closes.
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In Production
Frank Pierson, 'These Amazing Shadows' Offer Inspiration
Michael Fox
May 3, 2011Screenwriter Frank Pierson talks production at SFIFF54; Bay Area-made 'These Amazing Shadows' screens after the Festival closes.
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May 5, 2011
Frank Pierson, 'These Amazing Shadows' Offer Inspiration
Michael Fox
May 3, 2011Screenwriter Frank Pierson talks production at SFIFF54; Bay Area-made 'These Amazing Shadows' screens after the Festival closes.
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Festivals
Unrestrained at SFIFF54, Barney Offers Live Insight
Robert Avila
May 2, 2011Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.
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Unrestrained at SFIFF54, Barney Offers Live Insight
Robert Avila
May 2, 2011Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.
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May 5, 2011
Unrestrained at SFIFF54, Barney Offers Live Insight
Robert Avila
May 2, 2011Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.
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April 26, 2011
SFIFF: ‘Circumstance’
May 1, 2011The Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner, ‘Circumstance,’ which tells the story of two Iranian women who fall in love, plays at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas on May 1 and May 3. Director Maryam Keshavarz attends each screening of her debut feature. More at fest11.sffs.org.
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April 28, 2011
SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
Carmen Winant
Apr 30, 2011In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
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Festivals
SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
Carmen Winant
Apr 30, 2011In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
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SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
Carmen Winant
Apr 30, 2011In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
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Festivals
Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
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Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
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May 5, 2011
Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
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Festivals
Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
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Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
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May 5, 2011
Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
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Festivals
Stone not Cold in Castro Conversation
Dennis Harvey
Apr 28, 2011Oliver Stone reflects on his own heated past, and the world’s, as he accepts the Founder’s Directing Award onstage at the Castro Theatre during SFIFF54.
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Stone not Cold in Castro Conversation
Dennis Harvey
Apr 28, 2011Oliver Stone reflects on his own heated past, and the world’s, as he accepts the Founder’s Directing Award onstage at the Castro Theatre during SFIFF54.
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May 5, 2011
Stone not Cold in Castro Conversation
Dennis Harvey
Apr 28, 2011Oliver Stone reflects on his own heated past, and the world’s, as he accepts the Founder’s Directing Award onstage at the Castro Theatre during SFIFF54.
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April 28, 2011
Tindersticks Fuel the Claire Denis Film Fire
Dennis Harvey
Apr 26, 2011A soundtrack staple in the Denis oeuvre, Tindersticks play their beautifully brooding music live to clips at SFIFF54.
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Festivals
Tindersticks Fuel the Claire Denis Film Fire
Dennis Harvey
Apr 26, 2011A soundtrack staple in the Denis oeuvre, Tindersticks play their beautifully brooding music live to clips at SFIFF54.
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Tindersticks Fuel the Claire Denis Film Fire
Dennis Harvey
Apr 26, 2011A soundtrack staple in the Denis oeuvre, Tindersticks play their beautifully brooding music live to clips at SFIFF54.
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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 28, 2011
Explosive Actors, Anecdotes Light Up SFIFF54’s Midnight Awards
Kim Nunley
Apr 24, 2011Zoe Saldana and Clifton Collins, Jr., share candid thoughts with a raucous audience.
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Festivals
Explosive Actors, Anecdotes Light Up SFIFF54’s Midnight Awards
Kim Nunley
Apr 24, 2011Zoe Saldana and Clifton Collins, Jr., share candid thoughts with a raucous audience.
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Explosive Actors, Anecdotes Light Up SFIFF54’s Midnight Awards
Kim Nunley
Apr 24, 2011Zoe Saldana and Clifton Collins, Jr., share candid thoughts with a raucous audience.
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April 19, 2011
SFIFF's Midnight Awards
Apr 23, 2011The San Francisco International's Midnight Awards at the W hotel honor Zoe Saldana and Clifton Collins, Jr., with a spirited talk-show style discussion featuring the inimitable Beth Lisick, actress, author and Porchlight Storytelling Series co-host. More at fest.sffs.org.
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News & Blogs
Terence Stamp to Receive Peter J. Owens Award at 54th San Francisco International Film Festival
Apr 22, 2011Press release: The San Francisco Film Society announced today that Terence Stamp will be the recipient of the Peter J. Owens Award at the 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21–May 5). The Owens Award, named for the longtime San Francisco benefactor of arts and charitable organizations and Film Society board member, honors an actor whose work exemplifies brilliance, independence and integrity. The award will be presented to Stamp at Film Society Awards Night, Thursday, April 28 at Bimbo’s 365 Club. More at fest11.sffs.org.
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April 19, 2011
Road to Hollywood Tour: ‘Elmer Gantry’
Apr 20, 2011In celebration of the upcoming Turner Classic Movies Film Festival in Hollywood, Castro Theatre participates in the one-night nationwide Road to Hollywood Tour with a free screening of ‘Elmer Gantry.’ Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz and Academy Award winner Shirley Jones are present. Tickets are acquired through tcm.com/roadtohollywood. More at castrotheatre.com.
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News & Blogs
indieWIRE: "'Restrepo' Filmmaker Tim Hetherington Killed in Libya"
Apr 20, 2011Reports Peter Knegt: "Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Tim Hetherington has been killed in Libya, it is being reported by Vanity Fair (where Hetherington worked as a contributing photographer)." More at indieWIRE.com.
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News & Blogs
SFIFF Presents Midnight Award to Clifton Collins, Jr., Zoe Saldana
Apr 16, 2011The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21 - May 5) announced that Clifton Collins Jr. will be honored at the fourth Midnight Awards, 10:30 pm, Saturday, April 23 at the W San Francisco. The Midnight Awards takes the form of a late night talk show, hosted by Beth Lisick, New York Times best-selling author and coorganizer of the Porchlight Storytelling Series, with live musical accompaniment by the Darren Johnston Trio. Lisick will interview Collins and his previously announced Midnight Award corecipient Zoe Saldana. Clips of their work will be shown prior to the presentation of the awards. More at fest11.sffs.org.
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april 22 2011
Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Apr 15, 2011Films in the 54th SFIFF immerse viewers in distant times, unique places.
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Festivals
Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Apr 15, 2011Films in the 54th SFIFF immerse viewers in distant times, unique places.
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Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Apr 15, 2011Films in the 54th SFIFF immerse viewers in distant times, unique places.
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Reviews
Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Apr 15, 2011Films in the 54th SFIFF immerse viewers in distant times, unique places.
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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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April 5, 2011
An Evening with Les Blank
Apr 7, 2011Award-winning Bay Area director Les Blank introduces his 1969 short film, ‘The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins,’ and his 1979 project, ‘Always for Pleasure,’ which play at Red Vic Movie House. Viewers receive rice and beans made with Les’ special recipe. More at redvicmoviehouse.com.
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News & Blogs
54th San Francisco International Film Festival Will Present Founder’s Directing Award to Oliver Stone
Apr 7, 2011Press release: The San Francisco Film Society announced today that Oliver Stone will be the recipient of the Founder’s Directing Award at the 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21–May 5). The FDA will be presented to Stone at Film Society Awards Night, Thursday, April 28 at Bimbo’s 365 Club. The Film Society’s Youth Education program will be the beneficiary of the fundraiser honoring Stone. The soon-to-be-announced recipient of the Peter J. Owens Award for excellence in acting and Frank Pierson, recipient of the Kanbar Award for excellence in screenwriting will also be honored. More at sffs.org.
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03.31.11
SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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Festivals
SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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03.31.11
Haynes Reaches Mainstream with Thoroughly Modern ‘Mildred’
Michael Fox
Mar 27, 2011Todd Haynes talks melodrama, movies, TV, the Great Depression and personal motivation.
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Haynes Reaches Mainstream with Thoroughly Modern ‘Mildred’
Michael Fox
Mar 27, 2011Todd Haynes talks melodrama, movies, TV, the Great Depression and personal motivation.
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Q & A
Haynes Reaches Mainstream with Thoroughly Modern ‘Mildred’
Michael Fox
Mar 27, 2011Todd Haynes talks melodrama, movies, TV, the Great Depression and personal motivation.
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March 22, 2011
'Voces Inocentes'
Mar 24, 2011Screenwriter Oscar Torres appears in person at Mission Cultural Center to talk following his award winning film ‘Voces Inocentes,’ based on Torres’ real-life tale of growing up and avoiding mandatory army recruitment in San Salvador. More at missionculturalcenter.org.
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The Future Messes with Texas at SXSW
Sara Dosa
Mar 21, 2011New technology and futuristic themes featured prominently at South by Southwest this year.
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The Future Messes with Texas at SXSW
Sara Dosa
Mar 21, 2011New technology and futuristic themes featured prominently at South by Southwest this year.
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March 24, 2011
The Future Messes with Texas at SXSW
Sara Dosa
Mar 21, 2011New technology and futuristic themes featured prominently at South by Southwest this year.
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March 15, 2011
‘You Won’t Miss Me’
Mar 18, 2011Ry Russo-Young’s 2009 Gotham Independent Film Award winner and Sundance Film Festival Selection, ‘You Won’t Miss Me,’ plays for one week at Roxie Theater. The film features Stella Schnabel, who plays a 23 year-old just released from a psychiatric hospital. More at roxie.com.
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SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Adam Hartzell
Mar 10, 2011At nearly 30, SF Int’l Asian American Film Festival fulfills a multifacted programming mission. The 29th edition of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival stretches across the Bay Area, from San Francisco to Berkeley to San Jose March 10–20, bringing “Stories to Light” as the Center for Asian American Media's new tagline says. Indeed, both the stories and their potential audiences would be left in the dark without the solid efforts of new festival steward Misashi Niwano and Christine Kwon (festival director and managing director, respectively). In a city privileged with a vast...
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March 10, 2011
SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Adam Hartzell
Mar 10, 2011At nearly 30, SF Int’l Asian American Film Festival fulfills a multifacted programming mission. The 29th edition of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival stretches across the Bay Area, from San Francisco to Berkeley to San Jose March 10–20, bringing “Stories to Light” as the Center for Asian American Media's new tagline says. Indeed, both the stories and their potential audiences would be left in the dark without the solid efforts of new festival steward Misashi Niwano and Christine Kwon (festival director and managing director, respectively). In a city privileged with a vast...
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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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Reviews
'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
Ariel Award Best Picture 'Nora's Will'
Mar 4, 2011Mariana Chenillo’s comedy ‘Nora’s Will' (Cinco Dias Sin Nora), winner of seven Mexican Ariel Awards, including best picture, actor, supporting actress and screenplay opens at the Smith Rafael as well as Landmark's Bridge and Shattuck. More at cafilm.org and landmarktheatres.com.
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March 1, 2011
Ariel Award Best Picture 'Nora's Will'
Mar 4, 2011Mariana Chenillo’s comedy ‘Nora’s Will' (Cinco Dias Sin Nora), winner of seven Mexican Ariel Awards, including best picture, actor, supporting actress and screenplay opens at the Smith Rafael as well as Landmark's Bridge and Shattuck. More at cafilm.org and landmarktheatres.com.
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March 1, 2011
'Exposed on Film'
Mar 4, 2011San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Castro Theatre present ‘Exposed on Film,’ a three-day series featuring films that explore the themes presented in the concurrent San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s exhibit, Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870, including Warhol's 'The Nude Restaurant,' Antonioni's 'Blow Up' and David Lynch's 'Lost Highway.' More at castrotheatre.com and sfmoma.org.
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News & Blogs
SFIFF54 Announces Documentaries in Golden Gate Awards, Films in New Directors Competition
Mar 4, 2011Press release: The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21 - May 5) today announced its documentaries in competition for the Golden Gate Awards and films in competition for the New Directors Prize. The International will award close to $100,000 in total prizes this year. Sixty thousand dollars will be awarded to winners in three categories: investigative documentary feature ($25,000), documentary feature ($20,000) and Bay Area documentary feature ($15,000). The New Directors Prize of $15,000 is given to a narrative first feature that exhibits a unique artistic sensibility and deserves to be seen by as wide an audience as possible. Seventeen countries contributed to the production of the 11 films in this year's competition. Click through for titles or visit sffs.org.
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Ehrlich Clicks with Icelandic ‘Mouse’
Michael Fox
Mar 2, 2011After her own Assange story broke big, a Bay Area filmmaker followed another lead...to Iceland.
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Ehrlich Clicks with Icelandic ‘Mouse’
Michael Fox
Mar 2, 2011After her own Assange story broke big, a Bay Area filmmaker followed another lead...to Iceland.
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March 3, 2011
Ehrlich Clicks with Icelandic ‘Mouse’
Michael Fox
Mar 2, 2011After her own Assange story broke big, a Bay Area filmmaker followed another lead...to Iceland.
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News & Blogs
LA Times: "Oscars: 'Inside Job' Wins for Documentary Feature"
Feb 27, 2011LA Times Blogs: "Inside Job” won the Oscar for documentary feature at the 83rd Academy Awards on Sunday night. “Inside Job” is an exploration of the causes and corollaries of the 2008 financial crisis. The award goes to Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs." More at latimesblogs.latimes.com. And from SF360.org: Bay Area-based Ferguson's speech began with a statement of fact, "After financial fraud not a single financial executive has gone to jail," before thanking his colleagues.
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February 22, 2011
'The Woman Chaser'
Feb 25, 2011Director Robinson Devor and actor Patrick Warburton are in person at Roxie Theater to show their 1999 noir film, ‘The Woman Chaser,’ which tells the story of a used care salesman who strives to write and direct his own film in an attempt to find fame and fortune. More at roxie.com.
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SF Indiefest Announces Audience Award Winners
Feb 23, 2011Press Release: The Audience Award winners for the 13th San Francisco Independent Film Festival include ‘Kaboom,’ named as Best Narrative Feature, ‘Bathing and the Single Girl’ for Best Narrative Short, ‘Free Radicals’ for Best Documentary, ‘Burning Wigs of Sedition’ for Best Music Video and ‘Mars’ for Best Animated Film. More at sfindie.com.
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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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'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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February 24, 2011
Mitchell Block Brings Oscar Attention to Vets
Jessica Sapick
Feb 21, 2011Producer and teacher Mitchell Block talks about the making of great films, including the Oscar-nominated 'Poster Girl.'
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Mitchell Block Brings Oscar Attention to Vets
Jessica Sapick
Feb 21, 2011Producer and teacher Mitchell Block talks about the making of great films, including the Oscar-nominated 'Poster Girl.'
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Q & A
Mitchell Block Brings Oscar Attention to Vets
Jessica Sapick
Feb 21, 2011Producer and teacher Mitchell Block talks about the making of great films, including the Oscar-nominated 'Poster Girl.'
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February 10, 2011
Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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Reviews
Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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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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February 1, 2011
'We Women Warriors'
Feb 3, 2011Filmmaker Nicole Karsin shares the latest cut of her documentary ‘We Women Warriors,’ which showcases three Colombian women’s nonviolent efforts to protect their liberties while caught in the crosshairs of a rebellious war. The film plays at The Women’s Building. More at wewomenwarriors.com.
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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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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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Olsson Feels ‘Soldier’s Heart’ Beat
Michael Fox
Jan 26, 2011Stephen Olsson looks into novel methods of treating PTSD in 'A Soldier’s Heart and the Long Road Home.'
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Olsson Feels ‘Soldier’s Heart’ Beat
Michael Fox
Jan 26, 2011Stephen Olsson looks into novel methods of treating PTSD in 'A Soldier’s Heart and the Long Road Home.'
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January 27, 2011
Olsson Feels ‘Soldier’s Heart’ Beat
Michael Fox
Jan 26, 2011Stephen Olsson looks into novel methods of treating PTSD in 'A Soldier’s Heart and the Long Road Home.'
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Olsson Feels ‘Soldier’s Heart’ Beat
Michael Fox
Jan 26, 2011Stephen Olsson looks into novel methods of treating PTSD in 'A Soldier’s Heart and the Long Road Home.'
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Olsson Feels ‘Soldier’s Heart’ Beat
Michael Fox
Jan 26, 2011Stephen Olsson looks into novel methods of treating PTSD in 'A Soldier’s Heart and the Long Road Home.'
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January 27, 2011
Olsson Feels ‘Soldier’s Heart’ Beat
Michael Fox
Jan 26, 2011Stephen Olsson looks into novel methods of treating PTSD in 'A Soldier’s Heart and the Long Road Home.'
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Temporary Insanity Takes Hold at Noir City
Max Goldberg
Jan 21, 2011Noir City 9's "madness" theme means a few more gothic titles and a fresh context to appreciate noir’s signature motifs.
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January 27, 2011
Temporary Insanity Takes Hold at Noir City
Max Goldberg
Jan 21, 2011Noir City 9's "madness" theme means a few more gothic titles and a fresh context to appreciate noir’s signature motifs.
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Temporary Insanity Takes Hold at Noir City
Max Goldberg
Jan 21, 2011Noir City 9's "madness" theme means a few more gothic titles and a fresh context to appreciate noir’s signature motifs.
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News & Blogs
SFFS Presents Fever Dreams: Laurel Nakadate
Jan 19, 2011Press release: The San Francisco Film Society will present Fever Dreams: Laurel Nakadate, a multiplatform presentation of the work of American multimedia artist Laurel Nakadate, February 23–March 2. Fever Dreams kicks off KinoTek 2011–12, an eclectic series of programs dedicated to cross-platform and emergent media, supported by a two-year, $80,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. More at sffs.org.
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January 11, 2010
World Cinema Foundation: Safeguarding Cinematic Treasures Series
Jan 15, 2011Pacific Film Archive Theater offers the World Cinema Foundation: Safeguarding Cinematic Treasures series, highlighting WCF's preservation efforts. It opens with Edward Yang's 1991 ‘A Brighter Summer Day’. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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De Oliveira's 'Angelica' Balming, Enlivening
Dennis Harvey
Jan 7, 2011'The Strange Case of Angelica' finds Manoel de Oliveira, at 102 years old, in fine form.
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January 13, 2011
De Oliveira's 'Angelica' Balming, Enlivening
Dennis Harvey
Jan 7, 2011'The Strange Case of Angelica' finds Manoel de Oliveira, at 102 years old, in fine form.
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De Oliveira's 'Angelica' Balming, Enlivening
Dennis Harvey
Jan 7, 2011'The Strange Case of Angelica' finds Manoel de Oliveira, at 102 years old, in fine form.
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'Deathstalker' Muscles its Way Back to Big Screen
Dennis Harvey
Jan 6, 2011Sword, sandals and a sinister real-life epilogue: 'Deathstalker' earns top billing in a Midnite for Maniacs evening at the Castro. As one of 1982's bigger box-office hits, Conan the Barbarian accomplished two things. First, it finally made a movie star out of thick-bodied, thicker-accented Arnold Schwarzenegger after several failed attempts. Second, it spawned a legion of cheaper imitations cashing in on the early 1980s' seemingly bottomless need for films to fill cable airtime and video rental shelves. (Remember, until that time there the only commercial outlets for movies were theatrical release and network TV—so these were entirely...
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January 6, 2010
'Deathstalker' Muscles its Way Back to Big Screen
Dennis Harvey
Jan 6, 2011Sword, sandals and a sinister real-life epilogue: 'Deathstalker' earns top billing in a Midnite for Maniacs evening at the Castro. As one of 1982's bigger box-office hits, Conan the Barbarian accomplished two things. First, it finally made a movie star out of thick-bodied, thicker-accented Arnold Schwarzenegger after several failed attempts. Second, it spawned a legion of cheaper imitations cashing in on the early 1980s' seemingly bottomless need for films to fill cable airtime and video rental shelves. (Remember, until that time there the only commercial outlets for movies were theatrical release and network TV—so these were entirely...
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area
Susan Gerhard
Dec 24, 2010The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.
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Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area
Susan Gerhard
Dec 24, 2010The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.
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January 6, 2010
Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area
Susan Gerhard
Dec 24, 2010The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.
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Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area
Susan Gerhard
Dec 24, 2010The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.
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December 23, 2010
Film 2010: Top Tens
Susan Gerhard
Dec 23, 2010Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: Top Tens
Susan Gerhard
Dec 23, 2010Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
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Film 2010: Top Tens
Susan Gerhard
Dec 23, 2010Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
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Reviews
Film 2010: Top Tens
Susan Gerhard
Dec 23, 2010Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
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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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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 23, 2010
Film 2010: The Year in Quotes
Michael Fox
Dec 17, 2010Outspoken and rarely understated, Bay Area filmmakers took center stage in 2010.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: The Year in Quotes
Michael Fox
Dec 17, 2010Outspoken and rarely understated, Bay Area filmmakers took center stage in 2010.
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Film 2010: The Year in Quotes
Michael Fox
Dec 17, 2010Outspoken and rarely understated, Bay Area filmmakers took center stage in 2010.
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Film 2010: The Year in Quotes
Michael Fox
Dec 17, 2010Outspoken and rarely understated, Bay Area filmmakers took center stage in 2010.
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December 16, 2010
Film 2010: 'Social Network' Tops S.F. Film Critics Circle Awards
Susan Gerhard
Dec 14, 2010San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners for 2010 included 'Social Network,' 'Black Swan,' 'The Tillman Story' and Elliot Lavine.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: 'Social Network' Tops S.F. Film Critics Circle Awards
Susan Gerhard
Dec 14, 2010San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners for 2010 included 'Social Network,' 'Black Swan,' 'The Tillman Story' and Elliot Lavine.
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Film 2010: 'Social Network' Tops S.F. Film Critics Circle Awards
Susan Gerhard
Dec 14, 2010San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners for 2010 included 'Social Network,' 'Black Swan,' 'The Tillman Story' and Elliot Lavine.
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Film 2010: 'Social Network' Tops S.F. Film Critics Circle Awards
Susan Gerhard
Dec 14, 2010San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners for 2010 included 'Social Network,' 'Black Swan,' 'The Tillman Story' and Elliot Lavine.
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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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November 30, 2010
'The Temptation of St. Tony'
Dec 3, 2010Veiko Õunpuu's dream-like study of a middle-aged man’s morality struggle has drawn comparisons to the work of cinema’s most notorious surrealists. ‘The Temptation of St. Tony’ is Estonia’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. Plays at the Roxie. More at roxie.com.
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November 30, 2010
Rough Cuts at The Lab: ‘We Women Warriors’
Nov 30, 2010A local drug war, an unjust court case and an ignorant police state are the antagonists to three resilient native Colombians in Nicole Karsin’s documentary-in-progress, ‘We Women Warriors.’ More at thelab.org.
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News & Blogs
Criterioncast: Oscar Documentary Shortlist with Trailers
Nov 30, 2010Bay Area filmmaker Charles Ferguson's 'Inside Job' was among the 15 documentaries on the Academy Awards shortlist. Joshua Brunsting at Criterioncast offers the full roundup with trailers. More at criterioncast.com.
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December 2, 2010
Malmberg Builds a Following with 'Marwencol'
Jessica Sapick
Nov 29, 2010A first-team non-fiction feature filmmaker hits it big with miniatures story.
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Malmberg Builds a Following with 'Marwencol'
Jessica Sapick
Nov 29, 2010A first-team non-fiction feature filmmaker hits it big with miniatures story.
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Malmberg Builds a Following with 'Marwencol'
Jessica Sapick
Nov 29, 2010A first-team non-fiction feature filmmaker hits it big with miniatures story.
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Season's Screenings Bring out Best Films of the Year
Dennis Harvey
Nov 24, 2010The year closes with six weeks of strong foreign and arthouse awards-seekers as well as solid franchise holiday entertainments.
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November 24, 2010
Season's Screenings Bring out Best Films of the Year
Dennis Harvey
Nov 24, 2010The year closes with six weeks of strong foreign and arthouse awards-seekers as well as solid franchise holiday entertainments.
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Season's Screenings Bring out Best Films of the Year
Dennis Harvey
Nov 24, 2010The year closes with six weeks of strong foreign and arthouse awards-seekers as well as solid franchise holiday entertainments.
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Season's Screenings Bring out Best Films of the Year
Dennis Harvey
Nov 24, 2010The year closes with six weeks of strong foreign and arthouse awards-seekers as well as solid franchise holiday entertainments.
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November 24, 2010
Season's Screenings Bring out Best Films of the Year
Dennis Harvey
Nov 24, 2010The year closes with six weeks of strong foreign and arthouse awards-seekers as well as solid franchise holiday entertainments.
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Season's Screenings Bring out Best Films of the Year
Dennis Harvey
Nov 24, 2010The year closes with six weeks of strong foreign and arthouse awards-seekers as well as solid franchise holiday entertainments.
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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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November 16, 2010
‘Life During Wartime’
Nov 16, 2010Writer-director Todd Solondz revisits familiar themes and characters in his latest offering, a sequel to 1998’s critically acclaimed ‘Happiness.’ In ‘Life During Wartime’ Solondz proves he is one dark comedy’s most serious players as he further dissects the struggles of the Jordan family. Plays at the Red Vic on $7 night. More at redvicmoviehouse.com.
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November 10, 2010
‘Ran’ turns 25 at the Castro
Nov 11, 2010Akira Kurosawa was well into his 70s when he began shooting ‘Ran,’ the war epic that took over a year to film and was then Japan’s most expensive movie in history. The Castro Theater celebrates the 25th anniversary of Kurosawa’s 'King Lear' adaptation, which the iconic director considered his best film. More at castrotheatre.com.
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San Francisco Film Society Announces Finalists for SFFS/Hearst Screenwriting Grant
Nov 11, 2010Press release: The San Francisco Film Society announced today the finalists and honorable mention for the second SFFS/Hearst Screenwriting Grant. The grant of $15,000 will be awarded to a mid-career screenwriter who has been a practicing writer for at least five years and who has previously written a minimum of one feature screenplay. Finalists are Topaz Adizes, Eric Escobar, Brent Hoff, Roja Gashtili, Maryam Keshavarz, Beverly Kopf and Bobbi Birleffi, Paul Lobo Portuges, David Munro, Jennifer Phang and Dominac Mah. Honorable mention went to Richard Strasser. More at sffs.org.
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November 10, 2010
Roman Polanski Shorts with Live Music by Sza/Za
Nov 10, 2010Taking the legendary director of 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Pianist' out of headlines and back to his filmmaking and geographic roots, this program pairs a live performance by Warsaw electro-acoustic duo Sza/Za with early Polanski shorts at Letterman Digital Arts Center’s Premier Theater. More at sffs.org.
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Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
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Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
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November 11, 2010
Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
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Assayas Recreates Revolution with 'Carlos'
Max Goldberg
Nov 5, 2010Olivier Assayas's 'Carlos' chases after a notorious phantom. Since premiering out of competition at Cannes, nearly all the write-ups of Olivier Assayas’s Carlos have located the film amidst the post–War on Terror flurry of dramatizations of the self-styled revolutionaries of the 1960s and ’70s (e.g. Che, United Red Army, The Baader Meinhof Complex and locally produced documentary The Weather Underground). This is as it should be: it’s often noted that Assayas wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma before he became a filmmaker, but more than his other movies Carlos works as criticism. In particular, it’s clear that Assayas is having....
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November 4, 2010
Assayas Recreates Revolution with 'Carlos'
Max Goldberg
Nov 5, 2010Olivier Assayas's 'Carlos' chases after a notorious phantom. Since premiering out of competition at Cannes, nearly all the write-ups of Olivier Assayas’s Carlos have located the film amidst the post–War on Terror flurry of dramatizations of the self-styled revolutionaries of the 1960s and ’70s (e.g. Che, United Red Army, The Baader Meinhof Complex and locally produced documentary The Weather Underground). This is as it should be: it’s often noted that Assayas wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma before he became a filmmaker, but more than his other movies Carlos works as criticism. In particular, it’s clear that Assayas is having....
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Essential SF: Rick Prelinger
Dennis Harvey
Nov 2, 2010Rick Prelinger’s efforts at preserving ephemeral films have made him indispensable to the cinema of San Francisco—and the world.
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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Rick Prelinger
Dennis Harvey
Nov 2, 2010Rick Prelinger’s efforts at preserving ephemeral films have made him indispensable to the cinema of San Francisco—and the world.
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Brown Follows Injuries in ‘Going the Distance’
Michael Fox
Oct 27, 2010David L. Brown explores traumatic brain injuries with 'Going the Distance.' When ABC’s Bob Woodruff and his cameraman were badly injured by an IED in Iraq in January of 2006, it was the top story for days. We may not know any of the estimated 320,000 soldiers who’ve returned home with traumatic brain injuries (TBI), but we do remember the co-anchor of World News Tonight. To his credit, he and his family created the Bob Woodruff Foundation to advocate for and raise money for veterans with head injuries, and to educate the public. Longtime Brisbane documentary maker David L. Brown was at one of those benefits, a 22-mile traverse....
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October 28, 2010
Brown Follows Injuries in ‘Going the Distance’
Michael Fox
Oct 27, 2010David L. Brown explores traumatic brain injuries with 'Going the Distance.' When ABC’s Bob Woodruff and his cameraman were badly injured by an IED in Iraq in January of 2006, it was the top story for days. We may not know any of the estimated 320,000 soldiers who’ve returned home with traumatic brain injuries (TBI), but we do remember the co-anchor of World News Tonight. To his credit, he and his family created the Bob Woodruff Foundation to advocate for and raise money for veterans with head injuries, and to educate the public. Longtime Brisbane documentary maker David L. Brown was at one of those benefits, a 22-mile traverse....
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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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Mike Ott on the Guileless Filmmaking of 'Littlerock'
Jessica Sapick
Oct 25, 2010Mike Ott, now up for a Gotham Award, speaks on filmmaking process and his indie film 'Littlerock.'
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October 28, 2010
Mike Ott on the Guileless Filmmaking of 'Littlerock'
Jessica Sapick
Oct 25, 2010Mike Ott, now up for a Gotham Award, speaks on filmmaking process and his indie film 'Littlerock.'
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Q & A
Mike Ott on the Guileless Filmmaking of 'Littlerock'
Jessica Sapick
Oct 25, 2010Mike Ott, now up for a Gotham Award, speaks on filmmaking process and his indie film 'Littlerock.'
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October 19, 2010
Taiwan Film Days
Oct 22, 2010The San Francisco Film Society presents a three-day showcase of contemporary Taiwanese films at VIZ Cinema at New People. Niu Doze's crime saga 'Monga' opens the festival and is Taiwan's entry to for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. More at sffs.org; look for a feature later this week on sf360.org.
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October 19, 2010
Berlin & Beyond Film Festival
Oct 22, 2010The Berlin & Beyond Film Festival returns to the Castro with its collection of contemporary cinema from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. ‘Die Fremde’ is the centerpiece film (and Germany’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards) about a young woman living in Istanbul who, along with her son, decides to leave her abusive husband and reunite with her family in Berlin. More at berlinbeyond.com.
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Charles Ferguson Solves ‘Inside Job’
Michael Fox
Oct 18, 2010Charles Ferguson offers intel on the world financial crisis with 'Inside Job.'
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October 21, 2010
Charles Ferguson Solves ‘Inside Job’
Michael Fox
Oct 18, 2010Charles Ferguson offers intel on the world financial crisis with 'Inside Job.'
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Q & A
Charles Ferguson Solves ‘Inside Job’
Michael Fox
Oct 18, 2010Charles Ferguson offers intel on the world financial crisis with 'Inside Job.'
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October 12, 2010
Tough Guys: Images of Jewish Gangsters in Film
Oct 17, 2010Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival offer plenty to chew on in the series Tough Guys: Images of Jewish Gangsters in Film. Mervyn LeRoys’ ‘Little Caesar’ has Edward G. Robinson as an Italian gangster in a breakout performance. The series plays through the month of October. More at ybca.org.
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Festivals
'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival
Robert Avila
Oct 14, 2010Appearances deceive in Lyès Salem’s 'Masquerades,' at the Arab Film Festival.
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'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival
Robert Avila
Oct 14, 2010Appearances deceive in Lyès Salem’s 'Masquerades,' at the Arab Film Festival.
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October 14, 2010
'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival
Robert Avila
Oct 14, 2010Appearances deceive in Lyès Salem’s 'Masquerades,' at the Arab Film Festival.
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Rwanda Moves Forward in New Documentary
Susan Gerhard
Sep 30, 2010The latest Deborah Scranton film takes another look at the Rwandan genocide.
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Q & A
Rwanda Moves Forward in New Documentary
Susan Gerhard
Sep 30, 2010The latest Deborah Scranton film takes another look at the Rwandan genocide.
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September 30, 2010
Rwanda Moves Forward in New Documentary
Susan Gerhard
Sep 30, 2010The latest Deborah Scranton film takes another look at the Rwandan genocide.
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Rwanda Moves Forward in New Documentary
Susan Gerhard
Sep 30, 2010The latest Deborah Scranton film takes another look at the Rwandan genocide.
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Q & A
Rwanda Moves Forward in New Documentary
Susan Gerhard
Sep 30, 2010The latest Deborah Scranton film takes another look at the Rwandan genocide.
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September 30, 2010
Rwanda Moves Forward in New Documentary
Susan Gerhard
Sep 30, 2010The latest Deborah Scranton film takes another look at the Rwandan genocide.
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September 21, 2010
SF Irish Film Festival
Sep 23, 2010The San Francisco Irish Film Festival offers Roxie audiences three days of contemporary Irish cinema, including features, documentaries and short films paired with free pints of Irish cider. Closing night film 'His & Hers' won the Cinematography Award at Sundance 2010.
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Irving Glides from Parrots to Pelicans
Michael Fox
Sep 22, 2010Judy Irving goes from parrots to pelicans with her new documentary.
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September 23, 2010
Irving Glides from Parrots to Pelicans
Michael Fox
Sep 22, 2010Judy Irving goes from parrots to pelicans with her new documentary.
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Lixin Fan's 'Train' Arrives
Michael Fox
Sep 20, 2010The creator of award-winning documentary 'Last Train Home' speaks about the new China.
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Q & A
Lixin Fan's 'Train' Arrives
Michael Fox
Sep 20, 2010The creator of award-winning documentary 'Last Train Home' speaks about the new China.
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September 23, 2010
Lixin Fan's 'Train' Arrives
Michael Fox
Sep 20, 2010The creator of award-winning documentary 'Last Train Home' speaks about the new China.
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September 14, 2010
San Francisco Latino Film Festival
Sep 20, 2010The San Francisco Latino Film Festival, which runs through September 26, kicks off this week with a screening of director Javier Fuentes-Léon's 'Contracorriente' at the Roxie.
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September 14, 2010
'A Brighter Summer Day'
Sep 16, 2010Edward Yang died too soon, but his work remains: An uncut and newly restored version of Yang's intense and epic portrait of life in '60s Taiwan plays at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
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Digital
Online Film Contests: Friend or Foe?
Hannah Eaves
Sep 14, 2010Contemplating the pros and cons of entering online film contests.
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Online Film Contests: Friend or Foe?
Hannah Eaves
Sep 14, 2010Contemplating the pros and cons of entering online film contests.
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September 16, 2010
Online Film Contests: Friend or Foe?
Hannah Eaves
Sep 14, 2010Contemplating the pros and cons of entering online film contests.
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Phil Spector, the Spectacle, Viewed in New Doc
Dennis Harvey
Sep 10, 2010A look at Phil Spector brings back memories, if not that loving feeling.
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Reviews
Phil Spector, the Spectacle, Viewed in New Doc
Dennis Harvey
Sep 10, 2010A look at Phil Spector brings back memories, if not that loving feeling.
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Mallimson surveys 'Edge of the Wild' on San Bruno Mountain
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2010A filmmaker shows environmentalists who are changing the way we as Americans relate to nature.
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In Production
Mallimson surveys 'Edge of the Wild' on San Bruno Mountain
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2010A filmmaker shows environmentalists who are changing the way we as Americans relate to nature.
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September 9 2010
Mallimson surveys 'Edge of the Wild' on San Bruno Mountain
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2010A filmmaker shows environmentalists who are changing the way we as Americans relate to nature.
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'Them Greeks' Tests Independent Digital Production Model
Jessica Sapick
Sep 7, 2010An animator collaborates over the ether to bring 'Them Greeks....!' to life.
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Q & A
'Them Greeks' Tests Independent Digital Production Model
Jessica Sapick
Sep 7, 2010An animator collaborates over the ether to bring 'Them Greeks....!' to life.
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September 9 2010
'Them Greeks' Tests Independent Digital Production Model
Jessica Sapick
Sep 7, 2010An animator collaborates over the ether to bring 'Them Greeks....!' to life.
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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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Going McCarey's Way
Dennis Harvey
Sep 2, 2010A Mechanics' Institute series appreciates Leo McCarey's genius with comedy.
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Reviews
Going McCarey's Way
Dennis Harvey
Sep 2, 2010A Mechanics' Institute series appreciates Leo McCarey's genius with comedy.
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September 2, 2010
Going McCarey's Way
Dennis Harvey
Sep 2, 2010A Mechanics' Institute series appreciates Leo McCarey's genius with comedy.
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'Sweet' Beat Drives Fruchtmans’ Rwanda Doc
Michael Fox
Sep 1, 2010Lisa Fruchtman moves from feature-film editing to documentary film directing with a hopeful story out of Rwanda.
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In Production
'Sweet' Beat Drives Fruchtmans’ Rwanda Doc
Michael Fox
Sep 1, 2010Lisa Fruchtman moves from feature-film editing to documentary film directing with a hopeful story out of Rwanda.
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September 2, 2010
'Sweet' Beat Drives Fruchtmans’ Rwanda Doc
Michael Fox
Sep 1, 2010Lisa Fruchtman moves from feature-film editing to documentary film directing with a hopeful story out of Rwanda.
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Bar-Lev on the True 'Tillman Story'
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2010Amir Bar-Lev follows a family's continuing fight in 'The Tillman Story.'
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Q & A
Bar-Lev on the True 'Tillman Story'
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2010Amir Bar-Lev follows a family's continuing fight in 'The Tillman Story.'
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September 2, 2010
Bar-Lev on the True 'Tillman Story'
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2010Amir Bar-Lev follows a family's continuing fight in 'The Tillman Story.'
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August 17, 2010
'The Man Who Knew Too Much' at the Paramount
Aug 20, 2010Jimmy Stewart becomes ensnared in a Moroccan-set assassination plot in 'The Man Who Knew Too Much.' One of Hitchcock's most suspenseful films, it screens at Oakland's gilded movie palace, the Paramount Theatre.
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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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August 17, 2010
Junichi Suzuki's War Documentaries
Aug 17, 2010'Live with Honor, Die with Dignity' and 'Toyo's Camera,' two films by Bay Area filmmaker Junichi Suzuki that look at the war at home and abroad for Japanese Americans during WWII, play three final days August 17-19 at Viz Cinema.
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August 19 2010
Maoz Speaks of the Limits of Language in 'Lebanon'
Jessica Sapick
Aug 16, 2010The Lebanon War of 1982 informs Samuel Maoz's 'Lebanon.'
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Maoz Speaks of the Limits of Language in 'Lebanon'
Jessica Sapick
Aug 16, 2010The Lebanon War of 1982 informs Samuel Maoz's 'Lebanon.'
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Q & A
Maoz Speaks of the Limits of Language in 'Lebanon'
Jessica Sapick
Aug 16, 2010The Lebanon War of 1982 informs Samuel Maoz's 'Lebanon.'
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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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08-05-2010
Looking to the Skies for Cinema
Gianmaria Franchini
Aug 5, 2010Think summer's almost over? In the Bay Area, think again: Outdoor screenings are just getting started.
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Festivals
Looking to the Skies for Cinema
Gianmaria Franchini
Aug 5, 2010Think summer's almost over? In the Bay Area, think again: Outdoor screenings are just getting started.
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Looking to the Skies for Cinema
Gianmaria Franchini
Aug 5, 2010Think summer's almost over? In the Bay Area, think again: Outdoor screenings are just getting started.
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News & Blogs
Beyond the Box: ITVS Programs Nominated for Six Emmys
Jul 26, 2010"The nominees for the 31st Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards were announced today and ITVS programs received an impressive six nominations," reports Beyond the Box.
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Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'
Michael Fox
Jul 23, 2010Three films document essential chunks of San Francisco's tragic and mythic past, told in empathetic but non-hagiographic testimony.
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In Depth
Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'
Michael Fox
Jul 23, 2010Three films document essential chunks of San Francisco's tragic and mythic past, told in empathetic but non-hagiographic testimony.
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07-21-2010
Wilson-Shepard Doc Blooms in AIDS Grove
Michael Fox
Jul 21, 2010Tom Shepard and Andy Abrahams Wilson are redefining activist filmmaking with educational films, such as their documentary on the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park.
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Wilson-Shepard Doc Blooms in AIDS Grove
Michael Fox
Jul 21, 2010Tom Shepard and Andy Abrahams Wilson are redefining activist filmmaking with educational films, such as their documentary on the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park.
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In Production
Wilson-Shepard Doc Blooms in AIDS Grove
Michael Fox
Jul 21, 2010Tom Shepard and Andy Abrahams Wilson are redefining activist filmmaking with educational films, such as their documentary on the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park.
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Koons Garcia Runs Fingers Through 'Soil'
Michael Fox
Jul 14, 2010Deborah Koons Garcia's latest film explores the mystery and complexities of one of the earth's most valuable resources.
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In Production
Koons Garcia Runs Fingers Through 'Soil'
Michael Fox
Jul 14, 2010Deborah Koons Garcia's latest film explores the mystery and complexities of one of the earth's most valuable resources.
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Home
Media Pulse: A Crude Interpretation of the Law
Jennifer Preissel
Jul 1, 2010Jennifer Preissel examines the film and the court case that could redefine a journalist’s protection under First Amendment rights.
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In Depth
Media Pulse: A Crude Interpretation of the Law
Jennifer Preissel
Jul 1, 2010Jennifer Preissel examines the film and the court case that could redefine a journalist’s protection under First Amendment rights.
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Festivals
Storylines of Silverdocs 2010
Sara Dosa
Jul 1, 2010Storytelling took center stage at the U.S.'s pre-eminent documentary film festival, Silverdocs, headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Storylines of Silverdocs 2010
Sara Dosa
Jul 1, 2010Storytelling took center stage at the U.S.'s pre-eminent documentary film festival, Silverdocs, headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Festivals
Frameline's History Lessons
Max Goldberg
Jun 24, 2010Frameline34 brought together a wide array of programs following the retrospective impulse.
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Festivals
Frameline34 Focuses on Warhol and Worlds of LGBT Cinema
Dennis Harvey
Jun 17, 2010Frameline34 takes a fresh look at Andy Warhol's world while offering a view to the world of international LGBT cinema 2010.
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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
San Francisco Habitue John Waters Offers Role Models
Michael Fox
Jun 10, 2010With a new book, gallery exhibition, appearances on local radio and stages, John Waters is quickly becoming a Bay Area fixture, a welcome addition to the film and cultural landscape.
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News & Blogs
Studio B Films Wins Telly Awards
Jun 8, 2010San Francisco-based video production company recognized for work for Adobe Systems and Izze Sparkling Juice.
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Reviews
On Loving the Best Worst Movie of All Time
Dennis Harvey
Jun 3, 2010For many, the mother of all brain-scrambling cinematic boondoggles is Troll 2; a documentary takes stock of the phenomenal success of this epic failure.
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Q & A
Poitras's Unexpected Path to 'The Oath'
Jessica Sapick
May 16, 2010Laura Poitras speaks during SFIFF53 about the process of creating The Oath from the stories of Osama Bin Laden's former bodyguard and driver.
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In Production
Griffin and Jordan Getting Nails Done
Michael Fox
May 12, 2010Today s fun fact: San Francisco has more nail salons per capita than any city in the country.
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Reviews
Conner Forever Moving Forward
Dennis Harvey
May 10, 2010Bruce Conner, the sculptor, painter, photographer and filmmaker who loomed large in the Bay Area's shifting avant-garde currents for 50 years, resurfaces with Three Screen Ray.
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News & Blogs
New York Times: 'A Filmmaker’s Quest for Journalistic Protection'
May 7, 2010Documentary film footage is caught in the middle of a court battle between Chevron and Ecuadorian plaintiffs over pollution of the Amazon rain forest.
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News & Blogs
SF Chronicle: 'S.F. Film Festival Bestows Prizes'
May 7, 2010Almost $300,000 was given out Wednesday night for awards and grants honoring documentary winners.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: Golden Gate Awards and Juried Prizes/Grants Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2010Cash prizes totaling nearly $300,000 for filmmakers highlighted the San Francisco International Film Festival s Golden Gate Awards Wednesday night.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: Golden Gate Awards and Juried Prizes/Grants Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2010Cash prizes totaling nearly $300,000 for filmmakers highlighted the San Francisco International Film Festival s Golden Gate Awards Wednesday night.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: War Stories
Matt Sussman
May 5, 2010Films about our species enduring capacity to be inhumane toward its own are perennials at festivals, and will be so as long as wars are waged.
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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: James Schamus, Roger Ebert and the Writing Life
Dennis Harvey
May 3, 2010Few would argue that a good movie often starts with a good story. Yet it has been the screenwriter s lot to be underappreciated.
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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: California Dreamin' at Film Society Awards Night
Susan Gerhard
Apr 30, 2010San Francisco itself took a lead role at Film Society Awards Night, the dinner and awards program benefiting the Film Society s year-round Youth Education initiative.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: The Art of Revival
Dennis Harvey
Apr 29, 2010Through most of its history, the Festival has featured revivals of restored classics and little-known gems. This year s selections run an unusually wide gamut.
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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: 'Utopia,' 'Morning'
SF360
Apr 27, 2010Live & Onstage thought globally and drafted locally with Sam Green and musician Dave Cerf s live Utopia in Four Movements, which never takes the exact same form.
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Q & A
Hernandez's Guilty Verdict
Michael Fox
Apr 26, 2010If there's a sure-fire crowd-pleaser in this year's San Francisco International Film Festival, it s Roberto Hernandez and Geoffrey Smith's Presumed Guilty.
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Reviews
'It Came from Kuchar,' 'La Mission' in Theatres
sf360
Apr 16, 2010Bay Area-made and Mission-inspired, Peter Bratt's La Mission joins Jennifer Kroot's wild and woolly It Came from Kuchar in Bay Area theaters this week.
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In Production
Rajendra Serber's Confident Steps into Film
Michael Fox
Apr 13, 2010From Michael Powell to Carlos Saura to Sally Potter, a stratum of directors has progressively reimagined the relationship between dance and film.
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Reviews
Epic Expectations in 'The Warlords'
Dennis Harvey
Apr 7, 2010When television first became a dire threat, Hollywood fought the small screen by making the big one really big with vast spectacles worth leaving home for.
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Story Structure
The Empathetic Storyteller
Karen Everett
Apr 6, 2010Beware of Save the Day My Way Syndrome. Now, learn from your mistakes.
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Story Structure
The Empathetic Storyteller
Karen Everett
Apr 6, 2010Beware of Save the Day My Way Syndrome. Now, learn from your mistakes.
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Reviews
Streetfilms' Two-Wheeled Revolution
Adam Hartzell
Mar 31, 2010Pedestrians have always propelled cinema narratives, but the bicycle has rarely had a starring role.
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In Production
Nuclear Family Secrets in Silvia's Atomic Mom
Michael Fox
Mar 30, 2010One of the oldest points of contention in documentary is whether the camera s presence alters the subject s behavior.
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Festivals
San Francisco International Film Festival's 53rd Edition
Susan Gerhard
Mar 30, 2010Director of Programming Rachel Rosen and programmers Rod Armstrong, Audrey Chang and Sean Uyehara shared thoughts on 177 films from 46 countries.
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In Production
Riffe's Raw Milk Germ
Michael Fox
Mar 23, 2010There's so much about this product called milk that we think we know everything about, declares Jed Riffe with his usual blend of enthusiasm and amazement.
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Q & A
Karim Ahmad on ITVS's Forward-Thinking FUTURESTATES
Adam Hartzell
Mar 21, 2010Think of U.S. public television and science fiction or any type of fiction doesn't spring to mind. ITVS aims to change that perception with a series of mini-features.
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Festivals
SF International Asian American Film Festival's Archival Tour
Adam Hartzell
Mar 19, 2010A theme that emerged in this year s SFIAFF was the importance of archives in the film world.
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In Production
Hiler and Brown's Visionary Music
Michael Fox
Mar 17, 2010The culture war is over, and the reactionaries have won. In this climate, Jerome Hiler and Owsley Brown III s Music Makes a City is a revelation,
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Q & A
'Lesh Sabreen?' On Red Vic Screen
Robert Avila
Mar 15, 2010Muayad Alayan, a 24-year-old filmmaker from the only remaining Arab neighborhood in West Jerusalem, was not even aware there was such a thing as Palestinian cinema until, as a teenager, he came to the Bay Area to visit his brother and sister.
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Reviews
Pixar's Latest Oscar High
Michael Fox
Mar 8, 2010Cementing its status as the preeminent animation company of the 00s, Pixar won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature for the third time in seven years.
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Reviews
Pixar's Latest Oscar High
Michael Fox
Mar 8, 2010Cementing its status as the preeminent animation company of the 00s, Pixar won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature for the third time in seven years.
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Reviews
Hurt and Belief in 'The Yellow Handkerchief'
Dennis Harvey
Mar 5, 2010William Hurt didn't fulfill the promise of major stardom in the 80s, but it's become clearer that he probably didn't want that.
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Q & A
Sid Ganis on Hollywood South and North
Michael Fox
Feb 28, 2010From his modest start as a staff writer at 20th Century Fox, Sid Ganis has built an uncommonly long and successful career in Hollywood.
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Reviews
Herzog's Unexpected 'My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done'
Dennis Harvey
Feb 19, 2010With its comfortable suburban setting, flashback structure and mystery-suspense framework, My Son, My Son is, by Herzogian standards, almost mainstream-conventional. I said almost.
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Reviews
As Oscars Approach, Winners Still Up in the Air
Dennis Harvey
Feb 16, 2010Last month's nominations announcement was anticipated with unusual interest, largely because the Academy reverted to ten Best Picture nominees, a practice abandoned in 1943.
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Q & A
Ehrlich, Goldsmith on Pentagon Papers
Michael Fox
Feb 14, 2010The Oscar nomination for The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers is a validation of the doc's right-now relevance.
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Q & A
Ehrlich, Goldsmith on Pentagon Papers
Michael Fox
Feb 14, 2010The Oscar nomination for The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers is a validation of the doc's right-now relevance.
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Story Structure
Best Length for Documentary Films
Karen Everett
Feb 9, 2010How long should your documentary be? If your audience begins to glaze over or feel restless, you've lost the opportunity to leave them wanting more.
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Reviews
Bay Area's Strong Presence at 82nd Oscars
Susan Gerhard
Feb 3, 2010Films with Bay Area connections featured prominently in the 82nd Academy Award nominations announced yesterday.
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Reviews
Bay Area's Strong Presence at 82nd Oscars
Susan Gerhard
Feb 3, 2010Films with Bay Area connections featured prominently in the 82nd Academy Award nominations announced yesterday.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Michael Lyons
Hilary Hart
Jan 28, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Ilya Tovbis
Hilary Hart
Jan 28, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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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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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Natalie Mulford
Hilary Hart
Jan 27, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Reviews
The Greatest Finds of My Generation
Susan Gerhard
Jan 26, 2010The harsh glare of the spotlight that brought Howl mixed reviews from critics on opening night of Sundance had melted into a warm glow by Saturday.
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Reviews
The Greatest Finds of My Generation
Susan Gerhard
Jan 26, 2010The harsh glare of the spotlight that brought Howl mixed reviews from critics on opening night of Sundance had melted into a warm glow by Saturday.
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Festivals
Darkness Of Noir City On Castro Screen
Dennis Harvey
Jan 20, 2010In late January, many tune their radar to the snowy, showy glare of Sundance. With Noir City here, the stay-at-homes are the luckier ones.
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Festivals
Nao Bustamante's 'Silver and Gold' in Park City
Glen Helfand
Jan 19, 2010The late, great Jack Smith was all about the strange sway classic Hollywood movies, particularly obscure stars and low-budget yet opulent art direction, have had on us.
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Reviews
Unspoken Fascist Future In Wings of White Ribbon
Matt Sussman
Jan 15, 2010In Michael Haneke's masterful film, everyone lives in fear and suspicion.
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Funding
Road-Tested Rules For Bang-up Fundraising Events
Holly Million
Jan 12, 2010Seems like every filmmaker I know is ready to party! Everyone s throwing fundraising events for their films. So many babes in the party-planning woods.
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Q & A
Jennifer Phang On Half-Life and Identity
Judy Stone
Jan 8, 2010Jennifer Phang has experienced more than enough culture shocks in her life to empathize with the identity challenges of the characters in her debut feature.
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Q & A
Animal-Rescue Mine In Katrina's Emotional Aftermath
Michael Fox
Jan 7, 2010Geralyn Pezanoski s doc about the separation and occasional reunion of pets and owners in post-Katrina New Orleans beat the shelf-life odds.
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Q & A
Animal-Rescue Mine In Katrina's Emotional Aftermath
Michael Fox
Jan 7, 2010Geralyn Pezanoski s doc about the separation and occasional reunion of pets and owners in post-Katrina New Orleans beat the shelf-life odds.
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Q & A
George Csicsery's Hard Problems
Michael Fox
Jan 4, 2010With more than 25 documentaries to his credit, many on mathematicians and scientists, George Csicsery is arguably the most prolific filmmaker in the Bay Area.
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Story Structure
Best Practices For Naming Sequences
Karen Everett
Dec 30, 2009For handy access to your most valuable footage, here s a method of organizing sequences.
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Reviews
Top 10s of the 2000s
Susan Gerhard
Dec 30, 2009Not surprisingly, Bay Area critics, fans, exhibitors and filmmakers did not arrive at a consensus on the best films of the decade.
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Reviews
Top 10s of 2009: Insiders and Fans
Susan Gerhard
Dec 29, 2009It was a big year for 3D, but Bay Area critics and film-industry folk found many other dimensions in the cinema of 2009.
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Reviews
Holiday Film Preview, Part II
Dennis Harvey
Dec 11, 2009Dennis Harvey weighs in on the upcoming films of the holiday season.
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Festivals
Wintering with the SF Silent Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Dec 9, 2009Highlights from the 2009 San Francisco Silent Film Festival winter event.
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In Production
Legal Eagle Eye Kristine Enea Zooms 'Off the Grid'
Michael Fox
Dec 8, 2009Kristine Enea's documentary shows The EcoCenter, a San Francisco environmental educational facility that treats and recycles wastewater and generates its own solar power.
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Q & A
Catherine Galasso's 'Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice'
Michael Fox
Dec 7, 2009Catherine Galasso talks about her performance piece Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice, which features dance, theater and projected video.
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Story Structure
Sequence Names
Karen Everett
Dec 1, 2009The Edit Room: Karen Everett shares tips on how to track multiple versions of Final Cut Pro projects and sequences.
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Reviews
Feast Your Eyes: A Holiday Film Preview
Dennis Harvey
Nov 25, 2009Dennis Harvey weighs in on the upcoming films of the holiday season.
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Reviews
Feast Your Eyes: A Holiday Film Preview
Dennis Harvey
Nov 25, 2009Dennis Harvey weighs in on the upcoming films of the holiday season.
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Reviews
New Social Issue Dramas from Rainin Grant-Winners
Michael Fox
Nov 24, 2009The scoop on the projects of the inaugural class for the SFFS/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants, which support lively, intelligent social-issue narrative films.
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Reviews
Shamir's 'Defamation' a Vintage Documentary Dust-up
Michael Fox
Nov 19, 2009Reminiscent of Marcel Ophuls' fearless provocations in Hotel Terminus (1988), Yoav Shamir breaks every rule of polite documentary filmmaking in Defamation.
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Screenwriting
Carmen Madden on Watching People, Writing Characters
Lisa Rosenberg
Nov 16, 2009Writer/director Carmen Madden's writing reflects just how intimately she comes to see and know a screenplay's world and the characters that inhabit it.
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Funding
How to Entice and Reward Potential Donors
Holly Million
Nov 10, 2009Here are a few ways to both entice and reward your donors, as well as some tips for thanking them when all's said and done.
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Festivals
A Tour Through the 2009 Taiwan Film Days
Adam Hartzell
Nov 5, 2009For three days, the SFFS offers a chance to see contemporary Taiwanese cinema beyond the work of the usual Taiwanese film masters.
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Legal
A Challenge to Filmmakers
George Rush
Nov 3, 2009George Rush skips legal concerns and instead speaks to a larger issue: the lack of quality independent filmmaking today.
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Festivals
Live from Mill Valley: Woody Harrelson and Uma Thurman
Dennis Harvey
Oct 19, 2009At their respective festival tributes, the actors gave entertaining and revealing onstage interviews.
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Festivals
Live from Mill Valley: Woody Harrelson and Uma Thurman
Dennis Harvey
Oct 19, 2009At their respective festival tributes, the actors gave entertaining and revealing onstage interviews.
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Q & A
Pamela Jean Smith Brings Home Movies to Big Screen
Max Goldberg
Oct 12, 2009Though often made for private reasons, home movies are treasure troves of culture ephemera and social history.
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Reviews
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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In Production
Montalbano's "The Recondite Heart"
Michael Fox
Sep 29, 2009East Bay filmmaker Miles Montalbano is in preproduction on dark coming-of-age story The Recondite Heart, his followup to his lauded debut, Revolution Summer.
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In Production
Simon and Gosling Play Strachwitz's Tunes
Michael Fox
Sep 23, 2009Chris Simon and Maureen Gosling's documentary-in-progress, tentatively titled No Mouse Music! The Story of Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records, pays tribute to an underappreciated artist.
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Story Structure
Organizing your bins effectively
Karen Everett
Sep 22, 2009The Edit Room: Learning how to organize saves you time and money in the editing process; a walk-through just how to do it.
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Festivals
Toronto International Film Festival 2009
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 19, 2009The Toronto International Film Festival has always allowed a generosity of pursuits to co-exist, rewarding the adventurous and satiating the lazy, all without judgment.
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Reviews
Columbia Pictures' noir lights at the Roxie
Dennis Harvey
Sep 17, 2009The Roxie's Best of Columbia Noir seroes features great films capitalizing on a simple formula: a girl, a guy and a gun.
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In Production
Telles charts 'Storm' of Mexican Revolution
Michael Fox
Sep 15, 2009Ray Telles's ambitious two-hour film, The Storm that Swept Mexico, with a budget north of $1.2 million, reaches out to the world.
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In Production
War Vets as Stars in 'Common Sky'
Michael Fox
Sep 1, 2009Five years ago, Common Sky director Kathy Carlson committed herself to the task of bridging the gulf between those who've fought in battle and the rest of us.
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First Person
E-news You Can Use
Michael Fox
Sep 1, 2009The rapid adoption of e-newsletters by documentary filmmakers is the latest example of resourcefulness and efficiency among contemporary independents.
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In Production
Hess, Janos and the Volunteers of America
Michael Fox
Aug 25, 2009With in-process Volunteer Nation: Stories of Service, veteran producer-directors Ben Hess and Dan Janos are mobilizing the millennials.
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Reviews
'District 9' a Summer Sci-fi Surprise
Dennis Harvey
Aug 14, 2009This fanboy-anticipated New Zealand-produced film set in South Africa, with gang activity, theft, riots, and ever-mounting interspecies hostility, is a summer breakout.
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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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Story Structure
How a Story Consultant Saved Me
Karen Everett
Aug 4, 2009The Edit Room: I knew the right thing to do was to turn the project over to an editor. The problem was that I didn't have the $45,000 a good editor would require.
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Reviews
'Howl' is Poetry in Post
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2009Academy Award-winning documentary filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman combine live-action period drama and animation in retelling of Ginsburg's Howl
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Reviews
'Howl' is Poetry in Post
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2009Academy Award-winning documentary filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman combine live-action period drama and animation in retelling of Ginsburg's Howl
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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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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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Q & A
Richard Levien, from 'Immersion' to 'La Migra'
Jennifer Preissel
Jun 29, 2009New Zealand transplant Richard Levien, a longstanding fixture of the San Francisco indie film community, breaks out of the editing room with Immersion.
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Reviews
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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Reviews
Frameline33: Youth in Revolt
Lynn Rapoport
Jun 22, 2009In this year's Frameline Fest, as so often in life, it's all about the one(s) that got away.
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Legal
Facing the Music (Rights)
George Rush
Jun 16, 2009Avoiding Disaster: Clearing music is one of those horrible, arduous, frustrating tasks that needs to be done in order to show or sell a film.
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Q & A
Weimberg/Ryan on Conflict and Conscience
Sura Wood
Jun 7, 2009Berkeley-based filmmaking team Gary Weimberg and Catherine Ryan speak about social justice as a career and their film Soldiers of Conscience.
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Reviews
'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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In Production
Cyrus Omoomian's 'Democracy': From Iran to Chile
Michael Fox
May 26, 2009Iranian filmmaker Cyrus Omoomian documents post-Pinochet Chile in work-in-progress Pushing Towards Democracy.
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In Production
Dinner and a Movie Discussion: Igor Sinyak
Michael Fox
May 24, 2009Michael Fox interviews Igor Sinyak, founder of Subtitles & Subtleties, about his dinner and a movie discussion forum.
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In Production
'In-World War:' Brant Smith's Directorial Debut
Michael Fox
May 20, 2009Michael Fox reviews Brant Smith's In-World War, a dark sci-fi comedy about a beta tester trapped in a futuristic war on terror.
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Screenwriting
The Hero, Deconstructed
Lisa Rosenberg
May 18, 2009Beyond Words: Linda Rosenberg explores the transformation of the contemporary film hero in Doubt and In Bruges.
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Festivals
Bruce Goldstein: From NY to SF to 'Con'
Judy Stone
May 17, 2009Bruce Goldstein recalls his adventures in film land as he prepares to host the Con Film Festival at the Film Forum in New York.
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Reviews
Garrel's 'Frontier of Dawn'
Dennis Harvey
May 15, 2009Philippe Garrel sticks to his highly-personal aesthetic in Frontier of Dawn.
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Golden Gate Awards Uncorked, SFFS/KRF Grant Winner Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 7, 2009SFIFF handed out approximately $100,000 and announced the winner San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grant during its Golden Gate Awards.
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Golden Gate Awards Uncorked, SFFS/KRF Grant Winner Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 7, 2009SFIFF handed out approximately $100,000 and announced the winner San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grant during its Golden Gate Awards.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Coppola & Lucas at the Castro
Dennis Harvey
May 3, 2009An Evening with Francis Ford Coppola & Friends honored Coppola with the Founder Directing Award and included a moderated discussion with editing/sound design genius Walter Murch, director Carroll Ballard, scenarist-turned-director Matthew Robbins, and George Lucas.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Coppola & Lucas at the Castro
Dennis Harvey
May 3, 2009An Evening with Francis Ford Coppola & Friends honored Coppola with the Founder Directing Award and included a moderated discussion with editing/sound design genius Walter Murch, director Carroll Ballard, scenarist-turned-director Matthew Robbins, and George Lucas.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Wilkerson's Proving Strong
David Winks Gray
May 2, 2009On May Day Eve, Travis Wilkerson performed Proving Ground, probably the first multimedia Leninist rant to have ever graced the Sundance Kabuki.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Five Reasons why SF Loves Coppola
Justin Juul
May 1, 2009The San Francisco Film Society awarded Francis Ford Coppola the Founder & Directing Award this week. Justin Juul offers us five reasons why San Francisco loves Coppola.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Five Reasons why SF Loves Coppola
Justin Juul
May 1, 2009The San Francisco Film Society awarded Francis Ford Coppola the Founder & Directing Award this week. Justin Juul offers us five reasons why San Francisco loves Coppola.
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Reviews
Film Society Awards: Ballard, Coppola, Redford and Toback
Susan Gerhard
May 1, 2009The San Francisco Film Society honored Francis Ford Coppola, Carroll Ballard, Robert Redford and James Toback. Coppola surprised the audience by turning over the Founder's Directing Award he received to longtime colleague Carroll Ballard.
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Reviews
Film Society Awards: Ballard, Coppola, Redford and Toback
Susan Gerhard
May 1, 2009The San Francisco Film Society honored Francis Ford Coppola, Carroll Ballard, Robert Redford and James Toback. Coppola surprised the audience by turning over the Founder's Directing Award he received to longtime colleague Carroll Ballard.
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Robert Redford Accepts Owens Award
Dennis Harvey
Apr 29, 2009Robert Redford braves the public and accepts the San Francisco International Film Festival's Peter J. Owens Award.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Portillo's 'Al Más Allá'
David Winks Gray
Apr 29, 2009Lourdes Portillo's partly autobiographical documentary Al Más Allá draws a laugh from the San Francisco International Film Festival crowd.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Mission, Midnight and Under the Influence
Marc Capelle
Apr 28, 2009Marc Capelle meets and greets with actress Gena Rowlands, composer Bo Harwood and other film mavens and mavericks at a post-screening party for Cassavette's A Woman Under the Influence and the Mission Awards
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Lourdes Portillo, Persistence of Vision Award Recipient
Robert Avila
Apr 27, 2009The San Francisco-based and internationally acclaimed documentarian Lourdes Portillo speaks about her work; she wins the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival Persistence of Vision Award.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Lourdes Portillo, Persistence of Vision Award Recipient
Robert Avila
Apr 27, 2009The San Francisco-based and internationally acclaimed documentarian Lourdes Portillo speaks about her work; she wins the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival Persistence of Vision Award.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Chris Felver's "Ferlinghetti" Captures an Icon
David Winks Gray
Apr 26, 2009Chris Felver traces the life of antiauthoritarian Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights Books, from his days as a Navy serviceman in World War II through the landmark First Amendment trial in Ferlinghetti.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Chris Felver's "Ferlinghetti" Captures an Icon
David Winks Gray
Apr 26, 2009Chris Felver traces the life of antiauthoritarian Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights Books, from his days as a Navy serviceman in World War II through the landmark First Amendment trial in Ferlinghetti.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Jim Granato's "D tour"
Dan Cowles
Apr 19, 2009Local filmmaker Jim Granato, whose movie D tour follows the band Rogue Wave and its ailing drummer Pat Spurgeon, on tour and on dialysis, is competing for the San Francisco International Film Festival's Golden Gate Award in Documentary.
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Q & A
SFIFF52: Light and Saraf's 'Empress Hotel'
David Winks Gray
Apr 13, 2009Local filmmakers Allie Light and Irving Saraf's latest film Empress Hotel delves into the lives of the residents at the titular building, a Tenderloin housing facility for the recently homeless. The film makes visible an area many city dwellers may only experience in the fringe of their consciousness and provides insight into the lives of the residents within.
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Jennifer Maytorena Taylor and a 'New Muslim Cool'
Sura Wood
Apr 6, 2009Jennifer Maytorena Taylor's documentary, New Muslim Cool, focuses on Hamza Perez, a Catholic hip hop artist, who converted to Islam; whose life is now a crucible of disparate urban influences.
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In Production
Kitchell on Another Hot Topic with Environmental Movement Doc
Michael Fox
Mar 24, 2009Mark Kitchell current project is an ambitious summation of the environmental movement, from the protests of the 1960s, the '70s focus on pollution, the Greenpeace campaigns and the global climate change.
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Q & A
Livin' la Vida Arnold with Lyndall Grant
Justin Juul
Mar 23, 2009When a challenge turns into opportunity: the Bay Area professional tribute artist talks about how he managed to leverage his striking similarity to Arnold Schwarzenegger into a successful acting career.
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In Production
Sam Green's Utopian Experiment
Michael Fox
Mar 18, 2009Sam Green talks about his latest project, an experimental documentary where the stories tease out, in more of an emotional way, ideas about hope and imagination of the future
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Popular
Sam Green's Utopian Experiment
Michael Fox
Mar 18, 2009Sam Green talks about his latest project, an experimental documentary where the stories tease out, in more of an emotional way, ideas about hope and imagination of the future
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In Production
Sam Green's Utopian Experiment
Michael Fox
Mar 18, 2009Sam Green talks about his latest project, an experimental documentary where the stories tease out, in more of an emotional way, ideas about hope and imagination of the future
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Popular
Sam Green's Utopian Experiment
Michael Fox
Mar 18, 2009Sam Green talks about his latest project, an experimental documentary where the stories tease out, in more of an emotional way, ideas about hope and imagination of the future
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Reviews
Troell in Fine Form with 'Everlasting Moments'
Dennis Harvey
Mar 12, 2009Troell keeps everything emotionally intimate in this lovely film full of grace moments, that chronicles the early 20th-century travails of the Larsson family.
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Festivals
Kiyoshi Kurosawa and a Cinema of Disaster
Matt Sussman
Mar 11, 2009The retrospective offers fascinating, if not always exemplary, viewing of what could be called a cinema of disaster: characters face the worst, or are living in its aftermath, and like the audience, they are provided with no easy answers.
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Legal
'Medicine for Melancholy' and the Art of DIY Legal Agreements
George Rush
Mar 3, 2009For many narrative filmmakers, hiring a lawyer is either an afterthought or not a financial reality, but moving forward with a film without considering legal is a huge mistake.
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Reviews
Gangster Life Verite in 'Gomorrah'
Dennis Harvey
Feb 27, 2009Like the strictest kind of verite doc, Gomorrah simply presents activity, without "introducing" characters or spelling out their circumstances or motivations.
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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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Screenwriting
The Alchemy of Adaptation
Lisa Rosenberg
Feb 19, 2009Beyond Words: To pull off an adaptation, you must translate the unwieldy bulk of the original story into a breathing and transformative tale on screen.
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Screenwriting
The Alchemy of Adaptation
Lisa Rosenberg
Feb 19, 2009Beyond Words: To pull off an adaptation, you must translate the unwieldy bulk of the original story into a breathing and transformative tale on screen.
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Reviews
Chantal Akerman's Everyday, and More, at SFMOMA
Glen Helfand
Feb 13, 2009With films that focus a patient eye on common human conditions, Belgian-born auteur Chantal Akerman is a formalist with heart–and global interests.
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Reviews
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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Documentary
Growing a Good Story, Naturally
Fernanda Rossi
Feb 6, 2009Ask the Documentary Doctor: If my doc doesn't follow a fiction three-act model, will it fail in the market?
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Documentary
Growing a Good Story, Naturally
Fernanda Rossi
Feb 6, 2009Ask the Documentary Doctor: If my doc doesn't follow a fiction three-act model, will it fail in the market?
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Reviews
Warhol's Screen Tests Get Dean & Britta Treatment
Dennis Harvey
Feb 2, 200913 Most BeautifulÉSongs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests offers a cherry-picking of the famous Warhol reels accompanied by live original-soundtracking.
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News & Blogs
Social Justice Filmmaking Grants Announced
Susan Gerhard
Jan 28, 2009Grants totaling $3 million for narrative feature films made in the Bay Area will be distributed by the SFFS and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.
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Reviews
César Charlone Directs 'The Pope's Toilet'
Miguel Pendás
Jan 27, 2009Oscar-nominated cinematographer César Charlone recently codirected his first theatrical feature film, a darkly comic farce about Pope John Paul II.
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Reviews
Sundance '09: Award-Winners, Bloggers, and More
Susan Gerhard
Jan 26, 2009Susie Gerhard gives an overview of a festival moving back to the basics of art-making.
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First Person
Funder as Supplicant
John R. Killacky
Jan 20, 2009First-Person: A program officer at the San Francisco Foundation has a sobering experience making a documentary.
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Festivals
Sundance Blog: Midnight at the Egyptian
Hilary Hart
Jan 18, 2009Hilary Hart blogs her 14th year at Sundance, back on the midnight shift at the Egyptian Theatre.
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Reviews
Bruce LaBruce's 'Otto': Zombies With Heart
Dennis Harvey
Jan 13, 2009A look at Otto; or, Up with Dead People, from a late arrival in the New Queer Cinema wave.
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News & Blogs
Unresolutions of 2009
Hannah Eaves
Jan 9, 2009Certain questions in 2008 endlessly plagued the film world, leading to outlandish predictions, flame-war mayhem and an outbreak of opinionated public speaking.
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Reviews
'Che: The Roadshow' reclaims a legend
Michael Fox
Jan 8, 2009Steven Soderbergh's fascinating portrait of legendary revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is willfully disinterested in the conventions of mainstream movies.
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Reviews
Autobio-Animation and the Horrors of War
Dennis Harvey
Jan 6, 2009Waltz with Bashir is another animated feature that embraces a more grown-up story and audience than anything in the long history of "cartoons."
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Reviews
The Year in Film 2008: Oscar Odds
Dennis Harvey
Jan 2, 2009Instead of breaking it down strictly category-by-category, Dennis Harvey meanders through some principal heat-seeking prestige films and their various chances.
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Reviews
The Year in Film 2008: Oscar Odds
Dennis Harvey
Jan 2, 2009Instead of breaking it down strictly category-by-category, Dennis Harvey meanders through some principal heat-seeking prestige films and their various chances.
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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
Genuflection: 'Pray the Devil Back to Hell'
Dennis Harvey
Dec 9, 2008Gini Reiticker's fine documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell, opens at SF's Red Vic Movie House and Berkeley's Shattuck Cinemas.
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Funding
What Crisis? Fundraising During an Economic Meltdown
Holly Million
Dec 3, 2008Fear-Free Fundraising: Holly Million advises filmmakers on where to get funding when the going gets tough.
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Q & A
Sragow on 'An American Movie Master'
Michael Fox
Nov 30, 2008Former San Francisco Examiner film critic Michael Sragow talks about his newly released book Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master.
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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
SF360 Film+Club: 'Silver Jew'
Dennis Harvey
Nov 5, 2008Michael Tully's 51-minute documentary Silver Jew proves semi-revealing as it records the Jews' tour dates in the Holy Land itself.
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Q & A
David Thomson and 1,000 Unusual Suspects
Michael Fox
Nov 3, 2008Film historian and essayist David Thomson talks to SF360 about his new book, Have You Seen . . . ? A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films.
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Reviews
'Christmas on Mars' Non Halloween
Dennis Harvey
Oct 30, 2008Wayne Coyne's Flaming Lips movie extends a long, lately rising number of narrative features made by musicians.
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Q & A
Susan Oxtoby and the Pacific Film Archive
Michael Fox
Oct 24, 2008The PFA senior curator talks about her cinematic influences, curating in Canada and the U.S., and recent additions to the world of film.
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Reviews
'Secrecy' Up For Debate
Robert Avila
Oct 22, 2008Robb Moss and Peter Galison's deliberative, atmospheric and engrossing documentary, Secrecy, puts democratic transparency to the test.
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Festivals
12th Arab Film Festival
Robert Avila
Oct 20, 2008In its 12th season, the country's first and largest independent exhibitor of Arab cinema has gotten to be one of the bigger small fests in the Bay Area.
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Q & A
Lance Hammer on Beauty and 'Ballast'
Michael Guillen
Oct 17, 2008Hammer discusses his debut feature premiered at Sundance to resounding critical fanfare, winning prizes for best director and cinematography.
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Reviews
'Full Battle Rattle' On the Endless War
Matt Sussman
Oct 16, 2008Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss's film candidly explores 'the ground truth' of Iraq without setting foot in the country.
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In Production
Making 'Howl' and 'Babnik'
Michael Fox
Oct 14, 2008Epstein and Friedman bring a poem to the screen, while a South Bay director goes Russian.
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Q & A
A Talk With Arab Film Festival's Executive Director
Michael Fox
Oct 13, 2008We sat down with Michel Shehadeh, who joined the festival earlier this year, for a wide-ranging interview on Arab film.
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Festivals
Dead Channels 2008 Comes Alive
Dennis Harvey
Oct 3, 2008Those inclined toward healthy doses of sleaze, gore, and retro-shlock can rejoice that it's time for the second annual edition of Dead Channels.
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Q & A
Yiyun Li, The Voice of 'A Thousand'
Judy Stone
Sep 30, 2008The title story of her Hemingway/Pen Award-winning collection of short stories, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, has been adapted by Wayne Wang.
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Reviews
'Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 23, 2008Whether you dig jazz or not, O'Day's charisma and story make this movie riveting.
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In Production
Jerusalem's Lone Gay Bar
Michael Fox
Sep 17, 2008Yun Suh's film City of Borders documents group dynamics and conflict through the doors of a Jerusalem's only gay bar: a locale where anyone can, "come, be themselves, and be accepted."
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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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News & Blogs
Second Stage of Film Arts Foundation's Legacy of Advocacy
Michael Fox
Aug 20, 2008Film Arts Foundation, a nonprofit organization formed by 15 independent filmmakers in 1976, joins forces with SFFS.
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First Person
Not Quite Quiet Desperation
Jonathan Marlow
Aug 14, 2008First Person: Jonathan Marlow rehashes commentary on film that has caused a kerfuffle of late.
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Reviews
In Spain with 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona'
Dennis Harvey
Aug 12, 2008Woody Allen's latest is a superb travel guide in addition to being an amusing, intelligent if not exactly profound meditation on fate, chance, and romance.
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Reviews
Global Film Initiative: Funding the Bigger Picture
Robert Avila
Aug 12, 2008The Legend of the Holy Net Potato, the first feature by Kerala-based filmmaker Vipin Vijay, concerns a cyborg, black magic, and a hacker.
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In Production
Saluting the Ultimate Whistleblower
Michael Fox
Aug 6, 2008SF360.org looks at the making of a documentary about the controversial leak of the Pentagon papers.
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Reviews
Saluting the Ultimate Whistleblower
Michael Fox
Aug 6, 2008SF360.org looks at the making of a documentary about the controversial leak of the Pentagon papers.
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Reviews
Jacques Nolot and 'Before I Forget'
Dennis Harvey
Jul 31, 2008Dyspeptic rather than tragic, Jacques Nolot's Before I Forget may be the best gay feel-bad movie ever.
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Reviews
'The Exiles,' a Return Engagement
Dennis Harvey
Jul 30, 2008A film from 1961, The Exiles is a long-in-making unvarnished look at 12 hours in the lives of a group of American Indians who have come to Los Angeles.
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Q & A
Muayad Alayan, Christian Bruno
Robert Avila
Jul 29, 2008Muayad Alayan, a 24-year-old filmmaker from the only remaining Arab neighborhood in West Jerusalem, speaks about the making of Lesh Sabreen?.
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Q & A
Alex Gibney on Going 'Gonzo'
Cathleen Rountree
Jun 30, 2008SF360.org sits down with director Alex Gibney, whose film, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson played at the 51st SFIFF.
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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
'Mongol's' Mr. Nice Guy: Genghis Khan
Dennis Harvey
Jun 20, 2008Dennis Harvey reviews Sergei Bodrov's Mongol, a distinctive look at the early life of the conqueror.
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Festivals
Argentina's New Wave at Frameline
Matt Sussman
Jun 19, 2008A look at the films in the 32nd San Francisco International LGBT FIlm Festival indicates the rise of Argentina's new wave.
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Reviews
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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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
Travel Guide Through Another Hole in the Head Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Jun 5, 2008The Hole Head Festival takes audiences back to terrifying locales and dangerous situations that should be pleasantly familiar to horror aficionados.
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Festivals
SFIAF: 'Mordake' and Week Two -- Reviewed, Previewed
Robert Avila
May 28, 2008Composer Erling Wold's solo chamber opera enjoys a thrillingly intimate world premiere this week under the banner of the San Francisco International Arts Festival.
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Festivals
S.F. International Arts Festival
Robert Avila
May 23, 2008In addition to bringing a host of worldwide performers to the Bay Area for the first time, the San Francisco International Arts Festival (May 2-June 8), now in its fifth year, has become an indispensable showcase for collaborative work by leading Bay Area artists and their peers across all manner of geographical, cultural and disciplinary borders. The more than 40 performances in this year’s lineup, taking place at 14 separate venues across the city and in Berkeley, span the worlds of dance, music, opera, theater, visual arts and multidisciplinary work. The following four highlights are all hybrid productions with strong film and/or video components.
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Reviews
Jimmy Stewart at 100
Dennis Harvey
May 22, 2008For all his lasting wholesome appeal, Stewart was an oddity: Gangly, stammering, Pennsylvania-drawling and not particularly attractive by 1930s studio standards.
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Reviews
Review: "Mister Lonely"
Max Goldberg
May 19, 2008Part Luis Bunuel parable, Artforum spread, Jonestown ballet and Warhol camp, Harmony Korine's latest is a prime, insomniac two hours of midnight-movie drifting.
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Q & A
Q&A: Alex Rivera, 'Sleep Dealer'
Michael Guillen
May 14, 2008Rivera's debut centers on a young man grappling with a technological future in which neural implants, telerobotics and ubiquitous computing serve a global economy.
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Reviews
Finding Warren Sonbert
Max Goldberg
May 14, 2008Unlike most experimental filmmakers, Sonbert's collected works have had the benefit of full retrospectives at major museums (SFMOMA, NYMOMA, Guggenheim) and a strong preservation effort.
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Reviews
Review: 'The Living End,' remixed and remastered
Dennis Harvey
May 13, 2008Gregg Araki's "irresponsible" movie was the first to respond to the AIDS crisis with ACT UP-style radical rage rather than lamentation or case-pleading.
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Festivals
"Standard Operating Procedure" and the Stories We Tell
Staff
May 9, 2008Joan Didion famously said, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." We've internalized the American narrative of Abu Ghraib and accepted its implications.
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Festivals
SF International's Golden Gate Awards: Alive and Cooking
Susan Gerhard
May 8, 2008Food scents and film sensibilities mingled in a pungent party atmosphere at the California Culinary Academy.
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Festivals
Capelle on Composers: Day Three
Staff
May 8, 2008The final installment in the San Francisco composer and musician's blog from the 2008 SFIFF.
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Festivals
SF International's Golden Gate Awards: Alive and Cooking
Susan Gerhard
May 8, 2008Food scents and film sensibilities mingled in a pungent party atmosphere at the California Culinary Academy.
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Festivals
Capelle on Composers: Day Three
Staff
May 8, 2008The final installment in the San Francisco composer and musician's blog from the 2008 SFIFF.
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Festivals
Capelle on Composers: Back to Back
Marc Capelle
May 7, 2008Back to music.
I have some friends that were in a Sub Pop band that pre-dated Nirvana. They were known as the Dwarves. Their music is and was a snotty suburban unholy mixture of the Sonics, the Orlons, the Stooges and a vat of amphetamines. Their record covers usually featured midgets and half-naked woman covered in either blood or some sort of Nestle syrup of some sort. Here is one of their lines.
[Editor’s note: For the San Francisco International’s 51st edition, SF360.org has asked Bay Area musician/composer/cineaste Marc Capelle to blog his thoughts on movies, music, and the films showing in the Festival. This is the third of three installments.]
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Festivals
Capelle on Composers: Back to Back
Marc Capelle
May 7, 2008Back to music.
I have some friends that were in a Sub Pop band that pre-dated Nirvana. They were known as the Dwarves. Their music is and was a snotty suburban unholy mixture of the Sonics, the Orlons, the Stooges and a vat of amphetamines. Their record covers usually featured midgets and half-naked woman covered in either blood or some sort of Nestle syrup of some sort. Here is one of their lines.
[Editor’s note: For the San Francisco International’s 51st edition, SF360.org has asked Bay Area musician/composer/cineaste Marc Capelle to blog his thoughts on movies, music, and the films showing in the Festival. This is the third of three installments.]
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Q & A
Gibney Going "Gonzo," Part Two
Cathleen Rountree
May 7, 2008The second installment of Alex Gibney's interview about Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, which closes the San Francisco International Film 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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Festivals
Nights on the Towne: Film Society Awards Night
Susan Gerhard
May 4, 2008You know a festival is working its way into your brain when, in a landscape of intersecting ideas, you begin to witness the collisions.
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Festivals
In Other Words: Standard Operating Procedure
Staff
Apr 30, 2008Joan Didion famously said, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." We have internalized the narrative of Abu Ghraib and accepted its implications.
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Festivals
Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy World
Dennis Harvey
Apr 29, 2008SF Film Society’s Founder’s Directing Award winner Mike Leigh's work has created a distinctive insider’s portrait of working-to-middle class English life.
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Festivals
Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy World
Dennis Harvey
Apr 29, 2008SF Film Society’s Founder’s Directing Award winner Mike Leigh's work has created a distinctive insider’s portrait of working-to-middle class English life.
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Q & A
SFIFF51: Katherin McInnis Cues the Carnival Music
Jennifer Preissel
Apr 28, 2008The longtime Bay Area resident, who recently relocated to Brooklyn, screens Woodward's Gardens in the shorts program "In A Lonely Place: New Experimental Cinema."
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Q & A
SFIFF51: Barry Jenkins' San Francisco Story
Michael Fox
Apr 26, 2008Medicine for Melancholy is a graceful and poignant film about fleeting urban connections, black identity and invisibility, cultural adventures and this gentrified city's lost soul.
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Festivals
I [heart] Jason Lee
Dennis Harvey
Apr 25, 2008The star of My Name Is Earl is (alongside Grindhouse superstarlet Rose McGowan) the recipient of this year's SFIFF Midnight Award.
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Festivals
SFIFF51: The Miller Brothers on writing, pitching, acting, directing, and hitting one out of the ballpark
Susan Gerhard
Apr 16, 2008Touching Home by Bay Area-raised identical twins Logan and Noah Miller is a largely autobiographical coming-of-age film that radiates sincerity.
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Festivals
SFIFF51: Dawn Logsdon, on new hope in an old neighborhood, "Faubourg TremŽ"
Susan Gerhard
Apr 15, 2008Dawn Logsdon and Lolis Eric Elie dig through the rubble of Hurricane Katrina to tell the story of Faubourg TremŽ, which was home to African Americans and fertile ground for political activism, music and literary life.
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Festivals
SFIFF51: Renee Tajima- Pe–a's trip down “Calavera Highway'
Michael Fox
Apr 15, 2008If making a movie about one’s family could be equated with a fire-walk in August, then making a documentary about one’s partner’s family might be akin to a midsummer sauna. Yet veteran L.A. filmmaker Renee Tajima-Pe–a (Who Killed Vincent Chin?) signed on to a road trip with her husband from L.A. to Washington state to Texas in search of "la verdad" about the father that abandoned Armando’s mother Rosa and his six brothers several decades ago. An intimate and elegantly crafted work of cinema verita, Calavera Highway encompasses universal familial tensions, Mexican-American identity, the responsibilities of fathers (and sons) and the psychic malleability of map-drawn borders.
Tajima-Pe–a, who’s an associate professor at UC Santa Cruz, will receive the Golden Gate Award for long-form television documentary at the S.F. International Film Festival, where Calavera Highway screens three times in early May. Via email, she talked about searching for "Calaveras" hidden in closets and elsewhere.
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Festivals
Seven from the Sonoma Valley Film Festival
Eve O'Neill
Apr 4, 2008The Sonoma Valley Film Festival has gone to great lengths to enfold the event in its culinary surroundings. Complimentary food tastings will be offered before every single screening.
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Festivals
Earthdance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival
Robert Avila
Apr 2, 2008The fifth annual EarthDance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival screens a juried compilation of 20 short films in two 90-minute installments.
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Q & A
Jeff Nichols on "Shotgun Stories"
Eve O'Neill
Mar 31, 2008First-time writer/director Jeff Nichols discusses the inspiration behind Shotgun Stories, the initial hurdles in making the film, and the noble nature of his characters.
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Festivals
SFIAAFF's winners
Susan Gerhard
Mar 21, 2008Two top winners at the SFIAAFF focused on breakadancing, an art form taken up with vengeance by Asians, with Koran teams a particularly dominant force.
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Festivals
SFIAAFF's winners
Susan Gerhard
Mar 21, 2008Two top winners at the SFIAAFF focused on breakadancing, an art form taken up with vengeance by Asians, with Koran teams a particularly dominant force.
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Festivals
Cinequest's surprises
Dennis Harvey
Mar 7, 2008A "discovery" festival from Day OneÑmeaning they premiere a lot of films, including many other fests might pass overÑSan Jose's Cinequest actually adopted "Discover" as motto for its 16th year.
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Reviews
"A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich"
Max Goldberg
Mar 5, 2008"A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich" is a major coup for Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, after all these years later, he's ready for a retrospective of his own.
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Reviews
"Warts & All: The Films of Danny Plotnick"
Michael Fox
Mar 3, 2008Warts & All: The Films of Danny Plotnick: 10 short comic narratives are exemplars of an unpolished, unpretentious school of moviemaking that aims at every moment to be audience-friendly.
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Reviews
Kiarostami Firsts, Plus "Five"
Judy Stone
Feb 26, 2008Fresh insight into the Iranian director is offered in a remarkable DVD featuring Five, an experimental, meditative film set on the shores of the Caspian.
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Q & A
L.Q. Jones Talks Dogs and Cult Movies
Miriam Wolf
Feb 24, 2008The list of talking dog movies is long and storied, but one stands head and forelocks above the others: A Boy and His Dog.
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Reviews
Cinema, Israeli Style
Michael Fox
Feb 21, 2008Even as the country has become a typically affluent Western society, its cinema has retained its status as a crucial component of the national dialogue.
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Reviews
Bollywood By the Bay
Laura Irvine
Feb 16, 2008Every morning I wake up with Bollywood movie tunes going through my head. Every. Single. Morning.
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Q & A
Eran Kolirin and "The Band's Visit"
Judy Stone
Feb 12, 2008Underneath The Band's Visit's poignant humor, the film subtly reflects the director's attempt to comprehend Israel's pull between the Middle East and the West.
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Q & A
SF Indiefest Opening Night: Riding "Shotgun" With Jeff Nichols
Eve O'Neill
Feb 6, 2008The first-time filmmaker managed to build, for under half a million dollars, a relatable story and characters with substance rarely seen in mainstream film.
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Q & A
Cristian Mungiu's 24 Hours of "4 Months, 3 Weeks"
Howard Feinstein/indieWIRE
Feb 4, 2008The Romanian film takes place over 24 hours in a provincial town in 1987 before Ceaucescu was deposed.
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Reviews
Art Stars of Sundance
Glen Helfand
Jan 25, 2008At Sundance 2008, a swath of features, docs, installations, and projected art shared similar socio-political concerns, which they grappled with via well-honed aesthetic filters.
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Festivals
Noir City 2008
Max Goldberg
Jan 24, 2008Noir City 6 offers a spread of special guests, rare titles, and newly struck prints across ten nights of double-features.
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Q & A
Amanda Micheli Going for La Corona
Sean Uyehara
Jan 23, 2008A reprinting of an interview with Amanda Micheli because her film, now playing Sundance, has just made the final cut for an Academy Award.
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Q & A
Amanda Micheli Going for La Corona
Sean Uyehara
Jan 23, 2008A reprinting of an interview with Amanda Micheli because her film, now playing Sundance, has just made the final cut for an Academy Award.
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News & Blogs
Heath Ledger, a Loss
Dennis Harvey
Jan 23, 2008Heath Ledger's death was sad not just because any young death is sad, but because we'd only just begun to know Heath Ledger as a real artist.
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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
Review: "The Violin"
Dennis Harvey
Jan 8, 2008Francisco Vargas' first feature has won a pile of international awards to date, and might have garnered more had it arrived on the scene earlier.
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Reviews
The Best Undistributed Films of 2007
Chris Wisniewski
Jan 2, 2008If they don't get the chance to beguile the world in theaters, maybe, at the very least, they'll find their way to audiences via digital download.
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Q & A
Bollyhood, a Concept, a Cafe
Laura Irvine
Dec 19, 2007Ivan Jaigirdar's joint offers a screen filled with Bollywood eye candy, plates filled with South Asian food, and drinks to warm both.
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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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Q & A
Jessica Yu, "Protagonist"
indieWIRE
Dec 10, 2007Yu's latest doc centers on four rather damaged individuals, applying the dramatic structure of Greek playwright Euripedes to contemporary life.
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Q & A
Reverend Billy on Missionary Mall Work
Dennis Harvey
Nov 19, 2007The documentary What Would Jesus Buy? makes bad news go down easy, thanks largely to its "star," Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping.
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Reviews
"Redacted"
Dennis Harvey
Nov 13, 2007Sometimes even presumably good intentions can warp into artistic misdeeds most foul.
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Festivals
International Latino Film Festival and S.F. International Animation Festival
Robert Avila
Nov 8, 2007In the wake of Mexican cinema's triumphant showing at the 2007 Oscars, these films serve to confirm how some of the biggest surprises can come from the shortest of distances.
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Q & A
Sean Uyehara Talks S.F. International Animation Festival
Eve O'Neil
Nov 7, 2007SFFS programmer Sean Uyehara gives some perspective on the shifting dimensions of animated filmmaking.
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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
Jumping the Shark
Doug Young
Nov 2, 2007The List: While Rob Stewart's film is winning awards around the world, he offered his thoughts on the five films that have done the most damage to sharks' reputation.
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Festivals
The 32nd American Indian Film Festival
Eve O'Neill
Nov 1, 2007This festival is home to an array of talent that promotes Indians in roles other than that of Indians, in movies other than westerns.
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Q & A
Robert Arnold, in "The Key of G"
Susan Gerhard
Oct 19, 2007We spoke with the filmmaker about his own intersections with his award-winning film on a young man with Mowat-Wilson syndrome.
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Festivals
The 11th Arab Film Festival
Robert Avila
Oct 18, 2007The Arab Film Festival, now in its 11th year, is featuring not just 80 movies from 13 countries, but is also including screenings in LA, a first for a Bay Area-based fest.
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Reviews
Your Al Gore, and More
Susan Gerhard
Oct 12, 2007The List: SF360.org has compiled a short list of environmental filmmakers we hope will one day find a Peace Prize coming their way, too.
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Reviews
Your Al Gore, and More
Susan Gerhard
Oct 12, 2007The List: SF360.org has compiled a short list of environmental filmmakers we hope will one day find a Peace Prize coming their way, too.
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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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Q & A
Ariella Ben-Dov, Madcat Mastermind
Susan Gerhard
Sep 24, 2007As the Madcat Women's International Film Festival heads into its final stretch this coming week in San Francisco, SF360.org felt it was important to catch up with its chief curator, Ariella Ben-Dov.
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Q & A
Lynn Hershman Leeson's "Culture" war
Michael Fox
Sep 20, 2007Lynn Hershman Leeson discusses her new project, ÔStrange Culture'.
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Festivals
Lucy Gray's Telluride
Lucy Gray's
Sep 12, 2007Lucy Gray reports from the 35th Telluride Film Festival.
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Q & A
Finn Taylor on Natural Selection and "The Darwin Awards"
Susan Gerhard
Sep 10, 2007SF360.org spoke with director Finn Taylor about ÔThe Darwin Awards' and all the films he's directed in a Bay Area that's offered him years of inspiration.
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Popular
"Discovering Orson Welles"
Max Goldberg
Sep 4, 2007Max Goldberg on Jonathan Rosenbaum's critical survey of director Orson Welles.
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Reviews
"Discovering Orson Welles"
Max Goldberg
Sep 4, 2007Max Goldberg on Jonathan Rosenbaum's critical survey of director Orson Welles.
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Q & A
Off the Lot With Mateen Kemet
Matt Sussman
Aug 28, 2007SF360.org caught up with the Oakland director, who was one of seven finalists on the Fox reality show On the Lot.
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Reviews
"From the Tsars to the Stars: A Journey Through Russian Fantastik Cinema"
Dennis Harvey
Aug 23, 2007The Pacific Film Archive offers a three-week sampling of Russian sci-fi films stretching from the silent era to the end of Communism.
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Reviews
"Crossing the Line" and "Death at a Funeral"
Dennis Harvey and Kristi Mitsuda
Aug 14, 2007One film takes us from the American South to the Korean North, another to Frank Oz's last gasp.
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Reviews
"Arctic Tale" and the Melting of Hearts
Claire Faggioli
Aug 10, 2007In this film, those creatures of the polar region, who've long been ready for their closeup, carry the global warming message on their so very cute backs.
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Q & A
Jeffrey Blitz and Reece Thompson on "Rocket Science"
Michael Guillen
Aug 8, 2007A conversation with the Oscar-nominated Jeffrey Blitz (Spellbound) on his new feature, which screened at the S.F. International Film Festival.
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Reviews
Laurent Tirard on "Moliere"
Erica Abeel/indieWIRE
Aug 3, 2007Tirard takes an ingenious tack in conjuring the creative evolution of France's master of satiric comedy.
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Q & A
A Mighty Wurlitzer Player
Michael Guillen
Aug 1, 2007SF360.org speaks with Edward Millington Stout, III, who is undoubtedly the world's foremost theatrical organ restorationist.
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Reviews
Saul Bass, "Phase IV"
Dennis Harvey
Jul 25, 2007Few people not employed as directors, producers, cinematographers, costume or production designers have had as much impact on the "look" of movies.
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Q & A
Shonali Bose on "Amu"
indieWIRE
Jul 23, 2007The '05 feature imagines a 21-year-old Indian American returning to India to visit her family and discover where she was born.
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Q & A
"Sunshine" on my shoulders
Claire Faggioli
Jul 18, 2007Sunshine tells the story of the eight astronauts aboard the ominously named "Icarus II," a vessel bound to kick-start the sun, Earth's last hope for survival.
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Q & A
Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky on "Manufactured Landscapes"
Glen Helfand
Jul 16, 2007Manufactured Landscapes, the film, extends photographer Edward Burtynsky's vision into a new medium, the documentary, and engages a dialog about global capitalism's impact on Earth.
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Festivals
A Frozen Film Festival five
Claire Faggioli
Jul 13, 2007The List: Frozen Film Festival is a small festival that hopes to capitalize on the fact that San Franciscans like to stay indoors in the summer.
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Q & A
'Joshua's' George Ratliff
indieWIRE
Jul 11, 2007George Ratliff talks about his first feature narrative Joshua, described by Sundance as a "horror story disguised as a sophisticated family drama."
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Reviews
Rodents we love
Claire Faggioli
Jul 6, 2007List: Most of us talk to our pets, but very few of us talk our Camrys or toasters. That's where animation fills our need to fantasize about our interactions with animals.
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Q & A
Richard Wong and H.P. Mendoza, reanimating "Colma: The Musical"
Matt Sussman
Jun 20, 2007Roadside Pictures signed Colma: The Musical for national release. A sort of anti-"High School Musical," "Colma" follows three friends in their new post-high school freedom.
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Q & A
Michael Winterbottom's "A Mighty Heart"
SF360.org
Jun 18, 2007The prolific British director, known for a large and eclectic body of work, has done something very unusual in the past half decade.
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Festivals
Lumpkin and Morris on Frameline's Big Picture
Susan Gerhard
Jun 11, 2007Frameline directors Michael Lumpkin and Jennifer Morris speak about the programming, controversy and the landscape of LGBT films.
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Festivals
A Strandful at Frameline31
Michael Guillen
Jun 8, 2007Strand Releasing can always be relied upon for some of the best art films and queer indies, and it has a strong festival presence,
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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
Guillen's Top Five from Another Hole in the Head
Michael Guillen
May 25, 2007Five recommendations chosen from among the gore, ghouls, ghosts, gags, and animation at Indiefest's Holehead festival.
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Festivals
Meet the Jury/A Palme d'Or 20
Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE
May 18, 2007No sooner does the Festival de Cannes open than attendees start buzzing about the potential award-winners.
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Festivals
Meet the Jury/A Palme d'Or 20
Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE
May 18, 2007No sooner does the Festival de Cannes open than attendees start buzzing about the potential award-winners.
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Reviews
"Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait"
Susan Gerhard
May 17, 2007Not even widely released yet in the States, Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon's "ZidaneÉ" has already been considered a portrait of the century.
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Festivals
Golden Gate Award to "The Key of G"
Brian Brooks/indieWIRE
May 10, 2007Mexican director Francisco Vargas Quevedo’s "The Violin" (El violin) won the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Skyy Prize, while Israeli duo Shahar Cohen and Halil Efrat’s "Souvenirs" took best documentary feature (West Coast premiere), capping the Golden Gate Awards ceremony Wednesday evening for the festival’s landmark 50th edition.
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Festivals
Golden Gate Award to "The Key of G"
Brian Brooks/indieWIRE
May 10, 2007Mexican director Francisco Vargas Quevedo’s "The Violin" (El violin) won the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Skyy Prize, while Israeli duo Shahar Cohen and Halil Efrat’s "Souvenirs" took best documentary feature (West Coast premiere), capping the Golden Gate Awards ceremony Wednesday evening for the festival’s landmark 50th edition.
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Festivals
Film Society Awards Night
Brian Brooks/indieWIRE
May 4, 2007If the Bay Area oozed self-regard last night, it couldn't exactly be blamed.
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Festivals
Film Society Awards Night
Brian Brooks/indieWIRE
May 4, 2007If the Bay Area oozed self-regard last night, it couldn't exactly be blamed.
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Festivals
Spike Lee
Dennis Harvey
May 3, 2007When then-unknown Spike Lee premiered She's Gotta Have It at the SF International in 1986, there was an instance of filmus interruptus.
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Festivals
Spike Lee
Dennis Harvey
May 3, 2007When then-unknown Spike Lee premiered She's Gotta Have It at the SF International in 1986, there was an instance of filmus interruptus.
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Festivals
Picturing Politics at SFIFF50
Robert Avila
May 1, 2007A shot in Wonders Are Many makes visual reference to Guernica as shorthand for art's charge to speak for the voiceless.
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Q & A
Kerry Laitala and Her New "Muse"
Katherin McInnis
Apr 25, 2007The artist's filmsÑsensual, intricate, tactileÑare a magical combination of optical artistry, snippets of forgotten films, and bits of lace, tape, and glitter.
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News & Blogs
Remembering Jim Lyons: 1960 - 2007
Staff
Apr 18, 2007The editor and actor, known for his frequent work with Todd Haynes, died in New York. His friends share their thoughts.
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Q & A
Mike White's Alter Egos
Michael Fox
Apr 14, 2007White's heroes and heroines are content with their mundane lives until some uninvited intruder or unforeseen event exposes their frustration and complacency.
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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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Festivals
SFIFF50-philes
Susan Gerhard
Apr 11, 2007Just a week out of the SFIFF50 press conference at the Westin St. Francis, and the buzz has already had a chance to build. SF360.org checked in with a few friends in the San Francisco filmmaking scene to see what they’re looking forward to in the 50th edition of the SF International Film Festival. Big winners: Guy Maddin’s “Brand Upon the Brain!” and, of course, the live and in-person tribute to Spike Lee, who — as Strand Releasing’s Marcus Hu reminds us — returns to the Bay Area to receive his Film Society Directing Award in spite of the fact the projector broke during the premiere of “She’s Gotta Have It” at the SFIFF more than 20 years ago.
I’m eager to see Camila Guzman Urzula’s documentary “The Sugar Curtain” for perspectives on life in Cuba from those in their twenties and thirties. I’m curious about how a savvy film critic like Wesley Morris will interview Spike Lee. It will be a welcome occurrence to see two Black men talking on a US festival stage about film.
Cornelius Moore
California Newsreel“Audience of One:” I know this year the festival is honoring Lucas and Coppola and those guys as local heroes, but really. Hollywood North? What happened? Now here is a group of makers, Pentacostals no less, working on a gargantuan bible epic right down on Ocean Avenue in the old El Rey Theatre. Now that’s hot!
Christian Bruno
Strand, A Natural History of CinemaAlthough I’ve already seen it, I look forward to attending the one-off screening of Guy Maddin’s “Brand Upon the Brain!” since each live performance, by design, differs somewhat from the last. No self-respecting (or, for that matter, self-deprecating) cineaste should miss it. Beyond that, I’m particularly interested in Alain Resnais’ latest, “Coeurs” (i.e., “Private Fears in Public Places,” which, due to timing conflicts, I missed in Toronto), reuniting the director with the exceptional playwright Alan Ayckbourn. I remain quite fond of his recent films even if most folks in this country seem to disregard his work after “Mon oncle d’Amerique,” released over a quarter-century ago.
Jonathan Marlow
GreenCineI love that SFIFF is honoring Spike Lee, I saw “She’s Gotta Have It” when it had its world premiere at SFIFF and remembered what an amazing experience that was when the projector broke!
Marcus Hu
Strand ReleasingI first started attending SFIFF in 1964 while still in high school. I saw the independent “The Luck of Ginger Coffey,” directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Robert Shaw, a fascinating documentary look at a country
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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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Festivals
S.F. International Announces Lineup for 50th
Susan Gerhard
Apr 4, 2007The festival kicks off with Emanuele Crialese's Golden Door and closes with Olivier Dahan's Edith Piaf biopic, La vie en rose.
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Reviews
Reviews: "Police Beat"; "The Page Turner"
Dennis Harvey
Apr 3, 2007It's taken over two years for Police Beat to go from one of the most praised films at Sundance to a theatre near you.
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Q & A
Amanda Micheli's Wonder Women
Sean Uyehara
Apr 2, 2007When Bay Area filmmaker Amanda Micheli approaches, you can see that she is an athlete. She's sure of herself.
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Reviews
Now and Zen and an Imperial Adventure
Robert Avila
Mar 27, 2007Robert Avila reviews A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki and The Situation.
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Festivals
The SF International's GreenWorld contest turns a big issue over to the makers of shorts
Miljenko Skoknic
Mar 21, 2007The SFIFF GreenWorld Contest brings the vision of filmmakers to the forefront of environmental discourse through fiction, documentary, experimental, and essayistic films.
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Q & A
Video-Diary Pioneer Spencer Nakasako
Michael Fox
Mar 17, 2007Spencer Nakasako gets the credit for starting the still-cresting wave of first-person camcorder documentaries back in 1995, but he claims it was largely an accident.
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Q & A
Video-Diary Pioneer Spencer Nakasako
Michael Fox
Mar 17, 2007Spencer Nakasako gets the credit for starting the still-cresting wave of first-person camcorder documentaries back in 1995, but he claims it was largely an accident.
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Reviews
Reviews: "Black Snake Moan"; "Cinemachismo"
Michael Guillen
Feb 27, 2007
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News & Blogs
'The Departed' Wins Best Picture, Scorsese Best Director at 79th Oscars
Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE
Feb 26, 2007When all was said and done in Los Angeles tonight, The Departed was the big winner at the 79th Academy Awards.
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News & Blogs
'The Departed' Wins Best Picture, Scorsese Best Director at 79th Oscars
Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE
Feb 26, 2007When all was said and done in Los Angeles tonight, The Departed was the big winner at the 79th Academy Awards.
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Q & A
Michael Arndt, Little Mr. Sunshine
Michael Guillen
Feb 23, 2007The Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Little Miss Sunshine made a Cody's San Francisco bookstore appearance promoting the publication of the shooting script.
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Festivals
A Royal Family
Susan Gerhard
Feb 21, 2007It's a big week for Peter Morgan, partly because the SFFS announced he'll receive the Kanbar Award for excellence in screenwriting at the 50th SFIFF.
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Festivals
A Royal Family
Susan Gerhard
Feb 21, 2007It's a big week for Peter Morgan, partly because the SFFS announced he'll receive the Kanbar Award for excellence in screenwriting at the 50th SFIFF.
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Reviews
Reviews: "Family Law"; "Amazing Grace"
Michael Fox
Feb 20, 2007Daniel Burman's smartest play was casting Daniel Hendler as his onscreen alter ego. Michael Apted's worthy Grace, reminds that period pieces make effective message movies.
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Reviews
"Iraq in Fragments, "The Lives of Others"
Max Goldberg
Feb 13, 2007James Longley's Fragments stands out amongst the crowded field of Iraqumentaries, while Others pulls back the Iron Curtain to powerful effect.
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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
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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Reviews
The Eye Candy of 'Tears of the Black Tiger'
Dennis Harvey
Feb 6, 2007Tears of the Black Tiger is Thai eye candy, an exercise pastiche where color just about leaps off the screen, and a star-crossed love story.
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Reviews
15 Minutes of YouTube
Justin Juul
Feb 2, 2007The List: A collection of individuals who caught my eye in an intense week of YouTube scouring. Most have gotten upwards of one million views.
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Festivals
A Superdance and a Superbowl
Susan Gerhard
Jan 31, 2007Wrapping up Sundance Ô07, with the NFL's big game as the best metaphor to describe the annual festival.
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Festivals
Key Events of 50th SFIFF Announced at Sundance
Susan Gerhard
Jan 23, 2007Highlights of the upcoming festival were presented by the San Francisco Film Society Executive Director.
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Festivals
Key Events of 50th SFIFF Announced at Sundance
Susan Gerhard
Jan 23, 2007Highlights of the upcoming festival were presented by the San Francisco Film Society Executive Director.
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Reviews
A Whole Lotta Holiday Film
Dennis Harvey
Dec 21, 2006Hollywood is the Santa that bestows gifts every Yuletide,; but you have to pick which ones you want, then pay for them.
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Q & A
James T. Hong on Heidegger, Hitler, and His New Film
Cheryl Eddy
Dec 18, 2006San Francisco artist James T. Hong is currently working on a documentary, tentatively titled New History Zero, which explores his interest in revisionist World War II history.
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News & Blogs
The Cities' Critics Speak
Susan Gerhard
Dec 15, 2006The language of film may be universal, as the Landmark trailer reminds us, but the critics in major U.S. cities speak their own dialects.
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Reviews
Written and Directed by Preston Sturges
Max Goldberg
Dec 13, 2006It would not seem to bode well for the stewardship of studio classics that Preston Sturges's indomitable comedies have been so slow to DVD.
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News & Blogs
SF Film Critics Circle Announces Awards
Susan Gerhard
Dec 12, 2006The group chose ;Little Children as its Best Picture of 2006 and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth the Best Foreign Language Film.
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Festivals
SF to Sundance
Susan Gerhard
Dec 8, 2006At least three Bay Area-based filmmakers will be making the trek to Park City this year, Jon Else, Steven Okazaki, and Jay Rosenblatt.
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Reviews
"Radical Closure" at the PFA
Robert Avila
Dec 7, 2006This series of cinematic responses to war, curated by Lebanese video artist Akram Zaatari, opens up possibilities for re-imagining the dehumanized landscape of violence.
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Q & A
"Man Push Cart" Director's New York-by-Way-of-Pakistan Story
Brian Brooks/indieWIRE
Dec 4, 2006Ramin Bahrani's debut feature follows a solitary, quiet immigrant struggling to make a go of it in New York City.
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Q & A
A Word From Our Sponsored Films
Max Goldberg
Nov 28, 2006Collector and archivist Rick Prelinger puts on a show at the Other Cinema to celebrate his new book, A Field Guide to Sponsored Films.
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Q & A
Adrian Belic Goes 'Beyond the Call'
Justin Juul
Nov 27, 2006The filmmaker talks about tagging along with three renegade activists on their self-funded humanitarian excursions to war zones and disaster sites.
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Q & A
Robert Altman 1925-2006
Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE
Nov 22, 2006One month ago today, the maverick filmmaker was at the Hamptons International Film Festival reflecting upon his career at a tribute in his honor.
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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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Reviews
KQED's Wild West in "Truly CA"
Justin Juul
Nov 16, 2006The weekly series is a platform for independent filmmakers in California, showcasing short and full-length documentaries about the state.
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News & Blogs
Case Studies in Indie Distribution at Digimart
Sean Uyehara
Nov 8, 2006The resounding refrain at Digimart 2006 was that the traditional model of independent film and video distribution was dying.
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Festivals
Truman Capote , 1974
Susan Gerhard
Nov 1, 2006A visit to the 50th anniversary portion of San Francisco Film Society’s web site nets not just the real Truman Capote candidly essaying on life and the movies in a 1974 visit to the SF International Film Festival.
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Q & A
Arnold On the Auction Block
Michael Fox
Oct 31, 2006Make a bid on Schwarzenegger's low-budget 1970 travesty, Hercules in New York.
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Reviews
Stand Up, Be Counted: Grassroots Docs Warn of Electronic Voting
Jonny Leahan
Oct 27, 2006With the midterm elections less than two weeks away, a crop of documentaries are collectively trying to get a message across that has largely been passed over by the mainstream media.
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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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Reviews
A War Movie Lost to Time
Dennis Harvey
Oct 4, 2006Though it won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1975, Overlord is one of those movies that mostly slipped through the cracks.
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Reviews
Jack Stevenson's vault of vice
Michael Fox
Sep 28, 2006The expat archivist and writer makes his near-annual pilgrimage to San Francisco with a flurry of shows teeming with goodies from his personal collection.
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Reviews
The "remake," re-made
Michael Fox
Sep 26, 2006Why do updates of Jerry Lewis flicks get more slack from critics than Zailian's "All the King's Men" and Demme's "The Manchurian Candidate?"
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Festivals
Global Lens 2006
Michael Fox
Sep 21, 2006The annual series of films from countries with less developed or out-of-favor national cinemas has several winners.
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Q & A
Opening "Red Doors" in Asian American Family
Susan Gerhard
Sep 19, 2006Filmmaker Georgia Lee discusses her narrative feature with family member Frances Chang.
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News & Blogs
Indie Distributors Strategize for Fall 2006 Releases
Steven Rosen
Sep 8, 2006Distributors of independent films reveal their strategies and assessment of the market heading into the all-important fall season.
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Q & A
David Thomson on Nicole Kidman
Michael Fox
Sep 4, 2006The renowned local critic and historian talks about his book about the iconic Hollywood beauty.
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News & Blogs
Current TV and the Audience as Auteur
Justin Juul
Aug 29, 2006Al Gore's fledgling S.F.--based cable and satellite channel, Current TV, generates cutting-edge content democratically, with a third of the programming created by viewers.
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Q & A
Laura Poitras" "My Country, My Country"
indieWIRE
Aug 28, 2006Director Laura Poitras’ traveled to Iraq for her latest film, “My Country, My Country.”
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Festivals
Fall 2006 Festival Season
Susan Gerhard
Aug 25, 2006SF360 checks in with a few Bay Area festival insiders to see what they're excited about at upcoming festivals.
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Festivals
Academy Grant Jump Starts SF International's 50th
Susan Gerhard
Aug 23, 2006The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Academy Foundation bestowed a surprise grant of $150,000 over three years.
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Q & A
Ryan Fleck: Wrestling with 'Half Nelson'
indieWIRE
Aug 21, 2006Ryan Fleck talks about his new film Half Nelson, his filmmaking career, and his creative inspirations and tastes.
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Q & A
Mary Woronov Visits Midnight Mass
Dennis Harvey
Aug 3, 2006An appreciation of the great actress of cult and mainstream films, before her appearance at a Midnight Mass screening of Death Race 2000.
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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
Amos Gitai's Reality
Michael Fox
Aug 1, 2006The veteran Israeli filmmaker, in town for the Jewish Film Festival, talks about radical art and Free Zone.
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Q & A
Adrian Belic and Just Think Youth Media Educators
Susan Gerhard
Jul 26, 2006Belic helped a group of youths learn about documentary filmmaking in a program designed to offer media skills to under-served Bay Area high schoolers.
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Q & A
A Documentary on Peru's Terror War
Susan Gerhard
Jul 25, 2006A conversation with Pamela Yates, director of State of Fear, on Peru's 20-year war on terror, which bears an unsettling resemblance to U.S. current events.
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Q & A
Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga on the Weight of Words
Michael Fox
Jul 24, 2006Arriaga, who authored Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, discusses working in collaboration and across mediums.
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Festivals
Overview of the S.F. Jewish Film Festival
Michael Fox
Jul 20, 2006The sudden climate change in the Middle East has had a tone-altering effect on the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, where the war will be Topic A.
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Q & A
25 Years of Sundance at the CFI's Rafael
Susan Gerhard
Jul 18, 2006California Film Institute's Executive Director, Mark Fishkin, comments on the Sundance Institute's "Art House Project."
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Q & A
Patsy Desmond, Survivor on Screen
Susan Gerhard
Jul 12, 2006Danielle Beverly, director of Learning to Swallow, offers some backstory on her filmmaking relationship with artist Patsy Desmond.
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Reviews
Zack Bazzi, War Correspondent
Susan Gerhard
Jun 28, 2006In The War Tapes, Deborah Scranton exposes war as an industry - for those who fight it and for those who don't.
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Q & A
Mat Whitecross and the Rough "Road to Guantanamo"
Susan Gerhard
Jun 26, 2006Mat Whitecross talks about his documentary The Road to Guantanamo, which takes a look at the inhumanity of U.S. "detainment" camps in Cuba.
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Q & A
Benjamin Morgan's "Quality of Life" out on DVD
Susan Gerhard
Jun 16, 2006Benjamin Morgan talks about his San Francisco-made drama, Quality of Life, and his favorite graffiti sites on the web.
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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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Festivals
The San Francisco Black Film Festival
Cheryl Eddy
Jun 12, 2006Highlights of San Francisco Black Film Festival's eighth annual edition.
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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
New Executive Director of S.F. Cinematheque on Experimental Film
Michael Fox
May 29, 2006Newly appointed S.F. Cinematheque executive director Caroline Savage discusses the state of experimental film.
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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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Festivals
Werner Herzog, Setting the Record Straight
Robert Avila
May 9, 2006The 2006 recipient of the Film Society Directing Award was full of raised-finger pronouncements, self-effacing demurrals, and unsolicited rebuttals at a Q&A preceding his film.
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Festivals
San Francisco International Film Festival's Award Winners
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2006A complete list of the winners of the Golden Gate Awards show, which was all about celebrating the city, with filmmakers of all genres saying a kind word or two about it.
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Festivals
San Francisco International Film Festival's Award Winners
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2006A complete list of the winners of the Golden Gate Awards show, which was all about celebrating the city, with filmmakers of all genres saying a kind word or two about it.
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Festivals
Addictive TV's VJ-style "Eye of the Pilot" at the Kabuki
Michael Fox
May 3, 2006An intimate group caught Addictive TV's VJ-style show of ÔEye of the Pilot' at the Kabuki, and stayed late for an enthusiastic Q&A.
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Festivals
San Francisco International Film Festival, Week Two
Cheryl Eddy
May 1, 2006The second week of the 49th SFIFF was packed with tributes and special events, luring diverse crowds with honorees like Werner Herzog and Ed Harris.
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Festivals
The Revolution Will Be Digitized?
Susan Gerhard
Apr 28, 2006The revolution will not be televised, but it may be digitized, run through Final Cut Pro, and projected on the screen near you.
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Festivals
From Here to Iberia at SFIFF
Cheryl Eddy
Apr 25, 2006Heroic firefighters, eerie simian costumes, a Baywatch star-as-activist, fierce flamenco dancers, and a rushing tide of watermelon juice.
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Festivals
Graham Leggat, SFIFF Executive Director, Indexed
Susan Gerhard
Apr 21, 2006"I got a call out of the blue," Graham Leggat says, explaining how he left the Film Society of Lincoln Center for the left coast.
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Reviews
'Hot Fuzz' a Cheeky Riposte to H-wood
Dennis Harvey
Apr 17, 2006This English comedy, the second feature made by the guys behind that genius horror spoof, 'Shaun of the Dead,' satirizes fake cinematic testosterone.
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Festivals
Cinephiles and Oenophiles: Sommelier Pairings for Sonoma Valley Fest
Miriam Wolf
Apr 7, 2006You can sunbathe topless at Cannes and ski at Sundance, and drink your fill of fine wine at the Sonoma Valley Film Festival.
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Festivals
Picks for the San Francisco International Film Festival
Susan Gerhard
Mar 31, 2006The List: B. Ruby Rich picks her favorites for the 2006 San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Festivals
49th Annual SFIFF Lineup
Susan Gerhard
Mar 28, 2006San Francisco International Film Festival announces lineup for the 49th annual festival.
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Festivals
49th Annual SFIFF Lineup
Susan Gerhard
Mar 28, 2006San Francisco International Film Festival announces lineup for the 49th annual festival.
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News & Blogs
Sundance Cinemas Buys Kabuki 8
Susan Gerhard
Mar 24, 2006Sundance Cinemas buys the Kabuki 8 and announces plans to reopen as the Sundance Kabuki in early fall 2006.
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Q & A
Filmmaker Ham Tran Rights an Historical Wrong
Thomas Logoreci
Mar 21, 2006Vietnamese American filmmaker Ham Tran rights an historical wrong in his debut feature film on the Vietnam War.
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Q & A
Cambodian Americans Exiled in New Film, Sentenced Home
Susan Gerhard
Mar 20, 2006A conversation with the filmmakers and one star of "Sentenced Home," about three Cambodian Americans in the process of being exiled.
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Festivals
Future Stars of SFIAAFF
Jennifer Young
Mar 17, 2006The List: Taro Goto posits who will go on to superstardom from the 2006 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.
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News & Blogs
Garrett Scott, Filmmaker, 1968-2006
Christopher D. Cook
Mar 8, 2006A tribute to the life and work of the late documentary maker Garrett Scott.
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Q & A
Interview With Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker
Susan Gerhard
Mar 7, 2006Direct cinema pioneers Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker discuss seeing and believing.
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Festivals
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: More Than "Watching"
Robert Avila
Mar 2, 2006HRW's series of films chosen for aesthetic value and human rights content continues to grow as it stays true to its roots.
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Reviews
'Il Divo' outdoes himself
Paolo Sorrentino takes on the notorious Italian Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, in Il Divo.
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Deadlines
Funding: Academy Film Scholars Program
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Foundation Film Scholars Program is stimulating and supporting new and significant works of film scholarship. ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be established scholars, writers, historians or researchers possessing either a significant record of achievement, or exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments in their field. Applicants must have written and published at least one book or a comparable collection of articles or monographs. AWARDS: Two grants of $25,000 will be made to qualified and worthy applicants, as reviewed and selected by the Academy's Grants Committee and staff. The Academy will distribute the grant money in two parts: at the commencement and upon completion of the proposed project. The Academy will also cover travel, lodging and per diem expenses, if necessary, for the recipients to attend the Film Scholars awards luncheon and to make their lecture presentation. DEADLINE: Application materials must be received by October 3, 2011. WEBSITE: oscars.org/education-outreach/grants/filmscholars/apply.html.
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Deadlines
Funding: Oppenheimer Cine Rental New Filmmaker Equipment Grant Program
The Oppenheimer Cine Rental New Filmmaker Equipment Grant Program supports new filmmakers in producing their first serious film project. The grant awards the use of Grant Program Arriflex 16SR2 camera package to senior and graduate thesis students and to independent filmmakers for a scheduled period of time. ELIGIBILITY: Students, media arts center members and unaffiliated independents are encouraged to apply. Proposed projects may be of any noncommercial nature: dramatic, narrative, documentary, experimental, etc. (Commercial projects, music videos and PSAs will not be considered.) DEADLINE: Ongoing. WEBSITE: oppenheimercinerental.com/grant.html.
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