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    Mexico Rising: The Films of Nicolás Pereda

    Oct 20, 2011

    YBCA screens five films by 27-year old Mexican auteur Nicolás Pereda in this lauded retrospective, justifiably making its San Francisco debut after playing earlier this year to acclaim in points east. Deadpan comedy 'Juntos' plays Thursday. More info ybca.org.

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    Where Are their Stories?

    Johnny Ray Huston
    Oct 17, 2011

    The best is yet come for Mexican wunderkind Nicolás Pereda, whose elliptical narratives allow room meditation and imagination on the part of a viewer.

  • October 20, 2011

    Where Are their Stories?

    Johnny Ray Huston
    Oct 17, 2011

    The 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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    Where Are their Stories?

    Johnny Ray Huston
    Oct 17, 2011

    The 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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    Where Are their Stories?

    Johnny Ray Huston
    Oct 17, 2011

    The best is yet come for Mexican wunderkind Nicolás Pereda, whose elliptical narratives allow room meditation and imagination on the part of a viewer.

  • October 20, 2011

    Where Are their Stories?

    Johnny Ray Huston
    Oct 17, 2011

    The best is yet come for Mexican wunderkind Nicolás Pereda, whose elliptical narratives allow room meditation and imagination on the part of a viewer.

  • Reviews

    Where Are their Stories?

    Johnny Ray Huston
    Oct 17, 2011

    The 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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    'Naan Kadavul (I Am God)'

    Oct 6, 2011

    Fringe Tamil director Bala's mad, mondo tale of a pot-smoking, vengeance-driven holy man plays this week at YBCA. 'Naan Kadavul' screens as part of YBCA mini-program 'Cruel Cinema: New Directions in Tamil Film,' also featuring actor Sasikumar's ambitious first film, 'Subramaniapuram.' More info ybca.org.

  • October 4 2011

    'Naan Kadavul (I Am God)'

    Oct 6, 2011

    Fringe Tamil director Bala's mad, mondo tale of a pot-smoking, vengeance-driven holy man plays this week at YBCA. 'Naan Kadavul' screens as part of YBCA mini-program 'Cruel Cinema: New Directions in Tamil Film,' also featuring actor Sasikumar's ambitious first film, 'Subramaniapuram.' More info ybca.org.

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    'Lola'

    Sep 29, 2011

    YBCA screens Brillante Mendoza's 'Lola,' a drama tracking the consequences of a crime on two grandmothers, one related to the victim, another the suspect. Infrequently seen on western screens, Mendoza is regarded in his native Philippines as a cinematic master and the leading light of Kapampangan film. More info at ybca.org.

  • September 27 2011

    'Lola'

    Sep 29, 2011

    YBCA screens Brillante Mendoza's 'Lola,' a drama tracking the consequences of a crime on two grandmothers, one related to the victim, another the suspect. Infrequently seen on western screens, Mendoza is regarded in his native Philippines as a cinematic master and the leading light of Kapampangan film. More info at ybca.org.

  • September 13 2011

    Trashed: Two Films About Garbage

    Sep 15, 2011

    As a complement to this year's Bay Area Now program, YBCA screens two films about waste and the way it impacts our lives. 'Scrappers,' showing Thursday, tells the story of two scavengers eking out a living salvaging trash from Chicago's dumpsters and 'Waste Land,' playing Sunday, follows artist Vik Muniz to Brazil where he connects with pickers at the world's largest garbage dump. More info: ybca.org.

  • July 12, 2011

    'Smut Capital of America'

    Jul 14, 2011

    YBCA kicks off its Smut Captial of America series with a film of the same name by Michael Stabile, who will be present for discussion at the screening. The in-progress doc chronicles the sex scene in San Francisco in the ’60s and ’70s and the city's rise to prominence as the country's porn capital. SCoA runs through August 18. More info at ybca.org.

  • June 28, 2011

    Rediscovered North Korean Cinema

    Jun 30, 2011

    YBCA 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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    Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'

    Adam Hartzell
    Jun 24, 2011

    Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.

  • June 23 2011

    Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'

    Adam Hartzell
    Jun 24, 2011

    Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.

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    Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'

    Adam Hartzell
    Jun 24, 2011

    Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.

  • June 21, 2011

    'Oki's Movie'

    Jun 23, 2011

    Prolific producer, art-house fave and proponent of "radical banality" Hong Sang-Soo juxtaposes moments from a young woman's relationships with two men, a year apart, in the formalist comedy/romance ‘Oki's Movie.’ Screens at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. More at ybca.org.

  • June 21, 2011

    'Oki's Movie'

    Jun 23, 2011

    Prolific producer, art-house fave and proponent of "radical banality" Hong Sang-Soo juxtaposes moments from a young woman's relationships with two men, a year apart, in the formalist comedy/romance ‘Oki's Movie.’ Screens at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. More at ybca.org.

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    A City’s Smutty History, Embraced

    Julia Barbosa
    Jun 21, 2011

    Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.

  • June 23 2011

    A City’s Smutty History, Embraced

    Julia Barbosa
    Jun 21, 2011

    Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.

  • June 23, 2011

    A City’s Smutty History, Embraced

    Julia Barbosa
    Jun 21, 2011

    Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.

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    A City’s Smutty History, Embraced

    Julia Barbosa
    Jun 21, 2011

    Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.

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    A City’s Smutty History, Embraced

    Julia Barbosa
    Jun 21, 2011

    Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.

  • June 23 2011

    A City’s Smutty History, Embraced

    Julia Barbosa
    Jun 21, 2011

    Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.

  • June 23, 2011

    A City’s Smutty History, Embraced

    Julia Barbosa
    Jun 21, 2011

    Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.

  • Q & A

    A City’s Smutty History, Embraced

    Julia Barbosa
    Jun 21, 2011

    Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.

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    Vintage Kinski Uncorked at YBCA

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 17, 2011

    YBCA digs a delightfully disturbing live Kinski document from the archives.

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    Vintage Kinski Uncorked at YBCA

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 17, 2011

    YBCA digs a delightfully disturbing live Kinski document from the archives.

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    Vintage Kinski Uncorked at YBCA

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 17, 2011

    YBCA digs a delightfully disturbing live Kinski document from the archives.

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    Vintage Kinski Uncorked at YBCA

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 17, 2011

    YBCA digs a delightfully disturbing live Kinski document from the archives.

  • June 14, 2011

    'Klaus Kinski: Jesus Christ the Savior'

    Jun 16, 2011

    Herzog "best fiend" Klaus Kinski battles hecklers and personal ghosts in this newly restored print of his 1971 one-man show, one of scant few opportunities for English audiences to bear witness to his truly unhinged, but deeply compelling public persona. Plays at YBCA; more info YBCA.org.

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    YBCA Revisits Vintage Erotica

    Dennis Harvey
    May 19, 2011

    YBCA uncorks another era's eros.

  • May 19, 2011

    YBCA Revisits Vintage Erotica

    Dennis Harvey
    May 19, 2011

    YBCA uncorks another era's eros.

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    YBCA Revisits Vintage Erotica

    Dennis Harvey
    May 19, 2011

    YBCA uncorks another era's eros.

  • April 5, 2011

    Fearless: Independent Chinese Documentaries

    Apr 7, 2011

    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts hosts and dGenerate Films and Fandor present ‘Fearless: Independent Chinese Documentaries,’ which features six independent Chinese political docs; continuing this week with 'Tape' (April 7), 'Ghost Town' (April 10) and '1428' (pictured, April 14). More at ybca.org.

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    YBCA Brings Attention to Embattled Iranian Artists

    Max Goldberg
    Mar 17, 2011

    YBCA rallies behind Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof with its ‘Iran Beyond Censorship’ series.

  • March 17, 2011

    YBCA Brings Attention to Embattled Iranian Artists

    Max Goldberg
    Mar 17, 2011

    YBCA rallies behind Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof with its ‘Iran Beyond Censorship’ series.

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    YBCA Brings Attention to Embattled Iranian Artists

    Max Goldberg
    Mar 17, 2011

    YBCA rallies behind Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof with its ‘Iran Beyond Censorship’ series.

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    YBCA Brings Attention to Embattled Iranian Artists

    Max Goldberg
    Mar 17, 2011

    YBCA rallies behind Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof with its ‘Iran Beyond Censorship’ series.

  • March 17, 2011

    YBCA Brings Attention to Embattled Iranian Artists

    Max Goldberg
    Mar 17, 2011

    YBCA rallies behind Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof with its ‘Iran Beyond Censorship’ series.

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    YBCA Brings Attention to Embattled Iranian Artists

    Max Goldberg
    Mar 17, 2011

    YBCA rallies behind Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof with its ‘Iran Beyond Censorship’ series.

  • January 18, 2011

    'Ne change rien'

    Jan 20, 2011

    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts offers the latest by Pedro Costa, what they call a "ravishing, entrancing study of light, shadow and voice" from the Portuguese filmmaker. More at ybca.org.

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    Costa's 'Ne change rien' Captures Singer's Dreaminess, Rigor

    Sara Dosa
    Jan 20, 2011

    A Portuguese filmmaker builds a rich visual landscape from French singer Jeanne Balibar's vocal practice.

  • January 20, 2011

    Costa's 'Ne change rien' Captures Singer's Dreaminess, Rigor

    Sara Dosa
    Jan 20, 2011

    A Portuguese filmmaker builds a rich visual landscape from French singer Jeanne Balibar's vocal practice.

  • Reviews

    Costa's 'Ne change rien' Captures Singer's Dreaminess, Rigor

    Sara Dosa
    Jan 20, 2011

    A Portuguese filmmaker builds a rich visual landscape from French singer Jeanne Balibar's vocal practice.

  • December 7, 2010

    ‘Meat Grinder’

    Dec 11, 2010

    YBCA’s ‘Go To Hell For The Holidays: Horror in December’ series continues with Kiwa Moethaisong’s ‘Meat Grinder,’ the story of a disturbed chef who increases her noodle soup sales by adding a simple and grotesque ingredient. More at ybca.org.

  • November 30, 2010

    'Red White & Blue'

    Dec 2, 2010

    Simon Rumley’s low budget Texas-set horror film tells the story of a disconnected, promiscuous young woman who finds friendship in a mysterious Iraq veteran. ‘Red White & Blue’ kicks off YBCA’s Go To Hell For The Holidays: Horror in December series. More at ybca.org.

  • October 19, 2010

    'Straight Is the Way'

    Oct 24, 2010

    The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival's series "Tough Guys: Images of Jewish Gangsters In Film" concludes with Paul Sloane's 'Straight Is the Way' at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Franchot Tone stars as the morally conflicted Benny Horowitz, an ex-con struggling to steer clear of old accomplices as he tries to make a fresh start in New York's Lower East Side. More at ybca.org.

  • October 12, 2010

    Tough Guys: Images of Jewish Gangsters in Film

    Oct 17, 2010

    Yerba 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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    Gardner's Global Views Unnerve at YBCA

    Sara Dosa
    Sep 26, 2010

    Three decades of Robert Gardner films scrutinize the human condition.

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    Gardner's Global Views Unnerve at YBCA

    Sara Dosa
    Sep 26, 2010

    Three decades of Robert Gardner films scrutinize the human condition.

  • September 30, 2010

    Gardner's Global Views Unnerve at YBCA

    Sara Dosa
    Sep 26, 2010

    Three decades of Robert Gardner films scrutinize the human condition.

  • September 21, 2010

    The Lost Films of Charles Ludlam

    Sep 24, 2010

    After seeing one of Charles Ludlam's early plays, theater critic Brendan Gill famously remarked, "This isn't farce. This isn't absurd. This is absolutely ridiculous!" Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents two of Ludlam's rarely seen films: a digitally remastered version of 'The Sorrows of Dolores' (September 24–25) and 'The Impostors' (September 26), where Ludlam stars as a gay magician.

  • September 14, 2010

    'A Brighter Summer Day'

    Sep 16, 2010

    Edward 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.

  • August 31, 2010

    'Handmade Nation' at YBCA

    Sep 5, 2010

    The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' design and architecture series, Something From Nothing, draws to a close with Faythe Levine's 'Handmade Nation,' a documentary about the politics, aesthetics, and ethos of D.I.Y craft in North America that played SF360 Film+Club this past year.

  • August 26 ,2010

    A Vampire Weekend at YBCA

    Max Goldberg
    Aug 26, 2010

    Three vampire films capture more than the imagination. That the vogue for vampire melodramas may have run its course is clear enough from the appearance of Vampires Suck (in theaters as of this writing, though not likely much past it) and the news that the American redo of the 2008 Swedish indie hit, Let the Right One In, will be titled "Let Me In." Just like that, a lovely slice of pop-baroque gets reprocessed as a pathetic whine. No matter: as long there is cinema, the vampire will reemerge. Ever since the twin pinnacles of Nosferatu (1922) and Vampyr (1932), in which two of early cinema’s. . .

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    A Vampire Weekend at YBCA

    Max Goldberg
    Aug 26, 2010

    Three vampire films capture more than the imagination. That the vogue for vampire melodramas may have run its course is clear enough from the appearance of Vampires Suck (in theaters as of this writing, though not likely much past it) and the news that the American redo of the 2008 Swedish indie hit, Let the Right One In, will be titled "Let Me In." Just like that, a lovely slice of pop-baroque gets reprocessed as a pathetic whine. No matter: as long there is cinema, the vampire will reemerge. Ever since the twin pinnacles of Nosferatu (1922) and Vampyr (1932), in which two of early cinema’s. . .

  • August 24, 2010

    Rare Summer Vampires

    Aug 26, 2010

    Rare vampire films, including Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark and Carl Dreyer's unsettling Vampyr, come out of the dark for a weekend at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

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    'Typeface' Makes Art of a Lost Craft

    Adam Hartzell
    May 14, 2010

    Gary Hustwit s Helvetica turned a font into a fascination, and Justine Nagan's Typeface takes the topic of type one step further by moving into the past.

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    Independent Inuit Films at YBCA

    Dennis Harvey
    Apr 8, 2010

    Inuit peoples—the indigenous cultures rooted in Arctic regions from Alaska to Greenland—have an honored place in film history, dating to Flaherty's Nanook of the North.

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    Freak Flag Flying at YBCA

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 17, 2010

    YBCA has sustained a major place in S.F.'s cultural landscape without receiving the due it would have had its mission been narrower and more easily defined.

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    Michael House's Translation of Tati at YBCA

    Michael Guillen
    Jan 17, 2010

    Riding the crest of the Tati tsunami hitting our shores is The Magnificent Tati by Michael House, who lived in S.F. for 12 years before moving to Paris.

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    Marco Ferreri's Anarchic Filmmaking

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 12, 2009

    Wild man of Italian cinema, Marco Ferreri left many films in need of rediscovery (or simply discovery) since his death in 1997.

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    Back to Nature with Ben Rivers

    Dennis Harvey
    Mar 27, 2009

    Ben Rivers makes his Bay Area debut this week presenting in person two programs, both providing a slightly dislocative experience at once tranquil and sinister.

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    Strand Releasing Turns 20

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 26, 2009

    Twenty years after its founding, Strand Releasing remains an active, irreplaceable and distinctive presence on the U.S. distribution scene.

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    Soviet-Critical 'Cargo 200' at YBCA

    Matt Sussman
    Nov 11, 2008

    The controversial Cargo 200, a take-down of the Soviet era, makes its U.S. theatrical debut at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

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    Jack Stevenson on 'The Superstars Next Door'

    Matt Sussman
    Oct 6, 2008

    Freelance curator and film fanatic Jack Stevenson brings grainy reels documenting live, nude girls to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

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    Curators at Bay Area Now 5

    Sean Uyehara
    Sep 11, 2008

    YBCA's triennial exhibition has developed a deserved reputation for presenting an energetic survey of current Bay Area artistic practice.

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    The Mystical and Everyday in 'A Listener's Tale'

    Max Goldberg
    Jul 15, 2008

    A Listener's Tale is a lovely if unclassifiable mixture of ethnography and poetic reverie which screened at last winter's Rotterdam Film Festival.

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    SOFA, so good? "Straight outta Film Arts" (SOFA) shines a light on youth filmmaking

    Matt Sussman
    Sep 6, 2007

    Matt Sussman looks at the final products of the talented young directors in TILT's Summer Film Camp showcase (screening as part of of Straight Outta Film Arts program at YBCA).

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    "Lover Other"

    Matt Sussman
    Jun 26, 2007

    Review: startling portraits Claude Cahun, her half-sister and lover Marcel Moore took of themselves and each other dressed in a variety of personas, costumes and genders in Lover Other.

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    Weerasethakul Talks Hospitals, Aerobics, and a Boy From Mars

    Johnny Ray Huston
    Apr 9, 2007

    One of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Ôs goals as a filmmaker is to simply show what he likes, and what he likes to see.

  • Reviews

    Peter Whitehead's '60s

    Max Goldberg
    Sep 14, 2006

    The provocative documentary filmmaker is recalled with a retrospective at Yerba Buena Center For the Arts.

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    "Kees Kino: The Film Work of Weldon Kees"

    Jenni Olson
    Jun 7, 2006

    San Francisco Cinematheque guest curator Jenni Olson reflects on her show, Kees Kino: The Film Work of Weldon Kees.

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    Kidlat Tahimik's "Perfumed Nightmare" Remains an Unlikely Masterpiece

    Max Goldberg
    May 18, 2006

    Perfumed Nightmare, a Filipino art film in which process is ultimately indivisible from form, is largely forgotten today but created a minor sensation upon its release.


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