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Mexico Rising: The Films of Nicolás Pereda
Oct 20, 2011YBCA 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, 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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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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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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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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Events
'Naan Kadavul (I Am God)'
Oct 6, 2011Fringe 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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October 4 2011
'Naan Kadavul (I Am God)'
Oct 6, 2011Fringe 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, 2011YBCA 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.
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September 27 2011
'Lola'
Sep 29, 2011YBCA 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.
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September 13 2011
Trashed: Two Films About Garbage
Sep 15, 2011As 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.
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July 12, 2011
'Smut Capital of America'
Jul 14, 2011YBCA 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.
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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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Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'
Adam Hartzell
Jun 24, 2011Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.
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June 23 2011
Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'
Adam Hartzell
Jun 24, 2011Hong 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, 2011Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.
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June 21, 2011
'Oki's Movie'
Jun 23, 2011Prolific 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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June 21, 2011
'Oki's Movie'
Jun 23, 2011Prolific 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, 2011Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.
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June 23 2011
A City’s Smutty History, Embraced
Julia Barbosa
Jun 21, 2011Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.
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June 23, 2011
A City’s Smutty History, Embraced
Julia Barbosa
Jun 21, 2011Stabile 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, 2011Stabile 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, 2011Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.
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June 23 2011
A City’s Smutty History, Embraced
Julia Barbosa
Jun 21, 2011Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.
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June 23, 2011
A City’s Smutty History, Embraced
Julia Barbosa
Jun 21, 2011Stabile 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, 2011Stabile 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, 2011YBCA digs a delightfully disturbing live Kinski document from the archives.
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Vintage Kinski Uncorked at YBCA
Dennis Harvey
Jun 17, 2011YBCA digs a delightfully disturbing live Kinski document from the archives.
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Vintage Kinski Uncorked at YBCA
Dennis Harvey
Jun 17, 2011YBCA digs a delightfully disturbing live Kinski document from the archives.
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Vintage Kinski Uncorked at YBCA
Dennis Harvey
Jun 17, 2011YBCA digs a delightfully disturbing live Kinski document from the archives.
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June 14, 2011
'Klaus Kinski: Jesus Christ the Savior'
Jun 16, 2011Herzog "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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May 19, 2011
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April 5, 2011
Fearless: Independent Chinese Documentaries
Apr 7, 2011Yerba 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, 2011YBCA rallies behind Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof with its ‘Iran Beyond Censorship’ series.
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March 17, 2011
YBCA Brings Attention to Embattled Iranian Artists
Max Goldberg
Mar 17, 2011YBCA 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, 2011YBCA 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, 2011YBCA rallies behind Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof with its ‘Iran Beyond Censorship’ series.
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March 17, 2011
YBCA Brings Attention to Embattled Iranian Artists
Max Goldberg
Mar 17, 2011YBCA 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, 2011YBCA rallies behind Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof with its ‘Iran Beyond Censorship’ series.
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January 18, 2011
'Ne change rien'
Jan 20, 2011Yerba 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, 2011A Portuguese filmmaker builds a rich visual landscape from French singer Jeanne Balibar's vocal practice.
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January 20, 2011
Costa's 'Ne change rien' Captures Singer's Dreaminess, Rigor
Sara Dosa
Jan 20, 2011A Portuguese filmmaker builds a rich visual landscape from French singer Jeanne Balibar's vocal practice.
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Costa's 'Ne change rien' Captures Singer's Dreaminess, Rigor
Sara Dosa
Jan 20, 2011A Portuguese filmmaker builds a rich visual landscape from French singer Jeanne Balibar's vocal practice.
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December 7, 2010
‘Meat Grinder’
Dec 11, 2010YBCA’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.
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November 30, 2010
'Red White & Blue'
Dec 2, 2010Simon 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.
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October 19, 2010
'Straight Is the Way'
Oct 24, 2010The 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.
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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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Gardner's Global Views Unnerve at YBCA
Sara Dosa
Sep 26, 2010Three decades of Robert Gardner films scrutinize the human condition.
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Gardner's Global Views Unnerve at YBCA
Sara Dosa
Sep 26, 2010Three decades of Robert Gardner films scrutinize the human condition.
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September 30, 2010
Gardner's Global Views Unnerve at YBCA
Sara Dosa
Sep 26, 2010Three decades of Robert Gardner films scrutinize the human condition.
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September 21, 2010
The Lost Films of Charles Ludlam
Sep 24, 2010After 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.
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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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August 31, 2010
'Handmade Nation' at YBCA
Sep 5, 2010The 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.
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August 26 ,2010
A Vampire Weekend at YBCA
Max Goldberg
Aug 26, 2010Three vampire films capture more than the imagination. That the vogue for vampire melodramas may have run its course is clear enough from the appearance of Vampires Suck (in theaters as of this writing, though not likely much past it) and the news that the American redo of the 2008 Swedish indie hit, Let the Right One In, will be titled "Let Me In." Just like that, a lovely slice of pop-baroque gets reprocessed as a pathetic whine. No matter: as long there is cinema, the vampire will reemerge. Ever since the twin pinnacles of Nosferatu (1922) and Vampyr (1932), in which two of early cinema’s. . .
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A Vampire Weekend at YBCA
Max Goldberg
Aug 26, 2010Three vampire films capture more than the imagination. That the vogue for vampire melodramas may have run its course is clear enough from the appearance of Vampires Suck (in theaters as of this writing, though not likely much past it) and the news that the American redo of the 2008 Swedish indie hit, Let the Right One In, will be titled "Let Me In." Just like that, a lovely slice of pop-baroque gets reprocessed as a pathetic whine. No matter: as long there is cinema, the vampire will reemerge. Ever since the twin pinnacles of Nosferatu (1922) and Vampyr (1932), in which two of early cinema’s. . .
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August 24, 2010
Rare Summer Vampires
Aug 26, 2010Rare 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, 2010Gary 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, 2010Inuit 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, 2010YBCA 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, 2010Riding 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, 2009Wild 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, 2009Ben 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, 2009Twenty 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, 2008The 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, 2008Freelance 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, 2008YBCA'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, 2008A 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, 2007Matt 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, 2007Review: 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, 2007One of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Ôs goals as a filmmaker is to simply show what he likes, and what he likes to see.
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Peter Whitehead's '60s
Max Goldberg
Sep 14, 2006The 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, 2006San 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, 2006Perfumed 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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