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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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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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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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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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May 19, 2011
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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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Kiarostami’s Enigmatic ‘Copy’ Fascinates
Dennis Harvey
Mar 18, 2011Kiarostami’s ‘Certified Copy’ is a puzzling provocation that gets better with multiple viewings.
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March 24, 2011
Kiarostami’s Enigmatic ‘Copy’ Fascinates
Dennis Harvey
Mar 18, 2011Kiarostami’s ‘Certified Copy’ is a puzzling provocation that gets better with multiple viewings.
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Kiarostami’s Enigmatic ‘Copy’ Fascinates
Dennis Harvey
Mar 18, 2011Kiarostami’s ‘Certified Copy’ is a puzzling provocation that gets better with multiple viewings.
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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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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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september 29, 2010
'Sesame Street at 40: Milestones on the Street'
Oct 1, 2010YBCA shows its programming breadth, moving from Charles Ludlam and Robert Gardner to this celebration of the iconic children's show as part of a series highlighting the legendary Jim Henson.
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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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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 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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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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Stevenson's Oddball Scandinavian Cinema
Dennis Harvey
May 21, 2010Former San Franciscan Jack Stevenson returns from Denmark to promote the U.S. publication of Scandinavian Blue: The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s.
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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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'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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Unresolved Conflict in 'American Radical,' 'Promised Lands'
Dennis Harvey
Mar 25, 2010YBCA s month-long, six-part Human Rights and Film series closes with two documentaries on the Arab-Israeli conflict made 35 years apart.
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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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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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San Francisco Cinematheque's Spring Action
Max Goldberg
Feb 10, 2010The spring edition of the Cinematheque calendar is making the rounds, and my copy is dog-eared with wishful thinking. Grab your datebook for a rundown.
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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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It's 'Playtime' with Jacques Tati in New Series
Dennis Harvey
Jan 13, 2010You could make a case for Tati as the last great silent comedian even if he didn't begin making features until two decades into the sound era.
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Remembering Chick Strand
Max Goldberg
Oct 23, 2009Chick Strand, a crucial pioneer of West Coast experimental cinema, died July 11 at 78.
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The Turn-off Sex Cinema of Koji Wakamatsu
Dennis Harvey
Oct 16, 2009Probably no one pushed the artistic carte blanche of "pink" films further—at least into the realm of serious political engagement—than the Japanese auteur.
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Lucrecia Martel and "The Headless Woman"
Gail Spilsbury
Sep 18, 2009To viewers of Lucrecia Martel's earlier work, The Headless Woman is the crowning achievement; the filmmaker speaks about her vision of the world.
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Lucrecia Martel and a Case for Decadence
Sean Uyehara
Jul 17, 2009Lucrecia Martel's films, including La Ciénaga and The Headless Woman feature what have come to be known as her primary concerns: classism, decay and femininity.
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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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Box set "Treasures" unearths buried avant-garde
Michael Fox
Apr 2, 2009National Film Preservation Foundation, Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986, is a splendid package of 26 films, drawn from New York and San Francisco.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nik Sheenan's 'FliCKer'
Matt Sussman
Aug 5, 2008A documentary looks into a machine designed to harness the hallucinatory potential of flickering light, and sketches a portrait of its troubled creator.
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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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Phil Chambliss, Arkansas Auteur
Dennis Harvey
Nov 15, 2007Meet Phil Chambliss, a 54-year-old, recently retired gravel pit nightwatchman who makes what might be termed cinematic folk art.
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Festivals
Five from Madcat
Susan Gerhard
Sep 14, 2007Here are a few quick takes on programs that look particularly worthwhile at Madcat.
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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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"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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The art of Muppetry
Claire Faggioli
Jun 21, 2007Muppets, Music, and Magic, a Jim Henson career retrospective pleases not only Muppet-lovers but also people whose tastes stretch beyond.
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The art of Muppetry
Claire Faggioli
Jun 21, 2007Muppets, Music, and Magic, a Jim Henson career retrospective pleases not only Muppet-lovers but also people whose tastes stretch beyond.
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"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
SFIFF50, Diving In
Johnny Ray Huston
May 8, 2007The 50th annual SF International Film Festival is as good a time to put forth an argument. Here’s one: The most compelling movie stars of the current era are athletes, and the most dynamic 21st-century cinema is sports cinema.
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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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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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Nathaniel Dorsky's Secret World
Michael Fox
Dec 5, 2006Song and Solitude, is a twilight sojourn to a secret world much like our own, rendered with profound patience and a hint of wistfulness.
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Music Videos At the Museum
Max Goldberg
Nov 29, 2006MTV's boat has long since sailed, but music videos are as ubiquitous on YouTube and Myspace as YBCA brings music videos to its downstairs gallery.
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City Poet Bruce Baillie Returns
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 10, 2006When onlookers or bystanders disparagingly refer to experimental film as torturous or a bore, it’s a safe bet that they’ve never seen anything by Bruce Baillie.
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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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"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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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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Filmmaker William Farley's Peripheral Vision
Robert Avila
May 16, 2006After 35 years of underground success, veteran indie filmmaker William Farley still hovers just off the shore of mainstream respectability.
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