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'Village' Offers New Look at New Orleans
S. Leo Chiang, born and raised in Taiwan, knew what it was like to be an outsider in the United States, so the seemingly inexplicable rebellion of previously docile Vietnamese... more
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Writer/Director James Savoca (Around June, Sleepwalk), pictured right, welcomed actor Jon Gries (Napoleon Dynamite, Jackpot, Around June) to a free mixer at the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking to... more
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"Joseph Losey: Pictures of Provocation"—starts Mar. 5
The Pacific Film Archive surveys the work of a director who worked primarily in exile from red-baiting America, whose work, including noirs like The Prowler, persistently invokes the audience’s... more
SF Chronicle: "Longtime head of Frameline to step down"
“In the movie business, 28 years is several lifetimes, and that’s why it’s major news that Michael Lumpkin, programmer and former director of Frameline — the group behind the San Francisco International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Film Festival — is leaving the organization after next year’s event,” writes Walter Addiego. “Lumpkin served as executive director for 22 of those years. The nonprofit Frameline bills itself as the world’s largest LGBT arts organization.” More at SFGate.
10.21.2007
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