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Jack Stevenson and "The Superstars Next Door"
If John Waters is “the Pope of Trash” (according to the gospel of William S Burroughs) then freelance curator and film fanatic Jack Stevenson is a shoe-in for Cardinal. The... more
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San Francisco actress and filmmaker Joan Chen enjoys a screening at a Japanese film noir retrospective at Spain’s San Sebastian International Film Festival September 25 after finishing her stint as... more
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NYFF. I'm Gonna Explode.
"Voy a Explotar (I'm Gonna Explode) is the contemporary Mexican teenage Pierrot le Fou," writes Karina Longworth at the SpoutBlog. "It knows this, and it wants you to know it, and it doesn't care if this makes you hat...
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"The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins"--Oct. 13
San Francisco Art Institute’s Visiting Artists and Scholars lecture series brings director Pietra Brettkelly in to talk about her fascinating Sundance-award-winning documentary, which followed international artist Vanessa Beecroft as she... more
Critic's pick: "Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Curran
"Tired of endless electioneering and the summer prospect of movies for children?" asks Judy Stone. "Don’t miss the experience of a lifetime—the magical, enchanting world of Shakespeare’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at the Curran through June 1, spoken in seven diverse Indian languages—and some English, too. Its extraordinary sensuality is at the heart of the bard’s play, according to Tim Supple, the show’s adventurous British director. By presenting more than two impressions of sex (as animalistic, or as an expression of divinity), he says Shakespeare explores the idea, ‘that when there is sexual union, there is harmony and when there isn’t harmony between them, there is not harmony in the world.’ How’s that for a campaign theme in 2008?!"
05.20.2008
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