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"Waltz with Bashir": autobio-animation and the horrors of war
Just as the graphic novel has in recent decades completely altered the once strictly-kidstuff landscape of the “comic book,” so now animated features are beginning to embrace more grown-up stories... more
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Sun shines on the wardrobe shed during the Civic Center-based filming of Milk in San Francisco this past year. After filling the Castro Theatre for the month, the film is... more
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Rocchi's Retro Rental: Donald Westlake, 1933-2008
Point Blank (1967) I know, I know -- I wrote about a crime film last week. And there's always the danger of turning this column into a constantly rotating memorial, where whichever notable...
[From SFGate: Culture Blog!]
"Focus Features 'MILK' trailer now available"
Press release: "Gus Van Sant directs Academy Award winner Sean Penn as gay-rights icon Harvey Milk. Mr. Milk (1930-1978) was an activist and politician, and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in America; in 1977, he was voted to the city supervisors’ board of San Francisco. The following year, both he and the city’s mayor George Moscone were shot to death by another city supervisor, Dan White. Mr. Milk was previously the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary feature "The Times of Harvey Milk," but "Milk" —filmed on location in San Francisco—is the first non-documentary feature to explore the man’s life and career." Trailer at Apple.
09.04.2008
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