FEATURES
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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
SEEN
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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
BLOGS
NYFF. Hunger.
"For all its grimy aesthetic beauty and stylishly horrifying images of bodily abuse and decay, the most powerful impression made by Hunger is a stationary 20-minute single-take conversation between imprisoned IRA lead...
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CALENDAR
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Mill Valley Film Festival --Oct. 2-12
This venerable North Bay Film Festival opens Thursday with Larry Charles and Bill Maher’s Religulous along with Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Secret Life of Bees, and continues for 10 days with... more
SF Chronicle: "Frameline names K.C. Price executive director"
"Frameline, the San Francisco nonprofit that puts on America’s oldest gay film festival and runs other film and video programs in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, has hired Kenneth C. Price, an arts administrator who once served as the group’s development director, as its new executive director," reports Jesse Hamlin. "Price replaces Michael Lumpkin, who resigned earlier this month after 28 years with Frameline, which brings in 60,000 to 80,000 or more people a year to its film festival at the Castro and other theaters in the city and in Berkeley." More at SFGate.
07.18.2008
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