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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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DVD OF THE WEEK: Ping Pong Playa
Ping Pong Playa Directed by Jessica Yu 2007, 96 minutes, English "We flavored the script with details from our own lives: the dad who sings Chinese opera while frying the breakfast Spam (mine), the grown man taking le...
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SF Chronicle on Harding Theater: "City, supervisor back developer's idea, but preservationists object"
"Once a popular jazz-age neighborhood venue where people watched vaudeville acts, silent films and talkies, the Harding Theater is again the center of attention in a resurgent section of San Francisco’s Western Addition," reports Robert Selna. "The city’s Planning Department and district Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi are backing a developer’s plan for an eight-unit condominium building adjacent to the Harding, which opened at Divisadero and Hayes streets near Alamo Square in 1926 and had late-life careers as a light-music theater and rock concert hall before it closed for good." More at SFGate.
08.29.2008
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