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. Che.
"Che seems to me almost the polar opposite of agitprop," writes Glenn Kenny. "It flat out does not ask for the kind of emotional engagement that more conventional epic biopics do, and that's a good thing. To see peopl...
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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
SFFS: SF International closes its 51st
Press release: "The San Francisco Film Society wrapped its 51st San Francisco International Film Festival (April 24 – May 8) with 292 screenings, 150 filmmaker guests and more than 70 industry guests from 16 countries in attendance, with an estimated 80,000 filmgoers celebrating the best cinema from around the world. The Festival sold out 94 screenings during its 15-day run, illustrating the demand for the unique programming that the Film Society brings to the Bay Area and setting the stage for the San Francisco Film Society Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, which opens on Friday, June 13. The SFFS Screen will offer daily programming of international, independent and documentary films year-round." More at San Francisco Film Society.
05.09.2008
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