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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
SEEN
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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
BLOGS
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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CALENDAR
Variety: "SF film group links with FAF"
"As part of a massive expansion, the San Francisco Film Society will become stewards of the Film Arts Foundation, a move which pushes the film society toward filmmaker services and doubles its membership," reports Michael Jones. "The initiative saves many assets of the troubled FAF, the Bay Area’s long-standing nonprofit dedicated to assisting filmmakers." More at Variety.
08.20.2008
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