FEATURES
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Kevin Kelly: State of Cinema address
[Editor’s note: What follows is the State of Cinema address Kevin Kelly offered an audience Sunday, May 4, 2008, at the San Francisco International Film Festival.]
Welcome, welcome, welcome! This... more
NEWS
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SF IndieFest announces program for Another Hole in the Head
SF IndieFest announced the lineup Tuesday for its Another Hole in the Head Film Festival June 5-19 at the Roxie Film Center in San Francisco. U.S. premieres open and close... more
SEEN
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Maria Bello, honored with the Peter J. Owens award, greets fans. She told the Film Society Awards Night audience that she recently returned to New York a found-object golden shoe... more
BLOGS
Cannes. Boogie.
"Drinking, smoking and whoring ain't what they used to be in Boogie [site], Radu Muntean's attenuated reflection on friends whose paths since high school have taken starkly different routes," writes Jay Weissberg for ...
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CALENDAR
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"James Stewart, American Icon:" May 18 - June 22
A screening of the now 50-year-old Vertigo (Sun/18) opens a series celebrating the 100 years since Jimmy Stewart was born. More at the Smith Rafael Film Center.
Category: Review
Rich text: Critic B. Ruby Rich questions the questioner, Errol Morris, about "Standard Operating Procedure" during SFIFF51. The film plays the Bay Area this week. (Photo by Tommy Lau, courtesy SFFS)
"Standard Operating Procedure" and the stories we tell
SF360 asked Bay Area writers and fans to comment on the films of SFIFF51. Stephen Elliott reports from the April 29 Persistence of Vision screening of Errol Morris’s Standard Operating Procedure, opening May 9. The screening was preceded by an onstage conversation between B. Ruby Rich and Morris. This story appeared originally in SF360.org on April 30.
He calls it the "Interrotron." The way Errol Morris interviews a subject is to speak into a camera. His image is then projected on a screen and the interviewee responds into the camera. It’s like a teleprompter that allows the game show host or newscaster to speak directly to you while reading her lines. And that’s the feeling of Morris’ films of the last 15 years, particularly The Fog Of War, featuring former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara: that the subject is speaking directly to the audience. And that’s the feeling of Standard Operating Procedure. The interviewees, primarily the low level military police on duty at Abu Ghraib prison who participated in and photographed the torture of Iraqi prisoners deep inside the war zone, are talking to you.
topics: directors, documentary, political film, reviews, san francisco international film festival
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