NEWS
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"Focus Features 'MILK' trailer now available"
Press release: "Gus Van Sant directs Academy Award winner Sean Penn as gay-rights icon Harvey Milk. Mr. Milk (1930-1978) was an activist and politician, and the first openly gay man... more
SEEN
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Andrea Jorgensen (right), Faithful Fools Street Ministry, and Michelle Anton Allen, producer, Citizen Cinema, smile at the pre-opening party for Rob Nilsson’s 9@Night series last Thursday, August 28, a benefit... more
indieWIRE
Letting go of the "upload": Seesmic lets members speak through video directly.
To French Polynesia and back with Seesmic
As my ship cuts a sweet line through the South Pacific, it seems that nothing could be further from this distant spot, where there is no land in sight, than the intricacies of the Bay Area Internet industry. When you look at a globe, French Polynesia falls exactly at the point where all other land masses disappear around the curve, and, if you squint your eyes, there is exactly nothing but ocean around it, with maybe a hint of the Americas or Australia.
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Room for thought at SFMOMA
A film in a darkened theater commands our undivided attention, but a video installation in a museum doesn’t have the same effect. Living so long with... more
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The elusive woodpecker and troubled children of divorce
There may be some disagreement whether an Oscar-winning social-issue tearjerker rates higher on the documentary food chain than a multimillion-dollar-grossing political satire. But there’s little question... more
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Chris Marker comes home, at last
I confess that for a long while I had the misperception, based on almost no exposure to his work, that French essayist Chris Marker made dense,... more
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Inside the Telluride Film Festival
The Telluride Film Festival thrives on trust: Film lovers and filmmakers travel to this remote corner of Colorado from great distances and at considerable expense on... more
BLOGS
Toronto Dispatch. 2.
We last heard from Michael Sicinski a few days ago, when he previewed the Wavelengths program. Now the festival's off and running - and so is he. This brief dispatch comes after three complete days of the Toronto Inte...
[From The Latest from GreenCine Daily]
CALENDAR
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The rare opportunity to view Rob Nilsson’s 9@Night series in FULL has not quite passed you by: The series continues this week at the Roxie, and begins again at... more
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SFFS Screen, "Days and Clouds"--continuing
"Days and Clouds is a brave film simply for daring to portray a nightmare lurking in the minds of middle-aged workers," wrote Stephen Holden in the NY Times. Silvio Soldini... more
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Rob Nilsson's 9 @ Night--continues through Sept. 11
The Bay Area’s neo-Neo-realist, Rob Nilsson, brought out his masterwork, the nine film Direct Action epic, 9 @Night—*Stroke* (2000), Singing (2000), Scheme C6 (2001), Need (2004), Pan (2006), Used (2007),... more
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I tend to overbook myself and 50 percent of the time, it prevents me from getting anything done. Case in point: Last night I decided I was going to take in a triple feature at the Roxie for purposes of Indiefest coverage. It made sense at the time.
A sucker for music documentaries of all kinds, I showed up at “Electric Heart — Don Ellis,” at 5 p.m. to begin my six-hour movie-watching marathon. Ellis immediately reminded me of a 1970s Peter Gabriel. Specifically pre-“So” Peter Gabriel, when he had officially broken away from Genesis but not yet had huge commercial success, when he was experimenting with complete abandonment using the sounds and limitations of the instruments at his disposal, with tones, with electronics, and heavily influenced by world music.
I tend to overbook myself and 50 percent of the time, it prevents me from getting anything done. Case in point: Last night I decided I was going to take in a triple feature at the Roxie for purposes of Indiefest coverage. It made sense at the time.
A sucker for music documentaries of all kinds, I showed up at “Electric Heart — Don Ellis,” at 5 p.m. to begin my six-hour movie-watching marathon. Ellis immediately reminded me of a 1970s Peter Gabriel. Specifically pre-“So” Peter Gabriel, when he had officially broken away from Genesis but not yet had huge commercial success, when he was experimenting with complete abandonment using the sounds and limitations of the instruments at his disposal, with tones, with electronics, and heavily influenced by world music.