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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
NEWS
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Press release: "Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 11th annual United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) has chosen the theme Blue Planet, Green... more
BLOGS
NYFF. I'm Gonna Explode.
"Voy a Explotar (I'm Gonna Explode) is the contemporary Mexican teenage Pierrot le Fou," writes Karina Longworth at the SpoutBlog. "It knows this, and it wants you to know it, and it doesn't care if this makes you hat...
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"The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins"--Oct. 13
San Francisco Art Institute’s Visiting Artists and Scholars lecture series brings director Pietra Brettkelly in to talk about her fascinating Sundance-award-winning documentary, which followed international artist Vanessa Beecroft as she... more
Harryhausen: He built this city
Ray Harryhausen, a puckish 85, kept the crowd laughing at the Rafael Film Center Saturday, April 8, for its 7th anniversary party. “I got tired of drawing cities: Flying saucers in Washington. Then of course there was San Francisco. I destroyed Coney Island and then Tokyo got into the act. I needed a new avenue for stop motion,” he explained, which is how “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” came about. He spoke on stage alongside producer/historian Arnold Kunert, founder of Matte World Digital and Visual Effects Supervisor Craig Barron, and Oscar-winning visual effects artist and director and fellow Stop Motion Animator Phil Tippett. (Text by Jennifer Young, photo by Laura Irvine)
04.11.2006
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