FEATURES
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SF International Asian American Film Festival Visits the Archives
A theme that emerged in this year’s San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) was the importance of archives in the film world. The existence of film... more
NEWS
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53rd San Francisco International Film Festival to Present Founder's Directing Award to Walter Salles
Press Release: The San Francisco Film Society announced this week that Walter Salles will receive the Founder’s Directing Award at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival. The Founder’s... more
CALENDAR
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Tiburon International Film Festival—Mar. 18-26
The ninth annual film festival begins this Thursday, opening with the comedy from Italy and Albania, East, West, East: The Final Sprint, and featuring the work of both local and... more
Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.
"Psycho's" semantics
David Thomson went to Kepler’s Bookstore in Menlo Park to make the case, put forth in his thought-provoking new book, The Moment of Psycho, for the importance of Alfred Hitchcock’s horror classic in film and cultural history. His publisher had asked him to write about one movie that "changed everything." Psycho topped a short list that also included D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation.
01.19.2010
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