FEATURES
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Borshay Liem’s Double Exposure of Korean Adoptions
Deann Borshay Liem’s terrific 1999 documentary First Person Plural recounted her experience as an orphaned Korean adoptee raised by a Caucasian family in an East Bay suburb. Only she wasn’t... more
NEWS
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San Francisco Film Society Announces Finalists for Film Arts Foundation Documentary Grant
Press Release: The SFFS announced last week the 11 finalists and one honorable mention for the SFFS/Film Arts Foundation Documentary Grant, the newest grant to be offered by... more
CALENDAR
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"Joseph Losey: Pictures of Provocation"—starts Mar. 5
The Pacific Film Archive surveys the work of a director who worked primarily in exile from red-baiting America, whose work, including noirs like The Prowler, persistently invokes the audience’s... more
Soldiering on
An active questioner at the Montreal Film Festival press conference wtih the makers of “Persian Carpet” asked Jafar Panahi, well known for his politically outspoken work in films such as “Offside,” “Crimson Gold,” and “The Circle,” why his short (about a brother pawning the family carpet to generate a dowry for his sister) featured as its main character a soldier and if he had a special feeling about soldiers. Panahi answered coyly in farsi, to the amusement and applause of the Iranians in the audience, before being roughly translated thus: I don’t know why it happened. I opened my eyes and saw soldiers, so in my film they have to appear. (Photo by Claudia Leger/text by Robert Avila)
09.05.2007
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