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A goat gets mixed up with a South African gang. An educated Algerian woman treks through the desert to find her unknown mother. A Lebanese girl longs for warm contact... more
NEWS
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SFBG: "A look at the man, the movie, the myth, the martyr -- and the modern legacy of Harvey Milk"
"It took Hollywood 30 years to make a feature film about the life of Harvey Milk, and when Gus Van Sant finally got the gig, and Sean Penn agreed to... more
BLOGS
Shorts, 11/19.
The Spanish Academy of Art and Cinematographic Sciences will present the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Goya Award to Jess Franco, notes Robert Monell. Via filmtagebuch. "After winning the grand prize at the Montreal World...
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CALENDAR
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Scott MacDonald/The Spirit of Canyon Cinema--Nov. 21-23
Scott MacDonald’s new book, Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor, is feted in three evenings of avant-garde film screenings and discussion—one at Ninth Street Independent... more

Where's the gold?
“Darwin’s Nightmare” director Hubert Sauper offered a sold-out Santa Cruz crowd the acceptance speech he didn’t get a chance to give — not about penguins in the arctic, but about the miner in Mozambique who must have been digging the gold to melt into Oscar. Pictured here with film critic and professor B. Ruby Rich, Sauper’s appearance was sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Community Studies Department and Social Documentation Program. (Photo by Noah Chandler)
03.09.2006
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