FEATURES
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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... more
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
BLOGS
Venice 08. Awards.
"Hollywood outsider Mickey Rourke capped his big screen comeback on Saturday when The Wrestler, in which he plays a lonely, washed out fighter, won the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice festival," report Mike Co...
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CALENDAR
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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
Winners circle
The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, which closed up its city showcase with a party that featured awards for docs and narrative features in competition, brought out heartfelt tears (Ham Tran) on Thursday night, along with some Oscar-style exuberance from Tanuj Chopra (“Punching at the Sun”), who exclaimed “This is crazy! Dennis [Lim, the Village Voice editor who was on the Narrative jury], I read you every week! And there were so many good films – 12 features!” From left, Special Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature winner Cheuk Kwan (“Chinese Restaurants”), recipient of the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature, Nicole Newnham (producer, co-director, “Sentenced Home”), winner of the Audience Award/Best Narrative Feature (in a tie with Deepa Mehta’s “Water”), Ham Tran (“Journey from the Fall”), Best Narrative Feature Award winner Tanuj Chopra (“Punching at the Sun”), Special Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature winner Richard Wong (“Colma: The Musical”). (Photo by Laura Irvine; reporting by Jennifer Young)
03.24.2006
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