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By and large, animation gets a bum rap. The average filmgoer long ago decided that the medium catered either to kids or art house snobs, and Hollywood has spent the last few decades marketing accordingly. Luckily, it's a medium that also has some of the most fervent fans—ones who endlessly ...
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Add one more to November's Filmfest Smackdown; but, with the coming year being an open window into Philippine and Filipino Cinema, I thought it would warrant to get a head start. The Filipino American Center of the San Francisco Public Library in association with the Filipino Arts & ...
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Another week, another "found footage" horror film. The Fourth Kind claims only half of its run-time is found footage, the rest is introduced by actress Mila Jovovich as elaborate dramatizations of real events that occurred in Nome, Alaska. I am always a bit wary when a film's tagline is ...
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How fortunate can a website be to have
two of the Bay Area's best film writers offer
previews of what I consider to be this weekend's winner of—as Michael Hawley aptly terms it— November's "smackdown." Film festivalism has never been more athletic or ...
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3RD I 2009—Michael Hawley Previews the Line-up
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All the leaves are brown, and the skies
are gray. November is here, and so is the
most excellent 3rd i , or the San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival. In its seventh year, 3rd i has become one of the must-go film festivals in the Bay ...
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3RD I 2009—Frako Loden Previews the Line-up
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Simone Bitton's Rachel took the bullet for Yoav
Shamir's Hashmatsa / Defamation (2009) , which I would
have predicted to be the target of outrage at the 29th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF). By the time Defamation finally screened, ...
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HASHMATSA / DEFAMATION (2009)—The Evening Class ...
"Like the Loisada of New York or the Left Bank of Paris," Annice Jacoby writes in the introduction to her visually stunning publication Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo (Abrams, 2009:29), "the Mission is a café society that scoffs at excess, complains about money, drinks the elixir ...
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Speaking with Diana Sanchez at the start of this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), she advised that one of her criteria for choosing Latino films for TIFF is to determine the films that most characterize the cinematic landscape of any given country's national cinema for the ...
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[Part One of my conversation with Robert Beavers can be found here.] Guillén: Admittedly, my appreciation of your films is definitely colored by the Jungian perspective. There is in fact a term—which has fallen somewhat out of use; but, one which I still find useful—of a “psychoid” ...
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[This entry is dedicated to Jonathan Marlow who has turned my eyes upside down.] It’s important to stress—and I offer this as advice to any journalist wishing to interview Robert Beavers in the future—that it’s much richer to simply converse with him and not to have too programmatic an agenda. ...
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It's difficult not to associate Robert Beavers's creative sensibility with Greece, not only the ochre-toned landscapes of the films he constructed on his rocky and beloved island Hydra, but the pantheonic influence of its ancient capricious gods. Apollo is there, of course, soteriologically ...
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Releasing in what has become the year of the vampire, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant (2009) is another film aimed squarely at the teen crowd, but it's one that takes itself far less seriously than some of its peers. Cirque du Freak , the first novel in The Saga of Darren Shan (by ...
