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52nd San Francisco International Film Festival Opens
justpressplay.net - 4/23/2009
52nd San Francisco International Film Festival Opens
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The San Francisco International Film Festival opens today for yet another two weeks of great films from all over the world: Bulgaria, Ecuador, Philippines and even all the way from San Francisco! It’s the festival’s 52nd year and it looks like it’s shaping up to be an exciting one, pointed ...
fest09.sffs.org - 4/21/2009
Still Walking | San Francisco International Film Festival
— fest09.sffs.org — The arrival of a new film by Hirokazu Kore-eda is an eagerly anticipated event among cinephiles for... whom this remarkably nuanced chronicler of Japanese life, loss and longing is now firmly established as a contemporary master of cinema at its most ... (more) Still Walking | San Francisco International Film Festival

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Adoration | San Francisco International Film Festival
fest09.sffs.org - 4/25/2009
Adoration | San Francisco International Film Festival
— fest09.sffs.org — An ancient news story takes on new viral life after a teenager transforms a simple translation exercise... into a riveting narrative about his own dead parents, imagining his father as a terrorist who places a bomb in his pregnant girlfriend's handbag. ... (more) Adoration | San Francisco International Film Festival

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The Beast Stalker | San Francisco International Film Festival
fest09.sffs.org - 4/23/2009
The Beast Stalker | San Francisco International Film Festival
— fest09.sffs.org — When a stakeout goes wrong, hotheaded, tough-talking police sergeant Tong (Nicholas Tse) dresses down his plainclothes crew.... Catching sight of the fugitive, Tong picks up the trail again in a harrowing car chase (orchestrated by Hong Kong cinema's ... (more) The Beast Stalker | San Francisco International Film ...

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SFIFF52—For The Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism — The Evening Class
I take two big gulps of black coffee this morning. First, because the Cannes line-up has been officially announced (and it's downright thrilling), and second and most immediately, because the 52nd edition of the San Francisco International Film Festival launches this evening at San Francisco's ...
The 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival - Part 3 — YNOT at the Movies
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Michael Hawley Looks Ahead — The Evening Class
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The 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival - Part 1 — YNOT at the Movies
Every spring, San Francisco's Japantown is the hot spot to be. Tens of thousands come to Japantown to celebrate the Cherry Blossom Festival , and also come to attend the longest-running film festival in the Americas — the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFiFF). With more ...
History and the Movies III: The San Francisco Earthquake — Cinema Styles
Tomorrow is April 18th, the day 103 years ago that San Francisco was rocked with a 7.8 magnitude* earthquake and subsequently burned to the ground. Initial figures of deaths in the hundreds were doctored and the real death toll, which was in the thousands, was hidden from the public because ...