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fest09.sffs.org - 4/24/2009

Lake Tahoe | San Francisco International Film Festival

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It's morning in a small seaside town on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, and teenager Juan (Diego Cataño) has just driven the family's tomato-red Toyota into a light pole on an empty street. As he sets off on foot to seek help, the immobilized car becomes a vehicle for delivering Juan into the hands ...

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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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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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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 Day 2: Lake Tahoe
Hell On Frisco Bay — The 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival has begun and runs through May 7th. Each day during the festival I'll be posting about one film I've seen or am hotly anticipating. Starting today. Lake Tahoe (MEXICO: Fernando Eimbcke, 2008) playing: 9:15 PM tonight at the Kabuki, with two more showtimes later in the festival. festival premiere: Berlinale 2008 distributor: Film Movement DVD release scheduled for November 2009. If you liked Fernando Eimbcke's Duck Season you ...

SFIFF52 Day 3: Battle for Terra, Adoration, Empress Hotel, Lake Tahoe
Movies — ... humor, the Jim Jarmusch influence is overwhelming in this peculiar but sweet Yucatan-set drama. A boy’s adventure to fix his crashed car slowly reveals a family’s anguish—effective with minimal effort. Incredibly simplistic and lurking in the mundane details, yet somehow never boring. The mystery of the title isn’t revealed until the end, but by then we’ve met memorable characters who’ll help our young hero find his footing in this fun no-budget film. Details   ...