filmguide.festival.asianamericanmedia.org - 2/14/2009
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A twenty-something man emerges from a decade-long coma and tries to reassemble his now-separated family in Kurosawa's most personal and invigorating work, a family melodrama without a family. The world won't be quite as you remember it, warns a doctor to the just-awakened Yutaka. Don't worry: ...
filmguide.festival.asianamericanmedia.org - 2/18/2009
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China's eminent filmmaker Jia Zhangke (UNKNOWN PLEASURES, SFIAAFF
'03) returns with an exquisite documentary/fiction hybrid that innovatively...
explores the still lives inhabiting Factory 420, a 50-year-old state-owned airplane munitions plant. The ...
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24 City - 2009 SFIAAFF
filmguide.festival.asianamericanmedia.org - 2/18/2009
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Following a seven-year hiatus, Japanese director Ryosuke Hashiguchi
(HUSH; LIKE GRAINS OF SAND) presents a gem of...
contemporary cinema that is at once an absurdist comedy, romantic drama and acute illustration of a dysfunctional society. Pitting a ...
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All Around Us - 2009 SFIAAFF
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Hell On Frisco Bay —
... on Saturday afternoon, March 14th - opposite the only screenings of Kurosawa's License to Live, the Love of Siam, one of the two unique Iimura programs, and a ...
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The Evening Class —
... , Derek Elley informs that these companion films were "shot, incredibly, back to-back, two weeks each." Both films were shot in 1998, two months after Cure but before Charisma and License to Live (which is also in SFIAAFF's spotlight). Jonathan Crow at ...
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