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Astra Taylor (Canada 2008) Plato tells us, The unexamined life is not worth living. The eight contemporary philosophers profiled in Astra Taylor s lively and engaging documentary no doubt would agree. Whether it s Cornel West speaking in brain-bending sentences from the backseat of a car ( I m a ...
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Luigi Falorni ( Feuerherz , Germany/Austria 2008) In
this moving drama, ten-year-old Awet, played with powerful expressiveness
by Letekidan Micael, is swept into the Eritrean war for independence of the early 1980s. Given to the Eritrean Liberation ...
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Stephane Gauger ( Cu va chim se se
, Vietnam/USA 2007) The fruitful cinematic relationship that Vietnamese
Americans have fostered with their motherland in recent years is ably continued with Stephane Gauger s feature debut. While the film s central ...
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Enrique Fern ndez, C sar Charlone (El ba
o del papa, Uruguay/Spain 2007) Part charming Latin American
tale of village absurdity la Gabriel Garc a M rquez and part acid social commentary, the South American hit film The Pope s Toilet based on Pope ...
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Hell On Frisco Bay —
... the Water plays four matinees on the SFFS screen on January 31, February 1, 7 & 8. These are joined by the Eritrean war-set Lake of Fire (Feb. 6-12), the 2007 SFIAAFF Audience Award winner the Owl and the Sparrow (Feb. 13-19) a Danish thriller called Just Another Love Story (Feb. 20-26) and a documentary on modern-day philosophers that's already getting buzz off the coast of cinephile island, Examined Life (Mar. 6-12). I've not seen any of those, but I have seen ...
SFFS SCREEN—Michael Hawley Previews the Winter 2009 Lineup
The Evening Class —
... The series finishes out with Astra Taylor's Examined Life, a documentary in which nine contemporary philosophers/intellectuals ruminate about man's place in the modern world. The unique appeal of the film is supposed to be that in place of static, talking head shots, the subjects are seen out in the world—strolling down Fifth Avenue and through San Francisco's Mission District, in rowboats and alongside garbage dumps. Out of the eight names, I only recognize two: Cornel West (of course) and Slavoj Zizek (The Pervert's Guide to ...
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