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• SFIFF Review: Big Blue Lake

  
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  It’s difficult to pinpoint precisely where Jessey Tsang Tsui-Shan went wrong with “Big Blue Lake,” her semi-autobiographical second feature film. There’s a good story in there somewhere. Instead she presents us with something that, when it’s not being trite, is an utter snoozefest… Read the rest at ...
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• The Place Beyond The Pines (2012)

  
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  WHO:  Mike Patton  composed much of the music for this film. WHAT: The term "neo-noir" gets thrown around an awful lot, often being applied to any modern film that involves criminals and detectives, especially if theyre interacting in urban settings providing opportunities to shoot in darkened alleyways and ...
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• SFIFF: God Loves Uganda

  
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  Thursday night I caught one of the last screenings at the SF International Film Festival & saw God Loves Uganda , a documentary tracing the influence of American evangelical Christians on Uganda. The film argues that evangelicals are importing a zealous homophobia, to the extent that Ugandas parliament is ...
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• SFIFF: Dom – A Russian Family

  
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  Most of us have issues with our family, but Viktor Shamanov could give us all a run for our money. Writer/director Oleg Pogodin’s “Dom: A Russian Family” is a glorious epic about a Russian mobster who returns home after a twenty-five year absence to bid farewell to his family prior to retirement. The dense ...
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• SFIFF Review: Pearblossom HWY

  
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  2013 SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! There are a hundred songs about the compelling desire to “get out of this town.” There’s no shortage of films on the subject either, which is why I was surprised to find a unique, albeit incredibly bleak perspective in Mike Ott’s “Pearblossom ...
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• SFIFF: The Last Step

  
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  On the last day of the SF International Film Festival , I saw The Last Step , an Iranian film by Ali Mosaffa. The scenario concerns a husband, played by Mr. Mosaffa, who declares himself to be dead in a voiceover at the beginning of the movie. However, we see him very much alive, dealing with his midlife crisis ...
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• SFIFF: The Festival Closes with Before Midnight

  
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  Thursday night, this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival ended at the Castro with the local premiere of Before Midnight , Richard Linklater’s threequel to Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. (It wasn’t actually the festival’s end.  Six other films screened at various theaters after ...
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• SFIFF: Present Tense

  
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  Wednesday evening I saw Present Tense , my first fiction film of the SF International Film Festival . This nearly plotless movie from Turkey shows us Mina, a young woman, unemployed, on the verge of homelessness, drifting through the narrow streets & dilapidated buildings of Istanbul, with an inchoate ...
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• SFIFF: The Kill Team

  
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  Tuesday evening at the SF International Film Festival I saw The Kill Team , a morally fraught documentary about a group of US soldiers convicted of killing unarmed Afghan civilians in 2010 for sport. The film focuses on the military court trial of Adam Winfield, who attempted to alert the military to what was ...
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• SFIFF: Golden Gate Award Winners

  
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  Last night the SF International Film Festival announced the winners of its Golden Gate Awards at an event in the plush interior of Nicks Crispy Tacos. Members of the competition juries presented the awards, which come with valuable cash prizes up to $20,000. The ceremonial portion of the evening went ...
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• Present Tense (2012)

  
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  WHO: Belmin Söylemez directed and co-wrote this. WHAT: This film, about a Turkish fortune-teller named Mina, with dreams of emigration, just won the San Francisco International Film Festival New Directors Prize , an award previously given to promising auteurs like Jia Zhang-Ke (for Xiao Wu  in 1999), Miranda ...
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• SFIFF: Deceptive Practice

  
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  The New People Cinema was packed on Monday night for the showing of Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay   at the SF International Film Festival . This documentary profiles Ricky Jay , magician & authority on the arcane. We see how he learned his craft from older magicians, in a kind of ...
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• CXL (2012)

  
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  WHO: Sean Gillane directed this, and is also credited as cinematographer, editor & co-writer. Full disclosure: Ive known Sean personally for a few years now, mostly through his twitter persona and his annual coverage of the San Francisco International Film Festival. WHAT: CXL is an unusual movie with an ...
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• Jason goes to SFIFF--Day 13

  
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  Just one film last night (Tuesday*), and it was the annual SFIFF presentation of a silent film with live music. I havent seen the silent films at SFIFF since 2010 and the Stephin Merrit 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA atrocity . Well, this was the German expressionist classic WAXWORKS (1924), in a print with French ...
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• SFIFF Silent Movie Night: Waxworks with Mike Patton, Scott Amendola, Matthias Bossi, and William Winant

  
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  Every year, the San Francisco Intl. Film Festival hosts a silent film event, where they match a movie–generally not one everyone has seen–with one or more musicians who enjoy a strong local following–but are not associated with silent film accompaniment. This makes sense both culturally and financially. The ...
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• Harrison Ford at the San Francisco International Film Festival

  
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  I caught the Harrison Ford event Tuesday afternoon. Unfortunately, I got a lousy seat. Near the back and over to the side. Thats what I get for wasting time. After an introduction by Ted Hope, and clip reels honoring the recently-deceased donor George Gund III and, of course, Harrison Ford, David Darcy came onstage ...
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• SFIFF: Before You Know It

  
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  Sunday I attended a late night screening at the SF International Film Festival of Before You Know It , a gentle documentary about gay seniors. It interweaves profiles of 3 men in their 60s & 70s, in very different social circumstances. We bounce between a gay retirement home in Oregon, an outreach center for ...
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• Jason goes to SFIFF--Day 12

  
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  Two more movies on Monday, starting with the late addition to the festival, THE SPECTACULAR NOW. First, a comment on the added programs. The festival has done, in general, a pretty poor job of publicizing the added programs and the added screenings of existing programs. For your elucidation, the added programs can ...
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• Jason goes to SFIFF--Day 11

  
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  The second big weekend of SFIFF is over. I saw only three movies on Sunday. But one was a 5 hour, 16 minute masterpiece of Finnish cinema, so I think I get extra points for that. Yes, I give myself an extra 2 points for that (note: "points" are something I just invented on the spot and have no value--monetary or ...
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• Waxworks (1924)

  
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  WHO: Paul Leni was both director and art director on this film. WHAT: Waxworks  was the last feature made by German director Leni before he emigrated to Hollywood to make films like The Cat and the Canary and The Man Who Laughs , before an early death befell him at age 44, in 1929. Waxworks  has never been ...
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