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Essential SF: 'Berkeley in the '60s,' 'Brother Outsider,' 'Weather Underground'
Historical documentaries have a staid, ho-hum reputation with large swaths of the citizenry, who taint them by association with either the musty educational films they watched in public schools or... more
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SF Chronicle: "Movie Palace Owner Preserves Golden Age"
“The Grand Lake is one of a shrinking number of neighborhood theaters in the Bay Area, and one of the last that is independently owned,” writes Peter Hartlaub. “All have... more
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Funny in Short
Leonard Maltin interviewed director Pete Docter before the presentation of
some of the funniest moments in cinema in ‘The Cook with Fatty Arbuckle,’ ‘Pass the Gravy’ with Max Davidson and ‘Big Business’ with Laurel and Hardy at the Silent Film Festival.
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Women with and Without Men
Iranian film director and visual artist Shirin Neshat returned to the Bay Area early in June for the opening of her newest work, Women Without Men. A concurrent panel at Stanford University titled “Women without Men” featured (from left) Shahrnush Parsipur (novelist, author of Women Without Men); Shoja Azari (co-director of Women Without Men); Dr. Abbas Milani (Program Director in Iranian Studies at Stanford University); and Neshat.
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New Jewish Filmmakers
Klaira Markenzon and Jason Zavaleta, two of the student filmmakers participating in the New Jewish Filmmaking Project (NJFP), produced by Citizen Film, are creating an online digital storytelling exhibit for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, July 24-August 9.
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Riding Silents with Broncho Billy
Phil Carli, David Drazen and Bruce Loeb were among the pianists providing musical accompaniment at the 13th Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival. Carli traveled from Rochester, New York and Drazen from Chicago for this year’s festival, which showed rarities produced by the Essanay Company, bringing in prints from the vaults of the Library of Congress, Eastman House and the British Film Institute’s National Film and Television Archive.
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Black Film Festival is Back
After a one year hiatus following the death of its much-admired founder-director Ave Montague, Kali O’Ray, Montague’s son, and his partner Katera Crossley stepped in to keep Montague’s dream alive by helming the 2010 San Francisco Black Film Festival at Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinema, June 17-20.
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HK to SF Film Studies
This week, three film students from the Academy of Film at Hong Kong Baptist University, Kimmi Jiang, Bell Ding and Sirocco Wu, arrived in San Francisco for two month summer internships at Oddball Film + Video, the San Francisco Film Society and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, respectively.
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Speaking of Silents
Stacey Wisnia and Anita Monga unveiled the full schedule for the 15th annual Silent Film Festival at a reception at the historic McRoskey Mattress Company last month. The festival will expand to four days, opening with John Ford’s The Iron Horse; featuring Fritz Lang’s masterpiece Metropolis, recently restored to its original complete version, a presentation of comedic shorts by Pete Docter of Pixar and William Wyler’s The Shakedown; and closing with L’heureuse mort, a rare French comedy.
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'River' Runs Through Roxie
John Maringouin and Molly Lynch, the filmmakers behind Big River Man, a film following an Amazon swimmer, visited the Roxie for its opening weekend there.
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Recurring Dreams
Elliot Lavine and Tracy Bigelow, who met at the Roxie, celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary at the opening night of Lavine’s I Still Wake Up Dreaming noir series currently running at the Roxie through May 27.
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One-of-a-Kind 'Clone' Event
Dave Filoni, supervising director of Clone Wars for Lucasfilm Animation, answered questions from and posed for pictures with young filmmakers at the San Francisco Film Society’s Youth Education program, The Art & Science of Lucasfilm: Lucasfilm Animation, at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas on May 13.
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