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Monthly Archives: May 2012
SF International Film Festival:Parting Shots (I)
I realized, stretching my legs out between two intense screenings this week, that I’ve been to a film festival every 4-6 weeks this year. Little wonder I feel visually overwhelmed. A gentleman I met at the closing night party (who … Continue reading →
SFIFF: Twixt
Sometimes, a genre film on a late Thursday night is just right: an alcoholic writer in mourning, an ornery sheriff, a haunted hotel, and several dead children. And now the divine Elle Fanning can say she’s worked with both Coppolas. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Elle Fanning, film review, Francis Ford Coppola, San Francisco International Film Festival, Twixt
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SFIFF: Patience (After Sebald)
It is as difficult for me to write this review as it is to explain why Sebald’s work is important to me. I want to write in great length about all the elements which I liked – the image juxtaposition, … Continue reading →
SFIFF: Found Memories (2011)
The village of Jutuomba in Found Memories is like an earthly (if more beautiful and exotic) purgatory. It is a waiting room between life and death for the dozen and aging citizens which comprise the entire town. Jutuomba is solely … Continue reading →
SFIFF: Chicken with Plums (2011)
In one of the film’s key and poignant scenes, a dying woman has her last cigarette on her deathbed. She takes a long, luxurious drag and exhales a dense plume of smoke – the smoke escapes through the window and … Continue reading →
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Tagged Chicken with Plums, film review, Marjane Satrapi, San Francisco International Film Festival
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