by Michael Guillen, February 3, 2010 2:15 PM
[Our thanks to Michael Hawley for offering his preview of SF IndieFest 2010 to the Twitch readership.] The 12th edition of the San Francisco Independent Film Festival--better known as SF IndieFest--takes over the Roxie Theater for two weeks starting...
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by Kurt Halfyard, January 21, 2010 10:29 AM
After all the love on the festival circuit, I am surprised not to see Police, Adjective on the final short list for the Best Foreign Language Film nominees. AMPAS has narrowed it down to nine, with further pruning to...
by Ben Umstead, January 20, 2010 12:45 PM
Israeli filmmaker, Ari Folman made a huge impact in 2008 with his meditative animated war doc WALTZ WITH BASHIR. A film that many feel was robbed at Oscar time.About this time last year Folman announced he was going to adapt...
by Michael Guillen, December 15, 2009 6:44 PM
A FIPRESCI award-winner, an OscarĀ® candidate and seven U.S. premieres highlight The Global Film Initiative's upcoming Global Lens 2010 film series. As announced late last week, 10 award-winning narrative feature films from Algeria, China, India, Iran, Mexico, Peru, Serbia, South...
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by Michael Guillen, November 3, 2009 2:46 PM
Simone Bitton's Rachel took the bullet for Yoav Shamir's Hashmatsa / Defamation (2009), which I would have predicted to be the target of outrage at the 29th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF). By the time Defamation finally screened,...
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by Todd Brown, October 19, 2009 10:41 AM
A former Bond girl in a female driven action film? From Israel? That's exactly what director Danny Lerner has delivered with Kirot. Lerner's sophomore picture had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and stars former Bond...
by Todd Brown, October 18, 2009 10:21 PM
[Our thanks to regular reader Agent Wax for sending in the following review from the Singapore Animation Nation Festival.]In many ways, this is the hardest review I've ever sat down and committed myself to writing. I regret watching Ari...
by Michael Guillen, October 15, 2009 2:19 PM
The 13th Arab Film Festival (AFF) kicks off tonight, October 15 and continues through Sunday, October 25 in San Francisco (Castro, Opera Plaza), San Jose (Camera 12 Cinemas) and Berkeley (Shattuck Cinemas). This year's line-up of films from the...
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by Andrew Mack, October 10, 2009 9:00 PM
Youth and the disenchanted will find their voice through whichever means they find themselves attracted to. A documentary about a punk music movement within the Islamic faith certainly sounds compelling. Taqwacore opens here in Toronto at the Royal Theatre...
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by Michael Guillen, October 9, 2009 6:36 PM
Hipsters (Russia, dir. Valery Todorovsky)--I never expected that my favorite film of the fest would be a splashy, wide-screen Russian musical set in 1955 Moscow, but there you go. Hipsters recounts the phenomenon of stilyagi, the name given to...
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