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Life's a Beach
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May 10, 2000
Over the last half-century, surfers have grown into an indelible American archetype -- carefree, laid-back souls who'd rather catch a wave than... More>>
Committed Heather Graham stars in Committed
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May 03, 2000
Quick: Who was the most unbelievable movie character to appear on screen in recent memory? Jar Jar Binks? Mini-Me? South Park's Saddam Hussein?... More>>
Gladiator Russell Crowe stars in Gladiator
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May 03, 2000
There is a killing late in Gladiator, Ridley Scott's new heroic epic, and it is one of those wonderfully cathartic extinguishings that make a... More>>
Reel World
Flaming Creatures; Chungking Express; D.O.A.
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May 03, 2000
Flaming CreaturesJon Moritsugu called with the welcome news that he's in production on his latest lurid low-budget feature. "It's an ensemble... More>>
Zoom Lens Molls With Claws: Film Noir at the Roxie
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May 03, 2000
The "big house," midnight cityscapes, and sleazy hotels, yes -- but swamps? produce markets? LSD parties? Judging by the Roxie's exhaustive,... More>>
The 43rd San Francisco International Film Festival
The 43rd San Francisco International Film Festival
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April 26, 2000
The 43rd San Francisco International Film Festival is, as we noted in last week's coverage, a very mixed bag -- and that's a good thing. The... More>>
Capsule Reviews
April; Beau Travail; But Forever in My Mind; Bye Bye Africa; Charisma; Darkness and Light; First Person Plural; Hamlet; Journey to the Sun; Kikujiro; The Letter; Missing Boy; Moloch; Set Me Free
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April 26, 2000
April (Italy, 1998)
This isn't the first Italian film to descend into the chaos of filmmaking with a tormented auteur as guide -- think Fellini... More>>
A Creative Geography Abbas Kiarostami to be presented with the Akira Kurosawa Award
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April 26, 2000
In some ways, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami is the stereotypical candidate for the film festival's Akira Kurosawa Award for lifetime... More>>
Lusty Ladies Live Nude Girls, UNITE!
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April 26, 2000
Sometimes you just can't get no respect. But desire for respect (and workers' rights) was just what drove a group of dancers at the Lusty Lady... More>>
Starlet O'Hara The Peter J. Owens Gala: Where does Winona Ryder, this year's honoree, fit?
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April 26, 2000
In a calculated gambit to lure movie stars (and San Francisco's social elite) to its unrepentantly un-Hollywood event, the film festival began... More>>
Reel World
Life Is a Serious Business; The Bad Sleep Well
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April 26, 2000
Life Is a Serious BusinessAfter three decades and some 50 films, David Michalak just may have hit on a new genre: the epic short. His latest,... More>>
The 43rd San Francisco International Film Festival
The 43rd San Francisco International Film Festival
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April 19, 2000
What's best about film festivals isn't necessarily the movies shown. It's the combined energy of hundreds of people all hoping to see something... More>>
Capsule reviews
At All Costs; Close-Up; Eeny Meeny; The Jazzman From the Gulag; Mask of Desire; Handsome Arno; Nowhere to Hide; Our Song; Return of the Idiot; Seduced and Abandoned; This Years Love; Trixie; Voyages; Wisconsin Death Trip
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April 19, 2000
At All Costs (France, 1996)
Claire Simon's rather pointless documentary follows a French entrepreneur as he struggles to keep his food service... More>>
Vive La France! French cinema is quirky as ever
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April 19, 2000
If the selection of films at this year's festival is any indication, French cinema is as vital, sophisticated, and quirky as ever. In terms of... More>>
Ready or Not This year's documentaries
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April 19, 2000
This year's documentaries lineup at the SFIFF would warm Alan Greenspan's heart: It's all exuberance, without any pesky irrationality. Indeed,... More>>
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