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Return of the Teenager
Everything I need to know about high school I learned from the New Teen Cinema
By Glenn Gaslin, May 19, 1999
Good morning, kids, and welcome back to class. You may have noticed that a new student has joined us. Or, actually, quite a few new students.... More>>
Zoom Lens
By Sura Wood, May 12, 1999
Truffaut Retrospective In the freeze frame that ends The 400 Blows, Antoine Doinel, a rebellious, unwanted kid, has just escaped from a... More>>
A Dream Both Gauzy and Gutsy
By M.V. Moorhead, May 12, 1999
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Directed and adapted by Michael Hoffman. Starring Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci, Michelle... More>>
Reel World
By Michael Fox, May 12, 1999
The Electric Horseman A phalanx of TV cameramen and newspaper photographers paced the comfy Clift Hotel conference room awaiting the arrival... More>>
Zoom Lens
By Gregg Rickman, May 12, 1999
Love, Language, and Violence Several trends in contemporary alternative cinema come into focus in this strong program of short films and... More>>
Second Time Around
By Gregg Rickman, May 05, 1999
This Charming Man Beloved most of all for his charming dancing partnership with Ginger Rogers at RKO in the 1930s, Fred Astaire actually did... More>>
Zoom Lens
By Gary Morris, May 05, 1999
Bad Girls Jaded cineastes who've seen every Herschel Gordon Lewis movie and every film noir might well consider feeding their fetish for lost... More>>
Reel World
By Michael Fox, May 05, 1999
The Exterminating Angel Sure, the French pull it off, but politics and culture are generally best kept far apart. Consider Willie Brown's... More>>
High School Unhinged
By Bill Gallo, May 05, 1999
Election Directed by Alexander Payne. Screenplay by Payne and Jim Taylor, from a novel by Tom Perrotta. Starring Matthew Broderick, Reese... More>>
Second Time Around
By Gregg Rickman, April 28, 1999
Nuts About Brazil People who love Brazil love it passionately, and they're not wrong. The density of imagery in this 1985 absurdist tech noir... More>>
Reel World
By Michael Fox, April 28, 1999
The Fan Update your Rolodexes, location scouts and independent filmmakers: P.J. Johnston is the new executive director of the San Francisco... More>>
And Now, On With the Show: SFIFF Week 2
By Sura Wood, Gregg Rickman, Michael Fox, Gary Morris, Tod Booth, Frako Loden and Joe Mader, April 28, 1999
American Cuisine (France, 1998) In this gentle farce in which sexual love is a poor cousin to the passion aroused by good food, U.S. Navy chef... More>>
The Persistence of Experimentalism
By Gary Morris, April 21, 1999
The choice of Johan van der Keuken to receive this year's Persistence of Vision Award is a welcome one, but also an unfortunate reminder of how... More>>
The Dawning of A Hard Day's Night
By Michael Sragow, April 21, 1999
It's triply fitting that what Andrew Sarris called "The Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals" will play the San Francisco Film Festival. (Miramax... More>>
Jonathan Demme's First Talking Heads Interview
By Michael Sragow, April 21, 1999
In February 1984, I went to Los Angeles partly to interview Jonathan Demme about the trouble he'd run into on Swing Shift, a dream project that,... More>>
New France
By Sura Wood, April 21, 1999
One of the best-represented nations at this year's festival is France. The 30 French films on the roster include three from the masters of French... More>>
Karen Morley: Still Sexy After All These Blacklisted Years
By Michael Sragow, April 21, 1999
LOS ANGELES -- There's an irony at the center of The Unvanquished, the festival series "that honors filmmakers who have faced repression and... More>>
Reel World
By Michael Fox, April 21, 1999
Thy Kingdom Come ... Thy Will Be Done "I write you today," Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association begins, "because a... More>>
Wonderful Lives
By Frako Loden, April 21, 1999
The three recent Japanese features showing at the San Francisco International Film Festival are all astonishing in their ways. An old-fashioned... More>>
S.F. International Film Festival
By Michael Fox, Joe Mader, Tod Booth, Gregg Rickman, Sura Wood, Michael Sragow and Frako Loden, April 21, 1999
The 42nd annual San Francisco International Film Festival runs over 15 days and presents over 100 movies. It's the biggest annual celebration of... More>>
Reel World
By Michael Fox, April 14, 1999
Another Day in Paradise Worn down by the endless frustrations of getting films funded and shown, Academy Award winner Steven Okazaki (1991's... More>>
To Prison, To Prison
By Hal Hinson, April 14, 1999
Life Directed by Ted Demme, from a script by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone. Starring Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatunde, and... More>>
True Drew, Edgy Go
By Hal Hinson, April 07, 1999
Never Been Kissed Directed by Raja Gosnell. Written by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein. Executive produced by Drew Barrymore. Starring... More>>
Second Time Around
By Gregg Rickman, April 07, 1999
It Should Happen to You Those of us who are city dwellers live in a community of strangers, free, perhaps, from small-minded mores and the... More>>
Reel World
By Michael Fox, April 07, 1999
O Lucky Man! Simon Overton has an impossible dream. The 59-year-old English expat and former projectionist wants to turn the shuttered Royal... More>>
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