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San Francisco International Film Festival 2008
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by John Esther
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SAN FRANCISCO, California -- Alive and twitching after 51 years, the San Francisco International Film Festival once again saw the flickering lights of theaters by the bay. This year the festival’s famous movie marathon ran several hours daily April 24-May 8, showcasing over 200 films from around the globe. A noticeably provincial-participatory film festival lacking in parties and panels, SFIFF is really for the cineaste and not the budding filmmaker or diehard partygoer. Most of the people I encountered, other than a few filmmakers (in general many filmmakers were noticeably absent during the screenings of their films), were from the local area. According to the program there were only three “panels” while what parties there were ...
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by Ed Rampell |
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books |
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is one of L.A.’s top yearly cultural events, drawing 150,000 people to UCLA’s campus to experience authors reading, speaking and signing (euphemism for “selling”) tomes. At the free (if you ignore that parking fee) ...
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by Ed Rampell |
'Before the Rains' |
With its sumptuous cinematography, location shooting in India, anti-colonial politics and star crossed love story, Santosh Sivan’s Before the Rains is one of the best pictures released so far this year. Before the Rains has many of the attributes of the cross-cultural ...
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CINEMA
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Interview: Ayelet Zurer
In writer-director Jeremy ...
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Interview: Etgar Keret
Winner of the Camera d’Or at last ...
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interview: Errol Morris
Someone’s son in a makeshift ...
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FILM REVIEWS
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'Redbelt'
Set in a Westside Los Angeles world that ...
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'The Forbidden Kingdom'
Forgetting the falsehood, again, that he ...
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'Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?'
Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? ...
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PLACES + PRODUCTS
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Hawaii |
A common lament among travelers is: “Hawaii’s too expensive!” As an ex-resident, I’m akamai (“in the know”) about what one can find free or discounted at Oahu, from nature to culture to rapture. Arrive at Honolulu International Airport during daylight sitting portside to enjoy ...
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STAGE
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'Fahrenheit 451' |
I love dystopian sci-fi, with its futuristic predictions of a totalitarian tomorrow gone terribly wrong. The hallmarks of these negative utopias include authoritarian governments that always tell us what to do (for our own goods, but of course), and jazzy high tech devices. Examples include: George Orwell’s ...
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News
| Stuff & Dough, Rated: NR, Opens: 04/23/2008 |
| Ovidiu, a young man from Constanta who runs his own business selling snacks and soft drinks out of his parents’ apartment, wants to expand and buy a kiosk, but he doesn’t have the “dough.... |
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| Big Stan, Rated: NR, Opens: 04/25/2008 |
| A weak and nebbishy con man panics when he learns hes going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru, who transforms him into a kung fu expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt him--and love him.... |
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