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Man up
Tough guys rule at "I Wake Up Dreaming 2013" noir film festWake up: The Monster and The Girl (1941)arts@sfbg.comFILM While frequently spiced by dames alluring and sometimes deadly, film noir has always...
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Crazy sexy cruel
"Girls! Guns! Ghosts!" spotlights Japanese cult studio ShintohoGonna get ya: Vampire BrideCOURTESY OF SHINTOHO CO. LTD.FILM Long before VHS demon Sadako glared one eye through a tent of tangled black...
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Get high
A brand-new festival highlights Himalayan filmsFrom Himalayan Gold Rushcheryl@sfbg.comFILM San Francisco has a lot of film festivals (understatement of the millennium), but none until now can claim to...
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Wish you weren't here
Ulrich Seidl's Paradise Trilogy mines vacation desperationParadise lost in 'Hope'arts@sfbg.comFILM Austrian Ulrich Seidl has been making films since the early 1980s, but didn't get much attention...
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Hell boys
Seth Rogen talks to us about Segways, Catholics, Kirk Cameron -- and his raunchy doomsday comedy 'This Is the End'Game over! Craig Robinson, Seth Rogen, and Jay Baruchel in This Is the EndPHOTO BY...
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The young master
'The Hitchcock 9' spotlights newly restored versions of the director's silentsLove TKO: The RingPHOTO COURTESY OF BFIcheryl@sfbg.comFILM After a banner 2012 and early 2013 — in which his 1958 Vertigo...
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Still beating
Laura Albert and the ballad of JT LeRoy About a boy? The Heart is Deceitful Above All ThingsPHOTO COURTESY OF WILD BUNCHcheryl@sfbg.comFILM/LIT A few weeks before our scheduled interview, Laura Albert...
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We are the weirdos, mister
Invoking that teen goth witch drag spirit: Peaches Christ raises 'The Craft' with Sharon Needles and Alaska ThunderfuckThe coven rises: Sharon Needles, Peaches Christ, Alaska Thunderfuck, Honey...
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Once upon a time in Oakland
Director Ryan Coogler talks about Fruitvale Station, his acclaimed new film about Oscar GrantMichael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer, and Ryan Coogler on the Fruitvale Station setcheryl@sfbg.comFILM By now...
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Glamour revival
Vintage stars and restored celluloid gleam at the SF Silent Film FestivalPrix de Beautécheryl@sfbg.comFILM The 18th San Francisco Silent Film Festival opens with Augusto Genino's 1930 Prix de Beauté,...
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The truth hurts
Weighty themes permeate SF Jewish Film Festival docsBrave Miss Worldcheryl@sfbg.comSAN FRANCISCO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL The 33rd San Francisco Jewish Film Festival broadens its scope this year with a...
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Made-for-sleazy
A 1990s tabloid princess rides again in 'Triple Fisher'Blame it on Amy: Barrymore, Parker, and Milano get into character.FILMBefore Nancy Grace and 24-hour news channels turned every vaguely salacious...
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Reel to real
Revisiting Shirley Clarke's 1967 'Portrait of Jason'"One beautiful something:" Portrait of JasonPHOTO COURTESY OF MILESTONE FILMSarts@sfbg.comFILM At a moment when gay people and gay rights have never...
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Silver screen playbook
FALL ARTS; FILM Hollywood and rep-house picks for the seasonBradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Christian Bale, and Jennifer Lawrence star in "American Hustle."FRANCOIS DUHAMELcheryl@sfbg.comFALL ARTS In...
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Provoc-auteur
A multi-venue series highlights edgy filmmaker Pier Paolo PasoliniA rare chaste moment in 1971's ribald Decameron.FILM It still boggles the mind that perhaps the most important single figure in the...
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Highway to hell
'Blue Caprice' explores the murky motives of the Beltway snipersHelter skelter: Muhammad (Isaiah Washington) and Malvo (Tequan Richmond) plot a murder spree.COURTESY OF IFC FILMSarts@sfbg.comFILM On...
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The observer
Jem Cohen talks art, photography, and 'Museum Hours'Museum guard Johann (Bobby Sommer) finds beauty in a painting's details.COURTESY OF CINEMA GUILDcheryl@sfbg.comFILM Filmmaker Jem Cohen is known for...
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Camp classic
Bloody long, and bloody fun: 'Crystal Lake Memories' documents the 'Friday the 13th' franchise in its gory entiretyWarm glow: cast and crew of "Crystal Lake Memories"cheryl@sfbg.comFILM Daniel...
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This stuff'll kill ya
Feed your genre needs at Another Hole in the HeadA shut-in's filthy bathroom spawns a new frenemy in Motivational GrowthCOURTESY OF SF INDIEFESTcheryl@sfbg.comFILM Clad only in a dingy T-shirt and...
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Year in Film: Jesse Hawthorne Ficks' Eclectic 2013 Countdown
COPYRIGHT PINE DISTRICT, LLCAdam Driver and Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha16. Oldboy (Spike Lee, US) and DrugWar (Johnnie To, China/Hong Kong) Two films from two of the hardest-working filmmakers in the...
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