Friday, April 09, 2021

MICHAEL HAWLEY PREVIEWS SFFILM 64

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It's been a year since SFFILM's 63rd edition was Covid-cancelled, a hapless victim of its position on the festival calendar year. U...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

NOW STREAMING / NETFLIX—REVIEW OF THE SOCIAL DILEMMA (2020)

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As synopsized, Jeff Orlowski’s Netflix original documentary The Social Dilemma (2020) “explores the dangerous human impact of social netwo...
Thursday, September 03, 2020

FANTASIA 2020—REVIEW: THE BLOCK ISLAND SOUND (2020)

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Consistency is a quality I respect in the Fantasia International Film Festival . They are consistent in their commitment to inviting and su...
Tuesday, September 01, 2020

FANTASIA 2020—REVIEW OF LA DOSIS / THE DOSE (2020)

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NOT FOR THE SPOILER-WARY!!! How do you envision an angel of death? Is the angel gendered male or female, robed in religiosity? If male, is...
Friday, August 28, 2020

FANTASIA 2020—REVIEW OF UNEARTH (2020)

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“A querencia is a place the bull naturally wants to go to in the ring, a preferred locality... It is a place which develops in the course o...
Friday, August 23, 2019

SUN BLOOD STORIES: "ALL THE WORDS IN MEANING"

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Not only has the vinyl arrived for the much-anticipated Sun Blood Stories September release of "Haunt Yourself", but the searin...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

THROWBACK THURSDAY: THE MIX-UP—Revisiting The Evening Class Interview With A.J. Eaton

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In the Fall of 2007 I was invited by Bruce Fletcher, a colleague from the Bay Area and then-programmer for the Idaho International Film Fe...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

SUN BLOOD STORIES: "UP COMES THE TUNNEL"

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Sun Blood Stories.  Photo: © Jenny Bowler.  All rights reserved. A continuing tale of two cities. Sometimes I wonder if San Francisco i...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

SFFILM FESTIVAL 2019 / THE SAVAGES—The Evening Class Interview With Laura Linney

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Photo courtesy of SFFILM. In addition to appearing at SFFILM's opening night premiere of the Netflix limited series Armistead Maupin...