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Keep Your Head To The Sky: 2017 CAAMfest
Angsty emo, The Lockpicker, 2016 CAAMfest is just around the corner so I’m posting a few quick recos to help people wade through the massive program. As usual this year the festival is screening more...
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Rebel Without A Pause: Why we need GOOK
The Korean American view, GOOK, 2017 Just caught a matinee of Justin Chon’s film GOOK at the Alamo Drafthouse here in San Francisco. Although the movie is a bit rough around the edges for the most part...
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Get Ur Freak On: Favorite Movies of 2017
My favorite films from 2017 made the list for a variety of reasons but these are the movies I most enjoyed from last year. Three of the films were theatrically released in 2016 but I viewed them first...
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Thinking Out Loud: 2018 San Francisco International Film Festival
Paternalism, Angels Wear White, 2017 The San Francisco International Film Festival is in full swing right now and as usual the fest has a great lineup of world cinema. Although my viewing schedule was...
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Once You Get Started: Frameline 42 Film Festival
Tapestry, Yours In Sisterhood, 2018 Like Hong Kong, San Francisco is an excellent city for film-viewing, and with Frameline (official title: San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival) in full...
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Long Dark Road: 2019 Noir City film festival
Party Time, Pickup On South Street, 1953 The 2019 edition of the Noir City film festival just finished another excellent run and there was a party atmosphere for the 10-day festival as the Castro...
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New Power Generation: Jia Zhangke and Lunar New Year films 2019
Jiang hu, Ash Is Purest White, 2018 This has been an interesting few weeks in Chinese-language cinema screenings here in the Bay. This is due in part to the recent Lunar New Year/Spring Festival...
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Marry The Night: 43rd Hong Kong International Film Festival
Stylized, A Dog Barking At The Moon, 2019 NOTE: Because of the crunch of completing Love Boat: Taiwan for the past six months or so I’m very behind on my postings here. Starting with this entry I’m...
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Queen of Hearts: An interview Yellow Rose producer Cecilia R. Mejia
By storm, Yellow Rose, 2020 Yellow Rose (dir. Diane Paragas) is currently in the midst of its theatrical run in the US after taking the Asian American film festival circuit by storm in 2019. I talked...
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The Beautiful Ones: Wong Kar-Wai retrospective at BAM/PFA
Cinematic, The Hand, 2004 A cinematic treat dropped at the end of 2020 as the Lincoln Center in New York launched World of Wong Kar Wai, its retrospective of mostly 4K restorations of Hong Kong New...
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