Archive for the ‘Cinequest 2008’ Category
Monday, March 10th, 2008
Danny Glover at the California Theatre (photo by Felipe Buitrago) Hotel Montgomery’s itty-bitty Western Pacific Room was crammed with cameras, boom mics and more than 30 Cinequest and media representatives Saturday afternoon for a press conference featuring Maverick Spirit Award recipients Danny Glover and Bobby Moresco, among others. Cinequest Executive Director ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Here we go; Cinequest is over for another year, and here's how the awards went: Maverick Spirit Award (Cinequest's top prize) went to Alan Brown's Superheroes; about survivors of the Iraq War (happy fifth birthday, Iraq War! You may not have been the best, but you sure are the longest!). ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
To start with today, Sunday, there's a couple of films I'd like to push: the dreamy horror film Suspension, playing at 10:30am at the Camera 12 (9:30am real time, thanks to the vagaries of daylight savings); I'm happy to hear good reports from those who saw Who is K.K. Downey?, ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
We've got two San Jose Rep screenings—March 7 at 7pm and March 8 at 10pm—of Glory Boy Days, Paul Encinas' locally made story of a group of downtown college-aged pals. Miss these screening and you can also catch the film at the SF International Asian-American Film Fest's local weekend-long stand, ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Has there been enough praise of A Better Life to make it overpraised yet? Is the violence symbolic, metaphorical, cleansing or just there to hold the movie together? Have a squint, then: noon today Thursday at Camera 12. Great logo, anyway.7pm on Thursday at C12 is this critic's darling, Who ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
One of the most intriguing entries at Cinequest, Who Is K.K. Downey? shows Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at Cinequest. (Read Richard von Busack's review at metroactive.com.) Somehow, the topic of authors faking memoirs continues to be ever fresh, which may something about how carefully our book editors are vetting their ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Michael Keaton accepts his Maverick Spirit Award on Saturday, March 1, at the California Theater in San Jose as part of this year's Cinequest. For full coveage of the festival, check out Metroactive.com.
(Photo by Felipe Buitrago)
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Saw a good part of Una Vida Mejor on the grounds that I'd run into Atlanta filmmaker Andrew James at the lounge upstairs at the Hotel Montgomery. He seemed a little perplexed by the reception of his film; there'd been walkouts. His film, which means "A Better Life" in Spanish, ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
*The Call of Cthulhu
Even The Yemenite—we don’t pronounce the Mad Arab’s proper name around here, because you never know who or what is listening—might have shuddered at Andrew Leman’s loving and ambitious 45-minute pastiche of German Expressionism. Using vintage costuming, black-and-white photography, make-up, miniatures, music and stop-motion animation, the ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Soft: Shorts Program 4 StandoutDirector Simon Ellis’ short film Soft was surely the favorite at the March 1 screening of Shorts Program 4: Signals, Noise and Silence at Camera 12. The most powerful film of the bunch, Soft had audiences members yelling enthusiastic “woots” when the film’s main antagonist finally ...
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