Oliver Hermanus’ “Living” notes early on that its Kazuo Ishiguro script draws from Akira Kurosawa’s classic “Ikiru.”  While keeping Kurosawa’s basic plot of “ordinary civil servant learns he has six months left to live,” it wonderfully succeeds in transplanting Kurosawa’s
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Cinecitta, the Italian Cultural Institute, Cinema Italia SF, and the Italian Consul General in association with Another Planet Entertainment will present on September 10, 2022 “Pasolini 100: Homage To Pier Paolo Pasolini” at the Castro Theatre in SF.  This one-day
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Ohad Milstein’s award-winning documentary “Summer Nights” instantly wins the viewer’s heart with its central subject, the director’s 6-year-old son Alva.  Not only is the boy cuter than the proverbial pair of bug’s ears, he’s also incredibly curious, possesses a wonderfully
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A strong whiff of Raymond Carver’s style of minimalist storytelling hangs over C.B. Yi’s drama “Moneyboys.”  This story set in the world of male hustlers (the titular moneyboys) pushes the viewer to get inside the headspace of its anti-heroic lead
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A persuasive case could be made that “Nelly And Nadine”’s director Magnus Gertten could have equally called his Teddy Award-winning documentary “Nelly And Sylvie.”  The film feels just as much the story of how a granddaughter faces the truth about
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Who is Ruth Paine?  Is she history’s butterfly, someone whose kindness precipitated a national tragedy?  Is she the metaphorical key to unlocking a supposed box of ruthless high-level scheming?  Or is she a human Rorschach blot who could be any
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The setup of Patrick Gilles’ film “I’m Charlie Walker” could have stepped out of a Frank Capra movie.  Talented underdog finally gets a chance to show the world what his ignored talents are thanks to an emergency, and succeeds in
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Jason Loftus’ San Francisco Documentary Film Festival Opening Night Film “Eternal Spring” will definitely not be greeted with open arms by the local Chinese consulate or even the mainland Chinese government.  In fact, it will be surprising if their representatives
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