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Review: Vincent (Salvador, 2014) – SFIFF 2015 | Movie Fiends
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Reviewed Movies & Shows. Film festival coverage and more. Review: Vincent (Salvador, 2014) – SFIFF 2015. July 8, 2015. Photo by Laurent Thurin Nal. Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society. It seems to me that superhero movies have been on an ascendant trajectory for the past decade and a half or so. Every summer blockbuster season brings at least one highly-anticipated flick, if not several; TV shows have been made on the theme. And there’s even been a Will Smith drunken superhero. Initially, I was ve...
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Review: Murder in Pacot (Peck, 2014) – SFIFF 2015 | Movie Fiends
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Reviewed Movies & Shows. Film festival coverage and more. Review: Murder in Pacot (Peck, 2014) – SFIFF 2015. June 28, 2015. Photo by Yann Levy, courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society. Seasoned director and Port-au-Prince native Raoul Peck. Takes place immediately following Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake. An affluent couple (played by Alex Descas. And Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin. Is anything but. Throw them together and something nasty is bound to happen. Say, a murder. Alliances shift constantly on...
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Reviewed Movies & Shows | Movie Fiends
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Reviewed Movies & Shows. Film festival coverage and more. Reviewed Movies & Shows. Ando, 2014) – CAAMFest 2015. Marques-Marcet, 2014) – MVFF 2014. 12 Years a Slave. 27 C Loaf Rocks. Lin, 2013) – CAAMFest San Jose 2014. Phang, 2015) – SFIFF 2015. American Dreams in China. Chan, 2013) – CAAMFest San Jose 2014. Lee, 2007) – CAAMFest 2014. Schroeder, 2015) – MVFF 2015. Adwan, 2013) – SVJFF 2014. Joris-Peyrafitte, 2016) – Sundance 2016. Liao, 2014) – CAAMFest 2015. Ahmadzade, 2014) – CAAMFest 2016. Hunger Gam...
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Review: Red Amnesia (Wang, 2014) – SFIFF 2015 | Movie Fiends
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Reviewed Movies & Shows. Film festival coverage and more. Review: Red Amnesia (Wang, 2014) – SFIFF 2015. July 15, 2015. Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society. Mrs Deng ( Lü Zhong. Is a strong-willed woman, what my mother or grandmother would have called a. Running parallel to Deng’s story is another series of scenes: that of an anonymous teenage boy ( Liu Shi. Seasoned director Wang Xiaoshuai. That is not to say that. As a drama,. Screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Review: Th...
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Review: Sworn Virgin (Bispuri, 2015) – SFIFF 2015 | Movie Fiends
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Reviewed Movies & Shows. Film festival coverage and more. Review: Sworn Virgin (Bispuri, 2015) – SFIFF 2015. June 22, 2015. Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society. Which won the Golden Gate New Directors Prize. At this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival. The movie opens with shots of Hana/Mark ( Alba Rohrwacher. Also in this festival’s. From a disaster that claims both of her parents’ lives. Gjergj and his wife Katrina ( Ilire Vinca Celaj. Or are you a cross-dressing lesbian? 8216;s imp...
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Review: The Kindergarten Teacher (Lapid, 2014) – SFIFF 2015 | Movie Fiends
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Reviewed Movies & Shows. Film festival coverage and more. Review: The Kindergarten Teacher (Lapid, 2014) – SFIFF 2015. August 1, 2015. Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society. Is a Hebrew-language film that screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Kindergarten teacher by day, aspiring poetess by night, Nira ( Sarit Larry. 8216;s Humbert Humbert), but in a she’s-repugnant-and-outrageous-and-I-can’t-figure-her-out-at-all kind of way. Director Nadav Lapid. The film ends as it must, I su...
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Review: The Postman’s White Nights (Konchalovskiy, 2014) – SFIFF 2015 | Movie Fiends
http://moviefiends.com/2015/07/25/review-the-postmans-white-nights-konchalovskiy-2014-sfiff-2015
Reviewed Movies & Shows. Film festival coverage and more. Review: The Postman’s White Nights (Konchalovskiy, 2014) – SFIFF 2015. July 25, 2015. Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society. Independent movies these days are full of films in which “nothing much happens,” which is understandable given that most of life for most people. They can also be painfully meandering, somnolent, and poorly acted. The Postman’s White Nights. In tow. Bachelor Lyokha starts hanging around her place and befriending her...
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Review: Hill of Freedom (Hong, 2014) – SFIFF 2015 | Movie Fiends
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Reviewed Movies & Shows. Film festival coverage and more. Review: Hill of Freedom (Hong, 2014) – SFIFF 2015. June 12, 2015. Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society. I was seduced by the description of this film on the SFIFF website. As well as by the idea of seeing work by a new-to-me South Korean director. I don’t remember if I’ve mentioned before that Kim Ki-duk. Is one of my all-time favorite filmmakers, though I haven’t seen any of his recent stuff–nothing after his 2004. So at the very least.
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Watch It Now | Movie Fiends
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Reviewed Movies & Shows. Film festival coverage and more. The following movies/TV shows I’ve reviewed are available for instant streaming on Netflix, HBOGo, or Amazon Prime, if you have an account:. 20 Feet from Stardom. The Act of Killing. Cutie and the Boxer. A Picture of You. McGehee and Siegel, 2012). House of Cards (Fincher), Seasons 1. Enlightened (White and Dern), Season 1. Girls (Dunham), Season 3. True Detective (Pizzolatto), Season 1. The Wire (Simon), Seasons 1. 2006), and 5. Ward Byrkit, 2013).
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Reviewed Movies & Shows. Film festival coverage and more. See our film festival coverage! Mill Valley Film Festival. Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival. San Francisco International Film Festival. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). Click to email (Opens in new window). Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window). Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Mill Vall...