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  1. MIDNIGHT TRAVELER (Hassan Fazili 2019)...

    MIDNIGHT TRAVELER (Hassan Fazili 2019)

    This Sundance documentary award-winning tour-do-force iPhone film of a family's long flight from Afghanistan to safety in the West opened Sept. 18, 2019 at...
  2. WINTER'S NIGHT/ 겨울밤에 (Jang Wu-jin 2018)...

    WINTER'S NIGHT/ 겨울밤에 (Jang Wu-jin 2018)

    A delicate, partly surreal, wintry study of youth and age, a fifty-ish couple revisiting the site where they first fell in love, filled with disappointment...
  3. SFFILM 2019 Awards. GGA New Directors Award...

    SFFILM 2019 Awards.


    GGA New Directors Award winner: The Chambermaid, Lila Avilés (Mexico/USA)
    • Receives $10,000 cash prize
    {My Filmeaf review (only a short one because it's "hold...
  4. WE BELIEVE IN DINOSAURS (Clayton Brown, Monica...

    WE BELIEVE IN DINOSAURS (Clayton Brown, Monica Long Ross 2018)

    In Kentucky, an Australian named Ken Ham has organized and raised money for a huge museum of Creationism and a giant "model" of...
  5. Two or three reviews have yet to be written but...

    Two or three reviews have yet to be written but here are the links to my whole SFILM 2019 coverage as the festival is in its last three days.

    SFFILM: San Francisco Film Festival April 10-23,...
  6. WALKING ON WATER (Andrey Paounov 2018)...

    WALKING ON WATER (Andrey Paounov 2018)

    A doc about Christo's Floating Piers project in Italy (2016) with his nephew Vladimir replacing the deceased Jeanne-Claude as second in command, and maybe...
  7. TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM (Timothy...

    TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM (Timothy Greenfield-Sanders 2019)

    An "American Masters" film coming to PBS. Largely narrated by Morrison herself talking into the camera, with lots of very good...
  8. TEHRAN: CITY OF LOVE (Ali Jaberansari 2018)...

    TEHRAN: CITY OF LOVE (Ali Jaberansari 2018)

    Debut by an Iranian filmmaker focuses on a body building champion, an overweight receptionist in a beauty salon, and a funeral singer, and takes its...
  9. SUBURBAN BIRDS 郊区 的 鸟 (Qiu Sheng 2018)...

    SUBURBAN BIRDS 郊区 的 鸟 (Qiu Sheng 2018)


    This too has passed. Reviewed at ND/NF. A subtle, unusual film about magic, memory, and time. It is having some theatrical releases, so watch for it...
  10. RAISE HELL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MOLLY IVINS...

    RAISE HELL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MOLLY IVINS (JaniceEngel 2018)

    Doc about the firebrand progressive lady journalist from Texas who delighted in socking it to the good ole' boys.
    I did not know...
  11. RED JOAN TRevor Nunn 2018)...

    RED JOAN TRevor Nunn 2018)

    This film about the "nanny spy," the woman who gave the atom bomb secrets to Russia and was only found out when she was an old lady, stars Judi Dench, but consists...
  12. MOTHER'S INSTINCT/DUELLES (Olivier...

    MOTHER'S INSTINCT/DUELLES (Olivier Masset-Dupasse 2018)

    Stylish Sirk/Hitchcock mix from Belgian is cast as a psychological thriller, or is it a dark comedy? It has has taut action & lovely...
  13. LORO (Paolo Sorrentino 2018)...

    LORO (Paolo Sorrentino 2018)

    Premier Italian filmmaker and erstwhile successor to Federico Fellini Paolo Sorrentino (IL DIVO, LA GRANDE BELLEZZA) produces his take on longtime PM, media mogul and...
  14. TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM (Timothy...

    TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM (Timothy Greenfield-Sanders 2019)

    An American Masters film about the renowned and beloved (no pun intended) novelist and Nobel Prize winner. I screened this film...
  15. SUBURBAN BIRDS 郊区 的 鸟 (Qiu Sheng 2018)...

    SUBURBAN BIRDS 郊区 的 鸟 (Qiu Sheng 2018)

    A haunting and subtle first film where the past invades the present as we watch young surveyors investigating sinking land while children play around the...
  16. MONOS (Alejandro Landes 2018) (This visually and...

    MONOS (Alejandro Landes 2018)

    I originally reviewed this at New Directors/New Films. It's now showing at the San Francisco Film Festival.

    This visually and aurally exhilarating feat of...
  17. THE LOAD/TERET (Ognjen Glavonić 2018)...

    THE LOAD/TERET (Ognjen Glavonić 2018)

    A man is driving a truck from Kosovo to Belgrade during the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia. A grim Wages of Fear whose load is never clearly defined but...
  18. ASK DR. RUTH (Ryan White 2019)...

    ASK DR. RUTH (Ryan White 2019)

    A documentary on the renowned and loved Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex advisor, who lost her parents in the Holocaust and emigrated to the US, then got a...
  19. MIDNIGHT FAMIILY (Luke Lorentzen 2018)...

    MIDNIGHT FAMIILY (Luke Lorentzen 2018)

    During the New Directors/New Films series I reviewed this prizewinning one-man documentary about the family-run private ambulance service negotiating the...
  20. MIDNIGHT TRAVELER (Hassan Fazili 2019)...

    MIDNIGHT TRAVELER (Hassan Fazili 2019)

    (Preview) An Afghan refugee family documents their journey from danger at home to uncertainty in the European Union, shooting exclusively with cell...
  21. A FAITHFUL MAN/L'HOMME FIDÈLE (Louis Garrel 2018)...

    A FAITHFUL MAN/L'HOMME FIDÈLE (Louis Garrel 2018)

    Originally reviewed here at the NYFF, but showing again at San Francisco. A witty, amusing romantic thriller. Louis Garrel's second film as...
  22. THE HARVESTERS/DIE STRUPERS (ETIENNE KALLOS 2018)...

    THE HARVESTERS/DIE STRUPERS (ETIENNE KALLOS 2018)

    In the South Africa Free State Region on a vast cattle farm a family of the dwindling WHITE Afrikaner people. The focus is on a boy who feels...
  23. THE CHAMBERMAID/LA CAMARISTA (Lila Avilés 2018)...

    THE CHAMBERMAID/LA CAMARISTA (Lila Avilés 2018)

    This is a stunningly immersive, sometimes almost documentary-feel recreation of a 24-year-old young woman's monotonous work life doing up rooms in a...
  24. First new reviews: A BEAST IN THE JUNGLE...

    First new reviews:

    A BEAST IN THE JUNGLE (Clara van Gool 2018)

    Who knew that you could dance to a Henry James novella? Well, maybe you can't. But they tried to both at a production at the...
  25. Coming reviews. ...

    Coming reviews.

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    The Beast in the Jungle - adaptation of Henry James with an emphasis on dance

    SFIFF 2019 films I've requested screeners of:

    The...
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