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REVIEW OF REVIEWS
Here's a roundup of the best of SFIFF 2016 (what I saw of it).
Of all the SFIFF 2016 films I've seen, counting the 20 I'd watched...
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REVIEW OF REVIEWS
Here's a roundup of the best of SFIFF 2016 (what I saw of it).
Of all the SFIFF 2016 films I've seen, counting the 20 I'd watched...
MAURO HERCE: DEAD SLOW AHEAD (2015)
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DU HAIBIN: A YOUNG PATRIOT/SHAO NIAN, XIAO ZHAO (2015)
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ZHAO CHANTONG, STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL, IN A YOUNG PATRIOT
Star of his own spiraling show
A...
BILLY WOODBERRY: AND WHEN I DIE, I WON'T STAY DEAD (2015)
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BOB KAUFMAN RECITING HIS POETRY
A marginalized Beat talent brought back to the light on film...
JEAN-LOUP FELICIOLI, ALAIN GAGNOL: PHANTOM BOY (2015)
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LÉO'S PHANTOM PREPARES TO REENTER HIS BODY
A super-powered boy helps a wheelchair-bound...
LOGAN KIBENS: OPERATOR (2016)
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MAE WHITMAN AND MARTIN STARR IN OPERATOR
Transcending cyber-dependency through Chicago improv
With a debt to Chicago...
MATTHEW ROSS: FRANK & LOLA (2016)
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MICHAEL SHANNON AND IMOGEN POOTS IN FRANK & LOLA
Psychosexual darkness swirls in Las Vegas and Paris
Is Frank...
MARIS CURRAN: FIVE NIGHTS IN MAINE (2015)
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DAVID OYELOWO, DIANE WIEST IN FIVE NIGHTS IN MAINE
A young African American man, reeling from the tragic loss...
LEWIS GILBERT: CAST A DARK SHADOW (1955)
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DIRK BOGARDE AND MONA WASHBORNE IN CAST A DARK SHADOW
Campy Dirk Bogarde crime melodrama gets digital...
BEN WHEATLEY: HIGH-RISE (2015)
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Choreographing chaos
We are living in a world that's growing less democratic, so the long-delayed filming of J.G....
LEYLA BOUZID: AS I OPEN MY EYES/À PEINE J'OUVRE LES YEUX (2015)
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MONTASSAR AYARI AND BAYA MEDHAFFER IN AS I OPEN MY EYES
Arab Spring seen through...
SVETLA TSOTSORKOVA: THIRST/JAJDA (2015)
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ALEXANDER BENEV AND MONIKA NAYDENOVA IN THIRST
Forces of nature
This compelling little Bulgarian first...
VITALY MANSKY: UNDER THE SUN (2015)
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Film made-to-order in North Korea intentionally gives itself away
"An officially approved...
ALEJANDRO IGLESIAS MENDIZABAL: LEAF BLOWER/SOPLANDORA DE HOJAS (2015)
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FABRIZIO SANTINI, PACO RUEDA, ALEJANDRO GUERERO IN LEAF BLOWER
A movie about...
MIR-JEAN BOU CHAAYA: VERY BIG SHOT/FILM KTEER KBEER (2015)
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WISSAM FARES AND ALEXANDRA KAHWAGI IN VERY BIG SHOT
Drugs, pizza, movies and politics go...
JOACHIM LAFOSSE: THE WHITE KNIGHTS/LES CHEVALIERS BLANCS (2015)
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VINCENT LINDON (CENTER) IN THE WHITE KNIGHTS
The muddled case of a dubious do-gooder...
PHILIPPE LESAGE: THE DEMONS/LES DÉMONS (2015)
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ÉDOUARD TRREMBLAY-GRENIER (CENTER) IN THE DEMONS
Haneke lite
French Canada has produced a notable...
THE EVENT/SOBYTIE (Sergei Loznitsa 2015)
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Waiting for democracy that never comes
Sergei Loznitsa is a Russian documentary filmmaker who reached...
ANNE FONTAINE: THE INNOCENTS/LES INNOCENTES (2016)
Preview - full review will appear later.
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LOU DE LAÂGE AND AGATA BUZEK IN THE INNOCENTS
A story...
LORENZO VIGAS: FROM AFAR/DESDE ALLÁ (2015)
Preview - full review will appear later.
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LUIS SILVA AND ALFREDO CASTRO IN FROM AFAR
Power trips
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JEM COHEN: COUNTING(2015)
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A man with a camera roaming the world
These captions appear together an hour and a half through Jem Cohen's new...
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General Film Forum for the SFIFF 2016
Links to reviews:
And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead (Billy Woodberry 2015)
The Apostate (Federico Veiroj 2015)...