By Stelana Kliris. Filmmaking in a developing country is a little like dancing the tango…one step forward, two steps back. Cyprus is a small island in the Mediterranean with a population of less than a million people. Yet it has a fascinating history, and present for that matter: it is […]
San Francisco Film Society Presents French Cinema Now | November 7-10, 2013
October 13, 2013
By Mark James. Celebrating its sixth year of bringing some of the best contemporary French film to the Bay Area, this year’s French Cinema Now lineup features the latest from famous directors along with some fine examples of the new — succinctly capturing a snap shot of the year’s most […]
San Francisco Film Society Fall Season: Hong Kong Cinema | October 4-6, 2013
October 2, 2013
By Janine Gericke. From Johnnie To’s new crime flick to some kickass kung fu, the third annual San Francisco Film Society’s Hong Kong Cinema festival is set to delight audiences with this year’s lineup. Flora Lau’s Bends (2013, Cantonese with subtitles), which debuted at Cannes, opens the festival. The film […]
Richard C. Sarafian (1930-2013)
September 29, 2013
By Michael T. Toole. Richard C. Sarafian, the versatile Armenian-American director/actor whose most celebrated film, the exhilaratingly existential chase drama, Vanishing Point, is still one of the most actively discussed road films today, died on September 18, 2013 of pneumonia in Los Angeles. He was 83. Richard Caspar Sarafian was […]
Film4 FrightFest 2013 | Day 5
September 12, 2013
By Cleaver Patterson. All good things, as they say, must come to an end. Film4 FrightFest has, since its inception fourteen years ago, built a reputation on showcasing an eclectic mix of stylish horror and bizarre fantasy, and in the process have shown that fans of these genres can have […]
Film4 FrightFest 2013 | Day 4
September 4, 2013
By Cleaver Patterson. Horror that derives from the everyday and mundane is frequently one of the most disturbing types, particularly if it falls under the guise of a holiday—whether its an innocent weekend away, an annual excursion or a trip to your seaside bolt-hole in order to escape the city […]
Film4 Frightfest 2013 | Day 3
August 29, 2013
By Cleaver Patterson. Crime and man’s inhumanity to man, in one form or another, has frequently proved prime fodder for thrillers and horror films. Two shown on the festival’s third day were perfect examples of this. Though they could not have been more different in subject matter, these films showcased […]
Film4 Frightfest 2013 | Day 2
August 28, 2013
By Cleaver Patterson. Horror films are a funny old business. Even those which fall within this field can be as different as day from night, and those that appeal to one fan may not to another. The films which made up the festival’s first full day programm–including an exclusive screening […]
Film4 FrightFest 2013 | Day 1
August 27, 2013
By Cleaver Patterson. London’s Leicester Square may have been a washout on Thursday night, but that did not stop the annual FILM4 FrightFest festival getting off to a suitably gruesome start, after the four men (Paul McEvoy, Ian Rattray, Alan Jones and Greg Day) who lay claim to this festival […]
Off to the Printers: Film International 63-4 – Double Issue
August 7, 2013
The Engels Project What Engels writes about education, about housing, about employment practices, about health and general social inequality, remains as valid today as it was in 1844, when he wrote the book. Although the material infrastructure of life has of course changed massively for the better, with clean water, […]