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Trailer: The Rover
News | Dustin Jansick | April 18, 2014The first trailer for David Michod’s The Rover arrived shortly after the announcement yesterday that the film will be playing at the Cannes Film Festival as part of its Midnight Screenings program. The Rover, Michold’s follow-up to his critically...
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Trailer: Gone Girl
News | Kandyss Hicks | April 17, 2014Gone Girl is the film adaptation of the Gillian Flynn best seller of the same name. The first official trailer for the film released earlier this week. Gone Girl stars Ben Affleck as Nick, who on his 5th wedding...
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Cannes 2014 Lineup Announced
Film Festival | Dustin Jansick | April 17, 2014The anticipation was killing us all week but finally it’s here, the official lineup for the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Grace Of Monaco (which stars Nicole Kidman) had previously been announced as the opening film of the festival. At...
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First Clip for ‘Gabriel’ Starring Rory Culkin
News | Dustin Jansick | April 16, 2014Lou Howe’s Gabriel will be making its world premiere at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival this week. The film stars Rory Culkin as a troubled man who is determined to reunite with his first love, risking everything in the...
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Official Poster for Cannes 2014 Unveiled
Film Festival | Dustin Jansick | April 15, 2014The official poster of the 67th Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled. The suave looking man in the dark shades in the photograph is Marcello Mastroianni from Federico Fellini’s film 8 ½, which played at the festival back in...
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Trailer: Venus In Fur
News | Dustin Jansick | April 15, 2014Roman Polanski adapts a Tony Award-winning play about an actress (Emmanuelle Seigner) who erotically woos over a director (Mathieu Amalric) for a lead role in his new play. Venus In Fur made its debut In Competition at Cannes last...
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Trailer: Wish I Was Here
News | Dustin Jansick | April 11, 2014The first trailer for Zach Braff’s Kickstarter funded film Wish I Was Here has arrived. The film quickly raised over $3 million on the popular crowdfunding site, which produced a bit of controversy during its premiere at the Sundance...
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Trailer: I Origins
News | Dustin Jansick | April 10, 2014Mike Cahill’s I Origins landed on my radar from the moment the film was announced. Mainly because the last time Cahill and Brit Marling teamed up together they knocked it out of the park with Another Earth. Adding to...
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SFFS Announces 2014 Documentary Film Fund Winners
News | Bernard Boo | April 10, 2014The San Francisco Film Society has announced the winners for their 2014 Documentary Film Fund with awards totaling more than $75,000. All films are in postproduction, and since its inception the fund has awarded over $300,000 to filmmakers with non-fiction...
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Trailer: American Blogger
News | Kandyss Hicks | April 10, 2014In this day and age, it can truly be said that bloggers have a remarkable influence on the general public, whether it be what music we listen to, what products we buy, or what trends we follow. More importantly...
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Trailer: Oculus
News | Dustin Jansick | April 9, 2014Are you ready to be freaked out by a mirror? Mike Flanagan’s horror film Oculus is about an antique mirror that supposedly possesses people into committing murder. Two siblings attempt to prove the mirror is at fault for their...
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Trailer: Borgman
News | Dustin Jansick | April 8, 2014Alex van Warmerdam’s wonderfully bizarre film Borgman made its world premiere last year at Cannes. Trailer does a great job of capturing the strange nature of the film that is somewhat of a cross between Holy Motors and Dogtooth...
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57th Annual SFIFF Announces Full Program
Film Festival | Bernard Boo | April 1, 2014Today, the San Francisco Film Society (and its new executive director Noah Cowan) announced the full lineup for the 57th annual San Francisco International Film Festival, running from April 24-May 8. Consisting of 169 films from 56 countries, the...
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Trailer: God Forgive Us
News | Amy Priest | April 1, 2014God Forgive Us is the debut feature film by Director Michael Bachochin. The film is described as being “a dramatic collision of four strangers struggling through drug addiction, existential suicide, terminal illness and death.” Possibly not something for everyone,...