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SFIFF57: Hellion, The Sacrament, Kumiko, Ping Pong Summer
The 57th annual San Francisco International film festival has been taking over Japantown in the Sundance Kabuki Cinema and...
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John Turturro Talks ‘Fading Gigolo’, Woody Allen’s Brutal Honesty
John Turturro writes, directs, and stars in Fading Gigolo, a tender comedy about a stoic bookstore employee whose boss...
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Life Itself
I will never forget the day Roger Ebert passed away. As a film critic, I was left with...
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Steven Knight Talks ‘Locke’, the Theater of the Automobile
In Steven Knight’s experimental chamber piece Locke, we follow construction manager Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) who, while driving on a...
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Helen Simon Describes the Difficulties of Making the Important Doc ‘No Lullaby’
No Lullaby is a difficult film to watch, but that’s precisely why Helen Simon made it. Simon tells...
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Hot Docs 2014: Actress, The Joe Show, E-Team
Actress Robert Greene finds inspiration for his latest documentary in his next-door neighbour Brandy Burre. Burre was an...
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Hot Docs 2014: The Last Season & Self(less) Portrait
The Last Season The Last Season, an engrossing, layered documentary by Berkeley, CA filmmaker Sara Dosa, captures the...
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SFIFF57: Opening Night, The Two Faces of January
It was a packed house at the Castro Theater in San Francisco last night for Opening Night of...
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Weekend Streaming Recommendations: Milius, Riki-Oh, The Constant Gardener, & More
Welcome to WTI’s Weekend Streaming Recommendations where I recommend 4-5 films that under-watched, under-appreciated, or just plain old personal...
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Hot Docs 2014: Absences, Guidelines, The Engineer
Absences As director Carole Laganière’s mother begins to lose her memory from Alzheimer’s, she turns her camera to...
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Dave Jannetta and Poe Ballentine Talk ‘Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere’
In the small town of Chadron, Nebraska, math professor Steven Haataja vanished without a trace shortly after starting...
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Sundance London 2014: The One I Love, Little Accidents, and The Voices
The One I Love The One I Love is a genre-bending psychological, comedic (in some parts), dramatic romance...
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Alan Partridge
Steve Coogan’s Alan Partridge character, while only well-known in America to diehard BBC fanatics, is an amusing creation that...
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Sundance London 2014: They Came Together, Hits, and Memphis
They Came Together They Came Together states straight away that the story contains obvious romantic comedy clichés. Molly...
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Teenage
Weekends have only existed since 1908. Nirvana is as old now as The Beatles were in the ’90s. Betty...