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Hot and cool
Love story 'Blue is the Warmest Color' courts acclaim — and controversyYou give me fever: Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux in Blue is the Warmest ColorCOURTESY OF SUNDANCE SELECTSarts@sfbg.comFILM...
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A big Oscar contender opens! Plus: two politically charged docs, 'Diana,' and...
'12 Years a Slave'The movie you need to see this weekend, ASAP, is 12 Years a Slave— one of the most important releases of the year, and a likely contender for all possible awards, including Best Actor...
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Hunky Vikings! Crusading Texans! And more new movies!
Oh, brother: Tom Hiddleston returns as Loki in Thor: The Dark World.PHOTO BY JAY MAIDMENTTwo big 'uns this week: blockbuster-to-be Thor: The Dark World(reviewbelow), and the very fine drama Dallas...
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New movies: a great week for docs
Excuse me, sir, but your pants appear to be on fire: The Armstrong LiePhoto by Frank MarshallThis week, doc lovers are in luck: not only is Chris Marker's seminal 1962 Le Joli Mai making a return to...
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Who dares challenge Katniss for box-office supremacy? New movies!
You can't go home again: Will Forte and Bruce Dern in NebraskaPhoto by Merie WallaceThis week, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire stands poised to crush all who dare step to it, but there are some...
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Re-framed
BOOKS ISSUE: A new book showcases creative cult-movie poster artArtist Tim Doyle created this RoboCop (1987) poster for a 2012 screening at the Castro Theatre.IMAGE COURTESY OF MATTHEW CHOJNACKILIT...
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La ho-hum vita
'The Great Beauty' has style, but doesn't live up to the hypePHOTO COURTESY OF JANUS FILMSarts@sfbg.comFILM Paolo Sorrentino has only been directing features for 12 years, so perhaps it's premature to...
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This stuff'll kill ya
Feed your genre needs at Another Hole in the HeadA shut-in's filthy bathroom spawns a new frenemy in Motivational GrowthCOURTESY OF SF INDIEFESTcheryl@sfbg.comFILM Clad only in a dingy T-shirt and...
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Dragons and drag: new movies from Peter Jackson and Tyler Perry, plus more!
Orlando Bloom returns to Middle-earth to play Legolas in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.PHOTO COURTESY OF WARNER BROS.Breathe easy, halfling: the middle installment in Peter Jackson's...
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Breaking points
New films from China teem with 21st century angstExplosive: Dahai (Jiang Wu) grabs a snack before fighting corruption in A Touch of Sin.PHOTO COURTESY OF KINO LORBER, INC.cheryl@sfbg.comRead more »
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Cage heat: salute the screen icon's 50th bday!
A Nic Cage meme for the ages.Oscar-winning actor (for 1995's Leaving Las Vegas), cultural curiosity (for his Superman and Elvis obsessions, tax troubles, hair, etc.), Coppola family member (Francis...
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Gods and mom-sters: the week's new films
Tough mothers: Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep in August: Osage County.Photo courtesy of the Weinstein CompanyThis week: August: Osage County(bumped from its previously-scheduled opening last week)...
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Death and life
Archetypal tales and vibrant cinematic voices reign at the African Film FestivalMwas (Joseph Wairimu, center) and friends live on the edge in Nairobi Half Life.cheryl@sfbg.comRead more »
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Mumble, mumble, murder
A photographer shoots fake crime scenes in Joe Swanberg's meta-thriller '24 Exposures'Simon Barrett (center) investigates a murder in 24 Exposures.PHOTO BY JOE SWANBERGcheryl@sfbg.comFILM Joe...
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I Was a Teenage Sundancer
Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel at the movies, as seen in doc Life Itself.Photo by Kevin HoranI grew up at the Sundance Film Festival — beginning in 1990, when my father took my 14-year-old self to an...
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Sundance, part one: crowd-pleasers and dino heists
Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler in rom-com spoof They Came Together.Check out Jesse's intro to his Sundance Film Festival series here.This year, there were few films that stood out as across-the-board crowd...
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Sundance, part two: Linklater love
My second year of attending the Sundance Film Festival was at the age of 15; it was 1991 and I took a chance on a film called Slacker by Richard Linklater. This is the ticket stub that started my film...
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Ennui the people
Life lessons (my friend is an alien, what do I do?) abound at SF IndieFest as it turns sweet 16Teenagecheryl@sfbg.comFILM San Francisco IndieFest celebrates its Super Sweet 16 with multiple films...
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Sundance, part five: Swanberg + Ross Perry
Lena Dunham, Anna Kendrick, and Jude the Scene-Stealing Baby in Happy Christmas.Missed a previous Sundance post? Check out Pixel Vision for more.Director and sometimes actor Joe Swanberg is a household...
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Sundance, part six: superlatives
Subtle: a poster for Lars von Trier's latest.More Sundance right here on Pixel Vision.My biggest excitement of Sundance 2014 was the random email I received asking if I would be able to attend a...
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