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The Moving Picture Review: January 2011
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011. Noir City 9 shines spotlight on cinematic darkness. Noir City, the annual film festival that celebrates these dark cinematic gems and presents them on the big screen in all their tawdry glory, returns to San Francisco's Castro Theater this Friday with another 10-day program of dames, destruction and depravity. The festival is full of rarities; in fact, most of films in this year's program are not available on DVD. Highlights include two classics from George Cukor: Gaslight.
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The Moving Picture Review: January 2009
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Thursday, January 22, 2009. Newspaper Noir: San Francisco's Noir City 7. The struggle of World War II and the triumph of its conclusion brought to the silver screen a vision of a nation bold and patriotic, wholesome and optimistic. From propaganda films to brassy celebratory musicals, Hollywood’s program of A-list releases rolled out a bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked presentation of Norman Rockwell’s America. But there was another side to the story. Or The Big Sleep. Noir City impresario Eddie Muller has craft...
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Justin DeFreitas: Clients
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Oakland, Calif.). Berkeley, Calif.). Point Reyes Station, Calif.). San Francisco, Calif.). San Francisco, Calif.). San Rafael, Calif.). Los Angeles, Calif.). Boonville, Calif.). Point Reyes Station, Calif.). Bodega Bay, Calif.). Sonoma, Calif.). Kenwood, Calif.). Sonoma County Peace Press. Santa Rosa, Calif.). Novato, Calif.). Petaluma, Calif.). Guerneville, Calif.). Sonoma, Calif.). Martha's Vineyard, Mass.). Santa Rosa, Calif.). City On a Hill Press. Businesses, nonprofits and political campaigns.
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The Moving Picture Review: September 2009
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Monday, September 21, 2009. 2009 Berkeley Video and Film Festival. The annual Berkeley Video and Film Festival returns this year with yet another eclectic program of independent cinema. The 18th annual festival, put on by Berkeley's East Bay Media Center, starts at 7:30 pm Friday night at Landmark’s Shattuck Cinemas in downtown Berkeley and continues from noon to midnight Saturday with more than two dozen screenings. By Cecil Hirvi aka George Aguilar. 15 minutes. Screens Friday at 8:10 pm. You Don't Know...
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The Moving Picture Review: Mystery Train Explores a Mythic Memphis
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Mystery Train Explores a Mythic Memphis. Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train. Criterion's new DVD and BluRay editions of the film included a Q&A with Jarmusch; excerpts from the 2001 documentary Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me. A documentary about the film's locations and the musical history of Memphis; and essays by Dennis Lim and Peter Guralnick. 1989 110 minutes. $39.95. www.criterion.com. Posted by Justin DeFreitas. Welcome to Moving Picture Review. Films of Yasujiro Ozu.
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The Moving Picture Review: Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up
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Saturday, June 5, 2010. It was with 1999’s Taste of Cherry. That Abbas Kiarostami firmly cemented his international reputation, becoming the first Iranian filmmaker to win the Palme d’or at the Cannes film festival. But by then, his contemplative, intelligent films had been spurring debate in his home country for many years. Close-Up. Criterions' new DVD and BluRay editions of the film include audio commentary by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum; The Traveler. Posted by Justin DeFreitas. The Dev...
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The Moving Picture Review: July 2010
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010. Two Gently Unfolding Dramas by Yasujiro Ozu. Code focused greater attention on content over form, allowing character to reveal itself, allowing dialogue to breathe, and allowing revelatory spaces to open up between words and gestures and characters. Thus relationships and motivations and plot points would gradually take shape before the viewer’s eyes. Criterion has just released two rarely seen examples of Ozu’s mid-career work, The Only Son. 1936) and There Was a Father. Two-disc...
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The Moving Picture Review: January 2010
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Thursday, January 21, 2010. Noir City Brings Cinema’s Dark Side to the Castro. An “eternal juvenile” no more, Dick Powell finally broke free of the battery of baby-faced roles he endured in a seemingly endless series of bright-eyed 1930s Warner Bros. musicals. With middle age fast approaching, Powell struggled to carve out a new identity for himself, jumping ship from one studio to another in search of a new career path. Showing Saturday, Jan. 23. Powell plays a sardonic, embittered ex-con, determined af...
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Justin DeFreitas: Another UC Tuition Hike
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July 27, 2011. Another UC Tuition Hike. Posted by Justin DeFreitas. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). For permission and rates for reprints, write to defreitas [at] jfdefreitas.com. Another UC Tuition Hike. Oakland Dog Park Debate. Jean Quan and the Unions.
