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DOUBLE LOVER (L’AMANT DOUBLE, 2017)
Don't you know that I can tell Whenever I look at you That you think that I'm untrue 'Cause I say that I love two? But I really really do 'Cause you're a split personality (personality) And in reality...
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PSIFF 2018: NOSTALGIA (2018)—Q&A With Mark Pellington and Jon Hamm
Nostalgia (2018), directed and co-written by Mark Pellington (with Alex Ross Perry), and starring Jon Hamm, Ellen Burstyn, Catherine Keener, Bruce Dern and John Ortiz boasted its world premiere at the...
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PSIFF 2018: LOVELESS (NELYUBOV, 2017)—Q&A with Andrey Zvyagintsev
In an early scene of Loveless (2017)—Andrey Zvyagintsev's Oscar®-nominated follow-up to Leviathan (which was likewise nominated when it came out)— Zhenya and Boris argue viciously over who will end up...
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TREEFORT 2018—The Evening Class Interview With Field Medic (Kevin Patrick...
Photo: Michael GuillénI first met Kevin Patrick Sullivan (aka Field Medic) when his band Rin Tin Tiger was invited to play Treefort a few years back. I was walking by the Bouquet and the timber of his...
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SFFILM FESTIVAL 2018—Michael Hawley Reviews the Early Announcements
SFFILM Festival, which was known for 60 years as the San Francisco International Film Festival, is gearing up to celebrate its 61st edition from April 4 to 17. When the full line-up is revealed at the...
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TREEFORT 2018 / Bay Area to Boise—Madeline Kenney (Oakland)
Photo: Unknown.I was quite taken by the strength and confidence of Madeline Kenney's performance when she opened for Dent May at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco back last August. Her voice, at turns...
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TREEFORT 2018—Bay Area to Boise
The musical corridor between the Bay Area and Boise strengthens with succeeding editions of Treefort. This year there are no less than 21 musical acts represented from San Francisco and Oakland, with...
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TREEFORT 2018—L.A. to Boise
Meanwhile, from that "other" city in California, Treefort has booked 32 musical acts for this year's festival. I figured I could recommend at least 10 of them so here goes, alphabetically.* * *Jherek...
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THE DARK SIDE OF THE DREAM—A Conversation with Donald Malcolm
Courtesy of Midcentury Productions"Dangerous clowns, balancing dreadful and wonderful perceptions they have been handed day by day generations on down."—Joni Mitchell.The slackened tolerance of the...
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SFFILM FESTIVAL 2018—Big Nights, Awards & Tributes, Live & Onstage, Special...
Nearly two weeks have passed since the press conference wherein SFFILM revealed the exciting line-up for its 61st festival. In my first post for this year's event I talked about the programs that had...
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SFFILM FESTIVAL 2018—Michael Hawley Previews the U.S. Cinema Programming
As someone whose passion for cinema lies primarily with foreign language movies, it has been slightly discomforting to watch U.S. indies and documentaries carve out an increasingly larger slice of the...
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SFFILM FESTIVAL 2018—Michael Hawley's Preview Of Spotlight on Space, Dark...
Spotlight on Space Every year the festival gathers a few films with a common theme and places them under a "Spotlight" umbrella. This year's designated leitmotif is "Into the Great Beyond" and I was...
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PSIFF 2018 > SFFILM FESTIVAL 2018: JUPITER'S MOON—An Evening Class Question...
Kornél Mundruczó's Jupiter's Moon (2017) had its U.S. Premiere earlier this year in the World Cinema Now sidebar at the 2018 Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) with Mundruczó accompanying...
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ROOKY RICARDO'S INFORMED PASSION—The Evening Class Conversation with Dick Vivian
Dick Vivian. Photo: Michael Guillén. All rights reserved.As recalled at Rooky Ricardo's website [Facebook], 30 years ago Dick Vivian bought 35,000 45's from a distributor who had gone out of business...
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BODIES IN PROTEST / PARADE OF BODIES—The Evening Class Conversation with Kin...
Photo: Unknown."What kin are we all to each other, anyway?"—William Goyen.There are many critiques, most quite obvious, as to why Facebook (FB) might not be the best virtual community to inhabit; but,...
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DARK MONEY (2018)—Q&A With Director Kimberly Reed and Former FEA Commissioner...
On Wednesday, June 20, 2018, Larsen Associates invited me to attend a special San Francisco screening of Dark Money (2018) at the Delancey Street screening room with director Kimberly Reed present to...
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A BREAD FACTORY (2018)—All Feast, No Famine
"The Bread Factory once made bread, whereas now there are only crumbs; but, what they make of those crumbs is miraculous!!"A new film by Patrick Wang is always a cause for celebration and his latest—A...
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MICHAEL HAWLEY PREVIEWS THE 62ND EDITION OF THE SFFILM FESTIVAL (2019)
The SFFILM Festival, better known until just recently as the San Francisco International, celebrates its 62nd edition next week. What's different about this fest is that for the first time since 1976,...
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SFFILM FESTIVAL 2019 / OPENING NIGHT: ARMISTAUD MAUPIN'S TALES OF THE CITY
I worked as a dishwasher / busboy / waiter at Fanny's Cabaret in 1978 when I was a young man growing up gay in San Francisco's Castro district. As we set up tables and sprinkled cinnamon and vanilla...
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SFFILM FESTIVAL 2019 / THE SAVAGES—The Evening Class Interview With Laura Linney
Photo courtesy of SFFILM.In addition to appearing at SFFILM's opening night premiere of the Netflix limited series Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City—wherein she reprises her role as Mary Ann...
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