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Adam Hartzell on No Regret

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2008-08-25 23:44:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
Too busy to get much writing done lately, I've consoled myself by making some hopefully helpful improvements to my blogroll, finally adding links to more Frisco Bay film organizations and bloggers (where possible, the latter will be listed in order of most recent publication Even better, my buddy Adam Hartzell has offered up a new piece on a...
 
Tags: film, queer film, feature film, regret, south korean film, san francisco, korean film set, san francisco viewer, adam
 
 
 
 
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SFFS Screen at the Kabuki

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2008-08-13 01:21:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
I finally made it to a film at the Sundance Kabuki 's SFFS Screen- the San Francisco Film Society 's dedicated venue for year-round bookings of festival-style films with very limited commercial potential but high aesthetic merit. Though the films have distributors they might well have bypassed Frisco Bay theatrical runs were it not for these...
 
Tags: cannes film festival, film, films, past sfiff films, kabuki, italian film days, festival-style films, september, september 19th
 
 
 
 
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Travel Logs

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2008-08-11 23:11:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
...movies, my thoughts did turn to cinema from time to time. I tried to be on the lookout for traces of homegrown Costa Rican filmmaking but came up empty. I did catch a broadcast of Ernst Lubitsch's charming Bluebeard's Eighth Wife the one time I stayed in a hotel room equipped with television. And I at one point made a foray to a...
 
Tags: time, travel time, film festival, festival, film, adolescent power fantasy, dreadful hollywood product, film worth, homegrown costa rican
 
 
 
 
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Sean McCourt: The Unknown

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2008-07-23 23:59:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
This year was the first that I attended essentially every program at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival . Prior years I'd come close, but had always skipped at least two presentations as a strength-saving strategy. This year, I was a late arrival to the free Archivist presentation where the audience learned about the good work of the J....
 
Tags: legendary lon chaney, lon chaney, short films, films, first-run silent films, film, silent film festival, chaney, preserve films
 
 
 
 
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The Man Who Laughs, Cries, Cheers, and Finally Sleeps

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2008-07-13 23:56:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
I'm exhausted
 
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The Benshi

2008-07-11 17:52:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
 
A Japanese friend who is attending tonight's San Francisco Silent Film Festival screening of Harold Lloyd's the Kid Brother at the Castro Theatre told her mother that she was planning to see a silent film. The mother asked if there would be a narrator present at the screening. The answer was no; the screening will be accompanied by a performance...
 
Tags: benshi, silent film, silent film festival, tradition, benshi tradition, film, european film imports, benshi accompaniment, foremost modern benshi
 
 
 
 
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Teinosuke Kinugasa sources and links

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2008-07-10 23:59:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
Jujiro was the 55th film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, out of a total of 118. So far I've seen four, and only one of those on the big screen, a Page of Madness . It may be a small number, but if there are people out there who have seen more of his films than that, not many are writing about them The most significant English-language tackling...
 
Tags: kinugasa, teinosuke kinugasa, page, six-page article, eine verrckte seite, school german class, madness, marianne lewinsky, japanese film
 
 
 
 
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Jujiro in the West

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2008-07-09 23:58:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
Teinosuke Kinugas's Jujiro was shown in Europe and the United States in 1929 and 1930, but it was not, as is sometiems reported, the first Japanese film to have screened for Western audiences. Kenji Mizoguchi's Passion of a Woman Teacher was screened in Paris at around the same time, and Minoru Murata's The Street Magician came to Germany before...
 
Tags: jujiro, film, film screenings held, venice film festival, jujiro print, japanese film, york times, york, kinugasa
 
 
 
 
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Jujiro Week

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2008-07-08 20:56:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
Welcome to the slightly-belated beginning of Jujiro Week here at Hell on Frisco Bay. Teinosuke Kinugasa's 1928 film is playing at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival this coming Sunday at 6:10 PM, and I can't wait to see it for the first time on the towering Castro Theatre screen I was bowled over by Kinugasa's 1926 a Page of Madness when I...
 
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Bruce Conner (1933-2008)

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2008-07-07 23:47:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
Bruce Conner has died A local artist and filmmaker with global impact, his work meant a lot to me, and I feel lucky that I got to hear him speak before film screenings three times in the past several years. Though I'd seen a few samples of experimental/personal filmmaking before then, always on VHS tape, I can credit a viewing of Conner's film...
 
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