Posts tagged 'sfiff'

Discovery and creation

20070511Fri

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What is the business of artists? Are we brilliant creators, fashioning the world into our own mad fantasies or are we discoverers, research scientists of pre-existing aesthetic patterns? And what does this have to do with the Wizard of Oz?

A chance to watch, admire the distance

20070509Wed

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In addition to well navigating the sometimes dangerous territory between playful and melancholy, “Reprise” has succeeded in getting Joy Division’s “New Dawn Fades” permanently stuck in my head.

Chillin’ like a villain

20070507Mon

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I called my friend Brant to attend a screening of “Everything’s Cool” at the SFIFF last weekend. It turns out that he was already there, as a panelist. That was only the first of many “Think Globally, Act—Hey I Know That Guy!” moments from the film.

What I was missing

20070427Fri

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When I lived in Indiana, I dreamt of San Francisco as a Bohemian paradise of art, love, and radical politics. Though my fantasies lacked specifics, I could have easily been thinking of the San Francisco International Film Festival, which begins today.