FILMS
- Generator
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The “generative” artworks in this program vary between presenting intensely complicated structures and achingly beautiful abstractions. Each of the videos was produced randomly through computational processes.
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- Spotlight: Kinotek
- A Girl Cut in Two
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Genre master Claude Chabrol does it again with this social satire/psychological thriller, inspired by the murder of Gilded Age architect and womanizer Stanford White, about a woman caught between a jaded author and the psychopathic heir to a family fortune.
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- Claude Chabrol
- World Cinema
- France/Germany
- 2007
- Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
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Through interviews with Philip Glass’s friends, family and collaborators as well as glimpses of his professional and personal life, this engaging documentary paints a fascinating portrait of one of the world’s most famous and controversial composers.
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- Scott Hicks
- Documentaries
- Australia
- 2007
- Glasses
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The lapping of waves, the tart sweetness of shaved ice and the meditative pleasures of “twilighting” all await visitors to this Zen comedy—along with one unconventional dance number—as it wryly observes a bespectacled teacher’s stay at an eccentric island resort.
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- Naoko Ogigami
- World Cinema
- Japan
- 2007
- Go Go Tales
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With a bump-and-grind soundtrack, a terrific (and pulchritudinous) cast and a delightfully improvisatory flow, Abel Ferrara’s strip club comedy, starring Willem Dafoe as the failing club’s indefatigable showman, interweaves multiple storylines with terrific panache.
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- Abel Ferrara
- Spotlight: The Late Show
- Italy/France
- 2007
- The Golem with Black Francis
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In a unique, not-to-be-missed outing, former Pixies front man Black Francis debuts his original score to the silent horror classic The Golem, an exemplar of German expressionist cinema, live and onstage at the Castro Theatre.
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- Paul Wegener, Carl Boese, Black Francis
- Live & Onstage
- Germany
- 1920
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
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Alex Gibney’s profile of outrageous journalist Hunter S. Thompson focuses on the 1965-75 highlights, when his hilarious, untethered reportage on Hells Angels, Las Vegas and political campaigns (in Rolling Stone and elsewhere) earned a new word in the dictionary: gonzo.
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- Alex Gibney
- Big Nights
- USA
- 2007
- Huling Balyan ng Buhi (or The Woven Stories of the Other)
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Amid the lush green mountains of Mindanao in the Southern Philippines, several groups of characters—a rebel band, a platoon of government soldiers, an aged local priestess, a pair of lost children—move toward a dreamlike confrontation.
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- Sherad Anthony Sanchez
- New Directors
- Philippines
- 2007
- The Human Kingdom
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This collection of animated shorts, displaying diverse techniques, gives new meaning to the statement, “I am not an animal!”
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- Shorts
- Ice People
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Four ardently driven geologists trek out into the frozen expanse of Antarctica to spend summer in below-zero temperatures and constant sunlight, pursuing signs of a prehistoric past: the warm and lush Antarctica of millions of years ago.
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- Anne Aghion
- Documentaries
- USA/France
- 2007
