Film Review: FREE SOLO
film review about the solo climb of Yosemite’s Half Dome by Alex Honnold, a professional climber known for “free solo”, using no ropes, no safety equipment or assistance.
SCIENCE FAIR: film review
High-schooler Robbie programmed an old calculator to give out Shakespearian insults. Then he created used machine learning to analyze the music of Kanye West and create original rap lyrics. So why was he rejected by ten colleges? We’ll get to that. Science Fair, screened at the 2018 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, goes inside the…
THE WORK: film review
“I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when, I’m stuck in Folsom Prison, and time keeps draggin’ on”. Johnny Cash. This film isn’t about Johnny Cash, but it is about life in Folsom Prison. “The Work” is a real life documentary set inside a single room during a four-day group-therapy retreat. We follow…
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JANE : a film review
JANE WITHOUT TARZAN: A beautiful young British girl dreams of living in the jungle with animals. Being the 1940s, this surely wasn’t going to happen. And yet, 26 year old Jane Goodall, lacking any scientific background, and the handicap of being a woman, meets the famed anthropologist Louis Leakey, who sends her to Tanzania on…
ICARUS: film review
Icarus Documentary drama – director Brian Fogel accidently discovers global politics, doping scandal, Russian conspiracy, olympic committee corruption, whistleblower …
Film Review: The Man With A Movie Camera + DeVotchKa
Get off your couch, fellow potatoes. Go to the cinema, sit with real people not staring at their phone (much). Picture this… watching “The Man With A Movie Camera”, at the beautiful Castro Theatre, accompanied by the live band, DeVotchKa. Thank you, San Francisco International Film Festival. Seriously, pure bliss. Who knew, this 1929, black…
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Film Review: Tania Libre
RESISTANCE NOW ! Lynn Hershman Leeson takes nothing at face value. Her film, installation, and multimedia work highlight acts of courage against censorship and repression, unknown stories that have little chance of being told, if not for her persistence of vision. TANIA LIBRE In the documentary “Tania Libre”, Leeson introduces us to Tania Bruguera, a…