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SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 1998: PART 3

By | May 1998

The 41st Annual San Francisco International Film Festival’s offerings for 1998…

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SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 1998: PART 3

DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997) ^ * * * * 1/2 ^ Belgian Johan Grimonprez's "Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y" is a minor masterpiece. The 68-minute video, cobbled together...

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BULWORTH

Warren Beatty plays Senator Bulworth, who, on the eve of his planned suicide (he puts a hit out on himself) grows a conscience. He speaks his mind and...

SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 1998: PART 2

WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM (1971) ^ * * * * 1/2 ^ Dusan Makavejev's inimitable "WR" is as weird and wonderful a movie as they come. Part documentary on...

DIY FILMMAKERS: MARK PIRRO IS A HERO

Mark Pirro is one of indie film's unsung heroes. He was the guy that proved an underground film could air on regular televison. His feature-length "A...

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HE GOT GAME

Like "Hoop Dreams," Spike Lee's latest revolves around a hot high school basketball star (NBær Ray Allen as the kid poetically named Jesus) and like...

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DEEP IMPACT

This is a brave summer movie. Yeah, this is another asteroid-is-about-to-destroy-the-earth flick but it does what no other summer movie will dare do --...

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THE OPPOSITE OF SEX

1998 is the year of Christina Ricci's breasts. This film, "Buffalo 66" and probably a couple of others focus so much attention on them, they almost have...

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BARBIE NATION: AN UNAUTHORIZED TOUR

How does a rip-off of a German toy for adults seep its way into the American consciousness? Good marketing and dumb luck, as told in this documentary....

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COME AND SEE

...and lose your mind. This Soviet-era Russian film displays the horrors of World War II in a manner that makes "The Deer Hunter" look like "The Green...

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MODULATIONS

Iara Lee ("Synthetic Pleasures") has made her second documentary, about the people who created and developed the broad class of electronic music. What she...

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